Masterman Ready; Or, The Wreck of the Pacific, Volumen1

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Henry G. Bohn, 1854 - 315 páginas
 

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Página 41 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Página 27 - ... from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
Página 313 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 2 - Peal on peal contending clash, On our heads fierce rain falls pouring, In our eyes blue lightnings flash. One wide water all around us, All above us one black sky...
Página 255 - The consequence was, that my mother had little or nothing to live upon ; but she found friends who assisted her, and she worked embroidery, and contrived to get on somehow until I was eight or nine years of age.
Página 222 - We can only decide that question by looking into history ; and history tells us that such is the fate of all nations. We must, therefore, expect that it will one day be the fate of our dear country. At present we see no appearance of it, any more than we perceive the latent seeds of death in our own bodies ; but still the time arrives when man must die, and so it must be with nations.

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