Old England and New England: In a Series of Views Taken on the Spot, Band 1R. Bentley, 1853 - 319 Seiten |
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... Scene in a law court - Cocktails and coffins - Moving a house , as well as its furniture - Working double tides ... scenes- Visitors on the occasion - Election statistics - Advantage of an echo - Duties of the Senate - A Wigwam supper ...
... Scene in a law court - Cocktails and coffins - Moving a house , as well as its furniture - Working double tides ... scenes- Visitors on the occasion - Election statistics - Advantage of an echo - Duties of the Senate - A Wigwam supper ...
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... scenes and subjects like these , and you at last begin to think no more of a shoal of whales , than you would of a shoal of mackerel . Monotony ! Oh ! is it nothing to gaze for the first time on a colossal iceberg , with a brilliant sun ...
... scenes and subjects like these , and you at last begin to think no more of a shoal of whales , than you would of a shoal of mackerel . Monotony ! Oh ! is it nothing to gaze for the first time on a colossal iceberg , with a brilliant sun ...
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... scene ; while the drives , and the roads through which they serpentine , are equal to all else- where , and may , in some places , vie with the best in Old England . The view is here and there relieved by the appearance of some monument ...
... scene ; while the drives , and the roads through which they serpentine , are equal to all else- where , and may , in some places , vie with the best in Old England . The view is here and there relieved by the appearance of some monument ...
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... scene . A sleigh of first - rate pretension ( such as are " Cleopatra's Galley , " and the " Mayflower , " ) is a remarkably beautiful " turn - out . " The build resembles that of a galley , rising at the stern to give elevation to the ...
... scene . A sleigh of first - rate pretension ( such as are " Cleopatra's Galley , " and the " Mayflower , " ) is a remarkably beautiful " turn - out . " The build resembles that of a galley , rising at the stern to give elevation to the ...
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... scenes of public amusement which any nation can boast of . Accidents are of very rare occurrence ; the only one we heard of , was that which happened to a * Or , as they express it , the horses have bells on their sides , and the men ...
... scenes of public amusement which any nation can boast of . Accidents are of very rare occurrence ; the only one we heard of , was that which happened to a * Or , as they express it , the horses have bells on their sides , and the men ...
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Seite 228 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Seite 70 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Seite 228 - And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family : 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again ; one of his brethren may redeem him...
Seite 70 - And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household...
Seite 16 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Seite 17 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 307 - 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.
Seite 17 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 17 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Seite 191 - Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised amid the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.