Border-land in SymbolsVancouver Columbian, 1913 - 129 pages |
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... took with him his farm imple- ments . He had a great supply of plows , culti- vators , and other farm implements . They were worthless in the new location , as the soil where he moved to is of light loam and only plows made of cast ...
... took with him his farm imple- ments . He had a great supply of plows , culti- vators , and other farm implements . They were worthless in the new location , as the soil where he moved to is of light loam and only plows made of cast ...
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... took twenty - five gallons of the most perfect honey . There were many trees in the mountains that contained as much honey as did the one they cut . The valley of the Lewis river has never been reputed as being a land flowing with milk ...
... took twenty - five gallons of the most perfect honey . There were many trees in the mountains that contained as much honey as did the one they cut . The valley of the Lewis river has never been reputed as being a land flowing with milk ...
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... took more time and cost of labor . When the boats were made and filled , trouble arose by the wind and waves on the lake , damaging the goods in the boats from leakage of the boats . The gold fields . were reached after many week's ...
... took more time and cost of labor . When the boats were made and filled , trouble arose by the wind and waves on the lake , damaging the goods in the boats from leakage of the boats . The gold fields . were reached after many week's ...
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... of the lender of the money the warrior had one year in which to pay the money bor . rowed . The lender of money , in those days , took chances of losing his life if he played " Shylock and the pound of flesh , " in COUNTING THE COST 61.
... of the lender of the money the warrior had one year in which to pay the money bor . rowed . The lender of money , in those days , took chances of losing his life if he played " Shylock and the pound of flesh , " in COUNTING THE COST 61.
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... took in learning the alphabet , never became famous as a scholar . Take one of those souls who have paid the price and try to barter something you possess for what they possess and see what they ask for their part of the schooling ...
... took in learning the alphabet , never became famous as a scholar . Take one of those souls who have paid the price and try to barter something you possess for what they possess and see what they ask for their part of the schooling ...
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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.