William Falconer Quotes

William Falconer

Scottish Poet

Born: 1732

Died: 1769

Battle Broken Great Health Life Who

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer

Hope Nature Fear Simplicity Practice Rural More Casual Occupations Subject Precarious Anxieties Any Which Uniformity Incessant

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

Life Health Live Society Way Those Follow Temptations Crowded Advantage Least Nor Than Fewer Vice Persons Such A Way Who Expose

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. William Falconer

Great Will Degree Own Indeed Intrinsic Prevent Attained Weight Advance Velocity New She Without Greatest Motion Ship Any May Gaining Acquired Acquiring Her

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

Setting Direction Head Course Said Opposed Ship Sea Hence Her

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

Three White Viz Red Majesty His Blue Fleet

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