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, Volumen3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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... dollars by tallow , and told that one worth half a - million had desired to meet with him . Indeed , this pride in the possession of wealth is probably a motive for its ostentatious display . Although they never cease to aim at its ...
... dollars by tallow , and told that one worth half a - million had desired to meet with him . Indeed , this pride in the possession of wealth is probably a motive for its ostentatious display . Although they never cease to aim at its ...
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... dollars a - week they obtain good board ; though the houses are crowded as usual , and Miss Martineau deplores their lot in never being able to enjoy one moment of solitude , —a —an evil , how- ever , which does not seem " to make the ...
... dollars a - week they obtain good board ; though the houses are crowded as usual , and Miss Martineau deplores their lot in never being able to enjoy one moment of solitude , —a —an evil , how- ever , which does not seem " to make the ...
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... dollar a - day , or nearly ten times the amount . The instances of extreme cruelty may not be numerous ; yet it is on all hands admitted that they occur , and that the slave has little protection against any thing short of mutilation or ...
... dollar a - day , or nearly ten times the amount . The instances of extreme cruelty may not be numerous ; yet it is on all hands admitted that they occur , and that the slave has little protection against any thing short of mutilation or ...
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... dollars . The law of Georgia raises it to 500 , with the addition of imprisonment . An act of Virginia declares " every meeting of slaves by day or night for instruction either in reading or writing an unlawful assembly . " These two ...
... dollars . The law of Georgia raises it to 500 , with the addition of imprisonment . An act of Virginia declares " every meeting of slaves by day or night for instruction either in reading or writing an unlawful assembly . " These two ...
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... dollars ; very well , sir , -250 to begin . Some one has bid 250. Truly , gentlemen , they sell cattle for a larger price ; 250 ; look at these eyes , examine these limbs- shall I say 260 ? Thanks , gentlemen , some one has bid 260. It ...
... dollars ; very well , sir , -250 to begin . Some one has bid 250. Truly , gentlemen , they sell cattle for a larger price ; 250 ; look at these eyes , examine these limbs- shall I say 260 ? Thanks , gentlemen , some one has bid 260. It ...
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Página 355 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Página 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. She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb : But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone...
Página 141 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
Página 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 cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by...
Página 139 - Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill. With all the waters of the firmament. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods And drowns the villages ; when, at thy call.
Página 160 - Rouse to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's happiness shalt know, Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow ; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.
Página 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...
Página 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. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.
Página 137 - 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.
Página 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.