A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Volume 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 |
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Page 31 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 121 - ... higher classes do not speak the language so purely or so classically as it is spoken among the well-educated English. The peculiar dialect of the English counties is kept up because we are a settled country; the people who are born in a county live in it, and die in it, transmitting their scites of labour or of amusement to their descendants, generation after generation, without change; consequently, the provincialisms of the language become equally hereditary. Now, in America, they have a dictionary...
Page 54 - The natives always endeavoured to build upon high ground, or at least to erect the house of their cacique or chief upon an eminence. As the country was very level, and high places seldom to be found, they constructed artificial mounds of earth, capable of containing from ten to twenty houses; there resided the chief, his family, and attendants.
Page 11 - District, shall be punished by confinement to hard labour in the penitentiary, for a term not exceeding seven years, nor less than three years, in the discretion of the court.
Page 11 - That if any person shall, in the District of Columbia, challenge another to fight a duel, or shall send or deliver any written or verbal message purporting or intended to be such challenge, or shall accept any such challenge or message, or shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, or shall knowingly carry or deliver an acceptance of such challenge or message...
Page 11 - And be it further enacted, That if any person shall give or send, or cause to be given or sent, to any person in the District of Columbia, any challenge to fight a duel, or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon whatever, or if any person in...
Page 122 - I presume, from their cautious, calculating habits; and they have always more or less of a nasal twang. I once said to a lady, 'Why do you drawl out your words in that way?' 'Well,' replied she, 'I'd drawl all the way from Maine to Georgia, rather than clip my words as you English people do.' Many English words are used in a very different sense from that which we attach to them; for instance, a clever person in America means an amiable good-tempered person, and the Americans make the distinction...
Page 51 - FORT SNELLING is well built, and beautifully situated : as usual, I found the officers gentlemanlike, intelligent, and hospitable ; and, together with their wives and families, the society was the most agreeable that I became acquainted with in America.
Page 11 - ... beat, or wound, or cause to be assaulted, stricken, beaten, or wounded, any person in the District of Columbia, for declining or refusing to accept any challenge to fight a duel, or to engage in single combat with any deadly or dangerous instrument or weapon whatever, or shall post or publish, or cause to be posted or published, any writing charging any such person so declining or refusing to accept any such challenge, to be a coward, or using any other opprobrious or injurious language therein,...
Page 96 - About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides by cabins built up of rough boards ; the whole area in the centre was fitted up with planks, laid about a foot from the ground, as seats. At one end, but not close to the cabins, was a raised stand, which served as a pulpit for the preachers, one of them praying, while five or six others sat down behind him on benches.