Louisville Directory (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 edition. Excerpt: ...present times. And yet enjoyment may not be greater now in the extended sphere which luxury has taken, than in the more contracted pleasures of the hardy and enterprising times of which we are writing: so true is the observation of Hume, that all luxury is relative, "and that a porter is no less greedy of money which he spends in bacon and brandy, than the courtier who purchases champagne and ortolans." Then, a man would seem as much out of character to'be seen abroad without his ro/2e, as at. present without his bat, to use the very language of one who grew up amidst these early dangers and privations. The field of corn could only he tilled with the rifle along with the plough; or while one party was ploughing, another party was keeping guard against surprise by the Indians. Yet amidst all these discouragements and difficulties, so hardy and thrifty is the germ of agricultural society: so superior in its developement, to the hunter state, that Louisville, and still more Kentucky, continued to flourish in spite of their adversities. The Hercules, which, in it cradle had strangled the serpents, could not, in its maturity dread more formidable monsters. In May, 1780, the legislature of Virgmia, at the petition, as the act recites, "of sundry, inhabitants of the county of Kentucky, have, at great expense and hazard, settled themselves on certain lands at the Falls of Ohio, said to be the property of John Conolly, and have laid off a considerable part thereof into half acre lots for a town, and having settled theieorr" enacted, "that one thousand acres of land, being the forfeited property of the said John Conolly," be vested in certain trustees, "to be by them, or any four of them, laid off into lots of half an...