The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12J. W. Parker, 1838 - Periodicals |
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... sail , 35 - Rud- der , anchor , cables , ship's name , & c . , 36 - War and merchants ' ships , 37 - Ancient voyage , 39- II . , 201 - Causes of the romance of ancient naval history , 201- Voyages related in naval history , fears of the ...
... sail , 35 - Rud- der , anchor , cables , ship's name , & c . , 36 - War and merchants ' ships , 37 - Ancient voyage , 39- II . , 201 - Causes of the romance of ancient naval history , 201- Voyages related in naval history , fears of the ...
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... sail , formed of papyrus leaves . This was the case in the infancy of Moses , and to such the prophet Isaiah alludes ... sailing up the stream . Major Rennel describes this vessel as being still in use in the lower parts of the river ...
... sail , formed of papyrus leaves . This was the case in the infancy of Moses , and to such the prophet Isaiah alludes ... sailing up the stream . Major Rennel describes this vessel as being still in use in the lower parts of the river ...
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... SAIL ABOUT 1230 years before the Christian era , as far as we are able to discern actual fact through the hazy and fabu- lous record of profane antiquity , the adoption of sails pro- moted the nautical art beyond former conception , and ...
... SAIL ABOUT 1230 years before the Christian era , as far as we are able to discern actual fact through the hazy and fabu- lous record of profane antiquity , the adoption of sails pro- moted the nautical art beyond former conception , and ...
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... sailing vessel from its shores . A sail was , perhaps , at first most readily formed by the mariner's suspending his clothes upon a pole , In some countries they used leather , or skins of animals , for sails , as Julius Cæsar observed ...
... sailing vessel from its shores . A sail was , perhaps , at first most readily formed by the mariner's suspending his clothes upon a pole , In some countries they used leather , or skins of animals , for sails , as Julius Cæsar observed ...
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... sails , but were impelled by oars , and were of great length ; so that long ships was a term equivalent with ships of war . The latter were of a rounder shape , and were mainly propelled by sails . The people most distinguished for ...
... sails , but were impelled by oars , and were of great length ; so that long ships was a term equivalent with ships of war . The latter were of a rounder shape , and were mainly propelled by sails . The people most distinguished for ...
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Page 237 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 148 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 159 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 29 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 143 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
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Page 109 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 148 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 181 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 229 - And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances : and she was his only child ; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.