Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821: In a Series of Letters, with an Appendix Containing an Account of Several of the Indian Tribes and the Principal Missionary Stations, &c. ; Also, a Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free and Slave Labour |
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... obtaining intelligence . The lands which the Government is at present distributing in Upper Canada lie parallel to the St. Lawrence and the Lakes , and constitute a range of townships in the rear of those already granted . They are said ...
... obtaining intelligence . The lands which the Government is at present distributing in Upper Canada lie parallel to the St. Lawrence and the Lakes , and constitute a range of townships in the rear of those already granted . They are said ...
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... obtain the fee - simple of a hundred acres : and the proposal to emigrate must therefore be a tempting one to a starving labourer or mechanic . The real inducements , however , are so much less than the apparent ones , that although ...
... obtain the fee - simple of a hundred acres : and the proposal to emigrate must therefore be a tempting one to a starving labourer or mechanic . The real inducements , however , are so much less than the apparent ones , that although ...
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... is not worth cultivating . In this case he has to pay two respectable persons for I believe grants of 50 acres are generally , or always , to be obtain- ed without fees . surveying and certifyihg it to be irreclaimable ; and he 12.
... is not worth cultivating . In this case he has to pay two respectable persons for I believe grants of 50 acres are generally , or always , to be obtain- ed without fees . surveying and certifyihg it to be irreclaimable ; and he 12.
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... obtain provisions for the other half while felling the trees . If they surmount the difficulties of the first year , they may expect at its termination to be in possession of an adequate supply of food for their families ; and with the ...
... obtain provisions for the other half while felling the trees . If they surmount the difficulties of the first year , they may expect at its termination to be in possession of an adequate supply of food for their families ; and with the ...
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... obtain- ed but by purchase , there were no decided in- ducements to those , who , like him , have only from 80 % to 100 % . We found many families living very comforta- bly on land which they had taken possession of , and had cleared ...
... obtain- ed but by purchase , there were no decided in- ducements to those , who , like him , have only from 80 % to 100 % . We found many families living very comforta- bly on land which they had taken possession of , and had cleared ...
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Page 278 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 277 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 56 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
Page 124 - No voice well known through many a day To speak the last, the parting word, Which when all other sounds decay Is still like distant music heard, — That tender farewell on the shore Of this rude world when all is o'er, Which cheers the spirit ere its bark Puts off into the unknown dark.
Page 327 - Somerset, had established the axiom, that " as soon as any slave sets his foot on English ground, he becomes free," there were many negroes in London who had been brought over by their masters.
Page 177 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Page 251 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 68 - Brief History of the progress and present state of the Unitarian Churches in America ;' compiled from documents and information communicated by the Rev. James Freeman, DD and William Wells, Jun.
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