Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the RevolutionH.H. Brown, 1831 - 312 pages |
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... souls , ' must necessarily perish with those who witnessed them . An attempt to preserve from oblivion , facts which show the interposition of the Lord of Sabbaoth , in favor of the oppressed , and the unconquerable firmness of those ...
... souls , ' must necessarily perish with those who witnessed them . An attempt to preserve from oblivion , facts which show the interposition of the Lord of Sabbaoth , in favor of the oppressed , and the unconquerable firmness of those ...
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... soul . I perfectly recollect that I was awfully afraid of death , nor can I bring again to view the danger I was in , without shuddering and admiring the kind and merci- ful interposition of a gracious God . It is utterly impos- sible ...
... soul . I perfectly recollect that I was awfully afraid of death , nor can I bring again to view the danger I was in , without shuddering and admiring the kind and merci- ful interposition of a gracious God . It is utterly impos- sible ...
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... soul could not have been saved . The rope which I mentioned being pre- pared , there seemed some small degree of hope , though when the waves ran , they would bury it ten feet or more under water , for it was drawn so straight that it ...
... soul could not have been saved . The rope which I mentioned being pre- pared , there seemed some small degree of hope , though when the waves ran , they would bury it ten feet or more under water , for it was drawn so straight that it ...
Page 65
... soul to have landed . Nothing excited more aston- ishment than to comprehend how it was , that the two men who first jumped on the rocks , got from that place to the beach . At about 8 or 9 o'clock , some men got on the wreck , and soon ...
... soul to have landed . Nothing excited more aston- ishment than to comprehend how it was , that the two men who first jumped on the rocks , got from that place to the beach . At about 8 or 9 o'clock , some men got on the wreck , and soon ...
Page 68
... soul was lost . On the morning following , we took up our march and kept along in the woods , until past noon ; we then came upon the sea shore on the head of a bay called by Mr. Baggs , Distress bay . He told us that for the space of ...
... soul was lost . On the morning following , we took up our march and kept along in the woods , until past noon ; we then came upon the sea shore on the head of a bay called by Mr. Baggs , Distress bay . He told us that for the space of ...
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