Life of W. J. McGee: Distinguished Geologist, Ethnologist, Anthropologist, Hydrologist, EtcPriv. print., 1915 - 240 páginas |
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... early morning , and see the sun just peeping over the trees and rising in all his splendor and glory . Nature seldom makes mistakes . The Divine Artist is the best we have . In all this grand panorama of rainbow and sunshine , of forest ...
... early morning , and see the sun just peeping over the trees and rising in all his splendor and glory . Nature seldom makes mistakes . The Divine Artist is the best we have . In all this grand panorama of rainbow and sunshine , of forest ...
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... early date , to cut the trees into lumber , my father was glad to obtain one or two of these small buildings to aid ... earliest home , just as from my earliest years , I have tried to preserve the native plants and trees about the place ...
... early date , to cut the trees into lumber , my father was glad to obtain one or two of these small buildings to aid ... earliest home , just as from my earliest years , I have tried to preserve the native plants and trees about the place ...
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... early set- tlers influenced them to such an extent , that they became to- tally oblivious to the fact , that trees are the grandest and most necessary product of nature , and that flowers form the finest drapery that adorns the earth in ...
... early set- tlers influenced them to such an extent , that they became to- tally oblivious to the fact , that trees are the grandest and most necessary product of nature , and that flowers form the finest drapery that adorns the earth in ...
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... early settlers here and elsewhere , cleared off in the cheapest way great forests of the finest trees , which if standing now , would be worth more , far more , than the ground upon which they stood can ever be worth for farming . As ...
... early settlers here and elsewhere , cleared off in the cheapest way great forests of the finest trees , which if standing now , would be worth more , far more , than the ground upon which they stood can ever be worth for farming . As ...
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... early days , was one of her scholars . I spent one whole day in February , 1915 , at the home of Mr. Mar- ble who is now an old man eighty - three years of age but who is remarkably well preserved both mentally and phy- sically . His ...
... early days , was one of her scholars . I spent one whole day in February , 1915 , at the home of Mr. Mar- ble who is now an old man eighty - three years of age but who is remarkably well preserved both mentally and phy- sically . His ...
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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.