America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive: By J. S. Buckingham, Volume 3Fisher, Son & Company, 1841 - Atlantic States |
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... fact , that the cost of the works which they have thus undertaken , ( and most of which are in actual progress , ) will exceed forty - eight millions of dollars- a sum far exceeding all that New York , with two millions of inha- bitants ...
... fact , that the cost of the works which they have thus undertaken , ( and most of which are in actual progress , ) will exceed forty - eight millions of dollars- a sum far exceeding all that New York , with two millions of inha- bitants ...
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... facts . The calendars of our prisons , and the records of our criminal courts , could they be consulted , would read us a lesson on this subject of the most fearful import . We should there learn , that seven - tenths of all the crimes ...
... facts . The calendars of our prisons , and the records of our criminal courts , could they be consulted , would read us a lesson on this subject of the most fearful import . We should there learn , that seven - tenths of all the crimes ...
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... facts , which would otherwise have passed into obscurity or oblivion by her death . The work was entitled , " A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jame- son , who was taken by the Indians in the year 1755 , when only about twelve years of ...
... facts , which would otherwise have passed into obscurity or oblivion by her death . The work was entitled , " A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jame- son , who was taken by the Indians in the year 1755 , when only about twelve years of ...
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... fact has made me less anxious than I once was , to see cheap news- papers multiplied in England . There are bad pro- ductions enough , it is true , among the expensive jour- nals ; but the smaller penny papers here are certainly worse ...
... fact has made me less anxious than I once was , to see cheap news- papers multiplied in England . There are bad pro- ductions enough , it is true , among the expensive jour- nals ; but the smaller penny papers here are certainly worse ...
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... fact there seems no doubt , at least all parties to the controversy admit that of late years there has been a sensible increase in the waters of these Lakes , and a consequent eleva- tion of their surface , though the statements are not ...
... fact there seems no doubt , at least all parties to the controversy admit that of late years there has been a sensible increase in the waters of these Lakes , and a consequent eleva- tion of their surface , though the statements are not ...
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Page 509 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 277 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 446 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 270 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Page 270 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Page 276 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Page 242 - The whole earth is the Lord's garden, and he hath given it to the sons of Adam, to be tilled and improved by them; why then should we stand starving here for places of habitation, and in the mean time suffer whole countries, as profitable for the use of man, to lie waste without any improvement?
Page 271 - God knows I do not at this time speak from motives of party heat ; what I deliver are the genuine sentiments of my heart. However superior to me in general. knowledge and experience the respectable body of this house may be, yet I claim to know more of America than most of you, having seen and been conversant in that country.
Page 278 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 277 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.