History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2

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S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1916 - Seattle (Wash.)
 

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Page 461 - Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 704 - His political allegiance is given to the republican party but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him...
Page 788 - He had held the office of Justice of the Peace for a number of years both before and after the war.
Page 722 - With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you— O you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return,— Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here...
Page 722 - I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away! With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there...
Page 804 - ... has been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct or stainless in reputation than has that of Gilbert DB Hasbrouck.
Page 837 - At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitation of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them.
Page 750 - In 1874 he was elected grand master of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Oregon, which then embraced Washington and Idaho.
Page 810 - Thompson's contributions to charity and diplomacy were real and creditable, his signal service was in the vigor he lent to the pioneer era. in making this region habitable, in bringing its resources to light and in stamping his intensely practical ideas upon the educational system "of the state. Such careers are too near us now for their significance to be appraised at its true value, but the future will be able to trace the tremendous effect of their labors upon the society and the institutions...
Page 823 - It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any series of statements...

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