The Metropolitan, Volumen14James Cochrane, 1835 |
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... four years of incompetent and disastrous mal- administration . We have now found out the baneful effects of mock reform - we have witnessed a nation , disgusted with the inefficiency of its rulers , call out for the one man able to take ...
... four years of incompetent and disastrous mal- administration . We have now found out the baneful effects of mock reform - we have witnessed a nation , disgusted with the inefficiency of its rulers , call out for the one man able to take ...
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... four . Then there is another em- ployment found for midshipmen now - a - days , in which if they do not learn all their professional duties , they at least learn one part of them , which is , to keep watch : we refer to the coast guard ...
... four . Then there is another em- ployment found for midshipmen now - a - days , in which if they do not learn all their professional duties , they at least learn one part of them , which is , to keep watch : we refer to the coast guard ...
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... four last years . Lieutenants promoted in 1831 Ditto ditto 1832 Ditto ditto 1833 Ditto ditto 1834 37 46 38 40 4 ) 161 40 • Mean promotion of Midshipmen to Lieutenants As this promotion has been regulated by a plan of not promoting one ...
... four last years . Lieutenants promoted in 1831 Ditto ditto 1832 Ditto ditto 1833 Ditto ditto 1834 37 46 38 40 4 ) 161 40 • Mean promotion of Midshipmen to Lieutenants As this promotion has been regulated by a plan of not promoting one ...
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... four commanders are about the number required for our service during war , and we have now , with retired commanders , one thousand and thirty - four on the list . We propose , therefore , two hundred , which , as there are two hundred ...
... four commanders are about the number required for our service during war , and we have now , with retired commanders , one thousand and thirty - four on the list . We propose , therefore , two hundred , which , as there are two hundred ...
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... four days , and always found him at his post ; and after such strict investigation , had I asserted ten years instead of four , I have a prescriptive right , as a traveller , to be believed . It is singular that it is only in England ...
... four days , and always found him at his post ; and after such strict investigation , had I asserted ten years instead of four , I have a prescriptive right , as a traveller , to be believed . It is singular that it is only in England ...
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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.
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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.
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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.