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“We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.”

Knows Different Sea Ships Boards Fishing Flags Twelve Vessel Ships At Sea

Author:Claude Martin

“Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.”

Thinking Men Sea Circumstances Ambition Passing Passings Weather Carrie Globes Beaten Vessel Shipwreck

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

“The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.”

Blood Sea Revolution Vessel Port

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.”

My Own Sea Wind Vessel Neighbour

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea”

Ifs Way Might Sea My Way Vessel Learning To Love

Author:Paul Banks

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”

Life Inspirational Knowledge Sea Mankind Positive Wind Sail Sailing Vessel Nautical Sailing And The Sea Thoughts And Thinking Wind Blowing Sailing And Wind Sailing And Love North Wind

Author:Augustus Hare

“We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.”

May Moving Courses Sea Effects Position Objects Produce Particular Distance Determine Speed Regions Stations Relative Globes Vessel Electrical

Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings

Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings

“I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.”

Way Want Air Sea Moon Atmosphere Spite Aviation Length Predictions Vessel Voyages Sea Voyage

Author:Lord Byron

“To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.”

Littles Running Water Behinds Sea Genius Sail Vessel

Book:The divine comedy

Source: The divine comedy

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

Ifs Should Two Sometimes Bigs Might Running Three Water Half Sea Feet Lows Hundred Bottom Surface Torn Vessel Extending Reefs Iceberg

Author:Edward Smith

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”

Inspirational Truth Water Dark Silence Clear Sea Vessel Sparkling Deep Life

Book:Poems

Source: Poems