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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... voyage abroad , if I came home again , and did not like it , I would go no more ; and I would promise , by a double dili- gence , to recover the time I had lost . This put my mother into a great passion : she told me she knew it would ...
... voyage abroad , if I came home again , and did not like it , I would go no more ; and I would promise , by a double dili- gence , to recover the time I had lost . This put my mother into a great passion : she told me she knew it would ...
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... voyage , if ever I got my foot once on dry land , I would go directly home to my father , and never set it into a ship again while I lived ; that I would take his advice , and never run myself into such mi- series as these any more ...
... voyage , if ever I got my foot once on dry land , I would go directly home to my father , and never set it into a ship again while I lived ; that I would take his advice , and never run myself into such mi- series as these any more ...
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... it appeared his tone was altered , and , looking very melancholy , and shaking his head , asked me how I did : telling his father who I was , and how I had say , come this voyage only for a trial , in order 14 ADVENTURES OF.
... it appeared his tone was altered , and , looking very melancholy , and shaking his head , asked me how I did : telling his father who I was , and how I had say , come this voyage only for a trial , in order 14 ADVENTURES OF.
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... voyage for a trial , you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect if you persist . Perhaps this has all befallen us on your account , like Jonah in the ship of Tarshish . - Pray , continues he , what are you , and ...
... voyage for a trial , you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect if you persist . Perhaps this has all befallen us on your account , like Jonah in the ship of Tarshish . - Pray , continues he , what are you , and ...
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... voyage . That evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house , that hurried me into the wild and indigested notion of raising my fortune , and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me , as to make me deaf to ...
... voyage . That evil influence which carried me first away from my father's house , that hurried me into the wild and indigested notion of raising my fortune , and that impressed those conceits so forcibly upon me , as to make me deaf to ...
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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.