Letters from the South, Količina 1Harper, 1835 |
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Stran 43 - You know I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the north, and I never see one that it does not conjure up a hundred pleasing associations. It was one of those evenings described by a homespun poet, who, I believe, few people ever heard of before, when, "The purple hue of evening fell, Upon the low sequester'd dell, And scarce a ling'ring sunbeam play'd, Around the distant mountain's head.
Stran 101 - ... states, or of the general government, whether the rights of the master over his slave shall be any longer recognised 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 101 - 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 6 - 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.
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Stran 92 - Pythagoras's time, when I was an Irish rat," (which I can hardly remember,) they talked about these things just as much as they do now; every philosopher had his theory, and some of these fully equalled the present ones in absurdity —which is saying a great deal for them. The most notable of all was that of Anaxagoras, who held among other things, that the first animals were generated by heat and moisture, (which, by-the-by, have never been able to do these things since ;) that air was the cause...
Stran 29 - ... to the land of promise in the west. The people of the United States partake, in no small degree, of the habits of their predecessors, the aborigines, who, when they have exhausted one hunting-ground, pull up stakes, and incontinently march off to another, four or five hundred miles off, where game is plenty. So with honest brother Jonathan. When he has eaten up every thing around him, and worked his land to skin and bone, and when his house is just on the point of tumbling about his ears ; instead...
Stran 97 - I walfct a wayless way, with vncouth pace, Which yet no Christian man did ever trace: But yet I know this not affects the minde, Which eares doth heare; as that which eyes doe finde.