A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volumen2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 páginas |
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... whole , go home with their eyes sticking out of their heads with wonder , and print all they have heard for the benefit of John Bull's calves . * 1 8 The above remarks will testify , that travellers in America INTRODUCTION .
... whole , go home with their eyes sticking out of their heads with wonder , and print all they have heard for the benefit of John Bull's calves . * 1 8 The above remarks will testify , that travellers in America INTRODUCTION .
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... 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 ; still it ...
... 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 ; still it ...
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... one fine day , having taken a drop too much , he took a leap too much . He went down the Genessee Fall , and since that time he has not been seen or heard of . took him up , in the American fashion , and 30 DIARY IN AMERICA .
... one fine day , having taken a drop too much , he took a leap too much . He went down the Genessee Fall , and since that time he has not been seen or heard of . took him up , in the American fashion , and 30 DIARY IN AMERICA .
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... heard the screams of delight from the children at the crowded windows on each side . Ma ! ma ! there's pa ! " " Oh ! there's John . " Look at uncle on his big horse . " 66 The troops did not march in very good order , because ...
... heard the screams of delight from the children at the crowded windows on each side . Ma ! ma ! there's pa ! " " Oh ! there's John . " Look at uncle on his big horse . " 66 The troops did not march in very good order , because ...
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... heard the Declaration of Independence read for the sixty - first time ; and then it was- " Begone , brave army , and don't kick up a row . " I was invited to dine with the mayor and corporation at the City Hall . We sat down in the Hall ...
... heard the Declaration of Independence read for the sixty - first time ; and then it was- " Begone , brave army , and don't kick up a row . " I was invited to dine with the mayor and corporation at the City Hall . We sat down in the Hall ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 164 - No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Página 72 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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.