The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland

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American Publishing Company, 1875 - 802 strani
 

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Stran 44 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Stran 572 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Stran 26 - ... of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Stran 564 - When Israel was in Egypt's land, Let my people go, Oppressed so hard they could not stand, Let my people go.
Stran 189 - All the powers relating to the management of the schools are vested in a corporate body called " the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools," the members of the board to be elected for terms of three years.
Stran 566 - But more frequently a band, composed of some of the best singers and of tired shouters, stand at the side of the room to "base" the others, singing the body of the song and clapping their hands together or on the knees.
Stran 637 - In the lowest stages of the water in the autumn, a floating substance would, probably, not advance a mile an hour. It is subject to extreme elevations and depressions. The -average range between high and low water, is fifty feet.
Stran 267 - While the land owner is busy keeping account betwixt himself and his negro hands, ginning their cotton for them, doing all the marketing of produce and supplies, of which they have the lion's share, and has hardly a day he can call his own, the hands may be earning a dollar a day from him for work which is quite as much theirs as his. Yet the negroes, with all their superabounding privilege on the cotton-field, make little of it A ploughman or a herd in the Old World would not exchange his lot for...
Stran 336 - Canst thou copy in verse one chime Of the wood-bell's peal and cry, Write in a book the morning's prime, Or match with words that tender sky? Wonderful verse of the gods, Of one import, of varied tone; They chant the bliss of their abodes To man imprisoned in his own.
Stran 564 - It is a coincidence worthy of note that more than half the melodies in this collection are in the same scale as that in which Scottish music is written ; that is, with the fourth and seventh tones omitted.

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