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... England help me ; how can I help England ? ' - say , Whoso turns as we , this morning , turn to God to praise and pray . " -R . BROWNING , Home Thoughts from the Sea . Seventy - four years ago this very month , these capes and bays were ...
... England help me ; how can I help England ? ' - say , Whoso turns as we , this morning , turn to God to praise and pray . " -R . BROWNING , Home Thoughts from the Sea . Seventy - four years ago this very month , these capes and bays were ...
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... England ; and the captain received at the same time his new electric - light apparatus , which was intended to be worked by hand by means of cranks and wheels . When he ordered it , he imagined it would be very useful for carrying to ...
... England ; and the captain received at the same time his new electric - light apparatus , which was intended to be worked by hand by means of cranks and wheels . When he ordered it , he imagined it would be very useful for carrying to ...
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... England , and of this Island . " From that day to this it has never ceased to belong to Great Britain , and is almost the only one of the West Indian islands that has never changed hands . It lies most to windward of the trades ( i.e. ...
... England , and of this Island . " From that day to this it has never ceased to belong to Great Britain , and is almost the only one of the West Indian islands that has never changed hands . It lies most to windward of the trades ( i.e. ...
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... England ? England thus drew annually considerable sums from the country . William of Orange looked upon this income as his personal property , and used it for pensions and other political objects in England . This tax to the home ...
... England ? England thus drew annually considerable sums from the country . William of Orange looked upon this income as his personal property , and used it for pensions and other political objects in England . This tax to the home ...
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... England by the mail leaving to - morrow . There was a cricket match in the afternoon between our eleven and that of the Tourmaline and garrison combined , which we won by four wickets . It was played on the Savannah , which is a large ...
... England by the mail leaving to - morrow . There was a cricket match in the afternoon between our eleven and that of the Tourmaline and garrison combined , which we won by four wickets . It was played on the Savannah , which is a large ...
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Página 237 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother...
Página 132 - The mountain wooded to the peak, the lawns And winding glades high up like ways to Heaven, The slender coco's drooping crown of plumes, The lightning flash of insect and of bird, The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems, and ran Ev'n to the limit of the land, the glows And glories of the broad belt of the world, All these he saw ; but what he fain had seen...
Página 344 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Página 109 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Página 7 - Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Página 258 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Página 651 - And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
Página 179 - Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell : Hark! now I hear them, — ding-dong, bell.
Página 551 - At 4 am the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. A strange red light as of a phantom ship all aglow, in the midst of which light the masts, spars, and sails of a brig 200 yards distant stood out in strong relief as she came up on the port bow.
Página 169 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.