Paulding's Works: Letters from the South, by a Northern manHarper, 1835 |
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Stran 27 - ... country squires to the hospitable mansion, and to refuse to sit at table with them ! In short, I am credibly informed, she quarrelled with a most respectable old silver family teapot, which still keeps its stand on the breakfast table, and out of which I used to drink tea with infinite satisfaction, — because it was not gold, such as they used at her father's (!) A day's residence here convinces you that you occasion no restraint ; consequently that you are welcome ; and therefore you feel...
Stran 48 - They formed a society now seldom to be met with in any of oar cities. A society of people not exclusively monopolized by money-making pursuits, but of liberal education, liberal habits of thinking and acting ; and possessing both leisure and inclination to cultivate those feelings, and pursue those objects which exalt our nature, rather than increase our fortune.
Stran 154 - ... brain, for his head is as full of the Neptunian system, and every round pebble he sees furnishes new proofs of his theory; notwithstanding I tell him, there is no reason in the world, why nature might not make a round pebble as well as a square or three cornered one. The earth and all the planets are spherical, and a round stone is no such mighty matter that people should make such a rout about it ' In Pythagoras's time, when I was an Irish rat' (which I can hardly remember...
Stran 28 - Relying on their master for the supply of all their wants, they are in a sort of state of childhood, — equally exempt with children, from all the cares of providing support and subsistence, for their offspring. This old man is of an unknown age; his birth being beyond history or tradition; and having -once been in the service of lord Dunmore, he looks down with a dignified contempt on the plebeian slaves around him. The greatest aristocrat in the world, is one of these fellows who has belonged...
Stran 173 - ... or maintained, and when it is at length evident that nothing will preserve them but secession, then will certain of the stars of our beautiful constellation " start madly from their spheres," and jostle the others in their wild career.
Stran 225 - Esq. THE DUTCHMAN'S FIRESIDE. In 2 vols. 12mo. WESTWARD HO ! In 2 vols. 12mo. SALMAGUNDI; or, the Whim-whams and Opinions of LAUNCELOT LANGSTAFF, Esq. and Others. New Edition. Revised and corrected by the Authors. In 2 vols. 12mo. KONINGSMARKE ; or Old Times in the New World. In 2 vols. 12mo. The Publishers have in press a New Edition of Mr. Paulding's Works ; of which the above will form a part. LAWRIE TODD; or, the Settlers in the Woocis.
Stran 172 - The second cause of disunion will be found in the slave population of the south. Whenever the misguided, or wilfully malignant zeal of the advocates of emancipation shall institute, as it one day doubtless will, a crusade against the constitutional rights of the...
Stran 10 - But when they departed, there remained neither taverne, beere house, nor place of reliefe, but the common Kettell. Had we beene as free from all sinnes as gluttony, and drunkennesse, we might have beene canonized for Saints ; But our President...
Stran 28 - BRANDON. cum dignitate at their quarters. These quarters consist of log cabins, disposed in two rows on either side a wide avenue, with each a little garden in which they raise vegetables. Whitewashed and clean, they exhibited an appearance of comfort which, in some measure, served to reconcile me to bondage.