Retrospect of Western Travel, Том 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 178 |
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... less mindful of other people from taking great care of each other . There was the party that had kept the captain waiting , some of them very agreeable ; and the L.'s , whom it would have been a privilege to meet anywhere . There were ...
... less mindful of other people from taking great care of each other . There was the party that had kept the captain waiting , some of them very agreeable ; and the L.'s , whom it would have been a privilege to meet anywhere . There were ...
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... less than the fact . The contention went on till the boat stopped , when the mother yielded , with the worst possible grace , and sent a slave nurse on shore to buy toys . An hour after we were again on our way , the lady showed me , in ...
... less than the fact . The contention went on till the boat stopped , when the mother yielded , with the worst possible grace , and sent a slave nurse on shore to buy toys . An hour after we were again on our way , the lady showed me , in ...
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... less unfairly distributed , and held on a better tenure than it has been . It indicates that traitors and oppressors will not , in future , be permitted to work their will and compass their purposes at the expense of others , till ...
... less unfairly distributed , and held on a better tenure than it has been . It indicates that traitors and oppressors will not , in future , be permitted to work their will and compass their purposes at the expense of others , till ...
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... less worth having , with the curse of slavery upon them , than those of Illinois without it . In vain has the price of land been lowered in Missouri as that in Illinois rose . Settlers go first and look at the cheaper land ; some remain ...
... less worth having , with the curse of slavery upon them , than those of Illinois without it . In vain has the price of land been lowered in Missouri as that in Illinois rose . Settlers go first and look at the cheaper land ; some remain ...
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... less , with the power which an honest and friendly physician carries about with him , an evil which he considers the worst that attends emigration . He told me that , unless the head of the emigrant family be timely and judiciously ...
... less , with the power which an honest and friendly physician carries about with him , an evil which he considers the worst that attends emigration . He told me that , unless the head of the emigrant family be timely and judiciously ...
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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...