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" My friends did not originally design me for the sea, but bred me at school till I came to years fit for a trade. But upon the death of my father and mother, they who had the disposal of me took other measures ; and having... "
A New Voyage Round the World - Page 2
by William Dampier - 1699
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A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries

John Crawfurd - 1856 - 480 pages
...said to have been born in 1652. " My friends," says he, "did not originally design me for the sea. till I came to years fit for a trade. But upon the death of my father an 1 mother they who had the disposal of me took other measures, and having removed me from the Latin...
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The English Circumnavigators: The Most Remarkable Voyages Round the World by ...

David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 pages
...Campeachy Voyages are here prefixed to the " Voyage Round the World."] MY friends did not originally design me for the sea, but bred me at school till I came to years fit for a trade.1 But upon the death of my father and mother, they who had the disposal of me took other measures...
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All the Year Round, Volume 15; Volume 35

1876 - 636 pages
...about the middle of the seventeenth century. His friends did not originally design him for the sea, " but, upon the death of my father and mother, they, who had the disposal of me, took other measures, and, having removed me from the Latin School, to learn writing...
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The Naval Pioneers of Australia

Louis Becke, Walter Jeffery - 1899 - 384 pages
...1652 at East Coker, Somersetshire. Of his parents he tells us that "they did not originally design me for the sea, but bred me at school till I came of years fit for a trade. But upon the death of my mother they who had the disposal of me took other...
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Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a ..., Volume 2

William Dampier - 1906 - 694 pages
...Sea, and the Rambles I made till my setting out for Campeachy. My Friends did not originally design me for the Sea, but bred me at School till I came...the Death of my Father and Mother, they who had the disposal of me, took other Measures ; and having removed me from the Latin School to learn Writing...
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