The history of Margaret Catchpole [by R. Cobbold]. By R. Cobbold1858 |
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Bawdsey bless boat Brandiston brother Butley captain character Cliff coast-guard Cobbold cottage dear lady death door duty Edward England escape father fear feel Felixtow fellow felt female friends garet gave girl give Governor King hand happy hear heard heart honest honour hope horse Jack Barry John Barry John Cobbold John Cook John Luff kind knew land Laud Laud's letter Levington live look Lord lover madam Margaret Catchpole marry master mercy mind mistress Nacton never night numbered once Orwell pain Palmer person poor Margaret Pray present prisoner returned Richmond Hill Ripshaw river river Orwell sailor seen sent servant shore sister smugglers soon speak spirit Stebbing stood Sudbourn Suffolk Sydney tell thank things thought told took uncle whilst William William Laud wish woman words young Barry
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Seite 50 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall -have no need of spoil: she will do him good, and not evil, all the days of his life.
Seite 362 - An Act for the better apprehending, prosecuting, and punishing of felons that commit burglary, honsebreaking, or robbery, in shops, warehouses, coach-houses, or stables, or that steal horses...
Seite 291 - Dost not thou fear GOD, seeing thou art in the same condemnation ? And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but This Man hath done nothing amiss.
Seite 44 - It is supposed to have been built by Constantine the Great when he withdrew his legions from the frontier towns in the east of Britain, and built forts or castles to supply the want of them.
Seite 74 - Triumphant" with considerable attention; and while arguing on this his favorite topic, his quotations from thts author were just and apposite. His mind was so haunted with the dreams of charms and enchantments, as to fancy that he was continually under the influence of these mischievous tormentors. His arms and legs, nay almost his whole body, was encircled with the bones of horses, rings, amulets and characts, verses, words, Sfc. as spells and charms to protect him against their evil machinations....
Seite 247 - ... you stand committed upon your own confession, before two of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex, of having, on the night of the 23d of May last past, stolen from the stable of your late master, John Cobbold, Esq., of St. Margaret's Green, Ipswich, a strawberry roan-gray coach gelding, and of having rode the same from Ipswich to London that night ; and, being in the act of selling the horse next day following, when you were taken into custody. For this offence you now...
Seite 74 - On different parts of bis boat was to be seen the " horse shoe nailed," that most effective antidote against the power of witches. When conversing with him, he would describe to you that he saw them hovering about his person, and endeavouring, by all their arts, to punish and torment him. Though a wretched martyr to the fancies of a disordered imagination, his manners were mild and harmless, and his character honest and irreproachable. But however powerful and effective his charms might be to protect...
Seite 74 - But this employment, in its turn, he soon relinquished, and became a fisherman on the river Orwell. His little vessel (if vessel it might be called, for every part of it was his own handiwork) presented a curious specimen of naval patchwork, for his extreme poverty did not afford him the means of procuring proper materials.
Seite 74 - Though a wretched martyr to the fancies of a disordered iwagination, his manners were mild and harmless, and his character honest and irreproachable. But however powerful and effective -his charms might be to protect him from the agency of evil spirits, they did not prove sufficiently operative against the dangers of storm and tempest. For being unfortunately driven on the ooze by a violent storm on the 3rd of October 1811, he was seen and earnestly importuned to quit his crazy vessel; but, relying...
Seite 74 - For, being unfortunately driven on the ooze by a violent storm on the 3d of October, 1811, he was seen, and earnestly importuned to quit his crazy vessel ; but relying on the efficacy of his charms, he obstinately refused ; and the ebb of the tide drawing his bark off into deep water, his charms and his spells failed him, and poor Robinson sunk to rise no more.