Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat Author
by Frederick Marryat
2021-04-03 14:06:34
Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat Author
by Frederick Marryat
2021-04-03 14:06:34
My Birth, Parentage, and Family Pretensions-Unfortunately I prove to be a Detrimental orYounger Son, which is remedied by a trifling accident-I hardly receive the first elements ofscience from my Father, when the elements conspire against me, and I a...
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My Birth, Parentage, and Family Pretensions-Unfortunately I prove to be a Detrimental orYounger Son, which is remedied by a trifling accident-I hardly receive the first elements ofscience from my Father, when the elements conspire against me, and I am left an Orphan.Gentle reader, I was born upon the water-not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the freshand rapid-flowing river. It was in a floating sort of box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames,at low water, when I first smelt the mud. This lighter was manned (an expression amounting tobullism, if not construed kind-ly) by my father, my mother, and your humble servant. My father hadthe sole charge-he was monarch of the deck: my mother, of course, was queen, and I was the heirapparent.
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