Quotes by William Falconer - Page 1

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.
William Falconer / Poet
Clouds
Lamps
Sunset
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With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!
William Falconer / Poet
Giving
Memorial
Woe
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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer / Poet
Funny
Inspirational
Sailing
Wind
Arrangement
Direction
Effect
Judicious
Produced
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
William Falconer / Poet
British
British Navy
Names
Navy
Relation
Ships
However
Immediate
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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
William Falconer / Poet
Said
Sea
Setting
Ships
Direction
Hence
Opposed
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The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
William Falconer / Poet
Blue
Majesty
Red
Three
White
Fleet
Viz
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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
William Falconer / Poet
War
Divided
Numbers
Ships
Three
Composed
Fleet
Numerous
Separated
Whatsoever
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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
William Falconer / Poet
Blessing
Consequence
Higher
People
Perfection
Apprehend
Freedom From
Utmost
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The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer / Poet
Moral
Moral Corruption
Numbers
Vices
Well Known
Accumulate
Corruptions
Incident
Measure
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The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.
William Falconer / Poet
Articles
Consequence
Country
Important
May
Observed
However
Perhaps
Regular
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The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.
William Falconer / Poet
Anchors
Made
Strain
Contrived
Great Strain
Loosened
Reach
Sink
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Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer / Poet
Advantage
Crowded
Fewer
Persons
Temptation
Vices
Way
Expose
Follow
Nor
Such A Way
Temptations
Vice
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The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer / Poet
Funny
Inspirational
Battle
Facility
Sailing
Signals
Views
Circumstance
Fleet
Observe
Readily
Thus
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In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
William Falconer / Poet
Men
Battle
Bedding
Enemy
Exposed
Fire
Views
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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
William Falconer / Poet
Anxiety
Casual
Incessant
Practice
Precarious
Simplicity
Uniformity
Anxieties
Occupations
Rural
Subject
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
William Falconer / Poet
Kindness
Men
Believe
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Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
William Falconer / Poet
Agitation
Bills
Care
Destructive
Eating
Mortality
Cares
Collected
Commonly
Mental
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A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
William Falconer / Poet
Running
Broken
Contrary
Interrupted
Long
Sea
Steady
Vessel
Burst
Extensive
Frequently
Implies
Motion
On The Contrary
Quarter
Uniform
Waves
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The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
William Falconer / Poet
Application
Broken
Employed
Fishes
Purpose
Sprung
Surgery
Utility
Exactly
Fractured
Limb
Thus
Yard
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The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer / Poet
Admiral
Equal
Fate
Important
May
Ought
Possessed
Charge
Chief
Commander
Depend
Extensive
Frequently
Invested
Squadron
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer / Poet
Degrees
May
Velocity
Weight
Acquired
Advance
Attained
Degree
Gaining
Indeed
Intrinsic
Motion
Prevent
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Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.
William Falconer / Poet
Compact
Issues
Liquid
Ships
Water
Contained
Entrance
Hence
Immersed
Issue
Solid
None
Prevent
Ship
Therein
Tight
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