American Notes for General CirculationChapman and Hall, 1863 - 175 páginas |
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America amusements appearance beautiful BLACK DRIVER boat Boston breakfast cabin called cell character Charles Dickens cheerful coach colours comfort Connecticut River course dark deck dinner Doctor Crocus door England English eyes face favourable fire gentleman going hand handsome head horses hour jail Johnny Cake journey kind labour ladies Laura Bridgman Lebanon light LITTLE DORRIT lives look looking-glass Lowell Offering manual alphabet MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT ment miles mind Montreal morning negro never night o'clock party passage passed passengers persons PICKWICK PAPERS pretty prison racter river road roof round Sandusky seemed Shaker ship side SKETCHES BY BOZ slavery slaves soon steamboat stopped streets strong thing thought tion took town travelling trees turned walk wall Washington wharf whole wind window young
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Página 138 - I was in a manner stunned, and unable to comprehend the vastness of the scene. It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked - Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright- green water! - that it came upon me in its full might and majesty.
Página 68 - In its intention, I am well convinced that it is kind, humane, and meant for reformation ; but I am persuaded that those who devised this sytem of Prison Discipline, and those benevolent gentlemen who carry it into execution, do not know what it is that they are doing. I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of torture and agony which this dreadful punishment, prolonged for years, inflicts upon the sufferers...
Página 118 - A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away : cleared here and there for the space of a few yards ; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones...
Página 47 - Secondly, nearly all these young ladies subscribe to circulating libraries. Thirdly, they have got up among themselves a periodical called THE LOWELL OFFERING, ' ' A repository of original articles, written exclusively by females actively employed in the mills...
Página 26 - After this, the beads were all unheeded; the playthings which were offered to her were utterly disregarded ; her playmates, for whom but a moment before she gladly left the stranger, now vainly strove to pull her from her mother ; and though she yielded her usual instantaneous obedience to my signal to follow me, it was evidently with painful reluctance. She clung close to me, as if bewildered and fearful ; and when, after a moment, I took her to her mother, she sprang to her arms, and clung to her...
Página 23 - ... combination of which, she might express her idea of the existence, and the mode and condition of existence of anything. The former would have been easy, but very ineffectual ; the latter seemed very difficult, but, if accomplished, very effectual. I determined, therefore, to try the latter.
Página 83 - All Men are created Equal; and are endowed by their Creator with the Inalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Página 69 - Over the head and face of every prisoner who comes into this melancholy house, a black hood is drawn; and in this dark shroud, an emblem of the curtain dropped between him and the living world, he is led to the cell from which he never again comes forth, until his whole term of imprisonment has expired.
Página 23 - ... off, it began to manifest itself through the others. As soon as she could walk, she began to explore the room, and then the house ; she became familiar with the form, density, weight, and heat, of every article she could lay her hands upon. She followed her mother, and felt her hands and arms, as she was occupied about the house ; and her disposition to imitate, led her to repeat everything herself. She even learned to sew a little, and to knit.
Página 111 - ... forest trees have struck their roots into its earth ; and so high, that it is a hill, even among the hills that Nature planted round it. The very river, as though it shared one's feelings of compassion for the extinct tribes who lived so pleasantly here, in their blessed ignorance of white existence, hundreds of years ago, steals out of its way to ripple near this mound : and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek.