From Sail
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共 26 段- When I received my appointment to the Naval School at Annapo
- Such tolerance towards the unfit, the reluctance to strike t
- Under convictions thus slowly recasting, the first big steam
- To substitute acquired common-sense--knowledge and reflectio
- In like mingling of good and evil, the oldsters at the Naval
- Another circumstance that may have contributed to indifferen
- There were many other works of like character, the enumerati
- In last analysis slavery may have been, probably was, the ca
- The _Congress_ was a magnificent ship of her period. The adj
- Another forecastle intimate of mine was the boatswain, who,
- Talking of such sensations, and the idle _abandon_ of a whol
- That daylight coffee of the morning watch, chief of its char
- When I joined, the _Pocahontas_ was lying off the Washington
- It thus came to pass that, by a gradual process of eliminati
- The decision that one of the practice-ships should go to Eur
- With the termination of the War of Secession, which had conc
- Our second Thursday gale, May 16th, exceeded the first in fu
- It was scarcely fair to Aden to visit it in midsummer, but o
- The habit of whole families living together in a boat, thoug
- The action of this body of samurai was probably unpremeditat
- While in Hakodate, I availed myself of the opportunity to vi
- "Then felt I as some watcher of the skies
- A lecturer is little hampered by the exactions of style; ind
- Coal was our prime necessity, but it was not all. The hostil
- This second book was written under much more encouraging cir
- _The Life of Nelson_, and _The War of 1812_, of which I have