Struggles Through Life: Exemplified in the Various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Harriott ....author, 1808 |
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Pàgina xx
... Sumatra ; water - spouts CHAPTER XLIV . 195 Arrive at Acheen ; introduced to the sultan ; large cannon half sunk in the earth , evidence of greater strength formerly ; an enormous gun over the gate - way of the palace CHAPTER XLV . 199 ...
... Sumatra ; water - spouts CHAPTER XLIV . 195 Arrive at Acheen ; introduced to the sultan ; large cannon half sunk in the earth , evidence of greater strength formerly ; an enormous gun over the gate - way of the palace CHAPTER XLV . 199 ...
Pàgina xxi
... Sumatra to the Cape of Good Hope ; destructive effects of the sea - scurvy ; a white squall off the Cape ; sickly and weak state of our ship's crew ; their rapid recovery by drinking new wine 228 CHAPTER LI . Invited to live at the Cape ...
... Sumatra to the Cape of Good Hope ; destructive effects of the sea - scurvy ; a white squall off the Cape ; sickly and weak state of our ship's crew ; their rapid recovery by drinking new wine 228 CHAPTER LI . Invited to live at the Cape ...
Pàgina 195
... Sumatra , for the better convenience of a passage to England . So far as making a for- tune may be reckoned productive of greater hap- piness , I am persuaded I might have done in- finitely better if I had suffered myself to be per ...
... Sumatra , for the better convenience of a passage to England . So far as making a for- tune may be reckoned productive of greater hap- piness , I am persuaded I might have done in- finitely better if I had suffered myself to be per ...
Pàgina 196
... Sumatra ; and in this ship I took my passage for Bencoolen . Captain P , who commanded her , assured me , that , though he purposed trading all along the coast , as circumstances might encourage , in the Malay as well as the English and ...
... Sumatra ; and in this ship I took my passage for Bencoolen . Captain P , who commanded her , assured me , that , though he purposed trading all along the coast , as circumstances might encourage , in the Malay as well as the English and ...
Pàgina 199
... Sumatra , I found an order of men dis- tinct from any I had ever met with before . Com- pared with the inhabitants of India proper , across the Bay , they appeared completely sa- vage , ferocious , and exceedingly sanguinary in all ...
... Sumatra , I found an order of men dis- tinct from any I had ever met with before . Com- pared with the inhabitants of India proper , across the Bay , they appeared completely sa- vage , ferocious , and exceedingly sanguinary in all ...
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Acheen acquainted acres America appeared arrived attended Bahamas believe Bencoolen better boat called Cape captain CHAPTER Colonel White conceive Connecticut considerable considered continued distance dollars endeavoured England English Exuma farm farmers farther favour feet fire French frequently friends gentleman Gentoo give half honour horse India Indian Indian corn inhabitants island kind knew labour land likewise live Malay Masulipatam ment miles morning nearly neighbours never Newport obliged observed officers opinion passage passed pleasant poor Poughkeepsie procure proved Providence purchase received rich river River Thames sail seen sent Sepoys servants settled shew shillings ship shore Sir William Johnson situation slavery slaves soil soon South Amboy strong Sumatra tavern thing thought tion travelling vessel white squall White's Town whole wife wine wish York young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 239 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pàgina 22 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Pàgina 239 - Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
Pàgina 202 - Butler's famous tautology that " . . . . the value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring...
Pàgina 21 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Bigbone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians; that the Great Man above, looking down and seeing this, was so enraged that he seized his lightning, descended on the earth, seated himself on a...
Pàgina 27 - ... of the United States, and still more so to strangers. A dollar, in sterling money, is four shillings and six pence ; but, in the New-England states, the currency is six shillings to a dollar ; in New- York, eight shillings ; in New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, seven shillings and six pence ; in Virginia, six shillings ; in North Carolina, eight shillings ; and, in South Carolina and Georgia, four shillings and eight pence. All agree that the evil is great and wants to be remedied ; but...
Pàgina 258 - ... continue undisturbed ; should Congress assemble for a number of years, until the national bank and other public offices necessarily draw the moneyed interests to it, the city of Washington, in the course of a century, may form a focus of attraction to mercantile and trading people sufficient to make a beautiful commercial city deserving the name of its founder; but I apprehend so many hazards as to be most unwilling to venture any part of my property in the undertaking.
Pàgina 22 - ... among them, till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who, presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell, but missing one, at length it wounded him in the side, whereon, springing round, he bounded over the...
Pàgina 312 - ... it being more than two feet above the level of the rest of the island. This wall was more than two miles and a half in circumference, and carried over several deep rills or outlets. Thus far, we had gone on rapidly, and safely: the two ends of the wall were about...
Pàgina 348 - Lastly, the poor man places some of his comfort (often, it must be acknowledged, too much of it) in social and convivial enjoyments. The bare mention of these, in a poor man, strikes many with the idea of great criminality, and the appellations of drunken and idle are liberally bestowed with great indignation. To get drunk, and squander at an ale-house what ought to maintain his family, is undoubtedly very wrong in a poor man : but that, after a hard day's or week's labour, he should love to relax...