The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, 第 2 卷Harper & Brothers, 1853 Nolen's plans for development in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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... young wife , with a nice little plump lad , a baby , in her arms ; her husband was out in the forest . They had been at the place merely a few months , but were satisfied , and hopeful of doing well there . Two fat cows with bells were ...
... young wife , with a nice little plump lad , a baby , in her arms ; her husband was out in the forest . They had been at the place merely a few months , but were satisfied , and hopeful of doing well there . Two fat cows with bells were ...
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... young girl of seventeen , and two young warriors of the Sioux tribe , adorned with fine feathers , and painted with red and yellow , and all colors , I fancy , so that they are splendid . They remain on the upper deck , where I also ...
... young girl of seventeen , and two young warriors of the Sioux tribe , adorned with fine feathers , and painted with red and yellow , and all colors , I fancy , so that they are splendid . They remain on the upper deck , where I also ...
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... young Sioux warriors look like some kind of great cock . They strut about now and then , and look proud , and then they squat themselves down on their hams , like apes , and chatter away as volubly as any two old gossips ever did . All ...
... young Sioux warriors look like some kind of great cock . They strut about now and then , and look proud , and then they squat themselves down on their hams , like apes , and chatter away as volubly as any two old gossips ever did . All ...
第 25 頁
... young Indians , splendidly adorned with feathers and ribbons , and smoking from a long pipe which they handed from one to the other , so that they merely smoked a few whiffs each . Scarcely had we touched the shore when the governor of ...
... young Indians , splendidly adorned with feathers and ribbons , and smoking from a long pipe which they handed from one to the other , so that they merely smoked a few whiffs each . Scarcely had we touched the shore when the governor of ...
第 40 頁
... young , and had been married two years to a brave young warrior , who , I was told , was so fond of her that he would not take another wife , and that he would not allow her to carry heavy burdens , but always got a horse for her when ...
... young , and had been married two years to a brave young warrior , who , I was told , was so fond of her that he would not take another wife , and that he would not allow her to carry heavy burdens , but always got a horse for her when ...
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第 138 頁 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still, and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still, and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
第 123 頁 - ... iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
第 614 頁 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
第 13 頁 - At the end of the half hour they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had fallen asleep on the margin of the stream that bears his name. Near its mouth the canoe-men dug his grave in the sand. Ever after, the forest rangers, if in danger on Lake Michigan, would invoke his name. The people of the West will build his monument.
第 77 頁 - 'Tis a bad trade, friend. Examine it in the light of conscience, and see if it be not so.' But while they refused to pay such fees and taxes, they were liberal to a proverb in their contributions for all useful and benevolent purposes. "At the end of ten years, the public lands, which they had chosen for their farms, were advertised for sale by auction.
第 6 頁 - Ahasistari. Nature had planted in his mind the seeds of religious faith : " Before you came to this country," he would say, " when I have incurred the greatest perils, and have alone escaped, I have said to myself, ' Some powerful spirit has the guardianship of my days ; ' " and he professed his belief in Jesus, as the good genius and protector, whom he had before unconsciously adored. After trials of his sincerity, he was baptized ; and, enlisting a troop of converts, savages like himself, " Let...
第 12 頁 - we must, indeed, ask the aid of the Virgin." Armed with bows and arrows, with clubs, axes, and bucklers, amidst continual whoops, the natives, bent on war, embark in vast canoes made out of the trunks of hollow trees ; but, at the sight of the mysterious peace-pipe held aloft, God touched the hearts of the old men, who checked the impetuosity of the young ; and, throwing their bows and quivers into the canoes, as a token of peace, they prepared a hospitable welcome. The next day, a long, wooden canoe,...
第 6 頁 - I render to thee, Jesus, my Lord, for all thy benefits ? I will accept thy cup, and invoke thy name...
第 57 頁 - What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become ! Here would the Swede find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scania rich in corn, and the vallies of Norrland; here would the Norwegian find his rapid rivers, his lofty mountains, for I include the Rocky Mountains and Oregon in the new kingdom; and both nations, their hunting-fields and their fisheries. The Danes might here pasture their flocks and herds, and lay out their farms on richer and less misty coasts than those of...
第 11 頁 - Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles, they beheld a village on the banks of a river, and two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines.