Cruise of the United States Frigate Potomac Round the World: During the Years 1831-34 ; Embracing the Attack on Quallah-Battoo ... |
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Acheen Adam afterwards altar American amusement anchor appearance arrived attended Batavia beautiful boat building bull fight Callao called Canton Cape Cape Town captain carronade chaplain chief Chinese church coast commenced Commodore Downes countrymen crew deck distance dollars dressed Dutch English feet fire foreign friends fruit furnished Guayaquil guns harbor head heard hill hundred inhabitants Kaahumanu king ladies land Lieut Lima London Missionary Society Macao Malay language Malays mangosteen Medhurst midshipmen miles missionaries morning natives night o'clock occasion officers party passed Payta persons pleasant port Potomac present President of Peru priests Quallah Battoo rajah received resemblance residence returned river Sabbath sail sailors salute Sandwich islands scene seamen seen sent ship shore Shubrick side soon streets Sumatra Table Bay thing thousand tion took town trees Valparaiso vessels witnessed worship
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Page 36 - The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine ; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 202 - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h' had talked three parts in one; Which made some think, when he did gabble, Th' had heard three labourers of Babel, Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once.
Page 82 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Page 183 - Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 177 - Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Page 195 - ... pagoda. The shores present many beautiful scenes along this portion of the river. The pagodas and joss houses, or idol temples, are numerous and conspicuous; while duck boats are drawn up in the rice fields, on the surface of which are seen thousands of ducks, under the care of their keepers. ". . . The surface of the river was thickly covered with vessels of different sizes, of singular forms and rigging, many of which were painted with gay and fantastical colors. Here were boats and small craft...
Page 186 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies;' And ' dust to dust
Page 293 - Mid wounds, and clinging darts, and lances brast, And foes disabled in the brutal fray: And now the Matadores around him play, Shake the red cloak, and poise the ready brand: Once more through all he bursts his thundering way — Vain rage! the mantle quits the conynge hand, Wraps his fierce eye — 'tis past — he sinks upon the sand!
Page 317 - Alison's proceedings, we were surprised to find, are still traditionally known at Payta; and it furnishes a curious instance of the effect of manners on the opinions of mankind, to observe that the kindness with which that sagacious officer invariably treated his Spanish prisoners, is, at the distance of eighty years, better known, and more dwelt upon 'by the inhabitants of Payta, than the capture and destruction of the town.