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    William Falconer

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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. ↗


    — William Falconer

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    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. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #augments #consequences #corruptions #health #incident

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


    — William Falconer

    #direction #effect #judicious #produced #sailing

    Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #direction #head #hence #her #opposed

    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. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #crowded #expose #fewer #follow #health

    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. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #composed #divided #divisions #fleet #into

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


    — William Falconer

    #classed #fleet #his #into #majesty

    The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #before #contrived #great #great strain #ground

    The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #british #head #her #however #immediate

    Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. ↗


    — William Falconer

    #apprehend #blessing #care #consequence #enjoy






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    Did you know about William Falconer?

    Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh where he was born became a sailor and was thus thoroughly competent to describe the management of the storm-tossed vessel the career and fate of which are described in his poem The Shipwreck (1762) a work of genuine though unequal talent. Falconer's poems were used by Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey-Maturin series. External links
    Biography
    William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine (National Library of Australia).

    In 1769 he publiWilliam Falconerd The Universal Marine Dictionary. One of his lesser characters is a nautical poet but his poems are Falconer's. Falconer was purser on the frigate Aurora when it was lost after rounding the Cape of Good Hope on a voyage when it left from London on 20 September 1769.

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