A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... Indian name - Sing Sing rather an odd name for a prison , where people are condemned to perpetual silence . It is a fine building of white marble , like a palace - very appropriate for that portion of the sovereign people , who may ...
... Indian name - Sing Sing rather an odd name for a prison , where people are condemned to perpetual silence . It is a fine building of white marble , like a palace - very appropriate for that portion of the sovereign people , who may ...
Halaman 40
... Indian phrase , lose my trail . I arrived at Schenectady , and was put down there . I amused myself until the train started for Utica , which was to be in a few hours , in walking about the engine - house , and examining the locomotives ...
... Indian phrase , lose my trail . I arrived at Schenectady , and was put down there . I amused myself until the train started for Utica , which was to be in a few hours , in walking about the engine - house , and examining the locomotives ...
Halaman 44
... Indian names ? They need not be so very scrupulous about it ; they have robbed the Indians of everything else . After you pass Syracuse , the country wears a more populous and in- viting appearance . Salina is a village built upon a ...
... Indian names ? They need not be so very scrupulous about it ; they have robbed the Indians of everything else . After you pass Syracuse , the country wears a more populous and in- viting appearance . Salina is a village built upon a ...
Halaman 46
... Indian first looked upon the falls , he declared them to be the dwelling of the Great Spirit . The savage could not imagine that the Great Spirit dwelt also in the leaf which he bruised in his hand ; but here it appealed to his senses ...
... Indian first looked upon the falls , he declared them to be the dwelling of the Great Spirit . The savage could not imagine that the Great Spirit dwelt also in the leaf which he bruised in his hand ; but here it appealed to his senses ...
Halaman 48
... Indian reservation , granted to the remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians , once a portion of the Mohawks , and all that now remains in the United States of the famed six nations . The chief of them ( Red Jacket ) , lately dead , might ...
... Indian reservation , granted to the remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians , once a portion of the Mohawks , and all that now remains in the United States of the famed six nations . The chief of them ( Red Jacket ) , lately dead , might ...
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Halaman 188 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Halaman 73 - FROM distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good...
Halaman 68 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Halaman 188 - MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Halaman 46 - Mantled around thy feet. And he doth give Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him Eternally, — bidding the lip of man Keep silence, — and upon thy rocky altar pour Incense of awe-struck praise.
Halaman 164 - No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Halaman 72 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Halaman 68 - ... If a man have a stubborn or rebellious son, of sufficient years and understanding (viz.) sixteen years of age, which will not obey the voice of his Father, or the voice of his Mother, and that when they have chastened him...
Halaman 102 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors
Halaman 68 - If any child or children above sixteen years old and of sufficient understanding, shall curse or smite their natural father or mother, he or they shall be put to death ; unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly negligent in the education of such children, or so provoked them by extreme and cruel correction, that they have been forced thereunto, to preserve themselves from death or maiming.