 | Henry Fielding - 1755 - 260 páginas
...unpardonable if I concluded it, without giving them the fatisfaction of hearing that the kitten at laft recovered, to the great joy of the good captain ; but to the great difappointment of fome of the failors, who afferted that the drowning a cat was the very fureft way... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 páginas
...tender passions of my readers: in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonable if I concluded it, without giving them the satisfaction of hearing...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind ; a supposition of which, though we have heard several plausible accounts, we will... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 páginas
...tender passions of my readers in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonable if I concluded it, without giving them the satisfaction of hearing...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind; a supposition of which, though we have heard several plausible accounts, we will not... | |
 | 1881 - 234 páginas
...serve as corroborative evidence : — From Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 1775, page 104 : "The kitten at last recovered, to the great joy of...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind." [There is a chapter devoted to " The Sea and Seamen " in Credulities, Past and Present,... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 448 páginas
...tender passions of my readers in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonable if I concluded it without giving them the satisfaction of hearing...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind ; a supposition of which, though we have heard several plausible accounts, we will... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 páginas
...with the Portuguese friar, in which innocent amusement they had passed about two-thirds of their time. at last recovered, to the great joy of the good captain...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind ; a supposition of which, though we have heard several plausible accounts, we will... | |
 | 1882 - 916 páginas
...belief, and drowning one will surely raise a tempest. Fielding, in a voyage to Lisbon (1775), says, "The kitten at last recovered, to the great joy of...disappointment of some of the sailors, who asserted lhat the drowning of a cat was the very surest way of raising a favorable wind." Flaws on the surface... | |
 | Fletcher S. Bassett - 1885 - 520 páginas
...certainly bring a gale, in sailor belief, and drowning one will surely raise a tempest. J Fielding says, " The kitten at last recovered, to the great joy of...some of the sailors, who asserted that the drowning of a cat was the very surest way of raising a favorable wind." § Cheever says: "We took on board at... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1892 - 320 páginas
...tender passions of my readers, in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonable if I concluded it, without giving them the satisfaction of hearing...drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind : a supposition of which, though we have heard several plausible accounts, we will... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893 - 320 páginas
...the tender passions of my readers in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonabb if I concluded it without giving them the satisfaction of hearing that the kitten at last recovered, to the greit joy of the good captain, but to the great disappointment of some of the sailors, who asserted... | |
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But, as I have, perhaps, a little too wantonly endeavoured to raise the tender passions of my readers in this narrative, I should think myself unpardonable if I concluded it without giving them the satisfaction of hearing that the kitten at last recovered,... 
