Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 |
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... host regretted , in the most feeling terms , the injury which the morals of the Indians have sustained from intercourse with the whites ; and especially from the introduction of whiskey , which has been their bane . He said that K ...
... host regretted , in the most feeling terms , the injury which the morals of the Indians have sustained from intercourse with the whites ; and especially from the introduction of whiskey , which has been their bane . He said that K ...
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... host remembers when there was no law against stealing ; the crime itself being almost unknown ; when the Indians would go a hunting , or " frolicking , " for one or two days , leaving their clothes on the bushes oppo- site their wigwams ...
... host remembers when there was no law against stealing ; the crime itself being almost unknown ; when the Indians would go a hunting , or " frolicking , " for one or two days , leaving their clothes on the bushes oppo- site their wigwams ...
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... host told me that he was living with his Indian wife among the Indians , when the celebrated Indian warrior Tecumseh , * came more than 1000 miles , from the borders of Canada , to induce the Lower Creeks to pro- mise to take up the ...
... host told me that he was living with his Indian wife among the Indians , when the celebrated Indian warrior Tecumseh , * came more than 1000 miles , from the borders of Canada , to induce the Lower Creeks to pro- mise to take up the ...
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... host's talkative daughter made break- fast for us . She could not refrain the expres- · sion of her surprise at the sight of a white ser- vant , having never seen one before , and was much more astonished when I told her , that the ...
... host's talkative daughter made break- fast for us . She could not refrain the expres- · sion of her surprise at the sight of a white ser- vant , having never seen one before , and was much more astonished when I told her , that the ...
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... host and his family gave us a * All the public lands are surveyed according to the laws and directions of Congress . They are uniformly divided into townships of six miles square , by lines running with the cardinal points , and ...
... host and his family gave us a * All the public lands are surveyed according to the laws and directions of Congress . They are uniformly divided into townships of six miles square , by lines running with the cardinal points , and ...
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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.