The Romance of an Old Time ShipmasterOuting Publishing Company, 1907 - 218 من الصفحات |
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... took possession - and Huzza for Goree . " It is in his letters to his Nancy , however , that one becomes best acquainted with this sturdy seaman of the long ago , and they speak for themselves in more moving and even eloquent language ...
... took possession - and Huzza for Goree . " It is in his letters to his Nancy , however , that one becomes best acquainted with this sturdy seaman of the long ago , and they speak for themselves in more moving and even eloquent language ...
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... took passage in a sloop bound to Norfolk in Virginia , where I arrived on the 30th of Decr . I had reason to ex- pect that the gentleman who owned the other half of the Brig , was now at this place , which induced me to take passage in ...
... took passage in a sloop bound to Norfolk in Virginia , where I arrived on the 30th of Decr . I had reason to ex- pect that the gentleman who owned the other half of the Brig , was now at this place , which induced me to take passage in ...
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... took charge of the Schooner Nancy , then lying in Bristol Harbour , State of Rhode Island , having on board 16 horses , some provisions and lumber , and bound to New Providence and Havana - the wind blowing every day at S.W. prevented ...
... took charge of the Schooner Nancy , then lying in Bristol Harbour , State of Rhode Island , having on board 16 horses , some provisions and lumber , and bound to New Providence and Havana - the wind blowing every day at S.W. prevented ...
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... took leave of Don Pedro whose more than brotherly kindness on this occa- sion I shall never forget . He with every one else that I conversed with reprobated in strong terms the conduct of the scoundrel who stopped me . Tuesday , July ...
... took leave of Don Pedro whose more than brotherly kindness on this occa- sion I shall never forget . He with every one else that I conversed with reprobated in strong terms the conduct of the scoundrel who stopped me . Tuesday , July ...
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... took passage immediately for Bristol and arrived the same evening . After an absence of 3 months I have at length reached my destined port . The situation in which I was left in Cuba and the stories reported on the Nancy's arrival here ...
... took passage immediately for Bristol and arrived the same evening . After an absence of 3 months I have at length reached my destined port . The situation in which I was left in Cuba and the stories reported on the Nancy's arrival here ...
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absent Adieu American anchor anchor'd Antwerp anxiety arrived attention Augt babe Baracoa Beata Island bless bound breeze Bristol calm Cape Cape Francois Cape Verd Capt Captain Russell cargo Charlotta child coast continually Copenhagen Cowa dear Ann DEAR FRIEND dear little dear Nancy DEAREST FRIEND Deck Decr delightful DeWolf duty expect Father Dennis fear Feby feel gale Gambia girl happy Havana hear heart Helvoetsluys hope Island J. W. RUSSELL Jamaica land letters little Betsey lov'd miles Molasses morning Mosher Nancy Smith never Newport Novr once passage pleasant pleasure port PORT ANTONIO Prize Master rain rejoice Rhode Island river sail Saturday scenes Schooner Senegal ship shore sick situation Slave Trade slaves sloop smile society soon Sunday sweet friend thought tion to-day trust Tuesday vessell voyage weather West Indies wish write wrote yesterday
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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?