The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and VerseCramer & Spear, 1818 - 263 páginas |
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... Canoes , description of those used by the Indians on the Columbia river - Chili , singular customs of the inhabitants of Tortoises , description of those found on the islands of the Pacific ocean Niagara , falls of Cave , description of ...
... Canoes , description of those used by the Indians on the Columbia river - Chili , singular customs of the inhabitants of Tortoises , description of those found on the islands of the Pacific ocean Niagara , falls of Cave , description of ...
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... canoes used by the Indians on the Col- umbia river and their dexterity in the management of them . THE canoes most used by the Columbia Indians , from the Chillucksttequaws inclusive , to the ocean , are about thirty or thirty - five ...
... canoes used by the Indians on the Col- umbia river and their dexterity in the management of them . THE canoes most used by the Columbia Indians , from the Chillucksttequaws inclusive , to the ocean , are about thirty or thirty - five ...
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... canoes , the women are equally expert with the men ; for in the smaller boats , which contain four oars men , the helm is generally given to the female . As soon as they land , the canoe is generally hauled on shore , unless she be very ...
... canoes , the women are equally expert with the men ; for in the smaller boats , which contain four oars men , the helm is generally given to the female . As soon as they land , the canoe is generally hauled on shore , unless she be very ...
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... canoes , furnish- ed with their outriggers , and decorated with ornaments of human hair , coral shells , & c . with an abundance of white streamers ; their heads were placed towards the mountain , and in the stern of each was the 58 ...
... canoes , furnish- ed with their outriggers , and decorated with ornaments of human hair , coral shells , & c . with an abundance of white streamers ; their heads were placed towards the mountain , and in the stern of each was the 58 ...
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... canoes was more splendid than the others , and was situated nearer the grove . I enquired who the dignified personage might be who was seated in her stern , and was informed that this was the priest who had been killed not long since by ...
... canoes was more splendid than the others , and was situated nearer the grove . I enquired who the dignified personage might be who was seated in her stern , and was informed that this was the priest who had been killed not long since by ...
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Página 134 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Página 104 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Página 134 - Besides, sir, we have no election. " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Página 134 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Página 242 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Página 242 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Página 104 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Página 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Página 17 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Página 133 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.