A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, During the Summer and Autumn of 1832, Svazek 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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Strana 6
... present one ( two dollars , I think ) to the liberated prisoners ; as instances are on re- cord of men having been guilty of theft , a few days after their dismissal , from actual want . The village of Auburn itself is tastefully built ...
... present one ( two dollars , I think ) to the liberated prisoners ; as instances are on re- cord of men having been guilty of theft , a few days after their dismissal , from actual want . The village of Auburn itself is tastefully built ...
Strana 7
... present one ( two dollars , I think ) to the liberated prisoners ; as instances are on re- cord of men having been guilty of theft , a few days after their dismissal , from actual want . The village of Auburn itself is tastefully built ...
... present one ( two dollars , I think ) to the liberated prisoners ; as instances are on re- cord of men having been guilty of theft , a few days after their dismissal , from actual want . The village of Auburn itself is tastefully built ...
Strana 14
... present possessor may expect to realize a considerable fortune . The profits arise principally from . towing the Erie Canal boats to the different ports in the lake , the traffic on which will be much increased by the Chemung and ...
... present possessor may expect to realize a considerable fortune . The profits arise principally from . towing the Erie Canal boats to the different ports in the lake , the traffic on which will be much increased by the Chemung and ...
Strana 15
... present head of the Society , Esther Plant , not having sufficient tact to keep them united . In Jemima's life - time , so jealous were her disciples of due respect being paid to her that no answer would be returned to enquiries after ...
... present head of the Society , Esther Plant , not having sufficient tact to keep them united . In Jemima's life - time , so jealous were her disciples of due respect being paid to her that no answer would be returned to enquiries after ...
Strana 16
... present possessors , persons of respectability ; and the same land which would not then bring a dollar in the market will now produce from 25 to 40 and even 50 per acre . The soil is a strong loam , and well adapted for wheat . Seneca ...
... present possessors , persons of respectability ; and the same land which would not then bring a dollar in the market will now produce from 25 to 40 and even 50 per acre . The soil is a strong loam , and well adapted for wheat . Seneca ...
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acres American amongst Annapolis River appearance army arrived banks barracks Basin Bay of Fundy beautiful Bedford Basin British canal carriage CHIGAN cholera coach Connecticut River crossed descending English erected Falls farm feet in height forest formed Fort Edward Fredericton French ground half Halifax harbour head heavy hill horses Indian inhabitants Irondequoit Creek Island John's journey Kamouraska labour lake land late Lawrence ment miles distant miles in length military minutes morning Mount Lafayette Mountains nearly New-York night Nova Scotia numerous occupied officers opposite party passed Pemigewasset River pine possession pretty prison proceeded province Quebec Rapids rear Rideau Canal rising river road rock rocky scarcely Schuylerville seen settlement side situated six miles soil steamer stream streets summit thick thing three miles timber town trees Upper Canada vessel vicinity village visited walked White Mountains width wind wood Yankee yards
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Strana 120 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 119 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Strana 119 - He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the Tenure of their Offices and the...
Strana 122 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Strana 122 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Strana 106 - Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Strana 121 - Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom.
Strana 119 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation...
Strana 122 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Strana 119 - He has erected a multitude of new offices by a selfassumed power, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.