 the bare floor; for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house swarmed with vermin. There was no hay, no straw, no oats ; but mouldy corn and leaves of maize ; no discretion, no care, no honesty. At the there was no stable, but a log-pen ;...  National Review - Page 2581861Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 516 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that the house...stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses. I do not exaggerate; I can... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1860 - 508 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that the house...there was no stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, FORMULA FOR JUSTIFYING SLAVERY. 30"» no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1861 - 546 pages
...of four absolutely no windows ; no couch—if one reclined in the family room, it was absolutely on the bare floor; for there were no carpets or mats....but a log-pen ; and besides this no other outhouses, hut a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses. . . . From the banks of the Mississippi... | |
 | Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1861 - 676 pages
...(three times out of four absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor— for there were no carpets or mats....there was no stable, but a log-pen, and besides this, there was no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. . . " '... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1861 - 428 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the hare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house...stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. In nine-tenths of the houses... | |
 | FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1861 - 408 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house...stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. In nine-tenths of the houses... | |
 | 1861 - 674 pages
...one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For nil that the house swarmed with vermin. There was no hay,...there was no stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this, there was no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. . .. "... | |
 | FEDERICK LAW OLMSTED - 1862 - 412 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house...stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. In nine-tenths of the houses... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1862 - 424 pages
...absolutely no windows), no couch—if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor—for there were no carpets or mats. For all that, the house...stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger houses. In nine-tenths of the houses... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - 598 pages
...times out of four absolutely no windows), no couch — if one reclined in the family room it was on the bare floor — for there were no carpets or mats....stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses. . . . From the banks of the... | |
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