The Subaltern's Log-book: Including Anecdotes of Well Known Military Characters ...J. & J. Harper. Sold by Collins and Hannay, Collins and Company, G. and C. Carvill, 1829 |
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The Subaltern's Log Book: Including Anecdotes of Well Known Military ... George Gleig Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
The Subaltern's Log Book: Including Anecdotes of Well Known Military ... George Gleig Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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agreeable amused appearance arrived asked attended better breakfast brought cabin called Captain clothes coach Colonel comfortable command Court Martial dancing dear Depôt dine dinner dressed Duke of Kent duty England feel fellow Fort Pitt frequently friends gave gentleman gentlemanly give Gretna Green half a crown happy heard heart honour horse hour house I lived India inquired invited Ireland kind Kistna land landlady leave length Lieutenant lived looking Madras manner miles military months morning mutton chop native never niddy noddy night o'clock observed obtained oyster sauce palanquin party person play port wine Portable soup portunities pounds quarters received recollect recruiting service regiment replied sent Sergeant servants sick certificate Sir Hudson soldiers thing thought told took town tremely visits voyage walked whist wife wine wish woman young lady
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Seite 42 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Seite 35 - Ceylon, who during the voyage paid her the most marked attention ; in such an intercourse, unless feelings of propriety, and a sense of moral and social obligation are constantly uppermost, the result may be easily foreseen. The slightest circumstances are noticed on board ship, and many try to employ themselves so little, as to have much time to spare in noticing the faults and peculiarities of their fellow passengers. The flirtation of the two individuals whom I have just mentioned, became the...
Seite 34 - ... to India, a fine, lively, blooming girl, and she had been scarcely a month on shore, when she was proposed for, and married. Age and appearance are, in the eyes of some ladies who go to India, of little consequence, provided the suitor has a good fortune, and possesses a high civil situation.
Seite 35 - The cabin was entered, and the beautiful form of the ladj, in the last agonies, was extended on the floor. She pointed to a small bottle, and closed her eyes for ever. The next day she was brought up on a grating, with the Union dag over her body, to be committed to the deep.
Seite 35 - The gentleman possessed an appearance, by some considered effeminate : he had those frank, winning manners, that find their way to the unoccupied heart of a thoughtless woman. He was esteemed a well meaning young man, who would not do any action that was admitted to be dishonourable...
Seite 35 - ... observation and opinion of the world — that may for a time prevent her falling ; the epitome of that world on board ship devours most voraciously every slander injurious to woman's fame, and watches with the eyes of an Argus, for (he slightest cause to impugn her innocence and purity.
Seite 120 - A celebrated writer has said that the biography of any nmn, if faithfully composed, could not ('nil t» prove interesting and instructive. It is in the persuasion that the portion of mine now presented to the public contained very ample materials, that I venture to hope the uninitiated may derive advantage from the large experience a...
Seite 35 - On coming on the quarter-deck one night, after reading below, I observed many of the passengers and ship officers in a low whispering discussion ; I walked up to them and inquired what had taken place to occasion this meeting.
Seite 35 - Oman she is going headlong to destruction, and that what is now her delight and boast, unless tempered with judgment and good sense, will shortly make her an object of pity to the feeling and a by- word to the malicious.