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... given speed . It is for Gallios on such matters that I write . Of my voyage , therefore , I shall say but little . It was in the depth of winter , immediately after the settle- ment of the Trent affair , that I sailed for the New World ...
... given speed . It is for Gallios on such matters that I write . Of my voyage , therefore , I shall say but little . It was in the depth of winter , immediately after the settle- ment of the Trent affair , that I sailed for the New World ...
Side 9
... given a score of times before , probably better than I could do it . Those who may wish for a detailed account , I would refer to " Appleton's Hand - book , " the very model , in my mind , of all books of travels . Why , I wonder , does ...
... given a score of times before , probably better than I could do it . Those who may wish for a detailed account , I would refer to " Appleton's Hand - book , " the very model , in my mind , of all books of travels . Why , I wonder , does ...
Side 10
... given the name of a street , whereabouts it is situated , and how to get to it . The corner end of the island , corresponding to the sole's mouth , is the com- mercial part , the City of New York , of which Wall - street is the Cornhill ...
... given the name of a street , whereabouts it is situated , and how to get to it . The corner end of the island , corresponding to the sole's mouth , is the com- mercial part , the City of New York , of which Wall - street is the Cornhill ...
Side 21
... given but a few minutes before . A store of Kerozene oil had caught fire , and the volumes of flame which shot out of the roof and windows seemed to threaten the whole street with destruction . But the engines were too hard at work to ...
... given but a few minutes before . A store of Kerozene oil had caught fire , and the volumes of flame which shot out of the roof and windows seemed to threaten the whole street with destruction . But the engines were too hard at work to ...
Side 23
... given to enter into conversation , or to read the newspaper , might almost , I fancy , have lived there for weeks at that time without discovering that the country was involved in a civil war . There were forts being thrown up rapidly ...
... given to enter into conversation , or to read the newspaper , might almost , I fancy , have lived there for weeks at that time without discovering that the country was involved in a civil war . There were forts being thrown up rapidly ...
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Side 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Side 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Side 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Side 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Side 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Side 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Side 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.