Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of America |
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... party were recog- nized as the White Eyes , while the opposition were de- signated Red Eyes . The point of junction of the rivers , where now stands the pleasant village of Harmar , is the place where this momentous event occurred ...
... party were recog- nized as the White Eyes , while the opposition were de- signated Red Eyes . The point of junction of the rivers , where now stands the pleasant village of Harmar , is the place where this momentous event occurred ...
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... party drinks a half ; " Doctor , " a whole ; " Pope , " two wholes . 12. When a beer - boy is called " beer baby , " a chal- lenge must be given , and each party drinks a half . 13. Each principal must choose a second , and the second ...
... party drinks a half ; " Doctor , " a whole ; " Pope , " two wholes . 12. When a beer - boy is called " beer baby , " a chal- lenge must be given , and each party drinks a half . 13. Each principal must choose a second , and the second ...
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... party has violated the Constitution . I am fully persuaded , therefore , that it is the great multi- plicity of governments alone that has been able to impart vitality to so large a number of daily journals , when they were laboring ...
... party has violated the Constitution . I am fully persuaded , therefore , that it is the great multi- plicity of governments alone that has been able to impart vitality to so large a number of daily journals , when they were laboring ...
Page 195
... parties - Centralists , Auton . omists , Dualists , Federalists , Democrats , and Clericals . To catch the shades of difference between the platforms of some of them would require a dialectician able to “ distinguish and divide a hair ...
... parties - Centralists , Auton . omists , Dualists , Federalists , Democrats , and Clericals . To catch the shades of difference between the platforms of some of them would require a dialectician able to “ distinguish and divide a hair ...
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... party , as against their own unspeakably oppressed and pillaged countrymen . Enough instances have been adduced above to show forth this weakness of the Teutonic mind , which began to be exhibited as early as the time of the celebrated ...
... party , as against their own unspeakably oppressed and pillaged countrymen . Enough instances have been adduced above to show forth this weakness of the Teutonic mind , which began to be exhibited as early as the time of the celebrated ...
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Page 353 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Page 75 - For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud, Which is the hot condition of their blood : If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music...
Page 162 - Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Page 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Page 317 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Page 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone...
Page 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 230 - HARK ! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum ; Lo ! a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum, — Saying, " Come, Freemen, come ! Ere your heritage be wasted," said the quick alarming drum.
Page 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Page 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...