Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: Or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People; with a Glimpse at School-teaching in that Southern Land, and Reminiscences of Distinguished MenReview and Herald Print, 1859 - 310 páginas |
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... present ; how strange , and yet with what devotion ! The Catholics have no infidels among them . Is it not strange that the high- er , purer , better the religion is , the more infidels it has ? I noticed many a fine and costly building ...
... present ; how strange , and yet with what devotion ! The Catholics have no infidels among them . Is it not strange that the high- er , purer , better the religion is , the more infidels it has ? I noticed many a fine and costly building ...
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... present year's growth , while those of the sec- ond , third , fourth , fifth , and so on , recede and rise higher in regular gradations , with foliage varying in hues from the pale to the deep and deeper green , till they gain the ...
... present year's growth , while those of the sec- ond , third , fourth , fifth , and so on , recede and rise higher in regular gradations , with foliage varying in hues from the pale to the deep and deeper green , till they gain the ...
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... present name . A battle had been fought on the original site of the place , in its forest days , between the old State surveyors and the Indians ; the latter having attempted to take , by force , provisions from the tent of the former ...
... present name . A battle had been fought on the original site of the place , in its forest days , between the old State surveyors and the Indians ; the latter having attempted to take , by force , provisions from the tent of the former ...
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... present teacher would leave soon ; that I had better bide my time , and they would pledge me the school on the event that he did leave . Mr. H. of this place , whose acquaintance and his broth- er's I afterwards formed , and esteemed ...
... present teacher would leave soon ; that I had better bide my time , and they would pledge me the school on the event that he did leave . Mr. H. of this place , whose acquaintance and his broth- er's I afterwards formed , and esteemed ...
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... present - stopped his car- riage and introduced me to five or six of the gentlemen present . It was one of the many kind and gentlemanly acts that it had been my lot to experience South , but this was of a nature deserving one's warm ...
... present - stopped his car- riage and introduced me to five or six of the gentlemen present . It was one of the many kind and gentlemanly acts that it had been my lot to experience South , but this was of a nature deserving one's warm ...
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Aaron Burr asked banks Battle Creek beautiful bluffs boat Burr cabins called carriage charm chat chivalry clime Colonel McClung cotton COWLES MEAD enjoy eyes feet flowers forest gate gentleman give green ground halloo head heard homo genus horse HUGH MILLER land leaves looked Major W.'s Michigan Mike Mike Fink miles Miss Mississippi morning Nashville Military Academy negro never night North Northern Orleans overseer passed plantation plantation-house planter planter's wife pleasant porch Prentiss residence rich Ridge House riding river road rode saddle Satartia says scene school-house seated servant shade side sight sitting soon South Southern ladies Southron steamer stream teacher tell thing thought tion told town trees true valley Vicksburgh walk Willow Dale winter woods word Yankee Yazoo Yazoo City Yazoo river young lady
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Página 294 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 173 - As bees In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters : they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder!
Página 269 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 275 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 132 - 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.
Página 55 - His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew.
Página 16 - And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 55 - It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours, by a withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shutters, so that, though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out; an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eel-pot.
Página 179 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Página 16 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold. And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.