An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - Всего страниц: 511 |
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... inhabitants , not more than 7 or 8,000 remained in the city ; and those only in the higher and more healthy parts . I do not know a more sombre spectacle than a large deserted city . We are so accustomed to associate the idea of a town ...
... inhabitants , not more than 7 or 8,000 remained in the city ; and those only in the higher and more healthy parts . I do not know a more sombre spectacle than a large deserted city . We are so accustomed to associate the idea of a town ...
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... inhabitants of a great part of the city . There is a considerable variety of opinion among the citizens with regard to the origin of this fever . Those who are anxious about the re- putation of the town , pretend that the disease was ...
... inhabitants of a great part of the city . There is a considerable variety of opinion among the citizens with regard to the origin of this fever . Those who are anxious about the re- putation of the town , pretend that the disease was ...
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... inhabitants are so seldom visited by this scourge . The town is very large , and is built on the flat point of the island , on a great deal of what was low marshy ground . There is no such thing in the whole place as a sink or common ...
... inhabitants are so seldom visited by this scourge . The town is very large , and is built on the flat point of the island , on a great deal of what was low marshy ground . There is no such thing in the whole place as a sink or common ...
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... inhabitants to keep the streets and slips in a cleaner state . But what may also contribute to produce unhealthiness , is the very foolish and absurd practice of burying the dead within the town . Some of the church - yards have become ...
... inhabitants to keep the streets and slips in a cleaner state . But what may also contribute to produce unhealthiness , is the very foolish and absurd practice of burying the dead within the town . Some of the church - yards have become ...
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... Philadelphia . This city is now decidedly the handsomest and best built in the United States , and contains 114,000 inhabitants . The houses are lofty and regular , the streets broad and well paved , and the tout 20 Philadelphia .
... Philadelphia . This city is now decidedly the handsomest and best built in the United States , and contains 114,000 inhabitants . The houses are lofty and regular , the streets broad and well paved , and the tout 20 Philadelphia .
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Стр. 401 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Стр. 474 - Lord assisting our endeavors ; 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, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Стр. 206 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Стр. 421 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Стр. 469 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Стр. 233 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Стр. 483 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Стр. 482 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Стр. 468 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
Стр. 422 - Brother: Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?