Annals of IowaIowa State Historical Department, Division of Historical Museum and Archives, 1908 |
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... travel and when within some fifteen or twenty miles of the river , we came after nightfall upon a clearing and cabin , of which we had been informed and at which we expected to get accommodations for the night . We drove up towards the ...
... travel and when within some fifteen or twenty miles of the river , we came after nightfall upon a clearing and cabin , of which we had been informed and at which we expected to get accommodations for the night . We drove up towards the ...
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... every prospect that we could get an early start the next morning . But when daylight came a howling bliz- zard was wildly careering over the prairies , rendering travel both difficult and dangerous . We had no choice but 44 ANNALS OF IOWA .
... every prospect that we could get an early start the next morning . But when daylight came a howling bliz- zard was wildly careering over the prairies , rendering travel both difficult and dangerous . We had no choice but 44 ANNALS OF IOWA .
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... TRAVELING A gentleman of this place arrived yes- terday morning on the Rolla having come up from New Or- leans in ten days , less seven hours , including twenty - seven hours spent in St. Louis . This is the quickest trip ever made on ...
... TRAVELING A gentleman of this place arrived yes- terday morning on the Rolla having come up from New Or- leans in ten days , less seven hours , including twenty - seven hours spent in St. Louis . This is the quickest trip ever made on ...
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... travel southward in search of the sources of the Red River , but misled by Indians whom they met they passed down the Canadian River and reached . Ft . Smith the 13th of September . They had been three months and six days in the ...
... travel southward in search of the sources of the Red River , but misled by Indians whom they met they passed down the Canadian River and reached . Ft . Smith the 13th of September . They had been three months and six days in the ...
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... traveling , like that of the preceding day , we crossed a deep chasm , opening towards the bed of the small stream we had hitherto ascended , and following the summit of the ridge between these , found the way less difficult and ...
... traveling , like that of the preceding day , we crossed a deep chasm , opening towards the bed of the small stream we had hitherto ascended , and following the summit of the ridge between these , found the way less difficult and ...
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Página 253 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 141 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Página 249 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Página 224 - Lastly (and which was not least), a great hope and inward zeal they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Página 579 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. There is no death!
Página 588 - Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Página 579 - And ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life — there are no dead.
Página 141 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Página 622 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 172 - The summit of the Grand Peak, which was entirely bare of vegetation and covered with snow, now appeared at the distance of fifteen or sixteen miles from us, and as high again as what we had ascended...