The National Old Trails Road: The Great Historic Highway of America; a Brief Resume of the Principal Events Connected with the Rebuilding of the Old Cumberland--now the National Old Trails Road--from Washington and Baltimore to Los AngelesNational Old Trails Road Association, 1925 - 284 Seiten |
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... nearly the same as the distance from Cumberland to Wheeling . " My earliest knowledge of this great road , the National Road , began with my earliest recollection . It passed within two and one - half miles of my father's farm and was ...
... nearly the same as the distance from Cumberland to Wheeling . " My earliest knowledge of this great road , the National Road , began with my earliest recollection . It passed within two and one - half miles of my father's farm and was ...
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... nearly 1,000 miles between Boonville , Mo. , and the New Mexican capitol has been marked with Monuments by the devotion of the Daughters of the American Revolution . From there it follows the line of march of General Kearney's army into ...
... nearly 1,000 miles between Boonville , Mo. , and the New Mexican capitol has been marked with Monuments by the devotion of the Daughters of the American Revolution . From there it follows the line of march of General Kearney's army into ...
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... nearly three million miles of public roads . It would not be fair to say that no great good has already resulted from this continuous agitation . Much has been done , and very much more remains to be accomplished . I am not going to ...
... nearly three million miles of public roads . It would not be fair to say that no great good has already resulted from this continuous agitation . Much has been done , and very much more remains to be accomplished . I am not going to ...
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... nearly the same age . I need not write you of our situation , as Samuel Bradly or James Grimes can in- form you of every circumstance relating to our family . How we live in this world , and what chance we shall have in the next , we ...
... nearly the same age . I need not write you of our situation , as Samuel Bradly or James Grimes can in- form you of every circumstance relating to our family . How we live in this world , and what chance we shall have in the next , we ...
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... between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois river , " and that the road to be laid out from Wheeling to the point so chosen , should be " on a straight line " or as nearly so as the nature of 62 NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD.
... between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois river , " and that the road to be laid out from Wheeling to the point so chosen , should be " on a straight line " or as nearly so as the nature of 62 NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD.
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Seite 42 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your...
Seite 274 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," the voice of the preacher which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect was inconceivable.
Seite 167 - That the Constitution does not confer upon the General Government the power to commence and carry on a general system of internal improvements.
Seite 206 - THERE ARE hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran; But let me live by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Seite 172 - The true rule in determining to embrace or reject anything, is not whether it have any evil in it, but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
Seite 275 - Socrates died like a philosopher" — then pausing, raising his other hand, pressing them both, clasped together, with warmth and energy, to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice— " but Jesus Christ — like a God...
Seite 260 - An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes...
Seite 268 - State for any fiscal year as remains unexpended at the close thereof is authorized to be made available for expenditure in that State until the close of the succeeding fiscal year. Any amount apportioned to any State...
Seite 42 - And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings— nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute...
Seite 275 - ... of portentous, death-like silence which reigned throughout the house: the preacher removing his white handkerchief from his aged face, (even yet wet from the recent torrent of his tears,) and slowly stretching forth the palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence, " Socrates died like a philosopher...