Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 14Michigan Historical Commission, 1890 |
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April Battle Creek became born Branch county brother brought built Calhoun county called Cass church Crary daughter Detroit died district east Eaton county Erastus Hussey farm father feet French friends Grand hand Henry horse Indians interest Isaac E James John Joseph Judge June Kalamazoo Kalamazoo county labor ladies Lake land Lansing Lewis Cass lived look March married Miss Mary Michigan miles morning mother never night Oakland county passed pioneer Pontiac Port Huron Pottawattomies prairie present pupils reach Repentigny river Saginaw schoolhouse schoolroom settled settlement settlers Shavehead Silver Islet Society soon teacher territory of Michigan things tion took town township union school village Wayne Wayne county wife William winter woods York young Ypsilanti
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Page 544 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
Page 398 - him. An invisible empire; he knows it not—suspects it not. And is not this his withal; the conquest of his own brothers, the lawfully acquired possession of all men? Baleful enchantment lies over him, from generation to generation; he knows not that such an
Page 398 - punishments ; so that the eclogues of Virgil, and the odes of Horace, are each inseparably allied in association with the sullen figure and monotonous recitation of some blundering schoolboy. If to these mental distresses are added a delicate frame of body and a mind
Page 398 - letters of the alphabet are still runic enigmas to him. He passes by on the other side ; and that great spiritual kingdom, the toil won conquest of his own brothers, all that his brothers have conquered, is a thing not extant
Page 292 - Every township containing fifty inhabitants or householders shall employ a schoolmaster of good morals to teach children to read and write, and to instruct them in the English and French languages, as well as in arithmetic, orthography and decent behavior.
Page 398 - and arrange their matches of sport for the evening ; but there is an individual who partakes of the relief afforded by the moment of dismission, whose feelings are not so obvious to the eye of the spectator, or so apt to receive his sympathy; I mean the teacher himself, who, stunned with the hum and suffocated with the closeness of the schoolroom,
Page 398 - The buoyant spirit of childhood, repressed with so much difficulty during the tedious hours of discipline, may then be seen to explode, as it were, in shout, and song, and frolic, as the little urchins join in groups on the
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Page 661 - second article, in behalf of his Britannic majesty, " that the French inhabitants, or others who would have been subjects of the most Christian king, in Canada, may retire in all safety and freedom wherever they please, and may sell their estates, provided it