Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 9

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Halaman 153 - The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
Halaman 23 - For what is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Halaman 23 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Halaman 25 - Watch ye therefore ; for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning ; lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you, I say unto all Watch.
Halaman 26 - He encouraged and advanced legislation to improve the public care of mental illness, and at the time of his death was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Norwalk State Hospital.
Halaman 183 - His youth was innocent ; his riper age, Marked with some act of goodness, every day ; And watched by eyes that loved him, calm, and sage, Faded his late declining years away. Cheerful he gave his being up, and went To share the holy rest that waits a life well spent.
Halaman 433 - Boone's account," the lieutenant-governor excitedly reported, "the people of the frontier have been incessantly harassed by parties of Indians they have not been able to sow grain and at Kentucke will not have a morsel of bread by the middle of June. Cloathing is not to be had, nor do they expect relief from the Congress— their dilemma will probably induce them to trust to the Savages who have shewn so much humanity to their prisoners, & come to this place before winter.
Halaman 487 - Sovereign, or be pillaged & left to starve; cruel alternative. This is too shocking a subject to dwell upon; Your Excellency's known humanity will certainly put a stop if possible to such proceedings, as it is not people in arms that Indians will ever daringly attack, but the poor inoffensive families who fly to the deserts to be out of trouble, & who are inhumanly butchered sparing neither women or children.
Halaman 502 - The garrison are to deliver themselves as prisoners of war, and march out with their arms and accoutrements, etc. III. The garrison to be delivered up at ten o'clock tomorrow. IV. Three days time to be allowed the garrison to settle their accounts with the inhabitants and traders of this place.
Halaman 271 - ... for the purpose of fixing the location or termmation of said road ; and shall have power to transport, take, and carry property and persons upon the same, by the power and force of steam, of animals, or of any mechanical or other power, or of any combination of them...

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