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... course to pursue , watching the shadows which seemed never to move , and the sun which remained fixed in the sky , and hoping every moment to see the men and horses of Bisonette emerging from the woods . Shaw and Henry had ridden out on ...
... course to pursue , watching the shadows which seemed never to move , and the sun which remained fixed in the sky , and hoping every moment to see the men and horses of Bisonette emerging from the woods . Shaw and Henry had ridden out on ...
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... course of the following day , and bring us some information by which to direct our course , and enable me to accomplish my purpose by means less ob- jectionable . The rifle of Henry Chatillon was necessary for the subsistence of the ...
... course of the following day , and bring us some information by which to direct our course , and enable me to accomplish my purpose by means less ob- jectionable . The rifle of Henry Chatillon was necessary for the subsistence of the ...
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... course of an hour Raymond was fortunate enough to find it . Then we turned westward , and moved over the hills and hollows at a slow pace toward the Black Hills . The heat no longer tor- mented us , for a cloud was before the sun . Yet ...
... course of an hour Raymond was fortunate enough to find it . Then we turned westward , and moved over the hills and hollows at a slow pace toward the Black Hills . The heat no longer tor- mented us , for a cloud was before the sun . Yet ...
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... course of Laramie Creek . Some time before noon we reached its banks , and began anxiously to search them for foot - prints of the Indians . We followed the stream for several miles , now on the shore and now wading in the water ...
... course of Laramie Creek . Some time before noon we reached its banks , and began anxiously to search them for foot - prints of the Indians . We followed the stream for several miles , now on the shore and now wading in the water ...
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... course toward the point where Laramie Creek issues forth upon the prairie . When we reached it , the bare tops of the mountains were still brightened with sunshine . The little river was breaking , with a vehement and angry current ...
... course toward the point where Laramie Creek issues forth upon the prairie . When we reached it , the bare tops of the mountains were still brightened with sunshine . The little river was breaking , with a vehement and angry current ...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8 Charles Fenno Hoffman,Lewis Gaylord Clark,Kinahan Cornwallis,Timothy Flint,John Holmes Agnew Visualização integral - 1836 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 345 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 337 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 43 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 356 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Página 345 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 341 - ... proud of being descended from men, who have set the world an example of founding civil institutions on the great and united principles of human freedom and human knowledge. To us, their children, the story of their labors and sufferings can never be without its interest.
Página 335 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 347 - They were further confirmed in this pleasing error by the form of their provincial legislative assemblies. Their governments are popular in a high degree; some are merely popular; in all, the popular representative is the most weighty...
Página 345 - People ; a People who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things, — when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of a watchful and suspicious Government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Página 335 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.