Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821: In a Series of Letters, with an Appendix Containing an Account of Several of the Indian Tribes and the Principal Missionary Stations, &c. ; Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave LabourSamuel Whiting, 1823 - 335 halaman |
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... leaving them for a year or two with his own or his wife's friends , who should come out to Canada , and hire his services till he could have a log - house built , and two or three acres cleared , would probably find himself in the prime ...
... leaving them for a year or two with his own or his wife's friends , who should come out to Canada , and hire his services till he could have a log - house built , and two or three acres cleared , would probably find himself in the prime ...
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... leaving the colony . He also met an English gentleman of property who had been to examine the place , with a view of taking his family thither : he said , the sight of it , and a conviction that it was unhealthy , decided him.at once to ...
... leaving the colony . He also met an English gentleman of property who had been to examine the place , with a view of taking his family thither : he said , the sight of it , and a conviction that it was unhealthy , decided him.at once to ...
Halaman 29
... leaving every mem- ber of his family independent and prosperous , his situation , in a worldly point of view , is a very comfortable one . I am inclined however to think , that independently of his ambition to found a colony , and his ...
... leaving every mem- ber of his family independent and prosperous , his situation , in a worldly point of view , is a very comfortable one . I am inclined however to think , that independently of his ambition to found a colony , and his ...
Halaman 30
... leave an unusually large supply , after maintaining the lạ- bourers employed in its cultivation . It appears to me that the natural tendency of this state of things among an industrious and enterprising people , is to encourage domestic ...
... leave an unusually large supply , after maintaining the lạ- bourers employed in its cultivation . It appears to me that the natural tendency of this state of things among an industrious and enterprising people , is to encourage domestic ...
Halaman 32
... leave little or nothing for the grower of the wheat ; and I have been assured , on the authority of sev- eral persons who have passed through Kentucky and Ohio this autumn , that in many cases the far- mers would not cut their wheat ...
... leave little or nothing for the grower of the wheat ; and I have been assured , on the authority of sev- eral persons who have passed through Kentucky and Ohio this autumn , that in many cases the far- mers would not cut their wheat ...
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Halaman 278 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Halaman 277 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Halaman 56 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Halaman 124 - No voice well known through many a day To speak the last, the parting word, Which when all other sounds decay Is still like distant music heard, — That tender farewell on the shore Of this rude world when all is o'er, Which cheers the spirit ere its bark Puts off into the unknown dark.
Halaman 327 - Somerset, had established the axiom, that " as soon as any slave sets his foot on English ground, he becomes free," there were many negroes in London who had been brought over by their masters.
Halaman 177 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Halaman 251 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Halaman 68 - Brief History of the progress and present state of the Unitarian Churches in America ;' compiled from documents and information communicated by the Rev. James Freeman, DD and William Wells, Jun.
Halaman 181 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.