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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... stood in the eye of each , and my dear sister Maria kissed us both , weeping tears of joy . Mr. Goldsmith sat the while without speak- ing , but with a serious gravity which somewhat awed me ; yet his habitual kindness prevented his ...
... stood in the eye of each , and my dear sister Maria kissed us both , weeping tears of joy . Mr. Goldsmith sat the while without speak- ing , but with a serious gravity which somewhat awed me ; yet his habitual kindness prevented his ...
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... stood up , held his sides , and laughed and coughed , ex- claiming at intervals , " Ned , you will be the death of me ! " I knew not what to think of this ; but my aunt made him sit down , saying , " Mr. Seaward , our nephew is right ...
... stood up , held his sides , and laughed and coughed , ex- claiming at intervals , " Ned , you will be the death of me ! " I knew not what to think of this ; but my aunt made him sit down , saying , " Mr. Seaward , our nephew is right ...
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... stood , a place of great wealth and elegance ; and they say , like Sodom and Gomorrah , it became the seat of all licentiousness , and was swallowed up by an earthquake in 1692 . We had nothing to do at Port Royal , therefore did not ...
... stood , a place of great wealth and elegance ; and they say , like Sodom and Gomorrah , it became the seat of all licentiousness , and was swallowed up by an earthquake in 1692 . We had nothing to do at Port Royal , therefore did not ...
Side 27
... stood out to sea , and shaped our course to the southward , to keep clear of the Pedro shoals ; which , by the way , was not our proper route : we should have kept between those shoals and the island of Jamaica ; but it was the ...
... stood out to sea , and shaped our course to the southward , to keep clear of the Pedro shoals ; which , by the way , was not our proper route : we should have kept between those shoals and the island of Jamaica ; but it was the ...
Side 53
... any ; and asked me if I did not recollect that a large one , filled with water , had stood on the deck , and which , no doubt , had been washed overboard in the hurricane ; but probably E 3 1733. SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE . 53.
... any ; and asked me if I did not recollect that a large one , filled with water , had stood on the deck , and which , no doubt , had been washed overboard in the hurricane ; but probably E 3 1733. SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE . 53.
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