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... receiving a careful inspection from other portions of the expedition , our author started to survey the eastern portion of King's Sound . His re- searches were soon rewarded by the discovery of a deep bay , affording sufficient ...
... receiving a careful inspection from other portions of the expedition , our author started to survey the eastern portion of King's Sound . His re- searches were soon rewarded by the discovery of a deep bay , affording sufficient ...
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... received a careful survey , and the region round about , as well as Cape Upstart . Captain King's researches were carefully verified . The dreadful Torres Straits , the scene of so much cannibalism and shipwreck passed , our voyagers ...
... received a careful survey , and the region round about , as well as Cape Upstart . Captain King's researches were carefully verified . The dreadful Torres Straits , the scene of so much cannibalism and shipwreck passed , our voyagers ...
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... received on board , though the chief had escaped , Mr. Watson nobly paid , though unconstrained to do so , all he had agreed to give them for the release of the European . He proved to be one of the crew of the ship Stedcombe , all of ...
... received on board , though the chief had escaped , Mr. Watson nobly paid , though unconstrained to do so , all he had agreed to give them for the release of the European . He proved to be one of the crew of the ship Stedcombe , all of ...
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... received . The enthusiasm of our author is ad- mirably expressed in the following passage : - " The expedition , consisting of the two large boats and gig , with Captain Wickham , who was to show them the watering - place , left the ...
... received . The enthusiasm of our author is ad- mirably expressed in the following passage : - " The expedition , consisting of the two large boats and gig , with Captain Wickham , who was to show them the watering - place , left the ...
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... received from the natives , should be inclined to pass over far too lightly the crimes of which they were occasionally guilty . At the same time we cannot but express our surprise that he should carry this principle so far as to attempt ...
... received from the natives , should be inclined to pass over far too lightly the crimes of which they were occasionally guilty . At the same time we cannot but express our surprise that he should carry this principle so far as to attempt ...
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Page 195 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Page 191 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 195 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 447 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 193 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; So he shall open, and none shall shut; And he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 218 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 371 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 20 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 194 - 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 burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...