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For Though His Body 's Under Hatches, His Soul Has Gone Aloft.
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For though his body 's under hatches,
His soul has gone aloft.
-- Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
-- Tom Bowling
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His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and sof
Faithful below he did his duty, But now he 's gone aloft....
There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.
-- Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) -- Poor Jack...
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing
Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king....
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own....
Gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he had fought so long.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Richard II -- Act iv, Sc. 1...
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
-- Old Testament -- Job xx, 12...
every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself.
The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his....
The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself
he rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his....
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd....