 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 792 páginas
...days. To a friend who called on him a short time since, 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 may... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 782 páginas
...friend.' To a friend who called on him a short time since, 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 may... | |
 | 1861 - 692 páginas
...last oration in council he opened with the following sublime and beautiful sentence : * Brothers — / am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and 1 am dead at the top.' " Every reader who has seen a tall hemlock, with a dry and leafless top... | |
 | John Lauris Blake, Alexander Vietts Blake - 1861 - 298 páginas
...his wane (he was then blind), 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 genera tion to which I belonged have run away and left me. Why / live, the Great Spirit alone knows... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of Indian Affairs - 1861 - 524 páginas
...Friend who called upon him a short Time before his Decease, he expressed himself thus by an Interpreter: "I am an aged Hemlock; the Winds of an hundred Winters have whistled thro' my Branches; I am dead at the Top. The Generation to which I have belonged have run away and... | |
 | John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 páginas
...by seeing civilized and polished society, and by mingling with good company in his better days. of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches...generation to which I belonged has run away and left me. Why I live the great good Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may have patience to wait for... | |
 | 1871 - 158 páginas
..."I am an aged hemlock — the winds of au " hundred Winters have whistled around me, " and withered my branches. I am dead at the "top: the generation...to which I belonged has ' ' run away and left me." Few more striking or poetical figures art to be found in any language. Several of his speeches, made... | |
 | 1871 - 158 páginas
...introductory passage from one of Sconondou's addresses to his tribe, at a Treaty for the sale of their lands : "I am an aged hemlock — the winds of an " hundred Winters have whistled around me, " and withered my branches. I am dead at the "top: the generation to which I belonged has... | |
 | Luna M. Hammond Whitney - 1872 - 800 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...generation to which I belonged has run away and left me ; why I live the Great Good Spirit only knows ; pray to my Jesus that I may have patience to wait for... | |
 | Franklin Everett - 1878 - 646 páginas
...generation and themselves, we can see the full beauty of the language of a Shenandoah chief, who said: "I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters...whistled through my branches; I am dead at the top. Why I alone of all my kindred remain, the Great Spirit only knows." But,— Life's long waking ended,... | |
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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... 
