An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - 511 էջ |
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... crossing of the Gulph Stream with a current , which sets towards the south from Hud- son's Bay and the Gulph of St. Lawrence . While crossing the Great Bank we had some rough wea ther , accompanied by a very thick fog . One night , when ...
... crossing of the Gulph Stream with a current , which sets towards the south from Hud- son's Bay and the Gulph of St. Lawrence . While crossing the Great Bank we had some rough wea ther , accompanied by a very thick fog . One night , when ...
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... crossing the Pyrenees to attack the French , would not even venture out of the infected district . An eminent medical man told me , that he should have no fear whatever of sleeping in the same bed with a person ill of the fever ...
... crossing the Pyrenees to attack the French , would not even venture out of the infected district . An eminent medical man told me , that he should have no fear whatever of sleeping in the same bed with a person ill of the fever ...
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... crossed the Delaware on the ice , and surprised and cut off the Hessian auxiliaries . Over the river there is here a very large and handsome bridge , which is covered at the top , and left open at the sides . At six o'clock in the ...
... crossed the Delaware on the ice , and surprised and cut off the Hessian auxiliaries . Over the river there is here a very large and handsome bridge , which is covered at the top , and left open at the sides . At six o'clock in the ...
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... and that Genoa was often almost as much oppressed . Crossing over to the other side of Europe , we find an hereditary Stadtholder lording it over their high mightinesses the Dutch , whose Republic the omnipotent congress 58 The Government .
... and that Genoa was often almost as much oppressed . Crossing over to the other side of Europe , we find an hereditary Stadtholder lording it over their high mightinesses the Dutch , whose Republic the omnipotent congress 58 The Government .
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... crossing the river were killed by boys and dogs ; but their num- bers did not appear to be sensibly diminished , until they came to the open and cultivated parts of Ken- tucky , where , as they had no longer the trees to take shelter in ...
... crossing the river were killed by boys and dogs ; but their num- bers did not appear to be sensibly diminished , until they came to the open and cultivated parts of Ken- tucky , where , as they had no longer the trees to take shelter in ...
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Էջ 401 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Էջ 474 - Lord assisting our endeavors ; it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Էջ 206 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Էջ 421 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Էջ 469 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Էջ 233 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Էջ 483 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Էջ 482 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Էջ 468 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
Էջ 422 - Brother: Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?