Address Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, 1858 |
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Page 32 - ... marine that any empire ever possessed. Captain Beaufort had a remarkable power of discerning and appropriating ability to its right object, whenever it came in his way; and at every turn of his life he was using this power on behalf of others; yet he could not avail himself of it on his own. He was so restricted in his office, that he had no subordinate who could be a comrade in his labours ; and all that he had at heart must be done by his own hand. Disappointed in his hopes, baffled in his...
Page 119 - These deductions of the author, therefore, strongly confirm the views of Scrope, Scheerer, and Elie de Beaumont ; and he agrees with them in considering it probable that the presence of the water during the consolidation of the granite was an instrumental, if not the actual cause...
Page 29 - But, however that may be, one circumstance was highly remarkable; that the innumerable ideas which flashed into my mind,' were all retrospective — yet I had been religiously brought up — my hopes and fears of the next world had lost nothing of their early strength, and at any other period intense interest and awful anxiety would have been excited by the mere probability that I was floating on the threshold of eternity : yet at that inexplicable moment, when I had a full conviction that I had...
Page 29 - ... consequences; indeed, many trifling events which had been long forgotten then crowded into my imagination, and with the character of recent familiarity. " 'May not all this be some indication of the almost infinite power of memory with which we may awaken in another world, and thus be compelled to contemplate our past lives...
Page 33 - Rear-Admiral on the retired list, rather than surrender his office : but he never liked his "yellow flag;" and the mortification of his retirement was but slightly solaced by the honour of the Knighthood of the Bath, conferred in 1848. The sudden expansion of railway projects so increased his work that his health began to fail ; but not till he had His sons.
Page 32 - ... circumstances of the case. He now proved himself as true a patriot as when he was receiving his nineteen wounds in boarding the San Josef, while the wounds of his hopes were more painful than those of the body, and there was no praise to be won. It was not his doing that the virtue was ever known. His industry, of constitutional origin, and sustained by principle, appeared something miraculous under this stress. Day by day for a quarter of a century he might be seen entering the Admiralty as...
Page 28 - French fleet on the 17th of June 1795. In this ship, afterwards commanded by Captain James Nicholl Morris, he assisted at the capture and destruction of many of the enemy's ships, and of nine privateers and other vessels. It was in May 1796 that he obtained his rank of Lieutenant. It was in October 1800 that his first great opportunity of distinguishing himself occurred. While cruising off the coast of Malaga his commander observed that a Spanish polacca, the San Josef...
Page 28 - Lieutenant, and in October 1800 that his first great opportunity of distinguishing himself occurred. While cruising off the coast of Malaga his commander observed that a Spanish polacca, the ' San Josef,' and a French privateer brig, had taken refuge under the fortress of Fuengirola; and at night the young lieutenant was sent in command of the ' Phaeton's ' boats to board the
Page 31 - There is not a geographical discoverer, nor a zealous professional student in any naval service in the civilized world, who does not feel under direct obligation to Beaufort for his scientific assistance given through his works, or more special encouragement by his personal aid and counsel: those, indeed, who remember the enthusiasm with which Commander Wilkes, of the United States...
Page 24 - He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1815, of the Linnean in 1818, and of the Royal in 1819, on the Council of which Society he served in 1842-44.