An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - 511 páginas |
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... villages , and country seats . At the upper end are seen the spires of the city ; and in the distance , the bold precipitous banks of the Hudson . The day was beautiful , the sky without a cloud , and the vast sheet of water was covered ...
... villages , and country seats . At the upper end are seen the spires of the city ; and in the distance , the bold precipitous banks of the Hudson . The day was beautiful , the sky without a cloud , and the vast sheet of water was covered ...
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... villages , and here and there picturesque little villas , with their white sides and green Venetian window blinds . I was sitting down in the cabin , reading a book I had brought with me , when my attention was drawn to the conversation ...
... villages , and here and there picturesque little villas , with their white sides and green Venetian window blinds . I was sitting down in the cabin , reading a book I had brought with me , when my attention was drawn to the conversation ...
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... village situ- ated on Elk river , a large arm of the Chesapeak Bay . The road to this place is through a tolerably rich , but very uninteresting country . I remarked that some of the farmers had improved the ap- pearance of their fields ...
... village situ- ated on Elk river , a large arm of the Chesapeak Bay . The road to this place is through a tolerably rich , but very uninteresting country . I remarked that some of the farmers had improved the ap- pearance of their fields ...
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... village of Bladensburgh , the spot where the action was fought ( if action it can be called ) which decided the fate of the capital in the last war . The only American troops that opposed General Ross , were a small body of ma- rines ...
... village of Bladensburgh , the spot where the action was fought ( if action it can be called ) which decided the fate of the capital in the last war . The only American troops that opposed General Ross , were a small body of ma- rines ...
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... did not pass near enough to see any of them . About 200 miles below Wheeling , at the mouth of the great Kenhawa , we came to a little village 1 called Point Pleasant . This spot is celebrated for the 98 Voyage down the Ohio .
... did not pass near enough to see any of them . About 200 miles below Wheeling , at the mouth of the great Kenhawa , we came to a little village 1 called Point Pleasant . This spot is celebrated for the 98 Voyage down the Ohio .
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An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823 William Newnham Blane Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823 William Newnham Blane Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823 William Newnham] [Blane Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Página 401 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 474 - Lord assisting our endeavors ; it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Página 206 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 421 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Página 469 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 233 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Página 483 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Página 482 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Página 468 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
Página 422 - Brother: Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?