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... frequently saw afterwards . Caps of the description I have mentioned are commonly worn in the interior . I subsequently donned one myself , and found it an admirable adjunct to easy travelling . During my stay at New York , I found the ...
... frequently saw afterwards . Caps of the description I have mentioned are commonly worn in the interior . I subsequently donned one myself , and found it an admirable adjunct to easy travelling . During my stay at New York , I found the ...
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... frequently happens , that on investigation , the assets of a merchant who has stopped payment and is a sup- posed bankrupt , realize more than enough to pay the creditors , and the party finds to his NO CHURCH - GOING BELLS . 31 ...
... frequently happens , that on investigation , the assets of a merchant who has stopped payment and is a sup- posed bankrupt , realize more than enough to pay the creditors , and the party finds to his NO CHURCH - GOING BELLS . 31 ...
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... frequently found myself in such a position , in consequence of this dangerous pro- pensity , and the remedy suggested to my mind , and which I recommend to others , was never to take a passage , on American waters , in a first- class ...
... frequently found myself in such a position , in consequence of this dangerous pro- pensity , and the remedy suggested to my mind , and which I recommend to others , was never to take a passage , on American waters , in a first- class ...
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... general appeared to be in a state of tolerable cultivation , I was not a little relieved when we began to approach the city . The formation of the Erie Canal was one of BUFFALO . 41 those grand internal improvements frequently to be.
... general appeared to be in a state of tolerable cultivation , I was not a little relieved when we began to approach the city . The formation of the Erie Canal was one of BUFFALO . 41 those grand internal improvements frequently to be.
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... frequently to be met with in that country , and which have contributed to its general prosperity in no small degree . The projector of this vast undertaking , De Witt Clinton , is justly esteemed by American citizens , who regard him as ...
... frequently to be met with in that country , and which have contributed to its general prosperity in no small degree . The projector of this vast undertaking , De Witt Clinton , is justly esteemed by American citizens , who regard him as ...
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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...