 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1842 - 652 pages
...short time since, he thus expressed himself by an interpreter : ' I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. T. he generation to which I belonged have run away and left me : why I live, the Great Good Spirit... | |
 | 1843 - 686 pages
...which follows not less of the simplicity of the Christian. " / am an aged tree. The winds of more than a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me. Why I live the great good Spirit... | |
 | John McIntosh - 1843 - 332 pages
...oration in council, he opened with the following sublime and beautiful sentence : ' Brothers — lam an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, and I am dead at the top.' Every reader who has seen a tall hemlock, with a dry and leafless top surmounting... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...death, he thus closed a speech tothe people of his tribe : " I am an aged hemlock : the winds of an hundred, winters have whistled through my branches:...— why I live, the Great Good Spirit only knows." ******* On a broken grave stone, which stands by the side of that erected over the ashes of Mr. Kirkland,... | |
 | Barbara Hawes - 1844 - 414 pages
...man's friend." To one who went to see him a short time before his death he thus expressed himself: " I am an aged hemlock . — the winds of a hundred...at the top. The generation to which I belonged have passed away and left me. Why I still live, the Great Spirit alone knows ! But I pray to him that I... | |
 | 1844 - 206 pages
...which follows not less of the simplicity of the Christian. " / am an aged tree. The winds of more than a hundred winters have whistled through my branches. I am dead at top. The generation to whick I belonged have run away and left me. Why I live the great good Spirit... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1845 - 800 pages
...him but a little time before his death, " I am an aged hemlock; At winds of an hundred winters ham whistled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. The generation to winch I belonged has run away and left me." In early life, he was, like nearly all of his race, given... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pages
...days. To a friend who called on him a short time since, he thus expressed himself by an interpreter; " I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters...dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged has run away and left me. Why I live the great good Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 pages
...and inquiring after his health, received this answer (which most of you, doubtless, have heard), — 'I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters...whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top (referring to his blindness). Why I yet live, the great, good Spirit only knows. When I am dead, bury... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 pages
...and inquiring after his health, received this answer (which most of you, doubtless, have heard), — 'I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters...whistled through my branches. I am dead at the top (referring to his blindness). Why I yet live, the great, good Spirit only knows. When I am dead, bury... | |
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I am an aged hemlock. The winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches, I am dead at the top. 
