Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - 178 páginas |
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... seem to be aware of the inconvenience they had occasioned . They were English . A man on the wharf took advantage of the plank being put down to come on board in spite of prohibi- tion . He went with his bundle to the spot on the second ...
... seem to be aware of the inconvenience they had occasioned . They were English . A man on the wharf took advantage of the plank being put down to come on board in spite of prohibi- tion . He went with his bundle to the spot on the second ...
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... seems to go on as if he had never been : only seems , how- ever . Even in this case , where the departed had been a stranger to us all , and had sunk from amid us in eight hours , I believe there were few or no hearts untouched , either ...
... seems to go on as if he had never been : only seems , how- ever . Even in this case , where the departed had been a stranger to us all , and had sunk from amid us in eight hours , I believe there were few or no hearts untouched , either ...
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... seems reserved for a future life . An equivalent for this advantage is possessed by such as live in those critical periods of soci- ety when retribution is hastened , or displayed in clear con- nexion with the origin of its events . The ...
... seems reserved for a future life . An equivalent for this advantage is possessed by such as live in those critical periods of soci- ety when retribution is hastened , or displayed in clear con- nexion with the origin of its events . The ...
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... seem to be quickened as well as strengthened in their oper- ation by the new and more earnest heed which is given to them . In the New World , however long some moral causes may be in exhibiting their results , there have been certain ...
... seem to be quickened as well as strengthened in their oper- ation by the new and more earnest heed which is given to them . In the New World , however long some moral causes may be in exhibiting their results , there have been certain ...
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... seem to be known . Be- tween two and three thousand of the citizens of St. Louis were present . Two gentlemen of the place assured me that the deed was done by the hands of not more than six ; but they could give no account of the ...
... seem to be known . Be- tween two and three thousand of the citizens of St. Louis were present . Two gentlemen of the place assured me that the deed was done by the hands of not more than six ; but they could give no account of the ...
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Página 186 - Fool ! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?
Página 206 - The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Página 208 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 29 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Página 91 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Página 208 - Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
Página 210 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides.
Página 91 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
Página 209 - The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all...