Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners, and Emigration in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 247 من الصفحات |
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... encouragement of literature and science . In that vast assemblage of people , there is no person able to promote the object of a stranger , nor to take him by the hand . High re- commendations from England are a man's greatest detriment ...
... encouragement of literature and science . In that vast assemblage of people , there is no person able to promote the object of a stranger , nor to take him by the hand . High re- commendations from England are a man's greatest detriment ...
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... encouragement in America . He informed me that there are upwards of thirty thousand Roman Ca- tholics in and about New York . A large flock , he observed , and many of them very ignorant ; but I find a great deel of good feeling among ...
... encouragement in America . He informed me that there are upwards of thirty thousand Roman Ca- tholics in and about New York . A large flock , he observed , and many of them very ignorant ; but I find a great deel of good feeling among ...
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... encouragement , or from subscriptions of professional men , I might depend upon ruining myself . Many , I was told , are ready to subscribe to , or encourage literature , but hang back at the time of payment . I was also assured by some ...
... encouragement , or from subscriptions of professional men , I might depend upon ruining myself . Many , I was told , are ready to subscribe to , or encourage literature , but hang back at the time of payment . I was also assured by some ...
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... encouragement in America . He informed me that there are upwards of thirty thousand Roman Ca- tholics in and about New York . A large flock , he observed , and many of them very ignorant ; but I find a great deel of good feeling among ...
... encouragement in America . He informed me that there are upwards of thirty thousand Roman Ca- tholics in and about New York . A large flock , he observed , and many of them very ignorant ; but I find a great deel of good feeling among ...
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... encouraging English cler- gymen of the Established Church , to emigrate to the United States , and promising them a hearty welcome and a liberal support . " The promise and encourage- ment , " said he , " was contrary to my advice ; for ...
... encouraging English cler- gymen of the Established Church , to emigrate to the United States , and promising them a hearty welcome and a liberal support . " The promise and encourage- ment , " said he , " was contrary to my advice ; for ...
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الصفحة 182 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
الصفحة 233 - The Swiss Family Robinson; or, the Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island. With Explanatory Notes and Illustrations. First and Second Series. New Edition, complete in one volume, 3s. 6d. Geography for my Children. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin,
الصفحة 231 - Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Seas, and the History of the Bucanien With Portraits.
الصفحة 230 - THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
الصفحة 28 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
الصفحة 83 - Frenchman, accommodating himself cheerfully to all the vicissitudes of life, incorporates himself, without difficulty, in our society. But, of all foreigners, none amalgamate themselves so quickly with our people as the natives of the Emerald Isle. In some of the visions which have passed through my imagination, I have supposed that Ireland was, originally, part and parcel of this continent, and that, by some extraordinary convulsion of nature, it was torn frorii America, and, drifting across the...
الصفحة 205 - ... happy, as well as the asylum of the distressed ; fill up the measure of your population as speedily as you can, by the means which Heaven hath placed in your power : and I venture to prophesy there are those now living who will see this...
الصفحة 83 - The same open-heartedness ; the same generous hospitality ; the same careless and uncalculating indifference about human life ; characterize the inhabitants of both countries. Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ireland of America. And I have no doubt, that if the current of emigration were reversed, and set from America upon the shores of Europe instead of bearing from Europe to America, every American emigrant to Ireland would there find, as every Irish emigrant here finds, a hearty welcome...
الصفحة 228 - The Percy Anecdotes. Revised Edition. To which is added, a valuable Collection of American Anecdotes, original and selected. • 8vo.
الصفحة 232 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.