Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4W. Barnes and Son, 1823 - New England |
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... remarkably cold for the season , and was followed by a severe frost ; the ice at Sheffield being , the next morning , about the thickness of a dollar , and the tender vegetables generally destroyed . During the preceding nine years ...
... remarkably cold for the season , and was followed by a severe frost ; the ice at Sheffield being , the next morning , about the thickness of a dollar , and the tender vegetables generally destroyed . During the preceding nine years ...
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... remarkably ragged eminence , immediately north - west of the river , we saw the first oaks and chesnuts , after leaving the neighbourhood of Kaatskill . The intervening forests were beech , maple , & c . The houses in Unadilla were ...
... remarkably ragged eminence , immediately north - west of the river , we saw the first oaks and chesnuts , after leaving the neighbourhood of Kaatskill . The intervening forests were beech , maple , & c . The houses in Unadilla were ...
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... remarkably impregnated with salt . Fifty gallons yield , by boiling , a bushel of salt , weigh- ing fifty - six pounds . It contains a considerable quantity of lime . The head of the lake is surrounded for some distance by marshy ground ...
... remarkably impregnated with salt . Fifty gallons yield , by boiling , a bushel of salt , weigh- ing fifty - six pounds . It contains a considerable quantity of lime . The head of the lake is surrounded for some distance by marshy ground ...
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... remarkably pure , transparent water . Here we found a small and poor settlement . The remaining distance to Geneva , about seven or eight miles , is a forest . The soil is a hard clay , producing scattered and stinted oaks . Here also ...
... remarkably pure , transparent water . Here we found a small and poor settlement . The remaining distance to Geneva , about seven or eight miles , is a forest . The soil is a hard clay , producing scattered and stinted oaks . Here also ...
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... remarkably cheerful and pleasant , and is warmly commended by every traveller . For- tunately , the disagreeable buildings and marshy grounds which I have mentioned are chiefly out of sight . Geneva is a settlement , formed by Major ...
... remarkably cheerful and pleasant , and is warmly commended by every traveller . For- tunately , the disagreeable buildings and marshy grounds which I have mentioned are chiefly out of sight . Geneva is a settlement , formed by Major ...
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Page 364 - Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Page 293 - Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 476 - ... it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them; especially the university at Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns...
Page 481 - AND the people of this Commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend.
Page 480 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the Universe.
Page 486 - The muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame. In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true. In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides, and virtue rules; Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry...
Page 481 - And all moneys paid by the subject to the support of public worship, and of the public teachers aforesaid, shall, if he require it, be uniformly applied to the support of the public teacher or teachers of his own religious sect or denomination, provided there be any on whose instructions he attends; otherwise it may be paid towards the support of the teacher or teachers of the parish or precinct in which the said moneys are raised.
Page 399 - In the administration of church power, it belongs to the pastors and other elders of every particular church, if such there be to rule and govern, and to the brotherhood to consent according to the rule of the gospel.
Page 249 - The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes, the people, are found in the streets, and the villages, in the shops and farms; and from them collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken.
Page 486 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past, A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring...