Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802Holt, 1909 - 429 páginas |
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... entered with equal interest the mud - hut of the negro , and the log- house of the planter ; I have alike communed with the slave who wields the hoe , and the task - master who im- poses his labour . My motto has been invariably Homo ...
... entered with equal interest the mud - hut of the negro , and the log- house of the planter ; I have alike communed with the slave who wields the hoe , and the task - master who im- poses his labour . My motto has been invariably Homo ...
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... entered a tyrant's dominions , quoted a verse from Euripides that signified his lib- erty was gone , so a man of letters , when he undertakes the tuition of a family in America , may exclaim he has lost his independence . Though not a ...
... entered a tyrant's dominions , quoted a verse from Euripides that signified his lib- erty was gone , so a man of letters , when he undertakes the tuition of a family in America , may exclaim he has lost his independence . Though not a ...
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... entered into discourse with the cripple , whom I found to be a man not without reflection . He had seen better days , and hoped for their return . Though my present appearance , said he , shews I am in the most wretched state of poverty ...
... entered into discourse with the cripple , whom I found to be a man not without reflection . He had seen better days , and hoped for their return . Though my present appearance , said he , shews I am in the most wretched state of poverty ...
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... entered , followed by a negro girl , who held a peacock's feather in her hand . Mrs. H - received my bow with a mutilated curtesey , and throwing herself on a sopha , called peremptorily to Prudence to brush the flies from her face ...
... entered , followed by a negro girl , who held a peacock's feather in her hand . Mrs. H - received my bow with a mutilated curtesey , and throwing herself on a sopha , called peremptorily to Prudence to brush the flies from her face ...
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... entered the room , [ Odes , TV , 3- Quem tu , Melpomene , semel Nascentem placido lumine videris , Illum non labor Isthmius Clarabit pugilem , non equus inpiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem- ] Vide Lilly's Grammar . to whom he ...
... entered the room , [ Odes , TV , 3- Quem tu , Melpomene , semel Nascentem placido lumine videris , Illum non labor Isthmius Clarabit pugilem , non equus inpiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem- ] Vide Lilly's Grammar . to whom he ...
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