Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 221 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 18
THE PERILOUS ADVENTURES AND VICISSITUDES OF A NAVAL OFFICER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO . There is a tradition in the family of the writer of this narrative , ViceAdmiral George Vernon Jack son , that he was the prototype of Peter Simple .
THE PERILOUS ADVENTURES AND VICISSITUDES OF A NAVAL OFFICER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO . There is a tradition in the family of the writer of this narrative , ViceAdmiral George Vernon Jack son , that he was the prototype of Peter Simple .
Página 22
So we were had up ; and The I , as Senior Officer , signed a declaration that we would steer south at a certain distance from Madeira before ... The captive officers , including the Captains of merchantmen , amounted to nine in number .
So we were had up ; and The I , as Senior Officer , signed a declaration that we would steer south at a certain distance from Madeira before ... The captive officers , including the Captains of merchantmen , amounted to nine in number .
Página 22
They took off I , as Senior Officer , signed a their neckerchiefs and tied one declaration that we would steer end of each to the battens south at a certain distance overhead , tying the other under from Madeira before we proeach arm ...
They took off I , as Senior Officer , signed a their neckerchiefs and tied one declaration that we would steer end of each to the battens south at a certain distance overhead , tying the other under from Madeira before we proeach arm ...
Página 34
It to acknowledge me as an officer had struck me as being peculiar at all ; and well they might that on several occasions I refuse , for my personal appear had found more than one of ance betokened anything but the parties dodging about ...
It to acknowledge me as an officer had struck me as being peculiar at all ; and well they might that on several occasions I refuse , for my personal appear had found more than one of ance betokened anything but the parties dodging about ...
Página 47
I am cold and officer , walked up to the gates tired , and there is nothing to of the town and entered with make me warm . ” a military baggage waggon . “ What ? Get under this Not having a parole ticket , I quilt like me .
I am cold and officer , walked up to the gates tired , and there is nothing to of the town and entered with make me warm . ” a military baggage waggon . “ What ? Get under this Not having a parole ticket , I quilt like me .
Comentarios de usuarios - Escribir una reseña
No hemos encontrado ninguna reseña en los sitios habituales.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
able appeared arms arrived asked bank began better boat bridge brought called Captain carried clear close coming course early England English eyes face fact feet fire fish five followed force four French gave give Government half hand head heard hope hour hundred interest island keep kind knew known land later leave less light lived looked matter means ment miles mind months morning move never night officers once party passed perhaps position present reached replied rest river round seemed seen sent ship showed side soon stand sure taken tell thing thought tion told took turned village whole Wolverston yards young
Pasajes populares
Página 400 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
Página 686 - there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting : whatever images it can supply are long ago
Página 681 - is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.'
Página 682 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
Página 679 - will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous fecundity, no perpetual gloom or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity or consummate in all private or social virtues.
Página 683 - had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Página 679 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the
Página 685 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Página 578 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Página 570 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.