The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 30
It is thus that the traveller affected to sneer at us poor Americans for our attachment to the noble pursuits of history and politics . I would fain know , Mr. Caviller , returned I , how the time of a citizen can be better employed ...
It is thus that the traveller affected to sneer at us poor Americans for our attachment to the noble pursuits of history and politics . I would fain know , Mr. Caviller , returned I , how the time of a citizen can be better employed ...
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UNLIKE the generality of travellers , who endeavour to entertain their correspondents with circumstantial details of their adventures from the moment they embark upon their voyage , I have in my two first letters entered at once into ...
UNLIKE the generality of travellers , who endeavour to entertain their correspondents with circumstantial details of their adventures from the moment they embark upon their voyage , I have in my two first letters entered at once into ...
Page 53
... I find thus detailed by Bartram : " On turning a point or projection of the river bank , " says this traveller , " at once I beheld a great number of hillocks , or small pyramids resembling haycocks , ranged like an encampment along ...
... I find thus detailed by Bartram : " On turning a point or projection of the river bank , " says this traveller , " at once I beheld a great number of hillocks , or small pyramids resembling haycocks , ranged like an encampment along ...
Page 56
... so as to invite the travellers back to the use of them . This is the stitch in time . One word more . I am informed by men of experience and skill , that when the stones used in making turnpikes are of different degrees of hardness ...
... so as to invite the travellers back to the use of them . This is the stitch in time . One word more . I am informed by men of experience and skill , that when the stones used in making turnpikes are of different degrees of hardness ...
Page 71
Lo ! the Blue Mountain now in front appears , And high o'er all its lengthen'd ridge uprears ; Th ' inspiring sight redoubled vigour lends , And soon its steeps each traveller ascends ; Panting we wind aloft , begloom'd in shade ...
Lo ! the Blue Mountain now in front appears , And high o'er all its lengthen'd ridge uprears ; Th ' inspiring sight redoubled vigour lends , And soon its steeps each traveller ascends ; Panting we wind aloft , begloom'd in shade ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 2 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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