The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... thing in the abstract , it becomes the sole thing in the con- crete . Perhaps it is essential to it that it should in most cases be administered by a furious mob ; but that is the most horrible part of its horror to a stranger . Nearly ...
... thing in the abstract , it becomes the sole thing in the con- crete . Perhaps it is essential to it that it should in most cases be administered by a furious mob ; but that is the most horrible part of its horror to a stranger . Nearly ...
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... things are too horrible to dwell upon . We , at the East , are apt to think that the punishment of our old national transgressions is all condensed in the But I felt war which has smitten us so sorely 6 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... things are too horrible to dwell upon . We , at the East , are apt to think that the punishment of our old national transgressions is all condensed in the But I felt war which has smitten us so sorely 6 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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... in this country ! Why , in one Kansas settlement there lived an old man who was too lazy to do anything for his living , and whose neighbors had to support him , until finally they got tired of sendin ' on him things THE SETTING OUT . 7.
... in this country ! Why , in one Kansas settlement there lived an old man who was too lazy to do anything for his living , and whose neighbors had to support him , until finally they got tired of sendin ' on him things THE SETTING OUT . 7.
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... things , and con- cluded to put him out of his misery . When he stood on the wagon , with the rope around his neck , one new settler in the crowd took pity on him , and called out , ' Hold hard ! ye needn't hang him . I'll give him ten ...
... things , and con- cluded to put him out of his misery . When he stood on the wagon , with the rope around his neck , one new settler in the crowd took pity on him , and called out , ' Hold hard ! ye needn't hang him . I'll give him ten ...
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... things ! But on can- vas they would seem even more theatrical than they do in these inadequate words . In all the wrath of nature , mad hurricanes and thunder - storms , on sea or land , there never visited me anything to com- pare in ...
... things ! But on can- vas they would seem even more theatrical than they do in these inadequate words . In all the wrath of nature , mad hurricanes and thunder - storms , on sea or land , there never visited me anything to com- pare in ...
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