A Description of Pitcairn's Island and Its Inhabitants: With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the Subsequent Fortunes of the MutineersHarper, 1832 - 303 sidor |
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... Nessy Heywood ( of which a few will be inserted in the course of this narrative ) exhibit so lively and ardent an affection for her beloved brother , are couched in so high a tone of feeling for his honour and confi- dence in his ...
... Nessy Heywood ( of which a few will be inserted in the course of this narrative ) exhibit so lively and ardent an affection for her beloved brother , are couched in so high a tone of feeling for his honour and confi- dence in his ...
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... NESSY HEYWOOD . " * ( Signed ) * Previous to the writing of this letter , the following copy of verses shows how anxiously this young lady's mind was engaged on the unhappy circumstances under which her brother was placed . " On the ...
... NESSY HEYWOOD . " * ( Signed ) * Previous to the writing of this letter , the following copy of verses shows how anxiously this young lady's mind was engaged on the unhappy circumstances under which her brother was placed . " On the ...
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... ! Kind Heav'n ! thou hast my happiness in store , Restore him innocent - I ask no more ! " Isle of Man , Feb. 25th , 1792. " " NESSY HEYWOOD canoe . There was a fresh breeze , and the 130 THE OPEN - BOAT NAVIGATION .
... ! Kind Heav'n ! thou hast my happiness in store , Restore him innocent - I ask no more ! " Isle of Man , Feb. 25th , 1792. " " NESSY HEYWOOD canoe . There was a fresh breeze , and the 130 THE OPEN - BOAT NAVIGATION .
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... Nessy , that I could rejoice with you on the early prospect of your brother's arrival in England . One division of the Pandora's people has arrived , and now on board the Vengeance ( my ship ) . Captain Edwards , with the remainder ...
... Nessy , that I could rejoice with you on the early prospect of your brother's arrival in England . One division of the Pandora's people has arrived , and now on board the Vengeance ( my ship ) . Captain Edwards , with the remainder ...
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... Nessy , neither is it proper I should , -your brother appears by all accounts to be the greatest culprit of all , Christian alone excepted . Every exertion , you may rest assured , I shall use to save his life ; but on trial I have no ...
... Nessy , neither is it proper I should , -your brother appears by all accounts to be the greatest culprit of all , Christian alone excepted . Every exertion , you may rest assured , I shall use to save his life ; but on trial I have no ...
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Adams affectionate appeared arms arrival assistance beloved boat boatswain Bounty bread bread-fruit brother brought called canoes Captain Beechey Captain Bligh Captain Cook Captain Edwards Captain Pipon carpenter Charles Churchill Churchill circumstances clothes cocoanut commander conduct Cook court court-martial crew dear dearest death deck distress doubt endeavour feeling feet Fletcher Christian Fryer gave Hallet hands happy Hayward heard honour hope innocence James Morrison John John Adams kind land launch letter Lieutenant Bligh M'Intosh majesty's majesty's ship manner master-at-arms mate Matthew Quintal midshipman mind morning Morrison mutiny narrative natives NESSY HEYWOOD never night Novel observes occasion officers ordered Otaheitans Otaheite Pandora person Peter Heywood Pitcairn's Island prisoners Quintal received remained sail seamen ship ship's company shore sister situation soon Stewart sufferings tain taken thing Thomas Ellison tion told vessel vols voyage whole women young
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Sida 152 - Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Sida 63 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Sida 214 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Sida 134 - Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Sida 207 - Yet, if I am found guilty this day, they will not construe it, I trust, as the least disrespect offered to their discernment and opinion, if I solemnly declare that my heart will rely with confidence in its own innocence, until that awful period when my spirit shall be about to be separated from my body to take its everlasting flight, and be ushered into the presence of that unerring Judge, before whom all hearts are open and from whom no secrets are hid.
Sida 48 - The bread-tree, which, without the ploughshare, yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest...
Sida 152 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Sida 69 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship? he appeared disturbed at my question and answered with much emotion: "That, captain Bligh, that is the thing; I am in hell, I am in hell.
Sida 250 - Pacific islands; his only dress was a piece of cloth round his loins, and a straw hat ornamented with the black feathers of the domestic fowl. "With a great share of good humour...
Sida 214 - ... the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland...