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... settlers in this State . Here , while I sat during the evening , by a hearth heaped up with blazing logs , three or four feet in length , and nearly as many in circumference , I listened with great delight to the anecdotes , with which ...
... settlers in this State . Here , while I sat during the evening , by a hearth heaped up with blazing logs , three or four feet in length , and nearly as many in circumference , I listened with great delight to the anecdotes , with which ...
Page 110
... settlers , and , after killing a man , re- treated into the woods where it was useless to follow them . Whenever therefore , those in one station wished to send a message to those in another , the messenger , upon arriving within a ...
... settlers , and , after killing a man , re- treated into the woods where it was useless to follow them . Whenever therefore , those in one station wished to send a message to those in another , the messenger , upon arriving within a ...
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... settlers of Kentucky all wore the " hunting - shirt , ” which is still the common dress of the hunters and backwoodsmen . It is a kind of short loose doublet , reaching about half - way down the thighs , with an upright collar , and a ...
... settlers of Kentucky all wore the " hunting - shirt , ” which is still the common dress of the hunters and backwoodsmen . It is a kind of short loose doublet , reaching about half - way down the thighs , with an upright collar , and a ...
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... , I had , at the same time , an opportunity of becoming better ac- quainted with the manners of the Backwoodsmen , and with the difficulties . and hardships which are L undergone by all the first settlers of a new country Backwoods . 145.
... , I had , at the same time , an opportunity of becoming better ac- quainted with the manners of the Backwoodsmen , and with the difficulties . and hardships which are L undergone by all the first settlers of a new country Backwoods . 145.
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... settlers quite dif- ferent from what I had supposed . In general they were open hearted and hospitable , giving freely whatever they had , and often refusing any recom- pense . It is true they always treated me as their équal ; but at ...
... settlers quite dif- ferent from what I had supposed . In general they were open hearted and hospitable , giving freely whatever they had , and often refusing any recom- pense . It is true they always treated me as their équal ; but at ...
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Page 203 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 467 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 399 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 205 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 215 - These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Page 399 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 72 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 419 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Page 467 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 231 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.