A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... force which would have taken some people off their feet . The rapids below the Falls are much grander than the Falls themselves ; there was one down in a chasm between two riven rocks which it was painful to look long upon , and watch ...
... force which would have taken some people off their feet . The rapids below the Falls are much grander than the Falls themselves ; there was one down in a chasm between two riven rocks which it was painful to look long upon , and watch ...
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... every vein and artery of the country , and by which English goods are forced , as if with a force - pump , into every available depôt in the Union ; and thus , in a town so newly raised , that the stumps of the 50 DIARY IN AMERICA .
... every vein and artery of the country , and by which English goods are forced , as if with a force - pump , into every available depôt in the Union ; and thus , in a town so newly raised , that the stumps of the 50 DIARY IN AMERICA .
Halaman 54
... force their way up into Lake Su- perior . The majority of the inhabitants here are half - breeds . It is remarkable that the females generally improve , and the males degenerate , from the admixture of blood . Indian wives are here ...
... force their way up into Lake Su- perior . The majority of the inhabitants here are half - breeds . It is remarkable that the females generally improve , and the males degenerate , from the admixture of blood . Indian wives are here ...
Halaman 59
... force ; if you went into it yourself , nothing could prevent your going down the falls . As I returned , I observed an ugly snake in my path , and I killed it . An American , who came up , exclaimed , " I reckon that's a copper - head ...
... force ; if you went into it yourself , nothing could prevent your going down the falls . As I returned , I observed an ugly snake in my path , and I killed it . An American , who came up , exclaimed , " I reckon that's a copper - head ...
Halaman 62
... force ; but certainly there was no excuse for the indecision shown by the British general , with such a force as he had under his command . Now that the real facts are known , one hardly knows whether to laugh or feel indignant . The ...
... force ; but certainly there was no excuse for the indecision shown by the British general , with such a force as he had under his command . Now that the real facts are known , one hardly knows whether to laugh or feel indignant . The ...
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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.