The EmigrantHarper, 1847 - 282 pages |
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Page 27 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 20 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 129 - The man recovered from the bite, The dog it was that died !" ' The above epitaph so graphically describes my decease, that I have not a word to add to it.
Page 13 - water freezes, is only the commencement of an operation that is almost infinite ; for after its congelation water is as competent to continue to receive cold as it was when it was fluid. The application of cold to a block of ice does not...
Page 123 - HARP ; and so get out o' that, ye Yankee, or I'll bate the sowl out o' ye !" Now it so happened that by the time the last words were ejaculated, the young Irishman's white teeth had almost reached the middleaged querist's eyebrows ; and as they were evidently advancing, and as the surgical operation proposed strongly resembled that of taking the kernel out of a nut, or an oyster out of its shell, the republican naturalist deemed it prudent instantly to decamp, or as it is termed by his fellow-countrymen,...
Page 89 - I was accosted by some of the principal chiefs; but, from that native good-breeding which in every situation in which they can be placed invariably distinguishes the Indian tribes, I was neither hustled nor hunted by a crowd; on the contrary, during the three days I remained on the island, and after I was personally known to every individual...
Page 48 - ... lying in purgatory on his lap-stone, and then, with a waxed thread in each hand, suddenly extending his elbows like a scaramouch, three times was he interrupted in his work by people who each separately offered him one hundred dollars for his lark ; an old farmer repeatedly offered him one hundred...
Page 2 - The difference of climate in winter between the old and new world amounts, it has been estimated, to about thirteen degrees of latitude. Accordingly, the region of North America which basks under the same sun or latitude as Florence, is visited in winter with a cold equal to those of St.
Page 209 - ... aforesaid, either by imposing tolls and rates, to be paid in respect of any public work, and to be collected and applied as shall be directed by any such ordinance, or by means of a rate or assessment to be assessed and levied upon real or personal property within the said district, or upon the owners or occupiers thereof in respect of such property, and to enforce the collection and payment of all such rates and tolls, or such rates and assessments as aforesaid, by reasonable penalties, and...
Page 88 - ... air, beholds splendid scenery, traverses unsullied water, and subsists on food which, generally speaking, forms not only his sustenance, but the manly amusement, as well as occupation, of his life. " In the course of the day we saw several Indian families cheerily paddling in their canoes towards the point to which we were proceeding. The weather was intensely hot ; and, though our crew continued occasionally to sing to us, yet by the time of sunset, they were very nearly exhausted. During the...