Newton Forster; or, The merchant service, by the author of 'The king's own'.James Cochrane and Company, 11, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1832 |
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... answer to his former epistles on the subject , he presumed that they had miscarried , and had therefore been induced , in consequence of the difficulties which he laboured under , to send his daughters out to his kind protection . The ...
... answer to his former epistles on the subject , he presumed that they had miscarried , and had therefore been induced , in consequence of the difficulties which he laboured under , to send his daughters out to his kind protection . The ...
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... . - Plotted with their father , I'll answer for , with the hopes of getting husbands . Tell them , sir , that I'll see them d - d first ! -- Swindling scoundrel ! -first cheats me out of a thousand 10 NEWTON FORSTER ;
... . - Plotted with their father , I'll answer for , with the hopes of getting husbands . Tell them , sir , that I'll see them d - d first ! -- Swindling scoundrel ! -first cheats me out of a thousand 10 NEWTON FORSTER ;
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... answer in the affirmative , and more sorry to be forced to impart the cause . ' Newton then entered into a detail of what had passed at the colonel's house . Isabel listened to it with attention , her sisters with impatience , Miss ...
... answer in the affirmative , and more sorry to be forced to impart the cause . ' Newton then entered into a detail of what had passed at the colonel's house . Isabel listened to it with attention , her sisters with impatience , Miss ...
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... answer for it . We must not surrender up millions to these French scoundrels without a tussle . " " I should hope not , " replied Mathews ; " but that big fellow will make a general average among our tea cannisters , I expect , when we ...
... answer for it . We must not surrender up millions to these French scoundrels without a tussle . " " I should hope not , " replied Mathews ; " but that big fellow will make a general average among our tea cannisters , I expect , when we ...
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... answered with enthusiastic cheers . That Admiral Linois might have supposed , pre- vious to the engagement , that some of the British ships were men - of - war , is probable ; but that he knew otherwise after they had commenced action ...
... answered with enthusiastic cheers . That Admiral Linois might have supposed , pre- vious to the engagement , that some of the British ships were men - of - war , is probable ; but that he knew otherwise after they had commenced action ...
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acquaintance Admiral Linois ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Amber amusement Ansell appearance arrived ascertain Bombay Castle broadside brother Nicholas Captain Drawlock Captain Oughton carriage colonel command conversazione corvette daughter dear deck delight dinner Doctor Feasible Doctor Plausible door Enderby English seamen father feel fleet GEORGE CRUIKSHANK girl guns hand happy heard hope hour HUMPHRY CLINKER husband India Indiamen Isabel Revel John Forster JOHN GALT Julie de Fontanges leave Madame de Fontanges Major Clavering Marquis de Fontanges marriage married minutes Miss Revel Monsieur de Fontanges nephew never Newton Forster observed officers old lawyer party passage home pirate poop quarter received recollect remained replied Newton replied Nicholas rigging ROBINSON CRUSOE round sail ship ship's soon stairs taffrails thing tion trust uncle vessel voyage wife William Avelyn wind Windsor Castle wine wish wounded young ladies
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Seite 151 - No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Seite 136 - Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.
Seite 113 - Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme •; Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering step and slow : This soon too rude an exercise they find...
Seite 14 - Then there were sighs, the deeper for suppression, And stolen glances, sweeter for the theft, And burning blushes, though for no transgression, Tremblings when met, and restlessness when left...
Seite 74 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee, Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance!
Seite 251 - Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?
Seite 251 - ... such as he has assigned to his hero. Be this as it may, society is for ever indebted to the memory of De Foe for his production of a work, in which the ways of Providence are simply and pleasingly vindicated, and a lasting and useful moral is conveyed through the channel of an interesting and delightful story.
Seite 27 - Rich in the gems of India's gaudy zone, And plunder piled from kingdoms not their own, Degenerate trade ! thy minions could despise The heart-born anguish of a thousand cries ; -Could lock, with impious hands, their teeming store, While...
Seite 201 - Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here ; Passions of prouder name befriend us less. Joy has her tears ; and transport has her death : Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits and serenes...
Seite 251 - by what charm it is that these ' Surprising Adventures' should have instantly pleased, and always pleased, it will be found, that few books have ever so naturally mingled amusement with instruction. The attention is fixed, either by the simplicity of the narration, or by the variety of the incidents ; the heart...