The Story of Our Merchant Marine: Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World WarDodd, Mead, 1919 - 373 頁 |
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第 14 頁
... course in the harvest fields , the shop , and on the deck at sea . Moreover , it had been found to have a special value as currency on the west coast of Africa . The negro savages manifested a more than civilized taste for it , and were ...
... course in the harvest fields , the shop , and on the deck at sea . Moreover , it had been found to have a special value as currency on the west coast of Africa . The negro savages manifested a more than civilized taste for it , and were ...
第 32 頁
... course without direction from home . So the custom arose of giving the captain - and sometimes other officers - an opportunity to carry goods of their own in the ship , or to share the owner's adventure . In the whaling and fishery ...
... course without direction from home . So the custom arose of giving the captain - and sometimes other officers - an opportunity to carry goods of their own in the ship , or to share the owner's adventure . In the whaling and fishery ...
第 75 頁
... course into pushing for greater speed ; but even in the early days there was a lavish table , and before the days of the steamships the packets offered such private accommodations in the way of roomy MERCHANT MARINE 75.
... course into pushing for greater speed ; but even in the early days there was a lavish table , and before the days of the steamships the packets offered such private accommodations in the way of roomy MERCHANT MARINE 75.
第 79 頁
... course of the return trip the ship made in one 24 - hour period 362 miles , or 15 miles an hour - a speed which no steamship at that time was capable of eclipsing . In a later voyage to Liverpool this majestic sailing ship made 340 ...
... course of the return trip the ship made in one 24 - hour period 362 miles , or 15 miles an hour - a speed which no steamship at that time was capable of eclipsing . In a later voyage to Liverpool this majestic sailing ship made 340 ...
第 105 頁
... appearance . Her rigging is loose and slovenly , her course erratic , she seems to be idly drifting , and there is no one at the wheel . A derelict , abandoned at sea , she mocks their hopes of rescue . But she is not MERCHANT MARINE 105.
... appearance . Her rigging is loose and slovenly , her course erratic , she seems to be idly drifting , and there is no one at the wheel . A derelict , abandoned at sea , she mocks their hopes of rescue . But she is not MERCHANT MARINE 105.
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第 107 頁 - We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next ; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
第 309 頁 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
第 309 頁 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
第 63 頁 - There are, indeed, general objections to the use of the steam-engine for impelling boats, from which no particular mode of application can be free. These are: First. The weight of the engine and of the fuel. Second. The large space it occupies. Third. The tendency of its action to rack the vessel, and render it leaky.
第 48 頁 - ... skysail, the apex of the pyramid, seeming actually to touch the stars, and to be out of reach of human hand. So quiet, too, was the sea, and so steady the breeze, that if these sails had been sculptured marble, they could not have been more motionless. Not a ripple upon the surface of the canvas; not even a quivering of the extreme edges of the sail — so perfectly were they distended by the breeze. I was so lost in the sight, that I forgot the presence of the man who came out with me, until...
第 65 頁 - York, the project was viewed by the public either with indifference or with contempt, as a visionary scheme. My friends, indeed, were civil, but they were shy. They listened with patience to my explanations, but with a settled cast of incredulity on their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet, • " Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All shun, none aid you, and few understand.
第 66 頁 - The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the dry jest ; the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull, but endless, repetition of the Fulton Folly.
第 298 頁 - From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke ; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.
第 65 頁 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building yard while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh rose at my expense, the dry jest, the wise calculation of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton folly.
第 307 頁 - We dissent," said these noblemen, "because the attempt to coerce, by famine, the whole body of the inhabitants of great and populous provinces, is without example in the history of this or, perhaps, of any civilized nation, and is one of those unhappy inventions to which Parliament is driven by the difficulties which daily multiply upon us from an obstinate adherence to an unwise plan of government. We do not know exactly the extent of the combination...