A Narrative of Travels in the United States of America: With Some Account of American Manners and Polity, and Advice to Emigrants and Travellers Going to that Interesting CountryPublished for the author, 1836 - 419 من الصفحات |
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... English name , and I un- derstand also a French name . Probably that family in England at first came over with William the Norman , as there are the names of many French families still in Eng- land . Bryant being known to be an Eng ...
... English name , and I un- derstand also a French name . Probably that family in England at first came over with William the Norman , as there are the names of many French families still in Eng- land . Bryant being known to be an Eng ...
الصفحة v
... English sound , uncontradicted . And school- masters knowing no better , writing the children's name in the English way , would be likely to get the children to write so too . When at Boconnock many years ago , at known ; the house of ...
... English sound , uncontradicted . And school- masters knowing no better , writing the children's name in the English way , would be likely to get the children to write so too . When at Boconnock many years ago , at known ; the house of ...
الصفحة vi
... English way , to the igno- rance of schoolmasters , who put the children to write their name so at school . Some years since , being at the house of John Bryan , then an Innkeeper in Penzance , while conversing on the subject , he said ...
... English way , to the igno- rance of schoolmasters , who put the children to write their name so at school . Some years since , being at the house of John Bryan , then an Innkeeper in Penzance , while conversing on the subject , he said ...
الصفحة ix
... English , and made the subject of merriment : but this did not prevent him from owning his pedigree . As he received information , and grew up to knowledge ca- pable of understanding the subject , he felt a peculiar regard for that ...
... English , and made the subject of merriment : but this did not prevent him from owning his pedigree . As he received information , and grew up to knowledge ca- pable of understanding the subject , he felt a peculiar regard for that ...
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... English Sailor , who was a passenger , reproved him ; saying that it was a shame to treat a pas- senger so . The ship Carpenter threatened to throw the sailor overboard - then offered to fight him . I went be- low to search for the ...
... English Sailor , who was a passenger , reproved him ; saying that it was a shame to treat a pas- senger so . The ship Carpenter threatened to throw the sailor overboard - then offered to fight him . I went be- low to search for the ...
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الصفحة 234 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
الصفحة 15 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
الصفحة 235 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
الصفحة 15 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation : who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
الصفحة 236 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
الصفحة 234 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harrass our people and eat out their substance.
الصفحة 322 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
الصفحة 54 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
الصفحة 233 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
الصفحة 400 - ... wages are, or may be, recovered. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the captain or master of any ship or vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the territories thereof, from any foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and, if there be no cargo, then at the time of making report or entry of the...