 | William Cobbett - 1818 - 628 páginas
...settled. He has not the means to buy farms for the sons there. He, therefore, goes and gets cheap laud in Pennsylvania ; his sons will assist him to clear...and a gun in the " other," the western countries are o 2 1818. March 12. desirable ; but not to English farmers, who have great skill in fine cultivation,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1819 - 630 páginas
...and several daughters. Connecticut is thickly settled. He has not the means to buy farms for the sons there. He, therefore, goes and gets cheap land in...circumstances, and " born with an " axe in one hand, aud a gun in the " other," the western countries are G 2 1813. March 1$. desirable; but not to English... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1822 - 384 páginas
...and several daughters. Connecticut is thickly settled. He has not the means to buy farms for the sons there. He, therefore, goes and gets cheap land in...who can purchase near New York or Philadelphia. This YANKEE (the inhabitants of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, only, are called... | |
 | 1849 - 818 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other ; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
 | Alexander Ross - 1849 - 394 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1909 - 894 páginas
...frontier that has been conquered without bloodshed. In other lands the pioneer has gone first, and, with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other, in the face of hostile tribes has occupied the silent places. After he and his sons had created the... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 354 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
 | George Bird Grinnell - 1913 - 436 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
 | Porter Emerson Browne - 1917 - 218 páginas
...to-day is because our ancestors walked nine million miles behind prairie schooners; cleared the land with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other ; were massacred by the Indians and the British ; died of heat and cold and exposure; but, nevertheless,... | |
 | Alexander Ross - 1923 - 428 páginas
...and clear the ground. With this task before us every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other: the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defense against the savage hordes which were constantly... | |
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... to level and clear the ground. With this task before us, every man, from the highest to the lowest, was armed with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other ; the former for attacking the woods, the latter for defence against the savage hordes which... 
