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الصفحة 97 - Ye Mariners of England That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze! Your glorious standard launch again To match another foe, And sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do' blow ; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
الصفحة 14 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 15 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS from this World to that which is to come.
الصفحة 42 - ... whom it is especially intended, as a most interesting collection of thrilling tales well told ; and to their elders, as a useful handbook of reference, and a pleasant one to take up when their wish is to while away a weary half-hour. We have seen no prettier gift-book for a long time.
الصفحة 5 - Trench. — Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD, Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL CATALOGUES.) POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo.
الصفحة 16 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of all Times and all Countries. Gathered and narrated anew. By the Author of
الصفحة 16 - The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Edited from the Original Edition by JW CLARK, MA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
الصفحة 47 - In no other work that we can call to mind are the finer qualities of the English gentleman more happily portrayed.
الصفحة 208 - If he fails so to do, and no reasonable cause for such failure is shown, the collision shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be deemed to have been caused by his wrongful act, neglect, or default.
الصفحة 148 - A gun or other explosive signal fired at intervals of about a minute. 2. The International Code signal of distress indicated by NC 3.