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Southern and western magazine and review, Volume 1

 By William Gilmore Simms

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Georgetown, South-Carolina - Page 210
He was bom at Winyah, near Georgetown, South-Carolina, in 1732; a remarkable year, as, in a sister colony, (we are not able to say how nearly at the ...
more pages: 209
Charleston - Page 283
43, in the office of the Register of Mesne Conveyances, in Charleston, may be found the following curious specimen of orthography : "This is to ...
more pages: 210 211 213 215 271 278 280 415 419 422
Rome - Page 312
of adapting whatever seemed admirable in other nations, they labored zealously to transplant to Rome, what they had learnt to reverence in Greece. ...
more pages: 169 178 179 185 286 294 313 314 315 316
Cairo - Page 429
and from the Dead Sea to the Pyramids; from the Pyramids to Cairo, and from Cairo to Damascus ; — you hurry forward, feeling none of the incumbrance ...
Damascus - Page 429
and from Cairo to Damascus ; — you hurry forward, feeling none of the incumbrance of travel, and tasting all of its delights — the picturesque scene, ...
more pages: 430
Paris - Page 365
and a plan of the new fortifications by which Paris is to be protected and overawed, adds still more to the interest of all those portions of the text ...
more pages: 364 367 436
Schenectady - Page 332
The burning of Schenectady is a well known fact in the early history of the country. It is one of a thousand such histories, of midnight conflict with ...
more pages: 330
San Salvador - Page 242
We have no doubt he felt very much as Columbus didj gazing from his caraval on San Salvador ; as Cortes, looking down from the crest of Ahualco, ...
Boston - Page 283
Joseph Marion, of Boston, a Notary Public, who executed a Protest, on the 20th May, 1721, as appears by the record thereof in an old volume of ...
more pages: 299 304 309
Jackson, Mi - Page 269
Yes ! tho' earth's other treasures, all, were near, Still would my soul be dark,— she. is not here ! Jackson, Mi.
New-Orleans - Page 269
Two acts of her life, almost im- mediately following the events of the masked ball, provoked much remark in New-Orleans. ...
more pages: 262 264
Tuscaloosa, Ala - Page 346
Tuscaloosa, Ala. EARLY GRIEF. Mess not that grief should so have power, To take the start of ready time, I tell thee care was all my dower, ...
Algiers - Page 251
The amount professedly given for land, was simply a tribute paid to the superior strength of the Indian, precisely as we paid it to Algiers and the ...
Warwick - Page 205
whose love for her was known, and with whom Clarence was unwilling to divide the immense treasures of Warwick, her father, to which he would have been ...
Detroit - Page 237
His ten followers were left as prisoners at Detroit, but he was taken back to Chilicothe. Here he was adopted into a family, became a son, ...
Charleston, SC - Page 197
Charleston, SC THE CITY HERMIT. A LIVE WITHIN THE LIMITS. After all, it depends wholly on the imagination. A man lives in his mind rather than in his ...
London - Page 364
We are of opinion that a very useful and popular book might be made, which should aim at nothing farther than setting the traveller down in London and ...
more pages: 290 436
Memphis - Page 436
The Apollo at Delphos, is hardly rated so decently at Memphis, as the thrice venerable Anubis ; and the worshipper at the one place, when he wanders ...
Philadelphia - Page 309
But, in the absence of these advantages, we have no mobs such as in Philadelphia and Boston, where they burn convents, fire cities, scare innocent ...
more pages: 299 311
Athens - Page 315
of the inimitable account given in the second book of Thucydides, of that which made gloomy at Athens the second year of the Peloponnesian War. ...
Oxford - Page 431
Everett is represented as contriving to force his way into the honors of Oxford — a gross piece of disingenuousness, to call it by the mildest name, ...
Cambridge - Page 252
But your Indian student, drawn from "Susquehannah's farthest springs," and sent to Cambridge, would present you with some such moral picture as that ...
Quebec - Page 188
We behold him at Quebec and at Saratoga, and still he appears the same generous and fearless hero, — as bold as Hector, as unyielding as the greater ...
Savannah - Page 199
The Mayor has had my frequent autograph, and esteems it, I am told, quite as much as Tefft, of Savannah, docs those of Mrs. ...
Raleigh, NC - Page 404
Connecticut; — with Richard Weston, who married Sarah Gooch of Raleigh, NC ; — with Thomas Stukely, who married with Maria Lacy of Liberty county, ...
Princeton - Page 252
or of others, as to have begun to discuss or to compare their differences — follow him to a college such as that of Princeton or Cambridge — watch him ...
Baltimore - Page 432
Calvert, of Baltimore. It is to be followed by another, which will comprise the whole correspondence between these great German contemporaries. ...
New-York - Page 295
to a copious catalogue of publications, new and old, in Medical Literature, which are always to be found on sale at their establishment in New-York. ...
more pages: 217 224
Florence - Page 382
nobled the prosperity of the Italian Commonwealths of Venice, Pisa, Genoa and Florence — the gothic architecture — the formation of modern languages ...
Venice - Page 343
ceas'd its flying bound, Its snarling wolf foe bit the ground, And with its moaning cry, The beaver sank beneath the wound, Its pond-built Venice by. ...
Don Carlos - Page 433
Calvert — bis Count Julian, his Cabiro, his Don Carlos, his Miscellanies in prose and verse — all of them produetions more or less crude, ...

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