The Romance of an Old Time ShipmasterOuting Publishing Company, 1907 - 218 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11
... hope when you recollect my peculiarly wretched situation , you will not refuse to pay it . Indeed , I believe there is more than that sum due me , as I had a note against you for five pound , which has been many years on interest , and ...
... hope when you recollect my peculiarly wretched situation , you will not refuse to pay it . Indeed , I believe there is more than that sum due me , as I had a note against you for five pound , which has been many years on interest , and ...
الصفحة 23
... hope that at that moment I should be remembered by them . June 17th . Having compleated what repairs I deem absolutely necessary , and recd . on board my empty Casks -this morning early I came in the Schooner from the Regla and ...
... hope that at that moment I should be remembered by them . June 17th . Having compleated what repairs I deem absolutely necessary , and recd . on board my empty Casks -this morning early I came in the Schooner from the Regla and ...
الصفحة 31
... hope by my assiduity in business to show him that I am not ungrateful . I am a boarder with Mr. Keith and have not felt myself for a long time so much at home as now . The family con- sists of himself and wife and a little nephew . Mrs ...
... hope by my assiduity in business to show him that I am not ungrateful . I am a boarder with Mr. Keith and have not felt myself for a long time so much at home as now . The family con- sists of himself and wife and a little nephew . Mrs ...
الصفحة 51
... Hope , sweet flatterer still deceives . Saturday , 11th Jany . At day - break sent my Linguister to Dumasansa . Finding myself much worse took an Emetic - not a soul to come near me . Some of my people a little better , but none able to ...
... Hope , sweet flatterer still deceives . Saturday , 11th Jany . At day - break sent my Linguister to Dumasansa . Finding myself much worse took an Emetic - not a soul to come near me . Some of my people a little better , but none able to ...
الصفحة 62
... hope it will afford you some satisfaction to learn that I arrived at this Port , after a passage of twenty days from Bristol , having experienced much rough and stormy weather , and with many additional circumstances that combined to ...
... hope it will afford you some satisfaction to learn that I arrived at this Port , after a passage of twenty days from Bristol , having experienced much rough and stormy weather , and with many additional circumstances that combined to ...
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الصفحة 58 - Let others fear, to me more dear Than all the pride of May : The tempest's howl, it soothes my soul, My griefs it seems to join ; The leafless trees my fancy please, Their fate resembles mine ! Thou Pow'r Supreme, whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here, firm, I rest, they must be best, Because they are Thy will...
الصفحة 53 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
الصفحة 37 - Father William replied, I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first, That I never might need them at last. You are old, Father William...
الصفحة 181 - The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
الصفحة 37 - You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "And pleasures with youth pass away; And yet you lament not the days that are gone: Now tell me the reason, I pray.
الصفحة 169 - We'll form their minds, with studious care, To all that's manly, good, and fair, And train them for the skies. While they our wisest hours engage, They'll joy our youth, support our age...
الصفحة 37 - Father William replied, I remember'd that youth could not last ; I thought of the future whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the past. You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray.
الصفحة 42 - ... sea within its limits, and its contour, as a whole, is that of a mighty gulf; but there is neither bay nor inlet throughout its whole extent that forms a good harbor for shipping. And the off-shore islands, too, are few in number and small in extent. The land at the beach is almost everywhere low, though hills and mountains may be seen, flooded with a dreamy haze, in the distance.
الصفحة 29 - We ought to go farther than has yet been proposed, and repeal the bills in question altogether, for why should we see Great Britain getting all the slave trade to themselves; why may not our country be enriched by that lucrative traffic?