Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 1Routledge, 1854 - 362 páginas And now, what am I to do? The Times seems to think that, in order to be consistent, I ought to take up the conflict immediately; but, for my part, I think otherwise. What an unreasonable creature! Does he suppose me so lost to all due sense of humility as to take out of his hands a cause which he is pleading so well? If the plantation slaves had such a good friend as the Times, and if every over-worked female cotton picker could write as clever letters as this dressmaker's apprentice, and get them published in as influential papers, and excite as general a sensation by them as this seems to have done, I think I should feel that there was no need of my interfering in a work so much better done. |
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... things in the old world which has not become perfectly familiar to us ; and a little of the other side may have a useful influence . The writer has been decided to issue these letters principally , however , by the persevering and ...
... things in the old world which has not become perfectly familiar to us ; and a little of the other side may have a useful influence . The writer has been decided to issue these letters principally , however , by the persevering and ...
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... things are much the effect of imagination , " he tells you ; little self- control and resolution , " & c . Ah me ... thing is in your trunk , it might almost as well be in the sea , for any practical pro- bability of your getting to it ...
... things are much the effect of imagination , " he tells you ; little self- control and resolution , " & c . Ah me ... thing is in your trunk , it might almost as well be in the sea , for any practical pro- bability of your getting to it ...
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... things ; but in a ship in the middle of the ocean , when the least confusion or irregularity in certain cases might be destruction to all on board , it does inspire confidence to see that there is even in the minutest things a strong ...
... things ; but in a ship in the middle of the ocean , when the least confusion or irregularity in certain cases might be destruction to all on board , it does inspire confidence to see that there is even in the minutest things a strong ...
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... things here in England , that " robin red breast " is not at all the fellow we in America take him to be . The character who flourishes under that name among us is quite a different bird ; he is twice as large , and has altogether a ...
... things here in England , that " robin red breast " is not at all the fellow we in America take him to be . The character who flourishes under that name among us is quite a different bird ; he is twice as large , and has altogether a ...
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... things which we do not have in America , per . haps mother would like to know just how they are managed . The hour is generally somewhere between nine and twelve , and the whole idea and spirit of the thing is that of an informal and ...
... things which we do not have in America , per . haps mother would like to know just how they are managed . The hour is generally somewhere between nine and twelve , and the whole idea and spirit of the thing is that of an informal and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aberdeen admire America arches architecture artist beautiful Belloc breakfast called Carlisle carriage castle cathedral chamois charming Christianity church colour DEAR delight dinner door Duchess of Argyle Duchess of Sutherland Duke Duke of Sutherland England English expressed eyes fancy fcap feel flowers French friends gallery give glacier grace green grounds hall head heard heart hour idea interest Joseph Sturge kind labour ladies LETTER living London look Lord Carlisle lord provost Lord Shaftesbury Luther Madame mind Mont Blanc morning mountain never night o'clock painting Paris party passed picture poet present religious rocks Roslin Castle scene Scotland Scott seemed seen Shakspeare side slave slavery soul spirit stone stood things thought thousand tion told took trees Uncle Tom's Cabin walked walls whole women wonder young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 22 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 100 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay...
Página 353 - God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to (give) the light of the knowledge (of His glory) in the face of (Jesus) Christ.
Página 14 - I THANK the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy English child.
Página 238 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Página 95 - HARK, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise; Arise, arise. FEAR no more the heat o...
Página 169 - And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound : Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Página 301 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Página 104 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 35 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown ' That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES, SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, OF WHITEFORD, BART.
Referências a este livro
Forgiving the Boundaries: Home as Abroad in American Travel Writing Terry Caesar Pré-visualização limitada - 1995 |