The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volumen14

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Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1845

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Página 311 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh ! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 169 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...
Página 278 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon.
Página 599 - Majesty's superior courts of record ; and no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Página 106 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 543 - ... others offer traces of a regularity hardly less uncouth and characteristic, and which in some cases seems to indicate a cellular, in others a sheeted structure, complicated in folds as if agitated by internal winds.
Página 542 - The last year must ever be considered an epoch in astronomy, from its having witnessed the successful completion of the Earl of Rosse's six-feet reflector — an achievement of such magnitude, both in itself as a means of discovery, and in respect of the difficulties to be surmounted in its construction (difficulties which perhaps few persons here present are better able from experience to appreciate than myself), that I want words to express my admiration of it. I have not myself been so fortunate...
Página 542 - By far the major part, probably, at least, nine-tenths of the nebulous contents of the heavens consist of nebulae of spherical or elliptical forms presenting every variety of elongation and central condensation. Of these a great number have been resolved into...
Página 354 - No impulsion but that of a vast current, setting in a south-westerly direction, and passing beneath the Gulf stream, could have carried these immense bodies to their observed positions, on routes which cross the Gulf current, in a region where its average breadth has been found to be about 250 miles...
Página 123 - In the year of our Lord 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian, and his son Sebastian, discovered that country, which no one before his time had ventured to approach, on the 24th of June, about five o'clock in the morning.

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