The Record of the United States Naval Institute, Հատորներ 1-4D. Van Nostrand, 1875 |
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Էջ 71 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Էջ 15 - ... or in his absence, the vice-president, or in the absence of both, the...
Էջ 49 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Էջ 35 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Էջ 67 - Rude as their ships was navigation then; No useful compass or meridian known; Coasting, they kept the land within their ken, And knew no North but when the Pole-star shone.
Էջ 116 - Here I saw about fifty miserable distempered wretches, suspended in rows, so huddled one upon another, that not more than fourteen inches space was allotted for each with his bed and bedding ; and deprived of the light of the day, as well as of fresh air ; breathing nothing but a noisome atmosphere of the morbid steams exhaling from their own excrements and diseased bodies, devoured with vermin hatched in the filth that surrounded them, and destitute of every convenience necessary for people in that...
Էջ 23 - Education," in the pertinent language of Mr. Fox,* " has reference to the whole man, the body, the mind, and the heart ; its object, and, when rightly conducted, its effect is, to make him a complete creature after his kind. To his frame it would give vigor, activity, and beauty ; to his senses, correctness and acuteness ; to his intellect, power and truthfulness ; to his heart, virtue.
Էջ 25 - State was then entitled for the "endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Էջ 124 - For these reasons and because "there does not exist in the libraries of the world the means of determining, even approximately, the most practicable route for a ship canal across the isthmus," he recommends the further investigation of the subject in this region.