The Metropolitan, Band 14James Cochrane, 1835 |
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... present exhausted state of the country , even if the navy list was not larger than what it should be ; but this is not the fact , it is much larger than would be required even in time of war , and therefore , if it is to remain so , the ...
... present exhausted state of the country , even if the navy list was not larger than what it should be ; but this is not the fact , it is much larger than would be required even in time of war , and therefore , if it is to remain so , the ...
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... present , the whole number of lieutenants made amount to upwards of 1800. This cannot be considered as unhandsome on the part of the nation . The fact is , that since the peace , the promotion in all classes has been very considerable ...
... present , the whole number of lieutenants made amount to upwards of 1800. This cannot be considered as unhandsome on the part of the nation . The fact is , that since the peace , the promotion in all classes has been very considerable ...
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... present time , and we have now to consider what measures can be taken so as to relieve the nation , and at the same time to ensure a sufficient number of officers , should their services be required in a war , and that without injustice ...
... present time , and we have now to consider what measures can be taken so as to relieve the nation , and at the same time to ensure a sufficient number of officers , should their services be required in a war , and that without injustice ...
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... present a list of the vessels in the French navy , but , as near as we can recollect , it amounts to more than half of our own in the number of the vessels . We have , however , a list of their officers for 1835 , which we will put in ...
... present a list of the vessels in the French navy , but , as near as we can recollect , it amounts to more than half of our own in the number of the vessels . We have , however , a list of their officers for 1835 , which we will put in ...
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... present on our list , we must invalid the majority for harbour duty , and assert , that if a war should in a few years hence break out , we should not be able to select a suffi- cient number , as nearly all , from age and infirmity ...
... present on our list , we must invalid the majority for harbour duty , and assert , that if a war should in a few years hence break out , we should not be able to select a suffi- cient number , as nearly all , from age and infirmity ...
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Seite 321 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 64 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Seite 60 - Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have waked the sullen year?
Seite 63 - I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery.
Seite 321 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Seite 64 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow ? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave : they have in...
Seite 65 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Seite 61 - Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Seite 64 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Seite 64 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.