The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... light is thus thrown across the waters ; but this serves only to convince the pilot of either boat of what he was well aware of before , that is , that his boat is in dangerous proximity to some other , while , as to the precise course ...
... light is thus thrown across the waters ; but this serves only to convince the pilot of either boat of what he was well aware of before , that is , that his boat is in dangerous proximity to some other , while , as to the precise course ...
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... light combustible that may be at hand ; while they will wantonly expose them- selves , and crowd about the place of danger , regardless of the warning given by the quivering throes of the over - worked boat , or by the whizzing of the ...
... light combustible that may be at hand ; while they will wantonly expose them- selves , and crowd about the place of danger , regardless of the warning given by the quivering throes of the over - worked boat , or by the whizzing of the ...
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... light , was limited in its range , by the terms of the resolution under which it was prepared , to an investigation into matters connected with that class of accidents arising from explosions . Upon this point , much valuable ...
... light , was limited in its range , by the terms of the resolution under which it was prepared , to an investigation into matters connected with that class of accidents arising from explosions . Upon this point , much valuable ...
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... light . It is obvious , that one light , suspended above a boat , can give no precise information as to the course she may be steering ; and it is the difficulty of ascertaining this , as has been already observed , which occasions such ...
... light . It is obvious , that one light , suspended above a boat , can give no precise information as to the course she may be steering ; and it is the difficulty of ascertaining this , as has been already observed , which occasions such ...
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... lights of different specified colors should be displayed , the one above the bow , and the other at the stern , the pilot of each boat could tell at a glance the course and bearings of the other , and regulate himself accordingly . The ...
... lights of different specified colors should be displayed , the one above the bow , and the other at the stern , the pilot of each boat could tell at a glance the course and bearings of the other , and regulate himself accordingly . The ...
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Page 193 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 343 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 270 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 293 - CV. *HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late EDWARD BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
Page 344 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 371 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Page 268 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 135 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...
Page 269 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 506 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...