A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 2W.H. Colyer, 1839 - 263 pages |
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... means of livelihood , so differing in this extended country . Indeed the habit in which travellers indulge of repeating facts which have taken place , as having taken place in America , has , perhaps unin- tentionally on their part ...
... means of livelihood , so differing in this extended country . Indeed the habit in which travellers indulge of repeating facts which have taken place , as having taken place in America , has , perhaps unin- tentionally on their part ...
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... for services is money ; and the only distinction - the only means of raising himself above his fellows left to the American - is wealth : consequently , the acquisition of wealth has become the great spring of 8 INTRODUCTION .
... for services is money ; and the only distinction - the only means of raising himself above his fellows left to the American - is wealth : consequently , the acquisition of wealth has become the great spring of 8 INTRODUCTION .
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... mean , sir ? " cried one ; " I've a great mind to knock you into the middle of next week . " This occurring on a Saturday , the wrath of the other was checked by the recollection of how very favourable such a blow would be to his pre ...
... mean , sir ? " cried one ; " I've a great mind to knock you into the middle of next week . " This occurring on a Saturday , the wrath of the other was checked by the recollection of how very favourable such a blow would be to his pre ...
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... means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself nominal and non - existent , but producing real returns . If any one will look back upon the commercial history of these last fifty ...
... means on any extended scale . Credit , as long as it is good , is so much extra capital , in itself nominal and non - existent , but producing real returns . If any one will look back upon the commercial history of these last fifty ...
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... means ) than even Philadelphia ; taking into the estimate the difference between the populations . They are more learned and scientific here than at New York , though not more so than at Philadelphia ; but they are more English than in ...
... means ) than even Philadelphia ; taking into the estimate the difference between the populations . They are more learned and scientific here than at New York , though not more so than at Philadelphia ; but they are more English than in ...
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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.