John Elliott, the Reformed: An Old Sailor's LegacyUsher & Strickland, 1841 - 216 ページ |
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... honored with the " liberty of the yard , ” that they too would keep Christmas . There were two things lacking , however , to kindle their devotion , the greatest of which was cash , but the indispensible one , grog . There was grog ...
... honored with the " liberty of the yard , ” that they too would keep Christmas . There were two things lacking , however , to kindle their devotion , the greatest of which was cash , but the indispensible one , grog . There was grog ...
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... honor of crime , nor this puling but inactive grief for human suffer- ings . We are better adapted to make striking re- marks , than " touching " ones . The tender- hearted reader will not need even " touching " remarks to make him feel ...
... honor of crime , nor this puling but inactive grief for human suffer- ings . We are better adapted to make striking re- marks , than " touching " ones . The tender- hearted reader will not need even " touching " remarks to make him feel ...
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... honor fourteen milrays — a little more than the same number of dollars , that being the law- ful fee for such a " privilege . " Thereafter our F hero carried two loaded pistols with him . One night THE REFORMED . 127.
... honor fourteen milrays — a little more than the same number of dollars , that being the law- ful fee for such a " privilege . " Thereafter our F hero carried two loaded pistols with him . One night THE REFORMED . 127.
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... honor . Honor , however , is a mere conventional matter the world over— right has but little to do in fixing its significa- tion . If a man only adheres with a tolerable closeness to a given code of practice , which is most always ...
... honor . Honor , however , is a mere conventional matter the world over— right has but little to do in fixing its significa- tion . If a man only adheres with a tolerable closeness to a given code of practice , which is most always ...
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... honor . And I believe I shall make it ap- pear plain to your honor , that the blame origi- nated aft . As for the boy which one of the men knocked down , he's a ' pertinent little scoundrel . He was always sneaking round the forecastle ...
... honor . And I believe I shall make it ap- pear plain to your honor , that the blame origi- nated aft . As for the boy which one of the men knocked down , he's a ' pertinent little scoundrel . He was always sneaking round the forecastle ...
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adicted Admiral Admiral's daughter anchor appetite arrived ashore began Bertioga boarding masters boat boatswain's mate BOB TAYLOR Boniface Brazil Brazilian brig Buenos Ayrean Buenos Ayres Cabinda called Captain coast cockswain command Commodore crew crutches Cyane daugh deck deemed Doctor Don Pedro's dozen lashes Dread Nought drinking duty Elliott enemy evil father fear feel fellow flogged friend John frigates gave girl grog guns Hemlock stream hero hero's honor intoxicating Jack Jack Thompson Jack's JOHN ELLIOTT ladies ladyship leave Lisbon man-of-war matter Meanwhile moral morning mother ness night obliged offence officers Oporto orders passage Portuguese prisoners Queen of Portugal reader received returned Rio Janeiro river Congo sailors sent set sail ship shipmates slave trade slavery slaves soon spirit Tesira thing thought tion told took town vessels vocation voyage wife wind wish wounded Yankee yarn
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84 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
84 ページ - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
121 ページ - There is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love ; for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear date from the first time that man and woman was : therefore in this, as in the finest metal, the freshest wits have in all ages shown their best workmanship.
96 ページ - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
5 ページ - These are the scum, with which coarse wits abound : The fine may spare these well, yet not go less. All things are big with jest : nothing that's plain But may be witty, if thou hast the vein.
17 ページ - As deeper learn'd ; the deepest, learning still. For, what a thunder of Omnipotence (So might I dare to speak) is seen in all ! In man ! in Earth ! in more amazing skies ! Teaching this lesson, pride is loth to learn — > " Not deeply to discern, not much to know, Mankind was born to wonder, and adore.
117 ページ - His own soft hand shall wipe the tears From every weeping eye; And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears, And death itself, shall die.
16 ページ - Science fails. Man's science is the culture of his heart, And not to lose his plummet in the depths Of Nature, or the more profound of God : Either to know, is an attempt that sets The wisest on a level with the fool.
62 ページ - Oh, sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, Burn to the socket.
5 ページ - twould grieve a soul to see God's image So blemished and defaced, yet do they act Such antic and such pretty lunacies, That spite of sorrow they will make you smile : Others again we have like hungry lions, Fierce as wild-bulls, untameable as flies, And these have oftentimes from strangers...