翁虹《满清禁宫奇案》出演详情

《 翁虹《满清禁宫奇案》出演详情》

　　I WAS very angry with my nephew, the captain, and indeed with allthe men, but with him in particular, as well for his acting so outof his duty as a commander of the ship, and having the charge ofthe voyage upon him, as in his prompting, rather than cooling, therage of his blind men in so bloody and cruel an enterprise. Mynephew answered me very respectfully, but told me that when he sawthe body of the poor seaman whom they had murdered in so cruel andbarbarous a manner, he was not master of himself, neither could hegovern his passion; he owned he should not have done so, as he wascommander of the ship; but as he was a man, and nature moved him,he could not bear it. As for the rest of the men, they were notsubject to me at all, and they knew it well enough; so they took nonotice of my dislike. The next day we set sail, so we never heardany more of it. Our men differed in the account of the number theyhad killed; but according to the best of their accounts, put alltogether, they killed or destroyed about

　　I had a great many discourses with them about their circumstanceswhen they were among the savages. They told me readily that theyhad no instances to give of their application or ingenuity in thatcountry; that they were a poor, miserable, dejected handful ofpeople; that even if means had been put into their hands, yet theyhad so abandoned themselves to despair, and were so sunk under theweight of their misfortune, that they thought of nothing butstarving. One of them, a grave and sensible man, told me he wasconvinced they were in the wrong; that it was not the part of wisemen to give themselves up to their misery, but always to take holdof the helps which reason offered, as well for present support asfor future deliverance: he told me that grief was the mostsenseless, insignificant passion in the world, for that it regardedonly things past, which were generally impossible to be recalled orto be remedied, but had no views of things to come, and had noshare in anything that looked like deliverance, but rath