A Narrative of Travels in the United States of America: With Some Account of American Manners and Polity, and Advice to Emigrants and Travellers Going to that Interesting CountryPublished for the author, 1836 - Počet stran: 419 |
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Strana 14
... daughters who had been in the West on a visit to some friends met us . It being a fine day we had an opportu- nity , by running near land , to see the bold Western coast , with its harbours , and coves ; which to our young travel- lers ...
... daughters who had been in the West on a visit to some friends met us . It being a fine day we had an opportu- nity , by running near land , to see the bold Western coast , with its harbours , and coves ; which to our young travel- lers ...
Strana 18
... daughters ; all appeared calm . We put our trust in God , and he preserved us . There were men , women , and children on deck , going from Ireland to Liverpool ; one might have thought , scarcely any of them would long survive such ...
... daughters ; all appeared calm . We put our trust in God , and he preserved us . There were men , women , and children on deck , going from Ireland to Liverpool ; one might have thought , scarcely any of them would long survive such ...
Strana 24
... daughters , who sat up with me working at their needle , ( for we had liberty of the Captain to keep the candle burning , when would , under my care , for which I pledged my word ) hearing a bustle on deck and the Captain using his trum ...
... daughters , who sat up with me working at their needle , ( for we had liberty of the Captain to keep the candle burning , when would , under my care , for which I pledged my word ) hearing a bustle on deck and the Captain using his trum ...
Strana 27
... daughters being on deck , the violence of the wind broke the string of her bonnet and blew it overboard , when a sudden whirl caught it , and blew it on deck , where she recovered it . On measuring our deck , I found it 130 feet by 28 ...
... daughters being on deck , the violence of the wind broke the string of her bonnet and blew it overboard , when a sudden whirl caught it , and blew it on deck , where she recovered it . On measuring our deck , I found it 130 feet by 28 ...
Strana 32
... daughters kept schools for females ; one the Couu- ty Academy , the other kept a Seminary of her own . The prospect up the river was entertaining ; and going up the valley about 104 miles to Honesdale , appeared much more so . I shall ...
... daughters kept schools for females ; one the Couu- ty Academy , the other kept a Seminary of her own . The prospect up the river was entertaining ; and going up the valley about 104 miles to Honesdale , appeared much more so . I shall ...
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Strana 234 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 15 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Strana 235 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Strana 15 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation : who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Strana 236 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Strana 234 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harrass our people and eat out their substance.
Strana 322 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Strana 54 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Strana 233 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Strana 400 - ... wages are, or may be, recovered. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the captain or master of any ship or vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the territories thereof, from any foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and, if there be no cargo, then at the time of making report or entry of the...