The Romance of an Old Time ShipmasterOuting Publishing Company, 1907 - 218 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16
... obliged at 4 P. M. yesterday to throw all our horses overboard . A most tre- mendous sea running and being in imminent danger every moment of upsetting , it was with much difficulty we got clear of the horses . At the time we cut away ...
... obliged at 4 P. M. yesterday to throw all our horses overboard . A most tre- mendous sea running and being in imminent danger every moment of upsetting , it was with much difficulty we got clear of the horses . At the time we cut away ...
الصفحة 17
... obliged to lower all sail and lay too under bare poles till next morning . This event is not only unfortunate for the owners and shippers , but it is peculiarly so for me - not only as the greater part of the little emolument I expected ...
... obliged to lower all sail and lay too under bare poles till next morning . This event is not only unfortunate for the owners and shippers , but it is peculiarly so for me - not only as the greater part of the little emolument I expected ...
الصفحة 20
... obliged to bear away - and running in for the land , with difficulty and great risk , found our way into a bay and came to anchor in 3 fathom water . Sunday , June 23d , 1799. Got our boat out which prov'd very leaky - having lost all ...
... obliged to bear away - and running in for the land , with difficulty and great risk , found our way into a bay and came to anchor in 3 fathom water . Sunday , June 23d , 1799. Got our boat out which prov'd very leaky - having lost all ...
الصفحة 32
... obliging , and grace- ful in all she does . If I proceed I may possibly fall in love with the picture— and yet where can be the danger any picture that I can possibly draw of this amiable girl must fall far short of the original ...
... obliging , and grace- ful in all she does . If I proceed I may possibly fall in love with the picture— and yet where can be the danger any picture that I can possibly draw of this amiable girl must fall far short of the original ...
الصفحة 39
... obliged to have all the Mainsail down . There is now a very heavy sea running and fre- quent squalls of wind and rain . Our water Casks on board have broke loose - but we have yet been able to secure them — the wind is mostly at W.N.W. ...
... obliged to have all the Mainsail down . There is now a very heavy sea running and fre- quent squalls of wind and rain . Our water Casks on board have broke loose - but we have yet been able to secure them — the wind is mostly at W.N.W. ...
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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?