Life of Andrew Hull Foote: Rear-admiral United States NavyHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 411 páginas |
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... side or on the prairie far away hears in his mind's inner sense the perpetual undertone of ocean , and drops the plow , and makes his way to the coast to embark upon the adventurous life of the sailor . The love of the sea is one of ...
... side or on the prairie far away hears in his mind's inner sense the perpetual undertone of ocean , and drops the plow , and makes his way to the coast to embark upon the adventurous life of the sailor . The love of the sea is one of ...
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... side of the Puritan charac- ter and education is sometimes lost sight of . Doubtless there was too little of the spirit of indulgent sympathy with inno- cent enjoyment , and too intense a stress laid on obligation and not enough on love ...
... side of the Puritan charac- ter and education is sometimes lost sight of . Doubtless there was too little of the spirit of indulgent sympathy with inno- cent enjoyment , and too intense a stress laid on obligation and not enough on love ...
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... side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind , were rapid ; their results are open to every eye ...
... side . What he purposed he thought ; what he willed he did . His life is in his deeds . Silent in preparation , issuing from deep sources , his acts , like the acts of men of his kind , were rapid ; their results are open to every eye ...
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... side of the vessel , and one of the officers observed that we were going to with studding - sails set . ' 6 This gale was much more severe than it was in September , about sixteen months since . I am very well pleased with the service ...
... side of the vessel , and one of the officers observed that we were going to with studding - sails set . ' 6 This gale was much more severe than it was in September , about sixteen months since . I am very well pleased with the service ...
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... side of her to a sub - contractor , who , in a spirit of economy , so much reduced her moulds that the ship had actually sev- eral inches more beam on one side than the other . As a con- sequence , she both bore her canvas and sailed ...
... side of her to a sub - contractor , who , in a spirit of economy , so much reduced her moulds that the ship had actually sev- eral inches more beam on one side than the other . As a con- sequence , she both bore her canvas and sailed ...
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