Jack Tench: Or, The Midshipman Turned IdlerW. Brittain, 1841 - 262 стор. |
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... fatiguing , and then all at once re- collecting that Master Jack was born with a caul , her dread of his being drowned vanished , and he was allowed to roam about as he D · pleased ; for no accident could happen where so.
... fatiguing , and then all at once re- collecting that Master Jack was born with a caul , her dread of his being drowned vanished , and he was allowed to roam about as he D · pleased ; for no accident could happen where so.
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... allowed time to cool . On each side the fire - place , and within the chimney's precincts , stood a low form with a high railed back - one was sacred to the " grandfer " of the family , and the other to the nurse or nurses in charge of ...
... allowed time to cool . On each side the fire - place , and within the chimney's precincts , stood a low form with a high railed back - one was sacred to the " grandfer " of the family , and the other to the nurse or nurses in charge of ...
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... allowed ' disappointment , like a worm in the bud , to prey on her damask check . ' But the young ' doctor ' was too full of vanity and self - love to be sincere and constant . So unhappy was poor Lucy , that she would have her fortune ...
... allowed ' disappointment , like a worm in the bud , to prey on her damask check . ' But the young ' doctor ' was too full of vanity and self - love to be sincere and constant . So unhappy was poor Lucy , that she would have her fortune ...
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... allowed him to be supplied with a penny roll and a penn'orth of butter every morning , in addi- tion to the roll and roast fat , the school allowance ; but ' Jack , ' not being a ' gourmand , ' preferred a half - penny roll , and the ...
... allowed him to be supplied with a penny roll and a penn'orth of butter every morning , in addi- tion to the roll and roast fat , the school allowance ; but ' Jack , ' not being a ' gourmand , ' preferred a half - penny roll , and the ...
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... allowed ten mi- nutes quiet , he began to think it was all over for the night , and ' slewed , upon his side to sleep . In the twinkling of an eye , down went his hammock foot foremost ; and Jack enveloped as he was in his bed clothes ...
... allowed ten mi- nutes quiet , he began to think it was all over for the night , and ' slewed , upon his side to sleep . In the twinkling of an eye , down went his hammock foot foremost ; and Jack enveloped as he was in his bed clothes ...
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Сторінка 68 - THE SEA. The Sea ! the Sea ! the open Sea ! The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round ; It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; Or like a cradled creature lies.
Сторінка 11 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Сторінка 15 - On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Сторінка 119 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Сторінка 202 - They that go down to the sea in ships, That do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, And his wonders in the deep.
Сторінка 224 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Сторінка 11 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Сторінка 75 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Сторінка 4 - CLARKE'S (DR. ADAM) CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY. By DUNN. 12mo. .066 LETTER TO A YOUNG PREACHER, AND TRAVELLER'S PRAYER 026 SERMONS. With great Additions. 4 vols. . .140 COOPER'S SERMONS ON THE LEADING DOCTRINES OF THE GOSPEL 080 PRACTICAL AND FAMILIAR . .030 CHILLINGWORTH'S THEOLOGICAL WORKS.
Сторінка 154 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them - for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.