A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volumen2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 páginas |
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... taken with some exceptions , arising from the climate , manners , and customs , and the means of livelihood , so differing in this extended country . Indeed the habit in which travellers indulge of repeating facts which have taken place ...
... taken with some exceptions , arising from the climate , manners , and customs , and the means of livelihood , so differing in this extended country . Indeed the habit in which travellers indulge of repeating facts which have taken place ...
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... taken out of the ship as she went down the river : he had very nearly escaped . What cargoes of crime , folly , and recklessness do we yearly ship off to America ! America ought to be very much obliged to us . The women of the steerage ...
... taken out of the ship as she went down the river : he had very nearly escaped . What cargoes of crime , folly , and recklessness do we yearly ship off to America ! America ought to be very much obliged to us . The women of the steerage ...
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... taken posses- sion of the city . Had I not been aware of the cause , I should have ima- gined that the plague was raging , and I had the description of Defoe be- fore me . Not a smile on one countenance among the crowd who pass and re ...
... taken posses- sion of the city . Had I not been aware of the cause , I should have ima- gined that the plague was raging , and I had the description of Defoe be- fore me . Not a smile on one countenance among the crowd who pass and re ...
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... taken place in the natural course of things . Cash pay- ments produce sure but small returns ; but no commerce can be carried on by this means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself ...
... taken place in the natural course of things . Cash pay- ments produce sure but small returns ; but no commerce can be carried on by this means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself ...
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... taken place , many more would have followed the example . + Among the few discrepancies observable between this city and Lon- don , are the undertakers ' shops . In England they are all wooden win- dows below and scutcheons above ...
... taken place , many more would have followed the example . + Among the few discrepancies observable between this city and Lon- don , are the undertakers ' shops . In England they are all wooden win- dows below and scutcheons above ...
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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.