Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 15Society, 1906 - Ohio |
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Page 273 - Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death. Whereat the Emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 274 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of Virginia of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 422 - It is well known that my forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence he extended his lines to the headwaters of the Scioto; from thence to its mouth, from thence down the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash; and from thence to Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
Page 354 - ... down to the latest period of recorded time, in the glorious annals of our common country there will be no brighter page than that which relates THE BATTLES OF GETTYSBURG.
Page 377 - what shall we do ? ' we're wounded every man ; Go charge them, valiant heroes, and beat them if you can.
Page 419 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 211 - Hark ! over the roof he makes a pause, And growls as if he would fix his claws Right in the slates, and with a huge rattle Drive them down, like men in a battle : — But let him range round ; he does us no harm We build up the fire, we're snug and warm...
Page 273 - Elizabeth, such his perils, preservations, dangers, deliverances, they seem to most men above belief, to some beyond truth. Yet have we two witnesses to attest them, the prose and the pictures, both in his own book ; and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds, that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them.
Page 490 - Father, listen to your children! you have them now all before you. "The war before this, our British father gave the hatchet to his red children, when our old chiefs were alive. They are now dead. In that war our father was thrown on his back by the Americans ; and our father took them by the hand without our knowledge ; and we are afraid that our father will do so again at this time.
Page 374 - ARTICLE VII. Amendments. SECTION 1. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote at any meeting of the Society.