The inhabitants of St. John's and vicinity are described by an English traveler as "singularly unprepossessing," and before comple...ting his period he adds, "besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown." I suspect that that "besides" should have been a "because."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'How far is St. Helena from an Emperor of France?' I cannot see--I cannot tell--the Crowns they dazzle so.... The Kings sit down to dinner, and the Queens stand up to dance. (After open weather you may look for snow!)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St. ...Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.... The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,... And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Over Sir John's hill, The hawk on fire hangs still;... In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his claws And gallows, up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »