A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volumen2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 páginas |
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... replied , " I don't exactly know ; but I think I shall take the fast coach . " I wished him a safe passage , and said , " I was afraid he would find it very dusty . " As I could not find the office to book myself by this young ...
... replied , " I don't exactly know ; but I think I shall take the fast coach . " I wished him a safe passage , and said , " I was afraid he would find it very dusty . " As I could not find the office to book myself by this young ...
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... replied I ; " if you recollect , he married and went on shore . " " Have you seen Mr. Japhet lately ? " was the next query . " Not very lately , " replied I ; " the last time I saw him was at the publisher's . " The little fellow went ...
... replied I ; " if you recollect , he married and went on shore . " " Have you seen Mr. Japhet lately ? " was the next query . " Not very lately , " replied I ; " the last time I saw him was at the publisher's . " The little fellow went ...
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... replied I , not looking at the man . " Yes , sir - in the very heart of Cheshire . " “ Would you had staid there ! " thought I , turning away to the window without replying . " Will you oblige me with a pinch of your snuff , sir ? I ...
... replied I , not looking at the man . " Yes , sir - in the very heart of Cheshire . " “ Would you had staid there ! " thought I , turning away to the window without replying . " Will you oblige me with a pinch of your snuff , sir ? I ...
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... replied he , walking hastily away ; but he never came back , I never heard the principle upon which they dance . David danced be fore the ark ; but it is to be presumed that David danced as well as he sung . At least he thought so ; for ...
... replied he , walking hastily away ; but he never came back , I never heard the principle upon which they dance . David danced be fore the ark ; but it is to be presumed that David danced as well as he sung . At least he thought so ; for ...
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... replied , that such was the price quoted , to induce people to go , but that they never could find it when they arrived ; that the clear- ing of new lands was attended with ague and fever ; and that if once down with these diseases ...
... replied , that such was the price quoted , to induce people to go , but that they never could find it when they arrived ; that the clear- ing of new lands was attended with ague and fever ; and that if once down with these diseases ...
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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.