The Delaware Water Gap: Its Scenery, Its Legends and Early HistorySherman & Company, printers, 1870 - 275 Seiten |
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appearance ascend base beautiful Blue Ridge boat Brainerd Brodhead Bushkill Caldeno Creek Caldeno Falls called Campen carriage-road chasm Cherry Valley church Cooper's Cliff Daniel Daniel Brodhead Dela Delaware Water Gap Depui direction Dutot Easton elevation father forest gorge Grotto heart Hendrick hundred feet Hunter's Spring Indian Jersey John John Brodhead Josephine Kittatinny House Kittatinny Mountain known lady lake land Lehigh Lenape Lenni Lenape lived Lover's Leap ment miles Minisink Moss Cataract moun Mount Caroline Mount Minsi Mount Tammany party passed path Pennsylvania Philadelphia places of interest Port Jervis portion present Prospect Rock ravine reach Rebecca's Bath Red lines river road rocky scene seen settlers Shawnee Hill side situated slope spot stone stream Stroudsburg summit Sunset Hill Table Rock tain Tamanend thick tion trees tribes visited visitors walk white lines wild William Winona Wissinoming witnessed woods
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Seite 64 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in who is this King of glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battle lift up your heads 0 ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in who is this King of glory the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory selah.
Seite 64 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; and be ye lifted up, ye 'everlasting doors ; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates ; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Seite 20 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Seite 66 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Seite 49 - On that day a numerous society of his votaries walked together in procession through the streets of Philadelphia, their hats decorated with bucks' tails, and proceeded to a handsome rural place out of town which they called the Wigwam, where, after a long talk or Indian speech had been delivered, and the Calumct of peace and friendship had been duly smoked, they spent the day in festivity and mirth.
Seite 49 - The fame of this great man extended even among the whites, who fabricated numerous legends respecting him, which I never heard, however, from the mouth of an Indian, and therefore believe to be fabulous. In the Revolutionary war, his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of St. Tammany, the Patron Saint of America. His name was inserted in some calendars, and his festival celebrated on the first day of May in every year. On that day a numerous society of...
Seite 49 - He was in the highest degree endowed with wisdom, virtue, prudence, charity, affability, meekness, hospitality, in short with every good and noble qualification that a human being may possess. He was supposed to have had...
Seite 65 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Seite 232 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world...
Seite 224 - In two hours and a half they arrived at Red Hill in Bedminster, where Jennings and two of the Indians gave out. The other Indian (Combush) continued with them to near where the road forks at Easton, where he laid down a short time to rest; but on getting up was unable to proceed further.