Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volumen3Illinois State Historical Society., 1912 |
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... judge of the circuit and supreme courts , he understood much of the inner workings of political life and was in power during the Mormon dis- turbances . When the manuscripts were turned over for publication , owing to the exposures ...
... judge of the circuit and supreme courts , he understood much of the inner workings of political life and was in power during the Mormon dis- turbances . When the manuscripts were turned over for publication , owing to the exposures ...
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... judge of the 6th circuit , which he resigned in March , 1837. He was elected judge of the 9th district in Feb. , 1839 , and one of the nine jus- tices of the Supreme Court in Feb. , 1841. Thereupon he moved to Oregon , Ogle county ...
... judge of the 6th circuit , which he resigned in March , 1837. He was elected judge of the 9th district in Feb. , 1839 , and one of the nine jus- tices of the Supreme Court in Feb. , 1841. Thereupon he moved to Oregon , Ogle county ...
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... McCormack , with preface by Judge R. E. Rombauer , of St. Louis . Price $ 10.00 . Governor Koerner was one of that galaxy of distin- guished men , noted for superior intellectual endowments , who came into the world in the year 1809. On ...
... McCormack , with preface by Judge R. E. Rombauer , of St. Louis . Price $ 10.00 . Governor Koerner was one of that galaxy of distin- guished men , noted for superior intellectual endowments , who came into the world in the year 1809. On ...
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... Judge Phillips will be glad to know that he has published this little tribute to Abraham Lin- coln . Judge Phillips is one of the closest and most care- ful of the Lincoln students and his addresses on Lincoln delivered on various ...
... Judge Phillips will be glad to know that he has published this little tribute to Abraham Lin- coln . Judge Phillips is one of the closest and most care- ful of the Lincoln students and his addresses on Lincoln delivered on various ...
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... Judge David Lockwood , was a soldier , and later a marine , in the Revolutionary war , and thus Mrs. Secor had the honor of being a " real daughter " in the Daughters of the American Revolution . Possibly she was the last , or almost ...
... Judge David Lockwood , was a soldier , and later a marine , in the Revolutionary war , and thus Mrs. Secor had the honor of being a " real daughter " in the Daughters of the American Revolution . Possibly she was the last , or almost ...
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Página 28 - You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
Página 1 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said Territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Página 52 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 7 - Looking towards the setting sun, there lay, stretched out before my view, a vast expanse of level ground, unbroken, save by one thin line of trees, which scarcely amounted to a scratch upon the great blank; until it met the glowing 16 sky, wherein it seemed to dip, mingling with its rich colors, and mellowing in its distant blue.
Página 12 - ... for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones ; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold; a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise : a place without one single quality, m earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this...
Página 33 - ... having, with infinite labour, formed a table on the conjectures of Sir Isaac Newton, he was disappointed in the return of one of those luminaries, and was very soon after obliged to be placed here by his friends. If you please to follow me Sir,' continued the stranger ' I believe I shall be able to give you a more satisfactory account of the unfortunate people you see here, than the man who attends your companions.
Página 28 - They were friendly and goodnatured ; they could trench a pond, dig a bog, build a house ; they could pray and fight, make a village or create a state. They would do almost anything for sport or fun, love or necessity. Though rude and rough, though life's forces ran over the edge of the bowl, foaming and sparkling in pure deviltry for deviltry's sake, yet place before them a poor man who needed their aid, a lame or sick man, a defenceless woman, a widow, or an orphaned child, they melted into sympathy...
Página 11 - At length, upon the morning of the third day, we arrived at a spot so much more desolate than any we had yet beheld that the forlornest places we had passed were, in comparison with it, full of interest. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops...
Página 26 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...