The Pioneers

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J. M. Dent, 1907 - 444 ページ

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ii ページ - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES TO BE COMPRISED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TWELVE HEADINGS...
130 ページ - That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
16 ページ - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
294 ページ - Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the colour of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant destruction. " ' Let us fly !' exclaimed Elizabeth, grasping the arm of Louisa,...
370 ページ - ... like the Leather-stocking to so severe a punishment, for an offence that even I must think very venial, cannot be perfect in themselves." " Thou talkest of what thou dost not understand, Elizabeth,
83 ページ - For here the exile met from every clime, And spoke in friendship every distant tongue : Men from the blood of warring Europe sprung Were but divided by the running brook...
438 ページ - The name should be set down right, for an Indian's name has always some meaning in it." "I will see it altered. 'He was the last of his people who continued to inhabit this country; and it may be said of him, that his faults were those of an Indian, and his virtues those of a man.
358 ページ - ... the dignity of the law requires an open exhibition of the consequences of your crime, it is ordered, that you be conveyed from this room to the public stocks, where you are to be confined for one hour ; that you pay a fine to the state of one hundred dollars ; and that you be imprisoned in the...
173 ページ - John was a man. But warriors and traders with light eyes followed them. One brought the long knife, and one brought rum. They were more than the pines on the mountains ; and they broke up the councils, and took the lands. The evil spirit was in their jugs, and they let him loose. — Yes, yes — you say no lie, Young Eagle ; John is a beast." %c Forgive me, old warrior," cried the youth, grasping his hand ; " I should be the last to reproach you.
176 ページ - THE ancient amusement of shooting the Christmas turkey is one of the few sports that the settlers of a new country seldom or never neglect to observe. It was connected with the daily practices of a people who often laid aside the axe or the scythe to seize the rifle, as the deer glided through the forests they were felling, or the bear entered their rough meadows...

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