Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress, Volume 9State Journal Company, printers, 1902 - 570 páginas |
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... amount of land in cultivation , nor any information upon which a reliable estimate of the capital employed in agriculture can be based . I have , then , only my own observation , dating from November , 1854 , together with a somewhat ...
... amount of land in cultivation , nor any information upon which a reliable estimate of the capital employed in agriculture can be based . I have , then , only my own observation , dating from November , 1854 , together with a somewhat ...
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... amount of moonshine and pluck . But the seasons were prompt in their returns , and the autumn winds came then as they are coming now , and the ripening sunbeams descended upon the earth as they do today ; but the fields of grain that ...
... amount of moonshine and pluck . But the seasons were prompt in their returns , and the autumn winds came then as they are coming now , and the ripening sunbeams descended upon the earth as they do today ; but the fields of grain that ...
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... amount they might find on hand after the .crisis . I think we were the poorest community the sun ever looked down upon ; that the history of new countries can furnish no parallel for utter and abject poverty . I TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS . 31.
... amount they might find on hand after the .crisis . I think we were the poorest community the sun ever looked down upon ; that the history of new countries can furnish no parallel for utter and abject poverty . I TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS . 31.
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... amounts were recom- mended to be returned . There seeming to be no doubt that there were six slaves in Nebraska and had been formerly as many as thirteen , a bill was introduced and passed for the abolition of slavery in the territory ...
... amounts were recom- mended to be returned . There seeming to be no doubt that there were six slaves in Nebraska and had been formerly as many as thirteen , a bill was introduced and passed for the abolition of slavery in the territory ...
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... amount in five years to $ 50,000 his indignant language was : Let the days of extravagance and enormous fees be num- bered and cut short , and let a system of rigid and severe economy , suited to the times and our condition , be intro ...
... amount in five years to $ 50,000 his indignant language was : Let the days of extravagance and enormous fees be num- bered and cut short , and let a system of rigid and severe economy , suited to the times and our condition , be intro ...
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Página 491 - BREATHES there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 423 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.
Página 555 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Página 498 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Página 343 - First our pleasures die — and then Our hopes, and then our fears — and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust — and we die too.
Página 343 - I falter where I firmly trod. And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. "I stretch lame hands of faith and grope. And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Página 463 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Página 553 - I'll not leave thee, thou lone one ! To pine on the stem ; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them ; Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead. So soon may I follow, When friendships decay, And from love's shining circle The gems drop away ! When true hearts lie wither'd, And fond ones are flown, Oh ! who would inhabit This bleak world alone ? The young May moon, •
Página 191 - States by this treaty, shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, as soon as may be consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution; and admitted to the enjoyment of the privileges, rights, and immunities of the citizens of the United States.
Página 193 - The children of persons who have been duly naturalized under any law of the United States, or who, previous to the passing of any law on that subject by the Government of the United States...