Retrospect of Western Travel, 第 2 卷Saunders and Otley, 1838 - 178 頁 |
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... whole time . The vessel sank within a quarter of an hour . A few years after the E.'s went up the Mississippi with their little girl . Some fine ladies on board wondered at Mrs. E. for shaking hands with a rude farmer with whom she had ...
... whole time . The vessel sank within a quarter of an hour . A few years after the E.'s went up the Mississippi with their little girl . Some fine ladies on board wondered at Mrs. E. for shaking hands with a rude farmer with whom she had ...
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... whole into something like a dream . This last charm is as striking to us as any in the vast wilderness through which the " Father of Wa- ters " takes his way . Even the turbid floods , varying their hues with the changes of light and ...
... whole into something like a dream . This last charm is as striking to us as any in the vast wilderness through which the " Father of Wa- ters " takes his way . Even the turbid floods , varying their hues with the changes of light and ...
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... whole country shuddered , and much of the world beyond . In these disorders upward of twenty persons were executed , without trial by jury or pretence of justice . Some of the sufferers were gamblers , and men of bad character otherwise ...
... whole country shuddered , and much of the world beyond . In these disorders upward of twenty persons were executed , without trial by jury or pretence of justice . Some of the sufferers were gamblers , and men of bad character otherwise ...
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... whole world are daily learning the consequences of what their fathers did , the connexion of cause and effect being too palpable to be disputed ; it is an age when the active men of the New World are beholding the results of their own ...
... whole world are daily learning the consequences of what their fathers did , the connexion of cause and effect being too palpable to be disputed ; it is an age when the active men of the New World are beholding the results of their own ...
第 31 頁
... whole of which time he was praying or singing hymns in a firm voice . This fact was the ground of an accusation made by magistrates of his being " connected , with the abolitionists . " When his legs were consumed so that his body ...
... whole of which time he was praying or singing hymns in a firm voice . This fact was the ground of an accusation made by magistrates of his being " connected , with the abolitionists . " When his legs were consumed so that his body ...
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第 210 頁 - 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...
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 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 170 頁 - 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.
第 208 頁 - 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...
第 206 頁 - 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.
第 210 頁 - ... if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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...