Miscellanies of Georgia, Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, &c, Части 1-2T. Gilbert, 1874 - Всего страниц: 234 |
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Стр. 18 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake ; Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey ; And savage men, more murderous still than they : While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Стр. 17 - Even now, perhaps, by cold and hunger led, At proud men's doors they ask a little bread ! Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charmed before...
Стр. 18 - The cooling brook, the grassy vested green, The breezy covert of the warbling grove, That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting...
Стр. 130 - Chatahouchee, north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and south of the cession made to the United States by South Carolina : And also to receive any proposals for the relinquishment or cession of the whole or any part of the other territory claimed by the state of Georgia, and out of the ordinary jurisdiction thereof.
Стр. 17 - Ah, no. To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Стр. 32 - ... feet high, spare made, and remarkably erect in person and carriage. His eyes were large, dark and piercing. His forehead was so peculiarly shaped, that the old Indian countrymen often spoke of it : it commenced expanding at his eyes, and widened considerably at the top of his head. It was a bold and lofty forehead. His fingers were long and tapering, and he wielded a pen with the greatest rapidity. His face was handsome, and indicative of quick thought and much sagacity. Unless interested in...
Стр. 32 - McGillivray was six feet high, spare made, and remarkably erect in person and carriage. His eyes were large, dark, and piercing. His forehead was so peculiarly shaped, that the old Indian countrymen often spoke of it : it commenced expanding at his eyes, and widened considerably at the top of His head. It "was a, bold and lofty forehead. His fingers were long and tapering, and he wielded a pen with the greatest rapidity. His face was handsome, and indicative of quick thought and much sagacity. Unless...
Стр. 134 - Yazoo sale, but, while expressing the opinion that 'the title of the claimants cannot be supported,' declared that 'the interest of the United States, the tranquillity of those who may hereafter inhabit that territory, and various equitable considerations which may be urged in favor of most of the present claimants, render it expedient to enter into a compromise on reasonable terms.
Стр. 95 - Lincoln had been a member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, and...
Стр. 137 - I have been very unwilling to proceed to the decision of this cause at all. It appears to me to bear strong evidence, upon the face of it, of being a mere feigned case. It is our duty to decide on the rights, but not on the speculations of parties.