The Creighton Chronicle . n, is a strangeperson to us smaller beings. He is not bizarre, not freakish:he is merely great: he astounds us because he exhausts our ca-pacity. Even his personal history is astonishing. A Pole, bornin the Ukraine some sixty years ago, (his full name is TeodorJozef Konrad Korzeniowski), of a noble family which had suf-fered much for Poland, he left his country at seventeen to fol-low the sea. He had been brought up in a country that hadno coast; he had never seen the sea; but a strange longing forit was in his blood. He sailed from Marseilles, before the his
The Creighton Chronicle . n, is a strangeperson to us smaller beings. He is not bizarre, not freakish:he is merely great: he astounds us because he exhausts our ca-pacity. Even his personal history is astonishing. A Pole, bornin the Ukraine some sixty years ago, (his full name is TeodorJozef Konrad Korzeniowski), of a noble family which had suf-fered much for Poland, he left his country at seventeen to fol-low the sea. He had been brought up in a country that hadno coast; he had never seen the sea; but a strange longing forit was in his blood. He sailed from Marseilles, before the his dream was to be an English sailor; and an English sailorhe became some four years later. He passed for mate the yearfollowing (having picked up the English language during theyear or two preceding), and five years later bacame a Masterin the Merchant Service. In that same year, 1884, he became a ?Professor of English Literature, College of Arts. > w (X) < WQW WH< Q< O ?J < u S w o o I—\ w&o o O o. s V ;- 6£ C w c ^ «C C «-? d «T b£ CO o •S o £3 1—1 a M ^ .5 o 5 * T—I i—t as ^ i-i a 03 tn* 00 _f] r-t -^ OS <D .2^ 03 £ H *-3 CQ ^5 U ^2 .,1=5 «D T—1 OS o o as a) „ th ^5 ,Q - cd £3 •- £ 3 3 m <! as rH S d * b S o fH ...Q tH * H O- 0) SS .. 0) - r/ ?** .£3 fi^H 02 «S . o ., o> Mj >. rH | J3 6f- 3 Jo 2°-* o £3 £ rH•^ as tf o H Oh H c O Eh pq
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