Annual Report and CollectionsState Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1868 After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings. |
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Стр. 95 - be all shut up ; And the flesh'd soldier—rough and hard of heart— In liberty of bloody hand, shall range With conscience wide as hell ; mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins, and your flowering
Стр. 40 - none return from those quiet shores, Who cross with the boatman cold and pale— We hear the dip of the golden oars— We catch the gleam of the snowy sail, And lo ! they have passed from our yearning sight— They cross the stream, and are gone for aye— We may not sunder the veil apart, That hides from our vision the gates of day.
Стр. 60 - Divinely gifted man Whose life in low estate began ; Who grasped the skirts of happy chance, Breasted the blows of circumstance, And made by force, his merit known ; And lived to clutch the golden keys, To mold a mighty State's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And, moving up
Стр. 176 - deem that Nature did him wrong Softly to disengage the vital cord, For when his hand grew palsied, and his eye Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die.
Стр. 186 - ready.' Then advancing a step or two, he paused, saying, ' I do not wish to be put in irons. Let me be free I have given away my life—it is gone—(stooping and taking some dust between his finger and thumb, and blowing it away —like
Стр. 103 - blood. Did I not take your part ? Did I not go to his camp, and say to him, that if he wished to kill the French, he must first kill me and my warriors ? Did I not assist you in routing them, and driving them away
Стр. 60 - high to higher, Becomes, on fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a World's desire.
Стр. 275 - explained to me the terms of the treaty that had been made, and said we would be obliged to leave the Illinois side of the Mississippi, and advised us to select a good place for our village, and remove to it in the spring. He
Стр. 183 - breast, in a diagonal position, and bound tight to it, was his war-pipe, at least three feet long, brightly ornamented with dyed horse-hair, the feathers and bills of birds. In one of his hands he held the white flag, and in the other the calumet, or pipe of peace.
Стр. 103 - Remember the war with the Foxes, and the part which I took in it. It is now seventeen years since the Ojibwas of Michillimackinac, combined with the Sacs and Foxes, came down to destroy