The Disenthralled: Being Reminiscences in the Life of the Author : His Fall from Respectability by Intemperance--and Rescue by the Washingtonian Society : Containing, Also, His Life as a Sailor, Shipwreck, and Residence Among the Savage Tribes in New-Holland : Remarks on AmericaFrom the Press of N. Tuttle, 1845 - 78 pàgines |
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Pàgina 78 - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Pàgina 2 - HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE HEIRS OF GEORGE C. DEMPSEY Entered, according to Act of Congress, In the year 1868, by JN STEARNS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Pàgina 30 - DEAR SIR: — I regret that circumstances over which I have no control prevent my attendance this year at Minneapolis.
Pàgina 28 - Oh ! there's not in this wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet. My bosom is not wide enough for water to mate in it, so by my father's son, I'll let the brandy mate the water. [Mixes one glass.] Och ! how beautiful they amalgamate ; see how, the pair of them are laughing — it's a pity they should ever be drowned, och...
Pàgina 64 - With a quickness that none but sailors know, all hands were on deck ; and oh ! how changed had that night become ; the clouds were black and lowering, the moon had hid herself from our view, nor did a solitary star shine forth to cheer us. " Pay out cable on your starboard anchor there,
Pàgina 67 - A wave takes her — she is driven shorewards; again she is borne back by the resistless fury of the returning tide. Oh ! what a moment of painful anxiety ! They are lost — no — another wave takes her, and she is driven ashore. The crew jump from her and secure their line to a tree. A hawser was then hauled ashore and made securely fast ; and such of the crew as wished, got off by it...
Pàgina 65 - ... being no doubt driven in. She soon after fetched up solidly, and though we could not see a foot from us, we had no doubt we were ashore. All that could, had now been done, save to lash our chests, and this task accomplished, we had...
Pàgina 65 - We could soon tell by the ship's motion, thatshe was off the bank where she struck, and was again dragging; our situation at this moment was awful beyond description. We were enveloped in total darkness ; the rain fell in torrents, the spray was washed over our foreyard, the waves lashed themselves ajound in terrific fury, and seemed each moment yawning to receive their prey.
Pàgina 67 - I had washed my clothes, and had a good deal of them hanging in the rigging when the gale came on ; consequently lost them. My shoes also were swept off the deck by the water washing through our scuppers.