 | William W. Campbell - 1880 - 330 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... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1880 - 800 páginas
...hemlock; I-.\mntls of an hundred winters have whisllfd through my branches ; I am dead cd the lop. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me." In eurly life, lit: was, like nearly all of his race, given to intoxication. lu I??.!, he wus at Albany... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1885 - 350 páginas
...whirlwind, and it was still." Says another, whose age numbered more than one hundred years : " I am the aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I am dead at the top." " And I heard," says the sacred writer, " as it were the voice of a great... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1886 - 692 páginas
...death, he expressed himself thus : " I am an aged hemlock, the winds of a hundred winters have swept through my branches. I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me. Why I live the Great Spirit knows. Pray to him that I may have patience to wait my appointed time to... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1886 - 674 páginas
...death, he expressed himself thus : " I am an aged hemlock, the winds of a hundred winters have swept through my branches. I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me. Why I live the Great Spirit knows. Tray to him that I ma}- have patience to wait my appointed time... | |
 | Charles Elmer Allison - 1889 - 138 páginas
...years. The venerable Oneida, in the twilight of his life said, "I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top." He requested that his grave might be made near Kirkland's. "Bury me beside my white father, so that... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1894 - 922 páginas
...he could go up with him at the great resurrection." "lam," he said, "an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top. The generations to which I belonged have run away and left me; why I live the good spirit only knows."... | |
 | Clinton Scollard - 1896 - 108 páginas
...speech the chief compares himself to this tree. Only a short time before his death the sachem said : " I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters...branches. I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belong have run away and left me. Why I live the Great Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may... | |
 | 1899 - 636 páginas
...curiosity. He said to a visitor: "I am an aged hemlock: the winds of one hundred winters have twisted 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 addicted to intoxicating liquors; but in 1775, while on a visit in Albany to settle... | |
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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... 
