An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - 511 страница |
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... better order of travellers often give the waiter half a dollar , particularly if they expect to return there again . But no one ever thinks of giving anything to the chambermaid . I may make a similar remark with regard to the drivers C ...
... better order of travellers often give the waiter half a dollar , particularly if they expect to return there again . But no one ever thinks of giving anything to the chambermaid . I may make a similar remark with regard to the drivers C ...
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... better performed at any tolerable circus . " After the American gentlemen had gone upon deck , I took the paper they had been reading , and cut out the paragraph which had caused their observations , and of which I will give some ...
... better performed at any tolerable circus . " After the American gentlemen had gone upon deck , I took the paper they had been reading , and cut out the paragraph which had caused their observations , and of which I will give some ...
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... better class of society , are , comparatively speaking , rather reserved and formal . Many of the Quakers themselves are gradually leaving off the dress of their forefathers , although they still adhere to their tenets . Wherever the ...
... better class of society , are , comparatively speaking , rather reserved and formal . Many of the Quakers themselves are gradually leaving off the dress of their forefathers , although they still adhere to their tenets . Wherever the ...
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... better worth seeing than the disposition and cultivation of the ground . Ornamental gardening is an art at present totally unknown , or at least unpractised , in the United States . While at Philadelphia I dined out several times ; but ...
... better worth seeing than the disposition and cultivation of the ground . Ornamental gardening is an art at present totally unknown , or at least unpractised , in the United States . While at Philadelphia I dined out several times ; but ...
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... better and better every day ; but my object was to travel , and not to remain long stationary in any place , however agreeable . Accordingly I set off in the steam - boat for Bal- timore . The Delaware below Philadelphia is very wide ...
... better and better every day ; but my object was to travel , and not to remain long stationary in any place , however agreeable . Accordingly I set off in the steam - boat for Bal- timore . The Delaware below Philadelphia is very wide ...
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Страница 401 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Страница 474 - Lord assisting our endeavors ; it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Страница 206 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Страница 421 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Страница 469 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Страница 233 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Страница 483 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Страница 482 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Страница 468 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
Страница 422 - Brother: Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?