A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volumen2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 páginas |
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... speaking , be of such meagre materials . Was there so little to be remarked about America , its government , its institutions , and the effect which these had upon the people , that the pages of so many writers upon that country should ...
... speaking , be of such meagre materials . Was there so little to be remarked about America , its government , its institutions , and the effect which these had upon the people , that the pages of so many writers upon that country should ...
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... speaking , it is not ; but to consider it in its present chaotic state , is well worth the labour . It would not only exhibit to the living a some- what new picture of the human mind , but , as a curious page in the Philo- sophy of ...
... speaking , it is not ; but to consider it in its present chaotic state , is well worth the labour . It would not only exhibit to the living a some- what new picture of the human mind , but , as a curious page in the Philo- sophy of ...
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... Speaking of the merchants of New York , and their recovering after the heavy losses they sustained by the calamitous fire of 1835 , she says , that although eighteen millions of property were destroyed , not one merchant failed ; and ...
... Speaking of the merchants of New York , and their recovering after the heavy losses they sustained by the calamitous fire of 1835 , she says , that although eighteen millions of property were destroyed , not one merchant failed ; and ...
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... speaking , three or four fires in the twenty - four hours . New York has certainly great capabilities , and every chance of improve- ment as a city ; for , about one house in twenty is burnt down every year , and is always rebuilt in a ...
... speaking , three or four fires in the twenty - four hours . New York has certainly great capabilities , and every chance of improve- ment as a city ; for , about one house in twenty is burnt down every year , and is always rebuilt in a ...
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... speaking in my ear ) , " thinking that I could get to Philadelphia by that route , and found that I had inade a mistake ; so I have come back . I am told there are some pretty falls there , sir . " • " Would you were beneath them ...
... speaking in my ear ) , " thinking that I could get to Philadelphia by that route , and found that I had inade a mistake ; so I have come back . I am told there are some pretty falls there , sir . " • " Would you were beneath them ...
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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.