Retrospect of Western Travel, Том 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - Всего страниц: 178 |
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... trees brought down from above by the current , and fixed in the mud under water ) which may at any moment pierce the hull of the vessel . Our New - Orleans friends remained with us upward of an hour , introducing us to the captain , and ...
... trees brought down from above by the current , and fixed in the mud under water ) which may at any moment pierce the hull of the vessel . Our New - Orleans friends remained with us upward of an hour , introducing us to the captain , and ...
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... tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch to lie down to ... trees . Many dusky gazing figures of men with the axe , and women with the pitcher , would have tempted the pencil ...
... tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch to lie down to ... trees . Many dusky gazing figures of men with the axe , and women with the pitcher , would have tempted the pencil ...
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... trees seemed in- credible as we stood at their foot and looked up . It made us feel suddenly dwarfed . We stood in a crowd of locust and cottonwood trees , elm , maple , and live oak ; and they were all bound together by an inextricable ...
... trees seemed in- credible as we stood at their foot and looked up . It made us feel suddenly dwarfed . We stood in a crowd of locust and cottonwood trees , elm , maple , and live oak ; and they were all bound together by an inextricable ...
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... tree before it , casting a flickering shadow upon the porch , and behind it was a well- cleared field . The children were decently dressed , and several slaves peeped out from the places where they were pursuing their avocations . A ...
... tree before it , casting a flickering shadow upon the porch , and behind it was a well- cleared field . The children were decently dressed , and several slaves peeped out from the places where they were pursuing their avocations . A ...
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... trees . I believe the landing - place at Natchez has not improved its reputation since the descrip- tions which have been given of it by former travellers . When we returned to the boat after an hour's walk , we found the captain very ...
... trees . I believe the landing - place at Natchez has not improved its reputation since the descrip- tions which have been given of it by former travellers . When we returned to the boat after an hour's walk , we found the captain very ...
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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...