A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... south , until people , manners , and customs were looked upon by me with indifference . The press was constantly pouring out works upon the new world , so contradictory to each other , and pronounced so unjust by the Americans , that my ...
... south , until people , manners , and customs were looked upon by me with indifference . The press was constantly pouring out works upon the new world , so contradictory to each other , and pronounced so unjust by the Americans , that my ...
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... south , are nearly as marked and distinct now , as at the first occupation of the country , softened down in- deed , but still distinct . Not only are the populations of the various states distinct , but even those of the cities and it ...
... south , are nearly as marked and distinct now , as at the first occupation of the country , softened down in- deed , but still distinct . Not only are the populations of the various states distinct , but even those of the cities and it ...
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... south . They set a high- er value upon good connections in these poor states than they do in others ; and if a daughter is to be married , they will ask what family the suitor is of , and if it bears a good name , they are quite ...
... south . They set a high- er value upon good connections in these poor states than they do in others ; and if a daughter is to be married , they will ask what family the suitor is of , and if it bears a good name , they are quite ...
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... south , from Rhode Island to the Missouri , from the Canada frontier to the Gulf of Mexico . At the various gardens the combinations were very beautiful , and exceeded anything that I had wit- nessed in London or Paris . What with sea ...
... south , from Rhode Island to the Missouri , from the Canada frontier to the Gulf of Mexico . At the various gardens the combinations were very beautiful , and exceeded anything that I had wit- nessed in London or Paris . What with sea ...
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... South to S.S.W. Five sail in the offing . 1 At 6 , ran into Grand river . Within these last two years , three towns have sprung up here , containing between them about three thousand inhabitants . How little are they aware , in Europe ...
... South to S.S.W. Five sail in the offing . 1 At 6 , ran into Grand river . Within these last two years , three towns have sprung up here , containing between them about three thousand inhabitants . How little are they aware , in Europe ...
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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.