A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... becomes associated with New York , and therefore is not right . I will do the New Yorkers the justice to say , that , as far as drinks are concerned , they are above prejudice : all's right with them , provided there is enough of it ...
... becomes associated with New York , and therefore is not right . I will do the New Yorkers the justice to say , that , as far as drinks are concerned , they are above prejudice : all's right with them , provided there is enough of it ...
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... become so closely packed - so crowded , that there is hardly room for the population , our activity has been proportion- ably cramped and subdued . But , in this vast and favoured country , the very associations and impressions of ...
... become so closely packed - so crowded , that there is hardly room for the population , our activity has been proportion- ably cramped and subdued . But , in this vast and favoured country , the very associations and impressions of ...
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... become the substitute , and , with very few exceptions , every man is great in propor- tion to his riches . The consequence is , that to leave a sum of money when they die is of little importance to the majority of the Americans . Their ...
... become the substitute , and , with very few exceptions , every man is great in propor- tion to his riches . The consequence is , that to leave a sum of money when they die is of little importance to the majority of the Americans . Their ...
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... who obtain it to embark in other speculations , foreign to their business ; for credit thus becomes extra capital which they do not know how to employ . Such has been the case in the present instance : 18 DIARY IN AMERICA .
... who obtain it to embark in other speculations , foreign to their business ; for credit thus becomes extra capital which they do not know how to employ . Such has been the case in the present instance : 18 DIARY IN AMERICA .
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... becomes contracted and deeper , and it pours its waters rapidly through the high lands on each side , having at some distant time forced its passage through a chain of rocky mountains . It was quite dark long before we arrived at West ...
... becomes contracted and deeper , and it pours its waters rapidly through the high lands on each side , having at some distant time forced its passage through a chain of rocky mountains . It was quite dark long before we arrived at West ...
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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.