A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... miles from west to east , and from north to south , until people , manners , and customs were looked upon by me with indifference . The press was constantly pouring out works upon the new world , so contradictory to each other , and ...
... miles from west to east , and from north to south , until people , manners , and customs were looked upon by me with indifference . The press was constantly pouring out works upon the new world , so contradictory to each other , and ...
Halaman 7
... 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 lives ...
... 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 lives ...
Halaman 8
... miles in length , the passage across the Atlantic ( of 3,500 miles ) appears but a trifle ; and the American ladies talk of spending the winter at Paris with as much indif- ference as one of our landed proprietors would , of going up to ...
... miles in length , the passage across the Atlantic ( of 3,500 miles ) appears but a trifle ; and the American ladies talk of spending the winter at Paris with as much indif- ference as one of our landed proprietors would , of going up to ...
Halaman 16
... miles . Canals , railroads , and all public works , have been discontinued , and the Irish emigrant leans against his shanty , with his spade idle in his hand , and starves , as his thoughts wander back to his own Emerald Isle . The ...
... miles . Canals , railroads , and all public works , have been discontinued , and the Irish emigrant leans against his shanty , with his spade idle in his hand , and starves , as his thoughts wander back to his own Emerald Isle . The ...
Halaman 19
... miles in length , at present covers about three miles of that distance , and has a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants . Building lots were marked out for the other seven miles ; and , by calculation , these lots when built ...
... miles in length , at present covers about three miles of that distance , and has a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants . Building lots were marked out for the other seven miles ; and , by calculation , these lots when built ...
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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.