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Poor Match - Page 94
by Harriet Parr - 1870
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The Autobiography of a Stage-coachman, Volume 1

Thomas Cross - Coach drivers - 1861 - 344 pages
...profession did not or would not appreciate the solicitude Lord Gambier had for the spiritual welfare of those " who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in the great waters." And experience tells us 'tis a much easier task to dispel the doubts and establish...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 111-112

1862 - 628 pages
...than himself, have been converted suddenly, and as by magic, into the most courageous and venturesome of those who ' go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters,' fit to command a crew and craft over any seas. Nor is the business unprofitable. The...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 112

English literature - 1862 - 628 pages
...than himself, have Ijeen converted suddenly, and as by magic, into the most courageous and venturesome of those who ' go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters,' fit to command a crew and craft over any seas. Nor is the business unprofitable. The...
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Garibaldi: His Life and Times: Comprising the Revolutionary History of Italy ...

Francis Young (F.R.G.S.), W. B. B. Stevens - 1864 - 264 pages
...unmarked hy any disastrous occurrences, and he had hitherto escaped those perils which fall to the lot of those who "go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their husiness in great waters." It was in a voyage to Cagliari in the hrigantine Etna, commanded hy Captain...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 51

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1875 - 646 pages
...devote a portion of extraordinary revenue which has come to us from the sea in enabling " those who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in " deep waters " to escape from drunkenness and debauchery, and to have the refuge of a respectable home. I next ask...
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William Whewell, D. D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: An ..., Volume 1

Isaac Todhunter, William Whewell - 1876 - 456 pages
...spontaneous and overpowering sentiment. To provide all that can be provided, for the safety and comfort of those who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy in the great waters, may be desirable on account of private or public gain ; may be dictated by prudence...
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The Principles of Mercantile Law

Joshua Slater - Commercial law - 1884 - 244 pages
...with foreign ships. Unseaworthy A greater danger than at present exists formerly threatened the lives of those " who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters," and that danger arose from the masters and owners of vessels sending their ships to...
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No Condemnation - No Separation: Lectures on the Eighth Chapter of St. Paul ...

Marcus Rainsford - Bible - 1885 - 288 pages
...of God's waterspouts, and • all His waves and billows flow over us, is hope. We know, in the case of those who go down to the sea in ships and occupy themselves in great waters, that the greater the strain of the storm the deeper the anchor will sink...
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New Views of Early Virginia History, 1606-1619, Volume 78

Alexander Brown - Virginia - 1886 - 42 pages
...management. Many of the Company had great practical experience in commercial affairs ; many among them were of "those who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters ;" many had made a study of navigation, commerce and colonization, and were also familiar...
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Short Studies of Shakespeare's Plots

Cyril Ransome - 1898 - 326 pages
...gallows-bird, but speak of the true courage and resource which have in all times been characteristic of those who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters. But as regards the progress of the plot, we learn from the first scene that a good ship,...
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