The Portsmouth Road: The Sailors' Highway

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C. Palmer, 1923 - 266 pages
 

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Page 33 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
Page 92 - Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.
Page 31 - To which is added, An ESSAY on TEA, considered as pernicious to Health, obstructing Industry, and impoverishing the Nation : with an Account of its Growth, and great Consumption in these Kingdoms ; with several Political Reflections ; and Thoughts on Publick Love : in Thirty-two Letters to Two Ladies.
Page 15 - I was reviled and buffeted for the sins of my Tory ancestors. By the common methods of discipline, at the expense of many tears and some blood, I purchased the knowledge of the Latin syntax...
Page 183 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys warm and low ; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky !. The pleasant seat, the ruin'd tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm, As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm.
Page 74 - ... stripped naked, from the middle upward, and openly whipped until his or her body be bloody...
Page 194 - Once I had a spaniel that was pupped in a rabbit burrow on the verge of Wolmer forest. Though I have long ceased to be a sportsman, yet I still love a dog ; and am attended daily by a beautiful spaniel with long ears, and a spotted nose and legs...
Page 75 - ... post was placed a transverse beam turning on a swivel, with a chair at one end of it...
Page 166 - ... than she : two or three nick-nacks to eat instead of a piece of bacon and a pudding : the house too neat for a dirty-shoed carter to be allowed to come into ; and everything proclaiming to every sensible beholder, that there is here a constant anxiety to make a show not warranted by the reality.
Page 14 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.

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