Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars ...1830 - 118 pages |
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... coast , so that my father was incapable to procure my release . In a few days , I was sent on board the Harwich man of war , at the Nore . I entered here upon quite a new scene of life , and endured much hardship for about a month . My ...
... coast , so that my father was incapable to procure my release . In a few days , I was sent on board the Harwich man of war , at the Nore . I entered here upon quite a new scene of life , and endured much hardship for about a month . My ...
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... coast of Cornwall , by a storm from the southward . The darkness of the night , and the number of the vessels , occasioned much confusion and damage . Our ship , though several times in imminent danger of being run down by other vessels ...
... coast of Cornwall , by a storm from the southward . The darkness of the night , and the number of the vessels , occasioned much confusion and damage . Our ship , though several times in imminent danger of being run down by other vessels ...
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... coast of Africa . The commander , I found , was acquainted with my father ; he received me very kindly , and made fair professions of assistance ; and I believe he would have been my friend : but with- out making the least advantage of ...
... coast of Africa . The commander , I found , was acquainted with my father ; he received me very kindly , and made fair professions of assistance ; and I believe he would have been my friend : but with- out making the least advantage of ...
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... coast . A few days before she sailed , the captain died . I was not upon much better terms with his mate , who now succeeded to the command , and had , upon some oc- casions , treated me ill . I made no doubt but if I went with him to ...
... coast . A few days before she sailed , the captain died . I was not upon much better terms with his mate , who now succeeded to the command , and had , upon some oc- casions , treated me ill . I made no doubt but if I went with him to ...
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... coast , a few white men settled ( and there were many more at the time I was first there ) , whose business it was to purchase slaves , & c . in the rivers and country adja- cent , and sell them to the ships at an advanced price . One ...
... coast , a few white men settled ( and there were many more at the time I was first there ) , whose business it was to purchase slaves , & c . in the rivers and country adja- cent , and sell them to the ships at an advanced price . One ...
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Page 47 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.
Page 7 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 13 - 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 ; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 28 - If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness ; then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.
Page 9 - Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind ; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Page 1 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 7 - God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference : for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus...
Page 21 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 104 - Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia ; and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea, which were in Christ ; but they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed ; and they glorified God in me.
Page 88 - I never knew sweeter or more frequent hours of divine communion than in my two last voyages to Guinea, when I was either almost secluded from society on ship-board, or when on shore among the natives.