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Incidents and Anecdotes of Rev. Edward T. Taylor: For Over Forty Years ... - Page 10
by Gilbert Haven, Thomas Russell - 1873 - 445 pages
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The goldfinch, being a collection of the most esteemed modern songs in the ...

Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...tow ; For,sayshe, do you mind me, Ut storms e'er so oft lake the top-sails of sailors aback, Tlicre's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life uf poor Jack ! I said to our Poll (for, d'ye tee, she would cry), When test we weigh'd anchor for sea;...
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Ashburner's new vocal and poetic repository, selected by Queery Queerum

George Ashburner - 1807 - 238 pages
...tow ; For, says lie, do you mind me, let storms e'er so oft, Take the top-sails of sailors a-back; There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. I said to our Poll (for d'ye see she would cry) When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, "Wha» argufies...
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The roundelay; a selection of comic, martial, naval and sentimental songs

Roundelay - 1815 - 260 pages
...For, says he, do you mind me, let storms, e'er so oft, Take the top-sails of sailors aback, There 'sa sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. J said to our Poll, (for, d' ye see she would cry,) When last we weigh'd anchor for sea, What argufies...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...all '$ a hazard : come don't be so Perhaps I may laughing come back ; [soft, For, d'ye see, there's a cherub that sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of Poor Jack. D 'ye mind me, a sailor should be every inch All as one as a piece of the ship, And with her brave...
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The pocket encyclopedia of Scottish, English, and Irish songs ..., Volume 2

Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...don't think me a milk-sop so soft, To be taken for trifles aback; For they say there's a Providence sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Why, I heard the good chaplain palaver one day About souls, heav'n, mercy, and such, And, my timbers...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 9

Scotland - 1821 - 618 pages
...consequence, there is no idea more thoroughly imbued in sailors, than that of a particular Providence — " A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." — We are desirous of speaking to this point very directly, because we believe a good deal of misapprehension...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 9

England - 1821 - 818 pages
...consequence, there is no idea more thoroughly imbued in sailors, than that of a particular Providence — " A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack." — We are desirous of speaking to this point very directly, because we believe a good deal of misapprehension...
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The Paisley magazine Vol 1

734 pages
...foam is sure to overwhelm him, he cumWts himself with the belief that " A sweet little cherub still sits up aloft To keep watch for the life of poor Jack." Come, come, Sum, belay there, if you please, that brandy and lime juice handed you by Tom Norris, has...
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The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, Part 2

English periodicals - 1833 - 598 pages
...Providence, however, drove us clear of the danger, and strongly proved to our grateful minds, that there's A sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. About nine, the storm began to abate, the ship was got before the wind, under close-reefed fore top-sail,...
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Memoirs of a Manager: Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery, Volume 2

Henry Lee - Theater - 1830 - 192 pages
...lamb !" and " when on board" — he " braves all ! dreads nought !" for he knows that " There is a little cherub that sits up aloft to keep watch for the life of poor Jack !" I think the English Navy, as well as the English nation, have thus Ibeen greatly served by Mr. Dibdin....
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