Paul Jones : a Romance, Volym 3Oliver & Boyd, 1826 |
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... body , buried in the innumerable folds of his clothes , stood at the rate of a pound weight of man to seven yards of cloth , " ah ! welcome back , gallant Denis Ricot , with thy conquering Vengeance . Ah , my God ! how your balls have ...
... body , buried in the innumerable folds of his clothes , stood at the rate of a pound weight of man to seven yards of cloth , " ah ! welcome back , gallant Denis Ricot , with thy conquering Vengeance . Ah , my God ! how your balls have ...
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... body also , and it cost him some thought to lower it into something like a bow to Paul , who now stood be- fore him . But the words of the wise are precious ; this peer of princely descent opened not his mouth , 12 PAUL JONES . the ...
... body also , and it cost him some thought to lower it into something like a bow to Paul , who now stood be- fore him . But the words of the wise are precious ; this peer of princely descent opened not his mouth , 12 PAUL JONES . the ...
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... body had fed the island crows . " 66 Ere Paul could reply to this taunt and admis- sion , a spirit something akin to his own in fiery in- tractability had taken the matter up . " Now , by the souls of all the Seatons , " said de Winton ...
... body had fed the island crows . " 66 Ere Paul could reply to this taunt and admis- sion , a spirit something akin to his own in fiery in- tractability had taken the matter up . " Now , by the souls of all the Seatons , " said de Winton ...
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... body and soul by a domineering and superstitious line of kings , and the more moderate oppression of nobles and merchants , who make a slave of their king and degrade the people . There is yet a cause unnamed , in which the sword of ...
... body and soul by a domineering and superstitious line of kings , and the more moderate oppression of nobles and merchants , who make a slave of their king and degrade the people . There is yet a cause unnamed , in which the sword of ...
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... bodies of mariners and soldiers . The walls were pierced with many a shot , the groves were shatter- ed , and the ground downwards to the sea was trampled into a dark paste , which smelled of new- spilt blood . " There has been hot work ...
... bodies of mariners and soldiers . The walls were pierced with many a shot , the groves were shatter- ed , and the ground downwards to the sea was trampled into a dark paste , which smelled of new- spilt blood . " There has been hot work ...
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Admiral American answered armed army battle beauty blood bonnie bosom bowed brave bravery bridle brow Caledonia cannon carronades Chevalier Chevalier Paul citizen command court dames deck deeds desert dropt Dutchess Empress enemy England English exclaimed eyes face Fayette feet fierce fight fire frae France freedom gallant Galwegian ground gude guillotine hand head heard heart honour horse huntress King la Fayette lady land liberty lips look Lord Dalveen Lord Thomas Louis Louis of Bourbon Macgubb maritime maun Mull native nature never noble Oczakow Oriflame Paul Jones Paul's pistols Prince Nassau proud islanders replied Paul Ricot rifle Russian savage Scotland Scottish seemed ship shot shouted side Silas sloop smile soldier speak spirit spoke stood Suwarrow sword thee thine thou art tree Turkish valley victory Vizier voice warrior warrow wild wilderness wind woods words Wulik young
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Sida 182 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold.
Sida 152 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Sida 62 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Sida 94 - Amidst the strife of fratricidal foes ; Her birth-star was the light of burning plains ;* Her baptism is the weight of blood that flows From kindred hearts — the blood of British veins— And famine tracks her steps, and pestilential pains.
Sida 92 - ... youthful lawbreaker to suffer a penalty in requital for the harm which he has inflicted, through his action, to both the legal order and to the victim; rather it consists in saving the juvenile delinquent from himself, in providing him with that power of moral restraint which he lacks, in protecting him for his own sake as well as for the sake...
Sida 48 - David devoted the flesh of the monster to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field. The Philistine scorned and bullied him, stamped mightily with both his feet, and at length fell like a mass of clay, affording a splendid termination to the piece. And then the virgins sang : ' Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.
Sida 88 - I am of the left bank myself:— are ye a left-bank man, my friend ?"—" Thou uncivilized cub," said a brother warrior, " didst thou not hear that he was nursed on the Delaware,— the princely Delaware, whose sons are the saviours of the thirteen States ?—I am from the bank of the stream myself, else I had forborne my boast."—
Sida 90 - England be cursed continually with this hardness !" exclaimed a wild warrior from the back-settlements, who, nursed when a child by the Indians, and living by the rifle and the trap, had caught something of the inflated tone of the native tribes; " may the heart of England never yield, may it insult, injure, and oppress us, till all remembrance of descent is effaced in our breasts. The wand of peace is...
Sida 85 - I be flogged then with a thong from the hide of John Bull's back !"—" Let us scalp them, man and mother's son," said a half-blood from the sources of the Delaware; " the warriors of my mother's tribe get three dollars each for the scalps of Englishmen."—" Thou art a savage, and deservest not to live in a free State...