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...ited 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 of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall...

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...effected something in that direction. I am still unwilling to take all our force off the direct line between Richmond and here. A. LINCOLN. 6 The Wri... ...INGTON, May 16, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McDOWELL: What is the strength of your force now actually with you? A. LINCOLN. MEMORANDUM OF PROPOSED ADDITIONS T... ... 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... ...em it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P . Tordenskiold, which vessel was in May, 1861, pre... ... Septem- ber 21, 1863. MRS. A. LINCOLN. Fifth Avenue Hotel. New Y ork: The air is so clear and cool and apparently healthy that I would be glad for yo...

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...e took pleasure in recording by ineffaceable hiero- glyphics the symbol of Norwegian life, bestowing on these coasts the conformation of a fish’s spin... ...l these fiords, each has its own characteristics. The sea has every- where forced its way as through a breach, yet the rocks about each fissure are di... ...e that of a funnel washed out by the sea. The passage which the waves have forced present to the eye an image of the eternal struggle between old Ocea... ... the rays of the sun, bears cultivation and shows the native growth of the Norwegian flora. Here the expanse of the fiord is broad enough to allow the... ...se roofs supported by squared trunks of trees which give so patriarchal an air to Northern dwellings. From beneath them the eye could see the savage n... ...nown that he still lives. Often, when the flocks of gray clouds, driven in squadrons athwart the mountains and among the tree-tops, hid the sky with t... ... gathered in its chimney-corner, in houses carefully closed from the outer air, and well supplied with biscuit, melted butter, dried fish, and other p... ... motion and posi- tion of the earth and planets, and while Assessor in the Royal College of Mines, on the proper system of working salt mines. He disc... ...f all confidence, Monsieur Charles-Leonhard de Stahlhammer, captain in the Royal guard and knight of the Sword, answered the calumny with a convincing...

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...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... ...ca. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run the... ...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... ... with water to compare, The ocean serves on high, Up-spouted by a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” — Cowper, on the Queen’ s Visit to London. ... ... English miles. ... “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the air, which, cracking like a whip, resounds to the distance of three or four... ...ther answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited an- swer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him. “‘I am a Hebrew... ...he Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulog... ...apped the light cedar planks with their tails. A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering...

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...ever dis- lodge. It is because a man cannot see and measure these mystical forces which palsy him, that he cannot deal with them effectually . If he w... ...ing at all under intellectual impulses that would not, through that single force of absolute frankness, fall within the reach of a deep, sol- emn, and... ...suspecting any subtle, fraudulent purpose, simply recoil from the romantic air of such a statement—which builds up, as with an enchanter’s wand, an im... ...his church does not forsake her dead so long as they continue in the upper air, but waits for her last “sweet and solemn 11 farewell” at the side of t... ...ain, the sun shines more brightly, and the showers have all swept off like squadrons of cavalry to the rear. We will try him again. Pluck an anemone, ... ...sion of public joy for a victory,—bells ringing in the distance,—or when a royal birthday, or some traditional commemoration of ancient feuds, (such a... ...ar that the public service must have languished deplorably for want of the royal signature. In sailing past his own dominions, what dolorous outcries ... ...stage, you soon begin to feel yourself entering the stream as it were of a Norwegian maelstrom; and the stream at length becomes the rush of a catarac...

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..., for he went down head foremost; and in all respects, the descent had the air of a voluntary act. What followed? From every one of the bridges over t... ... way down to Warrington, eighteen miles distant to the eastward, the whole air was illuminated by flakes of cotton, often satu- rated with rum, and by... ...r, Mr. Williams, whom we suppose to have long since made his coup d’essai, forced his way through the crowded streets, bound on business. To say, was ... ...wever, was found to be slightly fastened; and, at the moment when this was forced, a loud crash of the window, both glass and frame, announced that th... ... man in the house recognized at once the well- known initials of an honest Norwegian ship-carpenter, John Petersen, who had worked in the English dock... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ...sture of invita- 110 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater tion to some squadrons of cavalry that they should charge the enemy: upon which the cava... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,...

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...so much the stronger proved He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? Yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor i... ...raised me to contend, And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits armed That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring, H... ... Then with expanded wings he stears his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land He lights, if it were Land... ...ains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on NORWEGIAN hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, H... ...REET And IDA known, thence on the Snowy top Of cold OLYMPUS rul’d the middle Air Thir highest Heav’n; or on the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or in DODONA, and thro... ...hasten’d. As when bands Of Pioners with Spade and Pickaxe arm’d Forerun the Royal Camp, to trench a Field, Or cast a Rampart. MAMMON led them on, MA... ...t place, to the sight of this new world which he sought. High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of ORMUS and of IND, Or where t... ...’ obdured brest With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Another part in Squadrons and gross Bands, On bold adventure to discover wide That dismal... ...ot through with orient Beams: when all the Plain Coverd with thick embatteld Squadrons bright, Chariots and flaming Armes, and fierie Steeds Reflectin...

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... much the stronger provd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms? yet not for those Nor what the Potent Victor ... ...me to contend, And to the fierce contention brought along 100 Innumerable force of Spirits arm’d That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,... ... with expanded wings he stears his flight 225 Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land He lights, if it were ... ... in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on NORWEGIAN hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand,... ...And IDA known, thence on the Snowy top 515 Of cold OLYMPUS rul’d the middle Air Thir highest Heav’n; or on the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or in DODONA, and ... ...’d. As when bands 675 Of Pioners with Spade and Pickaxe arm’d Forerun the Royal Camp, to trench a Field, Or cast a Rampart. MAMMON led them on, ... ... BOOK. - 19 - BOOK I. Milton: Paradise Lost BOOK II. High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of ORMUS and of IND, Or whe... ...aradise Lost With stubborn patience as with triple steel. Another part in Squadrons and gross Bands, 570 On bold adventure to discover wide That... ...hrough with orient Beams: when all the Plain 15 Coverd with thick embatteld Squadrons bright, Chariots and flaming Armes, and fierie Steeds Refle...