Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 |
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... Forest - Indian Town of Co - se - ta - Ouchee Bridge - Conquered Tribe of the Ouchees . 117–126 LETTER VIII . Fort Bainbridge - Lewis - Government of the Creek Indians- Mackintosh - Green Corn Dance - Manners and Customs of the Indians ...
... Forest - Indian Town of Co - se - ta - Ouchee Bridge - Conquered Tribe of the Ouchees . 117–126 LETTER VIII . Fort Bainbridge - Lewis - Government of the Creek Indians- Mackintosh - Green Corn Dance - Manners and Customs of the Indians ...
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... a view of the glassy ex- panse of the Potowmac , and the varied scenery of its opposite shore . About a mile from the house , we passed by a porter's lodge , in a kind of forest park . We approached the house by a NORTH AMERICA . 13.
... a view of the glassy ex- panse of the Potowmac , and the varied scenery of its opposite shore . About a mile from the house , we passed by a porter's lodge , in a kind of forest park . We approached the house by a NORTH AMERICA . 13.
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... forest park . We approached the house by a winding ascent through natural plantations of oak and cedar ; and on sending in my letter to Judge Washington , I was shown into his study . He is the nephew of General Wash- ington , and one ...
... forest park . We approached the house by a winding ascent through natural plantations of oak and cedar ; and on sending in my letter to Judge Washington , I was shown into his study . He is the nephew of General Wash- ington , and one ...
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... forests which you have begun to fear may prove interminable , the eye wanders over an extensive country , thickly wooded , and varied with hill and dale ; and the monotony of the road is further relieved by precipitous descents into ...
... forests which you have begun to fear may prove interminable , the eye wanders over an extensive country , thickly wooded , and varied with hill and dale ; and the monotony of the road is further relieved by precipitous descents into ...
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... forests and royal domains is finely con- trasted with the fresh verdure of young plan- tations , luxuriant meadows , and velvet lawns , washed by the sparkling waters of the silvery Thames ; where you embrace in a coup - d'œil the ...
... forests and royal domains is finely con- trasted with the fresh verdure of young plan- tations , luxuriant meadows , and velvet lawns , washed by the sparkling waters of the silvery Thames ; where you embrace in a coup - d'œil the ...
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Página 238 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Página 243 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 306 - Its breadth in the middle is about 60 feet, but more at the ends, and the thickness of the mass at the summit of the arch, about 40 feet. A part of this thickness is constituted by a coat of earth, which gives growth to many large trees. The residue, with the hill on both sides, is one solid rock of limestone.
Página 278 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Página 174 - Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
Página 174 - The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn the mountain down from its summit to its base.
Página 193 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.
Página 175 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Página 282 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each...
Página 4 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him ; one would think the deep to be hoary.