The History of the Lives and Action of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Street-robbers, &c. &c: To which is Added a Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Noted Pirates |
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... means in his power . This resolution made Morgan pause for a while , before he de- cided what was to be done . In the first place , they divided their plunder , which amounted to 250,000 pieces of eight , besides an immense quantity of ...
... means in his power . This resolution made Morgan pause for a while , before he de- cided what was to be done . In the first place , they divided their plunder , which amounted to 250,000 pieces of eight , besides an immense quantity of ...
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... means of subsistence . In these desperate circumstances he formed the resolution to make depredations upon the enemies of his late king . Upon his principles it was all justice that was wrested from them who had taken away the life of ...
... means of subsistence . In these desperate circumstances he formed the resolution to make depredations upon the enemies of his late king . Upon his principles it was all justice that was wrested from them who had taken away the life of ...
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... means of obtaining any other food , they resolved to live upon hu- man flesh . Accordingly , when they had murdered any man , wo- man or child , they carried them to their den , quartered them , salted and pickled the members , and ...
... means of obtaining any other food , they resolved to live upon hu- man flesh . Accordingly , when they had murdered any man , wo- man or child , they carried them to their den , quartered them , salted and pickled the members , and ...
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... means , they always secured their prey , and prevented detection . At last , however , the vast number who were slain , raised the inhabitants of the country , and all the woods and lurking places were carefully searched ; and though ...
... means , they always secured their prey , and prevented detection . At last , however , the vast number who were slain , raised the inhabitants of the country , and all the woods and lurking places were carefully searched ; and though ...
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... mean time , twenty or thirty in a company came riding home from the same fair . Upon their approach , Sawney and his bloody ... means might be left unattempted to discover the haunt of these execrable villains . They searched the woods ...
... mean time , twenty or thirty in a company came riding home from the same fair . Upon their approach , Sawney and his bloody ... means might be left unattempted to discover the haunt of these execrable villains . They searched the woods ...
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Page 132 - I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Page 58 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? no. Doth he hear it ? no. Is it insensible, then ? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it : honour is a mere scutcheon : 12 — and so ends my catechism.
Page 71 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him, half dead.
Page 58 - tis no matter; Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if Honor prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can Honor set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is Honor ? A word. What is in that word, Honor ? What is that Honor ? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died o
Page 58 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 113 - Fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold of eternal life...
Page 131 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Page 103 - I dwell with him that is of a contrite spirit to revive it " ; it ends with, " Narrow is the way which leads to life, and few there be who find it.
Page 205 - Vane made all the protestations of honour in the world to him, but, it seems Captain Holford was too intimately acquainted with him, to repose any confidence at all in his words or oaths. He told him, he might easily find a way to get off if he had a mind to it. 'I am now going down the Bay...
Page 182 - Blackbeard seeing few or no hands aboard, told his men, that they were all knocked on the head, except three or four; and therefore, says he, Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces. Whereupon, under the smoke of one of the bottles just mentioned, Blackbeard enters with fourteen men, over the bows of Maynard's sloop, and were not seen by him...