Trip to the far west [of England.].Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1840 - 192 páginas |
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... called Flamsteed Hill , from Flamsteed , the astronomer royal , who superintended its erection . This is the spot from which the English calculate the degrees of eastern and western longitude . Woolwich appears next , having a great ...
... called Flamsteed Hill , from Flamsteed , the astronomer royal , who superintended its erection . This is the spot from which the English calculate the degrees of eastern and western longitude . Woolwich appears next , having a great ...
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... called the Nore . This is an interesting scene . There , as well as up the Medway , several line - of - battle ships are generally to be seen . The Fort of Sheerness is here in view . B It is the north - western point of the Isle 17.
... called the Nore . This is an interesting scene . There , as well as up the Medway , several line - of - battle ships are generally to be seen . The Fort of Sheerness is here in view . B It is the north - western point of the Isle 17.
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... called St. Thomas . Ethelbert at length , leaving Canterbury to the Italian monks , went and kept his court at Reculver . " Of this ancient port , nothing now remains but the two towers which we this evening saw , just as the sun was ...
... called St. Thomas . Ethelbert at length , leaving Canterbury to the Italian monks , went and kept his court at Reculver . " Of this ancient port , nothing now remains but the two towers which we this evening saw , just as the sun was ...
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... Needles , which may be called the land's end of Wight . These are isolated , altitudinous rocks , running out , westerly , from the ex- tremity of the island ; between the bases of whose shaggy columns , the sea drives with vehemence 40.
... Needles , which may be called the land's end of Wight . These are isolated , altitudinous rocks , running out , westerly , from the ex- tremity of the island ; between the bases of whose shaggy columns , the sea drives with vehemence 40.
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... called after Cromwell . In the interior , on the west shore , stands St. Ann's battery , which , before the citadel was thus erected and fortified , principally defended the harbour . Our steamer now entered the Catwater 43.
... called after Cromwell . In the interior , on the west shore , stands St. Ann's battery , which , before the citadel was thus erected and fortified , principally defended the harbour . Our steamer now entered the Catwater 43.
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adorned Austin Austle battery beautiful beneath bottom Breage bucket Buddle called captain Carclaze chapel CHAPTER Christian church circumjacent Cornish Cornwall deck descended distant east eastern engine England entered Ethelbert Falmouth feet long furnace gentleman granite half handsome harbour heath Helston Hennah houses inches iron Kent labour land Land's End Launceston Liskeard Lizard Point lodes lofty hills Logan Rock London look Lostwithiel Marazion Mawes metal Michael miners mines mount Edgecumbe Mount St night passed passengers pearance Pendennis Castle Penglase Penryn Penzance picturesque Plymouth port pretty promontory pulverized quay reached Reculver retired rise river Fal road route Royal Adelaide Ruan Lanihorne scene scenery Sennon shewed ship shore side soon Stampers stands steep stone stream tower town Tregony Trenery vessel visited walked wall western Wheal wheel wherry whilst wide wine wood wreck yard
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Página 63 - Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
Página 64 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
Página 95 - Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand Secure, insensible ; A point of time, a moment's space Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell.
Página 87 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Página 59 - But the kind hosts their entertainment grace With hearty welcome, and an open face : In all they did, you might discern with ease A willing mind, and a desire to please.
Página 126 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 101 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 22 - Besides, this division fell so well in with the business of the several parts of the vessel as to give it at once precedence. The centre section would then be occupied by the engine, boiler, and coalbunkers ; thus detaching them entirely from all other parts of the vessel. The sections, Nos. 2 and 4, would be the fore and after holds, or, in case of passengers...
Página 66 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Página 22 - ... considered impossible), there can be no danger of submersion : and experience has proved, that a very small addition of buoyancy would prevent a vessel from sinking after it had been so immersed that the deck was on a level with the surface of the sea. Now, this improvement in the construction of steamers is not brought forward as an ingenious theory, or a matter of unascertained efficiency ; I merely submit, for general information, what in practice is adopted by the Dublin...