The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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Page 56
... travellers , store - keepers , lawyers , and doctors . ' A Virginian planter is a republican in politics , and exhibits the high - spirited independence of that character . But he is a slave - master , irascible , and too often lax in ...
... travellers , store - keepers , lawyers , and doctors . ' A Virginian planter is a republican in politics , and exhibits the high - spirited independence of that character . But he is a slave - master , irascible , and too often lax in ...
Page 57
... travellers embark on board the steam - boat which plies between Norfolk and Richmond , and which is thus de- scribed ... traveller , it is evident , is by no means satisfied with the ap- pearance of things hitherto in the land of promise ...
... travellers embark on board the steam - boat which plies between Norfolk and Richmond , and which is thus de- scribed ... traveller , it is evident , is by no means satisfied with the ap- pearance of things hitherto in the land of promise ...
Page 58
... traveller quite delighted with the lofty tone of morality ' of the Virginian planter ; though he had described this same planter just before as lax in morals , irascible , and com- monly provided with a dirk , ' - for no peaceable ...
... traveller quite delighted with the lofty tone of morality ' of the Virginian planter ; though he had described this same planter just before as lax in morals , irascible , and com- monly provided with a dirk , ' - for no peaceable ...
Page 60
... travellers on horse- back and on foot , presenting a scene of bustle and business , which our author assures us is truly wonderful . He is now , for the first time , happy and at home - All is urbanity , politeness and civiliza- tion ...
... travellers on horse- back and on foot , presenting a scene of bustle and business , which our author assures us is truly wonderful . He is now , for the first time , happy and at home - All is urbanity , politeness and civiliza- tion ...
Page 61
... travellers purchased horses for fifty dollars a piece , to enable them to proceed by land through the state of Ohio to Cincinnati , though the usual mode of travelling is down the Ohio , on long floating rooms built on a flat bottom ...
... travellers purchased horses for fifty dollars a piece , to enable them to proceed by land through the state of Ohio to Cincinnati , though the usual mode of travelling is down the Ohio , on long floating rooms built on a flat bottom ...
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