Extracts from a Journal of Travels in North America: Consisting of an Account of Boston and Its VicinityThomas Badger, 1818 - 124 σελίδες |
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... presents , done into English . The portrait of our country has never yet been correctly taken by any of the crowd of foreigners that have attempted it . The contemptible caricatures drawn by British tourists served the purpose for which ...
... presents , done into English . The portrait of our country has never yet been correctly taken by any of the crowd of foreigners that have attempted it . The contemptible caricatures drawn by British tourists served the purpose for which ...
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... present these peculiarities in true colours , in the perspective of the manners and character of a people - with a view to qualify rather than extinguish that national feeling - is the office of the traveller . In making the following ...
... present these peculiarities in true colours , in the perspective of the manners and character of a people - with a view to qualify rather than extinguish that national feeling - is the office of the traveller . In making the following ...
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... presents nothing remark- able to the view of the approaching navi- gator . The country as we drew near ap- peared barren and inhospitable , on account , probably , of the season ; for the reign of winter on these cold shores is not yet ...
... presents nothing remark- able to the view of the approaching navi- gator . The country as we drew near ap- peared barren and inhospitable , on account , probably , of the season ; for the reign of winter on these cold shores is not yet ...
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... presents to the chief men as a prelude to acquaintance . My friend , ( for such I have found him , ) besides introducing me into the soi - disant fashionable circles of the town , has been of infinite service in unravelling the secret ...
... presents to the chief men as a prelude to acquaintance . My friend , ( for such I have found him , ) besides introducing me into the soi - disant fashionable circles of the town , has been of infinite service in unravelling the secret ...
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... present state of society , and the taste and feelings of their audience - avoiding meta- physical jargon on the one hand and melan- sholic bigotry on the other . They think , since Christianity has become respectable and the condition ...
... present state of society , and the taste and feelings of their audience - avoiding meta- physical jargon on the one hand and melan- sholic bigotry on the other . They think , since Christianity has become respectable and the condition ...
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Σελίδα 112 - God; begotten not made; being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven; and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary; and was made man.
Σελίδα 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Σελίδα 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the...
Σελίδα 2 - CLERK'S OFFIcE. BE it remembered, that on the eleventh day of November, AD 1830, in the fiftyfifth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Gray & Bowen, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof...
Σελίδα 2 - Extract from a Journal of Travels in North America ; consisting of an Account of Boston and its Vicinity, by Aly Bey.
Σελίδα 51 - I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself. Methought, the souls of all that I had murder'd Came to my tent: and every one did threat To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.
Σελίδα 2 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and pro...
Σελίδα 46 - for further aid in support of Williams College and for the erecting of other buildings for the convenience of the institution and for sustaining a professor of the Oriental languages." The sum of $9,500 was realized from the last two townships. The legislature passed an act February 24, 1814, "for the Encouragement of Literature, Piety and Morality and the Useful Arts and Sciences...
Σελίδα 119 - To those who are offended with the fanaticism of one party or the levity and affectation of the other, we should offer simplicity, sincerity, solemnity, truth!
Σελίδα 51 - ... maturity, crowded out of circles that they would adorn and animate, to make room for frivolous children, — who have watched the silent operation of anxiety and neglect on a lively and ingenuous mind, and marked its gradual transition from gaiety and animation, to placid dejection and cheerless indifference.