Book/Printed Material Letters from the South and West.
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Image 1 of Letters from the South and West. LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH AND WEST; BY ARTHUR SINGLETON, ESQ. Knight, Henry Cogswell LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY RICHARDSON AND LORD. J. H. A. FROST, Printer. 1824. C....- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 2 of Letters from the South and West. F 213 K69 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fourteenth day of July, A. D. 1824, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 3 of Letters from the South and West. CONTENTS. LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA, 5 LETTER FROM WASHINGTON CITY, 33 LETTER FROM VIRGINIA, 57 LETTER FROM KENTUCKY, 83 LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS, 109 LETTER FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO, 135- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 4 of Letters from the South and West.- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 5 of Letters from the South and West. LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA. MDCCCXIV. DEAR BROTHER, THIS city, which is the great metropolis of Penn's Woodland, and which was eulogized by Him of Tarsus, ‘H Φιλæσeλφια μeγeτΩ; Philadelphia forever! a Greek compound,...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 6 of Letters from the South and West. 6 elegant light broad-spanned arch thrown over the latter by our townsman Palmer, recalls agreeable associations. The Delaware waters were, last winter, so consolidated, opposite the city, that a festive ox was...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 7 of Letters from the South and West. 7 substantial, convenient; with extending blocks of massy private tenements; and a very few publick edifices of simple Doric grandeur, as, in particular, the marble bank. Christ-church is rather of the Gothic...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 8 of Letters from the South and West. 8 country; and where once loved to stroll, and where first germinated the splendid idea of Wilson, the Ornithologist. From Market-street wharf, upon which Franklin first landed, one has a fine view...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 9 of Letters from the South and West. 9 noble and munificent institutions. The Hospital is like a palace, and in its elegant garden-like front yard stands upon a cubic pedestal, with a golden-lettered scroll in his hand, a portly...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 10 of Letters from the South and West. 10 any stranger may daily enter, and call for any book, or folio of prints, for perusal; until the closing hour is announced by Oliver Cromwell's clock. This alone would make us...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 11 of Letters from the South and West. 11 London by his friend Fulton, for about four hundred guineas. West's great picture of “Christ healing the sick in the Temple,” is to be placed in a brick edifice planned, as...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 12 of Letters from the South and West. 12 crucifixion. Around, and upon the altar, stand the pyx, and a hundred little gewgaws, or symbols, in picture frames. In front of the painting, along the altar, and around the pulpit,...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 13 of Letters from the South and West. 13 of their rosaries, which represent so many saints and saintesses; and when they come to one they need, they stop and keep rolling that bead over and over between finger and...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 14 of Letters from the South and West. 14 his toys. In some countries, the bell tolls in such a manner, as to inform those without, what part of the service is commencing. The ignorant believe, that after an image...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 15 of Letters from the South and West. 15 across the Atlantic. However the ignorant may be deluded by ceremonies, the intelligent view them only as the earthly medium, through which the mind rises to the heavenly essences. Some think,...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 16 of Letters from the South and West. 16 Indeed, the annoyance to worship is too often but partially prevented, by the iron chains hung across the pavements on the sabbath. In public worship, the men with their broad hats...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 17 of Letters from the South and West. 17 and simplicity. In lieu of the lawyer, and the judge, they settle all disputations by impartial referees. Appeals may be made from their monthly, to their quarterly, and finally to their...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 18 of Letters from the South and West. 18 him to be an enemy; and they generally adopt Bible appellations, using the diminutives, even to adults, as more endearing. They refuse to use Mr., because they will call no man...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 19 of Letters from the South and West. 19 smooth oaken staff; her face, and the back of her hands being puckered, like unto a nutmeg cantaleupe, with age. However, she looked as if she covered a kind old-fashioned heart;...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 20 of Letters from the South and West. 20 and imitate their march to their expected Canaan. The Jews here sit in their seats below, the Jewesses in the galleries. From the Synagogue, you may walk to their burial-ground; where,...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 21 of Letters from the South and West. 21 of correspondences, they also believe in the communion of angels and men; and that heaven is like unto this earth, with animals and trees, only uninvested in matter, existing in pure...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 22 of Letters from the South and West. 22 society ought to support its own contingencies, by a more independent method. But sui cuique mos , says Terence. Some days since, and I saw, in Chesnut street, what would surprise...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 23 of Letters from the South and West. 23 costly, and do not look so dismal as ours; although, perhaps, the habiliments of death ought to look gloomy. There is one green square in the city, which is about to...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 24 of Letters from the South and West. 24 Boston, a modern Greek, from the Morea. Whilst now sitting, there is moving by a crowd of small boys, buzzing after a Chinese mandarin. His tall figure, little eye elliptical at...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 25 of Letters from the South and West. 25 a cold, cautious, calculating, hard-to-be-acquainted-with people; especially to one of still, withdrawing habitudes. Although a mottled mass of heterogeneous citizens, of all tongues and kindreds, yet they appear, to use a...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 26 of Letters from the South and West. 26 without guiding reins, with astonishing facility. Whether this tandem custom economize the cojunction of power is a query. The Philadelphians are a neat folk. Come Saturday evening, and every besom in...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 27 of Letters from the South and West. 27 As you muse along up out of these lower regions, into the central wards, the heart is frequently refreshed by the sight of airy young misses sitting at the open front...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 28 of Letters from the South and West. 28 plying the oar for a score of miles to market in an open boat. The women of the city, and not the men, do the chief chaffering, going with the sun...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 29 of Letters from the South and West. 29 streets; but, after a while, if half the city were to crash down, he would esteem it a matter of course, and not awake. It is very agreeable to repose in...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 30 of Letters from the South and West. 30 for faggots; fix for fixure; spry for nimble; lengthy for lengthened; lick for strike; hang the horse; had not ought; to convene for to be convenient; complected for complexioned; slump; jounce...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 31 of Letters from the South and West. 31 livelier picture of the city is thus given, than would be given from more general traits; but, after all, compared with the country, a city, as our friend the doctor would...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 32 of Letters from the South and West.- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 33 of Letters from the South and West. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON CITY. MDCCCXVI. dear brother, AS Congress is now in session, I shall tarry here two or three weeks, to catch the manners living as they rise, before I proceed...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 34 of Letters from the South and West. 34 As the President's meditations circulate, his prophetic eye views the opening canal, from the chain of northern lakes, to the head waters of the western rivers, and his far-spreading republic of...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 35 of Letters from the South and West. 35 the way to encourage domestic manufactures? It were ill-natured, to ask whether pride, or humility, winked through the threads? It is projected to publish a splendid fac-simile of the Declaration of...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 36 of Letters from the South and West. 36 “to keep your thoughts close, and your countenance loose, to go round the world;” and boast the neutrality of it. Therefore, instead of repeating evil of dignities, like Nym, “I say...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 37 of Letters from the South and West. 37 healthful and unopposed circulation of air. Wide areas, of different dimensions and shapes, are left for public squares, and future promenades. But although the famous metropolis of our country, and notwithstanding...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 38 of Letters from the South and West. 38 of Scyros, to avoid going to the war of Troy. Some think, that war is sent to punish and reform a people. But, in a moral view, does it not make...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 39 of Letters from the South and West. 39 the greenwoods. It has been disputed, whether the partridge be a partridge? It has been written, that the quail of New England is the partridge of the South; but that, in...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824
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Image 40 of Letters from the South and West. 40 Montpelier, are but about a half day's ride apart, and that two of them are near neighbours. I do not admire this adopting of foreign names, as if we had none...- Contributor: Knight, Henry C. (Henry Cogswell)
- Date: 1824