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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... requested the space of fifteen days , in order to obtain the required ransom . To this he consented , but in a short time a negre was taken with letters from the governor of St Jago , requiring the prisoners to labour to gain time from ...
... requested the space of fifteen days , in order to obtain the required ransom . To this he consented , but in a short time a negre was taken with letters from the governor of St Jago , requiring the prisoners to labour to gain time from ...
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... requested the inha- bitants to pay one hundred thousand pieces of eight as the ransom of their city , or he would reduce it to ashes . In this unhappy dilemma , two messengers were dispatched to the President of Panama to inform him of ...
... requested the inha- bitants to pay one hundred thousand pieces of eight as the ransom of their city , or he would reduce it to ashes . In this unhappy dilemma , two messengers were dispatched to the President of Panama to inform him of ...
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... requested that Squire Broughton would recommend him to an expert and faithful agent to conduct his cause . Similar to every other lawyer , Broughton was desirous to have him for a client , and proceeded to explain the nature of his ...
... requested that Squire Broughton would recommend him to an expert and faithful agent to conduct his cause . Similar to every other lawyer , Broughton was desirous to have him for a client , and proceeded to explain the nature of his ...
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... requested that he would join in their devotions . The good man arose , open- ed his door , was instantly knocked down by the villains , who bound him neck and heels , opened his trunks , seized his books , the keys - of the church , and ...
... requested that he would join in their devotions . The good man arose , open- ed his door , was instantly knocked down by the villains , who bound him neck and heels , opened his trunks , seized his books , the keys - of the church , and ...
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... requesting him to make the case his own , he bade him consider , now that he was King , whether he would suffer his dignity to be profaned in the charac- ter of any of his judges ? To the agreeable surprise of the judge , the King ...
... requesting him to make the case his own , he bade him consider , now that he was King , whether he would suffer his dignity to be profaned in the charac- ter of any of his judges ? To the agreeable surprise of the judge , the King ...
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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...