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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (2): 295–296.
Published: 01 April 1951
... the Sailor. By Captain Russell Grenfell R. N. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Pp. 235. $3.00. This fine short volume concentrates on the naval career of England s greatest sailor a fighting fool, tactical genius, and thorough booby (to use one of old St. Vincent s more restrained phrases) as soon...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (3): 440.
Published: 01 July 1964
...William Charvat Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative . By Melville Herman . Ed. by Hayford Harrison Sealts Merton M. Jr. , Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1962 . Pp. ix , 432 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 440 The South...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (2): 308–309.
Published: 01 April 1960
...Theodore Ropp John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography . By Morison Samuel Eliot . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1959 . Pp. xxii , 453 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 308 The South Atlantic Quarterly problem of teacher training, North Carolina...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 April 1965
... in Europe alone. And his name went through all the regional changes from San Nicola to Saint Nicholas to Sant Nikolaas to the jolly diminutive, Santa Claus. And what of Bari? The sailors and merchants of the hustling town located in the Achilles heel of southeast Italy soon heard of the miracles attributed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (3): 350–361.
Published: 01 July 1946
... in Boston s North Square. But the famous and the well-born crowded his little chapel sometimes to their discomfiture to occupy any spare seats along the walls or in the gallery, since the main section was always reserved for sailors. Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau and Jenny Lind and Frederika Bremer...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1934) 33 (4): 354–362.
Published: 01 October 1934
... be observed. In the Hawaii Islands the dissolute sailor, the missionary, and the shrewd Yankee trader rubbed elbows with unsophisticated savages acquiring civilization in shreds and patches. The im­ pact of the Americans upon the soft Hawaiian people resulted in a highly comic kaleidoscope of manners...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2001
... ‘‘politically astute and worldly black sailors’’ who, until the Civil War, ‘‘were central to African Americans’ collective sense of self, economic survival, and 5 freedom...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1924) 23 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 April 1924
.... At that particular time young Joe was contemplating the life of a sailor; so naturally when the melancholy Prince, looking straight at the boy, pronounced the words Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, the eager...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (4): 587–602.
Published: 01 October 1959
... taste for life at sea. He turned to other activities for a time, includ­ ing school teaching, and he made one significant journey into the West, visiting an uncle in Galena, Illinois, on the banks of the Missis­ sippi. In 1841, at the age of twenty-two, Melville shipped out of New Bedford as a sailor...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1948) 47 (1): 35–44.
Published: 01 January 1948
... the sentimentalists demanded amelioration of the cruel penal laws and practices both on land and sea. Jones disproved a charge that he flogged a sailor to death. An English officer with whom Jones had business dealings in the West Indies emphasized Jones s feeling for the distressed. A fellow-officer, Lieutenant...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (4): 398–407.
Published: 01 October 1980
... of the mountain houses call to mind Wegg, overseeing this carting by daylight, nightlight, torchlight (p. 850). In The Burial of the Dead, Madame Sosostris offers the persona his tarot card, the drowned Phoenician sailor, and warns him, Fear death by water ; Our Mutual Friend is replete with actual...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1997) 96 (2): 311–320.
Published: 01 April 1997
.../fiction Omeros. The narrator/protagonist of The Schooner Flight, a mulatto sailor/poet identified only by his nickname, Shabine, tells of how he slipped secretly from Trinidad, his island domicile, early one morning to ship as a seaman on the schooner Flight. 2 His reasons for leaving the island, which...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (2): 294–295.
Published: 01 April 1951
... with an endowment. It is a wise administrator who knows when to turn down a gift of a building. Buildings may contribute to the advancement of learning: this volume shows how they may, and may not, do so. Alan K. Manchester. Nelson the Sailor. By Captain Russell Grenfell R. N. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (4): 701–741.
Published: 01 October 1988
... may be a literary or historical figure, became a sailor, serving for several years in the Merchant Marines. As Olaudah Equiano, who wrote the first known slave narrative, eventually reversed his slave status by becoming a competent seaman, taking power in the same element in which he had first...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1935) 34 (4): 410–418.
Published: 01 October 1935
..., his whole labor was an attempt to reconcile the infinitely varied shades of vice and stupidity, of weakness and virtue, that he discovered among landlubbers as well as sailors with the idealism which he, born in 1819, had absorbed like some at­ mospheric taint out of the early nineteenth-century sky...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1937) 36 (1): 49–52.
Published: 01 January 1937
..., the Inhabitants have offer d such prices to the Sailors as Induc d them to sell the States property, & they themselves have esteem d themselves justi­ fiable in robbing the Public. I followed a diff t plan for the Brig I discharged her unruly Crew in part & Hir d Negroes with about 20 people I sav d in one Day...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 247–265.
Published: 01 January 1989
... through an open tavern window at a rowdy drinking party taking place inside. He is hauled through the window by a drunken, oneeyed sailor who attempts to force him to drink alcohol. When the boy refuses because he has promised his mother never to drink, the sailor begins to beat him. Fortunately...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1920) 19 (2): 109–117.
Published: 01 April 1920
... times. d. War work of volunteer organizations. e. Military, naval, and air service of North Carolina units and of individual North Carolina soldiers, sailors, and airmen. f. Organization and services of the Home Defense. g. A roster of North Carolina soldiers, sailors, and airmen in the war. h. Services...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1902) 1 (1): 73–81.
Published: 01 January 1902
... when Tobacco is worth nothing, but when there s any Hopes of profit, then we must be the last Served, and take it as a great favor if we have a little after ye owners, masters & sailors are served, but enough of this. I wish it may learne us more witt. The reference to the master and sailors points...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1918) 17 (4): 265–289.
Published: 01 October 1918
... as a soldier or sailor, whether or not he has suffered any loss or disability from such service, has, with many another notion, passed away as a result of this war. That conception of the nature of pensions for many years dominated the pension legislation of Great Britain, France, and the United States...