Proceedings and CollectionsNebraska State Historical Society, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 37
... possessed agricultural qualities unsur- passed by any portion of our wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness of the soil by planting different kinds of ...
... possessed agricultural qualities unsur- passed by any portion of our wide - spread country . Stimulated by these facts a few adventurous individuals put a practical test to the productiveness of the soil by planting different kinds of ...
Σελίδα 39
... possessing all the advantages of a high state of civilization in the nineteenth century . But the conven- tion closed harmoniously with the best feeling over a champagne supper provided by the wide - awake and enterprising citizens of ...
... possessing all the advantages of a high state of civilization in the nineteenth century . But the conven- tion closed harmoniously with the best feeling over a champagne supper provided by the wide - awake and enterprising citizens of ...
Σελίδα 59
... possessed - not a nerve seemed to be moved by excitement , and the voice did not tremble . She arose in the dignity of a true woman , as if the importance of her mission so absorbed her thoughts that timidity or bashfulness were too ...
... possessed - not a nerve seemed to be moved by excitement , and the voice did not tremble . She arose in the dignity of a true woman , as if the importance of her mission so absorbed her thoughts that timidity or bashfulness were too ...
Σελίδα 89
... possessed to the last . She was a thorough gentlewoman of the old French type , and spoke very little English . She had long been in feeble health . INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTES PERTAINING TO THE FONTENELLE FAMILY , AND.
... possessed to the last . She was a thorough gentlewoman of the old French type , and spoke very little English . She had long been in feeble health . INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTES PERTAINING TO THE FONTENELLE FAMILY , AND.
Σελίδα 129
... possessed of a retentive memory , and ambitious to excel . My At this time Dr. L. B. Coates , of Batavia , offered me a situation in his drug store with the privilege of studying medicine under his di- rection . This offer I appreciated ...
... possessed of a retentive memory , and ambitious to excel . My At this time Dr. L. B. Coates , of Batavia , offered me a situation in his drug store with the privilege of studying medicine under his di- rection . This offer I appreciated ...
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Σελίδα 200 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Σελίδα 171 - That the Legislature of said State, by a Solemn Public Act, shall declare the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition...
Σελίδα 171 - Approved, April 19th, 1864. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect except upon the fundamental condition, that within the state of Nebraska, there shall be no denial •of the elective franchise, or of any other right, to any person, by reason of race or color, •excepting Indians not taxed...
Σελίδα 34 - to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate to appoint ambassadors...
Σελίδα 183 - Pekitanoui, following the account which the Indians have given me; for from them I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake...
Σελίδα 171 - ... the assent of the said state to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the president of the United States, on or before the fourth Monday in November next, an authentic copy of the said act, upon the receipt whereof the president, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of said state into the Union shall be considered as complete...
Σελίδα 183 - As we were discoursing of them, sailing gently down a beautiful, still, clear water, we heard the noise of a rapid into which we were about to fall. I have seen nothing more frightful ; a mass of large trees...
Σελίδα 183 - I learn that advancing up this river for five or six days, you come to a beautiful prairie twenty or thirty leagues long, which you must cross to the northwest. It terminates at another little river on which you can embark, it not being difficult to transport canoes over so beautiful a country as that prairie. This second river runs southwest for ten or fifteen leagues, after which it enters a small lake, which is the source of another deep river, running to the west, where it empties into the sea....
Σελίδα 199 - Their masters have no other riches nor substance; of them they eat, they drink, they apparel, they...
Σελίδα 183 - I have seen nothing more frightful; a mass of large trees, entire, with branches, real floating islands, came rushing from the mouth of the river Pekitanoui, so impetuously, that we could not, without great danger, expose ourselves to pass across.