The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII.Harper & brothers, 1835 |
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The Rambler in North America, MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII, Svazek 1 Charles Joseph Latrobe Úplné zobrazení - 1835 |
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Strana 198 - We believe that every man should be honored in his station, rulers and magistrates as such, being placed for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty; and that to the laws all men owe respect and deference...
Strana 232 - It was but the other day I was in company with a gentlemanly foreigner — a Prussian ; acute, reasonable, and polite, travelling for his instruction and amusement, to see with his own eyes, and to hear with his own ears. The conversation turned upon the difference of the criminal law in our respective countries, and the mode of procedure in criminal cases. Two things had struck him with reference to that of England ; first, the weight which we...
Strana 89 - While thus engaged, our voyagers were accosted in great alarm by the squatters of the neighbourhood, who inquired if they had not heard strange noises on the river and in the woods in the course of the preceding day, and perceived the shores shake — insisting that they had repeatedly felt the earth tremble. Hitherto nothing extraordinary had been perceived. The following day they pursued their monotonous voyage in those vast solitudes. The weather was...
Strana 87 - The complete success attending the experiments in steam navigation made on the Hudson and the adjoining waters previous to the year 1809, turned the attention of the principal projectors to the idea of its application on the Western Rivers; and in the month of April of that year, Mr. Roosevelt of New York, pursuant to an agreement with Chancellor Livingston and Mr. Pulton, visited those rivers, with the purpose of forming an opinion whether they admitted of steam navigation or not. At this time two...
Strana 88 - Late at night on the fourth day after quitting Pittsburgh, -they arrived in safety at Louisville, having been but seventy hours descending upwards of seven hundred miles. The novel appearance of the vessel, and the fearful rapidity with which it made its passage over the broad reaches of the river, excited a mixture of terror and surprise among many of the settlers on the banks, whom the rumor of such an invention had never reached...
Strana 103 - Liatris, or rattlesnakes'-master shoots up, and displays its spike of red flowers. Then there are the exquisite varieties of the Gentiana with their deep blue, and a thousand other flowers which I cannot undertake to describe. At this season, the dwarf...
Strana 118 - H 2 weaver of interminable stories, all about himself and his hunting exploits. We soon found out that he was a most determined and audacious braggart ; but it was some time before we all came to the unanimous conclusion, that, for lying effrontery, none of us had ever seen his equal.
Strana 66 - Niagara would bring disappointment, or to feel justified in doubting whether they have any imagination or eye for natural scenery at all. How blank the world must be, to them, of objects of natural interest! What can they expect to see? As to expectations, ours were excited and warm, and I shall never forget the real anxiety with which we looked out, on our ascent from Lewiston, for the appearance of the object of our 1833 visit.
Strana 63 - ... observation — I say, no one will write a book, depicting the state of things in the United States, as they are, with all their unavoidable crudities and anomalies, and give the public mind in that country satisfaction.
Strana 18 - I should remain in America. I was, as you may recollect, no very violent politician ; and was inclined, whether from natural indolence, or dull good nature, to allow a very considerable diversity of opinion in my neighbor, as long as he took care not to contradict me. I had seen enough of mankind in divers countries to believe that no system of government is of general application, and that the government must be made to suit the people, and not the people to suit the government. I loved my own country...