United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 94, Page 3

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H. Colburn, 1860
 

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Page 247 - Who without bloodshed or the terror of authority, Employing only the means of conciliation, confidence, and benevolence, Attempted and accomplished The entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the...
Page 277 - The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross...
Page 27 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Page 27 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square on the whole line is equal to the squares on the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts.
Page 555 - When they would rest their arms, one leg is thrown out on either side of the canoe, and it is propelled with the feet almost as fast as with a paddle.
Page 592 - ... fire of Captain Govan's guns which had been moved to the left of the fort for this purpose. The ground outside the fort was literally strewn with the enemy's dead and wounded : three of the Chinese were impaled on the stakes. A few fugitives reached the outer North Fort which opened fire 10 cover their retreat, and was answered by the Armstrong guns with good effect.
Page 609 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...
Page 320 - ... whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Page 228 - A trader, who accompanied us, was then purchasing ivory at the rate of ten good large tusks for a musket worth thirteen shillings. They were called " bones," and I myself saw eight instances in which the tusks had been left to rot with the other bones where the elephant fell. The...
Page 95 - ... man. Neither are they daring and presumptuous unbelievers — a character which ignorance has sometimes affixed to them — who would, like the Titans, storm heaven by placing mountain upon mountain, till hurled down from the height attained by the terrible thunders of outraged Jove; but rather the pious pilgrims to the Holy Land, who toil on in search of the sacred shrine, in search of truth — God's truth — God's laws as manifested in His works, in His creation.

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