Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 3 |
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... hundred feet in height ) , and the season getting far advanced , he bore up on the 22d August for England , where soon afterwards the vessels were paid off . The dangers to which he had been exposed , and the hardships he had undergone ...
... hundred feet in height ) , and the season getting far advanced , he bore up on the 22d August for England , where soon afterwards the vessels were paid off . The dangers to which he had been exposed , and the hardships he had undergone ...
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... hundred and twenty times in action ; had assisted at the capture of seven sail - of - the - line , six frigates , four corvettes , eleven privateers of different sizes , and taken or destroyed nearly fifty sail of merchant vessels . On ...
... hundred and twenty times in action ; had assisted at the capture of seven sail - of - the - line , six frigates , four corvettes , eleven privateers of different sizes , and taken or destroyed nearly fifty sail of merchant vessels . On ...
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... hundred fights was on the present occasion assured of victory , but at the same time under a presenti- ment that he himself should not survive . Fully believing that his last hour was at hand , he had gone into his cabin and written a ...
... hundred fights was on the present occasion assured of victory , but at the same time under a presenti- ment that he himself should not survive . Fully believing that his last hour was at hand , he had gone into his cabin and written a ...
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... days was a gentleman , and could have borrowed a hundred guilders on the bare credit of his word . That was the golden age of Goldenthal ! ' Here all the assembly nodded assent , and some exclaimed 4 THE GOLDMAKERS ' VILLAGE .
... days was a gentleman , and could have borrowed a hundred guilders on the bare credit of his word . That was the golden age of Goldenthal ! ' Here all the assembly nodded assent , and some exclaimed 4 THE GOLDMAKERS ' VILLAGE .
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... hundred . Why cannot we follow their example ? To burn wood as we do , is to burn gold . ' Another of the parish - officers observed , that in some villages there were also public washing - houses , which he would recommend to the ...
... hundred . Why cannot we follow their example ? To burn wood as we do , is to burn gold . ' Another of the parish - officers observed , that in some villages there were also public washing - houses , which he would recommend to the ...
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Popular passages
Page 3 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 17 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.
Page 4 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 5 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?
Page 3 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Page 11 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 10 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 1 - E say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave ; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave ; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout ; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.
Page 25 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 11 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.