Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society, Volumes 1-151877 - Livingston County (N.Y.) |
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A. O. Bunnell Allen Angus Cameron annual dues annual meeting appointed Avon B. F. Angel beautiful Bingham Board of Council Caledonia called century Charles Charles Shepard citizens CLAUSE committees Conesus lake constitute County Historical Society Dansville death died duties E. H. Davis elected Erie F. M. Perine farm father friends Genesee river Genesee Valley Genesee Valley Canal Geneseo George George W Groveland honor Indian interest Iroquois James Faulkner John Josiah Begole Judge L. B. Proctor L. J. Ames labor land lawyer lived Livingston County Historical Livonia M. H. Mills members present membership memory miles Morris nation Norman Seymour North Dansville Nunda Ossian persons pioneers Portage President record Richard Peck Rochester Samuel Secretary Senecas Sparta tion town tribes village vote West Sparta Western New York Wiard William young
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Page 24 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 25 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 28 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his •word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars.
Page 6 - LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things ; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 29 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 30 - Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen : Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 8 - It is now the fashion to place the golden age of England in times when noblemen were destitute of comforts the want of which would be intolerable to a modern footman, when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on loaves the very sight of which would raise a riot in a modern workhouse...
Page 10 - It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Page 24 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 48 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.