Letters from the South: Written During an Excursion in the Summer of 1816, Količina 2James Eastburn & Company, at the Literary rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-street. Abraham Paul, printer, 1817 |
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Stran 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Stran 110 - States, so far as I have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with...
Stran 91 - The batteauxman jumped up in a passion, but sat down again, and took a drink. In a few minutes the wagoner swore "he had the finest horse of any man in a hundred miles." The batteauxman bounced up, pulled the waistband of his trowsers, took another drink, and bounced down again. A minute after the wagoner swore "he had a better rifle than any man that ever wore a blue jacket." This was too much — for the batteauxman wore a jacket of that colour, and of course this amounted to a personal insult.
Stran 11 - The existence of a valley somewhere in this part of the world, containing a vast number of rattlesnakes, is believed by many well-informed people ; but as to the little fellow with the fin, his being must 'remain a matter of doubt for the present.
Stran 84 - ... what may be seen in almost any church, and yet it made an impression on me that is still pleasing and touching in the remembrance. I don't know how it is, but there is something in the repose of the country, and particularly in the silence and shade of deep groves, that is allied to religious emotions by some inscrutable tie. Perhaps it is because almost every object we see in the country ia the work of Deity, and every object common to cities the work of man.
Stran 257 - ... our hearts. The genius that has awakened in our country, is not the genius of America, but a mongrel imitative creature, expatriated in his affections, and incapable of connecting the poetry of the country with the feelings, attachments, and associations of the people for whom he affects to'write.
Stran 126 - ... country, that of hospitality is what 1 covet most." It should be recollected that this writer is a Northern man. " For my part," he adds, " not even the most substantial benefits warm my heart half so much as the recollection of those kind welcomes it has sometimes fallen to my lot to receive, when at a distance from home, and among strangers. This liberal hospitality, to whatever cause it may be owing, is more general in this part of the world [the South] than in the Middle and Eastern States.
Stran 17 - I only contemplate them as unapproachable, unextinguishable fires, glittering afar off, in those azure fields whose beauty and splendour have pointed them out as the abode of the Divinity ; as such, they form bright links in the chain of thought that leads directly to a contemplation of the Maker of heaven and earth. Nature is, indeed, the only temple worthy of the Deity. There is a mute eloquence in her smile ; a majestic severity in her frown; a divine charm in her harmony ; a speechless energy...
Stran 86 - ... of an old established habit of thinking, and the wise from a conviction of the salutary effect of such impressions. Nothing can more completely show the importance of religion, not only to the morals but the manners of the great mass of mankind, than the contrast afforded by a village where there is regular service every Sabbath-day, and one where there is none. In the former you see a different style of manners entirely. Instead of lounging at a tavern, dirty and unshaven, the men are seen decently...
Stran 87 - All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy ;' so does it make him a dull and stupid man. Men, in truth, cannot always be employed, and those that are unable to supply the tedium of bodily inertness by the exercise of mind, will, I say, amuse themselves in some way or other. If you afford them the means of attending church on the Sabbath, the most dangerous day of the week, because a day of idleness, whatever be their motives for going there, both their morals and their manners will be softened, by...