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Página 95 - What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fa-st as stage - coaches ! We would as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Página 29 - The Text formed from a new collation of the Early Editions, to which are added all the Original Novels and Tales on which the Plays are founded...
Página 110 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Página 155 - Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not yet conquered us! We are not your slaves. These lakes, these woods and mountains were left to us by our ancestors. They are our inheritance; and we will part with them to none. Your nation supposes that we, like the white people, cannot live without bread — and pork — and beef! But you ought to know that He, the Great Spirit and Master of Life, has provided food for us in these spacious lakes and on these woody mountains.
Página 93 - Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West...
Página 155 - Englishman! —It is you that have made war with this our father. You are his enemy; and how then could you have the boldness to venture among us, his children? You know that his enemies are ours.
Página 133 - that the Ottawas and other Indian tribes, who are two days march from us, are brave and faithful, and that they practice war and not pillage. They are under the orders of a M.
Página 106 - The city gates fly open of themselves, They need no longer the petard to tear them. The ramparts are all fill'd with men and women, With peaceful men and women, that send onwards Kisses and welcomings upon the air, Which they make breezy with affectionate gestures.
Página 47 - ... of Distinguished Americans, 5 vols.; Wilkes' Exploring Expedition, 7 vols.; Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature, vol. 1; Condition of Affairs in the Southern States, as reported to Congress, 13 vols, ; Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 3 vols. ; Delaplaine's Repository of Distinguished Americans, 3 vols.; Dunlap's Hist, of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the US, 2 vols. ; Geological Survey and Organic Remains of Canada, 9 vols. ; De Rivers...
Página 155 - Englishman, we are informed that our father, the king of France, is old and infirm; and that, being fatigued with making war upon your nation, he is fallen asleep. During his sleep, you have taken advantage of him, and possessed yourselves of Canada. But his nap is almost at an end. I think I hear him already stirring, and inquiring for his children, the Indians. And, when he does awake, what must become of you? He will destroy you utterly!