| Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1803 - 402 pages
...apprehension of justice. 1 again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment ? I was answered, by previous inquiry,...from observing in the landlord, a possession, or an alscnce of cars : many of tlic proprietors of small inns being men who had left those members nailed... | |
| Thomas Ashe - Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1808 - 358 pages
...apprehension of justice. I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment? I was answered, by previous inquiry,...horses and cattle of which they had from time to time become^he illegal owners. Furnished with these useful instructions, I left my kind entertainer, and... | |
| Thomas Ashe - Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1809 - 334 pages
...apprehension of justice. I again demanded, how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment? I was answered, by previous inquiry...proprietors of small inns being men who had left those members"nailed to certain penitential market crosses Li Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas,... | |
| James Kirke Paulding - 1867 - 398 pages
...look ahead : — " I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment ? I was answered, by previous inquiry,...could be formed, from observing in the landlord, a pos$ession, or an absence of ear$ : many of the proprietors of small inns being men who had left those... | |
| Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment. ' By previous inquiry, or, if that was impracticable,...the landlord a possession or an absence of ears.' " The temper of the writer was at least as remarkable in this description as the scene he pretended... | |
| Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment. ' By previous inquiry, or, if that was impracticable,...the landlord a possession or an absence of ears.' " The temper of the writer was at least as remarkable in this description as the scene he pretended... | |
| Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...apprehension of justice. I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment? I was answered, by previous inquiry, or, if that was impracticable, a tolerable judgement could be formed, from observing in the landlord, a possession, or an absence of ears; many... | |
| Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...... I again demanded how a stranger was to distinguish a good from a vicious house of entertainment. 'By previous inquiry, or, if that was impracticable,...the landlord a possession or an absence of ears.'" The temper of the writer was at least as remarkable in this description as the scene he pretended to... | |
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