The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 第 35 巻A. L. Bancroft, 1888 |
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... tide , and from whose borders , wavy hills roll up , smooth and round as the bust of Canova's Venus , or dimpled like a merry school - girl's face . These , interspersed with gen- tler slopes , and radiating valleys and ridges , and.
... tide , and from whose borders , wavy hills roll up , smooth and round as the bust of Canova's Venus , or dimpled like a merry school - girl's face . These , interspersed with gen- tler slopes , and radiating valleys and ridges , and.
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... , thou art a song of nature ringing an ever changing melody , thou art the smile that lit Jehovah's face when he saw that it was good ! CHAPTER II . THREE CENTURIES OF WILD TALK ABOUT GOLD 24 THE VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA .
... , thou art a song of nature ringing an ever changing melody , thou art the smile that lit Jehovah's face when he saw that it was good ! CHAPTER II . THREE CENTURIES OF WILD TALK ABOUT GOLD 24 THE VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA .
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... face of the earth it selfe ! " Birds dared not leave their nests after the first egg was laid until all were hatched ; but nature had favored these poor fowl , so that they might not die in the operation . The causes of these phenomena ...
... face of the earth it selfe ! " Birds dared not leave their nests after the first egg was laid until all were hatched ; but nature had favored these poor fowl , so that they might not die in the operation . The causes of these phenomena ...
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... face of the plain statement : " No se han des- cubierto minas ; pero hay bastantes indicios de que existen de todos metales . ' " " At Alizal , near Monterey , silver is said to have been found in 1802. Remarking how deep benea theth ...
... face of the plain statement : " No se han des- cubierto minas ; pero hay bastantes indicios de que existen de todos metales . ' " " At Alizal , near Monterey , silver is said to have been found in 1802. Remarking how deep benea theth ...
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... face showed what he thought of the proposal . " See " Oh , I am not mad , " the invalid continued . here ! You are wise . You know the value of this " . producing from his pocket a large piece of quartz , richly impregnated with gold ...
... face showed what he thought of the proposal . " See " Oh , I am not mad , " the invalid continued . here ! You are wise . You know the value of this " . producing from his pocket a large piece of quartz , richly impregnated with gold ...
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732 ページ - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
436 ページ - For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
399 ページ - That it shall be the duty of the commissioners herein provided for to ascertain and report to the Secretary of the Interior the tenure by which the mission lands are held, and those held by civilized Indians, and those who are engaged in agriculture or labor of any kind, and also those which are occupied and cultivated by Pueblos or Rancheros Indians.
732 ページ - What is in that word honour ? what is that honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o" Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live •with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I '11 none of it Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.
582 ページ - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. 2. CLO. But is this law? 1. CLO. Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. 2. CLO. Will you ha
190 ページ - We have had enough of action, and of motion we, Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
663 ページ - Dr. Johnson observed, that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine.
660 ページ - Put in the sperits first," says his Riv'rence; "and then put in the sugar; and remember, every dhrop ov wather you put in after that, spoils the punch.
665 ページ - Drinking may be practised with great prudence ; a man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk...
74 ページ - I positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye — the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended to pick it up, and to my astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what appears to be pure gold.