Discourse on the History, Character, and Prospects of the West: Delivered to the Union Literary Society of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, at Their Ninth Anniversary, September 23, 1834Truman and Smith, 1834 - 56 Seiten |
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... rivers which traverse it in every direction , exert on the mind that expanding influence , which comes from the contemplation of vast natural objects ; while the distant visits and long migra- tions , to which this condition invites ...
... rivers which traverse it in every direction , exert on the mind that expanding influence , which comes from the contemplation of vast natural objects ; while the distant visits and long migra- tions , to which this condition invites ...
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... your hand at her gushing fountains , and wade in the pebbly brook below ; bathe in the deeper stream , and give yourselves up to musing on the lonely banks of the majestic river ; now cast your eyes through the green canopy 14.
... your hand at her gushing fountains , and wade in the pebbly brook below ; bathe in the deeper stream , and give yourselves up to musing on the lonely banks of the majestic river ; now cast your eyes through the green canopy 14.
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... river ; now cast your eyes through the green canopy of maples , and gaze at the vulture poised high in the regious above ; then chase the humming - bird , as it glides among the flowers which dress out our prairies in the dyes of the ...
... river ; now cast your eyes through the green canopy of maples , and gaze at the vulture poised high in the regious above ; then chase the humming - bird , as it glides among the flowers which dress out our prairies in the dyes of the ...
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... rivers are con- strained within narrower channels , or turned into canals ; and the mossy rocks of their margins , are broken with the sledge or exploded with gunpowder ; hills are leveled and valleys filled up ; a macadamized road ...
... rivers are con- strained within narrower channels , or turned into canals ; and the mossy rocks of their margins , are broken with the sledge or exploded with gunpowder ; hills are leveled and valleys filled up ; a macadamized road ...
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... river as the western boundary , between the dominions of Great Britain and those of France and Spain . This constitutes the Hispano- Gallic , or first period of the civil history of the Valley ; which , in reference to the part lying ...
... river as the western boundary , between the dominions of Great Britain and those of France and Spain . This constitutes the Hispano- Gallic , or first period of the civil history of the Valley ; which , in reference to the part lying ...
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Seite 15 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps : Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word : Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Seite 36 - Ohio about one hundred miles, and were near the middle of it, gliding along very securely, as we thought, about ten o'clock of the night, we heard a prodigious yelling, by Indians, some two or three miles below us on the northern shore. We had floated but a little distance farther down the river, when we saw a number of fires on that shore. The yelling still continued, and we concluded that they had captured a boat, which had passed us about mid-day, and were massacreing their captives. Our two boats...
Seite 37 - They approached us within less than a hundred yards, with a seeming determination to board us. Just at this moment my mother rose from her seat, collected the axes, and placed one by the side of each man, where he stood with his gun, touching him on the knee with the handle of the axe, as she leaned it up by him against the side of the boat, to let him know it was there, and retired to her seat, retaining a hatchet for herself. The Indians continued hovering on our rear, and yelling for near three...
Seite 32 - The literature of a young and free people, will of course be declamatory, and such, so far as it is yet developed, is the character of our own. Deeper learning will, no doubt, abate its verbosity and intumescence ; but our natural scenery, and our liberal political and social institutions, must long continue to maintain its character of floridness. And what is there in this that should excite regret in ourselves, or raise derision in others?
Seite 34 - We should delight to follow their footsteps and stand upon the spot where, at night, they lighted up the fire of hickory bark to frighten off the wolf; where the rattlesnake infused his deadly poison into the foot of the rash intruders on his ancient domain ; where, in the deep grass, they laid prostrate and breathless, while the enemy, in Indian file, passed unconsciously on his march. We should plant willows over the spots once fertilized with their blood ; and the laurel tree where they met the...
Seite 36 - In the latter part of April, 1784, my father with his family, and five other families, set out from Louisville, in two flat-bottomed boats, for the Long Falls of Green river. The intention was to descend the Ohio river to the mouth of Green river, and ascend that river to the place of destination. At that time there were no settlements in Kentucky, within one hundred miles of the Long Falls of Green river (afterwards called Vienna.) The families were in one boat and their cattle in the other. When...
Seite 38 - ... canoe; but when I got near to that point, my dog sat down and howled in a low and piteous tone. I coaxed him, patted and flattered him to follow me, but he would not; and when I would approach him, he would jump up joyously and run off from towards the river, and look at me and wag his tail, and seem eager to go on.
Seite 36 - Would you have an example of fortitude and maternal love, yon could turn to no nation for one more touching or original. The following incident displays the female character under an aspect a little different, and shows that in emergencies it may sometimes rise above that of the other sex : About the year 1790, several families, emigrating together into the interior of Kentucky, encamped at the distance of a mile from a new settlement of five cabins. Before they had laid down, and were still Bitting...
Seite 39 - The older of the two mothers who had gone out, recollecting in her flight that the younger, a small and feeble woman, was burdened with her child, turned back in the face of the enemy, they firing and yelling hideously, took the child from its almost exhausted mother, and ran with it to the fort, a distance of three hundred yards.
Seite 32 - ... the snows which buried up the fields when acted on by an April sun; then — like the budding herb which shoots up from the soil — good and great acts of patriotism will appear. Whenever the literature of a new country loses its metaphorical and declamatory character, the institutions which depend on public sentiment will languish and decline; as the struggling boat is carried back, by the impetuous waves of the Mississippi, as soon as the propelling power relaxes. In this region...