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... better than any we had seen before . Their walls are of well cut stones , and each lodging is sur- rounded by a wall of masonry with doorways , and has its fountain of water in an open court brought from a distance by pipes for the ...
... better than any we had seen before . Their walls are of well cut stones , and each lodging is sur- rounded by a wall of masonry with doorways , and has its fountain of water in an open court brought from a distance by pipes for the ...
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... better than a common pirate , robbing town , but our general contented himself with the spoils of the ships , put off to sea again , and set sail for Lima . To Lima we came on the thirteenth of February , and entering port , we found ...
... better than a common pirate , robbing town , but our general contented himself with the spoils of the ships , put off to sea again , and set sail for Lima . To Lima we came on the thirteenth of February , and entering port , we found ...
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... better soldiers than the Spaniards and ought , at least , to die with their arms in their hands fighting , like men of courage . That , he said , would be better than to surrender to the Spaniards who would take away their lives with ...
... better soldiers than the Spaniards and ought , at least , to die with their arms in their hands fighting , like men of courage . That , he said , would be better than to surrender to the Spaniards who would take away their lives with ...
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... better than pirates , as in this case . He was in great haste to be the first to board her , in order to regale himself with rum punch , a beverage of which he was unhappily much too fond . He was made a prisoner the instant his foot ...
... better than pirates , as in this case . He was in great haste to be the first to board her , in order to regale himself with rum punch , a beverage of which he was unhappily much too fond . He was made a prisoner the instant his foot ...
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... better than in firing my large blunderbuss every few minutes in the direc- tion of the cannon . While I was firing at random , I had a glimpse of a man setting fire to the covering of the fish - press . I took deliberate aim at him with ...
... better than in firing my large blunderbuss every few minutes in the direc- tion of the cannon . While I was firing at random , I had a glimpse of a man setting fire to the covering of the fish - press . I took deliberate aim at him with ...
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Page 49 - Make no friendship with an angry man ; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Page 198 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays indeed, says I, too much for his whistle.
Page 205 - For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her.
Page 198 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Page 133 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.
Page 197 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Page 199 - I, he has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered girl married to an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity, say I, that she should pay so much for a whistle ! In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Page 211 - My proposal was to build a wharf there fit for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades a large heap of stones which were intended for a new house near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose.
Page 197 - I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so much for my folly that I cried with vexation; and the reflection gave me more chagrin than the whistle gave me pleasure.
Page 215 - I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault with the syntax of one word, which was not so used by me heedlessly, but designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, there was no such rule. I took the grammar and showed the rule to him. Then he smilingly said, ' Thou art a brave boy ; I had forgot it.