An Excursion Through the United States and Canada During the Years 1822-1823Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 - Всего страниц: 511 |
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... stopped at a very good inn , where I was lucky enough to get a single - bedded room , This is the spot where , during the Revolutionary war , the Americans under Washington crossed the Delaware on the ice , and surprised and cut off the ...
... stopped at a very good inn , where I was lucky enough to get a single - bedded room , This is the spot where , during the Revolutionary war , the Americans under Washington crossed the Delaware on the ice , and surprised and cut off the ...
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... stopped at Newcastle , which , though a small town , is a very important one , there being no other on the Delaware so near the tide - waters of Chesapeak Bay . It is somewhere near this place , that the canal intended to unite the bay ...
... stopped at Newcastle , which , though a small town , is a very important one , there being no other on the Delaware so near the tide - waters of Chesapeak Bay . It is somewhere near this place , that the canal intended to unite the bay ...
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... stopped at breaking an arm or two . I should be glad to see this in- scription effaced , as it tends to increase hostile feelings , which are contrary to the interest of both countries . The chief curiosity in the Navy - yard is the ...
... stopped at breaking an arm or two . I should be glad to see this in- scription effaced , as it tends to increase hostile feelings , which are contrary to the interest of both countries . The chief curiosity in the Navy - yard is the ...
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... stopping a short time in order to water the horses , and to allow the passen- gers to take some refreshment at a small inn on this mountain , I observed that two hunters , who had just come in with some turkies they had killed , were ...
... stopping a short time in order to water the horses , and to allow the passen- gers to take some refreshment at a small inn on this mountain , I observed that two hunters , who had just come in with some turkies they had killed , were ...
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... stopped a few hours at a small village called Portsmouth , situated at the confluence of the Ohio and the Big Sciota . This river is navigable for 200 miles ; and , by a portage of four miles , which is to be obviated by a canal , goods ...
... stopped a few hours at a small village called Portsmouth , situated at the confluence of the Ohio and the Big Sciota . This river is navigable for 200 miles ; and , by a portage of four miles , which is to be obviated by a canal , goods ...
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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?