Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 |
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... nearly 8000 miles , comprehending in my route , the States of Maine , Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , North and South ...
... nearly 8000 miles , comprehending in my route , the States of Maine , Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , North and South ...
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... nearly every morning at the Senate , or House of Representatives . These beautiful chambers are calculated to make an impression very favourable to the dignity of the deliberative assemblies which oc cupy them , 10 LETTERS FROM.
... nearly every morning at the Senate , or House of Representatives . These beautiful chambers are calculated to make an impression very favourable to the dignity of the deliberative assemblies which oc cupy them , 10 LETTERS FROM.
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... nearly so , as the York house at Bath . On arriving , your luggage is immediately carried to the baggage - room , that the lobby may not be crowded ; and the passengers afterwards either send it to their bed - rooms at their leisure ...
... nearly so , as the York house at Bath . On arriving , your luggage is immediately carried to the baggage - room , that the lobby may not be crowded ; and the passengers afterwards either send it to their bed - rooms at their leisure ...
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... nearly in a horizontal direction , or rather with a gentle curve , to the length of forty or fifty paces . The wood is almost incorruptible ; and on this account , as well as from its furnishing , in its natural state , almost every ...
... nearly in a horizontal direction , or rather with a gentle curve , to the length of forty or fifty paces . The wood is almost incorruptible ; and on this account , as well as from its furnishing , in its natural state , almost every ...
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... nearly the same party as at Mr. B's the preceding night , and among others , a young lady from the North . She amused me with her observations on her first visit to Washington , and introduced me to some other young ladies , who were ...
... nearly the same party as at Mr. B's the preceding night , and among others , a young lady from the North . She amused me with her observations on her first visit to Washington , and introduced me to some other young ladies , who were ...
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Страница 238 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Страница 243 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Страница 306 - Its breadth in the middle is about 60 feet, but more at the ends, and the thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about 40 feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone.
Страница 278 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Страница 174 - Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
Страница 174 - The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
Страница 193 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Страница 175 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Страница 282 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each...
Страница 4 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him ; one would think the deep to be hoary.