Retrospect of Western Travel, Том 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 178 |
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... told me all that this inquiry made me anxious to know . He had been accustomed to ascend and descend the river annually with his family , and he made his arrangements ac- cording to his knowledge of the danger of the navigation . It was ...
... told me all that this inquiry made me anxious to know . He had been accustomed to ascend and descend the river annually with his family , and he made his arrangements ac- cording to his knowledge of the danger of the navigation . It was ...
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... told me that , as we were particularly under his charge , his first thought in a time of danger would be of us . He had a life - preserver , and was an excellent swimmer , so that he had little doubt of being able to save us in any case ...
... told me that , as we were particularly under his charge , his first thought in a time of danger would be of us . He had a life - preserver , and was an excellent swimmer , so that he had little doubt of being able to save us in any case ...
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... told by a companion that the man who had last forced his way on board had died of cholera in the night , and had been laid under a tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch ...
... told by a companion that the man who had last forced his way on board had died of cholera in the night , and had been laid under a tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch ...
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... told me of the imminent danger he and his lady had twice been in on board steamboats . His stories give an idea of the perils people should make up their minds to on such excursions as ours . On their wedding journey , the E.'s ...
... told me of the imminent danger he and his lady had twice been in on board steamboats . His stories give an idea of the perils people should make up their minds to on such excursions as ours . On their wedding journey , the E.'s ...
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... told them how very silly they were ; what a waste of money it would be to buy such toys as they would get at Vicksburg ; that they would suck the paint , & c . Strange to say , none of these considerations availed anything . Somebody had ...
... told them how very silly they were ; what a waste of money it would be to buy such toys as they would get at Vicksburg ; that they would suck the paint , & c . Strange to say , none of these considerations availed anything . Somebody had ...
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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...