Sea DriftT. Hinton, 1858 - 252 من الصفحات |
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... England to watch the work in its progress through the press , many errors have unavoidably occurred - the reader will understand the difficulty consequent thereon , and pardon their appearance in the volume . PREFACE . SOME years ago I ...
... England to watch the work in its progress through the press , many errors have unavoidably occurred - the reader will understand the difficulty consequent thereon , and pardon their appearance in the volume . PREFACE . SOME years ago I ...
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... England . Next , as to the wantoness and indifference with which the murder was perpetrated ; I am afraid there is no great improbability in this , with self - interest in the scales , humanity is but as dust in the balance ; and this ...
... England . Next , as to the wantoness and indifference with which the murder was perpetrated ; I am afraid there is no great improbability in this , with self - interest in the scales , humanity is but as dust in the balance ; and this ...
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... , " HERCULES ROBINSON . " On arriving at Madeira I found other orders and occupations , and had no opportunity of revisiting my apocryphal silver mine before our return to England . Nor did the Admiralty of SEA DRIFT .
... , " HERCULES ROBINSON . " On arriving at Madeira I found other orders and occupations , and had no opportunity of revisiting my apocryphal silver mine before our return to England . Nor did the Admiralty of SEA DRIFT .
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Hercules Robinson. our return to England . Nor did the Admiralty of the day on receiving my report , which I conclude they did through Lord Amelius Beauclerk , think it worth while to prosecute the matter further ; and perhaps they ...
Hercules Robinson. our return to England . Nor did the Admiralty of the day on receiving my report , which I conclude they did through Lord Amelius Beauclerk , think it worth while to prosecute the matter further ; and perhaps they ...
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... England , neither my wife or daughter having ever been on board a ship of war ; certainly a great sea port is a very exciting place to a stranger . We were rather tired of the monotony of the pretty Lilliputian capital of Belgium , and ...
... England , neither my wife or daughter having ever been on board a ship of war ; certainly a great sea port is a very exciting place to a stranger . We were rather tired of the monotony of the pretty Lilliputian capital of Belgium , and ...
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الصفحة 169 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
الصفحة 149 - I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin, that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
الصفحة 240 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 99 - But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
الصفحة 169 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy; Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
الصفحة 119 - Par ma foi, il ya plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose, sans que j'en susse rien; et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela.
الصفحة 169 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
الصفحة 54 - The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born cavalier. The Star of Love, all stars above, Now reigns o'er earth and sky; And high and low the influence know — But where is County Guy?
الصفحة 155 - a should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.