Over the Alleghanies and Across the Prairies: Personal Recollections of the Far West, One and Twenty Years AgoSimpkin, Marshall, 1869 - 377 strani |
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Stran 49 - on the manners of our people, produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce, between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and the most degrading
Stran 50 - God is just; that his justice cannot sleep for ever; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by superior interference. The Almighty has no attribute which can take
Stran 51 - he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear, That tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame. They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.'
Stran 162 - We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea that is not vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland,
Stran 162 - nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still as it were in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Stran 50 - With the morals of the people, their industry is also destroyed. For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him, This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves, a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. I tremble for my country, when I
Stran 162 - is not vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hard industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people—a people who are still as it were
Stran 75 - Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
Stran 254 - Hark ! they whisper; angels say, Sister spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath p Tell
Stran 184 - of man, the Federation of the world, Then the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law."*
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