Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a Winter in the West Indies

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Press of M. Day & Company, 1840 - 203 sider
A visit to some of the Leeward islands and Cuba, with a more extended description of Jamaica.
 

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Side 146 - And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
Side 176 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Side 142 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Side 138 - ... in various descriptions of handicraft, in lime-burning or fishing, — in benefiting themselves and the community, through some new, but equally desirable medium. Besides all this, stone walls are built, new houses erected, pastures cleaned, ditches dug, meadows drained, roads made and macadamized, stores fitted up, villages formed, and other beneficial operations effected ; the whole of which, before emancipation, it would have been a folly even to attempt. The old notion, that the negro is,...
Side 176 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up.
Side 75 - Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Side 176 - And nailed thee to a tree ? Unfathomable wonder, And mystery divine ! The Voice that speaks in thunder, Says " Sinner, I am thine !
Side 133 - It is, for the most part, the result of those impolitic attempts to force the labor of freemen which have disgusted the peasantry, and have led to the desertion of many of the estates.
Side 48 - For ye, brethren, were called unto liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.
Side 115 - Manzanares, on several sand hills, which form the last declivity of the mountains of Guadarrama. It stands in latitude forty, north, at an elevation of two thousand feet above the level of the sea, * Antillon.

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