Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802T. Ostell, 1803 - 454 من الصفحات |
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... sail the 20th of the same month , but it was not before January 7th of the new year , that the vessel moved from the wharf , when the spring - tide enabled her to pro- ceed down the river . For my passage , which was in the steerage , I ...
... sail the 20th of the same month , but it was not before January 7th of the new year , that the vessel moved from the wharf , when the spring - tide enabled her to pro- ceed down the river . For my passage , which was in the steerage , I ...
الصفحة 12
... " Whoa ! hoa ! hoa ! a rat ! a rat ! " The two Brothers was a miserably sailing tub , and her passage a most tedious one . Head winds constantly prevailed , and scarcely a week elapsed without our lying - to more than once . To 12.
... " Whoa ! hoa ! hoa ! a rat ! a rat ! " The two Brothers was a miserably sailing tub , and her passage a most tedious one . Head winds constantly prevailed , and scarcely a week elapsed without our lying - to more than once . To 12.
الصفحة 13
... sails , not a single spar , and her cordage was old . If a sail was split by the wind , there was no other alternative but to mend it ; and when , after being out six weeks , we had sprung our fore top mast , we were compelled to reef ...
... sails , not a single spar , and her cordage was old . If a sail was split by the wind , there was no other alternative but to mend it ; and when , after being out six weeks , we had sprung our fore top mast , we were compelled to reef ...
الصفحة 16
... sails in readiness to avail himself of the breeze which had sprung up in our fayour . The Captain , therefore , clamoured for the bill , and finished his last bowl of grog with the fa- vorite toast of Here's to the wind that blows , the ...
... sails in readiness to avail himself of the breeze which had sprung up in our fayour . The Captain , therefore , clamoured for the bill , and finished his last bowl of grog with the fa- vorite toast of Here's to the wind that blows , the ...
الصفحة 46
... sail for Charleston , in South Carolina , we agreed for the passage , and put our luggage on board . Having taken leave of Monsieur Pecquet , whose excellent dinners had enhanced him in the opi- nion of the Doctor , we on the 22d of ...
... sail for Charleston , in South Carolina , we agreed for the passage , and put our luggage on board . Having taken leave of Monsieur Pecquet , whose excellent dinners had enhanced him in the opi- nion of the Doctor , we on the 22d of ...
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الصفحة 292 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country 1 rejoice at the beams of peace.
الصفحة 179 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it...
الصفحة 177 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
الصفحة 214 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
الصفحة 177 - During the contest of opinion through which we have passed, the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely, and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the constitution all will of course arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good.
الصفحة 178 - But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
الصفحة 177 - Let us then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind; let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty, and even life itself, are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
الصفحة 179 - I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth.
الصفحة 210 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
الصفحة 211 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was. He replied, 'I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.