They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.