Retrospect of Western Travel, 第 2 卷Saunders and Otley, 1838 - 178 頁 |
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... boat on the river , having made ninety - six trips without accident ; a rare feat on this dangerous river . As I was stepping on board , Judge P. said he hoped we were each provided with a life - preserver . I concluded he was in joke ...
... boat on the river , having made ninety - six trips without accident ; a rare feat on this dangerous river . As I was stepping on board , Judge P. said he hoped we were each provided with a life - preserver . I concluded he was in joke ...
第 6 頁
... boats , who , being awake and dressed during the hours of darkness , are able to seize the boats on the first alarm of an accident in the night , and are apt to leave the rest of the passengers behind . Mr. E. was a friend of the ...
... boats , who , being awake and dressed during the hours of darkness , are able to seize the boats on the first alarm of an accident in the night , and are apt to leave the rest of the passengers behind . Mr. E. was a friend of the ...
第 7 頁
... boat , and their eagerness to se- cure a passage was excessive . More thronged in after the captain had declared that he was full ; more were bustling on the wharf , and still the expected party did not come . The captain ordered the ...
... boat , and their eagerness to se- cure a passage was excessive . More thronged in after the captain had declared that he was full ; more were bustling on the wharf , and still the expected party did not come . The captain ordered the ...
第 8 頁
... boat neared the shore , for this was a signal from a party who had secured their passage with us . Night after night I was struck with the same singular com- bination of lights which I now beheld ; the moonlight , broad and steady ; the ...
... boat neared the shore , for this was a signal from a party who had secured their passage with us . Night after night I was struck with the same singular com- bination of lights which I now beheld ; the moonlight , broad and steady ; the ...
第 10 頁
... boat , such an evapora- tion as was perpetually going on . I therefore stepped out of my window , with my book , work , or writing ; and , sitting under the shade of a counterpane , and in full view of the river and western shore ...
... boat , such an evapora- tion as was perpetually going on . I therefore stepped out of my window , with my book , work , or writing ; and , sitting under the shade of a counterpane , and in full view of the river and western shore ...
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第 186 頁 - 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?
第 206 頁 - 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.
第 208 頁 - 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.
第 29 頁 - 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.
第 91 頁 - 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...
第 208 頁 - 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.
第 210 頁 - 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.
第 91 頁 - 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...
第 209 頁 - 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...