Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.

There are, of course, many practices in the various branches of Yoga (especially Hatha Yoga) that are distasteful to the intelligent mind and which would only be attempted by the credulous.

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Is this the time for ſports and pleaſurous ſatiſfaction?[…]Delight ſweetens duty, and makes it eaſie and pleaſurous.[…]The Children of Iſrael had a wilderneſs to travel through, but they had a God to converſe with, and ſweet ordinances to refreſh themſelves by, they made their journies pleaſurous;[…]our own corrupt natures will be officious enough to uſher in ſuch pleaſurous vanities:[…]And pleaſurous delights, which are the liquoriſh froth of earth, are to be avoided on the Sabbath day, Iſa. 58. 13.