An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - 511 էջ |
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... town , now forms part of the city . Looking up the streets that run down to the water , I perceived they were all bar- ricaded at the upper ends , and strewed with lime . The houses of course were all shut up and deserted ; and out of a ...
... town , now forms part of the city . Looking up the streets that run down to the water , I perceived they were all bar- ricaded at the upper ends , and strewed with lime . The houses of course were all shut up and deserted ; and out of a ...
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... town , pretend that the disease was imported ; but by far the greater number maintain it was indigenous . This is also the opinion of most of the medical men to whom I have spoken on the subject , as well in other parts of the United ...
... town , pretend that the disease was imported ; but by far the greater number maintain it was indigenous . This is also the opinion of most of the medical men to whom I have spoken on the subject , as well in other parts of the United ...
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... town is very large , and is built on the flat point of the island , on a great deal of what was low marshy ground . There is no such thing in the whole place as a sink or common sewer . All the filth and soil is collected in pits , of ...
... town is very large , and is built on the flat point of the island , on a great deal of what was low marshy ground . There is no such thing in the whole place as a sink or common sewer . All the filth and soil is collected in pits , of ...
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... town are notoriously filthy , and the stranger is not a little surprised to meet the hogs walking about in them , for the purpose of devouring the vegetables and offal that are thrown into the gutter . The corporation of New York ...
... town are notoriously filthy , and the stranger is not a little surprised to meet the hogs walking about in them , for the purpose of devouring the vegetables and offal that are thrown into the gutter . The corporation of New York ...
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... town of New Brunswick , which is forty miles from New York . The scenery throughout the whole of this dis tance is , for the most part , that of a flat and un- interesting country , though there are here and there some thriving little ...
... town of New Brunswick , which is forty miles from New York . The scenery throughout the whole of this dis tance is , for the most part , that of a flat and un- interesting country , though there are here and there some thriving little ...
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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?