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PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c

... general election. TmuE laeasND, ^W~VuRrajgu P.~nmc .-R A Bost Sailer wants the island removed, ha do htndreds of oters. The little ships are wrecked on his Burbo tednk -ada fall a. prep to. pirates. The take, he SDVH, asH an expanse' os water,- is spoileod-by ...

Literature

... youngster, was pre- sent at Trafalgar, designed in hi olu d ae a mirnic representation of the battle. This consists of little ships of the line arranged, each in its proper plaee, On a flat surface, and it has long bean located permaneritly in the naval ...

LITERATURE

... artist showed' itscli. The reason so many leaves were zone from my Ca-_sar was that al] my books were full of pictures of little ships chasing one another, with always a mnanon the bowsprit of the hindermnost one, much I bikger than the eltin, firing, at ...

PORTRAITS AND PICTURES AT THE NAVAL EXHIBITION

... fortunate. - Gabriel, of 25 tons, was buil>. - plonacc Of te-n tons, for Soeri.- Michael, of 20 tons, wasbw u 'JR These little ships were manned -- The cost of the vess~elss an l ment was int all £12G0.Ai fatil'-d to discover the -Northw- lived to fight ...

YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND—

... cruet-stand, a glass dish for jam or marmalade, a toast-rack, and two egg-cups. Some charming menu-holders in silver, with little ships in full sail by way of clips, are sold at half a guinea each, and will commend them- selves to those, in search of something ...

WORKMEN AND MUSEUMS

... invention of a chronometer. Our early navigators had neither quadrant, sextant, nor chronometer, though they carried their little ships and brave crews round the world and discovered new countries. Those bold follows obtained their latitude at noon time, ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... the smallest ship that would supply the convenience of trade was the right ship to build. He came there as an advocate of little ships, and it was the peculiarity of the Great Eastern that She was the ?? ship capable of doing the work she was intended to ...

THE STUDY OF JURISPRUDENCE

... the products of Asia L-Nith those of Europe. It was in quest of a solution of of this problem that Columbus sailed his little ships across Ithe unknown osean, that the Portuguese navigator dared .1the spectre of the Cape, that the old Venetian travellers ...

LITERATURE

... inflating his membranous sail, but Mr. Gosse had the opportunity of closely observing a large fleet of these venturous little ships, of all sizes, from an inch to a foot or more in length. He says: I think this little fairy creature is one of the most ...

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

... is in a very high hill. ani one has to go with a lift: at the tolp there is a very niee view ever the sea. and all the little ships are seen coming a1u.l going. After going lip some stops yon arrivo at the hurch: all the wzalls ar,, covere winh tlianlks ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... of Industry, erected for them at Jubbulpore. There are numerous modeis of houses and temples, and a per- fect fleet of little ships, representing every kind of craft, and every cut of rigging, peeo ar to the Indian seas, the piratical prabus not excepted ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... anot despise li neersecy anmusecments. There aic nucecoics mbodels of bouses t a and temples, acei a pci-feet fleet of little ships, repieselitilig a every kciid of erauft fnid every cut Of r-igginlg ?? to g s the Iuudian seas-the pie-tieal peculils not ...