...very top of the tree. Accordingly Capt. Suckling was written to. " What," said he in his answer, " has poor Horatio " done, who is so weak, that he,...knock " off his head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words, that Horatio was not the boy whom his uncle would have chosen to bring...

...very top of the tree. Accordingly Capt. Suckling was written to. " What," said he in his answer, " has poor Horatio " done, who is so weak, that he,...knock " off his head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words, that Horatio was not the boy whom his uncle would have chosen to bring...

...chosen, because of the delicacy of his constitution. " What," said he, in his answer, " has poor Horace done, who is so weak, that he above all the rest should...him come; and the first time we go into action, a cannon-ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." Yet Horace had already given such...

...provide for one of his nephews ; but on receiving this application, he replied, " What has poor Horace done, who is so weak, that he above all the rest should...him come ; and the first time we go into action, a cannon-ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." The apparent delicacy of his constitution...

...very top of the tree. Accordingly Capt. Suckling was written to. " What," said he in his answer, " has poor Horatio done, who is so " weak, that he,...knock off" his " head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words, that Horatio was not the boy whom his uncle would have chosen to bring...

...very top of the tree. Accordingly, Capt. Suckling was written to. " What," said he in his answer, " has poor Horatio done, who is so weak, that he, above...him come, and the first time we go into action, a cannon-ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words,...

...the very top of the tree. Accordingly, Capt. Suckling was written to. "What," said he in his answer, "has poor Horatio done, who is so weak, that he, above...him come, and the first time we go into action, a cannon-ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." It is manifest from these words,...

...delicacy of his frame and constitution, to encounter the hardships of a seaman's life. "What," said he, "has poor Horatio done, who is so weak that he, above all the rest, should be sent to rough it at sea?—But let him come; and the first time we go into action a cannonball may knock off his head...

...eight surviving children. No 1. в his uncle consented to take him, observing at the same time—" What has poor Horatio done, who is so weak, that he, above...let him come ; and the first time we go into action, •л cannon ball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once." It thus clearly appears that...

...What,' said captain Suckling, when he heard of his wish to go to sea, ' what has poor Horatio done, that he, above all the rest, should be sent to rough it at sea ?' After various voyages in merchant-vessels, he was raised to the rank of post-captain ; and...