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817193 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Under the circumstances, he said,"
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work Thou didst their days, in the times of old."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our liturgy was must be acknowledged as the singular work of the providence of God. In its services it represents the Church of the English-speaking race. The exhortation to pray for the child to be baptized, the direction to put pure water into the font at each baptism, the sign of the cross, the words of the reception of the baptized, the joining of hands in holy matrimony, the"
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are as near heaven by sea as by land. The mantle of Gilbert fell on Sir Walter Raleigh, who was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to bear the evangel of God's love to the New World. The faith behind the adventures of these men is seen in a woodcut of Raleigh's vessels at anchor; a pinnace, with a man at the mast-head bearing a cross, approaching the shore with the message of the Gospel. To some of us whose hearts have been touched with pity for the red men, its is a beautiful incident that the first baptism on these shores was that of an Indian chief, Mateo, on the banks of the Roanoke. In May, 1607, the first services on the shore of New England were held by the Rev. Richard Seymour. Missionary services in the wilderness were not unlike those of our pioneer bishops."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We did hang an awning to the trees to shield us from the sun, our walls were rails of wood, our seats unhewed trees, our pulpit a bar of wood--this was our 'church.' It was in this church that the Rev. Robert Hunt celebrated the first communion in Virginia, June 21, 1607. The missionary spirit of the times is seen when Lord De la Warr and his companions went in procession to the Temple Church in London to receive the Holy Communion. The Rev. Richard Crashaw said in his sermon:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go forward in the strength of the Lord, look not for wealth, look only for the things of the kingdom of God--you go to win the heathen to the Gospel. Practise it yourselves. Make the name of Christ honorable. What blessings any nation has had by Christ must be given to all the nations of the earth. The first act of Governor De la Warr, on landing in Virginia, was to kneel in silent prayer, and then, with the whole people, they went to church, where the services were conducted by the Rev. Richard Burke. In 1611 the saintly Alexander Whittaker baptized Pocahontas. Disease and death often blighted the colonies, and yet the old battle cry rang out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God will found the State and build the Church."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An new life dawned on the Church in America when, in 1701, there was organized in England"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. It awakened a new missionary spirit. Princess Anne, afterward Queen of England, became its lifelong patron. The blessed work among the Mohawks was largely due to her, and when these Indians were removed to Canada and left sheperdless, their chief, Joseph Brant, officiated as lay reader for twenty years. The men sent out by the society--the Rev. Samuel Thomas, the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. Patrick Gordon, the Rev. John Talbot, and others--were Christian heroes. No fact in the history of the colonial Church had so marked influence as the conversion of Timothy Cutler, James Wetmore, Samuel Johnson, and Daniel Brown to the Church. Puritans mourned that the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Churchmen rejoiced that some of the foremost scholars in Connecticut had returned to the Church. I pass over the trials of the Church in the eighteenth century, to the meeting of the Continental Congress in 1774. It was proposed to open Congress with prayer. Objections were made on account of the religious differences of the delegates. Old Samuel Adams arose, with his white hair streaming on his shoulders,--the same earnest Puritan who, in 1768, had written to England:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hope in God that no such establishment as the Protestant episcopate shall ever take place in America, --and said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, shall it be said that it is possible that there can be any religious differences which will prevent men from crying to that God who alone can save them? I move that the Rev. Dr. Duché, minister of Christ Church in this city, be asked to open this Congress with prayer. John Adams, writing to his wife, said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never can I forget that scene. There were twenty Quakers standing by my side, and we were all bathed in tears. When the Psalms for the day were read, it seemed as if Heaven was pleading for the oppressed:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Lord, fight thou against them that fight against me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lord, who is like Thee to defend the poor and the needy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Avenge thou my cause, my Lord, my God. On the 4th of July 1776, Congress published to the world that these colonies were, and of right ought to be, free. We believe that a majority of those who signed this declaration were sons of the Church. The American colonists were not rebels; they were loyal, God-fearing men. The first appeal that Congress made to the colonies was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They stood for their inalienable rights, guaranteed to them by the Magna Charta, which nobles, headed by Bishop Stephen Langton, had wrung from King John. The English clergy had at ordination taken an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. Many who sympathized with their oppressed country felt bound to pray for King George until another government was permanently established. Others, like Dr. Provost, retired to private life. For two hundred years an Episcopal Church had no resident Bishop. No child of the Church received confirmation. No one could take orders without crossing the Atlantic, where one man in five lost his life by disease or shipwreck. At one time the Rev. William White was the only clergyman of the Church in Pennsylvania. Even after we had received the episcopate, the outlook was so hopeless that one of her bishops said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am willing to do all I can for the rest of my days, but there will be no such Church when I am gone. When William Meade told Chief Justice Marshall that he was to take orders in the Episcopal Church, the Chief Justice said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought that this Church had perished in the Revolution."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no part of my life I look back with more satisfaction than the part I took--daring and hazardous as it was to myself and mine--in the introduction of episcopacy to America."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was pure as an angel and firm as Mount Atlas. He was beloved and reverenced by all Christian people. When Congress declared the colonies independent States in 1776, he at once took the oath of allegiance to the new government. When a friend warned him that he had put his neck in a halter, he replied:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know the danger; the cause is just; I have put my faith in God."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The blessed results of that convention were due, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to the steadfast gentleness of Bishop White and the gentle steadfast--of Bishop Seabury. A century has passed. The Church which was then everywhere spoken against is everywhere known and respected; the mantle of Seabury, White, Hobart, Ravenscroft, Eliot, De Lancey, and Kemper has fallen on others, and her sons are in the forefront of that mighty movement which will people this land with millions of souls. While we say with grateful hearts,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What hath God wrought! we also say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy Nave give the praise. Surely, an awful responsibility rests upon a Church whose history is so full of the mercy of God. We are living in the great missionary age of the Church. There is no nation on the earth to whom we may not carry the Gospel. More than eight hundred millions of souls for whom Christ died have not heard that there is a Saviour. One of the hinderances to the speedy evangelization of the world is the division among Christians,--alas! both within and without the Church. Our Saviour said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. Christians have been separated in hostile camps, and often divisions have ripened into hatred. The saddest of all is that the things which separate us are not necessary for salvation. The truths in which we agree are part of the Catholic faith. In the words of Dr. Dollinger,"
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is only one Name under heaven whereby any man can be saved. We have nothing to do with results. It is ours to work and pray, and pray and work and die. So falls the seed into the earth, and so God gives the harvest. When the Church sends out embassies commensurate with the dignity of our King, it will be time to talk of failure. Is the kingdom of Christ the only kingdom which has not the right to lay tribute on its citizens? The only failure is the failure to do God's work. Was it failure when Dr. Hill of blessed memory laid the foundation for that Christian school which the wisest statesmen say is the chief factor in the regeneration of Greece? Was it failure when James Lloyd Breck, our apostle of the wilderness, carried the Gospel to the Indians? Did Williams, Selwyn, and Patteson fail in Polynesia? Was it failure when Hoffman and Auer died for Christ in Africa? Have your great-hearted sons failed who have followed in the footsteps of the saintly Kemper, and laid with tears and prayers foundations for Christian schools which are the glory of the West? Has the Gospel failed in Japan, where a nation is awakening into the life of Christian civilization? Never has God given His Church more blessed rewards. The century which has passed is only our school of preparation. The voice of God's Providence says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Speak to the children of Israel that they go forward."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebeneser, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am not a Virginian, I am an American. John Jay, who represented the conservative element said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have not come to make a constitution; the measure of arbitrary power is not full, it must run over before we undertake to frame a government. It was proposed to open Congress with prayer. Objections were made on account of the religious differences of the delegates. Old Samuel Adams rose, with his long white hair streaming on his shoulders (the same earnest Puritan who in 1768 had written to England,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We hope in God that no such establishment as the Protestant Episcopate shall ever take place in America, ) and said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, shall it be said that it is possible that there can be any religious difference which will prevent men from crying to that God who alone can save them? Puritan as I am, I move that the Rev. Dr. Duché, minister of Christ Church in the city, be asked to open this Congress with prayer. John Adams, writhing to his wife, said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never can I forget that scene. There were twenty Quakers standing by my side and we were all bathed in tears. When Psalms for the day were read, it seemed as if Heaven itself was pleading for the oppressed: 'O Lord, fight thou against them that fight against me. Lord, who is like unto Thee to defend the poor and needy. Avenge Thou my cause, my Lord and my God.' Although filled with indignation at the blood which had been shed in Boston, Congress nevertheless issued an appeal to the people of England:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have been told that we are impatient of government and desire independency. These are calumnies. Permit us to be free as you are, and our union with you will be our greatest glory. But if your ministers sport with human rights, if neither the voice of justice, the principles of the constitution, nor humanity will restrain them from shedding human blood in an impious cause, 'we will never submit.' We ask peace, liberty and safety, and for this we have laid our prayer at the feet of the king as a loving father. The battles at Lexington, Concord and Ticonderoga preceded the second meeting of Congress in May, 1775. Their plea for justice had been spurned. The outlook was dark as midnight. These brave men represented no government, they had no power to make laws, they had no officers to execute them, they could not impose customs, they had no army, they did not own a foot of land, they owed the use of their hall to the courtesy of the artisans of Philadelphia. On the 12th of June Congress made its first appeal to the people of twelve colonies, ( Georgia was not represented). It was a solemn call for the whole people to observe one and the same day as a day of fasting and prayer"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They who sought the protection of God knew that under God they must protect themselves. All hearts turned to George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, and he was unanimously chosen to be commander-in-chief. When Congress met in July, 1776, the people had been branded as traitors; the slaves of Virginia had been incited to insurrection, the torch and tomahawk of the savage had been let loose on frontier settlements, an army of foreign mercenaries had landed on their shores, their ports were blockaded, an the army under Washington for their defence only numbered 6,749 men. On the second day of July, 1776, without one dissenting colony, the representatives of the thirteen colonies resolved that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two days later Benjamin Harrison, the great-grandfather of our present president, the chairman of the committee of the whole, reported to Congress the form in which that resolution was to be published to the world, and the reasons by which it was to be justified. It was the work of Thomas Jefferson, then aged thirty-three, and never did graver responsibility rest on a young man than the preparation of that immortal paper, and never was the duty more nobly fulfilled. In the original draft of the declaration there was the allegation that the king"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This was struck out, as Mr. Jefferson tells us, in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time forbids my calling over the roll of these noble patriots who signed their names to our Magna Charta. There is John Adams, of whom Jefferson said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was our Colossus on that floor, and spoke with such power as to move us from our seats. Benjamin Franklin, printer philosopher and statesman. Roger Sherman, of whom John Adams said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is honest as an angel and firm as Mount Atlas. Charles Carroll, who, when a member said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Carroll, you will get off, there are so many Carrolls, stepped back to the desk and wrote after his name,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Hancock, who, when elected speaker, Benjamin Harrison had playfully seated in the speaker's chair and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will show Mother Britain how little we care for her, by making a Massachusetts man our president, whom she has by proclamation excluded from pardon. A friend said to John Hancock,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have signed your name large."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he replied,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish John Bull to read it without spectacles. Robert Morris, the financier and treasurer of the Revolution. Elbridge Gerry, the youngest member, the friend of Gen. Warren, to whom Warren had said the night before the battle of Bunker Hill,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is sweet to die for our country. What a roll of names! the silver-tongued Rutledge, brave Stockton, wise Rush, Lee--fifty-five noble names, not one of whom who did not know that, as one member said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we do not hang together, we shall hang separately. It was not timidity which made any of the delegates hesitate to take the irrevocable step. All the associations of their lives, all the traditions and memories of the past bound them by ties of kindred and affection to the mother country. They were venturing on an unknown sea; there were no charts to guide them, no precedents to follow. The truth was, as Jefferson so tersely said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The people wait for us to lead the way. The question is not whether by a declaration of independence we shall make ourselves what we are not, but whether we shall declare a fact which exists. So also John Adams said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Revolution was effected before the war commenced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not worth a continental. Robert Morris, the financier, pleaded hopelessly for help. Alexander Hamilton denounced the confederation as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even Washington, always hopeful, wrote in 1781:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our troops are fast approaching nakedness; our hospitals are without medicine; our sick are without meat; our public works are at a standstill; in a word, we are at the end of our tether, and now or never deliverance must come. At last victory came--thanks to the generous assistance of France, to the heroism of leaders like Lafayette, Baron Steuben, and hosts of others, who gave us their fortunes and hazarded their lives for America, the war was ended by the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Victor Hugo said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Napoleon was not defeated at Waterloo by the allied forces. It was God who conquered him. Who that remembers Trenton, Valley Forge, Saratoga and Yorktown, will not say God fought for our Washington? In 1777 a Quaker had occasion to pass through the woods near the headquarters of the army; hearing a voice, he approached the spot, and saw Washington in prayer. Returning home, he said to his wife:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All's well! All's well! Washington will prevail. I have thought that no man can be a soldier and a Christian. George Washington has convinced me of my mistake."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. President, the small progress we have made after five weeks is a melancholy proof of the imperfection of human understanding--we have gone back to ancient history for models of government--we have viewed modern states--we find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances--we are groping in the dark to find political truth, and are scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us. How has it happened, sir, that we have not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illumine our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means to establish our nation. Have we forgotten our powerful Friend? Do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convinced I am that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We are told, sir in the sacred writings, that 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His aid we shall succeed in our political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword to future ages. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven an its blessing on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate. When the Constitution was adopted, Franklin rose, and pointing to the speaker's chair, on which was carved a sun half-hid by the horizon, said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gentlemen, I have long watched that sun and wondered whether it was a rising or a setting sun--God has heard our prayers, it is a rising sun."
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; at twenty-two he was colonel in command of a regiment under General Braddock, and in the absence of a chaplain he read prayers daily himself. He saved the remnant of that ill-fated army from annihilation, and fifteen years after an aged Indian chief came to see the man at whom he had fired many times and who was protected by the Great Spirit. At his entrance as a member of the legislature of Virginia, the speaker greeted him with thanks for his military services. Washington arose to reply and blushed and stammered. The speaker said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Washington, your modesty only equals your valor. He was a member of the first Continental Congress of whom Patrick Henry said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, is the great orator, but for solid information and sound judgement Col. Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on that floor. When with one voice Congress chose him to be the commander-in-chief, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in this room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity that I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. No pecuniary consideration would tempt me to accept this position. I will keep an exact account of my expenses, those I doubt not you will discharge. I ask no more. The nation applauded the prudence, the wisdom, the bravery and patriotism of Washington. Frederick the Great said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His achievements are the most brilliant in military annals. Napoleon directed that the standard of the French army should be hung with crape at his death. Fox said of him in the British Parliament,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Illustrious man, it has been reserved for him to run the race of glory without the smallest interruption to his course. But the noblest eulogy ever uttered were the words of Gen. Henry Lee:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. He had hoped to retire to private life, and wrote to Lafayette,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, under the shadow of my own vine and fig tree. I have retired from all public employment and tread the walks of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. The country would not permit it. He had refused to be a candidate for the office of president and accepted the nation's unanimous call with a heavy heart. His last act before leaving for New York was to visit his aged mother, then eighty-two, and in the last year of her life. We can picture that tender farewell to one to whom he owed under God that beautiful faith which shed glory on his life. The journey to New York was one continued ovation. His Virginia neighbors and friend gave him a God-speed and benediction. Baltimore outdid itself in generous hospitality. Philadelphia crowned him with laurel, the bells rang out their joyous peals, cannons thundered and the people with one voice shouted"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Long live the President. Marvellous as was the enthusiasm of other cities, the people of Trenton, who remembered the cruelties of the Hessian in 1776 and their deliverance by Washington, outdid them all. On a triumphal arch was written"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dec. 26, 1776. The hero who defended the mothers will defend the daughters. At Elizabeth a committee of Congress met him, and Caesar never had so beautiful a flotilla as that of the sea captains and pilots who bore him to New York on the 23d of April. A week was spent in festivity. It is the 30th of April. In all the churches of New York there have been prayers for the new government and its chosen head. The streets swarm with people as the hour of noon approaches. Every house-top and porch and window near to Federal Hall is packed with a dense mass. The president has been presented to the two houses of Congress. The procession is formed. Washington follows the senators and representatives to the balcony. Around and behind him are his staff and distinguished patriots of the Revolution. Every eye is fixed on the stately, majestic man. A little over six feet high, his form perfect in outline and figure, a florid complexion, dark blue eyes deeply set, his rich brown hair now tinged with gray, firm jaws and broad nostrils, lighted by a benignant expression. Such was the Father of his Country. The brave soldier trembles with emotion as the chancellor of the State of New York reads the oath; the hand of Washington is on the open Bible. Was it a providence that they rested on the words,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His hands were made strong by the mighty God of Israel? The secretary would have raised the sacred book to the president's lips. Washington said solemnly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I swear, so help me God, and then bowed reverently kissed the book. He went to the senate chamber, and with stammering words, for his heart was almost too full for utterance, he delivered his inaugural address, and then turning to his friends said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will go to St. Paul's Church for prayers. It had been the habit of his life. His pastor, Rev. Lee Massey, said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No company ever withheld him from church. ' His secretary, Harrison, said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whenever the general could be spared from the camp on the Sabbath, he never failed to ride to some neighboring church to join in the worship of God. He claimed no praise for his matchless victories, but reverently gave all the glory to the blessing and protection of God. He knew, in the words of my friend Robert C. Winthrop, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There can be no independence of God. The poet will sing and the orator describe eloquently the pageant of that day, but no incident will so touch the Christian's heart as the first act of the president of the United States, kneeling reverently with his fellow-citizens in the public worship of God. The service which had been set forth and was this day used in St. Paul's Church by Bishop Provost, also a patriot of the Revolution, and one who had suffered for his country's sake, was substantially the same used by us to-day. Washington assumed office in the midst of dangers. Edmund Randolph, one of the foremost members of the constitutional convention, wrote to Washington,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Constitution would never have been adopted but for the knowledge that you sanctioned it, and the expectation that you would execute it. It is in state of probation. You alone can give it stability. There was a stormy sea before the new ship of state. The bitter hatreds between Federalist and anti-Federalist were not healed. Two states had not ratified the Constitution--there were tokens in more than one direction of rebellion. Without on dollar in the treasury, we were eighty millions in debt. The pirates of Morocco had destroyed our commerce in the Mediterranean, Spain threatened the valley of the Mississippi. Our relations with England were full of bitter memories; a country larger than Europe was to be protected, and we had a standing army of only 600 men. Washington called around him as advisers Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury; Henry Knox, Secretary of War; Edmund Randolph, Attorney-General, and John Jay, Chief Justice, and by these men, under God, the crumbling confederacy was cemented into one nation. Time forbids my reading you the words of wisdom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of Washington's inaugural and farewell addresses. I wish I had time to tell how, with a prophet's eye, he saw the future of the West, and again and again urged the opening of lines of commerce to bind East and West together. After eight years of wise rule, such as befitted"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he retired to the shades of Mt. Vernon, to be, as he had been through life, the helper of the helpless, the friend of the needy and the almoner of God. On the 12th of December, 1799, he was exposed to a storm of sleet and rain, the severest form of quinsy set in; two days later, the 14th of December, he died. As friends stood weeping around his death-bed, he said with a smile,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O don't, don't; I am dying, but thank God I am not afraid to die. As the hour of his death drew near he asked to be left alone. They all went out and left him with God. There are lessons for our hearts to-day. Government is a delegated trust from God, who alone has the right to govern. He gives to every nation the right to say in what form this trust shall be clothed. No man has the right to be his brother's master. Take away the truth that government is a trust which comes from God, and you have left nothing between man and man but cunning and brute force. Burke said,"
}
]
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8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. No high-sounding words about freedom, no Godless philosophy, no infidel creed, which robs men of homes here and heaven hereafter, can save this nation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not unto us, but unto Thy name be the praise,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to lead on in His work in the last time. It may be that for our sins we shall walk again into the furnace, as we have walked and come out of it purified and fitted for the Master's use. I sometimes lose faith in men, but I will not lose faith in God. It is ours to work and bide our time; so did our fathers, and so will God give the harvest. I should wrong my heart and yours to-day, if I forgot the daughters of the Revolution. We might have had no Washington but for the lessons he learned at that mother's knee, that his duty to God was to believe in Him, to fear Him and to love Him with all his heart, with all his mind, with all his soul and with all his strength, to worship Him, to give Him thanks, to put his whole trust in Him, to call on Him, to honor His holy name and His word and to love Him truly all the days of his life; that his duty towards his neighbor--was to love him as himself, and to do to all men as he would have them do unto him, to love, honor and succor his father and mother, to honor and obey the civil authority, to hurt nobody by word or deed, to be true and just in all his dealings, to bear no malice or hatred in his heart, to keep his hands from picking and stealing, and his tongue from evil speaking, lying and slandering, to keep his body in temperance, soberness and chastity. Not to covet or desire other men's goods, but to learn and labor truly to get his own living and to do his duty in that state of life unto which it should please God to call him. We know this was the rule of his life. The Father of his Country found his solace, inspiration and help, as many of us have found it, in the love of a Christian wife. There are no fairer names in our country's history than Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Sally Foster Otis, Alice DeLancy Izard, Jane Ketelas Beekman, and many more, who made up the republican court of Washington; and we do not forget humble names like Mollie Stark, whose lives were consecrated to their country. Wives, mothers, daughters! none have places of greater influence in shaping and moulding our country than you. Your power is the power of a Christian mother, a Christian wife, a Christian daughter. In the darkest hour look to God, believe that your mission is a nobler one than to be a slave of fashion or the leader of a party. Plant your feet on the rock of eternal truth--never speak with uncertain voice of the verities of the Christian faith. For you St. Paul said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How knowest thou, O Woman, but thou mayest save thy husband and thy child,"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The man that would go to India upon that errand is as mad as a man who would put a torch to a powder magazine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jesus Christ has conquered the heart of India."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "David, you will have family prayer to-day, for when we part we shall never meet again until we meet before the great white throne. David Livingstone read the thirty-fourth Psalm, the key-note of that wonderful life, and then poured out his heart to God in prayer, threw his arms around his father's neck and kissed him; they parted never to meet again in this world, and so he went to Africa. He did a wonderful work in the Bechuana country. He was a carpenter, blacksmith, teacher, laborer, physician and minister to these poor souls, but the man's heart was in the interior of Africa. One day, with about as much preparation as I take when I go to the north woods of Minnesota, he left for the interior of Africa. His route was along the path of slave traders, and every few days he came to some place where a poor woman had fainted in the chain-gang and had been strapped to a tree with her babe at her breast and left to be stung to death by insects. No wonder that he wrote in his Journal, and blotted it with tears:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, God, when will the great sore of the world be healed?"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have brought the man of God to be buried with his people."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard the same voice speaking to my heart, 'Follow me,' and I go back to Africa to finish Livingstone's work."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My good brother, I cannot tell you how my heart goes out to you in loving sympathy. He smiled and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bishop, when the Church in Jerusalem had more work than it knew how to do, the Holy Ghost sent one of its ministers upon a long journey to convert one African. Surely it is not much for the Christians of Christian England to send a Christian Bishop to millions who never heard there is a Savior."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Hundred"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bishop, I am a thousand miles from a post-office and only get one mail a year."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye are brethren."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feed my lambs."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strife is an awful price to pay for the best results, but strife among the kinsmen of Christ in the presence of those for whom He died, and when wandering souls are going down to death, is almost an unpardonable sin."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lo, I am with you always to the end of the world. The responsibility is greater when division has marred the beauty of the Lamb's Bride. Our words and acts will surely hasten or (which God forbid) retard the reunion of Christendom. Feeling the grave responsibility which is imposed on me to-day, my heart cries out as did the prophet's,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a child and cannot speak. Pray for me, venerable brethren, that God may help me to obey His word--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatsoever I command, that shalt thou speak. I would kneel with you at our Master's feet and pray that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We meet as the representatives of national Churches; each with its own peculiar responsibility to God for the souls intrusted to its care; each with all the rights of a national Church, to adapt itself to the varying conditions of human society; and each bound to preserve the order, the faith, the sacraments, and the worship of the Catholic Church, for which it is a trustee. As we kneel by the table of our common Lord we remember separated brothers. Division has multiplied division until infidelity sneers at Christianity as an effete superstition, and the modern Sadducee, more bold than his Jewish brother, denies the existence of God. Millions for whom Christ died have not so much as heard that there is a Saviour. It will heal no divisions to say, Who is at fault? The sin of schism does not lie at one door. If one has sinned by self-will, the other has sinned as deeply by lack of charity and love. The way to reunion looks difficult. To man it is impossible. No human _eirenicon_ can bridge the gulf of separation. There are unkind words to be taken back, alienations to be healed, and heartburnings to be forgiven. Where we are blind, God can make a way. When"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rules in all Christian hearts, our Lord's prayer will be answered--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they all may be one in Us, that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. No one branch of the Church is absolutely by itself alone the Catholic Church; all branches need reunion in order to the completeness of the Church. There are blessed signs that the Holy Spirit is quickening Christian hearts to seek for unity. We all know that this divided Christianity cannot conquer the world. At a time when every form of error and sin is banded together to oppose the kingdom of Christ, the world needs the witness of a united Church. Men must hear again the voice which peals through the lapse of centuries bearing witness to the"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sirs, ye are brethren."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and say"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--Japan, India, China, Africa, Polynesia, amid the solitudes of icy north, and in the lands of tropic suns, world-wide there are signs of the coming of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. The veil which has so long blinded the eyes of the ancient people, our Lord's kinsmen according to the flesh, is being taken away. We bless God for the good example of martyrs like Patteson, Mackenzie, Parker, Hannington, and others, who have laid down their lives for the Lord Jesus. We rejoice that our branch of the Church has been counted worthy to add to the names of those who"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great and effectual door is opened."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God alone giveth the increase. If success comes, if"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it must be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He will not give His glory to another. The work is Christ's."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are ambassadors for Him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They were written by inspiration of God. . . . that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Our orders may be unquestioned, our doctrine perfect in every line and feature, but we shall not reach the hearts of men unless we preach Christ out of an experimental knowledge of the truths of Divine Revelation. There is but one Book which can bring light to homes of sorrow, one light to scatter clouds and darkness, one message to lead wandering folk unto God. This blessed Book will be to every soldier and lonely missionary what it was to Livingstone dying alone in Africa, or to Captain Gardiner dead on the desolate shores of Patagonia, whose finger pointed to the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With St. Paul we must say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whereinsoever Christ is preached I do rejoice, and will rejoice."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They know not what they do. They are sowing to the wind and will reap the whirlwind. May God show them the danger before if is too late! The loss of faith is the loss of everything; without it morality becomes prudence or imprudence. When the tie which binds man to God is broken all other ties snap asunder. No nation has survived the loss of its religion. We are appalled at the mad cry of anarchy which tramples all which we hold dear for time and eternity under its feet. We cannot look into its face without seeing the lineaments of that man of sin who"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Antichrist is he who usurps the place of Christ."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and she"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "unless her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lastly, to none is this council so dear as to those whose lives are spent in the darkness of heathenism, or who have gone out to new lands to lay foundations for the work of the Church of God. In loneliness, with deferred hope, neglected by brethren, your only refuge to cry as a child to God, it is a joy for you to feel the beating of a brother's heart, and hear the music of a brother's voice, and kneel with brothers at the dear old trysting-place, the table of our Lord. Let us consecrate all we have and are to Him, let us remember loved ones far away, let us gather all the work we have so long garnered in our hearts and lay it at his feet. We shall not have met in vain if out of the love learned of Him we give each to the other, and to all fellow-laborers for Him, a brother's love, a brother's sympathy, and a brother's prayers. I do not know how to clothe in words the thronging memories which cluster around us in this holy place, what searchings of heart, what cries to God, what communions with Christ, what consolations of the Holy Spirit have been witnessed in this sacred place. I cannot call over the long roll of saints, confessors, and martyrs, whose"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two names will be remembered to-day by us all. One, that gentle Archbishop Longley, who in the greatness of his love saw with a prophet's eye the Mission of the Church and planned these conferences that our hearts might beat as one in the battle of the last time. The other, the wisest of counsellors and the most loving of brethren, the great-hearted Archbishop Tait, whose dying legacy to his brethren was"
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is a necessity of human thought. Is this God an inexorable ruler, whose right is His infinite might? or is He an eternal Father, whose might is His infinite right? And so the question comes home to the heart: Does God care for us? The body is cared for. Every invention of man ministers to the life that is between the cradle and the grave. Man has created nothing. The lightning would run its circuit in the Garden of Eden as well as when Morse made it man's messenger. The veil has been lifted so that man can look into God's storehouse and read laws as old as creation. But the body is not the man. You ask me how do I know I have a soul? I know it as I know I have a body--by self-consciousness. There is no place in this world where men are not compelled by absolute necessity to recognize the act and the will of a soul within, which directs the act. I ask again, does God care for me? I say it reverently, brother, you cannot conceive of a God who could create a world like this, if He can feel one throb of pity for His children, unless you believe He has provided a remedy for sin, sorrow, and death. The coming of God into the family of man is an absolute necessity of the very being of God. The incarnation is the outcome of the possibility that God can love. I turn then to this record and I ask, is this Jesus the friend that the world has waited for and looked for? No one that has walked this earth could use the words which every day rested upon His lips:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I and the God you worship are one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the bread that is come down from heaven, and the bread I shall give you is My flesh, and I give it for the life of the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the resurrection and the life; if any man shall believe in Me, if he were dead he shall live --unless he were God incarnate. The miracles of Jesus were not violations of the laws of nature; they were the divine proofs that that God whose hand is behind every law of nature had come into the world to help those who needed help. When He multiplied bread in His hands, He did of His own will that which God does when He multiplies the wheat in the harvest. When He created the wine of Cana, He did that of His own will which He does when He distills the dewdrop in the clusters of the vine. But that which unseals my heart, is the divine compassion, is the tender pity, is the love that never turns from the weary. If man had invented this Gospel, the story of Mary Magdalene would never have been in the record. It is not in the wrecks strewn along the path of life that men would find those they would lift to the bosom of God. It is the Divine eye that pities, it is the Divine hand that is reached out to save. I follow Him to the cross, I follow Him to the grave, where we are going, where our loved ones are sleeping. The third day He came back from the darkness; He showed men, by the marks of the nails in His hands and by the print of the spear in His side, that He was the very Jesus they parted with at the foot of the cross; and He ascended to heaven to be the friend of any aching heart that needs a friend at the right hand of God. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not a philosophy, it is not a dogma; it is the story of a Person, a real hand to grasp, a real Saviour to love, a real God to save. Marvelous as is this story that never can grow old and will be the burden of the songs of the redeemed, more wonderful is the Christ of history. Men ask for proof. You do not ask for proof of a sun when the world is bending low with golden harvests The other day there was a gathering of great men, scholars, philosophers. It so happened that one man who had lost his faith, congratulated his fellows that superstition was dying out, that the day was at hand when Christianity would be an effete thing of the past. James Russell Lowell rose, the blood rushing to his cheeks, and quietly said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me twelve miles square in the world in which I live where childhood is cared for, where womanhood is reverenced, where old age is protected, where life and property are absolutely safe, where it is possible for a decent man to live decently--where the Gospel of Jesus Christ has not gone before and made that life possible; and then I will listen to your revilings of my Master."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Read to me; I am in such agony. He said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What book, Sir Walter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What book? There is but one book for a dying man; it is the story of the One that passed this way before me, of Jesus the Saviour. I stood the other day by the death-bed of one who, when I first met him was a savage warrior. He looked up in my face and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Great Spirit has called me. I am going on the last journey. I am not afraid, for Jesus is going with me and I shan't be lonesome on the road. Brothers, it is to tell this story that you have banded yourselves together in the service of Him who redeemed you with His precious blood. Your motto must be the words of that sainted apostle whose honored name you bear:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have found Christ. For it is only when we have reached out our hand to grasp the hand of Jesus, that, because we cannot help it, we reach out the other hand to help some one else. We cannot from the heart say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Father, and not remember wandering brothers whom we may lead to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. The story is not for wage-workers alone, not for the poor in the attic and the cellar alone; it is for the man who lives in the marble house, it is for the trafficker in the market, it is for every one away from home and heaven and God. We must find the way to speak as one tempted man has the right to speak to a brother that is battling with temptation. It is not done by assailing sinners as you would besiege a city. We have tried hard words and the have answered us with a curse. It does no good to tell the poor wretch in the ditch,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is your fault. We have led men to Mount Sinai, and their hearts would break if we led them to Mount Calvary. It is this that makes the life of an earnest minister of Christ the happiest life that God ever gave to man. I am not here to-day to tell you what to do, but to tell you your Master's secret,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you give Him the will, He will find for you the way."
}
]
|
8731 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Peabody, I am a southern man, and my heart goes out in love for the man who has been our benefactor. But, Mr. Peabody, if you are saved, it will not be because you gave your fortune to the needy. You will be saved, as the poorest laborer, for your faith in Jesus Christ. Mr. Peabody said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know that. I do believe in Him; I do pray to Him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, said Bishop Wilmer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Peabody, the night before the Saviour died for you, He instituted the sacrament of the Holy Communion, and He left a request for you to come and receive it. He has a gift for you. Have you ever come to His table? Mr. Peabody said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never knew that. No one ever told me. I knew about the Holy Communion, but I thought it was for saints--men who felt sure they were going to heaven. I never knew it was a place to come and receive a gift the Saviour had for me. That day Mr. Peabody left the White Sulphur Springs. He knew that the Holy Communion was to be celebrated in his mother's church, at Danvers, the next Sunday. He reached Danvers Saturday, and at once called on the pastor and said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am coming to the Holy Communion tomorrow. I did not know it was my duty till a few days ago."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OLD IRONSIDES"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was only necessary that the crew should reach out and pull us on board"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He forced the iron rods from their sockets in short order"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Soon we were out of reach of the grape, and then we ran across the ship's bow"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The party came in, waving green palm-leaves"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nearer and nearer came the _Phoebe_"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "War of 1812."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As we take a survey from a standpoint at mid-autumn, 1813, we observe with astonishment only three American frigates at sea, namely, the _President_, 44; the _Congress_, 38; and the _Essex_, 32. The _Constitution_, 44, was undergoing repairs; the _Constellation_, 38, was blockaded at Norfolk; and the _United States_, 44, and _Macedonian_, 38, were prisoners in the Thames above New London. The _Adams_, 28, was undergoing repairs and alterations, while the _John Adams_, 28, _New York_, 36, and _Boston_, 28, were virtually condemned. All the brigs, excepting the _Enterprise_, had been captured, and she was not to be trusted at sea much longer. The _Essex_, Commodore Porter, was the only government vessel of size which was then sustaining the reputation of the American Navy, and she was in far distant seas, with a track equal to more than a third of the circumference of the globe between her and the home port from which she sailed. She was then making one of the most remarkable cruises on record."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Porter took with him a larger number of officers and crew than was common for a vessel of that size. Her muster roll contained three hundred and nineteen names; and her supplies were so ample that she sank deep in the water, which greatly impeded her sailing qualities."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Commodore David Porter, one of the most heroic sons of Pennsylvania, having long represented his country with fidelity as minister resident at Constantinople, died at that city in the patriotic discharge of his duties March 3, 1843."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the War of 1812 his merits were exhibited not merely as an intrepid commander, but in exploring new fields of success and glory. A career of brilliant good fortune was crowned by an engagement against superior force and fearful advantages, which history records as an event among the most remarkable in naval warfare."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His early youth was conspicuous for skill and gallantry in the naval services of the United States when the American arms were exercised with romantic chivalry before the battlements of Tripoli. He was on all occasions among the bravest of the brave; zealous in the performance of every duty; ardent and resolute in the trying hour of calamity; composed and steady in the blaze of victory."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whether it was a service or contrariwise that you lads did me, for I'm told that but for your tumblin' over the rail I was like to have lost the number of my mess, bein' knocked out by the blow in such fashion that I went down like a stone, with but little chance of risin'."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An old shellback like me is of but little account; and if he hangs on to life, mayhap it's only to pay off some grudge which them as claim to know say shouldn't be harbored."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll set it down that you two lads have done a big service--that you saved my life--an' it isn't much for me to say that I'm obliged to you, 'cause mere words are cheap. Boys aboard a ship stand in need of a friendly hand, an' that's what I'm allowin' to hold out toward you until such time as I've squared off the account begun this day. Whatsoever a sailorman can do for a mate, I'm bound to do for you; an' all hands are to understand that what's sauce for you is certain to be sauce for me, or they'll know the reason why."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready for duty, sir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Your place in the boat has been taken, therefore you are at liberty until we get under way,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master Hackett is proving to us that words are indeed cheap. He has thanked us, and that seems to be all that is necessary."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so it is, Philip replied, for he was a better-natured lad than I by far, and ever ready to make excuses where I found fault."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was really nothing of consequence for us to go overboard where there are so many to lend a helping hand, and when we came on deck again I was trembling with fear lest one of the officers give us a tongue lashing for putting ourselves forward at such a time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we hadn't done so, Master Hackett would likely have gone to the bottom, for I saw no one making ready to go after him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You didn't give them time, Ezra McKnight, Philip replied laughingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The old man had no more than struck the water before we were on the rail; and yet I am not to be praised for it, because, to tell the truth, I didn't realize what I was about."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This has been a lucky day for the _Essex_. She has captured a prize that will bring all hands money with which to tassel our handkerchiefs, if it be so the _Nocton_ reaches a home port, and Captain Porter has the credit of gathering in fifty-five thousand dollars from the enemy; but I question if any aboard have been so fortunate since sunrise as you and me, for we have suddenly become shipmates with the one man among all the crew who is able to put us on a better footing with those who have lorded it over us."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am bound for St. Salvador, thence off Cape Frio, where I intend to cruise until the 1st of January. Go off Cape Frio, to the northward of Rio Janeiro, and keep a lookout for me."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, that I do, lad; an' it's in my mind that the _Essex_ can do British shippin' more harm in the Pacific than would be possible elsewhere. For a time we'll have everything our own way, an' then the king will have a pretty good idee of what the Yankees can do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But how will it be possible to get home, Master Hackett?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's somethin' that don't concern us,--leastways, not until the _Essex_ has come to the end of her cruise. We've shipped to do all the harm we can to Englishmen, for that's the meanin' of war, lad. After we've done our duty will be time enough to think about ourselves, though I'm allowin' that if we ever see the United States again it'll be after we've had a reasonably long taste of British prisons."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We didn't ship with the agreement that we'd do our best to run into every possible danger when it might be better to shape a course for home, Phil said, in what was very like a mutinous tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When it comes to fighting Britishers, then we're bound to risk our lives in the hope of killing them; but sailing around the world with fair chance of starving to death before we can run across a craft of any kind, is a good bit outside of duty."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frettin' because you haven't been given an independent command, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are not such fools as to think we can do anything very brave or wonderful; but at the same time it seems much as if we might perform our fair share of work,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm allowin', lad, that you'll be called on for all the tasks you can do conveniently. It stands to reason that the pick of the crew should be detailed for the boats, seein's how them as put off from the ship under Lieutenant Downes's command will be forced to jump lively, both as to fightin' an' work. Now, it looks to me as if you two would have chances enough, once that fleet of small craft have left us; for the _Essex_ will be short-handed, an' you lads'll be asked to do the duty of men."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take my words for it, lads, we'll be in the harbor of Valparaiso before you're very much older. The captain didn't count on lettin' the Spaniards find out who we are, thus puttin' the Britishers on their guard."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, you two lads! Are you from the Yankee ship?"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're from the _Essex_,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you speak Spanish?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not a word, and more's the pity, else we might have had companions in our sight-seeing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If that's all you're wanting, come with me. I'll show you a good time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you live here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, for the time being; and since I have nothing better to do, suppose we travel together."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boys are not of much account on Yankee ships, according to your story,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't seem so, except when there's a lot of dirty work to be done. If we never went back to the _Essex_, I reckon there wouldn't be much mourning over our loss."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you failed to return there isn't one aboard who'd remember your absence after four-and-twenty hours, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An enemy might work his will on you and stand no chance of coming to grief, for I doubt not but that the frigate will sail by to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have no enemies here, Phil replied with a laugh,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you live here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; and I count on showing you two lads what a Chilian dinner is like. It will be something to talk about when you get home."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, Phil said, pushing me forward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're fortunate in having run across Benson, for there are not many lads, either here or at home, who would spend their time entertaining strangers."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll keep you two Yankees here till your ship sails, and then find you a berth aboard a British whaler; it will be a paying speculation for me, and you'll have good opportunities for seeing the world."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does the villain mean by locking us in here? He must think we are rare prizes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not making any mistake as to what you're worth, Benson cried from the hallway."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yankees don't bring any extravagant price in this part of the world; but the demand is so great that I won't be forced to keep you many hours after your tub of a ship leaves port."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fellow is such a fool as to believe he serves his country by imprisoning us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's where you are making a big mistake, my Yankee cub. Whalers in this portion of the world are not overly particular as to how they ship a crew, and pay a decently good price to whoever delivers them able-bodied hands."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we could get out of here, it would not be a difficult task to reach the ground,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd guarantee to bring up on the ground all right, wall or no wall, if it wasn't for the bars."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep on pulling at the bars so long as such work pleases you; they have held stronger men than you ever will be, and I'm not afraid of your giving me the slip in that way!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't speak nor move. We'll remain silent until he grows tired of listening and goes away."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If he'd only come near enough for me to hit one blow!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not counting on starving you Yankees, the villain said with a laugh,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if he thinks we'll indulge him in his monkey shines?"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold your tongue! We're bound to eat and drink if we count on making any effort at getting away. Take what he gives us, and we may thereby keep up our strength to be used in case an opportunity for escape presents itself."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you've hauled in, let down the rope again and I'll send you up some water,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll have to get along without me to-day, for I'm counting on catching two or three more Yankees before sunset."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope our messmates will have more sense than we displayed when we agreed to let him show us the town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I'm hoping he'll make a big haul."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no doubt but that he can easily do with us as he has proposed, and our officers will make no great effort to find two boys who are believed to have deserted. If that scoundrelly Britisher can capture half a dozen of our crew there'll be a big stir aboard ship, and, in addition, he won't be able to work his will with so many. One or more may succeed in escaping, and then the truth will be known."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two great hulking lads like ourselves should be able to get out of an ordinary house! If this place had been built for a jail, the situation would be changed; but it is no more than an ordinary dwelling, and I dare say these bars are not set in the wall so solidly but that we can succeed in moving them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell me how to go about it, and I'll do my best; but I fail to understand how we can accomplish anything."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have our knives, and with such tools many a man has worked his way toward freedom. The mortar which holds the wall in place can be picked out in time, and Benson won't have a chance to sell us for several days after the _Essex_ leaves port."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would require a month of hard work to loosen even one of these stones,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall be better off by making some effort at escape, even though we never succeed. It is almost cowardly to sit here idle, waiting until that villain can entrap our comrades."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's better than doing nothing,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can escape if no time is wasted!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't see but that the situation is much the same as when we were first thrust into this place,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So it is; but since the villanous Benson passed us the rope, I'm of the idea that we can do considerable work."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have surely done something toward loosening the stones. Now, if we make the rope fast to the lower end of the bar, and also to the handle of the door, one or the other must give way when we get purchase enough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I reckon all that is true; but we're no more likely to get a purchase on it than we are to walk out of here this minute."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe it can be done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then the handle of the door will give way first."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With our feet against the lower edge of the window we should be able to fetch something away, I said in a hopeful tone;"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It can be done!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's little chance we could pull two bars out before sunset, and if the job is but half done when Benson comes back, he'll understand what we're trying to do. A fellow who makes a business of trapping men won't stop at anything, however desperate, in order to prevent his villany from being known to the authorities."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, are we to sit here idle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a bit of it! We'll amuse ourselves picking mortar from the next seam, and thus have both stones loosened by nightfall. After dark we can yank two bars out, or I'm mistaken."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He didn't succeed in trapping any one else! Phil said jubilantly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We were the only fools on board the _Essex_."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello in there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, what do you want?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's well to let you know that I'm around. Your ship is ready to leave port in the morning, and forty-eight hours later you two duffers will be getting an idea of whale fishing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which will be better than staying here forced to listen to the voice of a cur like you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That little show of temper will cost you your supper, Benson cried in a rage."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll starve you into submission, if you turn rusty, so have a care."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon you've lost your temper because of not finding any more fools among the crew of the _Essex_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't keep all my birds in one cage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you've got all from the _Essex_ in this one, and we two make up the list,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better keep a quiet tongue in your head, I whispered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only wish he would!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's gone out in the hope of catching such of our men as have overstayed their shore leave, Phil whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now is our time to begin work with the rope."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll work his will with us, Phil said with a sob as we ceased our efforts and stood facing each other in the darkness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't get out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't lose your courage so soon. We can work at the mortar all day to-morrow, and then I'm certain the bars will yield."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By that time the _Essex_ will have left port."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Other American vessels put in here, and surely we can work our way home without being forced to serve on board a whaler. Besides, the _Essex_ is likely to visit this port more than once before her work in the Pacific is concluded."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy in the shanty!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At a window just above the height of the wall,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got a half-inch rope here, Master Hackett, and can let it down if perchance you might be able to use it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If an old shellback like me can't use a rope, I'd like to see the man who can. Let it down, lads, an' move lively, for I've had hard work to keep out of the course of a British cub who's been actin' in a way that don't seem honest."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I can see what he was after when he came rubbin' alongside some of us, offerin' to show fine sights if we'd go with him. But instead of standin' here yarnin', I reckon we'd better get you out of the trap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wouldn't it be well to report on board that we've been made prisoners, and ask that a squad of men be sent on shore? Phil asked timidly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If Benson should get an inkling of your being here, he'd make more trouble for us in some way; and it won't pay to take any chances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't count on takin' any more'n is wholesome, an' at the same time ain't willin' to flash up on board with the yarn that I couldn't get the best of one Britisher, an' him in a foreign country."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can come out now, the old man said with a chuckle,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I didn't reckon you were the kind of lads who'd turn around in that fashion, an' so got permission to come ashore for a spell, agreein' to report to-morrow mornin' if I hadn't come across anything that would show why you'd failed to turn up. Then it was I run across that Britisher, an' found he was mighty anxious to give me a free spree. It was that which made me believe he could tell somethin' about you, an' I set about findin' where he lived. It wasn't any easy matter for an old shellback to follow that sneak, who had good reason for thinkin' some of us might want to know where he anchored hisself nights; but I managed the traverse in fair shape, an' here we are."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can we go on board the _Essex_ to-night?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon we might by hirin' a boatman; but there's no reason why we need be in a hurry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd rather be on the gun-deck than in this town,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't give him a chance to play us any tricks,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He can't do us any more harm, and we'll warn others as to his scheme. There's no knowing how much of a row may be kicked up by our depriving him of his liberty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's no more'n he did to you, an' the chances are that many a poor fellow is eatin' his heart out aboard a British whaler because of him. We've got the scoundrel fast, an' I count on keepin' him so, at least until after he's been brought face to face with Captain Porter."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where did you get that fellow?"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We picked him up a short distance from here, the old seaman replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He had jugged two boys belongin' to our ship, countin' on sellin' 'em to British whalers after the _Essex_ left port."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know him for a villain, an' have had it in mind that he spent his time shanghaing sailors, but never could bring it home to him. His game doesn't stop at Yankees; for when there are none in port he'll pick up anybody, so it's said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you have no objections to carryin' him aboard the ship?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will you do with him there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let the captain settle his hash. We've got good proof of what he's been up to, an' I promise you he won't be treated any too gently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll carry you an' him out to the ship for nothing, if by so doing we can rid ourselves of the villain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can't say whether the captain will take him out of your way; but you may be certain it'll go hard with him."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, lads, the captain said, speaking as if he believed we were as good as himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I understand that you had quite an adventure ashore yesterday, and were near coming to grief."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell us the whole story from the time you left Hackett, and do not be afraid of making it too long."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's true, sir, or,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all as Ezra says, sir."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You may go, lads, and send Hackett aft."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The captain has sent for you, sir,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why couldn't it be our luck to be there! Why don't Lieutenant Downes give us lads half a chance?"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You young cubs needn't howl because of not gettin' the thick end of all that's goin' on. Unless our captain has changed from what he was as a lieutenant when we licked the Turks, you'll get all the 'burnin' powder' that's needed before this cruise comes to an end."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're to go to your cousin to-morrow morning, Ezra, and beg of him that we be given permission to join Lieutenant Downes's fleet. It is not fair that we should miss all the most exciting portion of the work by being forced to remain aboard the _Essex_ when there are prizes to be captured."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It may be exciting enough if we fall afoul of a Britisher who is in trim to fight,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master Hackett says we won't see a real fight this side of Cape Horn, because there's nothing here with metal enough to stand us off, except the British 64-gun _Standard_, and it's reported that she has already left Lima, bound for England."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We may find some craft that will show her teeth, despite all Master Hackett says,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sail ho!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's like to be much work for all hands before night, sir, and Philip Robbins and I are sore at heart because of never having a chance to prove that we can do more than falls to the lot of boys aboard ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! the lieutenant said with a laugh."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are growing down-hearted because there isn't danger enough?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not exactly that, sir; but when danger does come, we want our full share of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you have no cause for complaint, lad. A round shot is as likely to take you off as me; aboard ship we all run the same chances."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But those who are under Lieutenant Downes when his fleet is called away are likely to see more service and have better opportunities for earning advancement,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are eager to try your hand at close work?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is what we most desire, sir, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you could only persuade Lieutenant Downes to take us with him when next the boats are called away, I would do anything I could to repay you when we get ashore."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what would my uncle, your father, say when I saw him? Do you think he is as eager that his son should be shot as you are?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're not counting on that part of it, sir. All who come to close quarters with an enemy are not shot, else you would never be standing on this quarter-deck, wearing the uniform of a lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Unless you had been given an opportunity of showing what you could do, a commission would never have come your way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we are getting at the real reason for this request! he exclaimed cheerily."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and Robbins believe that by taking part in one sharp engagement rapid advancement is assured?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We never will advance, sir, until we have shown ourselves worthy, and there is no great chance of doing good work while we loiter on board when others are paving their way to a commission."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You speak right sensibly, Cousin Ezra, he said, in a tone which went straight to my heart; for it proved that he had not forgotten the ties of kinship which bound us, even though he was so much higher in station."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do all I may properly to persuade Mr. Downes to take you under his wing. If I succeed, remember that I would be equally shamed if you showed the white feather."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "None of the McKnights have ever done anything of the kind, sir, and it's not likely your cousin would be the first to write himself down a coward."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I begin to believe that you're of the right sort, Ezra; and if you don't make your way in the navy, it won't be because I haven't done my share toward it."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we shall see something of real business. Those craft won't submit tamely to our small boats, and we shall know what a sea-fight is like!"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you and your comrade are eager for a taste of boat-work?"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the boat crews are called away, you two lads will take your places alongside me. I have promised Mr. McKnight to have an eye out on you bloodthirsty youngsters, and it won't be my fault if he doesn't hear exactly how you behaved under fire."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suppose we've got to go, he said in a faint tone; and the contrast between his manner now and when I first told him what my cousin had promised, was so comical that I could not keep my face straight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all very well for you who are really brave, he continued, believing from the smile on my face that there was no fear in my heart;"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can't back out now, Phil, else every man on board will set you down for the veriest kind of a coward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's just what I am,"
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can't send a shot anywhere near us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, there's little danger while we're so far away; but we're going nearer each moment, and then of a surety they must strike us."
}
]
|
43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've struck their colors! They've struck their colors!"
}
]
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43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the luck of the _Essex_ to find Britishers so plentiful; but this time she's got more'n a mouthful, an' that fellow yonder is like to give us the slip unless our slow-movin' prizes work up this way before the wind rises."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you mean, Master Hackett, that we can't make any effort at capturing her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look about an' see if that ain't the size of it. Do you reckon Captain Porter would strip his own ship, leavin' her helpless in case this 'ere calm ended with a squall?"
}
]
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43766 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your good-by squint at the old hooker, matey, for I'm reckonin' there's many a chance you'll never see her again. I'm willin' to admit that a man-o'-warsman is bound to run many a risk; but this 'ere beats anything I ever saw or heard of before."
}
]
|
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