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" ... passage in a ship bound for America, and, at the same time, paid the captain for my freight and all the other expenses of my voyage. But it so happened that the wind did not answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the... "
The Romance of Biography. Chapters on the Strange and Wonderful in Human Life - Page 360
by Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 383 pages
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and...
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The life of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original ..., Volume 1

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and...
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The New York Review, Volume 1

Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - 522 pages
...not answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious ; and...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...answer for three weeks; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...answer for three weeks ; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was that when the wind served I happened to be with...sail with as much indifference as if I had been on hoard. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious,...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

1837 - 536 pages
...answer for three weeks; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that when the wind served I happened to be with...party in the country, and my friend the captain never enquired after me, but set sail with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

1837 - 552 pages
...answer for three weeks; and you know, mother, that I could not command the elements. My misfortune was, that when the wind served I happened to be with...party in the country, and my friend the captain never enquired after me, but set sail with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 pages
...wind served I happened to be with a party in the country, and my friend the captain never enquired after me, but set sail with as much indifference as if I had been on board. The remainder of my time I employed in the city and its environs, viewing every thing curious, and...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

1855 - 602 pages
...in a ship which was bound to America, and to have been left behind by an unscrupulous captain who '' never inquired after me, but set sail with as much indifference as if I had been on baard." A train of adventures followed, the whole of which bear evident marks of invention, and show...
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