Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich

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A.W. Bowen & Company, 1906 - 571 pages

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Page 8 - History may be formed from permanent monuments and records; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost for ever. What is known can seldom be immediately told; and when it might be told, it is no longer known. The delicate features of the mind, the nice discriminations of character, and the minute peculiarities of conduct, are soon obliterated...
Page 420 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 207 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 113 - WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did ; — on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance ; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs.
Page 6 - The old fi-er-place, with the crane swung out, And the latch-string through the door. Tell of the things jest as they was— They don't need no excuse!— Don't tech 'em up' like the poets does, Tel theyr all too fine fer use!— Say they was 'leven in the fambily— Two beds, and the chist...
Page 43 - ... hung till the meal was prepared for the table. Pigs, chickens, and spare-ribs were roasted splendidly by suspending them by a wire before the fire. The baking was mostly done in the old brick oven that was built in one side of the chimney, with a door opening into the room. The old iron covered bake kettle sat in the corner under the cupboard, and was used for the various baking purposes. Many will remember the much used "tin reflector...
Page 100 - ... of this State; but the present Board came to the conclusion that none of the existing institutions combine all the improvements which are important to be adopted. It further seemed to them advisable to secure the early appointment of the Medical Superintendent, in order that the building might be erected so far under his supervision as to secure his approbation when completed. The frequent and expensive repairs of institutions erected without such supervision led them to look upon this as a matter...
Page 258 - Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won.
Page 170 - Republican in political faith and warmly supports his party, although for himself he has never sought or desired public office. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and take an active part in church work.
Page 43 - ... art of divination. The usual meal consisted of a platter of boiled potatoes, piled up steaming hot and placed on the center of the table; bread or Johnny-cake; perhaps some meat boiled or fried; and an article largely partaken of was a bowl of • flour gravy, looking like starch and made something like it, of flour and water, with a little salt, and sometimes it was enriched by a little gravy from a piece of fried meat. This was the meal; and it was eaten and relished more than the sumptuous...

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