Sea DriftT. Hinton, 1858 - 252 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 13
... interest in the scales , humanity is but as dust in the balance ; and this not merely with a rude Catalan seaman , but with a Cleveland or a Lambro . " He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat : " and I ...
... interest in the scales , humanity is but as dust in the balance ; and this not merely with a rude Catalan seaman , but with a Cleveland or a Lambro . " He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat : " and I ...
الصفحة 21
... interest to do so as long as I was searching myself , that nobody might take the wind out of my sails ; and when I had no longer any personal motive , I still felt it right to keep my counsel till it was clear that the Admiralty had no ...
... interest to do so as long as I was searching myself , that nobody might take the wind out of my sails ; and when I had no longer any personal motive , I still felt it right to keep my counsel till it was clear that the Admiralty had no ...
الصفحة 22
... interest , in some obscure shape , or even mere love of lying , or it might be the ravings of lunacy or disease , and the wonderful plausibility of perverted reason . However , the evidence pro or con is before your readers , and they ...
... interest , in some obscure shape , or even mere love of lying , or it might be the ravings of lunacy or disease , and the wonderful plausibility of perverted reason . However , the evidence pro or con is before your readers , and they ...
الصفحة 27
... interest of my earlier history , some reminisences joyous , and others grievous enough , the usual result of such retrospection . The particular which most struck me as to modern improvement , was the noble gun boats , one of which ...
... interest of my earlier history , some reminisences joyous , and others grievous enough , the usual result of such retrospection . The particular which most struck me as to modern improvement , was the noble gun boats , one of which ...
الصفحة 45
... interest to scrutinize our customers , and watch the indica- tions of character , that we acquire at length a sort of instinct , or thought - reading , on which I find I can boldly rely . ” 66 However , I must not magnify the thought ...
... interest to scrutinize our customers , and watch the indica- tions of character , that we acquire at length a sort of instinct , or thought - reading , on which I find I can boldly rely . ” 66 However , I must not magnify the thought ...
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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.