The Norwegian sailor: a sketch of the life of G. Noscoe, written by himself1850 |
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accordingly anchor arrived safe ashore asked Bay of Bengal began blessed boat brig cabin called captain cargo cellar Christ clothes colour crimp crying deck dinner door drunk drunkard drunken English fire five four frigate gale of wind gave George Gibraltar give guns hands harbour heard hoisted inquired intoxicating drink Isle of France John's king King's Dock knees knew landlord Liverpool lodgings London looking Lord lying Madagascar Malta mate Memel mercy Methodist Misbay months morning natives never night o'clock passage perceived Pictou Pitt-street Chapel pounds pray prayer promised public house Quebec ready for sea rigging royal sails sailors Salonica sent set sail shillings ship shipmates shore sins sloop-of-war Smyrna soon soul stop Sunday thing thought three weeks told took topgallant sails Total Abstinence tract tree Truro underweigh vessel voyage wages wanted Whitehaven wife wood
Popular passages
Page 82 - Though all my crimes before thee lie, . Behold them not with angry look, But blot their memory from thy book. 2 Create my nature pure within, And form my soul averse to sin : Let thy good Spirit ne'er depart, Nor hide thy presence from my heart.
Page 85 - For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 90 - O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 82 - THOU, that hear'st when sinners cry Though all my crimes before thee lie, Behold them not with angry look, But blot their memory from thy book. 2 Create my nature pure within, And form my soul averse to sin : Let thy good...
Page 90 - ARISE, my soul, arise ; Shake off thy guilty fears ; The bleeding Sacrifice In my behalf appears : Before the throne my Surety stands, My name is written on his hands. 2 He ever lives above, For me to intercede ; His all-redeeming love, His precious blood, to plead ; His blood atoned for all our race, And sprinkles now the throne of grace. 3...
Page 82 - A broken heart, my God, my King, Is all the sacrifice I bring ; The God of grace will ne'er despise A broken heart for sacrifice. 6 My soul lies humbled in the dust, And owns thy dreadful sentence just ; Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye, And save the soul condemned to die.
Page 82 - Though I have grieved Thy Spirit, Lord, His help and comfort still afford : And let a wretch come near Thy throne, To plead the merits of Thy Son. 5 A...
Page 75 - He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Page 107 - And he my rising sun. 3 The opening heavens around me shine With beams of sacred bliss, While Jesus shows his heart is mine, And whispers, I am his ! 4 My soul would leave this heavy clay, At that transporting word ; Run up with joy the shining way, T...
Page 100 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.