Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 5Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1831 |
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... more so , with shame be it spoken , than most nations , who have all the advantages of a liberal and christian education . There is yet one observation more , which , we hope , will not be thought improper here ; which is , PREFACE . xi.
... more so , with shame be it spoken , than most nations , who have all the advantages of a liberal and christian education . There is yet one observation more , which , we hope , will not be thought improper here ; which is , PREFACE . xi.
Strona 13
... hope , it will be no ways improper to inform my readers , that I was not fourteen years of age when these heavy misfortunes first befell me ; so that my youth , as well as want of knowledge in the Madagascar language , rendered me ...
... hope , it will be no ways improper to inform my readers , that I was not fourteen years of age when these heavy misfortunes first befell me ; so that my youth , as well as want of knowledge in the Madagascar language , rendered me ...
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... hopes , by indulging me in the choice I had so foolishly and ungratefully made , in direct oppo- sition to my duty , and the repeated solicitations of my most affectionate friends : thus did this perverseness of mine bring with it its ...
... hopes , by indulging me in the choice I had so foolishly and ungratefully made , in direct oppo- sition to my duty , and the repeated solicitations of my most affectionate friends : thus did this perverseness of mine bring with it its ...
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... hope , or rather to be mo- rally assured , that he had obtained his desire ; the ship being safe at anchor within half a dozen miles , and in sight of the place . But how soon does Providence disappoint us , and interrupt our designs ...
... hope , or rather to be mo- rally assured , that he had obtained his desire ; the ship being safe at anchor within half a dozen miles , and in sight of the place . But how soon does Providence disappoint us , and interrupt our designs ...
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... Hope . Our leak gained upon us more and more , and it was with great difficulty we kept her above water . Our men were ... hopes . However , at length , I plainly discovered a white cliff and a smoke at a dis- tance from it , whereupon I ...
... Hope . Our leak gained upon us more and more , and it was with great difficulty we kept her above water . Our men were ... hopes . However , at length , I plainly discovered a white cliff and a smoke at a dis- tance from it , whereupon I ...
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