Life in the New World, Or, Sketches of American Society

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J. Winchester, 1844 - Počet stran: 349

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Strana 74 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, Tis less of earth than heaven.
Strana 36 - All — but a few apostates, who are meddling With merchandise, pounds, shillings, pence and peddling; Or wandering through the southern countries teaching The ABC from Webster's spelling-book ; Gallant and godly, making love and preaching, And gaining, by what they call "hook and crook," And what the moralists call over-reaching, A decent living.
Strana 192 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 46 - ... and Tokeah believes that the hearts of white men do not beat, as do those of the red skins, they rattle because they contain only dollars.40 This love of money has caused classes to arise within the nation which are almost as well confined as are those of old Europe.
Strana 21 - Waterloo," and who is now dying of fever and ague. 1"What a paradox is man! Had this unfortunate been sent to this, or a similar pestilential place by his superior officers, no gold on earth could have induced him to remain. But he came voluntarily, probably driven from better society by his connection with the Negress,2 and now he falls perhaps a just sacrifice to his passions. The spot on which his cabin stands is not even his own property, but for that he cares not. He has cleared a few acres...
Strana 65 - But who wishes to drink whiskey with plebeians, ploughmen, cobblers or tailors, or to lie about in groggeries ?' 'Just that is our fault. Because we are too proud to mix with the people, they turn their backs on us, when offices are to be filled, which require trust and confidence. We lose ground, and our old families, who have settled the country, and fought for our independence, must make way for the sons of Irish drunkards, English beggars, and French hair-dressers, because they are less delicate.
Strana 47 - Ralph Doughby, pp. 88-90. our temper. No one but an American can understand this love. A foreigner calls it apish love ; he is annoyed at us if we prefer our bride to others ; he laughs and scorns us for the love we bear our country, because it is entirely different from the love he feels toward his own, which he knows resembles the United States in no particular. We willingly acknowledge this, for Uncle Sam's country is still a new property ; it has none of the proud and frowning castles, the wide...
Strana 19 - ... fiendish joy, as if he felt that he had delivered society from a great fellow-criminal. The fact that for years he lives on the strongest possible food, the meat of the bison, and without bread or anything else, contributes much to his inhuman wildness — as in a measure it changes him into a beast of prey. "On an expedition which we undertook in company with several acquaintances, along the upper Red River, we met several of these trappers; among others, an old fellow, so thoroughly tanned...
Strana 296 - ... were pulling and tumbling against each other like rolling stones ; the sound of tinkling cow-bells came to our ears on the gentle breeze; and in the far blue distance, a thick fog was seen glimmering in the sunbeams through every opening of the vast forest. The whole scene was buried in the profoundest silence— save only the tinkling cowbells, and occasionally the heavy blast of the sea-shell calling the workmen home from the fields. There was something charming and irresistible in the landscape.

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