Narrative of the life and travels of serjeant B-, written by himself |
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... short , I remained under this friendly roof , experiencing the great benefit of precept and example , attending school regularly , until I was eight years of age . I was then , I may say , sent upon the wide world , in which I have ever ...
... short , I remained under this friendly roof , experiencing the great benefit of precept and example , attending school regularly , until I was eight years of age . I was then , I may say , sent upon the wide world , in which I have ever ...
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... short period that I attended a charity school , several of my companions and I took a ramble one day to see the castle and Wallace's Tower , and likewise to try if we could find any birds ' nests amongst the rocks . When we had ...
... short period that I attended a charity school , several of my companions and I took a ramble one day to see the castle and Wallace's Tower , and likewise to try if we could find any birds ' nests amongst the rocks . When we had ...
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... short , I went to Colonel Stewart , and after a few words passing on both sides , he asked me if I would take the ten guineas of bounty , and fife - major , with the rank of serjeant , and go with him into the 2d Battalion of the Royals ...
... short , I went to Colonel Stewart , and after a few words passing on both sides , he asked me if I would take the ten guineas of bounty , and fife - major , with the rank of serjeant , and go with him into the 2d Battalion of the Royals ...
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... short I received the letter , passed the Doctor , got my bounty , and a furlough of two months to see my friends in Scotland , before I returned to my barracks . A few days after , along with other volunteers , who had also obtained fur ...
... short I received the letter , passed the Doctor , got my bounty , and a furlough of two months to see my friends in Scotland , before I returned to my barracks . A few days after , along with other volunteers , who had also obtained fur ...
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... short of being angry at my precise- ness , that I did not marry off hand , and bring the girl with me , whose situation was still more pitiable than my own . We were only two days in Edinburgh , when we sailed from Leith Roads for the ...
... short of being angry at my precise- ness , that I did not marry off hand , and bring the girl with me , whose situation was still more pitiable than my own . We were only two days in Edinburgh , when we sailed from Leith Roads for the ...
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Page 54 - LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave : thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a. moment ; in his favour is life : weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Page 177 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 187 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 177 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living : I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Page 51 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me : refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Page 222 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Page 138 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 202 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 65 - What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " saith the Lord God of Hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, " Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page 76 - O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is, 2 to see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.