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... turn an adder's ear to the petition of a thou- sand brave and gallant officers entreating for measures of legislation , which in the hour of battle shall save their corps from the mortification of defeat , their country from disaster at ...
... turn an adder's ear to the petition of a thou- sand brave and gallant officers entreating for measures of legislation , which in the hour of battle shall save their corps from the mortification of defeat , their country from disaster at ...
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... turn in the wayward round of sessed - went out of office , convinced and per- promotion , receive half the pay of Lieutenant , and suaded , that true policy requires this arm of na- are at an annual charge of $ 150,000 upon the tional ...
... turn in the wayward round of sessed - went out of office , convinced and per- promotion , receive half the pay of Lieutenant , and suaded , that true policy requires this arm of na- are at an annual charge of $ 150,000 upon the tional ...
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... turn from remedies to the disease , that we may fully understand the present condition of our Naval system , before we proceed to consider by what means its wonted health and strength and vigor may be restored . The court - martial code ...
... turn from remedies to the disease , that we may fully understand the present condition of our Naval system , before we proceed to consider by what means its wonted health and strength and vigor may be restored . The court - martial code ...
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... turn we to the other case before the same lustration , because the most recent , the facts fur- court . An officer of rank imagines that his dignity nished by the proceedings of the courts , that , is insulted by a junior . He arrests ...
... turn we to the other case before the same lustration , because the most recent , the facts fur- court . An officer of rank imagines that his dignity nished by the proceedings of the courts , that , is insulted by a junior . He arrests ...
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... turn , upon charges of cruelty and oppression , and been made to answer before that very tribunal for falsely and maliciously accu- sing a brother - officer ? The court - martial code in the Navy is so vague and imperfect in many ...
... turn , upon charges of cruelty and oppression , and been made to answer before that very tribunal for falsely and maliciously accu- sing a brother - officer ? The court - martial code in the Navy is so vague and imperfect in many ...
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Page 180 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 249 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' and sae grave; Weel-pleas'd to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love ! where love like this is found : O heart-felt raptures ! bliss beyond compare ! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare — ' If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare — One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms, breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that...
Page 180 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 249 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 108 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
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Page 107 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye ; But oft, in lonely rooms and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness sensations sweet, Felt in the blood and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration...
Page 125 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights, which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Page 118 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 326 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.