Retrospect of Western Travel, 2 tomasSaunders and Otley, 1838 - 178 psl. |
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... appeared with their blankets and com- pelled us to go down . Nothing surprised me more than to see that very few of the ladies looked out of the boat unless their attention was particularly called . All the morning the greater number ...
... appeared with their blankets and com- pelled us to go down . Nothing surprised me more than to see that very few of the ladies looked out of the boat unless their attention was particularly called . All the morning the greater number ...
13 psl.
... appearance from the water . A summer - house , perched on a rising ground , was full of people , amusing themselves with smoking and looking abroad upon the river ; and , truly , they had an enviable station . A few miles farther on we ...
... appearance from the water . A summer - house , perched on a rising ground , was full of people , amusing themselves with smoking and looking abroad upon the river ; and , truly , they had an enviable station . A few miles farther on we ...
15 psl.
... appearance of a lake . White houses nestled in the clumps ; goats , black and white , browsed on the points of the ... appeared to me equally impossible to keep my seat and to get down ; my feather - fan blew away , and I expected to ...
... appearance of a lake . White houses nestled in the clumps ; goats , black and white , browsed on the points of the ... appeared to me equally impossible to keep my seat and to get down ; my feather - fan blew away , and I expected to ...
16 psl.
... appearance of our com- pany at tea bore testimony to the fatigues of the afternoon . In the evening only one firefly was visible ; the moon was misty , and faint lightning flashed incessantly . Before morning the weather was so cold ...
... appearance of our com- pany at tea bore testimony to the fatigues of the afternoon . In the evening only one firefly was visible ; the moon was misty , and faint lightning flashed incessantly . Before morning the weather was so cold ...
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... appeared to me , the being alone on that rushing sea of waters , shut in by untrodden forests ; the slow fishhawk wheeling overhead , and perilous masses of driftwood whirl- ing down the current ; trunks obviously uprooted by the forces ...
... appeared to me , the being alone on that rushing sea of waters , shut in by untrodden forests ; the slow fishhawk wheeling overhead , and perilous masses of driftwood whirl- ing down the current ; trunks obviously uprooted by the forces ...
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186 psl. - Fool ! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic?
206 psl. - The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
208 psl. - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
29 psl. - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
91 psl. - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
208 psl. - Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
210 psl. - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these — but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust — some of them suicides.
91 psl. - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue...
209 psl. - The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all...