Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners, and Emigration in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832J. & J. Harper, 1833 - 247 páginas |
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... once under what denomination he might be clas- sed . He was a radical , a gambler , a frequenter of Tammany Hall , * and of the lowest society . I blushed to think that such a person and myself should have entertained similar sentiments ...
... once under what denomination he might be clas- sed . He was a radical , a gambler , a frequenter of Tammany Hall , * and of the lowest society . I blushed to think that such a person and myself should have entertained similar sentiments ...
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... once granted me the use of his pulpit , and I enjoyed the pleasure of delivering a discourse to his highly re- spectable flock - the only sermon I preached in the States . The Doctor praised my discourse , but stated that my plain ...
... once granted me the use of his pulpit , and I enjoyed the pleasure of delivering a discourse to his highly re- spectable flock - the only sermon I preached in the States . The Doctor praised my discourse , but stated that my plain ...
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... once convert to purposes of gain . A little further inquiry among those , with whom my letters and introductions brought me in contact , soon induced me to abandon the inten- tion of opening a school for instruction in Eastern languages ...
... once convert to purposes of gain . A little further inquiry among those , with whom my letters and introductions brought me in contact , soon induced me to abandon the inten- tion of opening a school for instruction in Eastern languages ...
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... once the impossibility of conveying extensive knowledge , in so few hours per day , and upon such a system . Parents also have as little control over their offspring at home , as the mas- ter has at school ; and the leisure hours of ...
... once the impossibility of conveying extensive knowledge , in so few hours per day , and upon such a system . Parents also have as little control over their offspring at home , as the mas- ter has at school ; and the leisure hours of ...
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... reading or conversation . And a foun- dation being once laid , it is in their power , if choice induce , or opportunity allow them , to prosecute any branch as far as they please . " ANECDOTE OF A TEACHER . 43 " But yet , 42 UNITED STATES .
... reading or conversation . And a foun- dation being once laid , it is in their power , if choice induce , or opportunity allow them , to prosecute any branch as far as they please . " ANECDOTE OF A TEACHER . 43 " But yet , 42 UNITED STATES .
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Página 182 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 233 - The Swiss Family Robinson; or, the Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons on a Desert Island. With Explanatory Notes and Illustrations. First and Second Series. New Edition, complete in one volume, 3s. 6d. Geography for my Children. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Página 231 - Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier. Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Seas, and the History of the Bucanien With Portraits.
Página 230 - THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED, Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Página 28 - And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold : them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice ; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Página 83 - Frenchman, accommodating himself cheerfully to all the vicissitudes of life, incorporates himself, without difficulty, in our society. But, of all foreigners, none amalgamate themselves so quickly with our people as the natives of the Emerald Isle. In some of the visions which have passed through my imagination, I have supposed that Ireland was, originally, part and parcel of this continent, and that, by some extraordinary convulsion of nature, it was torn frorii America, and, drifting across the...
Página 205 - ... happy, as well as the asylum of the distressed ; fill up the measure of your population as speedily as you can, by the means which Heaven hath placed in your power : and I venture to prophesy there are those now living who will see this...
Página 83 - The same open-heartedness ; the same generous hospitality ; the same careless and uncalculating indifference about human life ; characterize the inhabitants of both countries. Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ireland of America. And I have no doubt, that if the current of emigration were reversed, and set from America upon the shores of Europe instead of bearing from Europe to America, every American emigrant to Ireland would there find, as every Irish emigrant here finds, a hearty welcome...
Página 228 - The Percy Anecdotes. Revised Edition. To which is added, a valuable Collection of American Anecdotes, original and selected. • 8vo.
Página 232 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.