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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... able to present to their fellow - citizens a work of unparalleled merit and cheapness , embracing subjects adapted to all classes of readers , and forming a vody of literature deserving the praise of having instructed many , and amused ...
... able to present to their fellow - citizens a work of unparalleled merit and cheapness , embracing subjects adapted to all classes of readers , and forming a vody of literature deserving the praise of having instructed many , and amused ...
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... able writers , and drawn entirely from the most correct and accredited anthorities . It is , as it professes to be , a Family Library , from which , at little expense , a household may prepare themselves for a con- sideration of those ...
... able writers , and drawn entirely from the most correct and accredited anthorities . It is , as it professes to be , a Family Library , from which , at little expense , a household may prepare themselves for a con- sideration of those ...
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... able to speak , she sat down , and gave vent to her passion by weeping . Shortly after , a breeze springing up , the ship made sail ; and finding it now necessary to return into her canoe , " she embraced us all , " says Captain Wallis ...
... able to speak , she sat down , and gave vent to her passion by weeping . Shortly after , a breeze springing up , the ship made sail ; and finding it now necessary to return into her canoe , " she embraced us all , " says Captain Wallis ...
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... Euro- pean appears very surprising ; but it depends so much upon sleight , that many of us were able to do it before we left the island , and some that could scarcely crack a filbert . The master when he chooses 38 OTAHEITE .
... Euro- pean appears very surprising ; but it depends so much upon sleight , that many of us were able to do it before we left the island , and some that could scarcely crack a filbert . The master when he chooses 38 OTAHEITE .
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... able to resist that which would contribute to the indulgence of his ava- rice , or the gratification of his pleasures , or of both . Cook appears not to have exercised his usual judg- ment in estimating the population of this island ...
... able to resist that which would contribute to the indulgence of his ava- rice , or the gratification of his pleasures , or of both . Cook appears not to have exercised his usual judg- ment in estimating the population of this island ...
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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...