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... important step which this General Assembly has taken in the appointment of a commission to prepare plans looking toward the erection of a building for the Histori- cal Society and Library and some kindred interests . In 1912 Madison ...
... important step which this General Assembly has taken in the appointment of a commission to prepare plans looking toward the erection of a building for the Histori- cal Society and Library and some kindred interests . In 1912 Madison ...
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... important subject of the archaeology of Illinois , beg leave to make a partial report , which if adopted , may be the basis for some more definite plans to be matured by competent persons under the direction of the State Society . We ...
... important subject of the archaeology of Illinois , beg leave to make a partial report , which if adopted , may be the basis for some more definite plans to be matured by competent persons under the direction of the State Society . We ...
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... important business for the Miami Exporting Company in connection with trans- portation of provisions and specie for the western army . While absent at the seat of government he was offered a commission in the regiment of Light Artillery ...
... important business for the Miami Exporting Company in connection with trans- portation of provisions and specie for the western army . While absent at the seat of government he was offered a commission in the regiment of Light Artillery ...
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... important men as Findlay , George P. Torrence , his brother - in - law , Jacob Burnet , and General William Henry Harrison . Through some of these men and his own family connections , he was likewise a protegé of W. H. Crawford , then ...
... important men as Findlay , George P. Torrence , his brother - in - law , Jacob Burnet , and General William Henry Harrison . Through some of these men and his own family connections , he was likewise a protegé of W. H. Crawford , then ...
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... important in view of future developments is his reference to . the proposed Illinois - Michigan Canal . " " The most important bill that we now have before the Legislature is a bill making an appropriation for internal improvements ...
... important in view of future developments is his reference to . the proposed Illinois - Michigan Canal . " " The most important bill that we now have before the Legislature is a bill making an appropriation for internal improvements ...
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Page 71 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 15 - History of the first New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution.
Page 69 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 71 - The voice at midnight came; He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame — He fell, but felt no fear.
Page 51 - Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey.
Page 80 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 15 - The Siege of Charleston by the British fleet and army under the Command of Admiral Arbuthnot and Sir Henry Clinton, which terminated with the Surrender of that Place on the 12th of May, 1780.
Page 71 - For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
Page 70 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.
Page 71 - And ever near us, though unseen, The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is Life — there are no dead!