My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1865 - 434 páginas |
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... - THE WORMS . 214 XI . - SCHENECTADY . 228 XII . A VISIT TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 251 XIII . THE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY • 342 XIV . - HOW THEY FIGHT 385 XV . - DEMOCRACY AND THE DUSTBIN 403 MY DIARY IN AMERICA IN THE MIDST OF WAR .
... - THE WORMS . 214 XI . - SCHENECTADY . 228 XII . A VISIT TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC 251 XIII . THE GLORIOUS FOURTH OF JULY • 342 XIV . - HOW THEY FIGHT 385 XV . - DEMOCRACY AND THE DUSTBIN 403 MY DIARY IN AMERICA IN THE MIDST OF WAR .
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... Potomac a passport to every kind of urbanity and civility . Is it , then , gross ingratitude for the favours I confess to have received to set down that the first officer I met in New York was " tight , " and looked as though he had not ...
... Potomac a passport to every kind of urbanity and civility . Is it , then , gross ingratitude for the favours I confess to have received to set down that the first officer I met in New York was " tight , " and looked as though he had not ...
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... Potomac slowly melted away from before Richmond and Petersburg , and left the beleaguered cities to their own devices ? What though the " wayward sisters " were at length permitted to depart in peace ? It would be a glorious ...
... Potomac slowly melted away from before Richmond and Petersburg , and left the beleaguered cities to their own devices ? What though the " wayward sisters " were at length permitted to depart in peace ? It would be a glorious ...
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... Potomac , or on board the Mississippi flotilla ? Are there any emigrant worms at Rikers Island , who try to desert when they get sober , and find that they have been swindled , and , in a mad attempt to swim ashore , are shot by the ...
... Potomac , or on board the Mississippi flotilla ? Are there any emigrant worms at Rikers Island , who try to desert when they get sober , and find that they have been swindled , and , in a mad attempt to swim ashore , are shot by the ...
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... House , and once a boarding- house which has , since the new era of freedom , and the new order of things , been converted into a state prison . It is a curious fact that my remembrances of the s 2 A VISIT TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
... House , and once a boarding- house which has , since the new era of freedom , and the new order of things , been converted into a state prison . It is a curious fact that my remembrances of the s 2 A VISIT TO THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
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Página 46 - ... fancy-dress ball as the devil had as tail an eel in an umbrella case. Uncle , reproved by some one for want of consideration for his mother : " How can you behave so to the mother that bore you ? " replied " The mother that bores me, you mean." Judge to convicted prisoner : " The Almighty has given you health and strength, instead of which you go about the country stealing hens.
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Página 81 - ... to the dictates of humanity and religion. Our happiness and prosperity essentially depend upon peace within our borders— and peace depends upon the maintenance, in good faith, of those compromises of the constitution upon which the Union is founded.
Página 370 - ... alights on earth, he is given to staggering about in an imbecile and helpless manner, suggesting the idea of extreme intoxication. The sharp New England mind, ever on the look-out for similes, has long since indorsed the locution " as tight as a peep," to express an utter state of tipsification. One of the best Yankee stories I ever heard is told, " in this connection,
Página 91 - I knew an old lady in Liverpool once, who kept an alehouse, not for profit, for she had plenty of money, but in order to enjoy the conversation of a select few. For all bar there was her little front parlour, and, but for a beer-engine in one corner, and a row of bottles and glasses on a shelf, you might have imagine'd the room to be a boudoir. A stranger, say, would enter, and call for a " gill o' ale " in a tone which, somehow, displeased the old lady.
Página 183 - you would like to see the Indians'. And George Sala captured his first Indian in his travel diary in much the same way as he might have recorded sighting a bird: 'he was the first North American Indian, in his own land, I had seen' . 18 Like virtually all travellers, both Sala and Offenbach were disappointed with what they saw.
Página 240 - ... substratum of sad truth in it. The late illustrious Abernethy had a presentiment of the ravages which Pie was making in the American constitution, when he rebuked his dyspeptic patient from beyond the sea with the gorging propensities of his countrymen.
Página 91 - Muffins," who was incurably drunken and dissipated, but who was a famous Latin and Greek scholar, had been a fellow of a college at Oxford, and whose conversation was still charming. " Lily-white Muffins," the old lady would cry, "thee's gude for nowt; but thee's classical. Sally, gi' t auld wretch a gill o