The New Virginians, Volume 1Blackwood, 1880 - Virginia |
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Page 174 - ... roof and mingling with their tears. That seems bad enough, but it must have been worse to have felt as hungry as they did in the keen Wisconsin air, and not to have had proper food to eat.' An equally painful story is told of the life of a settler's wife in Nebraska. Altogether, these sketches are well worth reading, for if they do not deal with the more important aspects of the State described, they throw valuable side-lights upon the conditions of home-life there. A Polar Reconnaissance.
Page 4 - ... yet they were not so different from us. They were more hairy, it is true; their legs were a trifle more twisted and gnarly, their eyes a bit smaller, their necks a bit thicker and shorter, and their nostrils slightly more like orifices in a sunken surface; but they had no hair on their faces and on the palms of their hands and the soles of their feet, and they made sounds similar to ours with somewhat similar meanings. After all, the Tree People and the Folk were not so unlike. I found him first,...
Page 75 - York county no attention is paid to the subject ; and this remark applies to the other counties forming the peninsula. No progress of any kind is made, but the movement is backward. The negroes constitute four-fifths of the population, who cultivate a large portion of the land, either on shares or for a money rent. They raise no crop but corn (maize), the average yield of which is about six bushels to the acre.
Page 76 - A large crop of wheat was seeded in the full of 1870, followed by a general inquiry for grass-seeds. Campbell: Nothing being done toward an improved system of culture. On the contrary, the best lands are severely cropped to meet the immediate wants of their owners. Charlotte: Not much attention paid of late years to alternation, with the intervention of green crops. Prince Edward...
Page 75 - City county the subject receives no attention, the farmers having many of their former slaves living on their lands aud cultivating on shares, which prevents due regard to improvement.
Page 40 - But as soon as we got to the top of the hill we should find there was a right smart bit of a good road.
Page 161 - ... As Mr. Wilson's duties at home at that time prevented him from engaging in the affairs of the world, and unfortunately rendered it quite impossible for him to take over the government of Mexico himself, and to carry out his views for the 85 per cent thoroughly in his own way, on the principle that if you want a thing well done, do it yourself, the only reasonable alternative was to let the work be done in their way, by a man who happened to be the legal President of his country.
Page 200 - He was praying just after we entered ; and as soon as he got well on into his prayer, an old man, near the pulpit, began to groan in the most dismal manner, ejaculating,
Page 219 - Yes, sir," said the preacher, "when we are at Rome we must do as the Romans do, according to the Scriptures.