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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... spoke profanely . I felt it a duty to reprove him . He candidly acknowledged his fault . Many gathering round me , I took the opportunity to talk to them on their great business in this world , which they seemed to have overlooked . All ...
... spoke profanely . I felt it a duty to reprove him . He candidly acknowledged his fault . Many gathering round me , I took the opportunity to talk to them on their great business in this world , which they seemed to have overlooked . All ...
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... spoke a little way out of Bethany , at the house of J. Hacker , a friend from England ; Judge Dimmick , who lived in the neighbour- hood , came to the meeting . An old chest being placed for a seat to supply the deficiency of chairs ...
... spoke a little way out of Bethany , at the house of J. Hacker , a friend from England ; Judge Dimmick , who lived in the neighbour- hood , came to the meeting . An old chest being placed for a seat to supply the deficiency of chairs ...
الصفحة 42
... spoke their experience ; two or three that had sailed with Capt Brewer already named ; and one or two French- men that spoke but little English . Next morning Mr. La Taurett , gave me a very in- teresting account of one of the Frenchmen ...
... spoke their experience ; two or three that had sailed with Capt Brewer already named ; and one or two French- men that spoke but little English . Next morning Mr. La Taurett , gave me a very in- teresting account of one of the Frenchmen ...
الصفحة 43
... spoke peace to her soul , and her prayer was turned into praise . I went into the Printing Office for a proof sheet to correct , and saw them print the Newspaper with a cylin- der press , worked by a man at a wheel . The principle is ...
... spoke peace to her soul , and her prayer was turned into praise . I went into the Printing Office for a proof sheet to correct , and saw them print the Newspaper with a cylin- der press , worked by a man at a wheel . The principle is ...
الصفحة 53
... spoke at a school room , about three miles off , and slept at the house of a Methodist farmer , - one who rented a farm , not a very common thing in the States , as almost every husband - man occupies his own freehold . When they rent a ...
... spoke at a school room , about three miles off , and slept at the house of a Methodist farmer , - one who rented a farm , not a very common thing in the States , as almost every husband - man occupies his own freehold . When they rent a ...
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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...