Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Հատոր 12 |
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... gave out that they had advanced only fifteen ; and he uniformly employed the same artifice of reckoning short during the whole voyage . By the 14th of September , the fleet was above two hundred leagues to the west of the Canary Islands ...
... gave out that they had advanced only fifteen ; and he uniformly employed the same artifice of reckoning short during the whole voyage . By the 14th of September , the fleet was above two hundred leagues to the west of the Canary Islands ...
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... gave out that they had proceeded only five hundred and eighty - four leagues ; and , fortunately for Columbus , neither his own pilot nor those of the other ships had skill sufficient to correct this error , and discover the deceit ...
... gave out that they had proceeded only five hundred and eighty - four leagues ; and , fortunately for Columbus , neither his own pilot nor those of the other ships had skill sufficient to correct this error , and discover the deceit ...
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... gave such pro- visions as they had , and some cotton yarn , the only commodity of value that they could produce . Towards evening , Columbus returned to his ship , accompanied by many of the islanders in their boats , which they called ...
... gave such pro- visions as they had , and some cotton yarn , the only commodity of value that they could produce . Towards evening , Columbus returned to his ship , accompanied by many of the islanders in their boats , which they called ...
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... gave them names . Here the appearance of the ships and the Spaniards produced the same astonishment among the natives as at San Salvador . Receiving to his inquiries after gold the same invariable answer , that it lay to the south , he ...
... gave them names . Here the appearance of the ships and the Spaniards produced the same astonishment among the natives as at San Salvador . Receiving to his inquiries after gold the same invariable answer , that it lay to the south , he ...
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... gave it . As he could neither meet with the Pinta , nor have any intercourse with the inhabitants , who fled in great conster- nation towards the woods , he soon quitted St Nicholas ; and , sailing along the northern coast of the island ...
... gave it . As he could neither meet with the Pinta , nor have any intercourse with the inhabitants , who fled in great conster- nation towards the woods , he soon quitted St Nicholas ; and , sailing along the northern coast of the island ...
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admiral afterwards appeared Archipelago Arnaud arrived Bar-sur-Seine Bencoolen boat Captain Wilson circumstances coast colony Columbus crew delight Duke of Savoy Dutch duty enemy England English eyes father favourable fear feel Florence France French gave Grace Darling Grandville Guacanagari hand happy head heart Hispaniola honour hope hostages Hynish inhabitants Iona island Jacque Denoyer Java Javanese keepers kind knew labour land learned Lee Boo light-house Longstone look Lord Minto Madame Malay race miles mind morning mother native nature navigators never night Oban passed Pelew person Pharos poor possession prince prison Raffles received rock round sail sailors scene seemed seen shew ship shore Sir Stamford Sir Stamford Raffles Skerryvore soon Spain Staffa Sumatra things thought tion Toinette told took town valleys vessel village voyage Waldenses whole young youth
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Էջ 5 - And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there ! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they! The moping idiot, and the madman gay.
Էջ 25 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
Էջ 27 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.
Էջ 3 - Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire; Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th
Էջ 32 - Yet still for these we frame the tender strain, Still in our lays fond Corydons complain, And shepherds' boys their amorous pains reveal, The only pains, alas! they never feel. On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the Golden Age again, Must sleepy bards the nattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way?
Էջ 23 - And deeply plunges in th' adhesive ground ; Thence, but with pain, her slender foot she takes, While hope the mind as strength the frame forsakes : For when so full the cup of sorrow grows, Add but a drop, it instantly o'erflows.
Էջ 5 - Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides; Where the vile bands that bind the thatch are seen, And lath and mud are all that lie between; Save one dull pane, that, coarsely patch'd, gives way To the rude tempest, yet excludes the day: Here, on a matted flock, with dust o'erspread, The drooping wretch reclines his languid head; For him no hand the cordial cup applies...
Էջ 12 - And last, of vulgar tribes a countless crowd. First, let us view the form, the size, the dress; For these the manners, nay the mind, express: That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid; Those ample clasps, of solid metal made; The close-press'd leaves, unclosed for many an age; The dull red edging of the well-fill'd page; On the broad back the stubborn ridges roll'd, Where yet the title stands in tarnish'd gold...
Էջ 16 - October, after public prayers for success, he ordered the sails to be furled, and the ships to lie to, keeping strict watch, lest they should be driven ashore in the night. During this interval of suspense and expectation, no man shut his eyes, all kept upon deck, gazing intently towards that quarter where thev expected to discover the land, which had been so long the object of their wishes.
Էջ 7 - No longer truth, though shown in verse, disdain, But own the Village Life a life of pain. I too must yield, that oft amid these woes Are gleams of transient mirth and hours of sweet repose...