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... received from Gen. Egbert Brown , of Missouri , in which he recounted many reminiscences of early times , in Lenawee county . Col. Isaac D. Toll , of Fawn River , gave a brief sketch of the military career of John T. Brown of Mexican ...
... received from Gen. Egbert Brown , of Missouri , in which he recounted many reminiscences of early times , in Lenawee county . Col. Isaac D. Toll , of Fawn River , gave a brief sketch of the military career of John T. Brown of Mexican ...
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... received . COUNTY SOCIETIES . A report has been received from the Recording Secretary of the Allegan Pioneer Society , dated January 18th . The society has an enrolled member- ship of 198. Seven of the members have died , leaving the ...
... received . COUNTY SOCIETIES . A report has been received from the Recording Secretary of the Allegan Pioneer Society , dated January 18th . The society has an enrolled member- ship of 198. Seven of the members have died , leaving the ...
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... Received for memberships ... 181 00 Received for sale of Vol . I. Pioneer Collections .. Received from donations ... 175 50 10 85 $ 421 91 DISBURSEMENTS . Paid for postage . $ 6 55 Paid 8 PIONEER SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN .
... Received for memberships ... 181 00 Received for sale of Vol . I. Pioneer Collections .. Received from donations ... 175 50 10 85 $ 421 91 DISBURSEMENTS . Paid for postage . $ 6 55 Paid 8 PIONEER SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN .
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... received by the society on deposit with the State Treasurer , to be drawn as occasion may require by the Recording Secretary , who is the State Librarian . This has accordingly been done the past year , vouchers and accounts being ...
... received by the society on deposit with the State Treasurer , to be drawn as occasion may require by the Recording Secretary , who is the State Librarian . This has accordingly been done the past year , vouchers and accounts being ...
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... received a note in reply , saying that no part of the furniture came from Virginia or any other State . The canopies , desks , chairs , and all things of that sort were made or furnished by William Dunnell of Detroit . We did not forget ...
... received a note in reply , saying that no part of the furniture came from Virginia or any other State . The canopies , desks , chairs , and all things of that sort were made or furnished by William Dunnell of Detroit . We did not forget ...
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Page 311 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the LORD ; even so saith the SPIRIT ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 129 - evidence." in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to investigation, is established or disproved.
Page 270 - ... they heave no groans. There is something in their hearts which passes speech. There is something in their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which stifles both, which chokes all utterance, which has no aim or method. It is courage absorbed in despair. They linger but for a moment. Their look is onward. They have passed the fatal stream. It shall never be repassed by them — no, never. Yet there lies not between us and them an impassable gulf. They know and feel that...
Page 90 - ' I cannot discard him for their sake. His is the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.
Page 490 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey...
Page 299 - TIME rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 312 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 87 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Page 63 - And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 91 - Twas the first to lead on at humanity's call — It was stayed with sweet mercy when " glory" was all ! As calm in the council as gallant in war, He fought for his country, and not its