Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1838 - 178 páginas |
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... trees brought down from above by the current , and fixed in the mud under water ) which may at any moment pierce the hull of the vessel . Our New - Orleans friends remained with us upward of an hour , introducing us to the captain , and ...
... trees brought down from above by the current , and fixed in the mud under water ) which may at any moment pierce the hull of the vessel . Our New - Orleans friends remained with us upward of an hour , introducing us to the captain , and ...
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... tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch to lie down to ... trees . Many dusky gazing figures of men with the axe , and women with the pitcher , would have tempted the pencil ...
... tree at the wooding - place a few minutes before . Never was there a lovelier morning for a worn wretch to lie down to ... trees . Many dusky gazing figures of men with the axe , and women with the pitcher , would have tempted the pencil ...
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... trees seemed in- credible as we stood at their foot and looked up . It made us feel suddenly dwarfed . We stood in a crowd of locust and cottonwood trees , elm , maple , and live oak ; and they were all bound together by an inextricable ...
... trees seemed in- credible as we stood at their foot and looked up . It made us feel suddenly dwarfed . We stood in a crowd of locust and cottonwood trees , elm , maple , and live oak ; and they were all bound together by an inextricable ...
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... tree before it , casting a flickering shadow upon the porch , and behind it was a well- cleared field . The children were decently dressed , and several slaves peeped out from the places where they were pursuing their avocations . A ...
... tree before it , casting a flickering shadow upon the porch , and behind it was a well- cleared field . The children were decently dressed , and several slaves peeped out from the places where they were pursuing their avocations . A ...
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... trees . I believe the landing - place at Natchez has not improved its reputation since the descrip- tions which have been given of it by former travellers . When we returned to the boat after an hour's walk , we found the captain very ...
... trees . I believe the landing - place at Natchez has not improved its reputation since the descrip- tions which have been given of it by former travellers . When we returned to the boat after an hour's walk , we found the captain very ...
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Página 210 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit, not to be reckoned one character — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
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 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 170 - At certain revolutions all the damned Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infixed, and frozen round Periods of time, — thence hurried back to fire.
Página 208 - Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, — this he shall hear and promulgate. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular...
Página 206 - practical men" sneer at speculative men, as if, because they speculate or see, they could do nothing. I have heard it said that the clergy, — who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day, — are addressed as women; that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men they do not hear, but only a mincing and diluted speech.
Página 210 - ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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...