Murphy's Master, and Other Stories, Band 1

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Tinsley Bros., 1873
 

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Seite 223 - Why that's my own island !" O, it's a snug little island ! A right little, tight little island, Search the globe round, none can be found So happy as this little island.
Seite 29 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield, Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men...
Seite 140 - Pirates, they would not have the punishment less than death, the fear of which kept some dastardly rogues honest; that many of those who are now cheating the widows and orphans, and oppressing their poor neighbours who have no money to obtain justice, would then rob at sea, and the ocean would be crowded with rogues like the land, and no merchant would venture out; so that the trade in a little time would not be worth following.
Seite 241 - The Married Life of Anne of Austria, Queen of France, Mother of Louis XIV. ; and the History of Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. Historical Studies. From numerous Unpublished Sources. By MARTHA WALKER FREER. 2 vols. 8vo, 30s.
Seite 237 - A PAIR OF BLUE EYES. By the Author of " Under the Greenwood Tree," " Desperate Remedies,
Seite 196 - Nay," answered Robert firmly, "the point is rather, that however you might have succeeded in imposing upon your own poor ignorant people, you would not have gained a man with a head on his shoulders, or a heart in his breast, to join in so mad and atrocious a scheme. Not one of them, in the first place, would have moved a finger without their master's bidding; and you will never persuade me that a gentleman like Mr. Kavanagh, however imprudent and misguided, would have consented to become a thief...
Seite 143 - ... stock, and for lesser hurts proportionably. X. The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize ; the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and a quarter.

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