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Σελίδα 310 - March, 1852, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, personally appeared...
Σελίδα 111 - The noble ruins of religious and other edifices, still to be seen in various parts of New Spain, are referred to this people, whose name, Toltec, has passed into a synonym for architect.
Σελίδα 147 - I had gone far enough for the portage, so I left the Eau Plaine and took a north-east direction. After traveling a few miles, I found the current of the Chicago River. The whole country was inundated; I found not less than two feet of water all the way across the portage. That night I arrived at Chicago, pitched my tent on the bank of the Lake, and went to the Fort for provisions. I was not, however, able to obtain any; the commissary informing me that the public stores were so reduced, that the...
Σελίδα 11 - The object of the society shall be to collect, embody, arrange and preserve in authentic form a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials illustrative of the history of Iowa; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers; to obtain and preserve narratives of their exploits, perils, and hardy adventures...
Σελίδα 13 - The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice Presidents, or, in their absence, a President pro tempore, shall preside at the meetings of the Institute.
Σελίδα 76 - I've got some salt pork," rejoined our little hostess. " Then, Madam, you must fry it without the fish," I replied. So to the old business we went, of bolting square pieces of fat pork, an amusement I had so often indulged in, that I sometimes felt as if I ought to be ashamed to look a live pig in the face. Our landlady, however, was a very active and obliging person ; she said she would make us as comfortable as it was possible for her to do, and "she guessed" she had a little coffee, and would...
Σελίδα 113 - The great cities were divided into districts, placed under the charge of a sort of parochial clergy, who regulated every act of religion within their precincts. It is remarkable that they administered the rites of confession and absolution. The secrets of the confessional were held inviolable, and penances were imposed of much the same kind as those enjoined in the Roman Catholic Church.
Σελίδα 300 - Time was divided into years and seasons; twelve moons for a year, and a number of years by so many winters. The tribe, to which your speaker belongs, and of which there were many bands, occupied and possessed the country from the sea-shore, at Manhattan, to Lake Champlain. Having found an ebb and flow of the tide, they said : "This is Muh-he-oonnew," — "like our waters, which are never still.
Σελίδα 41 - Andrew, was, according to some writers, instituted by Achaius, King of Scots, in memory of an appearance in the heavens of a bright cross, resembling that whereon St. Andrew suffered martyrdom, seen by Achaius the night before he gained a victory over Athelstan, King of England, in the tenth century.
Σελίδα 340 - State, could only have been secured by fixed boundaries, as determined by the Ordinance. The right of Michigan to her boundaries, as they were fixed by the act of 1805, in execution of the power conferred upon Congress by the Ordinance, was asserted by her, by forming her Constitution by and for the inhabitants within those boundaries, to wit: east of a line drawn through the middle of Lake Michigan to its northern extremity, and thence north to the boundary of the United States in Lake Superior.