Notes of a Clerical Furlough, Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land. With a Sketch of the Voyage Out1859 |
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... distance as the daylight disappeared . But we were not to be done with it so soon . When the sun rose next morning , it found us rolling about in the open sea , upon the slow heaving swell of the Atlantic , with hardly a breath to fill ...
... distance as the daylight disappeared . But we were not to be done with it so soon . When the sun rose next morning , it found us rolling about in the open sea , upon the slow heaving swell of the Atlantic , with hardly a breath to fill ...
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... distance hazy and dark . To keep Cork under our lee Mr. Cairney resolved to steer on the Kinsale light , which , being nearly 200 feet above the level of the sea , and very brilliant , is seen much farther off than the Cork light ...
... distance hazy and dark . To keep Cork under our lee Mr. Cairney resolved to steer on the Kinsale light , which , being nearly 200 feet above the level of the sea , and very brilliant , is seen much farther off than the Cork light ...
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... distance around . At such a moment the look - out had got sight of a vessel , the appearance of which created an immediate stir . The mate , having run up the rigging with the glass , confirmed the observation of the man who had first ...
... distance around . At such a moment the look - out had got sight of a vessel , the appearance of which created an immediate stir . The mate , having run up the rigging with the glass , confirmed the observation of the man who had first ...
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... distance of six or seven miles . Mr. Smith's admirable work on The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul , which we had along with us , gave fresh interest to the scene , and enabled us to study it with intelligence and ease . Look- ing ...
... distance of six or seven miles . Mr. Smith's admirable work on The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul , which we had along with us , gave fresh interest to the scene , and enabled us to study it with intelligence and ease . Look- ing ...
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... distance on the right or land side , crested with the foam of the waves that were dashing over it . No one who reads Mr. Smith's work can doubt that it was the roar of the breakers on this point , as the gale was driving on the ship of ...
... distance on the right or land side , crested with the foam of the waves that were dashing over it . No one who reads Mr. Smith's work can doubt that it was the roar of the breakers on this point , as the gale was driving on the ship of ...
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Page 139 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
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Page 247 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Page 136 - Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her : loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them ; and straightway he will send them.