Pioneer Collections: Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Том 4The Society, 1883 |
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aged Allegan county appointed April army arrived Berrien County born brother Buell building built called Captain Cass county Cassopolis citizens Clair Colonel command commenced daughter death deceased DeLamater Detroit died early east East Saginaw Eaton Rapids elected erected farm father fire Flint friends Genesee county Grand held Hillsdale county honor Indians Jackson Jackson county James John Jonesville Joseph Judge July June labor land Lansing Lenawee county lived located March married Mary meeting Michigan miles mill Miller Monroe never night Ohio organization Pioneer Society preached Presbyterian church present purchased railroad regiment residence river River Raisin road Saginaw Saginaw county saw-mill school-house settled settlement settlers Smith soon spring Stevenson Tecumseh to-day took town township village Washtenaw county Wayne county wife William Witherell York Ypsilanti
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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.