A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... consequence is , that to leave a sum of money when they die is of little importance to the majority of the Americans . Their object is to amass it while young , and obtain the consideration which it gives them during their lifetime ...
... consequence is , that to leave a sum of money when they die is of little importance to the majority of the Americans . Their object is to amass it while young , and obtain the consideration which it gives them during their lifetime ...
Halaman 20
... consequence was , that the price of cotton fell forty dollars per bale . The crop of cotton amounted to 1,600,000 bales . which , at forty dollars per bale , was a loss to the southern planters of 64,000,000 dollars . A curious proof of ...
... consequence was , that the price of cotton fell forty dollars per bale . The crop of cotton amounted to 1,600,000 bales . which , at forty dollars per bale , was a loss to the southern planters of 64,000,000 dollars . A curious proof of ...
Halaman 24
... consequence has been that she has milked nothing but ice - creams ever since . " When you have ascended about fifty miles , the bed of the river becomes contracted and deeper , and it pours its waters rapidly through the high lands on ...
... consequence has been that she has milked nothing but ice - creams ever since . " When you have ascended about fifty miles , the bed of the river becomes contracted and deeper , and it pours its waters rapidly through the high lands on ...
Halaman 39
... consequence was that I remained a week there , and should have remained much longer had I not been warned , by repeated arrivals , that the visiters were in- creasing , and that I should be no longer alone . The weariness of solitude ...
... consequence was that I remained a week there , and should have remained much longer had I not been warned , by repeated arrivals , that the visiters were in- creasing , and that I should be no longer alone . The weariness of solitude ...
Halaman 50
... consequence on the lake . It is situated at the mouth of the Miami river ; and as a railroad has already been com- menced across the isthmus , so as to avoid going round the whole penin- sula of Michigan , it is fast rising into ...
... consequence on the lake . It is situated at the mouth of the Miami river ; and as a railroad has already been com- menced across the isthmus , so as to avoid going round the whole penin- sula of Michigan , it is fast rising into ...
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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.