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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... night upon the ground , destitute of every kind of pro- visions . But a flag of a truce being hoisted , a capitulation took place , and it was finally agreed to surrender the island to Morgan and his crew . Having become masters of the ...
... night upon the ground , destitute of every kind of pro- visions . But a flag of a truce being hoisted , a capitulation took place , and it was finally agreed to surrender the island to Morgan and his crew . Having become masters of the ...
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... night , he would thankfully pay for it . The mistress of the house had been expecting her husband from London , and thinking it was him , she came to the door , when , hearing his story , and be . 1 lieving him , as he appeared to be a ...
... night , he would thankfully pay for it . The mistress of the house had been expecting her husband from London , and thinking it was him , she came to the door , when , hearing his story , and be . 1 lieving him , as he appeared to be a ...
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... night at the inn , they proceeded next morning on their journey , when the Farmer addressed the counsellor , saying , " Pray Sir , What is meant by trover and conversion in the law of England ? ” He re- plied , that it signified , in ...
... night at the inn , they proceeded next morning on their journey , when the Farmer addressed the counsellor , saying , " Pray Sir , What is meant by trover and conversion in the law of England ? ” He re- plied , that it signified , in ...
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... night . These were often thrown out by the tide , and ta- ken up by the country people , to the great consternation and dis- may of all the surrounding inhabitants . Nor could any discover what had befallen the many friends , relations ...
... night . These were often thrown out by the tide , and ta- ken up by the country people , to the great consternation and dis- may of all the surrounding inhabitants . Nor could any discover what had befallen the many friends , relations ...
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... night . Two of them then rode off , and the other four gave their horses to a waterman to lead to the next inn . The horses being foaming with sweat , he began to suspect that they were robbers who had been keenly pur . sued . He ...
... night . Two of them then rode off , and the other four gave their horses to a waterman to lead to the next inn . The horses being foaming with sweat , he began to suspect that they were robbers who had been keenly pur . sued . He ...
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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...