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I am sorry to say that the woman in- trusted with the care of my room had but small respect for the fine arts , and being one day in need of paper to light my fire , took a number of drawings for that purpose . Among those drawings was ...
I am sorry to say that the woman in- trusted with the care of my room had but small respect for the fine arts , and being one day in need of paper to light my fire , took a number of drawings for that purpose . Among those drawings was ...
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Most of the Southern yachts are of light draft , for the waters of the South are shallow ; and the number of flat - bottomed and very shoal round- modeled yachts far exceeds all other types . On the inlets of Florida and along the Gulf ...
Most of the Southern yachts are of light draft , for the waters of the South are shallow ; and the number of flat - bottomed and very shoal round- modeled yachts far exceeds all other types . On the inlets of Florida and along the Gulf ...
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... a type of yacht which for speed , handiness , and unsafe- ness has never been surpassed . Keel catboats are also built , but the typical American " cat " is the center - board boat of light draft , big beam , and huge sail .
... a type of yacht which for speed , handiness , and unsafe- ness has never been surpassed . Keel catboats are also built , but the typical American " cat " is the center - board boat of light draft , big beam , and huge sail .
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While describing the sandbaggers it may be well to call attention to a type of yacht hull which has been in use for many years , and which is in every practical respect identical with the ordinary light - draft hull .
While describing the sandbaggers it may be well to call attention to a type of yacht hull which has been in use for many years , and which is in every practical respect identical with the ordinary light - draft hull .
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The very light- draft center - board yacht is not the best cruiser , the only excuse for her use in that capacity being the necessity of light draft in waters which are shallow , as are the waters of many of our small harbors .
The very light- draft center - board yacht is not the best cruiser , the only excuse for her use in that capacity being the necessity of light draft in waters which are shallow , as are the waters of many of our small harbors .
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Página 144 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Página 185 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 181 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 472 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty...
Página 182 - I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side...
Página 612 - But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 471 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee. tea and hides, raw and uncurcd. or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Página 203 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Página 186 - IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet ! in thy place, and be content : — The stars pre-eminent in magnitude, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire on the ridge...
Página 371 - All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us ; The Bust out-lasts the throne, The Coin, Tiberius ; Even the gods must go ; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow,— Not long array of time.