Anglo-American Literature and Manners, etc. [Translated by Donald Macleod.]Charles Scribner, 1852 - 312 pages |
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Page 16
... turn to the memoirs of Morris , to see how a friend of Washington appreciates those paper politicians , who issue from the Registry and the Sorbonne to regulate king- doms . The disdain of this republican for republican talkers reaches ...
... turn to the memoirs of Morris , to see how a friend of Washington appreciates those paper politicians , who issue from the Registry and the Sorbonne to regulate king- doms . The disdain of this republican for republican talkers reaches ...
Page 64
... turn introduced me to the Natural History Society of Phila- delphia . But the patronage which I so much needed I soon found myself compelled to seck elsewhere . I left Philadelphia , and visited New York , where I was received with a ...
... turn introduced me to the Natural History Society of Phila- delphia . But the patronage which I so much needed I soon found myself compelled to seck elsewhere . I left Philadelphia , and visited New York , where I was received with a ...
Page 74
... Turning instinctively toward the direction . from which the wind blew , I saw , to my great astonishment , that the noblest trees of the forest bent their lofty heads for a while , and unable to stand against the blast , were falling ...
... Turning instinctively toward the direction . from which the wind blew , I saw , to my great astonishment , that the noblest trees of the forest bent their lofty heads for a while , and unable to stand against the blast , were falling ...
Page 80
... turning machine , and watched her working away with the dangerous instrument , until the cold sweat covered every part of my body , in despite of my determination to defend myself to the last . Her task finished , she walked to her ...
... turning machine , and watched her working away with the dangerous instrument , until the cold sweat covered every part of my body , in despite of my determination to defend myself to the last . Her task finished , she walked to her ...
Page 89
... turn the breast of the luckless swan upwards , and gorge themselves with gore . " She now sails Audubon has not neglected one detail in Ornithological annals ; he has treated with peculiar care the loves of birds . Some men have sung ...
... turn the breast of the luckless swan upwards , and gorge themselves with gore . " She now sails Audubon has not neglected one detail in Ornithological annals ; he has treated with peculiar care the loves of birds . Some men have sung ...
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