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...ome reason to doubt if John the Baptist were gen- teel; and in the case of Peter, on whose career you doubtless dwell approvingly in the pulpit, no do... ...he was a ‘coarse, headstrong’ fisherman! Yet even in our Protestant Bibles Peter is called Saint. Damien was dirty. He was. Think of the poor lepers a... ...(So fates conspire), May we not feel The force of steel: This I desire. T. Jackson, 1651* U PON TUESDAY, November 13th, 1666, Corporal George Deanes a...

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...overnment, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship Ann M’Kim of Baltimore. It would probably never h... ... but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget. He called himself Bill Jackson; and I know no one of all my accidental acquaintances to whom I... ...kin, and one or two stanchions above the deck. We saw our handsome sailor, Jackson, on the forecastle, with the Sandwich Islanders, working away t... ...rdly got the boats beached, and their heads out, before our old friend, Bill Jackson, the handsome English sailor, who steered the Loriotte’s boat, ... ...ir faculties. Twice, their boat filled, and came broadside upon the beach. Jackson swore at them for a parcel of savages, and promised to flog every... ...r deck. Eighty fathoms, and no bottom! A depth as great as the height of St. Peter’s! the line is snatched in a block upon the swifter, and three or f...

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...” And I’ll wager Mel did it, too! Well, he goes on: “There was Admiral Sir Jackson Racial and his lady, at dinner, Squire Falco of Bursted, Lady Barri... .... It was of him we have been speaking. I imagined that is, we thought, Sir Jackson might—you will be writing to him, and will let him know we will use... ...cap any narrative; but Mrs. Fiske stopped the flood. ‘You have improved on Peter Smithers, Louisa,’ she said. The Countess turned to her mildly. ‘You ... ...he said. The Countess turned to her mildly. ‘You are certainly thinking of Peter Smithers,’ Mrs. Fiske continued, bracing her shoulders. ‘Surely , you... ...’ Mrs. Fiske continued, bracing her shoulders. ‘Surely , you remember poor Peter, Louisa? An old flame of your own! He was going to kill himself, but ... ...ose, declaring she must speak to Evan, chid Mrs. Fiske, and wished her and Peter Smithers at the bottom of the sea. ‘No, no, Mama,’ said the Countess,...

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...been engaged to go to Germany, and in Germany had had an offer to go to St Petersburg, and there had done very well indeed—never better. However, he h... ...o. I am sure I cannot imagine what the cause of it is. There was a certain Jackson here once, a turnkey of the name of Jackson (I don’t think you can ... ...d that Prunes and Prism got the upper hand. Everybody was walking about St Peter’s and the V atican on somebody else’s cork legs, and straining every ... ...e thousand churches rang their bells without any ref- erence to it; and St Peter denied that he had anything to do with it. But by that time the Bride...

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...s the Spaniards im- properly call them, mistaking this substance for salt- peter), nothing is to be seen but an extensive plain composed of a black, m... ... in the icebergs near Spitzbergen, and, lately, with more care, by Colonel Jackson (Journ. of Geograph. Soc., vol. v. p. 12) on the Neva. Mr. Lyell (P...