 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 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 lor the sea, which a l»|ne of thirty years has but little diminished. It will be easily conceived... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...have benefited himself at the expense of Gifford's parents. ' It will be easily conceived,' he says, ' is brow. 4 Say quick,' quoth he, ' I bid thee say What ship-boy on the high and giddy mast," but also in the cabin, where every menial office fell to my lot... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1846 - 392 páginas
...vessel at Brixham. Here (to use his own words written many years after) he says, " It will easily be conceived, that my life was a life of hardship. I...only a ship boy on ' the high and giddy mast,' but in the cabin every menial office fell to my lot; yet, if I was restless and discontented, I can safely... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 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;... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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... | |
 | Joseph Sparkes Hall - 1847 - 236 páginas
...thirteen." In this vessel he remained for nearly a year. " 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... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 páginas
...coasting-vessel, at Brixham. He was at that time little more than thirteen years of age, and he says : — '* It will be easily conceived 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 páginas
...which he remained for nearly a year. " It will be easily conceived," he says in his autobiography, • 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 - 1858 - 300 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;... 
