...requently urged by friends to write my mem- oirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-tw... ...the subject is too large to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of ins... ... Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long afte... ...repub- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east t... ...b- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico on the south and east to th... ...er- cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pendence of Texas, and ma... ...cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pendence of Texas, and mainta... ...le he was under duress, ceded all the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande—, but he was a prisoner of war when the treaty was made, and his... ...e was under duress, ceded all the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande—, but he was a prisoner of war when the treaty was made, and his lif...

...ever laid upon any man. But I have another reason for asking this favor. I do not speak for my son alone; or for him and his friend alone. My son has ... ... been needlessly kept in Hell as many weeks as my boy’s mother has—I would do something to make American citizenship as sacred in the eyes of French- ... ...ers about which I will not now express an opinion. I would only add that I do not in the least share your complacency in regard to the treatment which... ...e, vraiment; elle n’est fas comme moi, un pet-it homme laide, ma femme est grande et belle, elle sait bien lire et é-crire, vraiment; et notre fils … ... ...ning for- ward with jaw protruding and a oneness of bristly eyebrows, “Ces grande messieurs qui ne foutent ‘pas mal si l’on CREVE de faim, savez-vous ... ...nish); for The Fighting Sheeney had made his home for a number of years in Rio, and his opinion thereof may be loosely translated by the expressive ph...

... narrative to the public. I had several reasons, however, for declining to do so, some of which were of a nature altogether private, and concern no pe... ...s truth. Notwithstanding this representation, I did not make up my mind to do as he suggested. He afterward proposed (finding that I would not stir in... ...tily frightened, “what ails you?—what is the matter?—what are you going to do?” “Mat- ter!” he stammered, in the greatest apparent surprise, letting g... ...nity of speaking with him privately. CHAPTER 7 JUL Y 10. Spoke a brig from Rio, bound to Norfolk. Weather hazy, with a light baffling wind from the ea... ... off the wreck by the Fame, of Hull, Captain Featherstone, bound home from Rio Janeiro. When picked up, they were in latitude 28 degrees N., longitude... ...sugar-cane, with which he had been furnished by the Ameri- can Minister at Rio Janeiro. This settlement, however, was finally abandoned, and in 1817 t... ...ldest and least frequented portions of fair England. The gloomy and dreary grandeur of the building, the almost savage aspect of the domain, the many ... ...utterance of the romance in Otello—the tone with which she gave the words “Sul mio sasso,” in the Capuletti—is ring- ing in my memory yet. Her lower t... ...Monsieur Croissart, and den again, 218 Poe in Five V olumes my daughter’s grande daughter, Mademoiselle Croissart, she marry von Monsieur Froissart; ...