John Elliott, the Reformed: An Old Sailor's LegacyUsher & Strickland, 1841 - 216 ページ |
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... reader , we herewith present you a little book , humbly hop- ing that you will find it readable . We deem it proper , at the threshold hereof , to make a brief statement of the object we had in view in writ- ing it , so that , if it ...
... reader , we herewith present you a little book , humbly hop- ing that you will find it readable . We deem it proper , at the threshold hereof , to make a brief statement of the object we had in view in writ- ing it , so that , if it ...
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... reader , — for we hope to have many such , — may perchance think that we have in- dulged in too much levity in recording the de- gration of our hero . All we can say , is , that those things which partake of the ludicrous should , we ...
... reader , — for we hope to have many such , — may perchance think that we have in- dulged in too much levity in recording the de- gration of our hero . All we can say , is , that those things which partake of the ludicrous should , we ...
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... witty if thou hast the vein . " Such as this book is , beloved reader , we com- mend it to your favorable notice , and if you buy it , may it do you much good . A3 L. C. JOHN ELLIOTT , THE REFORMED . CHAPTER I. JOHN ELLIOTT PREFACE .
... witty if thou hast the vein . " Such as this book is , beloved reader , we com- mend it to your favorable notice , and if you buy it , may it do you much good . A3 L. C. JOHN ELLIOTT , THE REFORMED . CHAPTER I. JOHN ELLIOTT PREFACE .
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... reader , however , that we shall not hereafter be particular in specifying all such feats , for we fear they alone would swell this book to the contemplated size . CHAPTER II . THE time had again arrived for our hero to make another ...
... reader , however , that we shall not hereafter be particular in specifying all such feats , for we fear they alone would swell this book to the contemplated size . CHAPTER II . THE time had again arrived for our hero to make another ...
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... readers that lumbermen are prin- cipally given to strong drink , which was proba- bly caused by an impression , once prevalent , that spirit inwardly applied was a sovreign neu- traliser of the evil effects with which cold water is ...
... readers that lumbermen are prin- cipally given to strong drink , which was proba- bly caused by an impression , once prevalent , that spirit inwardly applied was a sovreign neu- traliser of the evil effects with which cold water is ...
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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...