Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 |
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... night , and had changed his dress a little , so that I did not immediately recognize him . When I did , he apologized for not speaking first , but said the manners of my countrymen were in general so stiff , ( he would gladly have said ...
... night , and had changed his dress a little , so that I did not immediately recognize him . When I did , he apologized for not speaking first , but said the manners of my countrymen were in general so stiff , ( he would gladly have said ...
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... nights in the week , as a sort of telegraphic signal that the family is at home . Mr. and Mrs. are remarkable for their hospi- tality , and for their liberal and excellent arrangements for entertaining strangers . On calling there the ...
... nights in the week , as a sort of telegraphic signal that the family is at home . Mr. and Mrs. are remarkable for their hospi- tality , and for their liberal and excellent arrangements for entertaining strangers . On calling there the ...
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... Orphans ' Asylum . It accidently caught fire in the night ; and of its ninety - one little inmates , twenty - three unhappily perished in the flames . management principally to the family of my conductress . On 20 LETTERS FROM.
... Orphans ' Asylum . It accidently caught fire in the night ; and of its ninety - one little inmates , twenty - three unhappily perished in the flames . management principally to the family of my conductress . On 20 LETTERS FROM.
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... night of any companions whom I might happen to have picked up in the course of the day , I was usually enabled to make myself one of the family , and by sitting down with its members at their meals , or over their fire , to draw them ...
... night of any companions whom I might happen to have picked up in the course of the day , I was usually enabled to make myself one of the family , and by sitting down with its members at their meals , or over their fire , to draw them ...
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... night we lay out in the woods in Alabama , one of the points discussed by some Carolinian emigrants , who came to our fire to have a little chat before bed - time , was the eligi- bility of stopping on the road a year , to make and sell ...
... night we lay out in the woods in Alabama , one of the points discussed by some Carolinian emigrants , who came to our fire to have a little chat before bed - time , was the eligi- bility of stopping on the road a year , to make and sell ...
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Halaman 411 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Halaman 173 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Halaman 170 - The proposed Constitution, therefore, is, in strictness, neither , a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national ; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national ; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal ; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national ; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments it is neither...
Halaman 174 - The Third Amendment in its prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" in time of peace without the consent of the owner is another facet of that privacy.
Halaman 174 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right of a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...
Halaman 399 - The majority of the court is of opinion that the nature of the Indian title, which is certainly to be respected by all courts, until it be legitimately extinguished, is not such as to be absolutely repugnant to seisin in fee on the part of the State.
Halaman 136 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Halaman 301 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Halaman 423 - The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and
Halaman 143 - Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable ? Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? Who would wish for other emblazoning of his country's heraldry, or other ornaments of her genealogy, than to be able to say, that her first existence was with intelligence, her first breath the inspiration of liberty, her first principle the truth of Divine religion...