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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... passing , not only as to private but public occurrences . It is also equally correct in the topography of places on land , and in their maritime positions on the ocean . The islands which form so large an object of interest in the work ...
... passing , not only as to private but public occurrences . It is also equally correct in the topography of places on land , and in their maritime positions on the ocean . The islands which form so large an object of interest in the work ...
Side 2
... passed most of them with our benevolent pastor , my former kind schoolmaster , the Reverend Mr. William Goldsmith ; between whose amiable family and my father's , there had existed the kindest feeling from our infancy ; and these ...
... passed most of them with our benevolent pastor , my former kind schoolmaster , the Reverend Mr. William Goldsmith ; between whose amiable family and my father's , there had existed the kindest feeling from our infancy ; and these ...
Side 15
... passed the rest of the even- ing in conversing with Eliza . I told her , that she only had possession of my heart from my earliest years ; but that I did confess , I had not been con- scious of the extent and power of my affection until ...
... passed the rest of the even- ing in conversing with Eliza . I told her , that she only had possession of my heart from my earliest years ; but that I did confess , I had not been con- scious of the extent and power of my affection until ...
Side 16
... passed at Awbury ; but those days seemed to constitute my present existence . I arrived late in the evening at my uncle's , and was glad that he had gone to the club ; so , after taking tea quietly with my aunt , I retired to rest . In ...
... passed at Awbury ; but those days seemed to constitute my present existence . I arrived late in the evening at my uncle's , and was glad that he had gone to the club ; so , after taking tea quietly with my aunt , I retired to rest . In ...
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... passing Lundy Island ; and for ten days we proceeded jocundly ; but a long continuance of contrary wind , with rain soon after , as emblematic of human life , altered our condition and our feelings . Eliza was very sick , and the ...
... passing Lundy Island ; and for ten days we proceeded jocundly ; but a long continuance of contrary wind , with rain soon after , as emblematic of human life , altered our condition and our feelings . Eliza was very sick , and the ...
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