Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 1Charles Frederic Goss S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912 |
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... gave the ordinance its final form pro- vided , strange as it may seem , for every important emergency that actually arose in the complicated struggle to subdue , populate and govern a vast wilder- ness over which still roamed bands of ...
... gave the ordinance its final form pro- vided , strange as it may seem , for every important emergency that actually arose in the complicated struggle to subdue , populate and govern a vast wilder- ness over which still roamed bands of ...
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... gave up their hopes . In March , 1786 , however , the more zealous of the promoters met in Boston and formed a new " Ohio company for the purchase and settlement of western lands . " General Rufus Putnam , General Samuel H. Parsons and ...
... gave up their hopes . In March , 1786 , however , the more zealous of the promoters met in Boston and formed a new " Ohio company for the purchase and settlement of western lands . " General Rufus Putnam , General Samuel H. Parsons and ...
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... gave Stites a covenant for ten thousand acres of the best land in the valley at the price of five shillings per acre , payable in certificates of the public debt , that medium which the government had agreed to receive in payment for ...
... gave Stites a covenant for ten thousand acres of the best land in the valley at the price of five shillings per acre , payable in certificates of the public debt , that medium which the government had agreed to receive in payment for ...
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... gave to the task of defining and surveying the site of the great city which , with a vivid imagination , he saw springing up on the beautiful spot . He dedicated a mile of the river front to the purpose and ran his lines back far enough ...
... gave to the task of defining and surveying the site of the great city which , with a vivid imagination , he saw springing up on the beautiful spot . He dedicated a mile of the river front to the purpose and ran his lines back far enough ...
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... gave the name Losantiville ( Le - os - anti - ville ) , literally the mouth op- posite the town ; but according to his naive construction of this melange of Latin , French and Greek , " the town opposite the mouth " ( of the Licking ...
... gave the name Losantiville ( Le - os - anti - ville ) , literally the mouth op- posite the town ; but according to his naive construction of this melange of Latin , French and Greek , " the town opposite the mouth " ( of the Licking ...
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Página 7 - We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our Suffering comrades in the ranks; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many...
Página 468 - Full credit has been awarded the Roundhead and the Cavalier for their leadership in our history; nor have we been altogether blind to the deeds of the Hollander and the Huguenot ; but it is doubtful if we have wholly realized the importance of the part played by that stern and virile people, the Irish whose preachers taught the creed of Knox and Calvin.
Página 389 - There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; a greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Página 51 - He went off with that as my last solemn warning thrown into his ears. And yet ! to suffer that army to be cut to pieces — hacked, butchered, tomahawked — by a surprise — the very thing I guarded him against!
Página 7 - We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the City both alone and with many. We will revere and obey the City's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who are prone to annul or set them at naught.
Página 286 - Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Página 187 - I do occupy a good position there, and I think that I can get along with the way things are done there now. But these college-trained men, who have devoted their whole lives to study, are coming West, don't you see ? And they study their cases as we never do. They have got as far as Cincinnati now. They will soon be in Illinois.
Página 328 - We built them.' If they ask who guarded them ; You can reply, ' We helped in thousands.' If they inquire the result, your answer will be, ' The enemy came and looked at them, and stole away in the night.
Página 461 - It was a substantial frame building, about 40 feet by 30, enclosed with clapboards, but neither lathed, plastered nor ceiled. The floor was of boat plank, laid loosely on the sleepers ; the seats were of the same material, supported by blocks of wood. There was a breast-work of unplaned cherry boards, called the Pulpit, behind which the clergyman stood on a piece of boat plank, resting on wooden blocks.
Página 51 - God, he's worse than a murderer! How can he answer it to his country! The blood of the slain is upon him — the curse of widows and orphans — the curse of Heaven!