...ith your dear face for company, and to hear the wind and remember the poor sailors at sea—” Ah! Perhaps Richard was going to be a sailor. We had talke... ... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ...rn, in conference with several men who looked like a mixture of police and sailors. Against the mouldering wall by which they stood, there was a bill,...

...ough to me) and smelt the fish, and pitch, and oakum, and tar, and saw the sailors walk- ing about, and the carts jingling up and down over the stones... ...old set of boot-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to ... ...t-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to sell his life ... ...g any more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situat... ...pecially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations. The carr... ... my bed in the moonlight, saying: There you are, young Copperfield, and a royal spread you ve got. I couldn t think of doing the honours of the feas... ...re full of stinging-nettles, against the palings of which some second-hand sailors clothes, that seemed to have overflowed the shop, were flutter- in...

... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...nt ob- jects. Gog and Magog held their state within ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of g... ...have attained a pretty green old age, have not been wanting in the English Navy. The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chro- nometers, ba... ...hurrah for the West Indies, Captain Cuttle! How does that tune go that the sailors sing? 222 Dombey & Son ‘For the Port of Barbados, Boys! Cheerily! ...

...Al- though General d’Epinay served under Napoleon, did he not still retain royalist sentiments? And was he not the person who was as- sassinated one e... ... “how I have called him in my long sleepless nights; how I have longed for royal wealth to purchase a million of secrets from a million of men, and to... ... in the wars?” “I think he entered the service.” “In what branch?” “In the navy.” “Are you not his confessor?” “No, sir; I believe he is a Lutheran.” ... ...ill remain the millionaire.” “Which seems to me the finest title under the royalty of July,” re- plied Danglars. “Unfortunately,” said Monte Cristo, “... ...r will scold us for it.” The young man continued to advance, following the sailors, who chose a firm footing. Thirty strides brought them to dry land;... ...returned to the yacht. “Oh, yes,” said the count, “you are looking for the sailors.” “Yes, I paid them nothing, and yet they are gone.” “Never mind th... ...aximilian,” said Monte Cristo, smiling. “I have made an agreement with the navy, that the access to my island shall be free of all charge. I have made...

...pendix B] with empty window arches, ivy- mailed battlements, moldering towers—the Lear of inani- mate nature—deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storm... ...I framed this idea into a proposition. But it was not accepted. The code was in the way again. I proposed rifles; then double-barreled shotguns; then ... ...ee that the King is pleased; and as to the actor encored, his pride and gratification are simply bound- less. Still, there are circumstances in which ... ... bravo! More thunder! more lightning! turn on more rain!” The thunder boomed, the lightning glared, the storm-winds raged, the deluge poured down. The... ... but if a lady, unattended, walks abroad in the streets of London, even at noonday, she will be pretty likely to be accosted and insulted—and not by d...

..., and after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my... ...after dinner a man named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. He was on friendly terms with my broth... ... open question in entomology. There were memorable occasions. At times the Royal Entomological Society meetings resembled nothing so much as the Chamb... ... it, but of all those who saw it none could have marvelled more than those sailors, habitual watchers of the stars, who far away at sea had heard noth... ...ome over Iceland and Greenland and the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors coming there presently found them green and gracious, and could sca... ...urse of the canoe, and dropped the boat with Lieutenant da Cunha and three sailors to board her. Then the curiosity of the captain made him draw up al...

...me at the last. 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. 21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. 22... ...2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof w... ...e country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Zik... ...the LORD. 438 1 Kings So he nished the house. 26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red... ...on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants... ... spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. 11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir gre... ...And every shipmaster, and all the com- Revelation 1415 pany in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar o , 18 And cried when they...

...e after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way w... ...ndon Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened my heart to see it, the Law List. ... ...ry heart was bleeding, and it took all the man hood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down. I paused before an ... ...d those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them and ...

..., 2 He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its ghting men wer... ...s country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 6 Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which rea... ...ught against Rabbath of the children of Ammon, and laid close siege to the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, say- ing: I have fought a... ... Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent his servants in the eet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 And... ...e of spices as these which the queen of Saba gave to king Solomon. 11 (The navy also of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir great... ..., nor was any account made of it in the days of Solomon: 22 For the king’s navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, a... ...with 1122 Prophecy of Daniel chariots, andwith horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass th...

...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...al, smiling with a mild consciousness of his knowledge, ‘is nat’rally your royal residence. Being located in the immediate neighbourhood of your Parks... ...wit society, and by the gallant defenders of their country in the army and navy, but particularly the former. The least of their stories had a colonel... ...h with which I now sub- scribe myself—amid the tempestuous howlings of the—sailors, ‘Unalterably, ‘Never yours, ‘AUGUSTUS.’ They thought as little of ...

..................................................... ............ 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,............................................................ ...................................... .................. 163 iv SPEECH: THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND. ......................................................... ........................................................ .... 190 SPEECH: THE ROYAL ACADEMY DINNER. ........................................................ ...here had recently been a terrible shipwreck, and very few of the surviving sailors had escaped in an open boat. One of these on making land came strai... ... Duke of Cambridge responded to the toast of the army, Mr. Childers to the navy, Lord Elcho to the volunteers, Mr. Motley to “The Prosperity of the Un...

...PEECH: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.............................................................................................................. 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,....................................................................................................................... 58 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855. .............................................................

...re employed in preparations for sea, reeving studding sail gear, crossing royal yards, putting on chafing gear, and taking on board our powder. On ... ...rds, as the wind was getting ahead; and I could plainly see by the looks the sailors occasionally cast to wind- ward, and by the dark clouds that we... ...ed about in grand confusion. There was a complete ‘‘hurrah’s nest,’’ as the sailors say, ‘‘everything on top and nothing at hand.’’ A large hawser h... ...to me, unintelligible orders constantly given and rapidly executed, and the sailors ‘‘singing out’’ at the ropes in their hoarse and peculiar strain... ... officer, seeing my lazy posture, ordered me to slush the main mast from the royal mast head, down. The vessel was then rolling a little, and I had ta... ...hould be ruined at once. So I took my bucket of grease and climbed up to the royal mast head. Here the rocking of the vessel, which increases the high... ...arly two years; and the governor—an Englishman who had entered the Chilian navy—with a priest, half a dozen task masters, and a body of soldiers, we... ...try was to a new and rich farming region, the Napa Valley, the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, the river gold workings, and the Geysers, and ... ...nvitation so far as to stop at Vallejo to breakfast. The United States Navy Yard, at Mare Island, near Vallejo, is large and well placed, with d...

...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...nd pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with that ‘quiveri... ...r again: “’Tis the twentieth time I hear all that; France will never get a Navy, I believe.” How touching also was this: “If I were Lieutenant of Pol... ... his own lank pocket withal. But surely, in any case, France should have a Navy. For which great object were not now the time: now when that proud Ter... ...782.) It seems as if, according to Louis XV., ‘France were never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; wit... ...ed, bewildered; and only Rebellion thriving. Of sub-officers, soldiers and sailors in mutiny by land and water. Of soldiers, at Nanci, as we shall see... ...at Nanci, as we shall see, needing to be cannonaded by a brave Bouille. Of sailors, nay the very galley-slaves, at Brest, needing also to be cannon- a... ...ther. BOURDEAUX, priests hanged at, for Girondism. BOYER, duellist. BREST, sailors revolt, state of, in 1791, Federes in Paris, in 1793. BRETEUIL, Hom...

...heir happy course. Could angry Pallas, with revengeful spleen, The Grecian navy burn, and drown the men? She, for the fault of one offending foe, The ... ...ion roar, And roll the foaming billows to the shore. The cables crack; the sailors’ fearful cries Ascend; and sable night involves the skies; And heav... ... And on the secret shelves with fury cast. Those hidden rocks th’ Ausonian sailors knew: They call’d them Altars, when they rose in view, And show’d t... ...And then you shall be taught obedience to my reign. Hence! to your lord my royal mandate bear The realms of ocean and the fields of air Are mine, not... ...wine (Acestes’ gift, The Aeneid Virgil 9 When his Trinacrian shores the navy left) He set abroach, and for the feast prepar’d, In equal portions wi... ...n time, with kindly throes, Shall at a birth two goodly boys disclose. The royal babes a tawny wolf shall drain: Then Romulus his grandsire’s throne s... ...allow’d in the Libyan main, And if our young Iulus be no more, Dismiss our navy from your friendly shore, That we to good Acestes may return, And with... ...dams; And jars of gen’rous wine and spacious bowls She gives, to cheer the sailors’ drooping souls. Now purple hangings clothe the palace walls, And s... ...h wand’ring foliage and rich flow’rs entwine. But, far above the rest, the royal dame, (Already doom’d to love’s disastrous flame,) With eyes insatiat...

...tch-like mother of Lieutenant Vanslyperken, are, with the exception of the sailors’ wives, like the shadows of what has never been. His Silvas, his Ri... ...s greatness is undeniable. It is undeniable. To a multitude of readers the navy of to-day is Marryat’s navy still. He has created a priceless legend. ... ...? I suppose that there are some very perfect people who allow the Army and Navy Stores to censor their diet. So much merit, however, I imagine, is not... ..., the idea was elevated; but it is the bitter fate of any idea to lose its royal form and power, to lose its “virtue” the moment it descends from its ... ...nt with my father the last eighteen months of his life. It was in that old royal and academical city that I ceased to be a child, became a boy, had kn... ...s. There was an Act of Parliament which made it penal to procure ships for sailors. “An Act-of -Parliament. A law,” he took pains to impress it again ... ... from which I launched myself on the wide oceans. My teachers had been the sailors of the Norfolk shore; coast men, with steady eyes, mighty limbs, an... ...ate, master, engineer, and also all through the innumerable ratings of the Navy up to that of Admi- ral, has done well. I don’t say marvellously well ... ...n have always been what they are now, from their earliest days, before the Royal Navy had been fashioned out of the material they furnished for the ha...

...r of Malcolm Greathead, King of Scotland, and of a lady of the old English royal line. They loved her greatly, and called her good Queen Maude. Robert... ...led in the evening, and there was a great merry- making on board, till the sailors grew so drunk that they did not know how to guide the ship, and ran... ...isers, they cut off his head. Richard had to sleep in the house called the Royal Wardrobe that night, but he went out again on horseback among the mob... .... A.D. 1399—1413 THE ENGLISH PEOPLE had often chosen their king out of the royal family in old times, but from John to Richard II., he had always been... ... Suffolk, was exiled by her enemies, and taken at sea and murdered by some sailors. Moreover, the last of the brave old friends of Henry V. was killed... ...eth’s. It was a time when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the ... ...d, William, Duke of Clarence, who had been brought up as an officer in the navy, was a friend of the Whigs, and of those who were ready to make altera...

...irst marriage, that Charles Jenkin turned his mind in the direction of the navy; and it was in Buckner’s own ship, the Prothee, 64, that the lad made ... ...he Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and Lucy, the lat- ter coveted by royalty itself. ‘Lord Rokeby, his neighbour, 8 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin c... ...o well, and had an order from Lord Melville for the lad’s admission to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. Both the Bishop and the Admiral patted h... ...me as I write, and gives a strange notion of the arts in our old En- glish Navy. Yet it was again as an artist that the lad was taken 12 Memoir of Fl... ...argo of combustibles had taken fire and was smouldering under hatches; his sailors were in the hold, where the fumes were already heavy, and Jenkin wa... ...3, and named after Admiral Fleeming, one of his father’s protectors in the navy. His childhood was vagrant like his life. Once he was left in the care... ...nds, the men we telegraphed for to Cagliari) hauling at the rope; wiremen, sailors, in the crev- ices left by ropes and machinery; everything that cou... ...rding this engineering letter; for the craft which brought out our Italian sailors must return to Cagliari to-night, as the little cable will take us ... ...us food’ of which he spoke so much, which he sought so eagerly, enjoyed so royally. He wrote to an author, the first part of whose story he had seen w...

...sary to sustain the captain without question, and in a few minutes all the sailors charged with mutiny were in irons. I rather felt for a time a wish ... ... on the old steamer Ohio, commanded at the time by Captain Schenck, of the navy. It had not been determined, until a day or two before starting, that ... ...e out, “I wish I had taken my father’s advice; he wanted me to go into the navy; if I had done so, I should not have had to go to sea so much.” Poor S... ...als throughout the South so as to be on hand when treason wanted them. The navy was scattered in like manner. The President did not prevent his cabine... ...earn- ing his route, had sent in about 4,000 men—many more than there were sailors in the fleet. Sherman went back, at the request of the admiral, to ... ...erintend the preparation of the steamers selected to run the batteries, as sailors would probably understand the work better than soldiers. I was glad... ...e in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augus... ...of the navy in chang- ing our base of supplies from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock. Up to this time I had received no reinforcement... ...ouse, on the Pamunkey. The wagon train and guards moved directly from Port Royal to White House. Supplies moved around by water, guarded by the navy. ...

...he same. But he had turned right about, and appeared transfixed and like a royal beast angry, with his wound. If ever there was love at first sight, a... ... swimming and floating alternately, and was called Old Sky-high by English sailors, any number of whom could 8 The Amazing Marriage always be had to ... ...colours, that he was then and there offered Admiral’s rank in the Imperial navy; and the Old Buccaneer, like a courtier of our best days, bows to Coun... ...of talking when he was not issu- ing orders under fire, best understood by sailors. I give it you as it stands here printed. I do not profess to under... ...ed old Admiral Fakenham, better known along our sea-coasts and ports among sailors as ‘Old Showery,’ because of a remark he once made to his flag-cap-... ...ey had been collectors of beetles and butterflies, and the flying by of a ‘royal-mantle,’ the purple butterfly grandly fringed, could still remind Car... ...s resolving to have a residence here, to buy up half the valley—erecting a royal palace—and mark- ing out the site—raving about it in the wildest lang... ...and.’ ‘The Old Buccaneer, I think.’ ‘I do not know. He was a seaman of the navy, like Admiral Fakenham is. Weather at sea, weather on the mountains, h...

...egrees of preferment in both. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the... ...es in the lottery are less, the smaller ones must be more numerous. Common sailors, therefore, more frequently get some fortune and preferment than co... ... those hardships and dangers, while they remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompence but the pleasure of exerc... ...f workmen are about double those of the same classes at Edinburgh. But the sailors who sail from the port of London, seldom earn above three or four s... ...d, was established by act of parliament in 1695, and the other, called the Royal Bank, by royal charter in 1727. Whether the trade, either of Scotland... ...e officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and ... ...is the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violenc... ...lion of tons of shipping, or a thousand ships of a thousand tons each. The navy of England would not be sufficient. When the quantity of gold and silv... ...cles only. AR AR AR AR ART T T T T. I. . I. . I. . I. . I. His sacred royal majesty of Portugal promises, both in his own name and that of his su...

...er tends upon, Loose in the wind waved their banners light, Their standard royal toward Heaven they spread, The cross triumphant on the Pagans dead. L... ...ust you make, If you achieve renown by this emprize: For if our fleet your navy chase or take, For want of victuals all your camp then dies; Of if by ... ...t, With joyful shouts, and acclamations sweet. IV As when a troop of jolly sailors row Some new-found land and country to descry, Through dangerous se... ...an fierce appeared Dreadful to those that round about him been, As to poor sailors, when huge storms are reared, With lightning flash the rafting seas... ...er stroke, Like two fierce bulls whom rage and love provoke. LIV Worthy of royal lists and brightest day, Worthy a golden trump and laurel crown, The ... .... XV Themselves fornenst old Raffia’s town they fand, A town that first to sailors doth appear As they from Syria pass to Egypt land: The sterile coas... ...se and shout uprose the king, Environed with many a noble peer That to his royal tent the monarch bring, And there he feasted them and made them cheer...

...eyes, and she said, as calmly as she could: “Sally, what would you say to— royalty?” Prodigious! Poor man, it knocked him silly, and he fell over the ... ...aid: “Think of it, Sally—it is a family that has never married outside the Royal and Imperial Houses of Europe: our grand children will sit upon thro... ...a liability, he’s an asset. So is the other one.” “Who is it, Aleck?” “His Royal Highness Sigismund Siegfriend Lauenfeld Dinkelspiel Schwartzenberg B... ... Mark Twain did. And he would try to get the idleness and sloth out of the sailors of that ship by compelling them to take invigorat ing exercise and... ...stinguished people along down. Each has his group of homage payers. In the navy, there are many groups; they start with the Secretary and the Admiral,... ...go down to the quartermaster—and below; for there will be groups among the sailors, and each of these groups will have a tar who is distinguished for ... ...a group of peers, a group of millionaires, a group of hoodlums, a group of sailors, a group of newsboys, a group of saloon politicians, a group of col...

...ets for a quicker adversary. Well, is there any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is ... ... is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Blériot suggests most horribly to me how far... ...d, almost ungentlemanly thing the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued fro... ...exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an altogether... ...o were drowned? Shall we give him an hour or so among the portraits at the Royal Academy, or shall we make an enthusiastic tour of London sculpture an... ...and perhaps, if he has devised economies and improve- ments, a receiver of royalties during his declining years. And concurrently with the systematic ... ...a war with Germany we shall almost certainly be caught short of scientific sailors and soldiers. You cannot make that sort of thing to order in a cris...

...king up and down to shew them off; and acting as footmen and housemaids to royal personages. The sole and obvious cause of the notion that idleness is... ... parents or his schoolmaster or his bishop or his judge or his army or his navy will do something to frighten these bad things away. And this Englishm... ...ain sections of the nation get cured of this dis- ability. University men, sailors, and politicians are compara- tively free from it, because the comm... ...hat has no god in it. Why do governments do nothing in spite of reports of Royal Commissions that establish the most frightful urgency? Why do our phi...

... These hints we had but partially obeyed. But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which... ...need Christians be still in tolerant and superstitious? The simple minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.— “Wher... ... amused to read how Ben Jonson engaged, that the dull masks with which the royal family and nobility were to be enter tained should be “grounded upon... ...proclaim him self a huge imprisoned spar, placed there as a buoy, to warn sailors of sunken rocks. So, each casting some blame upon the other, we wit... ...river, the primitive hav ing floated down stream long ago to——the “King’s navy.” Sometimes we saw the river road a quarter or half a mile distant, an... ...hem out for that purpose,” understood their origin and use better than the Royal Society, who in their T ransactions, in the last century, speaking of... ...y years ago, as the story goes, an old woman who went out to gather penny royal, tript her foot in the bail of a small brass kettle in the dead grass... ...epart ment, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,—for there must be subordination,—but un common sense, that sense whi...

...rmixed; I fancy it’s we with him and with me when we’re talking of army or navy,’ said Patrick. ‘But Captain Con’s a bit of a politician: a poor busin... ...nd a single one of them does not offer space. It would require money and a navy.’ He mused. ‘South America is the quarter I should decide for, as a yo... ...nced her approaching union; and as she couldn’t have a scion of one of the Royal House of Europe, she put her foot on Prince Nikolas. And he ‘s not to... ...een: he deplored the fatality. Nevertheless, he esteemed our soldiers, our sailors too. A city man himself and a man of peace, he cordially esteemed a... ...hing I confess; I never have yet brought myself to venerate thoroughly our Royal Stan- dard. I dare say it is because I do not understand it.’ A stron... ... ‘By the way, now I think of it, Mr. Rumford, the interpre- tation of your Royal Standard, which perplexes you so much, strikes me as easy if you ‘ll ... ...ur commerce, on our courts of Law, on our streets and alleys, our army and navy, our colonies, the vaster than the island England, and still he would ...

...ot only in the case of elemen- tary teachers, but in the case of soldiers, sailors, and so on, the State may do much to promote or discourage marriage... ...reach of every workman, make promotion from the ranks, in the Army, in the Navy, in all business concerns, practicable and natural, and the lingering ... ...science study to a ridiculous extent. Things have altered very much at the Royal 142 Mankind in the Making College of Science, no doubt, since my stu... ...penetrate the pretence that there is no in- trinsic difference between the Royal Family and the mem- bers of the peerage on the one hand, and the aver... ...oolish to forego a great end for a small concession. But to suffer so much Royalty and Privilege as an Englishman has to do before he may make any eff... ...highest position in speaking community. The taint has touched the American Navy, for example, and there are those who discourage pro- motion from the ... ...onsible profes- sions, all qualified teachers, all the men in the Army and Navy promoted to a certain rank, all seamen qualified to navigate a vessel,...

...ducal blood in business: we have, genealogists 9 George Meredith tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and ... ...tion with Miss Middleton, and ran to the cottage full of her—she loved the navy and had a merry face. She had a smile of very pleasant humour accordin... ...lash-in-the-pans.” “They learn their lessons.” “You can’t make soldiers or sailors of them, though.” “And that is untrue. Have you never read of Mary ... ...ing as you are. I like brave boys, and I like you for wanting to enter the Royal Navy. Only, how can you if you do not learn? You must get the captain... ... you are. I like brave boys, and I like you for wanting to enter the Royal Navy. Only, how can you if you do not learn? You must get the captains to p... ...re. Y ou should remember he has to teach you, so that you may pass for the navy. You must not dislike him because he makes you work. Supposing you had... ...ive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inwe... ...k poison, I confess. But the doc- tor prescribed it, and at sea we must be sailors. Now, Miss Middleton, time presses: will you return with me?” “No! ...

...er tends upon, Loose in the wind waved their banners light, Their standard royal toward Heaven they spread, The cross triumphant on the Pagans dead. L... ...ust you make, If you achieve renown by this emprize: For if our fleet your navy chase or take, For want of victuals all your camp then dies; Of if by ... ...t, With joyful shouts, and acclamations sweet. IV As when a troop of jolly sailors row Some new-found land and country to descry, Through dangerous se... ...an fierce appeared Dreadful to those that round about him been, As to poor sailors, when huge storms are reared, With lightning flash the rafting seas... ...er stroke, Like two fierce bulls whom rage and love provoke. LIV Worthy of royal lists and brightest day, Worthy a golden trump and laurel crown, The ... .... XV Themselves fornenst old Raffia’s town they fand, A town that first to sailors doth appear As they from Syria pass to Egypt land: The sterile coas... ...se and shout uprose the king, Environed with many a noble peer That to his royal tent the monarch bring, And there he feasted them and made them cheer...

... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ... which 91 Thomas de Quincey backward? She knew by the conversation of the sailors that Paita must be in the neighborhood; and Paita, being a port, co... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ... of 98 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers breakfast. But who’s afraid? As sailors whistle for a wind, Catalina really had but to whistle for anything... ...ling, and content if her course did but lie offshore, she ‘carried on,’ as sailors say, under easy sail, going, in fact, just whither and just how the... ...yours and mine. Bless you, Sir, she would scorn to look at us. I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be. But how can this com... ...rned. 232 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers heroic leader in the English navy; and that in our own times, Admiral Coffin, though an American by birt...

...towers above all others, and lies to the eastward of what I take to be the royal palace.” That is the new Temple of the Sun, who is adored in Syria un... ...strolling one night down a long dirty street in the vicinity of the Palais Royal. Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spo... ... ‘Le Monde,’ (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors,) will bring him to our residence.” He handed me a paper, and I rea... ...evidently been used in tying the hair in one of those long queues of which sailors are so fond. Moreover, this knot is one which few besides sailors c... ...n board ship. His ultimate design was to sell it. Returning home from some sailors’ frolic the night, or rather 145 V olume One in the morning of the... ...of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesti... ... of the boat taken up on Monday, unless we imagine some connexion with the navy—some personal permanent connexion leading to cognizance of its minute ...

...Nantucket had the slightest suspicion that the terrible story told by some sailors in town of their having run down a vessel at sea and drowned some t... ...Penguins are very plenty, and of these there are four different kinds. The royal penguin, so called from its size and beautiful plumage, is the larges... ...ceive the spectator at a casual glance or in the gloom of the evening. The royal penguins which we met with on Kerguelen’s Land were rather larger tha... ...790, Cap- tain Manuel de Oyarvido,, in the ship Princess, belonging to the Royal Philippine Company, sailed, as he asserts, directly among them. In 17... ... the twenty-seventh of January, 1820, Captain James Weddel, of the British navy, sailed from Staten Land also in search of the Auroras. He reports tha... ...the South Shetland islands. In 1822, Captain James Weddell, of the British navy, with two very small vessels, penetrated farther to the south than any...

...ristian churches, atheistically given? We used to be told that there is no royal road to geometry. I don’t know whether there is or not; but I am sure... ...’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June, 1645), was (I believe) dec... ...at it was then become a solitude, but a solitude in good preservation as a royal park. The vast city had disppeared, and the murmur of myriads: but as... ... machinery of nerves:—it is the function of health most attended to in our navy; and of all it is the one most painfully ravaged by a London life. Thu... ...e said properly to work. The rural laborers worked a little— not much;—and sailors worked a little;—nobody else worked at all. Even slaves had little ... ...nean cloisters. Mussulmans in cold latitudes look as blue and as absurd as sailors on horseback. Apart from which cause, we see that the fine old Visi...

...sfully in a manufacture of parchment. He was a zealous high-church man and royal- ist, and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuar... ... necessity of ‘making provision for the day that was passing over him.’ No royal or noble patron extended a munificent hand to give in- dependence to ... ...r prospect to men of literary merit, who had been honoured with no mark of royal favour in the preceding reign. His present Majesty’s education in thi... ...t part of the time was passed at Ply- mouth, where the magnificence of the navy, the ship-building and all its circumstances, afforded him a grand sub... ...f he could sing the song of Orpheus to the Argo- nauts, who were the first sailors.’ He then called to the boy, ‘What would you give, my lad, to know ... ...ity of manner. She had never been in London. Her brother, a Captain in the navy, had left her a fortune of ten thou- sand pounds; about a third of whi... ...e name of Molly Aston, who was afterwards married to Captain Brodie of the navy. On Sunday, March 24, we breakfasted with Mrs. Cobb, a widow lady, who... ...inted, that there could be no way so good as that of a Round Robin, as the sailors call it, which they make use of when they enter into a conspiracy, ...

...hey can ever be. These are not the artificial forests of an English king, — a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of nature. T... ...e Maine Woods yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy. The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are mad... ...uns wild. New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fult... ...he swims the Penobscot, is entangled amid its shipping, and taken by foreign sailors in its harbor. Twelve miles in the rear, twelve miles of railroad... ...eakfast I emptied the melted pork that was left into the lake, mak ing what sailors call a “slick,” and watching to see how much it spread over and s...

...ry. “Are many of your reefs out there, Ethel?” “Harry can talk nothing but sailors’ language,” said Flora, “and I am sure he did not learn that of Mr.... ... these three years and a half on the African station.” “What, is he in the navy?” “Yes,” said the boy proudly, “Lieutenant Ernescliffe. He got his pro... ...rvey Ander- son is to be a lawyer—so there’s nothing left but soldiers and sailors, and I mean to be a sailor!” “Well, Harry, you may do your duty, an... ...d and mused! “That’s a fine fellow! So this is what comes of bringing sick sailors home—one’s own boys must be catching the infection. Little monkey, ... ...t he doubted, but he was collecting his energies—”Then, papa, I choose the navy.” “Then it is done, Harry. You have chosen in a dutiful, un- selfish s... ...fered a nomination as naval cadet for his brother. He had replied that the navy was not Hector’s destination, but, as Captain Gordon had no one else i... ...miscalculated the chances of interruption. Meta was lingering to track the royal highway of some giant ants to their fir-leaf hillock, when they were ...

... things, taking away his passport.With help from a dissident member of the royal family, he managed to get out of the country under the pretext of att... ... human sources as well as some technical intelligence collection.The Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have their own intelligence components tha... ...telli- gence Authority consisting of the secretaries of State,War, and the Navy, and a personal representative of the president.This body was to be as... ...ng mission of each service, and their long and proud traditions, the Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have often fought ferociously over roles a... ...ORT Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 212 in a destroyer and 17 dead sailors, the Pentagon might have wanted to respond. Instead, they have ofte... ...their friends can help them change. 20 There are signs that Saudi Arabia’s royal family is trying to build a consensus for political reform, though un... ... ouchstone, 2001), pp. 80–82. On aid provided by a dissident member of the royal fam- ily , see Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, Sept. 27, 2...

...the account— and a surety that he who debits is on the spot, to be a right royal king of credit. Only the account must never drivel. ‘Stare aut cresce... ... toward the dead man’s house. ‘First, the young chap’s to be sent into the Navy; then it’s the Army; then he’s to be a judge, and sit on criminals; th... ...man of him. He courteously declined. They then attacked the married Marine—Navy or Army being quite indifferent to them as long as they could win for ... ...wn on that part of her life which preceded her entry into the ranks of the Royal Marines. Some might have thought that those fair large blue eyes of h... ...nd strut- ted in imitation of the stalwart marine. ‘Major—a—Strike! of the Royal Marines! returned from China! covered with glory!—a hero, Van! We can... ... for sisterly affection! Can I possi- bly—weather the gale, as the old L—— sailors used to say? It is dreadful. I fear I am by duty bound to stop on. ... ...d shop and shake his hand there—every man Jack of us!—I’m only quoting the sailors, Harriet—and that’s the way to win him.’ She snapped her fingers, l...