A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... never should have appeared in print ? And should another return to England , after his tetchy , absurd remarks upon the English , is there much chance of his receiving a kind welcome ? Most assuredly not ; both these authors will be ...
... never should have appeared in print ? And should another return to England , after his tetchy , absurd remarks upon the English , is there much chance of his receiving a kind welcome ? Most assuredly not ; both these authors will be ...
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... never refuse anything in New York ; but nobody will give specie in change , and great distress is occasioned by this want of a circulating medium . Some of the shop- keepers told me that they had been obliged to turn away a hundred dol ...
... never refuse anything in New York ; but nobody will give specie in change , and great distress is occasioned by this want of a circulating medium . Some of the shop- keepers told me that they had been obliged to turn away a hundred dol ...
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... never heard of any one choosing their own coffin ; they generally leave it to their relatives to perform that office . I may here remark , that the Americans are sensible enough not to throw away so much money in funerals as we do ...
... never heard of any one choosing their own coffin ; they generally leave it to their relatives to perform that office . I may here remark , that the Americans are sensible enough not to throw away so much money in funerals as we do ...
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... never were intended to remain longer than till the time when civilization , with the gospel , arts , and sciences , in her train , should appear , and claim as her own that portion of the universe which they occupy . About thirty miles ...
... never were intended to remain longer than till the time when civilization , with the gospel , arts , and sciences , in her train , should appear , and claim as her own that portion of the universe which they occupy . About thirty miles ...
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... never gazed upon . The Rhine was fresh in my memory ; but , although the general features of the two rivers are not dissimilar , there is no one portion of the Rhine which can be compared to the Hudson at West Point . It was what you ...
... never gazed upon . The Rhine was fresh in my memory ; but , although the general features of the two rivers are not dissimilar , there is no one portion of the Rhine which can be compared to the Hudson at West Point . It was what you ...
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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.