Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...Harper & Brothers, 1835 |
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... half - century ago , pronounced the highest possible eulogium upon Nantucket skill and enterprise ; and declared that our whalers were the best in the world , and worthy of imitation , by other nations . Its scenes are " This tale may ...
... half - century ago , pronounced the highest possible eulogium upon Nantucket skill and enterprise ; and declared that our whalers were the best in the world , and worthy of imitation , by other nations . Its scenes are " This tale may ...
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... half - century ago , pronounced the highest possible eulogium upon Nantucket skill and enterprise ; and declared that our whalers were the best in the world , and worthy of imitation by other nations . " This tale may be called a ...
... half - century ago , pronounced the highest possible eulogium upon Nantucket skill and enterprise ; and declared that our whalers were the best in the world , and worthy of imitation by other nations . " This tale may be called a ...
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... half a century prosecuted in the Pacific Ocean , -where their ships were not only subject to dangers in navigation , from the uncertainty of the surveys and the inaccuracy with which many islands had been laid down on the charts , but ...
... half a century prosecuted in the Pacific Ocean , -where their ships were not only subject to dangers in navigation , from the uncertainty of the surveys and the inaccuracy with which many islands had been laid down on the charts , but ...
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... half of square miles entirely unknown ; and a coast of more than three hundred degrees of longitude , in which the Antarctic Circle has never been approached . * There are immense regions within the comparatively temperate latitudes but ...
... half of square miles entirely unknown ; and a coast of more than three hundred degrees of longitude , in which the Antarctic Circle has never been approached . * There are immense regions within the comparatively temperate latitudes but ...
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... education of every resident of the island , from the days of the first set- tlers downwards to the time present . There are now some three or fourscore houses at Sias- conset , of one story and a half in height 16 INTRODUCTION .
... education of every resident of the island , from the days of the first set- tlers downwards to the time present . There are now some three or fourscore houses at Sias- conset , of one story and a half in height 16 INTRODUCTION .
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American amusing answered Antarctic Circle appeared ball-room beach blue-fish body called canst captain colony common Communipaugh companion dance deep didst dost thou dress exclaimed eyes father favour females fiddle fortune-teller girls give Grampus Grimshaw GUY RIVERS habits hand hath heart honour Imbert Indian inhabitants Isaac island Jethro Coffin Jonathan Coleman kritter ladies Leviathan look Macy manner Manta massa mast ment Minnows and mack'rel MIRIAM COFFIN Nantucket nation never New-York numbers observed once Peleg Folger Quaker quohogs replied rest Ruth and Mary sail sands scene Seth shearing ship shore Siasconset side spermaceti spiles Starbuck strangers sure tale Tashima tell thee thing thou art thou hast thou know'st thou wilt thou'rt tion town of Sherburne trade tribe Tristram Coffin tucket turn vessel voice voyage waif whale whale-fishermen whale-fishery whale-ships wigwam wind words young
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Página 1 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place...
Página 25 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 1 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 45 - To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness — There was a tini-e when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.
Página 33 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 82 - To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. Meantime, their joyous task goes on apace : Some mingling stir the melted tar, and some, Deep on the new-shorn vagrant's heaving side, To stamp his master's cipher ready stand ; Others the...
Página 1 - Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them, than the accumulated winter of both the poles. We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Página 79 - Head above head ; and ranged in lusty rows The shepherds sit, and whet the sounding shears.
Página 12 - Sea, to examine the coasts, islands, harbors, shoals, and reefs in those Seas, and to ascertain their true situation and description, has been put in a train of execution. The vessel is nearly ready to depart: the successful accomplishment of the expedition may be greatly facilitated by suitable legislative...
Página 52 - But lo ! at last, from tenfold darkness born, Forth issues o'er the wave the weeping morn : Hail, sacred vision ! who, on orient wings, The cheering dawn of light propitious brings ; All nature smiling hail'd the vivid ray That gave her beauties to returning day, All but our ship...