In a sickly Southern climate, among slaveholders, people actually multiply faster, and die slower, than they do among freemen without slavery, in one of the purest and healthiest Northern climates in the world.
The nostrils of the prognathous species of mankind open higher up than they do in the white or olive species, but not so high up as in the monkey tribes.
This fact could not exist, unless the Northern people produce more than they consume--unless they have a surplus to sell, after supplying their own wants.
Fifteen pounds represented a vastly greater sum, at that time, than they do at present; and John Fletcher looked up from the counting with amazement.
The growers are all afraid to send their wine to market; for many of these armed bands are no better than brigands, and think much more of robbing, and plundering, than they do of fighting.
Even the rules that every lad shall practise shooting at the butts are less strictly observed than they should be.
Who that they could hope to deal with and get what they want from, could know more about human nature than they do?
They had no sooner completed their settlement, than they wrote a letter to the king containing a detail of their proceedings.
No sooner had these fugitives approached near enough to perceive an armed cavalier intercepting the road, than they paused, uttering many quick and, to him, incomprehensible exclamations.
To such people, who have little or no care for posterity, nothing can be more convenient than to exchange their capital for a revenue, which is to last just as long, and no longer, than they wish it to do.
When such occupiers were more numerous than they are at present, they are said to have been willing to give their spare time for a very small recompence to any body, and to have wrought for less wages than other labourers.
The thing gives the lie to itself: and it is impossible to reject the belief, that these Fens were as productive of corn and meat a thousand years ago, and more so, than they are at this hour.
I do not do this because I grudge inn-keepers what they charge; for my surprise is, how they can live without charging more than they do in general.
One positive good has, however, arisen out of the present calamities, and that is, the parsons are grown more humble than they were.
Thou art less happy being feared, than they in fearing.
Y: Or lest ye should say: "If the Book had only been sent down to us, we should have followed its guidance better than they.
S: Or lest you should say: If the Book had been revealed to us, we would certainly have been better guided than they, so indeed there has come to you clear proof from your Lord, and guidance and mercy.
In the letters from Canada I see nothing but incessant speculation in provisions and goods, which are sold to the King for ten times more than they cost in France.
The magazines of provisions formed at Raystown and Loyalhannon to support the army on its forward march were emptied faster than they could be filled.
Its inhabitants love us more, I think, than theydo any other nation on earth.
They think they lost more by suffering us to participate of their commercial privileges, at home and abroad, than they lose by our political severance.
Certain it is, that they are less happy and less virtuous in villages, than they would be insulated with their families on the grounds they cultivate.
Most of the Europeans, however, are fonder of it than they are of that cured by the {298} Northern Indians.
Soon the traveler will doubt, whether Omnipotence himself could have planted the trees larger, taller, and thicker together, than they are.
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