There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
“The squadron of men-of-war and transports was collected, the commodore’s flag hoisted, and the expedition sailed with most secret orders, which, as usual, were… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse,… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
