A Journey Through Texas: Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern FrontierDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 |
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... creek , and at low water , taking , with great profit , the place of the useless steamers on the main streams . Our captain promised we should be in Nashville the following day ; but he should have added " water and weather permitting ...
... creek , and at low water , taking , with great profit , the place of the useless steamers on the main streams . Our captain promised we should be in Nashville the following day ; but he should have added " water and weather permitting ...
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... creeks and ponds , within reach of whose overflow , present or past , stand deciduous trees , such as , principally , oaks and cotton - woods , in a firmer and richer soil . Wherever the road crosses or approaches these spots , there is ...
... creeks and ponds , within reach of whose overflow , present or past , stand deciduous trees , such as , principally , oaks and cotton - woods , in a firmer and richer soil . Wherever the road crosses or approaches these spots , there is ...
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... creek . The streets were full of people , and our arrival caused a sharp use of eyes and tongues . We were at once pronounced Cali- fornians , and accepted , of course , the designation . Our fit - out was examined in detail , as to ...
... creek . The streets were full of people , and our arrival caused a sharp use of eyes and tongues . We were at once pronounced Cali- fornians , and accepted , of course , the designation . Our fit - out was examined in detail , as to ...
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... creek ( streamlet ) among the pines , five miles beyond Nacogdoches , and there made our first camp . Pitching our tent in the deepening twilight , at a first trial we met with some blundering difficulties . B. looked on with an ...
... creek ( streamlet ) among the pines , five miles beyond Nacogdoches , and there made our first camp . Pitching our tent in the deepening twilight , at a first trial we met with some blundering difficulties . B. looked on with an ...
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... creek - bottoms bears good cotton , and on the edge of the Angelina bottoms we saw a very heavy crop . The Angelina ferry is reached by a rude causeway , with bridges at intervals , some two or three miles in length , the only structure ...
... creek - bottoms bears good cotton , and on the edge of the Angelina bottoms we saw a very heavy crop . The Angelina ferry is reached by a rude causeway , with bridges at intervals , some two or three miles in length , the only structure ...
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Strana 495 - 1. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of this State to make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of Public Schools. SEC. 2. The Legislature shall, as early
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Strana 492 - ever be in force in this State. SEC. 19. The citizens shall have the right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the power of Government, for the redress of grievances, or other
Strana 492 - law of the land. SEC. 17. The military shall, at all times, be subordinate to the civil authority. SEC. 18. Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed ; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailmcnts ever be in force in this State.
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Strana 493 - granted by the Legislature. SEC. 19. All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property ; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife in relation as well to her separate property
Strana 398 - Laughed in the nickering light, and the pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine." The tall, elderly, busy housewife bustled about with preparations for supper, while we learned that they had been settled here forty years, and had never had reason to regret their emigration. The old man had
Strana 492 - 12. No person, for the same offense, shall be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall a person be again put upon trial for the same offense, after a verdict of not guilty; and the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. SEC. 13. Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful