Jack Tench: Or, The Midshipman Turned IdlerW. Brittain, 1841 - 262 стор. |
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... whole of my bed - curtains were withdrawn towards the foot bed - posts , both from the sides and bottom ; but not a footstep could be heard nor figure seen : I felt a strong desire to speak , to ask who was in my room , but my tongue ...
... whole of my bed - curtains were withdrawn towards the foot bed - posts , both from the sides and bottom ; but not a footstep could be heard nor figure seen : I felt a strong desire to speak , to ask who was in my room , but my tongue ...
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... centre of the " chimley " hung , suspended from an iron bar , the whole length of the fire - place , by huge pot - hooks , the family's " crock , " through whose smoke - dried cover appeared the handle of the JACK TENCH . 25 25.
... centre of the " chimley " hung , suspended from an iron bar , the whole length of the fire - place , by huge pot - hooks , the family's " crock , " through whose smoke - dried cover appeared the handle of the JACK TENCH . 25 25.
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... whole surmounted by a large case of bright iron skewers , displayed in the shape of the letter M ; and over all hung the family gun , salmon spears , fishing rods , a brass hilted Toledo , of the sixteenth century , and spurs en suite ...
... whole surmounted by a large case of bright iron skewers , displayed in the shape of the letter M ; and over all hung the family gun , salmon spears , fishing rods , a brass hilted Toledo , of the sixteenth century , and spurs en suite ...
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... whole period of his stay at Llantilham ! That very noise , which would have scared back nine out of ten much older boys than himself , was an additional incite- ment for him to go on and see from whence it proceeded . Descending ladder ...
... whole period of his stay at Llantilham ! That very noise , which would have scared back nine out of ten much older boys than himself , was an additional incite- ment for him to go on and see from whence it proceeded . Descending ladder ...
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... whole family having been poisoned by arsenic laid for rats ; and remember- ing the manner in which the suspicious parson had eyed the pounded sugar in the dairy , he determined to turn it to advantage . Supper was at length announced ...
... whole family having been poisoned by arsenic laid for rats ; and remember- ing the manner in which the suspicious parson had eyed the pounded sugar in the dairy , he determined to turn it to advantage . Supper was at length announced ...
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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.