A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... natural elements of wealth in the soil of Texas will have been more exhausted in ten years , and with them the rewards offered by Providence to labor will have been more lessened than , without slavery , would have been the case in two ...
... natural lust of authority , common as an element of character in all mankind . To a degree , that is , which makes its satisfaction inconvenient and costly - costly of other means of comfort , not only to the indivi- dual , but to the ...
... natural lawns among natural park - groups of oak , with river views and glimpses . The price of land for such places , within thirty or forty minutes ' drive of town , was , I was told , $ 1,000 per acre ; and , of all eli- gible land ...
... natural park , planted , seeded to sward , drained , and kept up by invisible hands for the delight and service of man . Travel where you will for days , you find always the soft , smooth sod , shaded with oaks and beeches , noble in ...
... for making use of these natural highways . And really admirable it is , spite of drawbacks , for its purpose . Without it the West would have found it impossible to be The West . Roads , in countries so ROUTE TO TEXAS 27.