The Disenthralled: Being Reminiscences in the Life of the Author: His Fall from Respectability by Intemperance - and Rescue by the Washingtonian Society: Containing, Also, His Life as a Sailor, Shipwreck, and Residence Among the Savage Tribes in New Holland; Remarks on AmericaN. Tuttle, 1844 - 59 pages |
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Page 21 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 34 - The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 58 - PRAISE ye the LORD: For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant; and praise is comely. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Page 23 - DEAR SIR: — I regret that circumstances over which I have no control prevent my attendance this year at Minneapolis.
Page 56 - Before all people east or west, I love the Temperance men the best, I love their noble spirit ! In generous deeds, not words, they deal ; They have at heart the poor man's weal — All praise their efforts merit'
Page 50 - We were enveloped in total darkness ; the rain fell in torrents, the spray was washed over our foreyard, the waves lashed themselves around in terrific fury, and seemed each moment yawning to receive their prey. Our fate seemed inevitable; but blessed be that God whom winds and waves obey, he did not suffer us to perish. " She keels to leeward," sung out some one. "Then cut away your foremast," exclaimd the captain — it was quickly overboard.
Page 51 - A wave takes her — she is driven shorewards; again she is borne back by the resistless fury of the returning tide. Oh! what a moment of painful anxiety ! They are lost — no — another wave takes her, and she is driven ashore. The crew jump from her and secure their line to a tree. A hawser was then hauled ashore and made securely fast ; and such of the crew as wished, got off by it...
Page 51 - Mr. Hempstead our third mate, immediately jumped into the stern sheets of the starboard quarter boat, and seven of our hands threw off their jackets, ready and willing to peril their lives in the attempt to save themselves and their shipmates. Five of them...
Page 50 - ... being no doubt driven in. She soon after fetched up solidly, and though we could not see a foot from us, we had no doubt we were ashore. All that could, had now been done, save to lash our chests, and this task accomplished, we had nothing more to do than give vent to our...
Page 54 - The drunkard shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." "The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty." "Be not drunk with wine," and "Woe unto him that putteth the bottle to his neighbor's lips, and maketh him drunken also...