 | John Henderson - 1851 - 342 pàgines
...junk; for, if not making rope they are set to pull it to pieces. The commandment for them they say, is,— " Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that...holy-stone the deck and scrape the cable." In the evening, however, they have a reprieve, when many a long yarn is spun, or a bout at single stick on the forecastle... | |
 | John Henderson (capt. 78th Highlanders.) - 1851 - 342 pàgines
...they are set to pull it to pieces. The commandment for them they say, is,- — " Six days shall them labour, and do all that thou art able, And, on the seventh, holy-stone the deck and scrape the'cable." In the evening, however, they have a reprieve, when many a long yarn is spun, or a bout... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1862 - 258 pàgines
...But we all know,' said Bob Langwill, ' what the sailor's commandment is : — ' Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the Seventh, holystone the decks, and scrape down the cable." That's our life at sea, old boy, and even the carpenter can't mend... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1873 - 434 pàgines
...either.' ' But we all know,' said Bob Langwill, ' what the sailor's commandment is : — ' Six days shall thou labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the Seventh, holystone the decks, and scrape down the cable." That's our life at sea, old boy, and even the carpenter can't mend... | |
 | Thomas Frost - 1874 - 138 pàgines
...Decalogue was said by the crew to be, in the words of the old nautical rhyme — " Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able ; And on the...seventh, holystone the deck and scrape the cable." All human duties were summed up in Captain Stanford's system of morals in unremitting labour and the... | |
 | Frank Vincent - 1882 - 322 pàgines
...Hence, doubtless, the origin of theii variation upon the fourth commandment : "Six days shall thou labor and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the decks and scrape the cable." When in the latitude of Lima we came across a ship lying directly upon... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1885 - 660 pàgines
...akin to that of Dana's sailor, whose catechism prescribed : 1 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able. And on the seventh, holystone the deck and scrape the cable. . . . ' " Saying nothing of Scripture, the secularization of the Lord's-day, or its encouragement in... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - 1890 - 376 pàgines
...done) and scraping the chain cables. The " Philadelphia Catechism" is, " Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks and scrape the cable." This kind of work, of course, is not kept up off Cape Horn, Cape of Good... | |
 | R. J. Cornewall-Jones - 1898 - 746 pàgines
...should have any leisure, thus carrying out the commandment of the "Philadelphia Cathechism " — " Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks, and scrape the cable." * W. Bottomley, on sounding-machines and patent logs. CHAPTER XXIV. The... | |
 | R. J. Cornewall-Jones - 1898 - 590 pàgines
...leisure, thus carrying out the commandment of the "Philadelphia Cathechism " — " Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks, and scrape the cable." * \V. Bottomley, on sounding-machines and patent logs. CHAPTER XXIV.... | |
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Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. 
