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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... scenes , that pomp , pride , and circumstance of glori- ous war , that makes ambition virtue . * We moored our vessel to one of the wharfs , and I rejoiced to find myself on a kindred shore . * Shakespeare . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ...
... scenes , that pomp , pride , and circumstance of glori- ous war , that makes ambition virtue . * We moored our vessel to one of the wharfs , and I rejoiced to find myself on a kindred shore . * Shakespeare . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ...
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... scene of mirth and riot , was in the sum- mer converted to a sepulchre for the inhabi- tants . The courts of law were shut , and no subtile lawyer could obtain a client ; the door of the tavern was closed , and the drunkard was without ...
... scene of mirth and riot , was in the sum- mer converted to a sepulchre for the inhabi- tants . The courts of law were shut , and no subtile lawyer could obtain a client ; the door of the tavern was closed , and the drunkard was without ...
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... scene of consternation , the negroes were the only people who could be prevailed on to assist the dying , and inter those who were no more . Their motive was obvious ; they plun- dered the dead of their effects , and adorned themselves ...
... scene of consternation , the negroes were the only people who could be prevailed on to assist the dying , and inter those who were no more . Their motive was obvious ; they plun- dered the dead of their effects , and adorned themselves ...
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... scene to soften the condition of private tutors in America , by putting up Mr. H— in signum terroris et memoria to other purse - proud planters . I write not from personal pique , but a desire to benefit society . Happy shall I think ...
... scene to soften the condition of private tutors in America , by putting up Mr. H— in signum terroris et memoria to other purse - proud planters . I write not from personal pique , but a desire to benefit society . Happy shall I think ...
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... scene before me . I was admitted to the presence of a man who was not less voluminous than learned ; for no book under a folio ever stood on his shelf . How stupendous , thought I , must be the erudition of this professor , who holds in ...
... scene before me . I was admitted to the presence of a man who was not less voluminous than learned ; for no book under a folio ever stood on his shelf . How stupendous , thought I , must be the erudition of this professor , who holds in ...
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