Retrospect of Western Travel, Том 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 178 |
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... idea of danger ; but we knew that the perils of this extraordinary river , sudden and overwhelming , are not like those of the ocean , which can be , in a great measure , guarded against by skill and care . The utmost watchfulness ...
... idea of danger ; but we knew that the perils of this extraordinary river , sudden and overwhelming , are not like those of the ocean , which can be , in a great measure , guarded against by skill and care . The utmost watchfulness ...
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... idea of the perils people should make up their minds to on such excursions as ours . On their wedding journey , the E.'s , accompanied by their relative , Judge H. , went down the Alabama river . One night , when Mr. E. was just con ...
... idea of the perils people should make up their minds to on such excursions as ours . On their wedding journey , the E.'s , accompanied by their relative , Judge H. , went down the Alabama river . One night , when Mr. E. was just con ...
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... idea of the pattern being transferred to them most ludi- crous . As long as we were on board , however , I believe they never doubted my friend's power of making them look like herself if she only would ; and they continued to cast ...
... idea of the pattern being transferred to them most ludi- crous . As long as we were on board , however , I believe they never doubted my friend's power of making them look like herself if she only would ; and they continued to cast ...
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... idea how beautiful this flaring region would appear in sunshine . After waiting some time in the boat for the arrival of a hack , we proceeded up the steep pavement above the wharf to the Broadway Hotel and Boarding - house . There we ...
... idea how beautiful this flaring region would appear in sunshine . After waiting some time in the boat for the arrival of a hack , we proceeded up the steep pavement above the wharf to the Broadway Hotel and Boarding - house . There we ...
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... idea of the spirit of the man in one of its aspects , though it has none of the pithy character of his conversation : " The relations between the upper and lower Mississippi States , established by the collective waters of the whole val ...
... idea of the spirit of the man in one of its aspects , though it has none of the pithy character of his conversation : " The relations between the upper and lower Mississippi States , established by the collective waters of the whole val ...
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Стр. 186 - Fool ! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?
Стр. 206 - The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Стр. 208 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Стр. 29 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Стр. 91 - 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...
Стр. 208 - Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
Стр. 210 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides.
Стр. 91 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Стр. 209 - The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all...