Hesperos: Or, Travels in the West, Band 2J.W. Parker, 1850 - 279 Seiten |
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... give us the welcome intelligence that the Leonora , ' a first - rate steamer , had just touched at Louis- ville , and that if we set off to join her , without an hour's delay , we might be so fortunate as to secure a passage in her for ...
... give us the welcome intelligence that the Leonora , ' a first - rate steamer , had just touched at Louis- ville , and that if we set off to join her , without an hour's delay , we might be so fortunate as to secure a passage in her for ...
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... give you an idea of our aquatic drawing - room , and our peculiar mode of life . The only discomfort of which I feel inclined to complain is the disagreeable heat of the immediate neighbourhood of the stove , and the intense cold when ...
... give you an idea of our aquatic drawing - room , and our peculiar mode of life . The only discomfort of which I feel inclined to complain is the disagreeable heat of the immediate neighbourhood of the stove , and the intense cold when ...
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... give you a specimen of the brutality of these Ohio boatmen , and also of the dreadful evils which the cheapness of spirits entails upon the lower classes in America . We were sitting in the saloon one morning after breakfast ; it was a ...
... give you a specimen of the brutality of these Ohio boatmen , and also of the dreadful evils which the cheapness of spirits entails upon the lower classes in America . We were sitting in the saloon one morning after breakfast ; it was a ...
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... give them- selves the trouble to recollect that , previously to his having taken upon himself the office so reprobated by the rest , their wretched companion had , from excess of dissipation , been a sufferer from delirium tremens ...
... give them- selves the trouble to recollect that , previously to his having taken upon himself the office so reprobated by the rest , their wretched companion had , from excess of dissipation , been a sufferer from delirium tremens ...
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... give or send , or cause to be given or sent to any person in the district of Columbia any challenge to fight a duel or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon whatever , or shall be the bearer of any ...
... give or send , or cause to be given or sent to any person in the district of Columbia any challenge to fight a duel or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon whatever , or shall be the bearer of any ...
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a-head abolitionists agreeable ALLIGATOR American amused appeared APPENDIX arrival Attakapas bank Barataria beauty black race boat boiling bowie knife called cause church coloured comfortable conduct confess consider course creatures dangerous deck dollars Don Ribiera effect emigrants engineer England English evil feel freedom FRENCH CREOLE friends Galveston gentlemen Gulf of Mexico happy heard HESPEROS horses hundred Indian interest island labour ladies land Leonora LETTER Liberia lives Locofoco look Louisiana Louisville master ment miles Mississippi Mississippi river morning negro negro race never night o'clock Octavo opinion Orleans ourselves overseer owners Parker party passed passengers planters poor possessed prairie QUADROON racter remarkable rendered river seen Shadowan shore short side slave labour slave-owners slavery slaves society soon South steam-boat steamer sugar plantation Texas tion trees vessel voyage whole wood Yankee
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Seite 174 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 274 - I do not know what to make of them; was there a white man over them with a whip in his hand all day, why then I should see and understand the cause of their running, and incessant labour; but I cannot comprehend it, sir; there is something in it, sir — there is something in it. Great man, sir, that Jim— great man, sir — should like to own him, sir, should like to own him.
Seite 279 - Compton Merivale: another Leaf from the Lesson of Life. By the Author of Brampton Rectory.
Seite 59 - District shall accept any challenge to fight a duel, or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon, whatever, or shall...
Seite 58 - That if any person shall, in the District of Columbia, challenge another to fight a duel, or shall send or deliver any written or verbal message purporting or intended to be such challenge, or shall accept any such challenge or message, or shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, or shall knowingly carry or deliver an acceptance of such challenge or message...
Seite 263 - ... longer apparently the same people. A sedateness, a care, an economy, an industry, took possession of them, to which there seemed to be no bounds, but in their physical strength. They were never tired of laboring, and seemed as though they could never effect enough.
Seite 60 - And be it further enacted, that if any person shall assault, strike, beat, or wound, or cause to be assaulted, stricken, beaten, or wounded, any person in the district of Columbia...
Seite 262 - Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.' " From the foregoing summary, it will be seen that the basis of my plan for their success and government was religion — a desire to awaken in their bosoms the love of the divinity. Hope and trust in him, once born in their souls, would produce its...