Sketches of Naval Life with Notices of Men, Manners and Scenery on the Shores of the Mediterranean in a Series of Letters from the Brandywine and Constitution Frigates, כרך 1H. Howe, 1829 - 301 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Adieu Algiers anchor ancient Antiparos ashore beautiful boat breeze brig bright called captain carried castle character clothes Commodore Cyclades Dardanelles dark DEAR GEORGE dress duty eight Ephesus feelings feet fired flag frequently Frigate Brandywine Frigate Constitution GEORGE JONES give Greece Greek grog ground gulf of Smyrna guns half hammocks hands harbour head hill hundred island land larboard large number LETTER lieutenant light look Mahon marble marines midshipmen miles Mitylene morning mountains natives navy never night North officers Paros Pasha passed plain Poros port Port Mahon quarter deck rock ruins sailors sails salute scene Scio seemed seen sent shew ship ship's shore side Siphno Smyrna soon spar spot steerage straits Talayot Tenedos thing to-day town Troad Turkish Turks turn usually vessels watch whole wind yards yesterday
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 214 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts : but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of His hands.
עמוד 71 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
עמוד 254 - from my own knowledge and custom, as well as the custom and observations of many other people, that those who drink nothing but water, or make it their principal drink, are but little affected by the climate, and can undergo the greatest fatigue without inconvenience, and are never subject to troublesome or dangerous diseases.
עמוד 253 - Does a healthy labouring man need alcohol ? No more than he needs arsenic, corrosive sublimate, or opium. The experiment has been made a thousand times, and the result is well known, namely, that more labour can be accomplished in a month or a year, under the influence of simple nourishing food and unstimulating drink, than through the aid of alcohol...
עמוד 24 - While his officers were one day looking at it, he came out of the cabin : ' You may look at it, gentlemen," said he, ' as long as you please: but, depend on it, none of you shall have it.
עמוד 23 - Nelson highly appreciated the present, and for some time had it placed upright, with the lid on, against the bulk-head of his cabin behind the chair on which he sat at dinner. At length, by the entreaties of an old servant, he was prevailed on to allow it to be carried below.
עמוד 191 - ... the deep and constant roar of winds, the cries of men aloft, the heavy and rapid tread of those below, the reiterated commands of officers, and, rising above all this, the firm and composed orders of the trumpet ; and then add to this the heavy rolling of thunder, at times, drowning all these sounds. The first lieutenant had the deck ; he had sprung to it at the first alarm, and seizing the trumpet, had called for Black, his favorite helmsman.
עמוד 192 - We were then a few miles from Maratimo, sixty six from Cape Bon, the nearest African shore, and three hundred from the nearest land in the direction of the wind. It lasted half an hour, and was a stiff, smacking breeze, but not near so strong as the one that had preceded it.