Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers ... 1812 to 1842Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1851 - 719 Seiten |
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... soon carried him into wide and untrodden . fields ; and the share he was called on to take in the exploration of the country , its geography , geology , and natural features , have thrown him in positions of excitement and peril , which ...
... soon carried him into wide and untrodden . fields ; and the share he was called on to take in the exploration of the country , its geography , geology , and natural features , have thrown him in positions of excitement and peril , which ...
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... soon wounded in the thigh, his leg broken, and his horse shot under him. With the coolness of a Blucher, ho then directed his saddle to be placed on a small knoll, and, drawing out his tobacco-box, lit his pipe and calmly smoked while ...
... soon wounded in the thigh, his leg broken, and his horse shot under him. With the coolness of a Blucher, ho then directed his saddle to be placed on a small knoll, and, drawing out his tobacco-box, lit his pipe and calmly smoked while ...
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... soon as the lakes opened he proceeded to Detroit , and in the course of two or three weeks embarked on this celebrated tour of exploration . The great lake basins were visited and explored , the reported copper mines on Lake Superior ...
... soon as the lakes opened he proceeded to Detroit , and in the course of two or three weeks embarked on this celebrated tour of exploration . The great lake basins were visited and explored , the reported copper mines on Lake Superior ...
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... soon after the Revolutionary War , removed from the Valley of the Housatonic , in Massachusetts , to Oneida . Throngs of both tribes were daily in the village , and I was thus first brought to notice their manners and customs ; not ...
... soon after the Revolutionary War , removed from the Valley of the Housatonic , in Massachusetts , to Oneida . Throngs of both tribes were daily in the village , and I was thus first brought to notice their manners and customs ; not ...
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... soon had a class of militia officers , to whom he gave instructions , and exhibited diagrams of military evolutions . Louisville had all the elements of city life . I was much inte- rested in the place and its environs , and passed ...
... soon had a class of militia officers , to whom he gave instructions , and exhibited diagrams of military evolutions . Louisville had all the elements of city life . I was much inte- rested in the place and its environs , and passed ...
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Seite 399 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Seite 675 - The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Seite 297 - Parr" quoted the passage; which, to Mr. Dyer's delicate feelings,1 conveyed the apprehension that Mr. Rogers 1 Mr. Dyer had complained to Mr. Lamb of some suggestions in Elia, which annoyed him, not so much for his own sake as for the sake of others...
Seite 701 - Stuart, Bush, Dwight, and many other writers on the Scriptures. The whole designed to be a digest and combination of the advantages of the best Bible Commentaries, and embracing nearly all that is valuable in HENRY, SCOTT, AND DODDRIDGE. Conveniently arranged for family and private reading, and, at the same time, particularly adapted to the wants of Sabbath- School Teachers and Bible Classes ; with numerous useful tables, and a neatly engraved Family Record.
Seite 640 - ... win and incite the natives of [the] country to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Seite 118 - requesting the President of the United States to cause to be collected and communicated to the Senate at the commencement of the next session of Congress the best information which he may be able to obtain relative to...
Seite 160 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.