Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 σελίδες |
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... observation , count with profound gravity the number of miles from place to place ; and others , intent only upon feeding , supply a bill of fare . A family likeness prevails through the whole . Their humour bears no proportion to their ...
... observation , count with profound gravity the number of miles from place to place ; and others , intent only upon feeding , supply a bill of fare . A family likeness prevails through the whole . Their humour bears no proportion to their ...
Σελίδα 36
... observed , When the blind leads the blind , they shall both of them fall . From Trenton I was conveyed over the Dela- ware in the ferry - boat , with an elderly man , clad in the garb of a Quaker . His looks beamed be- nignity , and his ...
... observed , When the blind leads the blind , they shall both of them fall . From Trenton I was conveyed over the Dela- ware in the ferry - boat , with an elderly man , clad in the garb of a Quaker . His looks beamed be- nignity , and his ...
Σελίδα 39
... observed that his house was not like an American house ; that he did not in summer put twelve beds in one room ; but that every lodger had a room to himself , and Monsieur , added he very solemnly , " Ici il ne sera pas neces- saire de ...
... observed that his house was not like an American house ; that he did not in summer put twelve beds in one room ; but that every lodger had a room to himself , and Monsieur , added he very solemnly , " Ici il ne sera pas neces- saire de ...
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... observed , I believe , by Horace , that there have lived many herocs not inferior in prowess to those of the Iliad , but that for want of a bard to sing their feats , they might as well have not achieved them . But how many characters ...
... observed , I believe , by Horace , that there have lived many herocs not inferior in prowess to those of the Iliad , but that for want of a bard to sing their feats , they might as well have not achieved them . But how many characters ...
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... observed the Doctor's eyes brighten at the first dinner we made on board , who expressed to me a hope that we might be a month on the passage , as he wished to eat out the money the captain had charged him . The first night the man at ...
... observed the Doctor's eyes brighten at the first dinner we made on board , who expressed to me a hope that we might be a month on the passage , as he wished to eat out the money the captain had charged him . The first night the man at ...
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Σελίδα 292 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country 1 rejoice at the beams of peace.
Σελίδα 179 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it...
Σελίδα 177 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Σελίδα 214 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Σελίδα 177 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
Σελίδα 178 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
Σελίδα 177 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind; let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Σελίδα 179 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
Σελίδα 210 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Σελίδα 211 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, 'I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.