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My brother was taken into custody , censured , and ordered into confinement for a
month , because , I presume , he would not discover the author . d was also taken
up , and examined before the council ; but , though I gave thein no satisfaction ...
My brother was taken into custody , censured , and ordered into confinement for a
month , because , I presume , he would not discover the author . d was also taken
up , and examined before the council ; but , though I gave thein no satisfaction ...
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that if I attempted to depart openly , ineasures would be taken to prevent me . My
friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my pas . sage with a
captain of a New - York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of
his ...
that if I attempted to depart openly , ineasures would be taken to prevent me . My
friend Collins undertook to favour my flight . He agreed for my pas . sage with a
captain of a New - York sloop , to whom he represented me as a young man of
his ...
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This immersion sobered him a little , so that he fell asleep , after having taken
from his pocket a volume which he requested me to dry . This volume I found to
be my old favourite work , Bunyan ' s Pilgrim , in Dutch , a beautiful impression on
...
This immersion sobered him a little , so that he fell asleep , after having taken
from his pocket a volume which he requested me to dry . This volume I found to
be my old favourite work , Bunyan ' s Pilgrim , in Dutch , a beautiful impression on
...
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... I had quitted my home . I made besides so wretched a figure , that I was
suspected to be some runaway servant . This I discovered by the questions that
were asked me ; and I felt that I was every moment in danger of being taken up as
such .
... I had quitted my home . I made besides so wretched a figure , that I was
suspected to be some runaway servant . This I discovered by the questions that
were asked me ; and I felt that I was every moment in danger of being taken up as
such .
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I did not however go , and it was well I did not ; for the next day , the captain ,
missing a silver spoon and some other things which had been taken from the
cabin , and knowing these women to be prostitutes , procured a search - warrant ,
found ...
I did not however go , and it was well I did not ; for the next day , the captain ,
missing a silver spoon and some other things which had been taken from the
cabin , and knowing these women to be prostitutes , procured a search - warrant ,
found ...
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