Pioneer Collections: Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Том 4

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The Society, 1883
 

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Сторінка 535 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run.
Сторінка 124 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Сторінка 535 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? WILLIAM KNOX.
Сторінка 207 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows Autumn, and his golden fruits away: Then melts into the Spring : soft Spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Сторінка 359 - ... can give to your question is to tell you what is my own practice. Oatmeal in the morning, as an architect lays a bed of concrete to form a base for his superstructure. Pie when I can get it ; that is, of the genuine sort, for I am not patriotic enough to think very highly of the article named after the Father of his Country, who was first in war, first in peace, — not first in pies, according to my standard.
Сторінка 535 - 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, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Сторінка 539 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Сторінка 399 - Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan...
Сторінка 16 - The attempt to obtain water possessing qualities suitable for making salt, has thus far proved unsuccessful. 13. La Plaisance bay railroad, from Monroe to La Plaisance bay, a distance of four miles. The amount appropriated and expended on this work is $34,113 00 ; a further sum has been expended, of which account has not been rendered.
Сторінка 535 - We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think ; From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink ; To the life we are clinging they also would cling; But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing.

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