 | 1876 - 782 ページ
...advanced in years, I take as lively an interest as ever in passing events. The blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 ページ
...closed her earthly career. The following were her concluding memoranda : ' The Blue-Peter has been long flying at my fore-mast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year, I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1874 - 802 ページ
...a confession of faith. "The Blue Peter," she wrote, adopting a simile from her father's profession, "has long been flying at my foremast ; and, now that...ninety-second year, I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage ; but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | 1874 - 256 ページ
...hereditary fear of death, the calm confidence of her hope. ' The blue Peter,' says she, ' has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquility. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1874 - 436 ページ
...Bartle Frere has gone to suppress by order of the British Government. ***** The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | Mary Somerville, Martha Charters Somerville - 1874 - 398 ページ
...Bartle Frere has gone to suppress by order of the British Government. ***** The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyago, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter un worthiness,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1874 - 386 ページ
...Bartle Frere has gone to suppress by order of the British Government. ***** The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | 1874 - 802 ページ
...extinguished. . . . " The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast" (she adds, three years later), " and now that I am in my ninety-second year, I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness,... | |
 | 1874 - 620 ページ
...and which Sir Bartle Frere has gone to suppress by order of the British Government. " The Blue Peter has long been flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year, 1 must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity.... | |
 | 1874 - 1020 ページ
...order of the British Government. . . . " The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter nnworthiness,... | |
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The Blue Peter has been long flying at my foremast, and now that I am in my ninety-second year I must soon expect the signal for sailing. It is a solemn voyage, but it does not disturb my tranquillity. Deeply sensible of my utter unworthiness, and profoundly... 
