A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... lives ; but this is about as near the truth as the majority of her statements . The loafing Eng- lish men and women who visit America , as penny - a - liners , are perfectly un- derstood here , and Jonathan amuses himself whenever he ...
... lives ; but this is about as near the truth as the majority of her statements . The loafing Eng- lish men and women who visit America , as penny - a - liners , are perfectly un- derstood here , and Jonathan amuses himself whenever he ...
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... lives twice as long as others ; for he does twice the work during the time that he lives . He begins life sooner : at fifteen ى * The clocks in America - there rendered so famous by Sam Slick - in . stead of the moral lessons inculcated ...
... lives twice as long as others ; for he does twice the work during the time that he lives . He begins life sooner : at fifteen ى * The clocks in America - there rendered so famous by Sam Slick - in . stead of the moral lessons inculcated ...
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... live upon a portion of their produce and sell the rest . Formerly they were content with bank bills or Mexican dollars , which they laid by for a rainy day , and they remained locked up for years be- fore they were required . When the ...
... live upon a portion of their produce and sell the rest . Formerly they were content with bank bills or Mexican dollars , which they laid by for a rainy day , and they remained locked up for years be- fore they were required . When the ...
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... of the times , saying that their pay was not 2s . 6d . of our money per day , and that they could not live upon it . This was true , but the dis- tress had been communicated to all parts , and they 36 DIARY IN AMERICA .
... of the times , saying that their pay was not 2s . 6d . of our money per day , and that they could not live upon it . This was true , but the dis- tress had been communicated to all parts , and they 36 DIARY IN AMERICA .
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... lives would have been lost . Houses , stables , and sheds were all hurled away together . Horses , children , and women rolled together in confusion . One child had a very strange escape . It had been forced out of its bed , and was ...
... lives would have been lost . Houses , stables , and sheds were all hurled away together . Horses , children , and women rolled together in confusion . One child had a very strange escape . It had been forced out of its bed , and was ...
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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.