Life of W. J. McGee: Distinguished Geologist, Ethnologist, Anthropologist, Hydrologist, EtcPriv. print., 1915 - 240 páginas |
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... land beyond the sea . Among these is the Good Book , sacred , not only on ... beautiful , cannot fail to impress and to inspire one who is in sympathy ... beautiful . When a building spot was sought on the land my father entered from the ...
... land beyond the sea . Among these is the Good Book , sacred , not only on ... beautiful , cannot fail to impress and to inspire one who is in sympathy ... beautiful . When a building spot was sought on the land my father entered from the ...
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... beautiful landscape view , that it might have driven to ecstacies either poet or artist . Several rods in front of ... land as it appeared to us , a beautiful rainbow often appeared in rainy weather , and when the days were clear and ...
... beautiful landscape view , that it might have driven to ecstacies either poet or artist . Several rods in front of ... land as it appeared to us , a beautiful rainbow often appeared in rainy weather , and when the days were clear and ...
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... beauty that inspires trustfulness , reverence , and adoration . Here were gently sloping elevations of land , covered with nature's most beautiful green and decorated with innumer- able wild flowers most varied in hue , most diverse in ...
... beauty that inspires trustfulness , reverence , and adoration . Here were gently sloping elevations of land , covered with nature's most beautiful green and decorated with innumer- able wild flowers most varied in hue , most diverse in ...
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... beautiful land . " From far away frozen regions , In layers of generous till , The hoary ice - king spread deftly The grist of his adequate mill , For Iowa - beautiful land . " The Gulf with full buckets came flying To water this garden ...
... beautiful land . " From far away frozen regions , In layers of generous till , The hoary ice - king spread deftly The grist of his adequate mill , For Iowa - beautiful land . " The Gulf with full buckets came flying To water this garden ...
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... beautiful land . " But God wanted men for thy building- Strong men who were fit pioneers To plant here the seeds he had garner'd And sifted through long trying years , My Iowa beautiful land . - " They came the brave sons of the forest ...
... beautiful land . " But God wanted men for thy building- Strong men who were fit pioneers To plant here the seeds he had garner'd And sifted through long trying years , My Iowa beautiful land . - " They came the brave sons of the forest ...
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Página 91 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 25 - MY days are gliding swiftly by ; And I, a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, — Those hours of toil and danger. For, oh ! we stand on Jordan's strand ; Our friends are passing over ; And, just before, the shining shore We may almost discover.
Página 24 - Let every lamp be burning. 3 Should coming days be cold and dark, We need not cease our singing ; That perfect rest naught can molest, Where golden harps are ringing. 4 Let sorrow's rudest tempest blow, Each chord on earth to sever ; Our King says come, and there's our home, Forever, O forever ! CHORUS.
Página 205 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Página 71 - Soil Erosion," published as a bulletin of the Bureau of Soils in the United States Department of Agriculture, is a complete and graphic refutation — if such were really needed — of this contention. His last work, completed less than a month before his death, and also...
Página 126 - The poison, however, had left its mark upon him. The skin rotted and fell off until it left the bones and sinews bare, with a horrible smell. The wound was in the wrist, and the poison had reached as far as the shoulder when he was cured. The skin on all this fell off.
Página 198 - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
Página 205 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Página 42 - Mix'd with dross the purest gold ; Seek we then for heavenly treasures, — Treasures never waxing old. Let our best affections centre On the things around the throne : There no thief can ever enter ; Moth and rust are there unknown. 2 Earthly joys no longer please us ; Here would we renounce them all ; Seek our only rest in Jesus, — Him our Lord and Master call.
Página 24 - Strand. 8s & 7s. (Trio, 83.) days are gliding swiftly by, And I, a pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as they fly, — Those hours of toil and danger.