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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense, use, reason, faith, god

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.

Quote by William Falconer about enemies, fire, fire brigade, man, time

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.

Quote by William Falconer about bills, life

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.

Quote by William Falconer about people, vice, society, life

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.

Quote by William Falconer about numbers, war

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.

Quote by William Falconer about corruption, numbers, consequences, measure, moral

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.

Quote by William Falconer about ability, destiny, being

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

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The diet of persons who live in the country is, I think, in general more wholesome than that of those who inhabit towns.

Quote by William Falconer about diets, people, country

The disposition of a fleet, while proceeding on a voyage, will in some measure depend on particular circumstances; as the difficulty of the navigation; the necessity of dispatch, according to the urgency or importance of the expedition: or the...

Quote by William Falconer about expectation, difficulties, circumstances, measure, enemies

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

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The excellence of a road consists chiefly in its being protected from the reigning winds, and the swell of the sea; in having a good anchoring-ground, and being at a competent distance from the shore.

Quote by William Falconer about being, good, good luck

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.

Quote by William Falconer about garden, purpose

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.

Quote by William Falconer about order, being

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.

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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.

Quote by William Falconer about relation, heads, name

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

The labour is indeed constant, but not in general so violent as either to exhaust the strength by over-straining, or to excite any weakening degree of discharge by perspiration.

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The morning air, on the contrary, so celebrated both by poets and philosophers for its benign and cheering effects upon the mind and body, is enjoyed in high perfection by persons of this way of life; and the advantages they derive from thence in...

Quote by William Falconer about poets, people, perfection, air, body, mind, life

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

Quote by William Falconer about old