Hunt's Yachting Magazine, Volume 5Hunt, 1856 - Yachting |
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... tides of the vast ocean are raised from their fathomless bed by lunar power , it is not too much to assert that the tides of the atmosphere are liable to a similar influence : this much is certain , that in the low lands of tropical ...
... tides of the vast ocean are raised from their fathomless bed by lunar power , it is not too much to assert that the tides of the atmosphere are liable to a similar influence : this much is certain , that in the low lands of tropical ...
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... tides , & c .; and , lastly , the facility for getting afloat again , by merely raising the centre - board should she take the ground . To proceed with the notes : - Displacement , 145 tons . Draught of water on straight keel , 5 feet 2 ...
... tides , & c .; and , lastly , the facility for getting afloat again , by merely raising the centre - board should she take the ground . To proceed with the notes : - Displacement , 145 tons . Draught of water on straight keel , 5 feet 2 ...
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... tide , while others are forced , from their deeper draught of water , to struggle against its full force . As , in my humble opinion , the observation is a perfectly just one , I insert it here for the con- sideration of those whom it ...
... tide , while others are forced , from their deeper draught of water , to struggle against its full force . As , in my humble opinion , the observation is a perfectly just one , I insert it here for the con- sideration of those whom it ...
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... panied the Sysellman to the factor's house ; and the boats congregated in front , their crews laughing and singing , and waiting until the tide left the stranded carcasses dry , when the division was to be 44 HUNT'S YACHTING MAGAZINE .
... panied the Sysellman to the factor's house ; and the boats congregated in front , their crews laughing and singing , and waiting until the tide left the stranded carcasses dry , when the division was to be 44 HUNT'S YACHTING MAGAZINE .
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... tide is generally selected , which would run probably not more than two miles an hour . The speed of the Mosquito therefore was about 11 miles through the water , or 12 miles at the outside , if the tide be considered as gradually ...
... tide is generally selected , which would run probably not more than two miles an hour . The speed of the Mosquito therefore was about 11 miles through the water , or 12 miles at the outside , if the tide be considered as gradually ...
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Page 486 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 542 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 256 - In this war all the kings and potentates of the earth were on one side; on the other I see no army, but a mysterious force...
Page 521 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 471 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 256 - Jesus borrowed nothing from human knowledge : only in himself are found completely the example or the imitation of his life. Neither was he a philosopher, for his proofs were miracles, and his disciples from the very first adored him. In fact, science and philosophy are powerless to salvation ; and the sole object of Jesus, in coming into the world, was to unveil the mysteries of heaven, and the laws of mind. Alexander...
Page 256 - ... faith in the mysteries of the cross. I die before my time, and my body will be put into the ground to become the food of worms. Such is the fate of the great Napoleon ! What an abyss between my deep wretchedness, and Christ's eternal kingdom, proclaimed, loved, adored, and spreading through the world ! Was that dying? Was it not rather to live ? The death of Christ is the death of God.
Page 40 - Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the strain'd mast should quiver as a reed. And the rent canvas fluttering strew the gale, Still must I on ; for I am as a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
Page 161 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, any thing : The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Page 176 - ... of the breadth, the remainder shall be esteemed the just length of the keel to find the tonnage ; and the breadth shall be taken from the outside of the outside plank in the broadest place in the ship, be it either above or below the main wales, exclusive of all manner of doubling planks that may be wrought upon the sides of the ship...