A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the Country, and of Several of the Principal Cities; and Remarks on the Social, Moral and Political Character of the People: Being the Result of Observations and Enquiries During a Journey in the United StatesT. Cadell, 1824 - 503 pages |
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... stranger delightful indeed . Dull must be the heart of him who does not participate in the hilarity of the hour . I have hitherto made no mention of the pub- lic buildings in Philadelphia ; nor shall I attempt to describe them minutely ...
... stranger delightful indeed . Dull must be the heart of him who does not participate in the hilarity of the hour . I have hitherto made no mention of the pub- lic buildings in Philadelphia ; nor shall I attempt to describe them minutely ...
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... stranger in America , is the coldness and apparent heartlessness with which they greet an acquaintance . Their deportment is quite chill- ing . Yet it is soon perceptible that this arises not so much from apathy as from habit . It is ...
... stranger in America , is the coldness and apparent heartlessness with which they greet an acquaintance . Their deportment is quite chill- ing . Yet it is soon perceptible that this arises not so much from apathy as from habit . It is ...
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... strangers , is what shocks their ideas of female delicacy and reserve . But in their own private circles , they are as com- municative and free as can be desired . Though they have not the enthusiasm of the Irish , nor the sprightliness ...
... strangers , is what shocks their ideas of female delicacy and reserve . But in their own private circles , they are as com- municative and free as can be desired . Though they have not the enthusiasm of the Irish , nor the sprightliness ...
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... stranger . He gladly accepted her offer , and on leaving the door tendered her his arm , when to his surprise and mortification she de- clined it . He was so confounded , that making her a bow , he was about to retreat , when , calling ...
... stranger . He gladly accepted her offer , and on leaving the door tendered her his arm , when to his surprise and mortification she de- clined it . He was so confounded , that making her a bow , he was about to retreat , when , calling ...
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... stranger who re- ceives entertainment has to wait while the cakes are made and baked . Perhaps in no part of the domestic life of the Americans , is there any thing in which their sociability and amiability are more apparent than in ...
... stranger who re- ceives entertainment has to wait while the cakes are made and baked . Perhaps in no part of the domestic life of the Americans , is there any thing in which their sociability and amiability are more apparent than in ...
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Page 285 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
Page 265 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 20 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Page 183 - THE power of the civil magistrate extendeth to all men, as well clergy as laity, in all things temporal; but hath no authority in things purely spiritual. And we hold it to be the duty of all men who are professors of the Gospel, to pay respectful obedience to the civil authority, regularly and legitimately constituted.
Page 467 - The self-dependent lordlings stand alone, All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown ; Here by the bonds of nature feebly held, Minds combat minds, repelling and repell'd.
Page 467 - That independence Britons prize too high, Keeps man from man, and breaks the social tie; The self dependent lordlings stand alone, All claims that bind and sweeten life unknown...
Page 68 - Their only Labour was to kill the Time ; And Labour dire it is, and weary Woe. . They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle Rhyme ; Then, rising sudden, to the Glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering Step and slow : This soon too rude an Exercise they find ; Strait on the Couch their Limbs again they throw. Where Hours on Hours they sighing lie reclin'd, And court the vapoury God soft-breathing in the Wind.
Page 185 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left " power to his church to absolve all sinners, who " truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy, " forgive thee thine offences; and by his authority, " committed to me, I ABSOLVE THEE from all thy * In Catch. Parn See also Luther's Table Talk, c. xviii. on Auricular Confession. •f. Bishop Sparrow's Collect, p. 10. " sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, " and of the Holy Ghost. Amen* I may add,
Page 83 - Heaven. 330 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 185 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath left power to His Church to al)solve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him, of His great mercy forgive thee thine offences: And by His authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.