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 19
... soon after we started , as I walked on deck , an Irishman in merry mood , came and invited me to take some Whiskey , which I refused . On talking to him seriously , he guessed I was a Methodist preacher , and reviled me bitterly ...
... soon after we started , as I walked on deck , an Irishman in merry mood , came and invited me to take some Whiskey , which I refused . On talking to him seriously , he guessed I was a Methodist preacher , and reviled me bitterly ...
Strana 21
... soon went to pieces , parents and children , husbands and wives , plunged into a watery grave . What a change of scene within a few hours ! In the morning setting out in glee , on this excursion of pleasure ; no doubt anticipating the ...
... soon went to pieces , parents and children , husbands and wives , plunged into a watery grave . What a change of scene within a few hours ! In the morning setting out in glee , on this excursion of pleasure ; no doubt anticipating the ...
Strana 22
... Manchester ; starting off gently they increased their velocity , and were soon out of sight . Who knows but these late inventions may be designed by the Almighty to facilitate the return of the Jews to their own country . It 22.
... Manchester ; starting off gently they increased their velocity , and were soon out of sight . Who knows but these late inventions may be designed by the Almighty to facilitate the return of the Jews to their own country . It 22.
Strana 25
... soon got well . Through the heavy roll of sea the vessel made a great motion . The sudden change of wind , agitates the water greatly . About nine at night the vessel went easier , and almost upright . I went on deck , and found the ...
... soon got well . Through the heavy roll of sea the vessel made a great motion . The sudden change of wind , agitates the water greatly . About nine at night the vessel went easier , and almost upright . I went on deck , and found the ...
Strana 26
... the sails all reefed , execpt the stay sail , - the head of the vessel against the wind like a weather- cock , as she lay to , in order to weather the storm . Our family joined in prayer . About six o'clock , soon 26.
... the sails all reefed , execpt the stay sail , - the head of the vessel against the wind like a weather- cock , as she lay to , in order to weather the storm . Our family joined in prayer . About six o'clock , soon 26.
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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...