The Romance of an Old Time ShipmasterOuting Publishing Company, 1907 - 218 من الصفحات |
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... wife as long as she lived . Captured by a French privateer in his first voyage he showed that he was made of sterling stuff , and he tells of it with a modesty that is very appealing . He was super- cargo of a brig in which he had ...
... wife as long as she lived . Captured by a French privateer in his first voyage he showed that he was made of sterling stuff , and he tells of it with a modesty that is very appealing . He was super- cargo of a brig in which he had ...
الصفحة 29
... wife declared that he would have nothing more to do with it . In this show of scruples he was an excep- tion to the majority of sailors and merchants who were more of the state of mind of the pious Bristol skipper who wrote home : " We ...
... wife declared that he would have nothing more to do with it . In this show of scruples he was an excep- tion to the majority of sailors and merchants who were more of the state of mind of the pious Bristol skipper who wrote home : " We ...
الصفحة 31
... wife and a little nephew . Mrs. Keith is certainly one of the first of women — The utmost neat- ness and economy in housekeeping and unremitted indus- try are among her smallest accomplishments . Cheerful and even in her temper - fond ...
... wife and a little nephew . Mrs. Keith is certainly one of the first of women — The utmost neat- ness and economy in housekeeping and unremitted indus- try are among her smallest accomplishments . Cheerful and even in her temper - fond ...
الصفحة 48
... wife having mixed much with the English who formerly resided here , now speak the lan- guage tolerably and set their table & c . in quite decent style . Decr . 30-31st . Mr. Dean , a mulatto , who lives up the river came down and traded ...
... wife having mixed much with the English who formerly resided here , now speak the lan- guage tolerably and set their table & c . in quite decent style . Decr . 30-31st . Mr. Dean , a mulatto , who lives up the river came down and traded ...
الصفحة 75
... wife . " Com- munication was uncertain and broken . There were no regular mails and Captain Russell was always on the alert to find an American vessel homeward - bound by which he might send his packet to the wife who some- times had to ...
... wife . " Com- munication was uncertain and broken . There were no regular mails and Captain Russell was always on the alert to find an American vessel homeward - bound by which he might send his packet to the wife who some- times had 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?