Sketches and Reminiscences of the City of the Straits and Its VicinityFree Press book and job printing house, 1884 - 178 strani |
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Sketches and Reminiscences of the City of the Straits: And Its Vicinity ... Robert E. Roberts Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
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Stran 68 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Stran 113 - The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. ' ' The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the Electric Cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem.
Stran 37 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her...
Stran 80 - To the West ! to the West ! where the rivers that flow, Run thousands of miles, spreading out as they go ; Where the green waving forests that echo our call, Are wide as old England, and free to us all ! Where...
Stran 170 - ... fringed with long and broad avenues of fruit trees which have never felt the careful hand of the watchful gardener; and fruit trees, young and old, droop under the weight and multitude of their fruit, and bend their branches towards the fertile soil which has produced them. In this soil so fertile, the ambitious vine which has not yet wept under the knife of the industrious vine-dresser...
Stran 8 - No place in the United States presents such a series of events, interesting in themselves, and permanently affecting, as they occurred, its progress and prosperity. Five times its flag has changed, three different sovereignties have claimed its allegiance, and since it has been held by the United States, its government has been thrice transferred; twice it has been besieged by the Indians, once captured in war, and once burned to the ground."* On the 13th of September, 1759, a battle occurred between...
Stran 113 - The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of her Majesty the Queen on the success of the great international enterprise accomplished by the skill, science, and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by a conqueror on the field of battle.
Stran 166 - The country between these two lakes is very well situated and the soil very fertile. The banks of the Streight are vast meadows and the Prospect is terminated with some hills covered with vineyards, trees bearing good fruit, groves and forests so well disposed that one would think Nature alone could not have made, without the help of Art so charming a prospect.
Stran 113 - It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by a conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic Telegraph, under the blessing of heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world.
Stran 177 - Home of my heart, I sing of thee, Michigan, My Michigan ; Thy lake-bound shores I long to see Michigan, my Michigan; From Saginaw's tall whispering pines, To Lake Superior's farthest mines, Fair in the light of memory shines, Michigan, my Michigan.