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• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
• The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
• You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
• The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
• Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
• The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
• Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
• The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
• Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
• The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
• I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
• We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…

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