The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants, Volume 3Oliver & Boyd, 1844 - United States |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page 24
... known to intend pub- lishing an account of America , he was assailed courte- ously , yet earnestly and with little delicacy , on the subject . He was asked , " Don't you think this a won- derful country ? Don't you allow us great credit ...
... known to intend pub- lishing an account of America , he was assailed courte- ously , yet earnestly and with little delicacy , on the subject . He was asked , " Don't you think this a won- derful country ? Don't you allow us great credit ...
Page 26
... known story that of a Dutchman who was here questioned to death . We in- cline , however , to think that , among the higher classes who inhabit the cities , this peculiarity has in a great measure disappeared . Among those whom we have ...
... known story that of a Dutchman who was here questioned to death . We in- cline , however , to think that , among the higher classes who inhabit the cities , this peculiarity has in a great measure disappeared . Among those whom we have ...
Page 28
... known slang title of tee - totallers , proscribed the latter also ; and amid their first zeal , it is said the contents of some wine cellars were emptied into the streets . This party , so far as we understand , is now completely in the ...
... known slang title of tee - totallers , proscribed the latter also ; and amid their first zeal , it is said the contents of some wine cellars were emptied into the streets . This party , so far as we understand , is now completely in the ...
Page 29
... were saluted as ladies and gentlemen , she herself was known only under the appellation of " the old woman . " The Duke of Saxe - Weimar having made a journey by post , the driver came to him MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 29.
... were saluted as ladies and gentlemen , she herself was known only under the appellation of " the old woman . " The Duke of Saxe - Weimar having made a journey by post , the driver came to him MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA . 29.
Page 42
... parties through whom the country is best known to Europe and to the other states , its repu- tation has thus been considerably damaged . The planters of the south , while they agree with 42 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
... parties through whom the country is best known to Europe and to the other states , its repu- tation has thus been considerably damaged . The planters of the south , while they agree with 42 MANNERS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA .
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolitionists acres agreeable Alleghany Alleghany Mountains American appears Atlantic beautiful bird Boston bright Britain capital Carolina character chiefly church coast colour common Connecticut considerable considered contains dark deep displayed dollars emigrant England Europe extent favour feeling feet high Fisher Ames flowers forests formation formed former genera genus Georgia Gulf of Mexico height houses Indian interior Kentucky labour Lake Lake Erie land limestone literary Massachusetts ment Michaux miles Mississippi Missouri mountains named native navigable nearly negroes North America North Carolina northern o'er observed Ohio party peculiar perhaps plants plumage poem population possess principal produce Pursh region remarkable resembles respectable river rocks sandstone scarcely seems shores shrub slavery slaves society southern species spirit taste territory thee thou tion tree tribe Union United usually Virginia western whole wild wood yellow York
Popular passages
Page 137 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 154 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb; But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone; For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes...
Page 138 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man...
Page 136 - Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Page 160 - And thou an angel's happiness shall know; Shalt bless the earth while in the world above ; The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow; The seed that, in these few and fleeting hours, Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers, And yield thee fruits...
Page 116 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...
Page 115 - Do you ask how you are to get them ? Open your doors, Sir, and they will come in ! The population of the Old World is full to overflowing. That population is ground, too, by the oppressions of the Governments under which they live. Sir, they are already standing on tiptoe upon their native shores, and looking to your coasts with a wistful and longing eye.
Page 125 - ... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong to their age.
Page 139 - ... and throws himself Upon the continent, and overwhelms Its cities — who forgets not, at the sight Of these tremendous tokens of thy power, His pride, and lays his strifes and follies by ? Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the wrath Of the mad unchained elements to teach Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate, In these calm shades, thy milder majesty, And to the beautiful order of thy works Learn to conform the order of our lives.
Page 141 - And leave thee wild and sad 7 -:Ah ! 'twere a lot too blest For ever in thy colored shades to stray ; Amid the kisses of the soft south-west To rove and dream for aye ; And leave the vain low strife That makes men mad — the tug for wealth and power, The passions and the cares that wither life, And waste its little hour.