Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through part of the United States of America, Volumen 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 |
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... feeling and expression by which all my coun- trymen are distinguished , I hope to be par- doned for such unstudied and incidental dis- plays of nationality . I I know only of another circumstance to which may be expected to allude in ...
... feeling and expression by which all my coun- trymen are distinguished , I hope to be par- doned for such unstudied and incidental dis- plays of nationality . I I know only of another circumstance to which may be expected to allude in ...
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... Feelings on contemplating the Country through which we passed Arrival of the Ship for our conveyance A Description of her Accommodations Embarkation , & c . LETTER II . PAGE V 1 13 16 3442 17 20 Sea - sickness and unpleasant weather ...
... Feelings on contemplating the Country through which we passed Arrival of the Ship for our conveyance A Description of her Accommodations Embarkation , & c . LETTER II . PAGE V 1 13 16 3442 17 20 Sea - sickness and unpleasant weather ...
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Edward Allen Talbot. INTRODUCTION . IF I may form any opinion respecting the feelings of other men , by the general inclination of my own , on subjects which may be supposed to have nearly a similar effect upon all , I think every reader ...
Edward Allen Talbot. INTRODUCTION . IF I may form any opinion respecting the feelings of other men , by the general inclination of my own , on subjects which may be supposed to have nearly a similar effect upon all , I think every reader ...
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... feelings which must neces- sarily arise in the breast of any man , who , through the effects of youthful indiscretion or other disas- ters , cannot prevent his children from retrograding in the scale of society . 1 Whatever portion of ...
... feelings which must neces- sarily arise in the breast of any man , who , through the effects of youthful indiscretion or other disas- ters , cannot prevent his children from retrograding in the scale of society . 1 Whatever portion of ...
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... feelings , they will at least command sympathy from those whose sensi- bilities are alive to the condition of an affectionate parent , doomed to spend the evening of his days , in comparative poverty , near the place of his birth , and ...
... feelings , they will at least command sympathy from those whose sensi- bilities are alive to the condition of an affectionate parent , doomed to spend the evening of his days , in comparative poverty , near the place of his birth , and ...
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Página 85 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Página 298 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 85 - ... past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl ? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl. But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh ! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Página 4 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes...
Página 182 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 147 - Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs : the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed, whereby he does receive Particular addition...
Página 388 - And whereas We are desirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and Approbation of the Conduct and Bravery of the Officers and Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the same...
Página 117 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 137 - When two persons stand very near to each other, they can mutually hear their ordinary conversation ; when removed to a small distance, they are obliged to halloo ; and, when removed a little farther, cannot be heard at all. Every other sound is drowned in the tempest of noise made by the water, and all else in the regions of nature appears to be dumb. This noise is a vast thunder, filling the heavens, shaking the earth, and leaving the mind, although perfectly conscious of safety, and affected with...