Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine: A Monthly Journal Devoted to All Subjects Connected with Her Majesty's Land and Sea Forces, Том 9W.H. Allen & Company, 1888 |
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Стр. 210 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Стр. 263 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Стр. 376 - Albion, and anchored close alongside a ship of the line, bearing the flag of the Capitana Bey, another ship of the line, and a large double-banked frigate, each thus having their opponent in the front line of the Turkish fleet.
Стр. 282 - Dalin, Schwed. Gesch. v. 3, p. 361. J Karamsin, v. 8, p. 325. (from Hakluyt), § Karamsin, v. 8, p. 327. (from the Russian Archives). " promising, that we, against our common Enemies, shall, with one Accord, fight with our common Forces, .... and that by the Word and Faith of a Prince.
Стр. 353 - Tis thus the spirit of a single mind Makes that of multitudes take one direction, As roll the waters to the breathing wind, Or roams the herd beneath the bull's protection...
Стр. 127 - Chills of Aragon. They sleep, and the centuries pass by. Rude hands break open the granite lids of their sepulchres to find tresses of yellow hair and fragments of imperial mantles embroidered with the hawks and stags the royal hunter loved. The church in which they...
Стр. 15 - .Ah, Sir ! an English man of war is the thing after all. She speaks all Ian-, guages, is the best negotiator, and the most profound politician in this island. She was always Oliver Cromwell's ambassador. She is one of the honestest ministers of state that ever existed, and never tells a lie. Nor will she suffer the proudest Frenchman, Dutchman, or Spaniard to bamboozle her, or give her a saucy answer.
Стр. 376 - ... carrying 48 guns, twenty-six large corvettes, eleven brigs, and the fire-ships. At 2 PM, the "Asia," leading the line, passed the heavy battery on the mainland unmolested, and steering up the harbor, anchored close alongside a ship of the line, bearing the flag of the Capitan Bey, and on the larboard, or inner quarter, of a double-banked frigate, having on board Moharem Bey, the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian squadron. The "Genoa" brought up abreast of a double-banked frigate, and the "Albion"...
Стр. 371 - ... spring on his cable, abreast the Captain Pacha, and that his other ships should anchor with springs on their cables, on the bow and quarter of the Turkish Admiral's second, and so to attack the rest of the Turkish fleet in the same advantageous manner. By this arrangement, our nine line-of-battle ships would have been engaged with only five or six of the enemy, and the rest of their numerous fleet have been rendered useless, as they could not attempt to quit their position without the greatest...
Стр. 194 - The Cahow is a Bird of the night, for all the day she lies hid in holes in the Rocks, where they and their young are also taken with as much ease as may be : but in the night if you but whoop and hollow, they will light vpon you, that with your hands you may chuse the fat and leaue the leane. Those they haue only in winter : their Eggs are as big as hens, but they are speckled, the other white.