The Life of John Ericsson, Volumen2Charles Scribner's sons, 1890 - 660 páginas |
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Página 130 - ... in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace...
Página 333 - I have strength and capacity to do so, do make, publish and declare this, my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking any and all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made.
Página 86 - Take it all in all, a ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. By himself unhelped he can do better things than ships of the line; he can make poems and pictures, and other such concentrations of what is best in him. "But as a being living in flocks, and hammering out with alternate strokes and mutual agreement, what is necessary for him in those flocks to get or produce, the ship of the line is his first work.
Página 52 - There was nothing after me," relates Mr. Collins, who fortunately lived to tell this tale of heroism ; " when I reached the upmost round of the ladder, the vessel seemed to drop from under me.
Página 259 - The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense; the dry jest; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton Folly.
Página 270 - There is a rainless region extending from the northwest coast of Africa to Mongolia, 9,000 miles in length and nearly 1,000 miles wide. Besides the north African deserts, this region includes the southern coast of the Mediterranean, east of the Gulf of Cabes, Upper Egypt, the eastern and part of the western coast of the Red Sea, part of Syria, the eastern part of the countries watered by the Euphrates and Tigris, eastern Arabia, the greater part of Persia, the extreme western part of China, Thibet,...
Página 86 - ... defiance of brute elements, careless courage, careful patriotism, and calm expectation of the judgment of God, as can well be put into a space of 300 feet long by 80 feet broad. And I am thankful to have lived in an age when I could see this thing done.
Página 318 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Página 60 - The Monongahela was hardly clear of us," says Wharton again, " when a hideous-looking monster came creeping up on our port side, whose slowly revolving turret revealed the cavernous depths of a mammoth gun. ' Stand clear of the port side!
Página 236 - It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet or speak or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus, I know it was right.