Men and Manners in Britain: Or, A Bone to Gnaw for the Trollopes, Fidlers, &c. Being Notes from a Journal, on Sea and on Land, in 1833-4Wiley & Long, 1834 - 187 páginas |
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... seen something of the seaman's character . When sleep forsook my eyes , I used to go on deck to while away the time and improve my mind in conversing with the hands on watch . Many of them have I found to possess strong , but very few ...
... seen something of the seaman's character . When sleep forsook my eyes , I used to go on deck to while away the time and improve my mind in conversing with the hands on watch . Many of them have I found to possess strong , but very few ...
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... seen such things in America , what a fine subject it would have been for them to make a book . I attended service in many Chapels , Churches , Cathedrals and Abbeys , in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Ca- thedral , ( the resort of ...
... seen such things in America , what a fine subject it would have been for them to make a book . I attended service in many Chapels , Churches , Cathedrals and Abbeys , in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Ca- thedral , ( the resort of ...
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... seen life in all its va- rieties , from the lowest to the highest : its all vanity , when compared with the sober realities of a New - York or Brooklyn mode of life . About the year 1810 , when the British parliament was debating the ...
... seen life in all its va- rieties , from the lowest to the highest : its all vanity , when compared with the sober realities of a New - York or Brooklyn mode of life . About the year 1810 , when the British parliament was debating the ...
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... seen this among our field sports in America , she would have written ten pages to prove that the thing was extremely vulgar . In this ( Hyde ) Park , they have erected an earthen mound , nearly twenty feet high . On the top of this ...
... seen this among our field sports in America , she would have written ten pages to prove that the thing was extremely vulgar . In this ( Hyde ) Park , they have erected an earthen mound , nearly twenty feet high . On the top of this ...
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... seen on the sign of Gould , Banks & Gould , corner of Broad and Wall streets . A table stands before him , at which sit two clerks . They , too , have wigs and tails , only the wigs are plainer and the tails 4 * CHAPTER V. ...
... seen on the sign of Gould , Banks & Gould , corner of Broad and Wall streets . A table stands before him , at which sit two clerks . They , too , have wigs and tails , only the wigs are plainer and the tails 4 * CHAPTER V. ...
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