A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... society in the United States is that which must naturally be ex- pected in a new country where there are few men of leisure , and the majority are working hard to obtain that wealth which almost alone gives importance under a democratic ...
... society in the United States is that which must naturally be ex- pected in a new country where there are few men of leisure , and the majority are working hard to obtain that wealth which almost alone gives importance under a democratic ...
Halaman 27
... society of Boston is very delightful ; it wins upon you every day , and that is the greatest compliment that can be paid to it . Perhaps of all the Americans the Bostonians are the most sensitive to any illiberal remarks made upon the ...
... society of Boston is very delightful ; it wins upon you every day , and that is the greatest compliment that can be paid to it . Perhaps of all the Americans the Bostonians are the most sensitive to any illiberal remarks made upon the ...
Halaman 39
... society , bandied from one person to the other , to make the same bows , extend the same hand to be grasped , and reply to the same eternal questions ; until , like a man borne down by sleep after long vigils , and at each moment roused ...
... society , bandied from one person to the other , to make the same bows , extend the same hand to be grasped , and reply to the same eternal questions ; until , like a man borne down by sleep after long vigils , and at each moment roused ...
Halaman 54
... society ; indeed , they are generally received with great attention . The daughter of a celebrated Indian chief brings heraldry into the family , for the Indians are as proud of their descent ( and with good reason ) as we , in Europe ...
... society ; indeed , they are generally received with great attention . The daughter of a celebrated Indian chief brings heraldry into the family , for the Indians are as proud of their descent ( and with good reason ) as we , in Europe ...
Halaman 58
... society is quite equal to that of the eastern cities . From the constant change and transition which take place in this country , go where you will you are sure to fall in with a certain portion of intelligent , educated peo- ple . This ...
... society is quite equal to that of the eastern cities . From the constant change and transition which take place in this country , go where you will you are sure to fall in with a certain portion of intelligent , educated peo- ple . This ...
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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.