 | Pomroy Jones - 1851 - 936 páginas
...who called upon him a short time before his decease, he thus expressed himself by an interpreter : " 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... | |
 | Pomroy Jones - 1851 - 920 páginas
...short time before his decease, he thus expressed himself by an interpreter : " I am an aged keralock : the winds of an hundred winters have whistled through...dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me ; why I live, the Great Good Spirit only know? ; pray to my Jesus that I... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1851 - 842 páginas
...death, " I am an aged hemlock ; Hit winds of an hundred ivinters have whistled through my branche» ; I am dead at the top. The 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, bj 1775, he was at Albany... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1851 - 780 páginas
...strangers out of curiosity. He said to one who visited him but a little time before his death, "/ont on aged hemlock; the winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am dead ai the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me." In early life, he was, like... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1852 - 462 páginas
...stamp of mental energies. I recalled, as I saw him, the eloquent metaphor of the Iroquois sachem : ' I am an aged hemlock ; the winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I am dead at the top !' Opposite the patriarch was his nephew, the young aspirant Mahto-Tatonka... | |
 | 1852 - 444 páginas
...with blindness, occurs to our mind. Said he to some visitors, " I am an aged hemlock ; the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. Why I am spared, the Great Spirit only knows." We need not say that there is beauty in such language,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1854 - 442 páginas
...35. Comp. Ps. xcii. 12, 13. The aged Skenandoah — a chief of the Oneida tribe of Indians, said, " I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters...whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. My branches are falling," &c. IT And by the breath of his mouth shall he go 31 Let not him that is... | |
 | Anna Cummings Johnson - 1855 - 358 páginas
...died, a friend called and asked concerning his health, he said, " 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... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1859 - 794 páginas
...little time before his death, u I am an aged hemlock ; the wind* of an hundred winters hurt lohwilrd through, my branches ; I am dead at the top. The 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 17/5, he was at Albany... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1860 - 754 páginas
...a little time before his death, " / am on aged hemlock ; the winds of an hundred winters have whMrd through my branches ; I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run aicay and lefl me." In early life, he was, like nearly all of his race, given to intoxication. In 1775,... | |
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I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am 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 have... 
