Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North AmericaWeeks, Jordan, 1839 - 467 páginas |
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Página 127 - On seeing them pass through the streets in the morning and evening and at their meal-hours, neatly dressed ; on finding their scarfs and shawls, and green silk hoods which they wear as a shelter from the sun and dust (for Lowell is not yet paved), hanging up in the factories amidst the flowers and shrubs which they cultivate, I said to myself, this, then, is not like [the English] Manchester; and when I was informed of the rate of their wages, I understood that it was not at all like Manchester.
Página 76 - Zenobia of our histories) built two fortresses, one on the right the other on the left bank of the Euphrates, and connected them by a tunnel, which she made by damming and turning the Euphrates when its waters were low, executing a deep cutting in its bed, bricking the cutting over, and then turning the waters back again.
Página 308 - But this entry of the hickory was but a by-matter compared with the procession I witnessed in New York. It was nearly a mile long. The democrats marched in good order, to the glare of torches ; the banners were more numerous than I had ever seen them in any religious festival ; all were in transparency, on account of the darkness. On some were inscribed the names of the democratic societies or sections : Democratic young men of the ninth or eleventh ward; others bore imprecations against the Bank...
Página 186 - I had observed at the hotel table a man of about medium height, stout and muscular, and of about the age of sixty years yet with the active step and lively air of youth. I had been struck with his open and cheerful expression, the amenity of his manners, and a certain air of command which appeared through his plain dress. 'That,' said my friend, 'is General Harrison, clerk of the Cincinnati court of common pleas.
Página 79 - He never stooped to the arena of partisan discussions, but in the consideration of important subjects, especially that of the removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United States, he proved himself to be a statesman of high rank, and a most accomplished debater.
Página 118 - By the side of these larger structures rise numerous little wooden houses, painted white, with green blinds, very neat, very snug, very nicely carpeted, and with a few small trees around them, or brick houses in the English style, that is to say, simple, but tasteful without and comfortable within ; on one side, fancy-goods shops and milliners...
Página 130 - ... for them. Here they are under the care of the mistress of the house, who is paid by the company at the rate of one dollar and a quarter a week for each boarder, that sum being stopped out of the weekly wages of the girls. These housekeepers, who are generally widows, are each responsible for the conduct of her boarders, and they are themselves subject to the control and supervision of the company, in the management of their little communities.
Página 129 - There have been in our establishment only three cases of illicit connexions, and in all three instances the parties were married immediately, several months before the birth of the child, so that in fact we have had no case of actual bastardy.
Página 104 - ... cordial in his manners, noble in his sentiments, elevated in his notions; he is a worthy descendant of the English gentleman. Surrounded from infancy by his slaves, who relieve him from all personal exertion, he is rather indisposed to activity, and is even indolent. He is generous and profuse. ... To him the practice of hospitality is at once a duty, a pleasure, and a happiness. Like the Eastern patriarchs or Homer's heroes, he spits an ox to regale the guest whom Providence sends him and an...
Página 294 - Everywhere one sees the a woman with our fortune, or we sell ourselves to her for her dower. The American chooses her, or rather offers himself to her, for her beauty, her intelligence, or her amiable qualities, and asks no other portion. Thus, whilst we make a traffic of what is most sacred, these shopkeepers exhibit a delicacy and loftiness of feeling, which have done honor to the most perfect models of chivalry.