 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1845 - 516 pages
...henceforth be, " Thank God and take courage." DEATH AT SEA. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much as at sea. A man dies on shore ; his body remains...man falls overboard at sea, and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event and > difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made toward the vessel. " Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1840 - 540 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Books - 1841 - 658 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. " Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1841 - 412 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head, and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...man falls overboard at sea, and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | 346 pages
...adored, Messiah ! ! ! Ever blest ! !" KENNETT ERACIIAM MARTIN. n Sailor's lieftrrtt'on on Heat ft. DEATH is at all times solemn, but never so much so...man falls overboard at sea, and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Gift books - 1843 - 346 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1843 - 378 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Clemens Lamping - Algeria - 1845 - 200 pages
...Before the Mast," a passage describing the effect produced by the sad spectacle of a man overboard:— " Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives it an air of awful mystery. * * * All these things make such a death particularly solemn, and the effect... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...of oppression in pieces ; it strikes the fetters from his slaves. — Bev. J. French. DEATH AT SEA. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
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Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. A man dies on shore ; his body remains with his friends, and " the mourners go about the streets... 
