Sir Edward Seward's Narrative of His Shipwreck: And Consequent Discovery of Certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a Detail of Many Extraordinary and Highly Interesting Events in His Life, from the Year 1733 to 1749, as Written in His Own Diary, Bind 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 |
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Side vii
... mind to set in order the narrative of my life , to amuse me the while . For , in so doing , I seem to live my days over again with her who was every thing to me on earth . And in this I not only find consolation , but sometimes feel a ...
... mind to set in order the narrative of my life , to amuse me the while . For , in so doing , I seem to live my days over again with her who was every thing to me on earth . And in this I not only find consolation , but sometimes feel a ...
Side xiv
... mind and feelings . Projects new undertakings - works at them daily CHAP . IX . Page 196 They descry a canoe approaching the island - how they act on the occasion incidents attendant on their first intercourse with the strangers - - - a ...
... mind and feelings . Projects new undertakings - works at them daily CHAP . IX . Page 196 They descry a canoe approaching the island - how they act on the occasion incidents attendant on their first intercourse with the strangers - - - a ...
Side 5
... mind . " I thought it right to do as he wished , and instantly read the letter , which , although from a near kins- man , was quite a letter of business ; proposing that I should join him at Honduras , and that he would give me a share ...
... mind . " I thought it right to do as he wished , and instantly read the letter , which , although from a near kins- man , was quite a letter of business ; proposing that I should join him at Honduras , and that he would give me a share ...
Side 6
... mind on the proposal of going to Honduras . I said , I had been turning the subject over in my mind , and found that I could say nothing about it . " What dost mean by that ? " exclaimed my uncle , testily . " I mean , sir , " said I ...
... mind on the proposal of going to Honduras . I said , I had been turning the subject over in my mind , and found that I could say nothing about it . " What dost mean by that ? " exclaimed my uncle , testily . " I mean , sir , " said I ...
Side 8
... mind some of the old people , and , among others , my honoured father , sit- ting beneath the venerable elm there , in its full matu- rity of three hundred years . I believed then that the world could not boast such a man , nor such a ...
... mind some of the old people , and , among others , my honoured father , sit- ting beneath the venerable elm there , in its full matu- rity of three hundred years . I believed then that the world could not boast such a man , nor such a ...
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