Supplement to the Connecticut Courant: Containing Tales, Travels, History, Biography, Poetry, and a Great Variety of Miscellaneous Articles, Band 3J.L. Boswell., 1832 |
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... Parker , who had then succeeded to the title in consequence of old Sir Peter Parker's death , having reconnoitered the bay which seemed totally defenceless , manned the boats , and desired the lieutenant to bring out the prize . We had ...
... Parker , who had then succeeded to the title in consequence of old Sir Peter Parker's death , having reconnoitered the bay which seemed totally defenceless , manned the boats , and desired the lieutenant to bring out the prize . We had ...
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... Sir . Peter Parker remain proposed that we should take it by turns to motionless on his seat ; and knowing his polish the table , in order to render it a prop- usual ambition to be first , I was rather slack er bright appendage to our ...
... Sir . Peter Parker remain proposed that we should take it by turns to motionless on his seat ; and knowing his polish the table , in order to render it a prop- usual ambition to be first , I was rather slack er bright appendage to our ...
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... Sir Peter Parker , our sight . We continued our ill - fated march , Lieut . Pierce ( who afterwards died in Africa ) but suddenly haited at the approach of a sin- the veteran Banyan , and the second lieuten gle horseman , who having ...
... Sir Peter Parker , our sight . We continued our ill - fated march , Lieut . Pierce ( who afterwards died in Africa ) but suddenly haited at the approach of a sin- the veteran Banyan , and the second lieuten gle horseman , who having ...
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... Sir Peter Parker was riade over to Captain Palmer , of the Hebrus , to be conveyed to Bermuda for interment . This was not easily effected ; the men swore they would bury their own Captain , and the Admiral himself came on board to ...
... Sir Peter Parker was riade over to Captain Palmer , of the Hebrus , to be conveyed to Bermuda for interment . This was not easily effected ; the men swore they would bury their own Captain , and the Admiral himself came on board to ...
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... Sir Peter Parker took leave of his wife at Bordeaux , and we with a large convoy , with troops , made sail to the coast of America . We arrived in the Chesapeake at the time that the detestable war of conflagration was at its height ...
... Sir Peter Parker took leave of his wife at Bordeaux , and we with a large convoy , with troops , made sail to the coast of America . We arrived in the Chesapeake at the time that the detestable war of conflagration was at its height ...
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Seite 378 - They mount up to the heaven, They go down again to the depths : Their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits
Seite 392 - There are many more' shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possesed of them.
Seite 473 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain.
Seite 129 - They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold ; They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will come; They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
Seite 432 - Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Seite 169 - He proved them all — the doubt, the strife, The faint perplexing dread, The mists that hang o'er parting life, All...
Seite 129 - The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven, The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven, The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just, Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust. So the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed That wither away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told.
Seite 129 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud : — Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Seite 56 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Seite 385 - t is given To wake sweet Nature's untaught lays; Beneath the arch of heaven To chirp away a life of praise. Then spread each wing Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing In yon blue dome not reared with hands.