Travels Through the States of North America: And the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, Tom 1J. Stockdale, 1807 |
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Strona 141 - The judges of the court of common pleas, in each county, shall, by virtue of their offices, be justices of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, for the trial of capital and other offenders therein...
Strona 181 - During the revolutionary war in America, the Virginian legislature passed a law, by which " it was enacted, that all merchants and planters in Virginia who owed money to British merchants should be exonerated from their debts, if they paid the money due into the public treasury, instead of sending it to Great Britain ; and all such as stood indebted were invited to come forward and give their money, in this manner, towards the support of the contest in which America was then engaged.
Strona 82 - America," by Isaac Weld, secretary of the Royal Society, a paragraph concerning Washington, then a small town of 5,000 inhabitants, in which it is predicted that " the Federal city, as soon as navigation is perfected, will increase most rapidly, and that at a future day, if the affairs of the United States go on as rapidly as they have done, it will become the grand emporium of the West, and rival in magnitude and splendor the cities of the whole world.
Strona 116 - ... much more open and free in his behaviour at levee than in private, and in the company of ladies still more so than when solely with men.
Strona 49 - ... which luckily disengaged both himself and the sulky and freed me from my embarrassment. I was afterwards informed that General Washington, as he was going to meet Congress a short time before, was stopped in the very same place, his carriage sinking so deep in the mud that it was found necessary to send to a neighboring house for ropes and poles to extricate it. Over some of these bottoms, which were absolutely impassable in their natural state, causeways have been thrown which are made with...
Strona 178 - is president of the college, and has apartments in the buildings. Half-a-dozen or more of the students, the eldest about twelve years old, dined at his table one day that I was there. Some were without shoes or stockings, others without coats. During dinner they constantly rose to help themselves at the sideboard. A couple of dishes of salted meat and some oyster-soup formed the whole of the dinner.
Strona 159 - ... stocked, and their flocks of poultry numerous. Besides the food they raise for themselves, they are allowed liberal rations of salted pork and Indian corn. Many of their little huts are comfortably furnished, and they are themselves, in general, extremely well clothed. In short, their condition is bj no means so wretched as might be imagined.
Strona 39 - Susquehannah ferry the driver frequently had to call to the passengers in the stage to lean out of the carriage first at one side, then at the other, to prevent it from oversetting in the deep ruts with which the road abounds: 'Now, gentlemen, to the right,' upon which the passengers all stretched their bodies half-way out of the carriage to balance it on that side: 'Now, gentlemen, to the left,
Strona 243 - Southern settler who knew no other form of conversation: — Frequently have I been stopped by one of them, [said Weld] and without further preface asked where I was from, if I was acquainted with any news, where bound to, and finally my name. "Stop, Mister! why, I guess now you be coming from the new State?" "No, sir." "Why, then, I guess as how you be coming from Kentuck?" "No, sir." "Oh, why, then, pray now where might you be coming from?
Strona 115 - features in his face totally different from what he had observed in any other human being; the sockets of the eyes, for instance, were larger than what he ever met with before, and the upper part of the nose broader. All his features were indicative of the strongest passions; yet, like Socrates, his judgment and great self-command made him appear a man of a different cast in the eyes of the world.