The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, 1. kötetOliver & Boyd, 1844 |
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18. oldal
... course the march is carried almost direct to the sources of the Connecticut . Thence it runs in a straight course towards the St Lawrence , which it touches at St Regis , about sixty miles above Montreal . The line is then drawn through ...
... course the march is carried almost direct to the sources of the Connecticut . Thence it runs in a straight course towards the St Lawrence , which it touches at St Regis , about sixty miles above Montreal . The line is then drawn through ...
20. oldal
... courses does not coincide with their direction , but is nearly parallel to the Atlantic coast . Thus the more northerly streams rise on the western side of the mountains , and find or form a passage through their rocky recesses . * It ...
... courses does not coincide with their direction , but is nearly parallel to the Atlantic coast . Thus the more northerly streams rise on the western side of the mountains , and find or form a passage through their rocky recesses . * It ...
22. oldal
... courses , or through the finest trees , shrubs , wild roses , and vines , with the carpet of moss and creeping plants ... course from the frontier of Canada , waters a beautiful and fertile valley , forming the state bearing its name ...
... courses , or through the finest trees , shrubs , wild roses , and vines , with the carpet of moss and creeping plants ... course from the frontier of Canada , waters a beautiful and fertile valley , forming the state bearing its name ...
23. oldal
... course . Parting , however , into alluvial branches , they are extremely shallow , with bars at their mouths , and thus of inferior value for com- merce . The Roanoke , though running not less than 310 miles , is only navigable for ...
... course . Parting , however , into alluvial branches , they are extremely shallow , with bars at their mouths , and thus of inferior value for com- merce . The Roanoke , though running not less than 310 miles , is only navigable for ...
24. oldal
... course southward to the Gulf of Mexico . This direction , combined with that of the Alleghany to the south - west , causes an arrangement of surface directly the reverse of that which obtains in the eastern states . Here the principal ...
... course southward to the Gulf of Mexico . This direction , combined with that of the Alleghany to the south - west , causes an arrangement of surface directly the reverse of that which obtains in the eastern states . Here the principal ...
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343. oldal - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to let themselves be made slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the rest.
82. oldal - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age.
126. oldal - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
367. oldal - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts: they must be repealed— you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them; I stake my reputation on it: I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.
306. oldal - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
180. oldal - I find them so curiously penned, so full of branches and circumstances, that I think the inquisition of Spain used not so many questions to comprehend and to trap their priests.
355. oldal - ... will vanquish our foes. Let us consider the issue. Let us look to the end. Let us weigh and consider before we advance to those measures which must bring on the most trying and terrible struggle this country ever saw.
343. oldal - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the Constitution along with her.
236. oldal - The old magistrates were reinstated, as a council of safety ; the whole town rose in arms, " with the most unanimous resolution that ever inspired a people ; " and a Declaration, read from the balcony, defended the insurrection as a duty to God and the country.
95. oldal - When we came first a Land they made a dolefull noise, laying their faces to the ground, scratching the earth with their nailes. We did thinke that they had beene at their idolatry.