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... ships sailed . I then returned to London . I had highly dis- pleased my father by this disobedience ; but he was more easily reconciled than I could have expected . In a little time I sailed with a friend of his to Venice . In this ...
... ships sailed . I then returned to London . I had highly dis- pleased my father by this disobedience ; but he was more easily reconciled than I could have expected . In a little time I sailed with a friend of his to Venice . In this ...
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... ship's side into the water : which it had no sooner touched , than I saw , the same instant , a ter rible fire burst out from a range of the mountains , ( a part of the Alps ) , which appeared at some distance be- hind the city of ...
... ship's side into the water : which it had no sooner touched , than I saw , the same instant , a ter rible fire burst out from a range of the mountains , ( a part of the Alps ) , which appeared at some distance be- hind the city of ...
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... ship . The captain was prevailed on to excuse my absence ; but this rash step ( especially as it was not the first liberty of the kind I had taken ) highly displeased him , and lost me his favour , which I never recovered . At length we ...
... ship . The captain was prevailed on to excuse my absence ; but this rash step ( especially as it was not the first liberty of the kind I had taken ) highly displeased him , and lost me his favour , which I never recovered . At length we ...
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... ship , though several times in immi- nent danger of being run down by other vessels , es- caped unhurt ; but many suffered much , particularly the Admiral . This occasioned our putting back to Plymouth . While we lay at Plymouth , I ...
... ship , though several times in immi- nent danger of being run down by other vessels , es- caped unhurt ; but many suffered much , particularly the Admiral . This occasioned our putting back to Plymouth . While we lay at Plymouth , I ...
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... ship , kept a while in irons , then publicly stripped and whipped ; after which I was degraded from my office , and all my former companions forbidden to show me the least favour , or even to speak -As midshipman I had been entitled to ...
... ship , kept a while in irons , then publicly stripped and whipped ; after which I was degraded from my office , and all my former companions forbidden to show me the least favour , or even to speak -As midshipman I had been entitled to ...
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Page 433 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Page 448 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 234 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
Page 309 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Page 319 - Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original.
Page 170 - Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Page 388 - And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every several gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass.
Page 511 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 349 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.