A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 halaman |
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... supposed that there was any deficiency in the very necessary articles of potation on this auspicious day no ! the booths were loaded with porter , ale , cider , mead , brandy , wine , ginger - beer , pop , soda - water , whiskey , rum ...
... supposed that there was any deficiency in the very necessary articles of potation on this auspicious day no ! the booths were loaded with porter , ale , cider , mead , brandy , wine , ginger - beer , pop , soda - water , whiskey , rum ...
Halaman 34
... supposed in England that , in America , all property must be divided between the children at the decease of the parent . This is not the case . The entailing of estates was abolished by an act of con- gress in 1788 , but a man may will ...
... supposed in England that , in America , all property must be divided between the children at the decease of the parent . This is not the case . The entailing of estates was abolished by an act of con- gress in 1788 , but a man may will ...
Halaman 58
... supposed to average about the same quantity , or rather more ; and they have a larger proportion of valuable furs , such as beaver and sable , but they have few deer and no buffalo . When we consider how sterile and unfit for ...
... supposed to average about the same quantity , or rather more ; and they have a larger proportion of valuable furs , such as beaver and sable , but they have few deer and no buffalo . When we consider how sterile and unfit for ...
Halaman 68
... supposed , had very bad fare in consequence , the man being above his business . We changed horses at Bloody Brook , so termed in con- sequence of a massacre of the settlers by the Indians . But there are twenty Bloody Brooks in America ...
... supposed , had very bad fare in consequence , the man being above his business . We changed horses at Bloody Brook , so termed in con- sequence of a massacre of the settlers by the Indians . But there are twenty Bloody Brooks in America ...
Halaman 74
... supposed that I am about to write a regular despatch . I went out with the troops , but was of about as much use as the fifth wheel of a coach ; with the exception , that as I rode one of Sir John Colborne's horses , I was , perhaps ...
... supposed that I am about to write a regular despatch . I went out with the troops , but was of about as much use as the fifth wheel of a coach ; with the exception , that as I rode one of Sir John Colborne's horses , I was , perhaps ...
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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.