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Instead of sailing home in the West Indiaman she was burnt with- out delay , and we continued prisoners without a prospect at present of release . The burning of the ship was a sufficient indication of an enemy's presence , and the Eng- ...
Instead of sailing home in the West Indiaman she was burnt with- out delay , and we continued prisoners without a prospect at present of release . The burning of the ship was a sufficient indication of an enemy's presence , and the Eng- ...
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To prevent surprise I asked a doctor who was present , a very timid man , to watch the gratings in the door , and when the jailor or his wife approached , to pop out his head and call for a jug of beer . This post he The plank was ...
To prevent surprise I asked a doctor who was present , a very timid man , to watch the gratings in the door , and when the jailor or his wife approached , to pop out his head and call for a jug of beer . This post he The plank was ...
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... use- ful to me than the wretched one I had hitherto been com- pelled to present in like under- takings . My coat was a well- cut snuff - coloured one , buff- coloured waistcoat , pepper - and- salt breeks , and white top- boots .
... use- ful to me than the wretched one I had hitherto been com- pelled to present in like under- takings . My coat was a well- cut snuff - coloured one , buff- coloured waistcoat , pepper - and- salt breeks , and white top- boots .
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Upon hearing this I explained that I was a Lieutenant in the English Navy just escaped from Bitche , and that , having no parole ticket , I was unable to get into get into Verdun , where my friend and former messmate was at present ...
Upon hearing this I explained that I was a Lieutenant in the English Navy just escaped from Bitche , and that , having no parole ticket , I was unable to get into get into Verdun , where my friend and former messmate was at present ...
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But when all is said , the glory of Bordeaux lies in its red wines , and if at present they are hard to come by in perfection , time will set that right . The French just now are , more is the pity , in no condition to be lavish in ...
But when all is said , the glory of Bordeaux lies in its red wines , and if at present they are hard to come by in perfection , time will set that right . The French just now are , more is the pity , in no condition to be lavish in ...
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Página 679 - 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 680 - : " 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 677 - 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 681 - 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 677 - 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 683 - 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 576 - 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 568 - 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.