Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 |
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... o'clock in the day . We have since had some of our November rain and cloud ; but the sky is now clear and frosty , and fires are universal . A few days since , I visited the Waltham cotton mills , and was much surprised to see the ...
... o'clock in the day . We have since had some of our November rain and cloud ; but the sky is now clear and frosty , and fires are universal . A few days since , I visited the Waltham cotton mills , and was much surprised to see the ...
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... o'clock , and reached town at six . To - day has been entirely spent in finishing my social and commercial calls . I lately had the pleasure of meeting , by appointment , the venerable Dr. Worcester , the corresponding secretary of the ...
... o'clock , and reached town at six . To - day has been entirely spent in finishing my social and commercial calls . I lately had the pleasure of meeting , by appointment , the venerable Dr. Worcester , the corresponding secretary of the ...
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... Bay . New York , 21st October . - We set off from Boston in the stage , at four o'clock in the morn- ing of the 19th , and breakfasting on the way , * reached Providence , in Rhode Island , about one NORTH AMERICA . 11.
... Bay . New York , 21st October . - We set off from Boston in the stage , at four o'clock in the morn- ing of the 19th , and breakfasting on the way , * reached Providence , in Rhode Island , about one NORTH AMERICA . 11.
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... o'clock . This is the seat of the earliest , and most extensive , but now by no means the most complete establishment of cotton manufactures in this country , and contains many large and handsome private houses . As I could not stay a ...
... o'clock . This is the seat of the earliest , and most extensive , but now by no means the most complete establishment of cotton manufactures in this country , and contains many large and handsome private houses . As I could not stay a ...
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... o'clock this morning we found ourselves lying at the wharf of New York , about 54 miles from Newhaven , and 230 from Boston , which we had left 48 hours before . It is an easy and pleasant journey ; but there is little interesting in ...
... o'clock this morning we found ourselves lying at the wharf of New York , about 54 miles from Newhaven , and 230 from Boston , which we had left 48 hours before . It is an easy and pleasant journey ; but there is little interesting in ...
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411. oldal - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
173. oldal - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
170. oldal - The proposed Constitution, therefore, is, in strictness, neither , a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national ; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national ; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal ; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national ; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments it is neither...
174. oldal - The Third Amendment in its prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" in time of peace without the consent of the owner is another facet of that privacy.
174. oldal - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right of a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...
399. oldal - The majority of the court is of opinion that the nature of the Indian title, which is certainly to be respected by all courts, until it be legitimately extinguished, is not such as to be absolutely repugnant to seisin in fee on the part of the State.
136. oldal - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
301. oldal - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
423. oldal - The handle either of a small sword or a large knife, made of an elk's horn ; around the end where the blade had been inserted, was a ferule of silver, which, though black, was not much injured by time. Though the handle showed the hole where the blade had been inserted, yet no iron was found, but an oxyde remained of similar shape and
143. oldal - Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable ? Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? Who would wish for other emblazoning of his country's heraldry, or other ornaments of her genealogy, than to be able to say, that her first existence was with intelligence, her first breath the inspiration of liberty, her first principle the truth of Divine religion...