United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Bindi 30H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Síða 127 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Síða 72 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel . They quitted not their harness bright. Neither by day, nor yet by night...
Síða 6 - These sea-breezes do commonly rise in the morning about nine o'clock, sometimes sooner, sometimes later ; they first approach the shore so gently, as if they were afraid to come near it, and oft-times they make some faint breathings, and, as if not willing to offend, they make a halt, and seem ready to retire. I have waited many a time, both ashore to receive the pleasure, and at sea to take the benefit of it.
Síða 39 - It is obvious, that if the authority of The United States to call into service and command the Militia for the Public Defence, can be thus frustrated, even in a state of declared War, and of course under apprehensions of invasion preceding War, they are not one Nation for the purpose most of all requiring it...
Síða 6 - It comes in a fine small black curl upon the water, whereas all the sea between it and the shore, not yet reached by it, is as smooth and even as glass in comparison.
Síða 39 - Whether the commanders in chief of the militia of the several states have a right to determine whether any of the exigencies contemplated by the constitution of the United States exist, so as to require them to place the militia, or any part of it, in the service of the United States, at the request of the president, to be commanded by him, pursuant to acts of congress.
Síða 147 - Dancing, &c. &c., till two o'clock every morning; little thinking what was to happen in four days' time: for out of the four men-of-war that were there, not one was in being at the end of that time, and not a soul alive but those left of our crew. Many of the houses where we had been so merry, were so completely destroyed, that scarcely a vestige remained to mark where they stood. Thy works are wonderful, O God!
Síða 8 - The general phenomena of these storms will be understood, if the storm, as a great whirlwind, be represented by a circle, whose centre is made to progress along a curve, or part of a curve, which is, in most cases, of a form approaching the parabolic, the circles expanding as they advance from the point at which the storm begins to be felt, the rotatory motion in the northern hemisphere being in the contrary direction to that in which the hands of a watch go round ; while, in the southern hemisphere,...
Síða 330 - But it is an inquiry which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act "more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States...
Síða 410 - Though there will appear great difference in the loss of men, all did admirably well; and the conclusion was grand beyond description; eighteen hulks of the Enemy lying amongst the British Fleet without a stick standing, and the French Achille burning. But we were close to the rocks of Trafalgar, and when I made the signal for anchoring, many Ships had their cables shot, and not an anchor ready. Providence did for us what no human effort could have done, the wind shifted a few points and we drifted...