My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1865 - 434 páginas |
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... give you , in a very few words , the gist of that which I said . I alluded to the abnormal and exceptional position which I held in the States , and the notoriety which , however personally obscure I might be , attached to the ...
... give you , in a very few words , the gist of that which I said . I alluded to the abnormal and exceptional position which I held in the States , and the notoriety which , however personally obscure I might be , attached to the ...
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... the slave - traders , at whose doings she has connived for so many years , cannot be too highly commended ; but , granting that it is a most excellent thing mutually to give up thieves , and murderers , and JUSTIFICATORY . 29.
... the slave - traders , at whose doings she has connived for so many years , cannot be too highly commended ; but , granting that it is a most excellent thing mutually to give up thieves , and murderers , and JUSTIFICATORY . 29.
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George Augustus Sala. mutually to give up thieves , and murderers , and forgers , and man - stealers , it would seem expedient , it would seem at least decent , to make the arrest publicly - to justify it by some evidence more credible ...
George Augustus Sala. mutually to give up thieves , and murderers , and forgers , and man - stealers , it would seem expedient , it would seem at least decent , to make the arrest publicly - to justify it by some evidence more credible ...
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... give him up to you . ' And all Christendom cried ' Bravo ! ' to the turbaned Turk . " We learnt subsequently that on the arrival of this most unfortunate gentleman at Havana he was taken before General Dulce , and bitterly reproached ...
... give him up to you . ' And all Christendom cried ' Bravo ! ' to the turbaned Turk . " We learnt subsequently that on the arrival of this most unfortunate gentleman at Havana he was taken before General Dulce , and bitterly reproached ...
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... give this conversation precisely as it was related to me by the gentleman who overheard it . " " I have heard a story of a judge who addressed a poor wretch convicted of petty larceny in this fashion . " Prisoner , Providence has ...
... give this conversation precisely as it was related to me by the gentleman who overheard it . " " I have heard a story of a judge who addressed a poor wretch convicted of petty larceny in this fashion . " Prisoner , Providence has ...
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Página 33 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Página 143 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
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.
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 372 - ... 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