Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: Cornish miners in AmericaJ. Murray, 1857 - 384 pages |
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Page 351 - The Great Spirit made us all — he made my skin red, and yours white ; he placed us on this earth, and intended that we should live differently from each other. He made the whites to cultivate the earth, and feed on domestic animals; but he made us> red skins, to rove through the uncultivated woods and plains; to feed on wild animals; and to dress with their skins.
Page 319 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Page 220 - I shall have occasion hereafter most fully to prove. I also did believe that, even if I had not the precedents of these Acts of Parliament, a Government and a Legislature anxious for the peace of this unhappy country and for the integrity of the British Empire, would not sacrifice to a petty technicality the vast benefits which my entire policy promised and had already in a great measure secured.