A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes In: the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, 1832, Volume 1 |
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... travelling over 2000 miles of the most interesting districts , and visiting the principal Atlantic cities in the United States , I extended my tour through an equal distance in the British provinces . As my only object in publishing the ...
... travelling over 2000 miles of the most interesting districts , and visiting the principal Atlantic cities in the United States , I extended my tour through an equal distance in the British provinces . As my only object in publishing the ...
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... Traveller - The Ridge - road - Lockport- Fine Works - Buffalo - Tribe of Indians -- CHAP . XVIII . . 274-291 Cross the Niagara — Chippewa Battle Ground - Old Squaw's perilous Descent - Loss of a Vessel- Walk under the falling - sheet of ...
... Traveller - The Ridge - road - Lockport- Fine Works - Buffalo - Tribe of Indians -- CHAP . XVIII . . 274-291 Cross the Niagara — Chippewa Battle Ground - Old Squaw's perilous Descent - Loss of a Vessel- Walk under the falling - sheet of ...
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... Travellers - Old Man of the Mountain - Colonel and Road Surveyor - Montpelier - Green Mountains - Burlington - Politicians - Murder of Miss M'Crae - Drunken Coachman - Passage of the Hudson - West Point -Military Academy - Capture of ...
... Travellers - Old Man of the Mountain - Colonel and Road Surveyor - Montpelier - Green Mountains - Burlington - Politicians - Murder of Miss M'Crae - Drunken Coachman - Passage of the Hudson - West Point -Military Academy - Capture of ...
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... the backs of those occupying the seat in front . It was , indeed , a broad caricature of " travelling in the south of Ireland , " and we were right glad to gain C the outskirts of the city in safety , and abandon A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH .
... the backs of those occupying the seat in front . It was , indeed , a broad caricature of " travelling in the south of Ireland , " and we were right glad to gain C the outskirts of the city in safety , and abandon A SUBALTERN'S FURLOUGH .
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... travelling , and com- paring the respective merits of the East and West Indies . The following day I visited the Catholic cathedral , a very gloomy , prison - like piece of architecture , and about which I had the bad taste to see ...
... travelling , and com- paring the respective merits of the East and West Indies . The following day I visited the Catholic cathedral , a very gloomy , prison - like piece of architecture , and about which I had the bad taste to see ...
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Page 470 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Page 471 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 471 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 38 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 472 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 472 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them ; thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.
Page 466 - When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 469 - He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the state remaining in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 473 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 474 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...