Down South: Or, An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War, المجلد 1Hurst and Blackett, 1862 - 340 من الصفحات |
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... federate State Bonds - The President's Proclamation- Act of Sequestration - Capability of Self - Sustenance- Wide Field for Enterprize - Destiny of the Republic 223 VOL . I. CHAPTER IX . VISIT TO NORTH - WESTERN VIRGINIA .
... federate State Bonds - The President's Proclamation- Act of Sequestration - Capability of Self - Sustenance- Wide Field for Enterprize - Destiny of the Republic 223 VOL . I. CHAPTER IX . VISIT TO NORTH - WESTERN VIRGINIA .
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... President Jefferson Davis had been readily responded to . The flower of the country had volunteered into the service of the Government , not for three months merely , but for as many years , or during the continuance of the war ; and ...
... President Jefferson Davis had been readily responded to . The flower of the country had volunteered into the service of the Government , not for three months merely , but for as many years , or during the continuance of the war ; and ...
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... President of the Confederate States , as one of " solemn fast , " I reached Lynchburg , a town one hundred and thirty miles distant from Richmond . At the station I observed several printed notifi- cations posted up to the effect that ...
... President of the Confederate States , as one of " solemn fast , " I reached Lynchburg , a town one hundred and thirty miles distant from Richmond . At the station I observed several printed notifi- cations posted up to the effect that ...
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... President Davis , and the Attorney- general , in convincing him that my object in Richmond was as innocent as I had asserted . After many urgent remonstrances , I was suf- fered to depart in peace . A lieutenant of the Confederate army ...
... President Davis , and the Attorney- general , in convincing him that my object in Richmond was as innocent as I had asserted . After many urgent remonstrances , I was suf- fered to depart in peace . A lieutenant of the Confederate army ...
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... President . Although having served in the Mexican war , he is not con- sidered an able field - officer . Indeed , I have heard it alleged that he has been known to swoon on the field from sheer fright . However this may be , the signal ...
... President . Although having served in the Mexican war , he is not con- sidered an able field - officer . Indeed , I have heard it alleged that he has been known to swoon on the field from sheer fright . However this may be , the signal ...
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الصفحة 44 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon...
الصفحة 168 - How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place?
الصفحة 178 - And whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion " — such was the sublime tenor of a part of the statute — " hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practised, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants, no person within this province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced,...
الصفحة 43 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
الصفحة 147 - Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment.
الصفحة 44 - It is as placid and delightful as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
الصفحة 90 - Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel* or for warrant ; Great on the bench, great in the saddle...
الصفحة 168 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark ! what discord follows ; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
الصفحة 65 - The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia have caused this statue to be erected, as a monument of affection and gratitude to GEORGE WASHINGTON, who, uniting to the endowments of the hero the virtues of the patriot, and exerting both in establishing the liberties of his country, has rendered his name dear to his fellow" citizens, and given the world an immortal example of true glory.
الصفحة 45 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.