A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises, Zväzok 1John Owen, 1843 - 244 strán (strany) |
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advantage American appeared arrived Batavia Beaver boat Boston breeze brig Calcutta Callao canoes Canton Cape Captain cause chief mate Chilian circumstances coast command consequence Copenhagen course crew deck departure desired despatched embarked engaged English enterprise escape evidence experienced favorable fortune freight frigate gale Governor guard Guayaquil Hamburgh hope hundred immediately Indians induced inhabitants island Isle of Bourbon Isle of France lade land leaving less letter Lima loss lying mate merchant miles months morning muskets natives night o'clock object observed obtained officer Padre passage passed perceived Pisco point of sailing port possessed present proceed procure prospect purchased ready received remained requisite Rouissillon sail San Blas sea otters sent Shaler ship shore skins soon Spanish succeeded supply taken Talcahuana thousand dollars tion took Tortola town Truxillo Valparaiso Viceroy voyage weather wind windward
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Strana 237 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Strana 210 - May we be just and true in all our dealings ; doing unto others as we would that they should do unto us.
Strana 71 - But a more hideous set of beings, in the form of men and women, I had never before seen. The fantastic manner in which many of the faces of the men were painted, was probably intended to give them a ferocious appearance; and some groups looked really as if they had escaped from the dominions of Satan himself.
Strana 98 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Strana 200 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit By losing of our prayer.
Strana 71 - ... and filled with the white down of birds. Another had the face divided with a horizontal line in the middle and painted black and white. The visage of a third was painted in checkers, etc. Most of them had little mirrors, before the acquisition of which they must have been dependent on each other for those correct touches of the pencil which are so much in vogue and which daily require more time than the toilet of a Parisian belle.
Strana 1 - Enterprises," published at Cambridge in 1842 : " In the ordinary course of commercial education in New England, boys are transferred from school to the merchant's desk, at the age of fourteen or fifteen. When I had reached my fourteenth year, it was my good fortune to be received into the counting-house of Elias Hasket Derby...
Strana 71 - I had never before seen. The fantastic manner in which many of the faces of the men were painted was probably intended to give them a ferocious appearance ; and some groups looked really as if they had escaped from the dominions of Satan himself. One had a perpendicular line dividing the two sides of the face, one side of which was painted red, the other black; with the hair daubed with grease and red ochre, and filled with the down of birds. Another had the face divided with a horizontal line in...
Strana xxxiv - ... returning to the owner four or five times the amount of the original capital. Mr. Derby used to call us his boys, and boast of our achievements ; and well might he do so, for it is not probable that the annals of the world can furnish another example of an enterprise of such magnitude, requiring the exercise of so much judgment and skill, being conducted by so young a man, aided only by still younger advisers, and accomplished with the most entire success.
Strana 234 - You say your God is powerful, wise, good, and that He will shield from harm those who truly worship and adore Him ?' This being assented to. then said the king. 'Give me proof by throwing yourself from yonder precipice, and while falling, call upon your God to shield you, and if you escape unharmed, I will then embrace the worship of your God.