| Thomas Loraine McKenney - 1846 - 602 páginas
...this answer, (which most of you, doubtless, have heard) — " I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top — (referring to his blindness.) Why I yet live, the great, good Spirit only knows. When I am dead,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 páginas
...received this answer (which most of you, doubtless, have heard), — 'I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top (referring to his blindness). Why I yet live, the great, good Spirit only knows. When I am dead, bury... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 páginas
...received this answer (which most of you, doubtless, have heard), — 'I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top (referring to his blindness). Why I yet live, the great, good Spirit only knows. When I am dead, bury... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1847 - 732 páginas
...said, • I am an aged hemlock ; the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me : why I live, the great Good Spirit only knows. Pray to the Lord that I may have patience to wait for... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1848 - 708 páginas
...curiosity. He said to one who visited him but a little time before his death, u I am an aged hemlock; ike winds of an hundred winters have whistled through...generation to which I belonged has run away and left me." In early life, he was, like nearly all of his race, given to intoxication. In 177.5, he was at Albany... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1848 - 746 páginas
...him but a little time before his death, " / can an aged hemlock ; UK winds of an hundred winters htm whistled through my branches; I am dead at the top....generation to which I belonged has run away and left me." In early life, he was, like nearly all of his race, given to intoxication. In 1775, he was at Albany... | |
| Stephen Henry Ward - 1849 - 248 páginas
...to one who visited him but a little time before his death, ' I am an aged hemlock;* the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches...generation to which I belonged has run away and left me.' " The chief, Pushmataha, just before his death, addressed his friends in the following touching words... | |
| John Frost - 1849 - 478 páginas
...a short time before his death, he thus expressed himself: "I am an aged hemlock — the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches...— I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belong have passed away and left me. Why I still live, the Great Spirit alone knows ! But I pray to... | |
| John Warner Barber, Elizabeth G. Barber - 1850 - 200 páginas
...who called on him a short time before his death, he thus expressed himself through an interpreter : " I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters...dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged hive ran away and left me ; why I live, the Great Good Spint only knows. Pray to my Jesna that I may... | |
| J. C. Gilleland - 1851 - 478 páginas
..." To a friend who called on him a short time since, he thus expressed himself by an in,, terpreter: 'I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters...dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me : why I live* the Great Good Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may... | |
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