An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-23Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - 511 páginas |
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... covered with inward and outward bound vessels , the white sails of which were illuminated by the sun - beams . * We anchored just below the battery , at the point of the island on which New York is built , and getting into a boat rowed ...
... covered with inward and outward bound vessels , the white sails of which were illuminated by the sun - beams . * We anchored just below the battery , at the point of the island on which New York is built , and getting into a boat rowed ...
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... covered entirely with fields of Indian corn . Each of these is sur- rounded by a zigzag fence made of long pieces of split timber laid upon one another . * Indian corn is the staple of all the States , except of those of New England ...
... covered entirely with fields of Indian corn . Each of these is sur- rounded by a zigzag fence made of long pieces of split timber laid upon one another . * Indian corn is the staple of all the States , except of those of New England ...
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... covering pulled off the corn itself , afford , when stacked , excellent fodder for horses and cattle : horses indeed always prefer it to hay . The large stalks look like bamboo ; and being very brittle , and full of a soft spungy pith ...
... covering pulled off the corn itself , afford , when stacked , excellent fodder for horses and cattle : horses indeed always prefer it to hay . The large stalks look like bamboo ; and being very brittle , and full of a soft spungy pith ...
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... covered at the top , and left open at the sides . At six o'clock in the morning , we had to walk down about a quarter of a mile to the pier , from which the steam - boat for Philadelphia sets out . In order to pay the bill at a tavern ...
... covered at the top , and left open at the sides . At six o'clock in the morning , we had to walk down about a quarter of a mile to the pier , from which the steam - boat for Philadelphia sets out . In order to pay the bill at a tavern ...
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... covered market reaches from the Delaware nearly a mile up the street , which is called Market - street , and which traverses the whole of the city . Room is left on each side for carriages , besides a fine broad pavement for pedes ...
... covered market reaches from the Delaware nearly a mile up the street , which is called Market - street , and which traverses the whole of the city . Room is left on each side for carriages , besides a fine broad pavement for pedes ...
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Página 203 - 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 467 - 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 serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 399 - 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 205 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Página 215 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Página 399 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 72 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 419 - 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 467 - 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 231 - 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.