They were beacons, burning on a well-ordered plan to guide the navigator, but he did not know the plan.

The books which she studied at the age of seventeen, as we know by the date of the notes, were Bridge's "Conic Sections," Hutton's "Mathematics," and Bowditch's "Navigator."

At that time Prof. Benjamin Peirce had not published his "Explanations of the Navigator and Almanac," so that Maria was obliged to consult many scientific books and reports before she could herself construct the astronomical tables.

Much the greatest part of the story was Mr. Coleridge's invention; but certain parts I myself suggested: for example, some crime was to be committed which should bring upon the Old Navigator, as Coleridge afterwards delighted to call him, the spectral persecution, as a consequence of that crime, and his own wanderings.

Prince Henry the Navigator, son of John the Great, devoted his life to the furthering of maritime adventure and discovery.

Like England's First Lords of the Admiralty, he was a navigator who did not navigate; but it was unquestionably owing to the impulse he gave to Portuguese enterprise that Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India and Pedro Alvarez Cabral secured for his country the giant colony of Brazil.

It was literally "golden," for Emmanuel the Fortunate, who reaped the harvest sown by Henry the Navigator, was the wealthiest monarch in Europe, and gave his name to the "Emmanueline" style of architecture, a florid Gothic which achieves miracles of ostentation and sometimes of beauty.

But till Watt invented it anew in 1782, by admitting the steam alternately at both ends of the cylinder, it was too awkward and clumsy to become a practical navigator.

The navigator in proceeding along the channels of the delta of the Oroonoco at night, sees with surprise the summit of the palm-trees illumined by large fires.

50° N. Perhaps this may be an error for Corterealis, an early navigator, who is said to have made discoveries on the eastern coast of North America.

My life in the house of TetuanuiWhence came the PolynesiansA migration from MalaysiaTheir legends of the pastCondition of Tahiti when the white cameThe great navigator, CookTetuanui tells of old Tahiti.

The pioneer, according to the legend, was Hawaii-uli-kai-oo, Hawaii and the Dotted Sea, a great fisherman and navigator.

They voiced their amazement when Tatini announced our wish to find a navigator and vessel to Tautira.

His island was Juan Fernandez, so called by the first navigator who discovered it; this was Selkirk Island.

The day after this fruitless trial, which left Mark's claim in abeyance until the next court, a period of six months, the intended travellers repaired on board ship, and the brig, with her party, went to sea, under her owner, captain Betts, who had provided himself with a good navigator in the person of his mate.

The navigator screamed as the ship whipped by a pitted rock a quarter of a mile long, missing it by a few yards.

The navigator's eyes were the size of saucers.

He was half-brother to the famous navigator, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and cousin to another great captain, Sir Richard Grenville.

Discovery of America'In re a famous navigator,' 1492.

PYTHEAS, a celebrated Greek navigator of Massilia, in Gaul, probably lived in the time of Alexander the Great; in his first voyage visited Britain and Thule, and in his second coasted along the western shore of Europe from Cadiz to the Elbe.

Significant is the introduction of the great navigator: Christophorus quidam Colonus, vir ligur.

If fame speaks true, there is not a more dexterous navigator of the narrow seas than thyself, Master Skimmer.

A broad and inviting passage lies directly before the navigator, while, like the flattering prospects of life, numberless hidden obstacles are in wait to arrest the unheeding and ignorant.

Well, I am no great navigator among the crooked channels of religion.

It was his opinion, that there is but one navigator for all the rovers of the air, whether meteors, comets, or planets.