A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 Seiten |
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... is taken to save it . The price of provisions is equally moderate . The lower classes of people live principally upon hard bread , salted or dried fish , and wa 30 Cultivation and Trade . ter - gruel ; beer 3 * Houses and Food. ...
... is taken to save it . The price of provisions is equally moderate . The lower classes of people live principally upon hard bread , salted or dried fish , and wa 30 Cultivation and Trade . ter - gruel ; beer 3 * Houses and Food. ...
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... lower class of people at Petersburg can scarce- ly be reckoned among the inhabitants . Throughout the summer many thousands are employed as carpenters , bricklayers , masons , & c . who return home at the approach of winter , and whose ...
... lower class of people at Petersburg can scarce- ly be reckoned among the inhabitants . Throughout the summer many thousands are employed as carpenters , bricklayers , masons , & c . who return home at the approach of winter , and whose ...
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... lower class , who preserve their habits unaltered from one generation to another . But there are characteristics in which the Russian prince and the Russian peasant are the same : they are all equally barbarous . Visit a Russian , of ...
... lower class , who preserve their habits unaltered from one generation to another . But there are characteristics in which the Russian prince and the Russian peasant are the same : they are all equally barbarous . Visit a Russian , of ...
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... lower orders in all the rest of Eu- rope once were . To paint the situation and habits of those persons , it is almost sufficient to say , that they are slaves in the possession of the barbarous nobles whom we have already described ...
... lower orders in all the rest of Eu- rope once were . To paint the situation and habits of those persons , it is almost sufficient to say , that they are slaves in the possession of the barbarous nobles whom we have already described ...
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... lower classes in Russia the nuptial ceremonies are pe- culiar to themselves . When the parents are agreed upon a match . though the parties perhaps have never seen each other , the bride is examined by a number of females . On the ...
... lower classes in Russia the nuptial ceremonies are pe- culiar to themselves . When the parents are agreed upon a match . though the parties perhaps have never seen each other , the bride is examined by a number of females . On the ...
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Seite 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Seite 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Seite 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Seite 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Seite 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Seite 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Seite 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.