The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 1J. Cumberland, 1826 |
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... Captain Finucane , of the Gloucestershire Militia , died at Brighton in the autumn of 1800. The troops stationed there attended his funeral , and nothing could be more mournfully impressive than the procession to grave . The chief ...
... Captain Finucane , of the Gloucestershire Militia , died at Brighton in the autumn of 1800. The troops stationed there attended his funeral , and nothing could be more mournfully impressive than the procession to grave . The chief ...
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... captain of the vessel to the former place , demanding 60,000 piastres for the baron's ransom , and threatening that if not paid , they would tear his body to pieces . They obliged him , at the same time , to write to Baron Haller , and ...
... captain of the vessel to the former place , demanding 60,000 piastres for the baron's ransom , and threatening that if not paid , they would tear his body to pieces . They obliged him , at the same time , to write to Baron Haller , and ...
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... captain of the hulk refused to take the infant , saying he had no order to take children . Neither the entreaties of Mr. Simpson , nor the agonies of the poor woman , could prevail on the brutal cap- tain even to permit the babe to ...
... captain of the hulk refused to take the infant , saying he had no order to take children . Neither the entreaties of Mr. Simpson , nor the agonies of the poor woman , could prevail on the brutal cap- tain even to permit the babe to ...
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... captain , who carried him to Maryland . Job , on his arrival in Maryland , was sold to a planter , who finding him a youth of very distinguished abilities , treated him with great respect , and at the expiration of twelve months ...
... captain , who carried him to Maryland . Job , on his arrival in Maryland , was sold to a planter , who finding him a youth of very distinguished abilities , treated him with great respect , and at the expiration of twelve months ...
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... captain , there was a pistol , which the king used commonly to wear suspended by a sling about his neck , and the pistol being loaded , one day accident- ally went off , and the balls lodging in his throat , he presently died . ' " Job ...
... captain , there was a pistol , which the king used commonly to wear suspended by a sling about his neck , and the pistol being loaded , one day accident- ally went off , and the balls lodging in his throat , he presently died . ' " Job ...
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Page 125 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 114 - ... temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Page 109 - A Macedonian, whose lands were contiguous to the sea, came opportunely to be witness of his distress ; and, with all humane and charitable tenderness, flew to the relief of the unhappy stranger. He bore him to his house, laid him in his...
Page 62 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 132 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick? The Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Page 119 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 157 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 156 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 114 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 114 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts...