The EmigrantHarper, 1847 - 282 pages |
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Page 27 - Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 20 - MID pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!
Page 13 - Fahrenheit, that at which water freezes, is only the commencement of an operation that is almost infinite ; for after its congelation water is as competent to continue to receive cold as it was when it was fluid. The application of cold to a block of ice does not...
Page 89 - I was accosted by some of the principal chiefs; but, from that native good-breeding which in every situation in which they can be placed invariably distinguishes the Indian tribes, I was neither hustled nor hunted by a crowd; on the contrary, during the three days I remained on the island, and after I was personally known to every individual...
Page 2 - The difference of climate in winter between the old and new world amounts, it has been estimated, to about thirteen degrees of latitude. Accordingly, the region of North America which basks under the same sun or latitude as Florence, is visited in winter with a cold equal to those of St.
Page 209 - ... aforesaid, either by imposing tolls and rates, to be paid in respect of any public work, and to be collected and applied as shall be directed by any such ordinance, or by means of a rate or assessment to be assessed and levied upon real or personal property within the said district, or upon the owners or occupiers thereof in respect of such property, and to enforce the collection and payment of all such rates and tolls, or such rates and assessments as aforesaid, by reasonable penalties, and...
Page 88 - ... air, beholds splendid scenery, traverses unsullied water, and subsists on food which, generally speaking, forms not only his sustenance, but the manly amusement, as well as occupation, of his life. " In the course of the day we saw several Indian families cheerily paddling in their canoes towards the point to which we were proceeding. The weather was intensely hot ; and, though our crew continued occasionally to sing to us, yet by the time of sunset, they were very nearly exhausted. During the...
Page 48 - Charley missed the sky—whether it was that he disliked the movement, or rather want of movement, in my elbows—or whether from some mysterious feelings, some strange fancy or misgiving, the chamber of his little mind was hung with black, I can only say that during the three months he remained in my service, I could never induce him to open his mouth, and that up to the last hour of my departure he would never sing to me.
Page 5 - The wily Indian observing these movements, shrewdly perceived that by setting fire to the forest the flies would drive to him his game, instead of his being obliged to trail in search of it ; and the experiment having proved eminently successful, the Indians for many years have been, and still are, in the habit of burning tracts of wood so immense, that from very high and scientific authority I have been informed, that the amount of land thus burned under the influence of the flies has exceeded many...
Page 38 - XLII. 15 clambering down a piece that was beginnmg to sink ; however, onwards he proceeded, until reaching the little island of ice on which the poor child stood, with the feelings of calm triumph with which he would have surmounted a breach, he firmly grasped her by the hand. " By this time he had been floated down the river nearly out of sight of his comrades. However, some of them, having run to their barracks for spy-glasses, distinctly beheld him about two miles below them, sometimes leading...