A Narrative of Travels in the United States of America: With Some Account of American Manners and Polity, and Advice to Emigrants and Travellers Going to that Interesting CountryPublished for the author, 1836 - 419 Seiten |
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... Indians . Instead of measuring by the acre ( which doubt- less they knew nothing of ) the agreement was , so much land as be could ride round in a day , on the back of a Bull . would not consent that I should leave him till Monday 50.
... Indians . Instead of measuring by the acre ( which doubt- less they knew nothing of ) the agreement was , so much land as be could ride round in a day , on the back of a Bull . would not consent that I should leave him till Monday 50.
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... Indian Chiefs , and their party on the other side , under a large spreading tree , making the memorable treaty for ... Indians placed implicit confidence in the Quakers ; so that while the former sought opportunities to kill white men ...
... Indian Chiefs , and their party on the other side , under a large spreading tree , making the memorable treaty for ... Indians placed implicit confidence in the Quakers ; so that while the former sought opportunities to kill white men ...
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... Indians , learnt their language , and could converse with them . He said at one time the whites induced a great number of Indians to draw a cannon by a rope , all in train ; and having previously loaded it with grape shot , put it off ...
... Indians , learnt their language , and could converse with them . He said at one time the whites induced a great number of Indians to draw a cannon by a rope , all in train ; and having previously loaded it with grape shot , put it off ...
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... Indian wheat : grain , includes wheat , barley , rye , and oats . + Limestone is plenty in two or three adjacent counties , but they know little about building kilns . A good mason would be likely to have a dollar and a quarter a day ...
... Indian wheat : grain , includes wheat , barley , rye , and oats . + Limestone is plenty in two or three adjacent counties , but they know little about building kilns . A good mason would be likely to have a dollar and a quarter a day ...
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... Indian corn an acre . I have but sel- dom heard of more . About Bethany and other coarse parts , thirty or forty bushels of Indian wheat , on an aver- age , is accounted a good crop . The weather was fine . which afforded me aid in ...
... Indian corn an acre . I have but sel- dom heard of more . About Bethany and other coarse parts , thirty or forty bushels of Indian wheat , on an aver- age , is accounted a good crop . The weather was fine . which afforded me aid in ...
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acres afternoon America appeared arrived awhile Bethany boat breakfast brought Canal Captain carriage carried cents CHAP chapel Cholera cold Danville daughter deck dinner dollars Elias Hicks Emigrants England English farm farmer father feet fell free free friends half Harrisburg Haverstraw heard Honesdale horse hundred Indians informed inhabitants invited Island labour land Lehi Littlestown Liverpool living lodged Long Island Lord Lord's-day luggage meeting Metho Methodist miles Millbrook ministers morning nearly neighbours night Ohio Owego passed passengers Pennsylvania person Philadelphia Pittsburg Port Clinton prayed preacher preaching Presbyterian Quaker rain returned river road rode School-house ship side soon Spanish dollars spoke Steamer stranger Tavern thing thought told took travelling trees valley vessel waggon walked weather wife wind Wind Gap woman wood York young Zanesville
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Seite 234 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 15 - Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Seite 235 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Seite 15 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation : who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea...
Seite 236 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 234 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harrass our people and eat out their substance.
Seite 322 - And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Seite 54 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Seite 233 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Seite 400 - ... wages are, or may be, recovered. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the captain or master of any ship or vessel arriving in the United States, or any of the territories thereof, from any foreign place whatever, at the same time that he delivers a manifest of the cargo, and, if there be no cargo, then at the time of making report or entry of the...