America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1841 |
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... feelings of good - will towards the American people , under which this work was undertaken , could not fail at the present moment of producing a desirable effect . " While I am deeply sensible of this act of kindness on the part of your ...
... feelings of good - will towards the American people , under which this work was undertaken , could not fail at the present moment of producing a desirable effect . " While I am deeply sensible of this act of kindness on the part of your ...
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... feeling in any censures which I may have felt it right to express . From the peculiarly quick sensi- tiveness of the American people to the censures of foreign- ers , and of English writers above all others , I have no doubt I shall be ...
... feeling in any censures which I may have felt it right to express . From the peculiarly quick sensi- tiveness of the American people to the censures of foreign- ers , and of English writers above all others , I have no doubt I shall be ...
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... feeling has been occasioned thereby . There is , unfortunately , too much of truth in the accusation , though the English are not more in fault in this betrayal of confidence and abuse of hospitality than some American travellers who ...
... feeling has been occasioned thereby . There is , unfortunately , too much of truth in the accusation , though the English are not more in fault in this betrayal of confidence and abuse of hospitality than some American travellers who ...
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... feeling of the meeting to be so strongly against her interruption , made no farther appeal , and order was therefore speedily restored . After this I addressed the meeting , by the introduction of the chairman , for about an hour and a ...
... feeling of the meeting to be so strongly against her interruption , made no farther appeal , and order was therefore speedily restored . After this I addressed the meeting , by the introduction of the chairman , for about an hour and a ...
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... feels differently from themselves , shows how easy it is to combine loud pro- fosions of liberal principles with the bitterest intolerance and most uncharitable bigotry , - Besides the larger newspapers , which are sold at the price of ...
... feels differently from themselves , shows how easy it is to combine loud pro- fosions of liberal principles with the bitterest intolerance and most uncharitable bigotry , - Besides the larger newspapers , which are sold at the price of ...
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Seite iv - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 510 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Seite 322 - And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail, has there been to bring thee forth and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee!
Seite 318 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Seite 68 - Who can, with patience, for a moment see The medley mass of pride and misery, Of whips and charters, manacles and rights, Of slaving blacks and democratic whites, And all the pyebald polity that reigns In...
Seite 93 - But this is not all; they agree in rites; they reckon by moons; they offer their first fruits; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones; their mourning a year; customs of women, with many other things that do not now occur.
Seite 413 - And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Seite 357 - ... debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him ; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress.
Seite 508 - I, STEPHEN GIRARD, of the City of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Mariner and Merchant, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in manner following: that is to say— I. I give and bequeath unto " The Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital...
Seite 80 - ... in the heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.