This document is an autobiographical account describing the narrator's early life and what led to his first voyage overseas. It details how he was born in York, England in 1632 to a German father and English mother. Despite his father's wishes that he pursue a career in law, the narrator was determined to go to sea. His father gave him serious counsel against this decision, worried he would face miseries abroad. Nonetheless, the narrator eventually left home without permission at age 18 and embarked on a ship bound for London, only to face a terrible storm that made him regret his choice.
I have come into my garden, my sister, my
bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I
have eaten my honeycomb and my honey. She goes on to describe the beauty of her lover in each part of his body.
Vol. 3 scripture proverbs, illustrated, annotated, and appliedGLENN PEASE
NOTE: This rare book by a very popular Bible scholar of the past is now a collectors item that you can purchase for 49 dollars. This free copy has a number of spelling errors but it still conveys the full value of why it is so popular.
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A verse by verse commentary on Judges 14 dealing with the marriage of Samson to a Philistine woman, and the story of Samson killing the lion and killing 30 men for their clothes.
UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH.
Before my face the picture hangs,
That daily should put me in mind
Of those cold names and bitter pangs,
That shortly I am like to find :
But yet, alas, full little I
Do think hereon that I must die.
Hampton Keathley, “Psalm one is a wisdom Psalm. There are praise Psalms, lament Psalms, and enthronement Psalms and all contain wisdom, of course, but as an introduction and door to the rest of the Psalms, this Psalm declares in just a few words some of the most basic but
profound truths and propositions of the Bible. In essence, God says there are two ways of life open to us: one means blessedness, happiness, and fruitfulness, but the other means cursedness, unhappiness, and judgment. The choice is ours.
In Darkness 25
The Light-Bringer 41
The First-Fruits of Them that Slept 55
God Shall Give It a Body ... 69
How Shall We Think of the Dead ? 79
The Practice of Immortality . . 97
Picture-Teaching 109
1. IS MARRIAGE FOREVER? based on Matt. 22:23-33
2. GHOSTS OF THE GODLY Bases on Matt. 27:5-54
3. THE COINS OF THE BIBLE Based on Mark 12:41-44
4. THE REALITY OF ACCIDENTS Based on Luke 13:1-5
5. THANK GOD FOR GRANDPARENTS Based on II Tim. 1:1-7
6. GODLY GRANDPARENTS Based on Ruth 4:13-17
7. GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDCHILDREN Based on Psa. 128:1-6
8. THE SPIRIT OF SPORTS Based on Heb. 12:1-2
9. THE POWER OF MEMORY Based on Ex. 12:1-16
10. HARMLESS AS DOVES MATT. 10:16
11. TALKING TREES Based on Judges 9:7-15
12. HELPING THE HANDICAPPED Based on II Sam. 9:1-13
13. THE POWER OF MUSIC Based on Psa. 47
14. THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING Based on Isa. 1:1-17
15. PETS ARE FOREVER Based on Isa. 11:1-9
“This Psalm teaches, in the first place, that God subjects his Church to divers troubles and affections, to the end he may the better prove himself her deliverer and defender. The Psalmist, therefore, recalls to the memory of the faithful how sadly God's people had been persecuted in all ages, and how wonderfully they had been preserved, in order by such examples to fortify their hope in reference to the future."}
Imago christi the example of jesus christ.GLENN PEASE
’ IMITATION OF CHRIST 13
II. CHRIST IN TIIE HOME 35
III. CHRIST IN THE STATE ....... 55
IV. CHRIST IN THE CHURCH 7 1
V. CHRIST AS A FRIEND 91
VI, CHRISTEN SOCIETY IO9
I have come into my garden, my sister, my
bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I
have eaten my honeycomb and my honey. She goes on to describe the beauty of her lover in each part of his body.
Vol. 3 scripture proverbs, illustrated, annotated, and appliedGLENN PEASE
NOTE: This rare book by a very popular Bible scholar of the past is now a collectors item that you can purchase for 49 dollars. This free copy has a number of spelling errors but it still conveys the full value of why it is so popular.
It is pure pleasure to read this old scholar of the past.
A verse by verse commentary on Judges 14 dealing with the marriage of Samson to a Philistine woman, and the story of Samson killing the lion and killing 30 men for their clothes.
UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH.
Before my face the picture hangs,
That daily should put me in mind
Of those cold names and bitter pangs,
That shortly I am like to find :
But yet, alas, full little I
Do think hereon that I must die.
Hampton Keathley, “Psalm one is a wisdom Psalm. There are praise Psalms, lament Psalms, and enthronement Psalms and all contain wisdom, of course, but as an introduction and door to the rest of the Psalms, this Psalm declares in just a few words some of the most basic but
profound truths and propositions of the Bible. In essence, God says there are two ways of life open to us: one means blessedness, happiness, and fruitfulness, but the other means cursedness, unhappiness, and judgment. The choice is ours.
In Darkness 25
The Light-Bringer 41
The First-Fruits of Them that Slept 55
God Shall Give It a Body ... 69
How Shall We Think of the Dead ? 79
The Practice of Immortality . . 97
Picture-Teaching 109
1. IS MARRIAGE FOREVER? based on Matt. 22:23-33
2. GHOSTS OF THE GODLY Bases on Matt. 27:5-54
3. THE COINS OF THE BIBLE Based on Mark 12:41-44
4. THE REALITY OF ACCIDENTS Based on Luke 13:1-5
5. THANK GOD FOR GRANDPARENTS Based on II Tim. 1:1-7
6. GODLY GRANDPARENTS Based on Ruth 4:13-17
7. GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDCHILDREN Based on Psa. 128:1-6
8. THE SPIRIT OF SPORTS Based on Heb. 12:1-2
9. THE POWER OF MEMORY Based on Ex. 12:1-16
10. HARMLESS AS DOVES MATT. 10:16
11. TALKING TREES Based on Judges 9:7-15
12. HELPING THE HANDICAPPED Based on II Sam. 9:1-13
13. THE POWER OF MUSIC Based on Psa. 47
14. THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING Based on Isa. 1:1-17
15. PETS ARE FOREVER Based on Isa. 11:1-9
“This Psalm teaches, in the first place, that God subjects his Church to divers troubles and affections, to the end he may the better prove himself her deliverer and defender. The Psalmist, therefore, recalls to the memory of the faithful how sadly God's people had been persecuted in all ages, and how wonderfully they had been preserved, in order by such examples to fortify their hope in reference to the future."}
Imago christi the example of jesus christ.GLENN PEASE
’ IMITATION OF CHRIST 13
II. CHRIST IN TIIE HOME 35
III. CHRIST IN THE STATE ....... 55
IV. CHRIST IN THE CHURCH 7 1
V. CHRIST AS A FRIEND 91
VI, CHRISTEN SOCIETY IO9
9 Augustine Confessions (selections) Augustine of Hi.docxpriestmanmable
9 Augustine
Confessions
(selections)
Augustine of Hippo wrote his Confessions between 397 -400 CE. In it he gives an
autobiographical account of his whole life up through his conversion to Christianity.
In Book 2, excerpted here, he thinks over the passions and temptations of his youth,
especially during a period where he had to come home from where he was studying
and return to living with his parents. His mother Monica was already Christian and
his father was considering it. They want him to be academically successful and
become a great orator.
From Augustine, Confessions. Translated by Caroline J-B Hammond. Loeb Classical
Library Harvard University Press 2014
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1. (1) I wish to put on record the disgusting deeds in which I engaged, and
the corrupting effect of sensual experience on my soul, not because I love
them, but so that I may love you, my God. I do this because of my love for
your love, to the end that—as I recall my wicked, wicked ways in the
bitterness of recollection—you may grow even sweeter to me. For you are
a sweetness which does not deceive, a sweetness which brings happiness
and peace, pulling me back together from the disintegration in which I was
being shattered and torn apart, when I turned away from you who are unity
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and dispersed into the multiplicity that is oblivion. For there was a time
during my adolescence when I burned to have my fill of hell. I ran wild and
reckless in all manner of shady liaisons, and my outward appearance
deteriorated, and I degenerated before your eyes as I went on pleasing
myself and desiring to appear pleasing in human sight.
2. (2) What was it that used to delight me, if not loving and being loved? But
there was no boundary maintained between one mind and another, and
reaching only as far as the clear confines of friendship. Instead the slime
of fleshly desire and the spurts of adolescence belched out their fumes,
and these clouded and obscured my heart, so that it was impossible to
distinguish the purity of love from the darkness of lust. Both of them
together seethed in me, dragging my immaturity over the heights of bodily
desire, and plunging me down into a whirlpool of sin. Your anger grew
strong against me, but I was unaware of it. I had been deafened by the
loud grinding of the chain of my mortality, the punishment for the pride of
my soul, and I went even further away from yo.
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9 Augustine
Confessions
(selections)
Augustine of Hippo wrote his Confessions between 397 -400 CE. In it he gives an
autobiographical account of his whole life up through his conversion to Christianity.
In Book 2, excerpted here, he thinks over the passions and temptations of his youth,
especially during a period where he had to come home from where he was studying
and return to living with his parents. His mother Monica was already Christian and
his father was considering it. They want him to be academically successful and
become a great orator.
From Augustine, Confessions. Translated by Caroline J-B Hammond. Loeb Classical
Library Harvard University Press 2014
(Links to an external site.)
.
1. (1) I wish to put on record the disgusting deeds in which I engaged, and
the corrupting effect of sensual experience on my soul, not because I love
them, but so that I may love you, my God. I do this because of my love for
your love, to the end that—as I recall my wicked, wicked ways in the
bitterness of recollection—you may grow even sweeter to me. For you are
a sweetness which does not deceive, a sweetness which brings happiness
and peace, pulling me back together from the disintegration in which I was
being shattered and torn apart, when I turned away from you who are unity
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and dispersed into the multiplicity that is oblivion. For there was a time
during my adolescence when I burned to have my fill of hell. I ran wild and
reckless in all manner of shady liaisons, and my outward appearance
deteriorated, and I degenerated before your eyes as I went on pleasing
myself and desiring to appear pleasing in human sight.
2. (2) What was it that used to delight me, if not loving and being loved? But
there was no boundary maintained between one mind and another, and
reaching only as far as the clear confines of friendship. Instead the slime
of fleshly desire and the spurts of adolescence belched out their fumes,
and these clouded and obscured my heart, so that it was impossible to
distinguish the purity of love from the darkness of lust. Both of them
together seethed in me, dragging my immaturity over the heights of bodily
desire, and plunging me down into a whirlpool of sin. Your anger grew
strong against me, but I was unaware of it. I had been deafened by the
loud grinding of the chain of my mortality, the punishment for the pride of
my soul, and I went even further away from yo.
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THE
INTERESTING NARRATIVE
OF
THE LIFE
OF
OLAUDAH EQUIANO,
OR
GUSTAVUS VASSA,
THE AFRICAN.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
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.
And in that shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his
name, declare his doings among the people. Isaiah xii. 2, 4.
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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
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Everyman, 15th Century
Everyman is late-15th-century English morality play. Called by Death,
Everyman can persuade none of his friends - Beauty, Kindred, Worldly Goods - to go with
him, except Good Deeds.
Characters
Everyman-------------------------Strength
God: Adonai----------------------Discretion
Death-----------------------------Five-Wits
Messenger------------------------Beauty
Fellowship------------------------Knowledge
Cousin----------------------------Confession
Kindred---------------------------Angel
Goods-----------------------------Doctor
Good-Deeds
HERE BEGINETH A TREATISE HOW THE HIGH FATHER OH HEAVEN SENDETH DEATH TO SUMMON EVERY
CREATURE TO COME AND GIVE ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES IN THIS WORLD AND IS IN MANNER OF A MORAL
PLAY.
Messenger: I pray you all give your audience,
And here this matter with reverence,
By figure a moral play-
The Summoning of Everyman called it is,
That of our lives and ending shows
How transitory we be all day.
This matter is wonderous precious,
But the intent of it is more gracious,
And sweet to bear away.
The story saith,-Man, in the beginning,
Look well, and take good heed to the ending,
Be you never so gay!
Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet,
Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep,
When the body lieth in clay.
Here shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity,
Both Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty,
Will fade from thee as flower in May.
For ye shall here, how our heavenly king
Calleth Everyman to a general reckoning:
Give audience, and here what he doth say.
God: I perceive
here in my majesty,
How that all the creatures be to me unkind,
Living without dread in worldly prosperity:
Of ghostly sight the people be so blind,
Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God;
In worldly riches is all their mind,
They fear not my rightwiseness, the sharp rod;
My law that I shewed, when I for them died,
They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;
I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;
To get them life I suffered to be dead;
I healed their feet; wi ...
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Self-Reliance
from Essays: First Series (1841)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ne te quaesiveris extra."
"Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune
Cast the bantling on the rocks,
Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat;
Wintered with the hawk and fox,
Power and speed be hands and feet.
ESSAY II Self-Reliance
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents..
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Notes from the Underground
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
PART I
Underground*
*The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled "Underground," this person introduces himself and his views, and, as it were, tries to explain the causes owing to which he has made his appearance and was bound to make his appearance in our midst. In the second fragment there are added the actual notes of this person concerning certain events in his life.--AUTHOR'S NOTE.
I
I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!
I have been going on like that for a long time--twenty years. Now I am forty. I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official. I was rude and took pleasure in being so. I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least. (A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I wrote it thinking it would sound very witty; but now that I have seen myself that I only wanted to show off in a despicable way, I will not scratch it out on purpose!)
When petitioners used to come for information to the table at which I sat, I used to grind my teeth at them, and felt intense enjoyment when I succeeded in making anybody unhappy. I almost did succeed. For the most part they were all timid people--of course, they were petitioners. But of the uppish ones there was one officer in particular I could not endure. He simply would not be humble, and clanked his sword in a disgusting way. I carried on a feud with him for eighteen months over that sword. At last I got the better of him. He left off clanking it. That happened in my youth, though.
But do you know, gentlemen, what was the chief point about my s.
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa the African
Olaudah Equiano
Chapter Two
I hope the reader will not think I have
trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners and
customs of my country. They had been implanted
in me with great care, and made an impression on
my mind, which time could not erase, and which
all the adversity and variety of fortune I have since experienced served only to rivet and record; for, whether the love of one's country be real or
imaginary, or a lesson of reason, or an instinct of
nature, I still look back with pleasure on the first
scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been
for the most part mingled with sorrow.
I have already acquainted the reader with the
time and place of my birth. My father, besides
many slaves, had a numerous family, of which
seven lived to grow up, including myself and a
sister, who was the only daughter. As I was the
youngest of the sons, I became, of course, the
greatest favourite with my mother, and was
always with her; and she used to take particular
pains to form my mind. I was trained up from my
earliest years in the art of war; my daily exercise
was shooting and throwing. javelins; and my
mother adorned me with emblems, after the
manner of our greatest warriors. In this way I
grew up till I was turned the age of eleven, when
an end was put to my happiness in the following
manner:-Generally when the grown people in
the neighbourhood were gone far in the fields to
labour, thechildren assembled together in some of the neighbours' premises to play; and commonly some of us used to get up a tree to look out for any assailant, or kidnapper, that might come upon us; for they sometimes took those opportunities of our parents' absence to attack and carry off as many as they could seize. One day, as I was watching at the top of a tree in our yard, I saw one of those people come into the yard of ournext neighbour but one, to kidnap, there being many stout young people in it. Immediately on this I gave the alarm of the rogue, and he was surrounded by the stoutest of them, who entangled him with cords, so that he could not escape till some of the grown people came and secured him. But alas! ere long it was my fate to be thus attacked, and to be carried off, when none of the grown people were nigh. One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, and, without giving us time to cry out, or make resistance, they stopped our mouths, and ran off
with us into the nearest wood. Here they tied our
hands, and continued to carry us as far as they
could, till night came on, when we reached a small house, where the robbers halted for refreshment, and spent the night. We were then unbound, but were unable to take any food; and, being quite overpowered by fatigue and grief ...
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Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson
'Now,' said the doctor, 'my part is done, and, I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous city, and to give you two months of a pure air and an easy conscience. The last is your affair. To the first I think I can help you. It fells indeed rather oddly; it was but the other day the Padre came in from the country; and as he and I are old friends, although of contrary professions, he applied to me in a matter of distress among some of his parishioners. This was a family - but you are ignorant of Spain, and even the names of our grandees are hardly known to you; suffice it, then, that they were once great people, and are now fallen to the brink of destitution. Nothing now belongs to them but the residencia, and certain leagues of desert mountain, in the greater part of which not even a goat could support life. But the house is a fine old place, and stands at a great height among the hills, and most salubriously; and I had no sooner heard my friend's tale, than I remembered you. I told him I had a wounded officer, wounded in the good cause, who was now able to make a change; and I proposed that his friends should take you for a lodger. Instantly the Padre's face grew dark, as I had maliciously foreseen it would. It was out of the question, he said. Then let them starve, said I, for I have no sympathy with tatterdemalion pride. There-upon we separated, not very content with one another; but yesterday, to my wonder, the Padre returned and made a submission: the difficulty, he said, he had found upon enquiry to be less than he had feared; or, in other words, these proud people had put their pride in their pocket. I closed with the offer; and, subject to your approval, I have taken rooms for you in the residencia. The air of these mountains will renew your
blood; and the quiet in which you will there live is worth all the medicines in the world.'
'Doctor,' said I, 'you have been throughout my good angel, and your advice is a command. But tell me, if you please, something of the family with which I am to reside.'
'I am coming to that,' replied my friend; 'and, indeed, there is a difficulty in the way. These beggars are, as I have said, of very high descent and swollen with the most baseless vanity; they have lived for some generations in a growing isolation, drawing away, on either hand, from the rich who had now become too high for them, and from the poor, whom they still regarded as too low; and even to-day, when poverty forces them to unfasten their door to a guest, they cannot do so without a most ungracious stipulation. You are to remain, they say, a stranger; they will give you attendance, but they refuse from the first the idea of the smallest intimacy.'
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1. Start In Life.
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family,
though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen,
who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and
leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had
married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very
good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson
Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are
now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and
so my companions always called me.
I had two elder brothers, one of whom was lieutenant-colonel to an
English regiment of foot in Flanders, formerly commanded by the
famous Colonel Lockhart, and was killed at the battle near Dunkirk
against the Spaniards. What became of my second brother I never
knew, any more than my father or mother knew what became of me.
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head
began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who
was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far
as house-education and a country free school generally go, and
designed me for the law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but
going to sea; and my inclination to this led me so strongly against the
will, nay, the commands of my father, and against all the entreaties
and persuasions of my mother and other friends, that there seemed to
be something fatal in that propensity of nature, tending directly to the
life of misery which was to befall me.
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent
counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one
morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and
expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me
what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for
leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well
introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application
and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. He told me it was men
of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on
the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise,
and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the
common road; that these things were all either too far above me or
too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be
called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long
experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human
2. happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and
sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with
the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind. He
told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing -
viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that
kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being
born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of
the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise
man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he
prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of
life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that
the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so
many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they
were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of
body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and
extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of
necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring
distemper upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way
of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of
virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the
handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation,
quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable
pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that
this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and
comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands
or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor
harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace
and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the
secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy
circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting
the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy,
and learning by every day's experience to know it more sensibly,
After this he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate
manner, not to play the young man, nor to precipitate myself into
miseries which nature, and the station of life I was born in, seemed to
have provided against; that I was under no necessity of seeking my
bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly
into the station of life which he had just been recommending to me;
and that if I was not very easy and happy in the world, it must be my
mere fate or fault that must hinder it; and that he should have nothing
to answer for, having thus discharged his duty in warning me against
3. measures which he knew would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he
would do very kind things for me if I would stay and settle at home as
he directed, so he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as
to give me any encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told
me I had my elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the
same earnest persuasions to keep him from going into the Low
Country wars, but could not prevail, his young desires prompting him
to run into the army, where he was killed; and though he said he
would not cease to pray for me, yet he would venture to say to me,
that if I did take this foolish step, God would not bless me, and I
should have leisure hereafter to reflect upon having neglected his
counsel when there might be none to assist in my recovery.
I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly prophetic,
though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself - I say, I
observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, especially when
he spoke of my brother who was killed: and that when he spoke of my
having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that
he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full he could
say no more to me.
I was sincerely affected with this discourse, and, indeed, who could be
otherwise? and I resolved not to think of going abroad any more, but
to settle at home according to my father's desire. But alas! a few days
wore it all off; and, in short, to prevent any of my father's further
importunities, in a few weeks after I resolved to run quite away from
him. However, I did not act quite so hastily as the first heat of my
resolution prompted; but I took my mother at a time when I thought
her a little more pleasant than ordinary, and told her that my thoughts
were so entirely bent upon seeing the world that I should never settle
to anything with resolution enough to go through with it, and my
father had better give me his consent than force me to go without it;
that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice
to a trade or clerk to an attorney; that I was sure if I did I should
never serve out my time, but I should certainly run away from my
master before my time was out, and go to sea; and if she would speak
to my father to let me go one voyage abroad, if I came home again,
and did not like it, I would go no more; and I would promise, by a
double diligence, to recover the time that I had lost.
This put my mother into a great passion; she told me she knew it
would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject;
that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to
anything so much for my hurt; and that she wondered how I could
4. think of any such thing after the discourse I had had with my father,
and such kind and tender expressions as she knew my father had used
to me; and that, in short, if I would ruin myself, there was no help for
me; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it; that
for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction; and I
should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my
father was not.
Though my mother refused to move it to my father, yet I heard
afterwards that she reported all the discourse to him, and that my
father, after showing a great concern at it, said to her, with a sigh,
"That boy might be happy if he would stay at home; but if he goes
abroad, he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born: I can
give no consent to it."
It was not till almost a year after this that I broke loose, though, in the
meantime, I continued obstinately deaf to all proposals of settling to
business, and frequently expostulated with my father and mother
about their being so positively determined against what they knew my
inclinations prompted me to. But being one day at Hull, where I went
casually, and without any purpose of making an elopement at that
time; but, I say, being there, and one of my companions being about
to sail to London in his father's ship, and prompting me to go with
them with the common allurement of seafaring men, that it should
cost me nothing for my passage, I consulted neither father nor mother
any more, nor so much as sent them word of it; but leaving them to
hear of it as they might, without asking God's blessing or my father's,
without any consideration of circumstances or consequences, and in an
ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September 1651, I went on board a
ship bound for London. Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I
believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine. The ship was no
sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to
rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea
before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind. I
began now seriously to reflect upon what I had done, and how justly I
was overtaken by the judgment of Heaven for my wicked leaving my
father's house, and abandoning my duty. All the good counsels of my
parents, my father's tears and my mother's entreaties, came now
fresh into my mind; and my conscience, which was not yet come to
the pitch of hardness to which it has since, reproached me with the
contempt of advice, and the breach of my duty to God and my father.
All this while the storm increased, and the sea went very high, though
nothing like what I have seen many times since; no, nor what I saw a
5. few days after; but it was enough to affect me then, who was but a
young sailor, and had never known anything of the matter. I expected
every wave would have swallowed us up, and that every time the ship
fell down, as I thought it did, in the trough or hollow of the sea, we
should never rise more; in this agony of mind, I made many vows and
resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one
voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go
directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I
lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such
miseries as these any more. Now I saw plainly the goodness of his
observations about the middle station of life, how easy, how
comfortably he had lived all his days, and never had been exposed to
tempests at sea or troubles on shore; and I resolved that I would, like
a true repenting prodigal, go home to my father.
These wise and sober thoughts continued all the while the storm
lasted, and indeed some time after; but the next day the wind was
abated, and the sea calmer, and I began to be a little inured to it;
however, I was very grave for all that day, being also a little sea-sick
still; but towards night the weather cleared up, the wind was quite
over, and a charming fine evening followed; the sun went down
perfectly clear, and rose so the next morning; and having little or no
wind, and a smooth sea, the sun shining upon it, the sight was, as I
thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.
I had slept well in the night, and was now no more sea-sick, but very
cheerful, looking with wonder upon the sea that was so rough and
terrible the day before, and could be so calm and so pleasant in so
little a time after. And now, lest my good resolutions should continue,
my companion, who had enticed me away, comes to me; "Well, Bob,"
says he, clapping me upon the shoulder, "how do you do after it? I
warrant you were frighted, wer'n't you, last night, when it blew but a
capful of wind?" "A capful d'you call it?" said I; "'twas a terrible
storm." "A storm, you fool you," replies he; "do you call that a storm?
why, it was nothing at all; give us but a good ship and sea-room, and
we think nothing of such a squall of wind as that; but you're but a
fresh-water sailor, Bob. Come, let us make a bowl of punch, and we'll
forget all that; d'ye see what charming weather 'tis now?" To make
short this sad part of my story, we went the way of all sailors; the
punch was made and I was made half drunk with it: and in that one
night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance, all my reflections
upon my past conduct, all my resolutions for the future. In a word, as
the sea was returned to its smoothness of surface and settled
calmness by the abatement of that storm, so the hurry of my thoughts
6. being over, my fears and apprehensions of being swallowed up by the
sea being forgotten, and the current of my former desires returned, I
entirely forgot the vows and promises that I made in my distress. I
found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts
did, as it were, endeavour to return again sometimes; but I shook
them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper,
and applying myself to drinking and company, soon mastered the
return of those fits - for so I called them; and I had in five or six days
got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that
resolved not to be troubled with it could desire. But I was to have
another trial for it still; and Providence, as in such cases generally it
does, resolved to leave me entirely without excuse; for if I would not
take this for a deliverance, the next was to be such a one as the worst
and most hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger
and the mercy of.
The sixth day of our being at sea we came into Yarmouth Roads; the
wind having been contrary and the weather calm, we had made but
little way since the storm. Here we were obliged to come to an anchor,
and here we lay, the wind continuing contrary - viz. at south-west - for
seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from
Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where
the ships might wait for a wind for the river.
We had not, however, rid here so long but we should have tided it up
the river, but that the wind blew too fresh, and after we had lain four
or five days, blew very hard. However, the Roads being reckoned as
good as a harbour, the anchorage good, and our ground- tackle very
strong, our men were unconcerned, and not in the least apprehensive
of danger, but spent the time in rest and mirth, after the manner of
the sea; but the eighth day, in the morning, the wind increased, and
we had all hands at work to strike our topmasts, and make everything
snug and close, that the ship might ride as easy as possible. By noon
the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped
several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come
home; upon which our master ordered out the sheet-anchor, so that
we rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the
bitter end.
By this time it blew a terrible storm indeed; and now I began to see
terror and amazement in the faces even of the seamen themselves.
The master, though vigilant in the business of preserving the ship, yet
as he went in and out of his cabin by me, I could hear him softly to
himself say, several times, "Lord be merciful to us! we shall be all lost!
7. we shall be all undone!" and the like. During these first hurries I was
stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot
describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had
so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought
the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing
like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just
now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted. I got up
out of my cabin and looked out; but such a dismal sight I never saw:
the sea ran mountains high, and broke upon us every three or four
minutes; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress
round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts
by the board, being deep laden; and our men cried out that a ship
which rode about a mile ahead of us was foundered. Two more ships,
being driven from their anchors, were run out of the Roads to sea, at
all adventures, and that with not a mast standing. The light ships fared
the best, as not so much labouring in the sea; but two or three of
them drove, and came close by us, running away with only their
spritsail out before the wind.
Towards evening the mate and boatswain begged the master of our
ship to let them cut away the fore-mast, which he was very unwilling
to do; but the boatswain protesting to him that if he did not the ship
would founder, he consented; and when they had cut away the fore-
mast, the main-mast stood so loose, and shook the ship so much, they
were obliged to cut that away also, and make a clear deck.
Any one may judge what a condition I must be in at all this, who was
but a young sailor, and who had been in such a fright before at but a
little. But if I can express at this distance the thoughts I had about me
at that time, I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my
former convictions, and the having returned from them to the
resolutions I had wickedly taken at first, than I was at death itself; and
these, added to the terror of the storm, put me into such a condition
that I can by no words describe it. But the worst was not come yet;
the storm continued with such fury that the seamen themselves
acknowledged they had never seen a worse. We had a good ship, but
she was deep laden, and wallowed in the sea, so that the seamen
every now and then cried out she would founder. It was my advantage
in one respect, that I did not know what they meant by FOUNDER till I
inquired. However, the storm was so violent that I saw, what is not
often seen, the master, the boatswain, and some others more sensible
than the rest, at their prayers, and expecting every moment when the
ship would go to the bottom. In the middle of the night, and under all
the rest of our distresses, one of the men that had been down to see
8. cried out we had sprung a leak; another said there was four feet water
in the hold. Then all hands were called to the pump. At that word, my
heart, as I thought, died within me: and I fell backwards upon the side
of my bed where I sat, into the cabin. However, the men roused me,
and told me that I, that was able to do nothing before, was as well
able to pump as another; at which I stirred up and went to the pump,
and worked very heartily. While this was doing the master, seeing
some light colliers, who, not able to ride out the storm were obliged to
slip and run away to sea, and would come near us, ordered to fire a
gun as a signal of distress. I, who knew nothing what they meant,
thought the ship had broken, or some dreadful thing happened. In a
word, I was so surprised that I fell down in a swoon. As this was a
time when everybody had his own life to think of, nobody minded me,
or what was become of me; but another man stepped up to the pump,
and thrusting me aside with his foot, let me lie, thinking I had been
dead; and it was a great while before I came to myself.
We worked on; but the water increasing in the hold, it was apparent
that the ship would founder; and though the storm began to abate a
little, yet it was not possible she could swim till we might run into any
port; so the master continued firing guns for help; and a light ship,
who had rid it out just ahead of us, ventured a boat out to help us. It
was with the utmost hazard the boat came near us; but it was
impossible for us to get on board, or for the boat to lie near the ship's
side, till at last the men rowing very heartily, and venturing their lives
to save ours, our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to
it, and then veered it out a great length, which they, after much labour
and hazard, took hold of, and we hauled them close under our stern,
and got all into their boat. It was to no purpose for them or us, after
we were in the boat, to think of reaching their own ship; so all agreed
to let her drive, and only to pull her in towards shore as much as we
could; and our master promised them, that if the boat was staved
upon shore, he would make it good to their master: so partly rowing
and partly driving, our boat went away to the northward, sloping
towards the shore almost as far as Winterton Ness.
We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship till
we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was
meant by a ship foundering in the sea. I must acknowledge I had
hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for
from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I
might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me,
partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what
was yet before me.
9. While we were in this condition - the men yet labouring at the oar to
bring the boat near the shore - we could see (when, our boat
mounting the waves, we were able to see the shore) a great many
people running along the strand to assist us when we should come
near; but we made but slow way towards the shore; nor were we able
to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the
shore falls off to the westward towards Cromer, and so the land broke
off a little the violence of the wind. Here we got in, and though not
without much difficulty, got all safe on shore, and walked afterwards
on foot to Yarmouth, where, as unfortunate men, we were used with
great humanity, as well by the magistrates of the town, who assigned
us good quarters, as by particular merchants and owners of ships, and
had money given us sufficient to carry us either to London or back to
Hull as we thought fit.
Had I now had the sense to have gone back to Hull, and have gone
home, I had been happy, and my father, as in our blessed Saviour's
parable, had even killed the fatted calf for me; for hearing the ship I
went away in was cast away in Yarmouth Roads, it was a great while
before he had any assurances that I was not drowned.
But my ill fate pushed me on now with an obstinacy that nothing could
resist; and though I had several times loud calls from my reason and
my more composed judgment to go home, yet I had no power to do it.
I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret overruling
decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own
destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with
our eyes open. Certainly, nothing but some such decreed unavoidable
misery, which it was impossible for me to escape, could have pushed
me forward against the calm reasonings and persuasions of my most
retired thoughts, and against two such visible instructions as I had met
with in my first attempt.
My comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the
master's son, was now less forward than I. The first time he spoke to
me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days,
for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first
time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very
melancholy, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling
his father who I was, and how I had come this voyage only for a trial,
in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very
grave and concerned tone "Young man," says he, "you ought never to
go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible
token that you are not to be a seafaring man." "Why, sir," said I, "will
10. you go to sea no more?" "That is another case," said he; "it is my
calling, and therefore my duty; but as you made this voyage on trial,
you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect
if you persist. Perhaps this has all befallen us on your account, like
Jonah in the ship of Tarshish. Pray," continues he, "what are you; and
on what account did you go to sea?" Upon that I told him some of my
story; at the end of which he burst out into a strange kind of passion:
"What had I done," says he, "that such an unhappy wretch should
come into my ship? I would not set my foot in the same ship with thee
again for a thousand pounds." This indeed was, as I said, an excursion
of his spirits, which were yet agitated by the sense of his loss, and was
farther than he could have authority to go. However, he afterwards
talked very gravely to me, exhorting me to go back to my father, and
not tempt Providence to my ruin, telling me I might see a visible hand
of Heaven against me. "And, young man," said he, "depend upon it, if
you do not go back, wherever you go, you will meet with nothing but
disasters and disappointments, till your father's words are fulfilled
upon you."
We parted soon after; for I made him little answer, and I saw him no
more; which way he went I knew not. As for me, having some money
in my pocket, I travelled to London by land; and there, as well as on
the road, had many struggles with myself what course of life I should
take, and whether I should go home or to sea.
As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my
thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed
at among the neighbours, and should be ashamed to see, not my
father and mother only, but even everybody else; from whence I have
since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common
temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought
to guide them in such cases - viz. that they are not ashamed to sin,
and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which
they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the
returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.
In this state of life, however, I remained some time, uncertain what
measures to take, and what course of life to lead. An irresistible
reluctance continued to going home; and as I stayed away a while, the
remembrance of the distress I had been in wore off, and as that
abated, the little motion I had in my desires to return wore off with it,
till at last I quite laid aside the thoughts of it, and looked out for a
voyage.