The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Band 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... miles below Pittsburg . Rapp is very old , and at his death the body are ex- pected to break up . Another religious abortion has recently started up in the Mormonites , or Latter - day Saints , respecting whom we are not prepared or ...
... miles below Pittsburg . Rapp is very old , and at his death the body are ex- pected to break up . Another religious abortion has recently started up in the Mormonites , or Latter - day Saints , respecting whom we are not prepared or ...
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... the regular means of instruction are deficient ; and the concourse attracted towards them is immense . As soon as one is announced , the roads for a hundred miles round , are seen thronged with persons on RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES . 95.
... the regular means of instruction are deficient ; and the concourse attracted towards them is immense . As soon as one is announced , the roads for a hundred miles round , are seen thronged with persons on RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES . 95.
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... miles round , are seen thronged with persons on foot and horseback , in gigs and wagons , hastening to the spot . It is usually chosen in the centre of a deep , dark , and lonely forest , never reached by the axe of the settler ; and a ...
... miles round , are seen thronged with persons on foot and horseback , in gigs and wagons , hastening to the spot . It is usually chosen in the centre of a deep , dark , and lonely forest , never reached by the axe of the settler ; and a ...
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... miles , retiring farther into the interior as they proceed south . This range is broken up by numerous valleys , those transverse to the ridge forming the main courses of the rivers and the general lines of communication from the coast ...
... miles , retiring farther into the interior as they proceed south . This range is broken up by numerous valleys , those transverse to the ridge forming the main courses of the rivers and the general lines of communication from the coast ...
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... miles wide , as far south as the Alabama river , where it is lost below the alluvium of the Mississippi . West of this river , the Rocky Moun- tains consist of similar primary formations , broken through by volcanic eruptions , which ...
... miles wide , as far south as the Alabama river , where it is lost below the alluvium of the Mississippi . West of this river , the Rocky Moun- tains consist of similar primary formations , broken through by volcanic eruptions , which ...
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Seite 137 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Seite 154 - Bozzaris! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee : there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime...
Seite 138 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man...
Seite 138 - THOU unrelenting Past ! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb.
Seite 149 - Celestial voices Hymn it unto our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...
Seite 136 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Seite 154 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate, and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys, Though in her eye and faded...
Seite 116 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...
Seite 125 - ... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.
Seite 113 - But these feelings were of short duration, and soon gave place to others of a very different character. For now were those wonderful faculties which he possessed for the first time developed, and now was first witnessed that mysterious and almost supernatural transformation of appearance which the fire of his own eloquence never failed to work in him.