The Mersey, Ancient and ModernEdward Howell, 1878 - 88 pages |
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Abergele acres of water advantages Ancient Meols Baines banks Birkenhead Birkenhead Priory blue silt Bootle bottom of Dale Brighton Bristol built canal Channel Cheshire Chester Church commerce Conway crossed Cunard Dale Street Ellesmere Port embankment entered the port estuary Everton extended feet fleet Floating Bath flow Formby gales Garston Goyt Harbour Board Helsby Hills high water important iron Irwell kingdom Lancashire Landing Stage opened landing-stage Leasowe Life-Boat Liverpool Bay Livingstone London Lord low water Mariners Menai Straits merchants miles navigation North Docks Old Hut paddle passengers passing peat Pier Landing Stage poor Prince Consort Puffin Island quays railway river Mersey River Weaver round sailing sailors salt sand Seacombe shew shore signal Sloyne Speke Hall steamers Tonnage tons town trade Tranmere trees vale vessels village voyage Wallasey Pool warehouses waves West Indies whole Widnes wind Woodside Wylfa yards
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Page 4 - Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard, All around them and below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,— she moves,— she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!
Page 7 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Page 85 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 65 - How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Page 34 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
Page 33 - Through the wild surf they cleave their way, Lost in the foam, nor know dismay, For they go the crew to save.
Page 23 - There's a Divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them as we may.
Page 54 - This important body consists of the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the President of the Board of Trade, who are represented by an Acting Conservator.
Page 28 - ... ambition led, and bolder thirst Of gold. For then from ancient gloom emerged The rising world of trade : the genius, then, Of navigation, that, in hopeless sloth, Had slumbered on the vast Atlantic deep, For idle ages, starting, heard at last The Lusitanian prince ; who, Heaven-inspired, To love of useful glory roused mankind, And in unbounded commerce mixed the world.
Page 10 - And being come up to the point of the hill, and looking back, beholding that dreadful spectacle which they had so survived and looked upon, instead of their incomparable vale, which did abound in fruitfulness, and excelling all other vales in this part of England in all fertility and pleasantness, Helig...