A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 pages |
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... arrival I perceived little difference between the city of New York and one of our principal provincial towns ; and , for its peo- ple , not half so much as between the people of Devonshire or Cornwall and those of Middlesex , I had been ...
... arrival I perceived little difference between the city of New York and one of our principal provincial towns ; and , for its peo- ple , not half so much as between the people of Devonshire or Cornwall and those of Middlesex , I had been ...
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... arrival , or because they expected that I would do the same upon my return to my own country . I remark upon this conduct , not from any feeling of ill - will or desire of retaliation , but to compel the Ame- ricans to admit that I am ...
... arrival , or because they expected that I would do the same upon my return to my own country . I remark upon this conduct , not from any feeling of ill - will or desire of retaliation , but to compel the Ame- ricans to admit that I am ...
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... arrive . At present all is energy and enterprise ; every thing is in a state of transition , but of rapid improvement - so rapid , indeed , that those who would describe America now , would have to correct all in the short space of ten ...
... arrive . At present all is energy and enterprise ; every thing is in a state of transition , but of rapid improvement - so rapid , indeed , that those who would describe America now , would have to correct all in the short space of ten ...
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... arrived at West Point , which I had embarked to visit . A storm hung over us , and as we passed through the broad masses piled up on each side of the river , at one moment illuminated by the lightning as it burst from the opaque clouds ...
... arrived at West Point , which I had embarked to visit . A storm hung over us , and as we passed through the broad masses piled up on each side of the river , at one moment illuminated by the lightning as it burst from the opaque clouds ...
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... arrived at the City Hall , when those who were old enough heard the Declaration of Independence read for the sixty - first time ; and then it was- " Begone , brave army , and don't kick up a row . " I was invited to dine with the mayor ...
... arrived at the City Hall , when those who were old enough heard the Declaration of Independence read for the sixty - first time ; and then it was- " Begone , brave army , and don't kick up a row . " I was invited to dine with the mayor ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 164 - No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.
Page 72 - Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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.