Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, المجلد 20

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الصفحة 347 - Gorgeous she entered the sunlight which gathered her up in a flame, While, straight in her open carriage, she to the hospital came. In she went at the door, and gazing from end to end, "Many and low are the pallets, but each is the place of a friend.
الصفحة 348 - Each of the heroes around us has fought for his land and line, But thou hast fought for a stranger, in hate of a wrong not thine.
الصفحة 99 - observing ' Victory ' painted on the ship's side over one port, and ' Nelson ' over another, asked Commodore Decatur the reason of so strange an anomaly ; he answered : ' The men belonging to those guns served many years with Lord Nelson, and in the " Victory." The crew of the gun named "Nelson" were once bargemen to that great chief, and they claim the privilege of using his illustrious name in the way you have seen.' The Commodore also publicly declared to Captain Carden that there was not a seaman...
الصفحة 509 - I — she knows how to teach her sons to sink like men amongst sharks and billows, without parade, without display, as if duty were the most natural thing in the world, and she never mistakes long an actor for a hero or a hero for an actor.
الصفحة 102 - The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. A tender mother, among the inferior ranks of people, is often afraid to send her son to school at a seaport town, lest the sight of the ships and the conversation and adventures of the sailors should entice him to go to sea.
الصفحة 347 - Kind as a mother herself, she touched his cheeks with her hands: "Blessed is she who has borne thee, although she should weep as she stands.
الصفحة 292 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
الصفحة 347 - Art thou a Lombard, my brother? Happy art thou," she cried, And smiled like Italy on him: he dreamed in her face and died.
الصفحة 348 - Only a tear for Venice? — she turned as in passion and loss, And stooped to his forehead and kissed it, as if she were kissing the cross.
الصفحة 99 - Victory' painted on the ship's side over one port, and 'Nelson over another, asked Commodore Decatur the reason of so strange an anomaly. He answered : ' The men belonging to those guns served many years with Lord Nelson, and in the Victory. The crew of the gun named ' Nelson ' were once bargemen to that great chief. . . .'

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