A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 pages |
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... given in a few months of rapid motion . More- over English travellers have apparently been more active in examining the interior of houses , than the public path from which they should have drawn their conclusions ; they have searched ...
... given in a few months of rapid motion . More- over English travellers have apparently been more active in examining the interior of houses , than the public path from which they should have drawn their conclusions ; they have searched ...
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... given with great emphasis by the whole crew between every line of the song , sung by an athletic young third mate . I took my seat on the knight - heads - turned my face aft - looked and listened . " Heave away there , forward . " 66 66 ...
... given with great emphasis by the whole crew between every line of the song , sung by an athletic young third mate . I took my seat on the knight - heads - turned my face aft - looked and listened . " Heave away there , forward . " 66 66 ...
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... given to it which it deserves ; as , perhaps , next to the losses occasioned by the great fire , it led , more than any other species of over - speculation and over - trading , to the distress which has ensued . Not but that the event ...
... given to it which it deserves ; as , perhaps , next to the losses occasioned by the great fire , it led , more than any other species of over - speculation and over - trading , to the distress which has ensued . Not but that the event ...
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... given of the ruinous policy of the Jackson ad- ministration in temporizing with the credit of the country . To check the export of bullion from our country , the Bank of England had but one re- medy , that of rendering money scarce ...
... given of the ruinous policy of the Jackson ad- ministration in temporizing with the credit of the country . To check the export of bullion from our country , the Bank of England had but one re- medy , that of rendering money scarce ...
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... given . In all the American newspapers a drawing was given of the animal as described by those who saw it , and it proved to be almost a fac - simile of the one described by the Bishop in his work . Now that we are on marine matters , I ...
... given . In all the American newspapers a drawing was given of the animal as described by those who saw it , and it proved to be almost a fac - simile of the one described by the Bishop in his work . Now that we are on marine matters , I ...
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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.