Life in the New World, Or, Sketches of American SocietyJ. Winchester, 1844 - 349 Seiten |
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Seite 98 - 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.
Seite 62 - 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.
Seite 347 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
Seite 182 - Station, in the heart of the Creole settlements, we are made acquainted with some American planters and their work, and its influence upon the community. George Howard introduces them with the following words: 71"A dozen American families have settled here simultaneously with myself. They thrive well. It is charming to me to view the development of our country in its various phases, and to consider the abyss between the past and the present. Thus I have seen the settlements in the plantations which...
Seite 70 - ... 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.
Seite 38 - ... thick as leather, bearing more resemblance to the tanned hide of the buffalo than to that of a human being. Only lead or steel could penetrate it. These trappers are wonderful psychological phenomena ; thrown into wild, boundless nature, their reason often developed itself in a manner so ingenious — nay, grand, that among some I have observed a genius which would have done honor to the greatest philosopher of ancient or modern times. "Daily, nay hourly, dangers, one would suppose, must elevate...
Seite 41 - 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...
Seite 71 - 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...
Seite 99 - ... successors. With such wild, desperate characters, originated the paradisian hills and valleys of Kentucky, the excellent farms of Ohio, and the magnificent meadows of Tennessee. They have gone many thousands of miles — their works have remained. They have become the foundation of the happiness of millions of free, civilized, and religious citizens, who pray to the God of their fathers in thousands and thousands of temples, in places where formerly only...
Seite 64 - ... together, and unites them into one cosmopolitan commonwealth : their love of liberty and of the free institutions of our republic. It is his insight into this powerful, all embracing, patriotic spirit pervading the population of our country, which inspires our author to the prophetic words : 2"Only eighty years ago our country was a forgotten corner of the earth, inhabited by a few hundred thousand families of poor colonists, upon whom even their own countrymen looked down with haughty contempt...