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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... laid him open to the censure of writing on both sides . He seems therefore from this time to have given up poli- tics , and to have employed his pen in compos- ing those works by which his name has been best known to posterity . Among ...
... laid him open to the censure of writing on both sides . He seems therefore from this time to have given up poli- tics , and to have employed his pen in compos- ing those works by which his name has been best known to posterity . Among ...
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... lay , the wind continuing contrary , viz . at south - west , for seven or eight days , during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same roads , as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the ...
... lay , the wind continuing contrary , viz . at south - west , for seven or eight days , during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same roads , as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the ...
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... lay some snare for them very early . But it was not so with me : I first feil acquainted with the master of a ship , who had been on the coast of Guinea , and who , having had very good success there , was resolved to go again . He ...
... lay some snare for them very early . But it was not so with me : I first feil acquainted with the master of a ship , who had been on the coast of Guinea , and who , having had very good success there , was resolved to go again . He ...
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... lay not far from the coast . But as I had no instruments to take an ob- servation , to find what latitude we were in ; and did not exactly know , or at least remember , what lati- tude they were in , I knew not where to look for them ...
... lay not far from the coast . But as I had no instruments to take an ob- servation , to find what latitude we were in ; and did not exactly know , or at least remember , what lati- tude they were in , I knew not where to look for them ...
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... lay still , to go farther in . Xury , whose eyes were more about him than , it seems , mine were , calls softly to me , and tells me , that we had best go farther off the shore ; for , says he , Look , yonder lies a dreadful monster on ...
... lay still , to go farther in . Xury , whose eyes were more about him than , it seems , mine were , calls softly to me , and tells me , that we had best go farther off the shore ; for , says he , Look , yonder lies a dreadful monster on ...
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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.