 | Joseph T. Glatthaar, James Kirby Martin - 2007 - 460 páginas
...away."69 Skenandoah would survive for decades beyond his peers. Late in life, he described himself as "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." His sight abandoned him, and... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1842 - 184 páginas
...very aged man, one 15 hundred and ten years old : he said once to a friend who went to visit him, " 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... | |
 | 1913 - 612 páginas
...friend and teacher Rev. Samuel Kirkland. " I am an aged hemlock; the winds of an hundred winters ha™ whistled through my branches: I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me.', SKINANOOAH. Erected 1911 by Skenandoah Chapter, NSDAR Oneida, NY Staten... | |
 | Abigail Mott - 1839 - 420 páginas
...body." THE PEaUOT OF A HUNDRED YEARS. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE. " I AM an aged hemlock : the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches : I am dead at the top," said a venerable Mohawk chieftain. The ancient Pequot Indian woman, whose brief history is here given,... | |
 | 1871 - 972 páginas
...110 years. To a visitor who called to see him during the last year of his life, he said, "Skenando is an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through hia branches He is dead at the top. The generation tt which he belonged has run away and kfi him."... | |
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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... 
