Border-land in SymbolsVancouver Columbian, 1913 - 129 pages |
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... taken from the field of the " special providence " class and placed in the field of reason , of the possible working of the normal brain . To what degree the lower animals have a well defined language , is only a conjecture . In ...
... taken from the field of the " special providence " class and placed in the field of reason , of the possible working of the normal brain . To what degree the lower animals have a well defined language , is only a conjecture . In ...
Page 28
... taken to jail on a charge of burglary . The prosecuting attorney told the man to plead guilty , that the charges would be punished lightly . The man plead guilty and was given fifteen years in the penitentiary . I The man did not ...
... taken to jail on a charge of burglary . The prosecuting attorney told the man to plead guilty , that the charges would be punished lightly . The man plead guilty and was given fifteen years in the penitentiary . I The man did not ...
Page 36
... taken , and borrowed more ; parties returning home to stay , were in- terviewed and made to say that they had re- turned on business ; that they had left their mines in the care of an agent . When the advertisements of the rich gold ...
... taken , and borrowed more ; parties returning home to stay , were in- terviewed and made to say that they had re- turned on business ; that they had left their mines in the care of an agent . When the advertisements of the rich gold ...
Page 38
... taken away for every ten dollars spent by the gold seekers . It was one chain of adversity after another all along the line . No one could have stopped the craze . No one thousand men with a mililon dollars at their command could have ...
... taken away for every ten dollars spent by the gold seekers . It was one chain of adversity after another all along the line . No one could have stopped the craze . No one thousand men with a mililon dollars at their command could have ...
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... taken , that the neighbor referred to spent ev- ery night in his home . The neighbor whom I thought had abandoned his home , was working , building a barn some miles away , and came home late every night . When Joshua lead the children ...
... taken , that the neighbor referred to spent ev- ery night in his home . The neighbor whom I thought had abandoned his home , was working , building a barn some miles away , and came home late every night . When Joshua lead the children ...
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Page 55 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
Page 32 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 32 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 56 - And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him, and said. What doest thou here, Elijah?
Page 56 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake In pieces the rocks before the Lord : but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake : " And after the earthquake a .fire : but the Lord was not in the fire : and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 73 - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only selfsufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
Page 32 - We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their state free, and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave state.
Page 34 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 7 - Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Page 117 - Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.