The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Volume 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 - United States |
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... known to intend pub- lishing an account of America , he was assailed courte- ously , yet earnestly and with little delicacy , on the subject . He was asked , " Don't you think this a won- derful country ? Don't you allow us great credit ...
... known to intend pub- lishing an account of America , he was assailed courte- ously , yet earnestly and with little delicacy , on the subject . He was asked , " Don't you think this a won- derful country ? Don't you allow us great credit ...
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... known story that of a Dutchman who was here questioned to death . We in- cline , however , to think that , among the higher classes who inhabit the cities , this peculiarity has in a great measure disappeared . Among those whom we have ...
... known story that of a Dutchman who was here questioned to death . We in- cline , however , to think that , among the higher classes who inhabit the cities , this peculiarity has in a great measure disappeared . Among those whom we have ...
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... known slang title of tee - totallers , proscribed the latter also ; and amid their first zeal , it is said the contents of some wine cellars were emptied into the streets . This party , so far as we understand , is now completely in the ...
... known slang title of tee - totallers , proscribed the latter also ; and amid their first zeal , it is said the contents of some wine cellars were emptied into the streets . This party , so far as we understand , is now completely in the ...
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... were saluted as ladies and gentlemen , she herself was known only under the appellation of " the old woman . " The Duke of Saxe - Weimar having made a journey by post , the driver came to him MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 29.
... were saluted as ladies and gentlemen , she herself was known only under the appellation of " the old woman . " The Duke of Saxe - Weimar having made a journey by post , the driver came to him MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 29.
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... parties through whom the country is best known to Europe and to the other states , its repu- tation has thus been considerably damaged . The planters of the south , while they agree with 42 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
... parties through whom the country is best known to Europe and to the other states , its repu- tation has thus been considerably damaged . The planters of the south , while they agree with 42 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
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Page 133 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 134 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man...
Page 134 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb.
Page 150 - Bozzaris ! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh ; For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's — One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die.
Page 135 - God ! when Thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift, dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages; when, at thy call, Uprises the great Deep and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms...
Page 132 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Page 150 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate, and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded...
Page 138 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now. Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea!
Page 156 - And thou an angel's happiness shall know; Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits...
Page 112 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...