Narrative of the life and travels of serjeant B-, written by himselfDavid Brown and Wm. Lindsay & Company, 1826 - 280 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vii
... Army of Reserve . - Is sent to Ireland . Page 1 CHAPTER II . Arrival at Belfast , Athlone , Dublin . - His Mu- sical Enthusiasm . - Alarms of Conscience.- Enlists into the Regulars . - Visits Scotland.- Courtship . - Melancholy Result ...
... Army of Reserve . - Is sent to Ireland . Page 1 CHAPTER II . Arrival at Belfast , Athlone , Dublin . - His Mu- sical Enthusiasm . - Alarms of Conscience.- Enlists into the Regulars . - Visits Scotland.- Courtship . - Melancholy Result ...
الصفحة ix
... Army . -Causes thereof . - The Sabbath beyond the Line . - History of J. F. - His Aversion to Swearing . - Melancholy Change in his Charac- ter . His awful Death . - Account of W. H.- His Friendship with the Author . - Their Plea- sant ...
... Army . -Causes thereof . - The Sabbath beyond the Line . - History of J. F. - His Aversion to Swearing . - Melancholy Change in his Charac- ter . His awful Death . - Account of W. H.- His Friendship with the Author . - Their Plea- sant ...
الصفحة 1
... Army of Reserve . - Is sent to Ireland . I was born of poor but respectable parents , in the town of Peebles , county of Tweeddale , upon the 3d day of April , 1784. Under their nursing care I remained until I was four years of age ...
... Army of Reserve . - Is sent to Ireland . I was born of poor but respectable parents , in the town of Peebles , county of Tweeddale , upon the 3d day of April , 1784. Under their nursing care I remained until I was four years of age ...
الصفحة 17
... Army of Reserve was raised , and I was obliged , either to pay money into societies , to insure me against it , or run the risk of going for nothing , neither of which I liked . The bounties given to substitutes were very good , and ...
... Army of Reserve was raised , and I was obliged , either to pay money into societies , to insure me against it , or run the risk of going for nothing , neither of which I liked . The bounties given to substitutes were very good , and ...
الصفحة 18
... army ; but in truth it was neither that , nor yet the temptation of the large boun- ty that made me enlist , but the prospect of being a fifer in the army , where I could get proper instructions in my favourite music . Having made up my ...
... army ; but in truth it was neither that , nor yet the temptation of the large boun- ty that made me enlist , but the prospect of being a fifer in the army , where I could get proper instructions in my favourite music . Having made up my ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.