John Elliott, the Reformed: An Old Sailor's LegacyUsher & Strickland, 1841 - 216 ページ |
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... months keeping tolerably sober the while . Six months was as long a time , however , as our hero cared about working at Cambridge or any where else ; and he got his pay , part of which he dutifully paid over to his father , took the ...
... months keeping tolerably sober the while . Six months was as long a time , however , as our hero cared about working at Cambridge or any where else ; and he got his pay , part of which he dutifully paid over to his father , took the ...
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... months in alternately working on the river and at farming . It is well known to our readers that lumbermen are prin- cipally given to strong drink , which was proba- bly caused by an impression , once prevalent , that spirit inwardly ...
... months in alternately working on the river and at farming . It is well known to our readers that lumbermen are prin- cipally given to strong drink , which was proba- bly caused by an impression , once prevalent , that spirit inwardly ...
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... , where he worked six months . All of a sudden , he was possessed , like ancient Pistol , with the idea that the " world was his oyster , " and he thought that - our he would " open it with his sword . " 330 JOHN ELLIOTT ,
... , where he worked six months . All of a sudden , he was possessed , like ancient Pistol , with the idea that the " world was his oyster , " and he thought that - our he would " open it with his sword . " 330 JOHN ELLIOTT ,
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... months , the Cyane was superseded by the Macedonian , commanded by Commodore Bid- dle , and the former was ordered home . It may be well to state , for the information of the reader , that the amiable Commodore was seized with the ...
... months , the Cyane was superseded by the Macedonian , commanded by Commodore Bid- dle , and the former was ordered home . It may be well to state , for the information of the reader , that the amiable Commodore was seized with the ...
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... months , during which time she touched at Rio Janeiro , Bahia , and most of the West India Islands , the Cyane arrived at Philadelphia . We should have stated that our hero was , sometime previous to the arrival of the Cyane at ...
... months , during which time she touched at Rio Janeiro , Bahia , and most of the West India Islands , the Cyane arrived at Philadelphia . We should have stated that our hero was , sometime previous to the arrival of the Cyane at ...
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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...