The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Band 3A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1853 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 425 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Seite 350 - And yet God had selected, not Kaunitz, nor Newcastle, not a monarch of the house of Hapsburg, nor of Hanover, but the Virginia stripling, to give an impulse to human affairs, and, as far as events can depend on an individual, had placed the rights and the destinies of countless millions in the keeping of the widow's son.
Seite 349 - ... spending the best of the day in admiring the trees and richness of the land ; " among skin-clad savages, with their scalps and rattles, or uncouth emigrants, " that would never speak English...
Seite 103 - Then labour shall be free at last, and the poor shall eat and be satisfied, with things that eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, but which God has prepared for those who love Him.
Seite 40 - What has happened to her ?" inquired Anne W. from a young negro girl whom she knew. " Converted !" said she laconically, and joined those who were softly rubbing the pulses of the converted, I laid my hand upon her brow. It was quite cold, so also were her hands. When, by degrees, she had recovered consciousness, her glance was still fixed, but it seemed to me that it was directed rather inwardly than outwardly; she talked to herself in a low voice, and such a beautiful, blissful expression was portrayed...
Seite 349 - Richard, a doubloon is my constant gain every day, and sometimes six pistoles;" himself his own cook, " having no spit but a forked stick, no plate but a large chip...
Seite 8 - One heard through the open door the rain falling heavily in the street. The gentlemen looked askance at me with a gloomy expression, and probably wished that they could send me to the North Pole. Two gentlemen hastily entered ; one of them, a tall, stout man, with a gay and good-tempered aspect, evidently a bon vivant, ascended the auction platform. I was told that he was an Englishman, and I can believe it from his blooming complexion, which was not American. He came apparently from a good breakfast,...
Seite 248 - African raco, precisely through the people who, having enslaved, they ought now, in a two-fold sense, to emancipate. The sour crab is not more unlike our noble, bright, Astrachan apple, than is the song of the wild African to the song of the Christian negro in the United States, whether it be hymns that he sings or gay negro songs that he has himself composed.
Seite 185 - These cabildoes are governed, as I have already said, by queens, one or two, who decide upon the amusements, give tone to the society, and determine its extension. They possess the right of electing a king, who manages the pecuniary affairs of the society, and who has under him a secretary and master of the ceremonies. The latter presented me with a small printed card, which gave admission to the " Cabildo de Senora Santa Barbara de la nation Lucumi Alagua.
Seite 349 - Washington, the son of a widow. Born by the side of the Potomac, beneath the roof of a Westmoreland farmer, almost from infancy his lot had been the lot of an orphan. No academy had welcomed him to its shades, no college crowned him with its honors : to read, to write, to cipher — these had been his degrees in knowledge. And, now at sixteen years of age, in quest of an honest maintenance, encountering intolerable toil ; cheered onward by being able to write to a schoolboy friend, ' Dear Richard,...