A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... called here , shin - plasters , which are good for one dollar , and from that down to two and a - half cents , all of which are redeemable , and redeemable only upon a general return to cash payments . Hence arises another variety of ...
... called here , shin - plasters , which are good for one dollar , and from that down to two and a - half cents , all of which are redeemable , and redeemable only upon a general return to cash payments . Hence arises another variety of ...
Halaman 19
... called New Brighton ; and had the whole of the lots been sold at the price which many were , previous to the crash , the original speculators would have realized three million of dollars . But the infatuation was not confined to the ...
... called New Brighton ; and had the whole of the lots been sold at the price which many were , previous to the crash , the original speculators would have realized three million of dollars . But the infatuation was not confined to the ...
Halaman 21
... called , ( for in this land of equality nobody keeps a shop ) , have already been fitted up with large plate - glass fronts , similar to those in London , and but for the depression which has taken place , many more would have followed ...
... called , ( for in this land of equality nobody keeps a shop ) , have already been fitted up with large plate - glass fronts , similar to those in London , and but for the depression which has taken place , many more would have followed ...
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... called Kosciusko's Garden . I often sat there and talked over the events of the war of Independence . Many anecdotes were narrated to me , some of them very original . I will mention one or two which have not escaped my memory . One of ...
... called Kosciusko's Garden . I often sat there and talked over the events of the war of Independence . Many anecdotes were narrated to me , some of them very original . I will mention one or two which have not escaped my memory . One of ...
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... called , being a Dutch grant of land , now in the possession of one person , a Mr. Van Renssalaer , and equal to many a German principality , being twenty miles by forty - eight miles square . Mr. Van Renssalaer still retains the old ...
... called , being a Dutch grant of land , now in the possession of one person , a Mr. Van Renssalaer , and equal to many a German principality , being twenty miles by forty - eight miles square . Mr. Van Renssalaer still retains the old ...
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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.