 | Mary A. Swift - Science - 1840 - 190 pages
...sounded in vain. On that awful night, if it had not been for the little tube of mercury which gave the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and activity of her commander could have saved one man to tell the tale. LESSON TWENTIETH. How high above... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1841 - 464 pages
...completed, when a more awful hurricane burst upon them than the most experienced had ever braved.' — ' In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury...the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale.' * * Arnot's Elements of Physics, i. 350. Oue of the most instructive illustrations of the connection... | |
 | George Combe - Human behavior - 1841 - 140 pages
...them than the most experienced had ever hraved." — " In that awful night, hut for the little tuhe of mercury which had given the warning, neither the strength of the nohle ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale."*... | |
 | Neil Arnott - Philosophy - 1845 - 532 pages
...human voice could be heard, and amidst the general consternaiion, even the trumpet sounded in vain. In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury...the skill and energies of the commander, could have availed any thing, and not a man would have escaped to tell the tale. On the following morning the... | |
 | John Purdy - 1845 - 562 pages
...human voice could be heard, and, amidst the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain. In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given the warning,' neither the extraordinary strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, would have saved... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee Comstock - 1846 - 506 pages
...amidst the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain. On that awful night, but for a little tube of mercury, which had given the warning,...strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of her commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale.'" 313. Allusion has been already made to... | |
 | John Lee Comstock, Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Physics - 1846 - 148 pages
...amidst the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain. On that awful night, but for a little tube of mercury, which had given the warning,...strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of her commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale.' " WATER PUMPS. 143. There is a philosophical... | |
 | Samuel Clark - 1846 - 212 pages
...sounded in vain. On that awful night, if it had not been for the little tube of mercury which gave the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and activity of her commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale. SIXTH LESSON. How high above... | |
 | Charles Foote Gower - Dwellings - 1847 - 208 pages
...human voice could be heard, and, amidst the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain. In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury,...the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale. On the following morning the wind was again at rest, but the ship lay upon the yet heaving waves,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...human voice could be heard, and amidst the general consternation, even the trumpet sounded in vain. In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could... | |
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In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale. 
