A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... hundred miles is as little considered in America , as would be here a journey from London to Brighton . " Go ahead " is the real motto of the country ; and every man does push on , to gain in advance of his neigh- bour . The American ...
... hundred miles is as little considered in America , as would be here a journey from London to Brighton . " Go ahead " is the real motto of the country ; and every man does push on , to gain in advance of his neigh- bour . The American ...
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... hundred and sixty houses have already failed , and no one knows where it is to end . Suspicion , fear , and ... hundreds of miles . Canals , railroads , and all public works , have been discontinued , and the Irish emigrant leans against ...
... hundred and sixty houses have already failed , and no one knows where it is to end . Suspicion , fear , and ... hundreds of miles . Canals , railroads , and all public works , have been discontinued , and the Irish emigrant leans against ...
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... hundred dol- lars a - day , and many a southerner , who has come up with a large supply of southern notes , has found himself a pauper , and has been indebted to a friend for a few dollars in specie to get home again . The radicals here ...
... hundred dol- lars a - day , and many a southerner , who has come up with a large supply of southern notes , has found himself a pauper , and has been indebted to a friend for a few dollars in specie to get home again . The radicals here ...
Halaman 19
... hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars each , but , as the epidemic_raged , they rose to upwards of two thousand dollars . At Brooklyn , on Long Island , opposite to New York , and about half a mile distant from it , lots were marked ...
... hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars each , but , as the epidemic_raged , they rose to upwards of two thousand dollars . At Brooklyn , on Long Island , opposite to New York , and about half a mile distant from it , lots were marked ...
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... hundred thousand inhabitants . I have never seen any city so admirably adapted for commerce . It is built upon a * One single proof may be given of the ruinous policy of the Jackson ad- ministration in temporizing with the credit of the ...
... hundred thousand inhabitants . I have never seen any city so admirably adapted for commerce . It is built upon a * One single proof may be given of the ruinous policy of the Jackson ad- ministration in temporizing with the credit of 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.