My Diary in America in the Midst of War, Volumul 1Tinsley brothers, 1865 - 434 pagini |
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Pagina 33
... ladies , that the one great object of the war was to set the Black Man free ; that , although the martial ardour of the North had first been fired by the attack on Fort Sumter , and the legions of the Republic called to arms simply to ...
... ladies , that the one great object of the war was to set the Black Man free ; that , although the martial ardour of the North had first been fired by the attack on Fort Sumter , and the legions of the Republic called to arms simply to ...
Pagina 34
... ladies and gentlemen with whom it had been my lot , for years , to associate in Europe were , at home , gloomy and reckless tyrants , who passed their lives in overworking and torturing their slaves . I was bidden to regard a plantation ...
... ladies and gentlemen with whom it had been my lot , for years , to associate in Europe were , at home , gloomy and reckless tyrants , who passed their lives in overworking and torturing their slaves . I was bidden to regard a plantation ...
Pagina 41
... ladies to do - busied herself in preparing for the advent of her bond - servant's infant . In good time she gave the slave money to purchase baby linen . one day , " what did you buy ? " had bought a silk umbrella ! " Well , Peggy ...
... ladies to do - busied herself in preparing for the advent of her bond - servant's infant . In good time she gave the slave money to purchase baby linen . one day , " what did you buy ? " had bought a silk umbrella ! " Well , Peggy ...
Pagina 51
... ladies ? Has all that the travellers have said for thirty years prevented New York from numbering in the year 1864 a population of one million of souls ? Will ten thousand grumblers prevent your becoming in another half century a nation ...
... ladies ? Has all that the travellers have said for thirty years prevented New York from numbering in the year 1864 a population of one million of souls ? Will ten thousand grumblers prevent your becoming in another half century a nation ...
Pagina 80
... ladies — are engaged , the store should , according to European notions become a shop ; but the Americans have chosen to retain the appellative of early colonial days . * There are receptacles for ment . I never had time to disinter it ...
... ladies — are engaged , the store should , according to European notions become a shop ; but the Americans have chosen to retain the appellative of early colonial days . * There are receptacles for ment . I never had time to disinter it ...
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Pagina 365 - is a very abject and idiotic little bird found in New England. He is to the feathered what the " Scallywag " is to the finny creation. Occasionally when he is caught the housewives will condescend to put him into pies, but in general he is contemned, and " left out in the cold." He is weak on the wing, and weaker on his legs ; and when the miserable little object alights on earth, he is given to staggering about in an imbecile and helpless manner, suggesting the idea of extreme intoxication. The...
Pagina 33 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Pagina 33 - ... He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Pagina 86 - I venture to prophesy that within six months you will come to consult me whether or not — for there is a great deal to be said on both sides of the question — you can make up your mind to sacrifice your own wishes and marry Walter Lester.
Pagina 141 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound...
Pagina 46 - ... fancy-dress ball as the devil had as tail an eel in an umbrella case. Uncle , reproved by some one for want of consideration for his mother : " How can you behave so to the mother that bore you ? " replied " The mother that bores me, you mean." Judge to convicted prisoner : " The Almighty has given you health and strength, instead of which you go about the country stealing hens.
Pagina 89 - I knew an old lady in Liverpool once, who kept an alehouse, not for profit, for she had plenty of money, but in order to enjoy the conversation of a select few. For all bar there was her little front parlour, and, but for a beer-engine in one corner, and a row of bottles and glasses on a shelf, you might have imagined the room to be a boudoir. A stranger, say, would enter, and call for a " gill o' ale " in a tone which, somehow, displeased the old lady.
Pagina 366 - in this connection," of Mr. Macready, the actor. Once when the great tragedian was starring at Boston, at the Howard Athenaeum I think, there happened to be in the stalls a gentleman who, like Roger the Monk, had got
Pagina 381 - War in Spain is much less of an evil than in other countries. There is no property to destroy. Enter a house, the walls are bare ; there is no furniture. , when at our headquarters in Spain, wished to see an army, and I gave directions that he should be conducted through ours. When he returned, he said, " I have seen nothing—nothing but here and there little clusters of men in confusion ; some cooking, some washing, and some sleeping." Then you have seen an army,
Pagina 175 - The white houses and belvedere started up against the blue, like the mosques and minarets of Stamboul, and, soaring high behind the bow, was the great pillar of spray, glancing and flashing like an obelisk of diamonds — and it was then I began, as many men have begun perchance, to wonder at and to love Niagara.