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Page 376 - The Famous Historic of Fryer Bacon. Containing the wonderful! things that he did in his life: also the manner of his death ; with the lives and deaths of the two Conjurers, Bungye and Vandermast.
Page 299 - have all things at will If I were wise and would hold myself still, And meddle with no matters but to me pertaining, But ever to be true to God and my King. But I have such matters rowling in my pate, That I will and do I cannot tell what, etc.
Page 146 - these sprigs would smoke cigars and drink sherry with the coachmen in bar-rooms, and on the road; and, when bidding them farewell, would give them a guinea or a half-guinea, and shake them by the hand, so that these fellows, being low fellows, very naturally thought no small liquor of
Page 311 - Nelson he was the hero : he was, moreover, not an unkind man ; but the crew of the Bounty, mutinied against him, and set him half naked in an open boat, with certain of his men who remained faithful to him, and ran away with the ship. Their principal motive
Page 377 - un dia La Vibora a la simple Sanguijuela), " De tu boca reparo que se fia El hombre, y de la mia se rezela." La Chupona responde : " Ya, querida ; Mas no picamos de la misma suerte : Yo, si pico
Page 374 - A Description of Pitcairn's Island and its inhabitants. With an authentic account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty. New York,
Page 347 - of the individual who says :— " Wir waren wahrlich auch nicht dumm, Und thaten oft was wir nicht sollten ; Doch jetzo kehrt sich alles um und um, Und eben da wir's fest
Page 307 - to vice, in running after milk-maids, for example. Running after milk-maids is by no means an ungenteel rural diversion ; but let any one ask some respectable casuist (The Bishop of London for example), whether Lavengro was not far better employed, when in the country, at tinkering and smithery than he would have been in running after all the milk-maids in Cheshire,
Page 86 - in il. Now, have you understood me?" " I am afraid, indeed, it will all end ill," said Belle. " Hold your tongue," said I, " or you will make me lose my patience." "You have already made me nearly lose mine,
Page 146 - coachmen, from whom occasionally they would take lessons in driving as they sat beside them on the box, which post of honour any sprig of nobility who happened to take a place on a coach claimed as his unquestionable right; and then these sprigs would smoke cigars and drink sherry with the coachmen in bar-rooms, and on the road; and,