Miriam Coffin: Or The Whale-fishermen. A Tale ...Harper & Brothers, 1835 |
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... short memorial of the Nantucket people , whose pros- perity at home is so closely linked with the success of the whale - fishery in remote seas , represents : - " That the inter- course maintained between different ports of the nation ...
... short memorial of the Nantucket people , whose pros- perity at home is so closely linked with the success of the whale - fishery in remote seas , represents : - " That the inter- course maintained between different ports of the nation ...
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... short , friend Timpson , " continued the narrator , " I will give thee merely the outline of our his- tory , which , as time and opportunity serve , thou mayst fill up at leisure . Nay - do not interrupt me - I will answer thee more at ...
... short , friend Timpson , " continued the narrator , " I will give thee merely the outline of our his- tory , which , as time and opportunity serve , thou mayst fill up at leisure . Nay - do not interrupt me - I will answer thee more at ...
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... short time , we were made acquainted with the history of the rise and progress of the whale - fishery in these parts . But as the reader may , in other places in these pages , find the subject touched upon by an abler pen than ours ...
... short time , we were made acquainted with the history of the rise and progress of the whale - fishery in these parts . But as the reader may , in other places in these pages , find the subject touched upon by an abler pen than ours ...
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... short comings pe- culiar to ancient writers , we must plead the license given by the donor in his parting words : " Take it , friend Tinker , and mend it if thou wilt . " But we can assure our indulgent friends that we have left the ...
... short comings pe- culiar to ancient writers , we must plead the license given by the donor in his parting words : " Take it , friend Tinker , and mend it if thou wilt . " But we can assure our indulgent friends that we have left the ...
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... surface of the island . Scattered dusky patches of thin short grass , among which is included an unenclosed common of great extent , afford nourishment to droves of cattle and flocks of sheep , heedfully 32 MIRIAM COFFIN , OR.
... surface of the island . Scattered dusky patches of thin short grass , among which is included an unenclosed common of great extent , afford nourishment to droves of cattle and flocks of sheep , heedfully 32 MIRIAM COFFIN , OR.
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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...