A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New-Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, During the Summer and Autumn of 1832, Volumen2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... provinces to such an extent . After being exposed to it during every meal for three days , I crossed the river to dine at the Ameri- can village , where the hotel was much more comfortable , and kept by no less a personage than a ...
... provinces to such an extent . After being exposed to it during every meal for three days , I crossed the river to dine at the Ameri- can village , where the hotel was much more comfortable , and kept by no less a personage than a ...
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... Province , whose remains are deposited in the vault beneath . Opposing the invading enemy , he fell in action , near these heights , on the 13th of October , 1812 , in the 43d year of his age , revered and lamented by the people whom he ...
... Province , whose remains are deposited in the vault beneath . Opposing the invading enemy , he fell in action , near these heights , on the 13th of October , 1812 , in the 43d year of his age , revered and lamented by the people whom he ...
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... province , where they might hope to retain more peaceable possession of their property . Lewiston , a mile from the Ferry , on the opposite side of the river , though not possessing so fine a situation , no object of interest ...
... province , where they might hope to retain more peaceable possession of their property . Lewiston , a mile from the Ferry , on the opposite side of the river , though not possessing so fine a situation , no object of interest ...
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... provincial government . Forty - five thousand emigrants of all classes landed in that city during the first three months of the season , and the fate of many of them was miserable in the extreme . Nearly every headland of the St ...
... provincial government . Forty - five thousand emigrants of all classes landed in that city during the first three months of the season , and the fate of many of them was miserable in the extreme . Nearly every headland of the St ...
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... province , without be- ing subject as heretofore to captures from the American force upon the St. Lawrence , or to running the gauntlet of the batteries upon their bank of the river . Like the Erie , in the State of New - York , it will ...
... province , without be- ing subject as heretofore to captures from the American force upon the St. Lawrence , or to running the gauntlet of the batteries upon their bank of the river . Like the Erie , in the State of New - York , it will ...
Términos y frases comunes
acres American amongst Annapolis River appearance army arrived banks barracks Basin Bay of Fundy beautiful Bedford Basin British canal carriage CHIGAN cholera coach Connecticut River crossed descending English erected Falls farm feet in height forest formed Fort Edward Fredericton French ground half Halifax harbour head heavy hill horses Indian inhabitants Irondequoit Creek Island John's journey Kamouraska labour lake land late Lawrence ment miles distant miles in length military minutes morning Mount Lafayette Mountains nearly New-York night Nova Scotia numerous occupied officers opposite party passed Pemigewasset River pine possession pretty prison proceeded province Quebec Rapids rear Rideau Canal rising river road rock rocky scarcely Schuylerville seen settlement side situated six miles soil steamer stream streets summit thick thing three miles timber town trees Upper Canada vessel vicinity village visited walked White Mountains width wind wood Yankee yards
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Página 120 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 119 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Página 119 - He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the Tenure of their Offices and the...
Página 122 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Página 122 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain...
Página 106 - Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.
Página 121 - Future ages will scarcely believe that the hardiness of one man adventured, within the short compass of twelve years only, to lay a foundation so broad and so undisguised for tyranny over a people fostered and fixed in principles of freedom.
Página 119 - He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation...
Página 122 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 119 - He has erected a multitude of new offices by a selfassumed power, and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.