Satirical,humourous & Familiar Pieces: Prose [No] 1-[2?].G.Nicholson and Company, 1795 |
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... ship , and sent off , with two hundred more , to the plantations . We had but an indifferent pas sage , for being all confined in the hold , more than a hundred of our people died for want of sweet air and those that remained were ...
... ship , and sent off , with two hundred more , to the plantations . We had but an indifferent pas sage , for being all confined in the hold , more than a hundred of our people died for want of sweet air and those that remained were ...
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... ship was taken by the French , and so I lost all . Our crew was car- ried into Brest , and many of them died , because they were not used to live in a jail ; but , for my part it was nothing to me , for I was seasoned . One night , as I ...
... ship was taken by the French , and so I lost all . Our crew was car- ried into Brest , and many of them died , because they were not used to live in a jail ; but , for my part it was nothing to me , for I was seasoned . One night , as I ...
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... ship , and not a - board a privateer , I should have been entitled to cloathing and maintenance during the rest of my life , but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth , and another with a wooden ladle ...
... ship , and not a - board a privateer , I should have been entitled to cloathing and maintenance during the rest of my life , but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth , and another with a wooden ladle ...
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... ship may remember , were wise , and five were foolish . —A six , that in six days God created heaven and earth ; a seven , that on the seventh day he rested from all he had made ; an eight , of the eight righteous perso preserved from ...
... ship may remember , were wise , and five were foolish . —A six , that in six days God created heaven and earth ; a seven , that on the seventh day he rested from all he had made ; an eight , of the eight righteous perso preserved from ...
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... ship , Long sail'd secure , or thro ' th ' Ægean deep , Or the Ionian , till cruising near The Lilybean shore , with hideous crush On Scylla , or Charybdis , ( dang'rous rocks ) She strikes rebounding ; whence the shatter'd oak , So ...
... ship , Long sail'd secure , or thro ' th ' Ægean deep , Or the Ionian , till cruising near The Lilybean shore , with hideous crush On Scylla , or Charybdis , ( dang'rous rocks ) She strikes rebounding ; whence the shatter'd oak , So ...
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Page 2 - My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue !) An horrid chasm disclose, with orifice Wide, discontinuous ; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter, with dire chilling blasts Portending agues.
Page 4 - I whipped the pudding into my mouth, hot as a burning coal. It was impossible to conceal my agony; my eyes were starting from their sockets. At last, in spite of shame and resolution, I was obliged to drop the cause of torment on my plate. Sir Thomas and the ladies all compassionated my misfortune, and each advised a different application. One recommended oil, another water; but all agreed that wine was best for drawing out fire; and a glass of sherry was brought me from the sideboard, which I snatched...
Page 1 - I fell upon my knees, begged his worship's pardon, and began to give a full account of all that I knew of my breed, seed, and generation; but, though I gave a very...