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 viii
... present standard ; and a little similar change , where the antiquated grammatical , or rather anti - grammatical , construction presented any awkwardness . I have also divided the Narrative into chapters , for the convenience of resting ...
... present standard ; and a little similar change , where the antiquated grammatical , or rather anti - grammatical , construction presented any awkwardness . I have also divided the Narrative into chapters , for the convenience of resting ...
Side ix
... present day . It would be forestalling the interest of the reader , were any closer remarks made here on the events of the Narrative ; but I cannot refrain from point- ing attention to the home - policy of the upright Governor of ...
... present day . It would be forestalling the interest of the reader , were any closer remarks made here on the events of the Narrative ; but I cannot refrain from point- ing attention to the home - policy of the upright Governor of ...
Side xiv
... present state of his 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 ...
... present state of his 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 ...
Side 3
... present of a Virginia nightingale ; a beautiful red bird , about the size of a thrush , with a feathery crest . " This , " said I to myself , " is for my aunt . " I should have liked to have pro- cured another for Eliza Goldsmith ; but ...
... present of a Virginia nightingale ; a beautiful red bird , about the size of a thrush , with a feathery crest . " This , " said I to myself , " is for my aunt . " I should have liked to have pro- cured another for Eliza Goldsmith ; but ...
Side 10
... present , you never missed any other creature ; that you were even more proud of her approbation than of dear Mr. Goldsmith's ; that you were always imagining how you could give her a pleasure . When she was sick , don't you remember ...
... present , you never missed any other creature ; that you were even more proud of her approbation than of dear Mr. Goldsmith's ; that you were always imagining how you could give her a pleasure . When she was sick , don't you remember ...
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