A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... land ; or the question required more investigation and deeper research than travellers in their hasty movements have been able to bestow upon it . Whether I should be capable of throwing any new light upon the subject , I knew not , but ...
... land ; or the question required more investigation and deeper research than travellers in their hasty movements have been able to bestow upon it . Whether I should be capable of throwing any new light upon the subject , I knew not , but ...
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... land . America is a wonderful country , endowed by the Omnipotent with na- tural advantages which no other can boast of ; and the mind can hardly calculate upon the degree of perfection and power to which , whether the states are ...
... land . America is a wonderful country , endowed by the Omnipotent with na- tural advantages which no other can boast of ; and the mind can hardly calculate upon the degree of perfection and power to which , whether the states are ...
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... land expanded into America , the same results would be produced . certain degree , the English were in former times what the Americans are now ; and this it is which has raised our country so high in the scale of nations ; but since we ...
... land expanded into America , the same results would be produced . certain degree , the English were in former times what the Americans are now ; and this it is which has raised our country so high in the scale of nations ; but since we ...
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... land— ~ which has not been sufficiently dwelt upon , nor has the importance been given to it which it deserves ; as , perhaps , next to the losses occasioned by the great fire , it led , more than any other species of over - speculation ...
... land— ~ which has not been sufficiently dwelt upon , nor has the importance been given to it which it deserves ; as , perhaps , next to the losses occasioned by the great fire , it led , more than any other species of over - speculation ...
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... land ; and to show the extent to which it had been carried on , we may take the following examples The city of New ... lands , which could only be paid for in specie , were eagerly sought after ; plans of new towns were puffed up ...
... land ; and to show the extent to which it had been carried on , we may take the following examples The city of New ... lands , which could only be paid for in specie , were eagerly sought after ; plans of new towns were puffed up ...
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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.