The New Purchase: Or, Seven and a Half Years in the Far West, Band 2D. Appleton & Company, 1843 |
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... miles ; secondly , -Oh ! I see you are satisfied - I'm not going on . Wonderful care , however , had been used to make our notice a specimen , both of pen- manship and patriotism ; and hence more was accomplished in our favour than ...
... miles ; secondly , -Oh ! I see you are satisfied - I'm not going on . Wonderful care , however , had been used to make our notice a specimen , both of pen- manship and patriotism ; and hence more was accomplished in our favour than ...
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... miles from Woodville , having been one day in town till towards evening , thought she would step over , and for the first time hear the famous piano ; and that , although she was to ride home by herself , and by a very long and lonesome ...
... miles from Woodville , having been one day in town till towards evening , thought she would step over , and for the first time hear the famous piano ; and that , although she was to ride home by herself , and by a very long and lonesome ...
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... miles at least in any direction ; for from that distance came people to have well done at Woodville , what otherwise must have been done , or a sort of done , at Pittsburgh . Nay , liberal offers were made to Allheart to induce him to ...
... miles at least in any direction ; for from that distance came people to have well done at Woodville , what otherwise must have been done , or a sort of done , at Pittsburgh . Nay , liberal offers were made to Allheart to induce him to ...
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... miles from Vincennes we stopped at a friend's house to shave and preach ; for among western folks a bishop is supposed to be made for preaching and we use him accordingly - and not infrequently we use him entirely up . The preaching was ...
... miles from Vincennes we stopped at a friend's house to shave and preach ; for among western folks a bishop is supposed to be made for preaching and we use him accordingly - and not infrequently we use him entirely up . The preaching was ...
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... miles , intending there to stay all night and await our arrival to a very early breakfast next morning , the remainder of the journey to be made in company . Well , an hour before day - break on Tuesday morning we put out , and in half ...
... miles , intending there to stay all night and await our arrival to a very early breakfast next morning , the remainder of the journey to be made in company . Well , an hour before day - break on Tuesday morning we put out , and in half ...
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agin ain't Allheart Aunt Kitty better Bloduplex Board boys burnt cabin cabin Carlton CHAPTER Christian Clarence College dark dear Doctor Domore door eyes Faculty Fairplay fear feet feller fiddle folks followed forest gentlemen girls Glenville grand gwyin hand Harwood head hear heard heart hence honour Hoosier horse horse-fly hour John Angell James John Calvin Judas Iscariot King Sol ladies larn laugh learning live look meeting miles Miss Mizraim morning never night once party phrenology pigeons poor powerful prairie preacher President Professor Purchase reached reader ready religious river Robert Dale Owen seated seemed solemn soon sort spirit squatter stood Sylvan tail teetotally tell thar thare thicket things Thorntree tion trees Trustees Uncle John voice wagon what's whole wild windsor chair woods Woodville yards young
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Seite 3 - And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Seite 224 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 312 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Seite 111 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Seite 192 - YOU'D scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public, on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by.
Seite 285 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Seite 170 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Seite 1 - Our dying friends come o'er us like a cloud, To damp our brainless ardours, and abate That glare of life which often blinds the wise. Our dying friends are pioneers, to smooth Our rugged pass to death ; to break those bars Of terror and abhorrence Nature throws Cross our obstructed way, and thus to make Welcome, as safe, our port from every storm.