The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 16, Part 1F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English literature |
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Page 16
... immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours , and should be ashamed to see , not my father and mother only , but even every body else . From whence I have often since observed , how incongruous and ir ...
... immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours , and should be ashamed to see , not my father and mother only , but even every body else . From whence I have often since observed , how incongruous and ir ...
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... immediately fell to cutting and hacking the sails and rigging . We plied them with small shot , half - pikes , powder- chests , and such like , and cleared our deck of them twice . However , to cut short this melancholy part of our ...
... immediately fell to cutting and hacking the sails and rigging . We plied them with small shot , half - pikes , powder- chests , and such like , and cleared our deck of them twice . However , to cut short this melancholy part of our ...
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... immediately , for he swam like a cork , and called to me , begged to be taken in , and told me he would go all the world over with me . He swam so strong after the boat , that he would have reached me very quickly , there being but ...
... immediately , for he swam like a cork , and called to me , begged to be taken in , and told me he would go all the world over with me . He swam so strong after the boat , that he would have reached me very quickly , there being but ...
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... immediately stept to the cabin door , and taking up my gun , fired at him ; upon which , he immediately turned about , and swam to the shore again . But it is impossible to describe the horrible noises , and hideous cries and howlings ...
... immediately stept to the cabin door , and taking up my gun , fired at him ; upon which , he immediately turned about , and swam to the shore again . But it is impossible to describe the horrible noises , and hideous cries and howlings ...
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... immediately , and though he began to move off , fired again , and shot him in the head , and had the pleasure to see him drop , and make but little noise , but lie struggling for life . Then Xury took heart , and would have me let him ...
... immediately , and though he began to move off , fired again , and shot him in the head , and had the pleasure to see him drop , and make but little noise , but lie struggling for life . Then Xury took heart , and would have me let him ...
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Page 170 - It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition.
Page 174 - Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, my heart was not only comforted, but I was guided and encouraged to pray earnestly to God for deliverance. When I had done praying, I took up my Bible, and opening it to read, the first words that presented to me were, " Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.
Page 174 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 226 - I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer : at length he came close to me ; and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head ; this, it seems, was in token of swearing to be mv slave for ever.
Page 64 - what art thou good for? Thou art not worth to me, no, not the taking off of the ground; one of those knives is worth all this heap.