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[ { "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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[ { "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 sig...
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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 Fore...
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[ { "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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[ { "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...
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[ { "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 resp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." } ]
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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,"...
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[ { "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 circ...
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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 t...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have brought the man of God to be buried with his people." } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 jour...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Hundred" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bishop, I am a thousand miles from a post-office and only get one mail a year." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye are brethren." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feed my lambs." } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 impos...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sirs, ye are brethren." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and say" } ]
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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 i...
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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 ma...
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[ { "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 Savio...
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[ { "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. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "OLD IRONSIDES" } ]
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[ { "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 acr...
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[ { "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 ...
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 unt...
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[ { "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," } ]
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[ { "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 wher...
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[ { "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;...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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." }, { "fro...
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[ { "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 w...
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[ { "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," }, ...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hello, you two lads! Are you from the Yankee ship?" } ]
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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....
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[ { "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 ...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 ...
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[ { "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 pa...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't speak nor move. We'll remain silent until he grows tired of listening and goes away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he'd only come near enough for me to hit one blow!" } ]
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[ { "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?" } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 ...
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[ { "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 ca...
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[ { "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", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's better than doing nothing," } ]
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[ { "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 ro...
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[ { "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;" } ]
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[ { "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 a...
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[ { "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 wan...
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ahoy in the shanty!" } ]
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[ { "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." }, { "fro...
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[ { "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 repo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can come out now, the old man said with a chuckle," } ]
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[ { "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 British...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't give him a chance to play us any tricks," } ]
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[ { "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...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where did you get that fellow?" } ]
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[ { "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 kn...
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[ { "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," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's true, sir, or," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all as Ezra says, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may go, lads, and send Hackett aft." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The captain has sent for you, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why couldn't it be our luck to be there! Why don't Lieutenant Downes give us lads half a chance?" } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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 b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sail ho!" } ]
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[ { "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 wi...
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[ { "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!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you and your comrade are eager for a taste of boat-work?" } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "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...
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[ { "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," } ]
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[ { "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." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They've struck their colors! They've struck their colors!" } ]
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[ { "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 mea...
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[ { "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." } ]