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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ... the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the children played: it had evolved from the tales of sailors and adventurers returning from the America... ...nd sparkling brass fittings. ‘We will be dining with the captain to-night, at seven bells, as the navy would say, so I shall have the pleasure of yo... ...e Winds. John MacGregor told Helen, as they watched the dhows change course rapidly, ‘The British Navy patrol these waters to prevent these slave tr... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ... out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was the birt... ... As they approached the Residency, large iron gates bearing the East India Company’s crest - the Royal Arms and the flag of St. George - were opene...

...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Though Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, she could not be addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the... ... Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes scattered. Being royalty, she was merely confined to her bedroom until she died i... ...nto a horse's stomach and left to die. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. ht... ...leId=A0000230 Canada, Invasion of The U.S. military developed a "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan--Red" in the 1920s. The detailed Plan was a... ...eading to widespread famine, claiming five million lives. A series of rebellions of sailors broke out, most famously in the Krohnstadt naval base. ... ... means "Man-Eater", the name given to the fly by Dr. Coquerel, the French Imperial Navy medical doctor who discovered it, busy devouring colonists ... ...olved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural re...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...nelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voy... ...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...s country -- The city of Quinsai with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- G... ... and loss of the Cortereal Brothers -- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on stran... ...fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da Gama -- Punishment alike of frien... ...Origin of the term "Buccaneer" -- Whence was derived the word "filibuster " -- Sailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on desperate undertakings -- Eng... ...two fleets, sailing in opposite directions, at nearly the same time. SOLOMON'S NAVY. Thirteen hundred years after, the flood, as the Bible tells us, S... ...red years after, the flood, as the Bible tells us, Solomon built a very large ,navy on the Red Sea at a haven called Ezion Geber, from which a voyage ...

...'s surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Sn...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...udge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to protec... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...And appeared only in order to impress the awe-struck masses with their sacred Royal presence, their shining noble splendour… dressed in the most exp... ...them Did America enter WW2 because it was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy? Yes and no. The bankers who controlled FDR and his government…... ...e going to attack Pearl Harbor and did nothing to stop it, he allowed his own navy to be bombed on purpose… Oh the infamy! What was truly infamous... ...il they grew accustomed to an almost completely vegetarian diet. It saved the sailors from starvation. However, it also raised their awareness leve... ...ing vessel in those days to function properly. For hundreds of years: British sailors had sailed under far harsher, brutalized conditions and never ... ...ght to mutiny. Bligh’s voyage was the only ocean voyage ever taken where the sailors had stopped eating meat altogether for a long period of time. ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

... these thick walls and the glazed tiles—a strong house. Mama gave me his royal flute, said to be carved from a bull’s leg, but it has been years si... ...ay from the coast, to avoid shifting winds. I keep farther away than most sailors. It shortens the trip...” “You’re not afraid?” “No.” “When will ... ...ky, silver light...it came streaking nearer and nearer. I woke some of my sailors. My helmsman shouted. We pointed and VOICES FROM THE PAST 70 ... ... hands, press it to your face.” I saw ships and listened to their keels...sailors unloading bales...wasn’t that a remnant on the water? P ... ...pes, pastries, glacés, Vouvray. I am partial to grapes and someone on the royal staff hunts them up for me. Sometimes I find five or six silver dish... ...all this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think of the royalty who have lived here through the years, the many mistresses who cam... ...m for this ecstasy. March 2, 1517 Yesterday, a traveler, a Spaniard, a navy officer, a guest of the King, claimed at dinner that a Spanish explor... ...is splendid, new, well-equipped, faster than others of design. He and his navy draughtsmen spent months on her, and she cost him a fortune. On this ... ...uce army expenditures by at least a half a million per day. We can reduce navy costs at the same time; this will bring down our national debt to som...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ou are loyal Williams men, striving for the ad- vancement of the Grand Old Royal Purple. " CHB average man would be astoaished to tee the many intrica... ...llowed by social ostracism, ami even Lady ]Mary proves untrue. Finally his royal identity is disclosed hy the French ambassador,and as LouisPlnlippe, ... ...sselaer prior to the entertainment. Tlie program follows: PART I. 1 (a) ' 'Royal Purple" Bartlett '95 Come Fill Your Glasses Up" Words by H. S. Patter... ... Syr- acuse university. Kx '10—Clay is iit Annapolis and is playing on the Navy 'varsity football team. Ex-'IO—Broadhurst is in the class of 1910 at t... ...38 23 7 Dartmouth 76 10 7 Harvard 107 14 7 M. A. O. 54 21 7 Michigan 107 5 Navy 94 12 8 U. of P. 210 36 9 Princeton 258 11 7 Swarthmore 97 31 5 Wesley... ...l be given in the Thompson Biological Laboratory CM mission work among the sailors in East Boston. Mr. Charles P. Deems, Princeton '07. at present sup... ... work in the slums of Boston. His work has been to help provide a home for sailors v»ho, when they secure shore leave, have no other place to gather e... ...fforded excellent protection against the sun; while the pelius was worn by sailors and other working-men. The women usual- ly usfid some head-dress co... ...gins, halfback. Massachusetts A. C.—Turner, end. Michigan—Sohultz, center. Navy—Northcroft, tackle. Oberlin—R. H. Houser, full- back. Pennsylvania—Wil...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

.... Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western... ...he expanse of his existential turns where it seemed that there were no other sailors. Maybe, he thought to himself, he would go into a video pang late... ...if nothing touches me/ but it does you will see./ Water evaporates from me./ Sailors sail in me./ It is my glee/although I'm sometimes saddened by wha... ... a passing woman for wearing the color, pink, or wanting to make love to all sailors for wearing their clean, white, and neatly pressed uniforms. Here... ...tional Mexican ballads. In would come George Bush Jr. signs and the American navy ships. It is a choice like the people in Paris, France." Gabriele di... ...lady with a pony tail sitting behind a table of novelties and an Anglo-Saxon Navy officer knocking over some of the statuettes and plaques in his vehe...

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Billy Budd

By: Herman Melville

...ion arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of- war’s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they woul... ... courage! don’t look so downhearted, man. Why, I pledge you in advance the royal approbation. Rest assured that His Majesty will be delighted to know ... ...e delighted to know that in a time when his hard tack is not sought for by sailors with such avidity as should be; a time also when some shipmasters p... ...dividuals who, however inferior in grade, were of no common natural stamp, sailors more signally susceptive of that air which continuous martial disci... ...how more or less irasci- bility; but instantly he would control it. In the navy he was popularly known by the appella- tion- Starry Vere. How such a d... ...nother Vere his senior, a distant relative, an officer of like rank in the navy, it remained permanently attached to the surname. Chapter 7 I n view o... ... of the pedantic running thro’ him? Yes, like the King’s yarn in a coil of navy-rope?” Some apparent ground there was for this sort of confi- dential ...

...ong the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights o...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...f conti- nents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval o... ...her off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward in that portion of the At... ...iately. I hastened on board and asked for Com- mander Farragut. One of the sailors conducted me to the poop, where I found myself in the presence of a... ...aily course, the rigging was crowded 16 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with sailors, whose feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as... ...feet. It was humiliating for one of the swift- est sailers in the American navy. A stubborn anger seized the crew; the sailors abused the monster, who... ... of Canadian origin, harpooner on board the frigate Abraham Lincoln of the navy of the United States of America.” I bowed assent. It was not a questio... ...ncoln?” “Professor, I am sorry for one of the best vessels in the American navy; but they attacked me, and I was bound to defend myself. I contented m... ...and had a strong party against him abroad. Indeed, the preceding year, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had concluded a treaty of all...

...d the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ES: The third section of the “Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of th... ...he Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such officers as he ma... ...that whether it be competent for me, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, to declare the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at an... ... line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infan- try, two Companies... ...ession as to the number of the enemy’s forces north of Strasburg and Front Royal. Are the forces still moving north through the gap at Front Royal and... ...ohnson are pouring through the gap they made day before yesterday at Front Royal, making a dash northward. It will be a very valuable and very honorab... ...of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming def- erence to the best sentiment of a Christian people... ...for the prompt discharge of all arrears of pay due to our soldiers and our sailors. 230 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six While giving this a...

...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...rsity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] Chapter 1 The Shade ... ...inister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, t... ...oises prove to me, indeed, that the destiny of favorites is precarious; but ye shall know I am no ordinary favorite. No! The Earl of Essex, ’tis true,... ...con; “and you, Athos, you know some- thing of everything and can be our captain. I dare say you know how to navigate, should he fail us.” “My dear fri... ...oes as if in flowery paths.” “Everything goes too well, Porthos. But no matter; we must trust in God.” As soon as the plank was withdrawn the captain ... ... ves- sels lying by it I was looking for a frightful discharge of musketry which would crush us.” “But,” said Porthos, with great wisdom, “that was im... ...where Musqueton and Blaisois were preparing supper. Here there was evidently nothing to seek or to appre- hend and they passed rapidly to examine the ...

...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...des proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks... ...T, I must give some account of the Julia herself; or “Little Jule,” as the sailors familiarly styled her. She was a small barque of a beautiful model,... ...ve any longer with the captain, and went forward with his chests among the sailors, where he was received with open arms as a good fellow and an injur... ... had been 12 Omoo purchased by the owners at an auction sale of condemned navy stores in Sydney. But notwithstanding the wateriness of the first cour... ... two clans, and the next morning brought all the others to the feet of his royal ally. Nor was the rise of his domestic fortunes at all behind the Cor... ...rise, the farewell shouts from the canoe, as we dashed along under bellied royals, were heard unmoved by our islander; but it was not long thus. That ... ...ubjects for tattooing that the profession became quite needy. The 28 Omoo royal ally of Hardy, however, hit upon a benevolent expedi- ent to provide ... ...t upon the ladder, and looking up, saw a wide trousers’ leg. Immediately, Navy Bob, a stout old T riton, stealthily descended, and at once went to gr... ...from running up and affronting him. “So the counsellor is come,” exclaimed Navy Bob, who, like all the rest, invariably styled him thus, much to mine ...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...III THE SAILING AND RACING of yachts has developed a class of fore-and-aft sailors, men born and bred to the sea, fishing in winter and yachting in su... ... masters of the fine art. 28 The Mirror of the Sea Some of them were like Royal Academicians of a certain kind. They never startled you by a touch of... ...e was deep, hearty, and authori- tative—the voice of a very prince amongst sailors. He did everything with an air which put your atten- tion on the al... ...ur spars than any amount of running aloft could do. And yet in my time the royal yards of an average profitable ship were a good way up above her deck... ...nerally happened in this way: Night, clouds racing overhead, wind howling, royals set, and the ship rushing on in the dark, an immense white sheet of ... ...e was, of course, a good deal of noise—run- ning about, the, shouts of the sailors, the thrashing of the sails—enough, in fact, to wake the dead. But ... ...d of serene mind, scrupulously concerned for the welfare and honour of the navy, he missed a larger fame only by the chances of the service. We may we... ...here were ready and able to add to the trea- sure of victories the British navy has given to the nation. It was the lot of Lord Nelson to exalt all th... ... glory. Exalt! the word seems to be created for the man. XLVII THE BRITISH NAVY may well have ceased to count its victories. It is rich beyond the wil...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 40 Midnight, Forecastle Harpooneers and sailors. . . . . . . . . . . 172 41 Moby Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...rt and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clea... ...guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown asho... ... right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump fr... ... Commodore on the quarter deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In mu... ... bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pour... ...enced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessan... ...ica now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; ... ...ing his quarter deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperi...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...rt and the Tuileries for ye! But gulp down your tears and hie aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clea... ...guarding and protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when either thrown ash... ... right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump fr... ... Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the fore- castle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In... ... bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death. Abominable are the tumblers into which he pour... ...n why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore. T... ...enced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessan... ...ica now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; ... ...ing his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperi...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...six of the Henrys cover 227 years. It might have been well to name all the royal princes Henry, but this was overlooked until it was too late. ( Image... ...orld—Bosworth Field—and tradition says it never grew there until Richard’s royal blood warmed its hidden seed to life and made it grow. Henry VII.; tw... ...e church. Then the square filled up; not with civilians, but with army and navy officers in showy and beautiful uniforms. They filled it compactly, le... ...d they cover with derision every argument that can be invented in favor of royalty by the most ingenious casuist. In his time the husband of this prin... ...owers of the island churches loomed faint and far away in the dimness; the sailors in the rigging of the ships that lay in the Basin wrought like phan...

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The Second Funeral of Napoleon

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...small actions to be weighed prop- erly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beg- gars’ rags, generals’ uniforms, seedy out-at-elbowed coat... ...or’s sepulture. “Some demanded,” says an eloquent anonymous Captain in the Navy who has written an “Itinerary from Toulon to St. Helena,” “that the co... ...nd faithful servants, were likewise in the vessel. It was commanded by his Royal Highness Francis Ferdinand Philip Louis Marie d’Orleans, Prince de Jo... ...on board the French frigate, and brought his father’s best respects to his Royal High- ness. The Governor was at home ill, and forced to keep his room... ...ar being placed at the foot of the mizzen-mast. The coffin, carried by our sailors, passed between two ranks of officers with drawn swords, and was pl... ...Commodore Napier was pouring broad- sides into Tyre and Sidon; our gallant navy was storm- ing breaches and routing armies; Colonel Hodges had seized ... ...ays of her memorable combat with the “Saucy Arethusa.” “These five hundred sailors,” says a French newspaper, speaking of them in the proper French wa... ...l explain to you)—I doubt, I say, whether these weapons are ALWAYS worn by sailors, and have heard that they are commonly and very sensibly too, locke... ...reasonably supposed that the picked men of the crack frigate of the French navy are a “good specimen” of the rest of the French marine, any more than ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...emands arrears, general mutiny of, outbreak of, Nanci military executions, Royalists leave, state of, in want, recruited, Revolutionary, fourteen armi... ...oming defunct, September massacres, dissolved. ASSIGNATS, origin of, false Royalist, forgers of, coach-fare in. AUBRIOT, Sieur, after King’s capture. ... ...ther. BOURDEAUX, priests hanged at, for Girondism. BOYER, duellist. BREST, sailors revolt, state of, in 1791, Federes in Paris, in 1793. BRETEUIL, Hom... ... CATHELINEAU, of La Vendee. CAVAIGNAC, Convention Representative. CAZALES, Royalist, in Constituent Assembly. CAZOTTE, author of ‘Diable Amoureux, ’ s... ...light of King’s Aunts, to be War- Minister, demands by, secreted, escapes. NAVY, Louis XV. on French. NECKER, and finance, account of, dismissed, refu...

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Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

...something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty. Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the H... ...ll you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. Y et that we may not appear to be defective even ... ...our millions interest. And as a compensa tion for her debt, she has a large navy; America is with out a debt, and without a navy; yet for the twenti... ... navy; yet for the twentieth part of the English national debt, could have a navy as large again. The navy of England is not worth, at this time, more... ...alculations, which are now given as a proof that the above estimation of the navy is just. [See Entic’s naval history, intro. page 56.] The charge of ... ...al run into great errors; it is not necessary that one fourth part should he sailors. The T errible privateer, Captain Death, stood the hottest engage... ...t of any ship last “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 51 war, yet had not twenty sailors on board, though her complement of men was upwards of two hundred... ...ough her complement of men was upwards of two hundred. A few able and social sailors will soon instruct a suffi cient number of active landmen in the... ...soul of BARCLAY ye would preach re pentance to YOUR king; Ye would tell the Royal Wretch his sins, and warn him of eternal ruin. [“Thou “Common Sense...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...s follows:— “No doubt the common soldiers of that age had, like the common sailors of some fifty years ago, some one qualified to ‘discourse in excell... ...r to the regicide? Hermes I sent, while yet his soul remain’d Sincere from royal blood, and faith profaned; To warn the wretch, that young Orestes, gr... ...rites devour. To distant Sparta, and the spacious waste Of Sandy Pyle, the royal youth shall haste. There, warm with filial love, the cause inquire Th... ...While his fond soul these fancied triumphs swell’d, The stranger guest the royal youth beheld; Grieved that a visitant so long should wait Unmark’d, u... ...Swift to the shore they move along the strand; The ready vessel rides, the sailors ready stand. He bids them bring their stores; the attending train L... ... The god propitious gave the guiding sign; Through the mid seas he bid our navy steer, And in Euboea shun the woes we fear. The whistling winds alread... ...cease, Return’d Atrides to the coast of Greece, And safe to Argos port his navy brought, With gifts of price and ponderous treasure fraught. Hence war... ...l in a year o’erfly); Go then; to Sparta take the watery way, Thy ship and sailors but for orders stay; Or, if my land then choose thy course to bend,... ...w blazing tents illumined half the skies, While from the shores the winged navy flies; How e’en in Ilion’s walls, in deathful bands, Came the stern Gr...

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