Hesperos, Or, Travels in the West, Band 2J.W. Parker, 1850 |
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... woods- Exquisite scenery - Mosquitoes - Gaily dressed Indians— Extreme hospitality of the southern planters- Battle- field of New Orleans • vii PAGE 149 164 181 LETTER XXXVII . Melancholy mental condition of the negroes - African ...
... woods- Exquisite scenery - Mosquitoes - Gaily dressed Indians— Extreme hospitality of the southern planters- Battle- field of New Orleans • vii PAGE 149 164 181 LETTER XXXVII . Melancholy mental condition of the negroes - African ...
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... wood , and sometimes eating up whole trees , root , branch , and trunk . 6 There was once , it is said , a scientific English traveller , who carried off bones out of the ' Big- bone Lick ' by wagon - loads , and shipped them off to his ...
... wood , and sometimes eating up whole trees , root , branch , and trunk . 6 There was once , it is said , a scientific English traveller , who carried off bones out of the ' Big- bone Lick ' by wagon - loads , and shipped them off to his ...
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... wooden - houses , built on the spit of land between the two rivers : it is fre- quently under water for days together , and the only wonder is , that the good city of Cairo con- trives to keep its station at all , and has escaped so ...
... wooden - houses , built on the spit of land between the two rivers : it is fre- quently under water for days together , and the only wonder is , that the good city of Cairo con- trives to keep its station at all , and has escaped so ...
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... wood , get- ting cargo on board , & c . , and they seemed most of them so thoroughly worn out , that some of the ' first - class ' passengers , at length , took pity on their hard fate . After communicating one with another , and ...
... wood , get- ting cargo on board , & c . , and they seemed most of them so thoroughly worn out , that some of the ' first - class ' passengers , at length , took pity on their hard fate . After communicating one with another , and ...
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... Egyptian city of columns and sphinxes , pyramids and porphyry domes , it would be diffi- cult to conceive . The Memphis of the West differs in nothing from the other newly - raised 6 MEMPHIS . 45 wooden cities which are for ever springing.
... Egyptian city of columns and sphinxes , pyramids and porphyry domes , it would be diffi- cult to conceive . The Memphis of the West differs in nothing from the other newly - raised 6 MEMPHIS . 45 wooden cities which are for ever springing.
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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...