Travels in the United States,etc: During 1849 and 1850Harper & brothers, 1851 - 463 Seiten |
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Seite 254 - This bust is the size of life, and under it is read the following inscription : — " O restos e imagen del grande Colon, mil siglos durad guardados en la urna. Y en la remembrancia de nuestra nacion.
Seite 2 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 70 - Born in America, in Europe bred, In Afric traveled, and in Asia wed ; Where long he lived and thrived, in London dead. Much good, some ill, he did; so hope all's even, And that his soul through mercy's gone to Heaven.
Seite 2 - Oregon and California in 1848 : With an Appendix, including recent and authentic Information on the Subject of the Gold Mines of California, and other valuable Matter of Interest to the Emigrant, &c.
Seite 79 - Cross," was presented by Louis XVI. — the other, " St. Louis burying his officers and soldiers slain before Tunis," was presented by Charles X. of France. — The Unitarian Church, at the intersection of North Charles and Franklin sts., ranks next to the above in architectural beauty.
Seite 19 - ... the cares and troubles incident to it, must make a man find life somewhat of a wearisome burden. Indeed, moneygetting, which is certainly in most countries a great business, appears here to me almost a battle. It seems as if they must win, do or die, and the dead on the field are trodden under foot by their eager comrades and competitors, hurrying onward, and having no time to stay, however they might be disposed. That they are a very kind-hearted people, I fully believe , but to make money seems...
Seite 87 - He continued in this strain and spoke [so nobly of England, that it made one's heart bound to hear him. And he evidently felt what he said ; indeed, I am sure that honest, highhearted, true-as-steel, old hero could not say anything he did not feel or think.
Seite 2 - The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman's Adventures and the Whale's Biography, as gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the Commodore Preble.
Seite 69 - But how mournful to think, on looking out of the vast opened windows of the establishment, that all this beauty and glory can shine not to those poor benighted eyes ! New Haven is lovely ; but I must explain to what it owes its principal charm : it is to the exceeding profusion of its stately elms, which render it not only one of the most charming but one of the most " unique