My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumen 1Tinsley brothers, 1865 - 434 páginas |
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... look upon . America more through a lens that was couleur d'orange than one which was couleur de rose . Why did I grumble ? At what did I see cause to grumble ? At these things , mainly : - First : It is the common and notorious ...
... look upon . America more through a lens that was couleur d'orange than one which was couleur de rose . Why did I grumble ? At what did I see cause to grumble ? At these things , mainly : - First : It is the common and notorious ...
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... that there is a " God of Battles , " and that Almighty God can , under any circum- stances , look with aught save sorrow and abhorrence on the spectacle of His creatures cutting one another's throats . And JUSTIFICATORY . 37.
... that there is a " God of Battles , " and that Almighty God can , under any circum- stances , look with aught save sorrow and abhorrence on the spectacle of His creatures cutting one another's throats . And JUSTIFICATORY . 37.
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... looks . He finished up with a fishball or two and a couple of cobs of hot corn with plenty of fresh butter , drank a mighty draught of cold water , ordered a tooth - pick , and tendered fifty cents in payment for his inordinate feed ...
... looks . He finished up with a fishball or two and a couple of cobs of hot corn with plenty of fresh butter , drank a mighty draught of cold water , ordered a tooth - pick , and tendered fifty cents in payment for his inordinate feed ...
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... look , and comparatively isolated situation , can hardly be mistaken anywhere , we did not pass . I don't think the driver , although he had a fare so very ignorant of " the ropes , " took me more than a mile and - a - half out of my ...
... look , and comparatively isolated situation , can hardly be mistaken anywhere , we did not pass . I don't think the driver , although he had a fare so very ignorant of " the ropes , " took me more than a mile and - a - half out of my ...
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... looks like a pantomime ; but it is a pantomime behind the green baize curtain . In lieu of the glittering and tumbling pantomimists , you have a concourse of busy silent scene- painters and carpenters and machinists , toiling with a ...
... looks like a pantomime ; but it is a pantomime behind the green baize curtain . In lieu of the glittering and tumbling pantomimists , you have a concourse of busy silent scene- painters and carpenters and machinists , toiling with a ...
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Abraham Lincoln American Arguelles army asked Astor House boots Boston Brandy Station Brevoort Brevoort House British Broadway called camp Canada carriage cents Christmas civilisation Colonel colour Confederate cousins Culpepper Dahomey dollars dress England English eyes Falls Federal flag Fort Lafayette Fourth of July gentleman Government grand greenbacks Hall hand head head-quarters hear heard honour horse houses hundred Irish kind look manner ment miles Montreal morning Myers negro never newspaper Niagara night North officers once passed patriotism perhaps political portmanteaus Potomac pretty railway river Rouse's Point Sachem scarcely Schenectady seen side Sol Davis soldiers Street table d'hôte Tammany Tammany Hall thing thousand tion told town traveller turned Union United Vermont Virginia Washington whisky worms Yankee York young lady Zouaves
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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