Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life "Sweet Aubin, loveliest village of the plain, "Where health and plenty blest the frugal swain." Goldsmith. The small village of St. Aubin was the place of my birth; situated at the bottom of an open sandy bay, its beautiful prospects and delightful scenery can never be forgotten by those who have ever had the pleasure of seeing it. My father, a highly respectable master mariner, at the time of his union with my mother commanded one of the largest ships belonging to the Island; he had been a widower, and at her death his first wife left him a lovely boy, who, after himself was named Philip; this child shortly after the death of his mother was sent into the country to a brother of his mother, and seldom or ever visited us, so that at the age of four years, I was led to suppose myself an only child, and taught to look upon children of equal, if not superior rank as beneath me - I was not even allowed to play with them. No care or attention was spared to adorn my person or improve my mind; and by too great an indulgence from the very best of parents, who granted my every wish, my temper was ruined; and to a mistaken notion of affection, I may attribute many of those evils which have caused the misfortunes of my after years. I cannot proceed without laying the contrast before the reader. 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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