Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797

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Baily Bros., 1856 - 439 páginas
 

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Página 130 - And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in arid dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Página 174 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Página 412 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Página 61 - Tables for the purchasing and renewing of leases, for terms of years certain and for lives, with rules for determining the value of the reversion of estates after any such leases ; and for the solution of other useful problems ; adapted for general use.
Página 193 - The amazing herds of buffaloes which resort thither, by their size and number, fill the traveler with amazement and terror, especially when he beholds the prodigious roads they have made from all quarters, as if leading to some populous city; the vast space of land around these springs desolated as if by a ravaging enemy, and hills reduced to plains...
Página 107 - there is at present but one turnpike road on the continent, which is between Lancaster and Philadelphia, a distance of sixty-six miles, and is a masterpiece of its kind; it is paved with stone the whole way, and overlaid with gravel, so that it is never obstructed during the most severe season.
Página 65 - New Tables for facilitating the Computation of Precession, Aberration, and Nutation of 2881 Principal Fixed Stars, together with a Catalogue of the same, reduced to January 1, 1830. Computed at the Expense and under the Direction of the Astronomical Society of London. To which is prefixed an lutroduction, explanatory of their Construction aud Application. By Francis Baily, Esq.
Página 21 - February, 1821, Mr. Baily was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also a Member of the Linnean and Geological Societies, but I am unable to state the precise date of his election in either. In 1825 he retired from the Stock Exchange, after a career in which his consummate habits of business, his uprightness, intelligence, and prudence, had established his fortune, and might, if continued, have led him on to any eminence of worldly wealth. But there was that in his disposition which the...
Página 128 - I think when they shall be built; for now they appear like broad avenues in a park, bounded on each side by thick woods; and there being so many of them, and proceeding in so many directions, they have a certain wild, yet uniform and regular appearance, which they will lose when confined on each side by brick walls".
Página 20 - put the astronomical world in possession of a power, which may be said, without exaggeration, to have changed the face of sidereal astronomy.

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