...smile even in the agonies'of death. Piracy, in proof of these assertions, is represented as having been the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue of the Scandinavian youth ; that impatience of the restraint imposed upon their natural ardour by the inhospitable climate, and...

...adventurers, who fighed in the lazinefs of peace, and fmiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercife, the trade, the glory, and the virtue, of the Scandinavian...Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they darted from the banquet, grafped their arms, founded their horn, afcended their veflels, and explored...

...and desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and...settlement. The Baltic was the first scene of their naval achieve- • ments; they visited the eastern shores, the silent residence son Origine, et ses Accroissemens...

...adven- L * 1 '* «^. turers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and...of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started irom the banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and explored every...

...and desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and...arms, sounded their horn, ascended their vessels, and «XT r ..if plored every coast that promised either spoil "' or settlement. The Baltic was the first...

...of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, were crowded with independent chieftains and desperate adventurers. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue of the Scandinavian youth ; and the primitive Russians of the Lake Ladoga paid as a tribute the skins of white squirrels to these...

...and desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and...settlement. The Baltic was the first scene of their * See the entire passage (dignum, says Bayer, ut aureis in tabulisfigatur ) in the Annalcs Bertiniani...

...men. Historians assure us that piracy was once a popular employment and the road to fame ; that it was " the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue, of the Scandinavian youth" — yes, of many of our ancestors ! But the progress of light has since doomed the pirate to infamy,...

...human nature, drove forth upon the pathless ocean. " Piracy," says Gibbon, with his usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue...grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their ships, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement."* The conquests made in France...

...and desperate adventurers, who sighed in the laziness of peace, and smiled in the agonies of death. Piracy was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and...and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, graspçd their arms, sounded their hom, ascended their vessels, and explored every coast that promised...