| Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 520 pages
...They have indeed birds called by these names, but they are quite different from ours. Some howc 2 ever they have of very pleasant song, which may be heard...long time to come ; but the idea which the Americans en• tertain, that in another century it will equal London needs only to be mentioned to show its... | |
| 1824 - 762 pages
...only as being the place where he first landed, but also on account of its commercial importance. " Standing like Constantinople on a point of land, it...show its absurdity ; yet this idea is not confined to die vulgar ; a gentleman, formerly a member of congress, and of high reputation for talents and learning,... | |
| Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 522 pages
...Ontario, and Champlain will directly communicate with it, and contribute to its prosperity. On the'whole continent of North America, New Orleans is the only...confined to the vulgar; a gentleman, formerly a member of congress, and of high reputation for talents and learning, gravely insisted when in conversation with... | |
| 1825 - 648 pages
...Muscovites, and in casing them in a Prussian uniform ? The fact is, that the Greeks sit à la Turque, (and will continue to do so for a long time to come.) They eat pilaw à la Turque ; they smoke with long pipes ; they write to the left ; they walk out accompanied... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 620 pages
...Muscovites, and in casing them in a Prussian uniform ? The fact is, that the Greeks sit a la Tnrque, (and will continue to do so for a long time to come.) They eat pilaw d la 'I'urque ; they smoke with long pipes ; they write to the left ; they walk out... | |
| American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...governments a virtual alliance against a common enemy, which, as I have already said, determines at present, and will continue to do so for a long time to c.ome, the character of our foreign relations in general. Our position in regard to the other American governments,... | |
| Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1900 - 1028 pages
...side sheaf delivery — and it will be admitted that each of these has done good service in the past, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. There is much food for reflection on reading the reports of past trials. We have nothing now half so... | |
| American Baptist Home Mission Society - Baptists - 1843 - 902 pages
...society and the changes of our country and our countrymen. All Europe is pouring her population among us, and •will continue to do so for a long time to come. Our country also has stretched out her arms, and encompassed in her embrace large numbers of unenlightened... | |
| Ṣivachandra Vasu - Hindus - 1881 - 330 pages
...for the purposes of amusement, and for the satisfaction of the women and children, who still retain, and will continue to do so for a long time to come, a profound veneration for the old Doorga Uttsob. Apart from the children, whose minds are susceptible... | |
| Désiré Charnay - Guatemala - 1887 - 580 pages
...incredulously ; so simple a notion was quite beyond them. As their fathers lived before them, so they do, and will continue to do so for a long time to come. We gave a few coppers to the poor wretches to drink our health in pulque, which is excellent here,... | |
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