The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and weighed his anchor. His hopes* however, had the fame completion, and his endeavours the fame fuccefs, with his former trial j and he was foon obliged to return once more to his old quarters. Juft before we let go our anchor, a fmall (loop, rather than fub- mit to yield us an inch of way, ran foul of our (hip, and carried off her bow- fprit. This obftinate frolic would have coft thofe aboard the floop very dear, if our fteerfman had not been too gene¬ rous to exert his fuperiority, the cer¬ tain confequence of which would have been the immediate finking of the other. This contention of the inferior, with a might capable of crufhing it in an in- ftant, may feem to argue no fmall fhare of folly or madnefs, as well as of im¬ pudence ; but I am convinced there is very little danger in it : contempt is a port to which the pride of man fubmits to fly with reluctance, but thofe who are within it are always in a place of the imoft allured fecurity $ for whofoever throws away his fword, prefers, indeed,