Paul Jones : a Romance, Volumen3Oliver & Boyd, 1826 |
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... ground , with full hope of vic- tory . He shrugged up his shoulders so high , that his head seemed in danger of disappearing between them , and observed , " Ah ! Robin de Macgubb , you hold a strange opinion about the beauty of nature ...
... ground , with full hope of vic- tory . He shrugged up his shoulders so high , that his head seemed in danger of disappearing between them , and observed , " Ah ! Robin de Macgubb , you hold a strange opinion about the beauty of nature ...
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... grounds his argument . Speak , Monsieur Phi- losopher Baboon , -aid brother Monboddo , —your empire is about to be re - established on earth , and you and all your tribes will eat your nuts in free- dom if you munch them in the spirit ...
... grounds his argument . Speak , Monsieur Phi- losopher Baboon , -aid brother Monboddo , —your empire is about to be re - established on earth , and you and all your tribes will eat your nuts in free- dom if you munch them in the spirit ...
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... ground ; and , if you will condescend to stay , you will see them beautifully by torch - light . " - " I thank you , my pretty dam- sel , " said Macgubb , " but I like not the dance in which dead men mingle . " - " O ! I thought , Sir ...
... ground ; and , if you will condescend to stay , you will see them beautifully by torch - light . " - " I thank you , my pretty dam- sel , " said Macgubb , " but I like not the dance in which dead men mingle . " - " O ! I thought , Sir ...
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... ground , with all his streamers and chaplets on , and excluding Paul the Scot , from his veracious can- vass . But when he comes again , he gives his own gazette the lie ; he forgets , whilst he is taunting a brave man with his ...
... ground , with all his streamers and chaplets on , and excluding Paul the Scot , from his veracious can- vass . But when he comes again , he gives his own gazette the lie ; he forgets , whilst he is taunting a brave man with his ...
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... ground . There was the young Abbe la Roache , with his handsome leg and his merry eye , who came to court to preach up self - denial and mortification of the flesh to giddy ladies like my- self . He had the salvation of weel - faured ...
... ground . There was the young Abbe la Roache , with his handsome leg and his merry eye , who came to court to preach up self - denial and mortification of the flesh to giddy ladies like my- self . He had the salvation of weel - faured ...
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Admiral American answered armed army battle beauty blood bonnie bosom bowed brave bravery bridle brow Caledonia cannon carronades Chevalier Chevalier Paul citizen command court dames deck deeds desert dropt Dutchess Empress enemy England English exclaimed eyes face Fayette feet fierce fight fire frae France freedom gallant Galwegian ground gude guillotine hand head heard heart honour horse huntress King la Fayette lady land liberty lips look Lord Dalveen Lord Thomas Louis Louis of Bourbon Macgubb maritime maun Mull native nature never noble Oczakow Oriflame Paul Jones Paul's pistols Prince Nassau proud islanders replied Paul Ricot rifle Russian savage Scotland Scottish seemed ship shot shouted side Silas sloop smile soldier speak spirit spoke stood Suwarrow sword thee thine thou art tree Turkish valley victory Vizier voice warrior warrow wild wilderness wind woods words Wulik young
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Página 182 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold.
Página 152 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 62 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Página 94 - Amidst the strife of fratricidal foes ; Her birth-star was the light of burning plains ;* Her baptism is the weight of blood that flows From kindred hearts — the blood of British veins— And famine tracks her steps, and pestilential pains.
Página 92 - ... youthful lawbreaker to suffer a penalty in requital for the harm which he has inflicted, through his action, to both the legal order and to the victim; rather it consists in saving the juvenile delinquent from himself, in providing him with that power of moral restraint which he lacks, in protecting him for his own sake as well as for the sake...
Página 48 - David devoted the flesh of the monster to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field. The Philistine scorned and bullied him, stamped mightily with both his feet, and at length fell like a mass of clay, affording a splendid termination to the piece. And then the virgins sang : ' Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.
Página 88 - I am of the left bank myself:— are ye a left-bank man, my friend ?"—" Thou uncivilized cub," said a brother warrior, " didst thou not hear that he was nursed on the Delaware,— the princely Delaware, whose sons are the saviours of the thirteen States ?—I am from the bank of the stream myself, else I had forborne my boast."—
Página 90 - England be cursed continually with this hardness !" exclaimed a wild warrior from the back-settlements, who, nursed when a child by the Indians, and living by the rifle and the trap, had caught something of the inflated tone of the native tribes; " may the heart of England never yield, may it insult, injure, and oppress us, till all remembrance of descent is effaced in our breasts. The wand of peace is...
Página 85 - I be flogged then with a thong from the hide of John Bull's back !"—" Let us scalp them, man and mother's son," said a half-blood from the sources of the Delaware; " the warriors of my mother's tribe get three dollars each for the scalps of Englishmen."—" Thou art a savage, and deservest not to live in a free State...