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... hope - that our loss would be a sore affliction to our parents , as well as to our shipmates and other friends ; and we were each fully sensible that to die then were merely to indulge in a delightful sleep , almost too attractive to ...
... hope - that our loss would be a sore affliction to our parents , as well as to our shipmates and other friends ; and we were each fully sensible that to die then were merely to indulge in a delightful sleep , almost too attractive to ...
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... hope of final success ; and I began to regret that I had bound myself to encumbrances but for which I might have insured my own safety , -when I suddenly fell flat on my face . For the immediate cause of this , in my then almost ...
... hope of final success ; and I began to regret that I had bound myself to encumbrances but for which I might have insured my own safety , -when I suddenly fell flat on my face . For the immediate cause of this , in my then almost ...
Side 18
... hope it won't be my watch , that's all . ' Oh Master Codrington , it's more serious than you think . ' Seeing that he was really uneasy , from his adding that he wished he could speak to Lord Howe about it , I said , ' Why not send in ...
... hope it won't be my watch , that's all . ' Oh Master Codrington , it's more serious than you think . ' Seeing that he was really uneasy , from his adding that he wished he could speak to Lord Howe about it , I said , ' Why not send in ...
Side 42
... hope may take place ; and though the labour may be Herculean , I trust the success may be as complete as his was . ' Orion , ' dear old ' Orion , ' sailed yesterday I think better than anything excepting ' Revenge , ' whose superiority ...
... hope may take place ; and though the labour may be Herculean , I trust the success may be as complete as his was . ' Orion , ' dear old ' Orion , ' sailed yesterday I think better than anything excepting ' Revenge , ' whose superiority ...
Side 43
... hope he may that I may once in my life see a commander - in - chief endeavouring to make a hard and disagreeable service as palatable to those serving under him as circumstances will admit of , and keeping up by his example that ...
... hope he may that I may once in my life see a commander - in - chief endeavouring to make a hard and disagreeable service as palatable to those serving under him as circumstances will admit of , and keeping up by his example that ...
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Side 148 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.