| Edmund Burke - History - 1801 - 762 pages
...-I was thinking of indenting myfelf, for want of money to procure a paflage. As foon as I was maftcr of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a Peerage paflage in the firft fliip that was to fail fro* the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...nearly twenty " pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as " I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of " money to procure my passage. As soon as I " was...the wind. "' I had been for some days skulking from co" vert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as " some ill-advised people had uncoupled the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1801 - 818 pages
...was thinking of indenting myfelf, for want of money to procure a paflage. As foon as I was nwfi.'.'r of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a fteerage paflage in the firft fliip that was to fail from ( the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...was thinking; of indenting myfelf, for want of money to procure my paifage. As icon asi was mafterof nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a fteerage paffage in the lirft fhip that was to fail from the Clyde, for ' Hungry ruin had me in the... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master...in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde." He describes himself as skulking at this time from covert to covert under all the terrors of a jail... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 636 pages
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money, to procure my passage. As soon as I was...Clyde ; for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. I had for some days been skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money, to procure my passage. As soon as I was...from the Clyde ; for Hungry ruin had me in the wind. v I bad for some days been skulking from covert to coTert> Under all the terrors of a jail ; as some... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 616 pages
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of in* denting myself, for want of money, to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of \vafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steeragepassage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde...from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want ROBERT BURNS. . 5j want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master...the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steeragepassage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde; for " Hungry ruin had me in the... | |
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