William Falconer
William Falconer
applied employed exactly fishes limb splinters sprung thus utility
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
anchors ancient great laid lead quantity
The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.
giving memorial woe
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
names british-navy ships
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
country important may
The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.
issues water ships
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
blessing perfection people
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
views order sailing
The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
sunset clouds lamps
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
kindness believe men
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
running sea broken
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
men views fire
In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
temptation way vices
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
sea ships said
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.