Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: Or, Thirty-six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras,Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1872 - 400 páginas |
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... greatly undulating . On our arrival in the town we received reliable informa- tion of the battle , in which the Americans , on the tenth of December , 1835 , took possession of San Antonio , after a hard struggle . Col. Milam was among ...
... greatly undulating . On our arrival in the town we received reliable informa- tion of the battle , in which the Americans , on the tenth of December , 1835 , took possession of San Antonio , after a hard struggle . Col. Milam was among ...
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... greatly distressed as they saw these hungry soldiers devouring the last of our provisions . My feelings I will not attempt to describe . It was my duty , and , trust- ing in God and these soldiers , we travelled on in the even- ing as ...
... greatly distressed as they saw these hungry soldiers devouring the last of our provisions . My feelings I will not attempt to describe . It was my duty , and , trust- ing in God and these soldiers , we travelled on in the even- ing as ...
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... greatly admired Sam . Houston . Here they were , making long marches and countermarches , and getting their living principally out of the woods . We oc- casionally saw at this time a number of the " Telegraph , ” the first permanent ...
... greatly admired Sam . Houston . Here they were , making long marches and countermarches , and getting their living principally out of the woods . We oc- casionally saw at this time a number of the " Telegraph , ” the first permanent ...
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... greatly underrated in this statement . Reaching the colony at the Falls , we found great ex- citement . There were six or eight families in the colony ; at the fort near by the camp were some thirty or forty soldiers . So soon as things ...
... greatly underrated in this statement . Reaching the colony at the Falls , we found great ex- citement . There were six or eight families in the colony ; at the fort near by the camp were some thirty or forty soldiers . So soon as things ...
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... This was the first sermon ever preached in the town . There were then three or four Baptists there , and of course they were greatly pleased to hear the sound of a Baptist preacher's voice . I retired to rest 56 FLOWERS AND FRUITS .
... This was the first sermon ever preached in the town . There were then three or four Baptists there , and of course they were greatly pleased to hear the sound of a Baptist preacher's voice . I retired to rest 56 FLOWERS AND FRUITS .
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Página 252 - 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...
Página 315 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage : ^ To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Página 245 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Página 137 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Página 26 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again ; neither doth God respect any person : yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.