The Life of a Sailor (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Chamier, Frederick) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Life of a Sailor In offering the following pages to the Public, I cannot be actuated by overgrown vanity, nor instigated by author-like ambition: some portion of my Work has, in another form, already been published, and now appears with some of the scenes of a Sailor´s Life enlarged, and rendered, I hope, more interesting. Every scene is a scene of real life, not exaggerated; but the events which are here recorded actually occurred, and I may say truly, These eyes - these eyes beheld the fact. A sailor´s life is full of strange vicissitudes; some of us walk through our existence smoothly and quietly, mounting in our profession over the heads of more meritorious men than ourselves, unscarred by the enemy, and unwounded by misfortune. It is to others a road rugged with trouble, where pleasure is a stranger, and repose unknown; and where, like the fabled stone, no sooner do we think we have reached the summit, than we are hurled again to the bottom. It is a life, to some, of indescribable misery. How often have I seen a midshipman of forty-five years of age, and a lieutenant of sixty! From these poor fellows, destitute of worldly interest, and existing entirely by their miserable pay and ship´s allowance, the lighter hours of life are not entirely withheld; they find recreation in the merited abuse of their seniors, and fight the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar on the oak table, designating ships by drops of water, and the admirals by pieces of biscuit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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