| Mary Russell Mitford - 1811 - 368 pages
...scarcely possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connexions, should be led away ; especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labor, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond any thing that can be conceived.... | |
| 1925 - 948 pages
...possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connections, should be led away ; especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond anything that can be conceived."... | |
| Amasa Delano - 1817 - 622 pages
...sailors, most of them void of connexions, should be led away; especially ulten ia addi'Lt to such strong inducements they imagined it in their power to fix...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond any thing that can be conceived."... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pages
...possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connections, should be led away ; especially when, in addition to such powerful...power to fix themselves in the midst of plenty, on the finest island in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1831 - 400 pages
...possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connections, should be led away ; especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond anything that can be conceived.... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...scarcely possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connexions, should be led away ; especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond any thing that can be conceived.... | |
| William Bligh - 1838 - 86 pages
...scarcely possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connexions, should be led away : especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond anything that can be conceived.... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...scarcely possible to lave been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connexions, should be led away : especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labour, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond anything that can be conceived.... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1856 - 420 pages
...possible to have been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them void of connections, should be led away: especially when, in addition to such powerful...plenty, on one of the finest islands in the world, where they need not labor, and where the allurements of dissipation are beyond any thing that can be conceived.... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 264 pages
...been foreseen, that a set of sailors, most of them having no relations at home who could engage their thoughts, should have been led away; especially when,...the finest islands in the world, where, without any labor, the comforts of life are beyond anything that can be conceived. The most wonderful occurrence... | |
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