Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and Varieties, of Nature and Art, in AmericaG. & W.B. Whittaker, W. Baynes and Son, and T. Blanshard, 1823 - Всего страниц: 346 |
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... carried on the war , a mode that enabled a handful of resolute men to resist an army , and having acquired some little know- ledge by woeful experience , the black Indians hastened to imitate them , throwing up the earth and forming ...
... carried on the war , a mode that enabled a handful of resolute men to resist an army , and having acquired some little know- ledge by woeful experience , the black Indians hastened to imitate them , throwing up the earth and forming ...
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... carried away by a heavy flood , the proprietor of the iron works there has substituted a sin- gular medium of communication for his workmen living on the opposite bank . A boat was at first 66 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES , & c ,
... carried away by a heavy flood , the proprietor of the iron works there has substituted a sin- gular medium of communication for his workmen living on the opposite bank . A boat was at first 66 AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES , & c ,
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... carrying 3,300 spindles for cotton , and 400 for woollen . Four cotton spinning establishments , containing to- gether 1,500 spindles . A woollen manufactory , yielding sixty yards of broad cloth per day . Two glass houses . A saw mill ...
... carrying 3,300 spindles for cotton , and 400 for woollen . Four cotton spinning establishments , containing to- gether 1,500 spindles . A woollen manufactory , yielding sixty yards of broad cloth per day . Two glass houses . A saw mill ...
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... carried up several stories ; but they have terraces and walks on their tops according to the french fashion . The public buildings consist of three banking houses , two handsome churches , custom - house , town - ( U. States ) 79 NEW ...
... carried up several stories ; but they have terraces and walks on their tops according to the french fashion . The public buildings consist of three banking houses , two handsome churches , custom - house , town - ( U. States ) 79 NEW ...
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... carried on . These slaves are in general dull and reserved ; there are others , of whom it might be said that they rejoice in their chains . They are brought from the coast of Africa . Those who are shipped at Angola are marked on the ...
... carried on . These slaves are in general dull and reserved ; there are others , of whom it might be said that they rejoice in their chains . They are brought from the coast of Africa . Those who are shipped at Angola are marked on the ...
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Стр. 292 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell— and George the third — [' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason,' echoed from every part of the house.
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Стр. 290 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Стр. 104 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Стр. 101 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Стр. 156 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Стр. 101 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon?
Стр. 165 - ... four of the hunters now fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them directly through the lungs : the furious animal sprang up and ran open-mouthed upon them ; as he came near, the two hunters who had reserved their fire gave him two wounds, one of which breaking his shoulder, retarded his motion for a moment...
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Стр. 167 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But, still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round first one and then the other, pawing them, and moaning.