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No officer can draw his half - pay without taking an oath that he has no other
office under government , and is not in the ... as to relieve the nation , and at the
same time to ensure a sufficient number of officers , should their services be
required ...
No officer can draw his half - pay without taking an oath that he has no other
office under government , and is not in the ... as to relieve the nation , and at the
same time to ensure a sufficient number of officers , should their services be
required ...
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It may be as well to observe here , that to complete the same force with the mates
and midshipmen allowed to be rated on the books of the different vessels , we
should require of the junior officers 3 , 152 . This does not include the volunteers
...
It may be as well to observe here , that to complete the same force with the mates
and midshipmen allowed to be rated on the books of the different vessels , we
should require of the junior officers 3 , 152 . This does not include the volunteers
...
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... reserved wholly for the admirals . There are two reasons which require that
there should be admirals by brevet ; the first is , in justice to those officers at the
head of the post - captains ' list , who would wish to obtain their rank before they ...
... reserved wholly for the admirals . There are two reasons which require that
there should be admirals by brevet ; the first is , in justice to those officers at the
head of the post - captains ' list , who would wish to obtain their rank before they ...
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We have continued the brevet through the list , from a desire of economy , and
also because it will enable the Admiralty to reward officers with their rank with
little extra expense to the nation . Post - captains by brevet to be appointed either
to a ...
We have continued the brevet through the list , from a desire of economy , and
also because it will enable the Admiralty to reward officers with their rank with
little extra expense to the nation . Post - captains by brevet to be appointed either
to a ...
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Captain Reud , I must suppose , wished to try the degree of intrepidity of his
officers , by permitting the chase to give us several rounds of weighty objections
against any more advance of familiarity on our parts . A quarter of a century ago
there ...
Captain Reud , I must suppose , wished to try the degree of intrepidity of his
officers , by permitting the chase to give us several rounds of weighty objections
against any more advance of familiarity on our parts . A quarter of a century ago
there ...
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Página 321 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 64 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Página 60 - Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have waked the sullen year?
Página 63 - I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery.
Página 321 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 64 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow ? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave : they have in...
Página 65 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 61 - Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Página 64 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 64 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.