 | 334 páginas
...Portsmouth for example, an additional hand was hired for the voyage. In this vessel, the Two Brothers, I continued nearly a twelvemonth; and here I got acquainted...my life was a life of hardship. I was not only ' a ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 páginas
...In this vessel he remained for nearly a twelvemonth. " It will be easily conceived," he remarks, " that my life was a life of hardship. I was not only ' a ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 páginas
...In this vessel he remained for nearly a twelvemonth. " It will be easily conceived,'1 he remarks, " that my life was a life of hardship. I was not only ' a ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 páginas
...Portsmouth for example, an additional hand was hired for the voyage. In this vessel (the Two Brothers) I continued nearly a twelvemonth ; and here I got acquainted with nautical terms, and contracted a love fur the sea, which a lapse of thirty years has but little diminished. It will be easily conceived that... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 páginas
...Portsmouth for example, an additional hand was hired for the voyage. In this vessel (the Two Brothers) I continued nearly a twelvemonth ; and here I got acquainted...that my life was a life of hardship. I was not only a ' ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 páginas
...; and litre I got acquainted with nautu-al terms, and contracted a love tor the sea, which a ¡apse of thirty years has but little diminished. It will...that my life was a life of hardship. I was not only a " shipboy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my... | |
 | William Hone - 1838 - 890 páginas
...Portsmouth for example, an additional hand was hired for the voyage. In this vessel (the Two Brothers) I continued nearly a twelvemonth ; and here I got acquainted...terms, and contracted a love for the sea, which a linat of thirty years has but little diminUhed. It will be easily conceived that my life was a life... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 páginas
...which he remained for nearly a year. " It will he easily conceived," he says in his autobiography, " here it was. They marvcll'd, as they might j and so mu ship-boy on the high nnd giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 páginas
...which he remained for nearly a year. " It will be easily conceived," he says in his autohiography, " d send thee pleasure's devious way, Misled by fancy's m ship-hoy on the high and giddy mast/ but also in the cahin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
 | 1840 - 298 páginas
...In this vessel he remained for nearly a twelvemonth. " It will be easily conceived," he remarks, " that my life was a life of hardship. I was not only ' a shipboy on the high and giddy mast,' but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
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ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot: yet if I was restless and discontented, I can safely say, it was not so much on account of this, as of my being precluded from all possibility of reading;... 
