The Sea Lions: Or, The Lost Sealers, Volúmenes 1-2Stringer and Townsend, 1852 - 434 páginas |
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... feel that profound reverence for him that the nature of our relations justly demands ! It is the want of a due sense of humility , and a sad misconception of what we are , and for what we were created , that misleads us in the due ...
... feel that profound reverence for him that the nature of our relations justly demands ! It is the want of a due sense of humility , and a sad misconception of what we are , and for what we were created , that misleads us in the due ...
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... . It is when health , or the usual means of success abandon us , that we are made to feel how totally we are insufficient for the achievement of even our own purposes 1 * PREFACE . V go and no farther, seems to be imprinted on ...
... . It is when health , or the usual means of success abandon us , that we are made to feel how totally we are insufficient for the achievement of even our own purposes 1 * PREFACE . V go and no farther, seems to be imprinted on ...
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... feel how close was the gripe of his hand , when he found himself in its grasp ; but there is a way of prac tising the most ruthless extortion , that serves not only to deceive the world , but which would really seem to mislead the ...
... feel how close was the gripe of his hand , when he found himself in its grasp ; but there is a way of prac tising the most ruthless extortion , that serves not only to deceive the world , but which would really seem to mislead the ...
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... feel absolutely at home there . A less interested , or less selfish being than Mary Pratt , never existed . In this respect she was the very antipodes of her uncle , who often stealthily rebuked her for her charities and acts of ...
... feel absolutely at home there . A less interested , or less selfish being than Mary Pratt , never existed . In this respect she was the very antipodes of her uncle , who often stealthily rebuked her for her charities and acts of ...
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... feeling the consolation of knowing we had done all in our power to save him , or to serve him . " " It is so far to the Harbour , that no good might come of a messenger ; and the money paid him would be thrown away , too . " " I dare ...
... feeling the consolation of knowing we had done all in our power to save him , or to serve him . " " It is so far to the Harbour , that no good might come of a messenger ; and the money paid him would be thrown away , too . " " I dare ...
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Página 105 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 120 - Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; — upon the waterv plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own. When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
Página 62 - 'arth's orbit has an inclination towards changes,' you say." "The changes in the seasons, sir, are owing to 'the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit.
Página 98 - To prayer; — for the glorious sun is gone, And the gathering darkness of night comes on ; Like a curtain from God's kind hand it flows To shade the couch where his children repose. Then kneel, while the watching stars are bright, And give your last thoughts to the Guardian of night.
Página 101 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers* served that were on the other side of the flood, t or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Página 120 - Roll on, thou deep and dark, blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Lord Byron. Man marks the earth with ruin; his control Stops with the shore : upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Página 210 - all work, and no play, makes Jack a dull boy...
Página 207 - In the name of God, amen. I, Ichabod Pratt, of the town of Southold, and county of Suffolk, and State of New York, being of failing bodily health, but of sound mind, do make and declare this to be my last will and testament.
Página 31 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Página 204 - Ye dart upon the deep, and straight is heard A wilder roar, and men grow pale, and pray ; Ye fling its floods around you, as a bird Flings o'er his shivering plumes the fountain's spray. See ! to the breaking mast the sailor clings ; Ye scoop the ocean to its briny springs, And take the mountain billow on your wings, And pile the wreck of navies round the bay.