 | American periodicals - 1840 - 576 pages
...astern» und at daylight it was ont of sight." Notwithstanding, says our author, all that has been written about the beauty of a ship under full sail, there...have ever seen a ship literally under all her sail. This noble sight, however, was vouchsafed to him, in the tropics : " One night, 1 went out to the rod... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...be understood by the least initiated readers, — for example, that of a vessel under full sail. " Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1840 - 540 pages
...way, we hoped, for the rest of the voyage, as we expected to come upon the coast early in the autumn. Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1842 - 496 pages
...way, we hoped, for the rest of the voyage, as we expected to come upon the coast early in the autumn. Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...very few who have ever seen a ship, literally, under all'her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with 36 her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...and bless his name to thv latest posterity ! LESSON CX. A SJiip under Full Sail.—R.. H. DANA, JR. NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers (Primary) - 1888 - 316 pages
...Dana ranked with the first of American lawyers, particularly in questions of international law. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING all that has been said about the beauty...ever seen a ship literally under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...succeeding night we sank some constellation in the south, and raised another in the northern horizon. .... Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 544 pages
...time off Cape Horn, is no better than man-killing." — Two Years Before the Mast. UNDER FULL SAIL. Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails, is... | |
 | David Thomas Konig - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...Richard Henry Dana could be almost lyrical in describing a ship in a light breeze under full sail. "Notwithstanding all that has been said about the...ever seen a ship, literally, under all her sail... with all her sails, light and heavy, and studding sails, on alow and aloft, she is the most glorious... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - History - 2003 - 588 pages
...way, we hoped, for the rest of the voyage, as we expected to come upon the coast early in the autumn. Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty...seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship conning in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails,... | |
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Notwithstanding all that has been said about the beauty of a ship under full sail, there are very few who have ever seen a ship, literally, under all her sail. A ship coming in or going out of port, with her ordinary sails, and perhaps two or three studding-sails,... 
