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acc't ALFRED VINTON Allen Beneficiaries Board of Directors Book donation book or set building C. R. Stinde cash catalogue cents Chas Clark Clerks Committee Curtis detained Edward EDWARD BROOKS elected engaged in mercantile Fort de Chartres GEORGE COLLIER George W H. D. BACON H. E. Bridge HENRY D HUDSON hundred initiation fee Insurance interest J. B. S. Lemoine J. H. Alexander J. T. Douglass JAMES E January JANUARY 13 John H last annual meeting lectures Library Hall Company Louis Mercantile Library LUKE M. V. L. McClelland membership Mercantile Library Association Mercantile Library Hall Missouri motion octavo paid Peter Powell present Proprietors R. D. Van Nostrand R. H. Davis receipts Recording Secretary rent Resolved Robert Robinson S. A. RANLETT Samuel SOLON HUMPHREYS Stith tion Treasurer TREASURER'S REPORT Vice President vols W. M. Morrison WAYMAN CROW William YEATMAN
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Page 20 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time: Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 29 - You will come here as soon as navigation opens, and will cause this place to be cleared, in order to form our settlement after the plan that I shall give you.
Page 13 - I am not mistaken, the difference may be briefly expressed thus: — That in those countries the arts are mainly exercised to gratify the tastes of the few; with us, to supply the wants of the many. There, the wealth of a province is absorbed in the dress of a mighty warrior; here, the...
Page 28 - He was delighted to see the situation (where St. Louis at present stands); he did not hesitate a moment to form there the establishment that he proposed. Besides the beauty of the site, he found there all the advantages that one could desire to found a settlement which might become very considerable hereafter.
Page 29 - ... wholly unworthy of imitation in modern times, and probably in consequence of our reverence for the past, we are not, in our day, without instances of mercantile operations which disdain to base themselves upon such an arbitrary standard. The distinctions •which marked the commerce of the ancients, and the accustomed ways trodden by the ages, were obliterated and forgotten in the revolutions occasioned by the invention of the mariner's compass, the doubling of the Cape of Good Hope, and the...
Page 22 - Peace to the just man's memory; let it grow Greener with years, and blossom through the flight Of ages ; let the mimic canvas show His calm benevolent features ; let the light Stream on his deeds of love, that shunned the sight Of all but heaven, and in the book of fame The glorious record of his virtues write And hold it up to men, and bid them claim A palm like his, and catch from him the hallowed flame.
Page 10 - The books marked in the catalogue as books of reference, thus (*), and such others as may from time to time be specially designated by the Board, shall not be taken from the Library, except by special permission of a member of the Board of Direction.
Page 29 - ... always, that they wished to form a village around the house we intended building, of which it would be the centre. All this talk disturbed me very much, and made me resolve to send for Monsieur de Laclede — and what still more strongly determined me to do so, was, that there had come from Caos some people to settle in the new village, but who left it again for fear of the Missouris, who numbered about one hundred and fifty warriors, while we were only thirty or thirty-five.
Page 30 - English, — which occupies them fully at this moment, for they turn their attention below Fort Chartres, from whence they expect the English, — but if they learn you are here, beyond the least doubt, they will come to destroy you. See now, warriors, if it be not prudent on your part to leave here at once, rather than to remain to be massacred, your wives and children torn to pieces, and their limbs thrown to dogs and to birds of prey. Recollect, I speak to you as a good Father; reflect well upon...