Memoirs of Captain James Wilson: Containing an Account of His Enterprises and Sufferings in India, His Conversion to Christianity, His Missionary Voyage to the South Seas, and His Peaceful and Triumphant DeathT. Hamilton, 1819 - 286 Seiten |
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... obtain their liberty : to induce them to which , these horrible severities were inflicted on them , and to escape these , at any rate , some of the poor creatures consented . But the cap- tain rejected these offers with disdain ; • and ...
... obtain their liberty : to induce them to which , these horrible severities were inflicted on them , and to escape these , at any rate , some of the poor creatures consented . But the cap- tain rejected these offers with disdain ; • and ...
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... obtain money from these poor villagers , at the expense of their captive . In consequence of the dreadful nature of this march , exposed by day to the heat , and cooped up in a damp prison by night , without clothes , and almost with ...
... obtain money from these poor villagers , at the expense of their captive . In consequence of the dreadful nature of this march , exposed by day to the heat , and cooped up in a damp prison by night , without clothes , and almost with ...
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... , they provided themselves with a small piece of wood rudely formed into a spoon , which no one was suffered to use but in his turn ; and such was the keenness of hunger and his eagerness to obtain the food 22 MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN WILSON .
... , they provided themselves with a small piece of wood rudely formed into a spoon , which no one was suffered to use but in his turn ; and such was the keenness of hunger and his eagerness to obtain the food 22 MEMOIRS OF CAPTAIN WILSON .
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... obtain the food , that his jaws often snapped the spoon by an involuntary motion , as though forced together by a spring . The noble and athletic Highlanders . were among the first victims . The flux and dropsy daily diminished their ...
... obtain the food , that his jaws often snapped the spoon by an involuntary motion , as though forced together by a spring . The noble and athletic Highlanders . were among the first victims . The flux and dropsy daily diminished their ...
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... obtained but a scanty provi- sion , which his long captivity had not much encreased , though he received the arrears of his pay . He accordingly ship- ped himself as first mate of the Intelli- gence , captain Pennington , for Bencoolen ...
... obtained but a scanty provi- sion , which his long captivity had not much encreased , though he received the arrears of his pay . He accordingly ship- ped himself as first mate of the Intelli- gence , captain Pennington , for Bencoolen ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 125 - Self was obnoxious, and good works he had none, for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do.
Seite 108 - Father's covenant purposes : for whom he did foreknow, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son...
Seite 150 - Strong feeling is naturally contagious ; and if, as the wise man observes, as ' iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the countenance of a man his friend...
Seite 142 - If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Seite 101 - That such monuments, and such actions or observances, be instituted, and do commence from the time that the matter of fact was done.
Seite 273 - Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. 22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
Seite 172 - Thames, having for their flag, hoisted at the mizen-top-gallant-mast-head, three doves argent, on a purple field, bearing olive branches in their bills.
Seite 260 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.