An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States |
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... attention , but all his efforts proved unavailing , when just as he was about to abandon the pursuit , he descried and hailed the ship . This being the first specimen of an American whom many of the passengers had seen in his native ...
... attention , but all his efforts proved unavailing , when just as he was about to abandon the pursuit , he descried and hailed the ship . This being the first specimen of an American whom many of the passengers had seen in his native ...
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... attention and interest . The pilot was evidently displeased with being made " a lion " of , and gave vent to his feelings rather freely , while there was a curl of hauteur on his lip , that indicated a species of contempt for the ...
... attention and interest . The pilot was evidently displeased with being made " a lion " of , and gave vent to his feelings rather freely , while there was a curl of hauteur on his lip , that indicated a species of contempt for the ...
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... more than a mimic fort ; this arises from the want of attention paid to defences of the kind in America , the little existing chance of invasion , perhaps , causing the 10 FIRST IMPRESSION OF NEW YORK . indifference to the.
... more than a mimic fort ; this arises from the want of attention paid to defences of the kind in America , the little existing chance of invasion , perhaps , causing the 10 FIRST IMPRESSION OF NEW YORK . indifference to the.
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... attention to the subject , and to keep in a more effective state the seaboard defences of the country , as well as their army , which is at present miserably deficient . This has heretofore been so far neg- lected , as regards the ...
... attention to the subject , and to keep in a more effective state the seaboard defences of the country , as well as their army , which is at present miserably deficient . This has heretofore been so far neg- lected , as regards the ...
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... attention . The first was a Kentuckian , who was dressed in a suit of grey home - spun cloth , and wore on his head a fantastical cap , formed of a racoon - skin , beauti- fully striped , the ears projecting just above his forehead on ...
... attention . The first was a Kentuckian , who was dressed in a suit of grey home - spun cloth , and wore on his head a fantastical cap , formed of a racoon - skin , beauti- fully striped , the ears projecting just above his forehead on ...
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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...