The Poetry and History of Wyoming: Containing Campbelle's Gertrude, and the History of Wyoming, from Its Discovery to the Beginning of the Present CenturyM. H. Newman, 1844 - 398 páginas |
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... French near Ulm , and that Munich and the heart of Bavaria were the theatre of an interesting war . " One moment's ... French under Grennier , encamped below us . We saw the fire given and returned , and heard distinctly the sound of the ...
... French near Ulm , and that Munich and the heart of Bavaria were the theatre of an interesting war . " One moment's ... French under Grennier , encamped below us . We saw the fire given and returned , and heard distinctly the sound of the ...
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... French and expected as an Englishman to be made prisoner , but he observes " Moreau's army was under such excellent discipline , and the behavior both of officers and men so civil , that I soon mixed among them without hesitation , and ...
... French and expected as an Englishman to be made prisoner , but he observes " Moreau's army was under such excellent discipline , and the behavior both of officers and men so civil , that I soon mixed among them without hesitation , and ...
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... French and Austrians in the scenes I had just witnessed . Much , however , as the wit and erudition of these men pleases an auditor of the first or second visit , this trial of minds be- comes at last fatiguing , because it is unnatural ...
... French and Austrians in the scenes I had just witnessed . Much , however , as the wit and erudition of these men pleases an auditor of the first or second visit , this trial of minds be- comes at last fatiguing , because it is unnatural ...
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... French war of 1755— 1763 , formed the northern frontier of Pennsylva- nia , and were within the territory of the Minisink Indians , or Monseys , as they were sometimes called . The chain of military posts erected by the colony of ...
... French war of 1755— 1763 , formed the northern frontier of Pennsylva- nia , and were within the territory of the Minisink Indians , or Monseys , as they were sometimes called . The chain of military posts erected by the colony of ...
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... French , but chiefly known in American history as the Five , and afterward the Six Nations , already among them , within the territory now forming both New - Jersey and Pennsylvania . But these were not large , and the Lenelenoppes , or ...
... French , but chiefly known in American history as the Five , and afterward the Six Nations , already among them , within the territory now forming both New - Jersey and Pennsylvania . But these were not large , and the Lenelenoppes , or ...
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afterward arms arrived battle beautiful blood Brant brethren brother called Campen Captain Charles Miner chief civil claim Colonel Dennison Colonel John Butler Colonel Pickering colony command Connecticut continental army council defence Delawares Durkee Easton Eliphalet Dyer enemy escape father fell fire Forty Franklin French friends garrison Gertrude GERTRUDE OF WYOMING Governor hand hatchet heard heart hundred Indians inhabitants Jenkins Jonathan Joseph killed land Lazarus Stewart letter living massacre ment miles Mohawk Moravian mountains New-York night Ogden party peace Penn Pennsylvania Philadelphia present prisoners resided river Sachems Samuel savage scalped scene sent settlement settlers Shawanese side Sir William Johnson Six Nations Slocum spirit Stephen Susquehanna Company taken Teedyuscung territory thee Thomas tion tomahawk took tory town tribes troops valley of Wyoming wampum warriors wild Wilkesbarré woods young Zebulon Butler
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Página 367 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Página 382 - Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully...
Página 381 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Página 382 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was* ray love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 89 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 49 - And by my side, in battle true, A thousand warriors drew the shaft? Ah ! there in desolation cold The desert serpent dwells alone, Where grass o'ergrows each mouldering bone, And stones themselves to ruin grown, Like me, are death-like old : Then seek we not their camp — for there The silence dwells of my despair.
Página 8 - The orison repeated in his arms, For God to bless her sire and all mankind; The book, the bosom on his knee reclined, Or how sweet fairy-lore he heard her con, (The playmate ere the teacher of her mind): All uncompanion'd else her heart had gone Till now, in Gertrude's eyes, their ninth blue summer shone.
Página 380 - ... the print of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell ; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side ; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 13 - As monumental bronze unchanged his look: A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook : Train'd, from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear— A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear.
Página 380 - Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject...