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... British public , that the author feels he is not called upon to apologize for the pro- duction of the following pages . It was his almost unremitting practice , during the four years he resided on the North American continent , to keep ...
... British public , that the author feels he is not called upon to apologize for the pro- duction of the following pages . It was his almost unremitting practice , during the four years he resided on the North American continent , to keep ...
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... British ships of war which I had visited at Deptford , Chatham , and elsewhere in England . Probably a stricter discipline may be found necessary , on account of the equality that exists in America , which might operate to render those ...
... British ships of war which I had visited at Deptford , Chatham , and elsewhere in England . Probably a stricter discipline may be found necessary , on account of the equality that exists in America , which might operate to render those ...
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... British rule in America . It had a very picturesque effect , and was re- garded with feelings of veneration by many of the American passengers , one of whom paid a tribute to the departed hero , which he wound up by observing with nasal ...
... British rule in America . It had a very picturesque effect , and was re- garded with feelings of veneration by many of the American passengers , one of whom paid a tribute to the departed hero , which he wound up by observing with nasal ...
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... British vessels proceeding to the interior , and this they in vain tried to destroy by firing chain or bar shots . After a favourable passage , we at length reached Albany , which is an extensive city , and the depôt for produce ...
... British vessels proceeding to the interior , and this they in vain tried to destroy by firing chain or bar shots . After a favourable passage , we at length reached Albany , which is an extensive city , and the depôt for produce ...
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... British fortifications , from which in the last war red - hot cannon - balls were ejected , to the dismay of the terrified Americans , and the destruction of many of their houses . At Buffalo is a flourishing city on the border of Lake ...
... British fortifications , from which in the last war red - hot cannon - balls were ejected , to the dismay of the terrified Americans , and the destruction of many of their houses . At Buffalo is a flourishing city on the border of Lake ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...