The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 第 35 巻History Company, 1888 |
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... mountain systems stretches the valley of California , an elliptical , trough - like plain , five hun- dred miles in length by seventy - five in width ; a vast amphitheatre , from whose arena circling terraces rise up to the lofty canopy ...
... mountain systems stretches the valley of California , an elliptical , trough - like plain , five hun- dred miles in length by seventy - five in width ; a vast amphitheatre , from whose arena circling terraces rise up to the lofty canopy ...
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Hubert Howe Bancroft. MOUNTAIN SYSTEMS . Five thou 3 their several portions of invented woe . and feet below , and far as eye can reach , spreads out a periscope of beauty such as makes us loath to put off humanity even to be gods , lest ...
Hubert Howe Bancroft. MOUNTAIN SYSTEMS . Five thou 3 their several portions of invented woe . and feet below , and far as eye can reach , spreads out a periscope of beauty such as makes us loath to put off humanity even to be gods , lest ...
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... mountain high , that we have the Sierra foot- hills , already abnormally classic . Aside from the petrified sentinels left standing adown the centuries , there is ample evidence of what Plutus was hammer- ing at hereabout . Left , after ...
... mountain high , that we have the Sierra foot- hills , already abnormally classic . Aside from the petrified sentinels left standing adown the centuries , there is ample evidence of what Plutus was hammer- ing at hereabout . Left , after ...
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... mountain- side and over the plains , nods with its earliest rays to sleepy ocean , dances back from sea to snow - peak ; then , palpitating in purple , it rises from violet - banks and grizzly hills , and mingles with the russet haze of ...
... mountain- side and over the plains , nods with its earliest rays to sleepy ocean , dances back from sea to snow - peak ; then , palpitating in purple , it rises from violet - banks and grizzly hills , and mingles with the russet haze of ...
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... mountains , kettles , chests , forts , caves , bridges , sugar - loaves , cathedral - peaks , and uni- corn peaks ; the which , if they should be described every one , I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books ...
... mountains , kettles , chests , forts , caves , bridges , sugar - loaves , cathedral - peaks , and uni- corn peaks ; the which , if they should be described every one , I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books ...
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734 ページ - 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'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
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.
13 ページ - And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
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734 ページ - tis no matter; 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
685 ページ - Contains at once the evil and the cure; And all-sufficing nature can chastise Those who transgress her law — she only knows How justly to proportion to the fault The punishment it merits.
660 ページ - French eau de vie may be rendered "water of life." The whisky taken to the mines, however much water there may have been in it, was neither " of health " nor "of life." The truth is, if anything could breed distemper, disease, and death it was this same strychnine whisky. In regard to water, too often it was like Father Tom's punch brewed in the parlor of the Vatican — conspicuous for its absence.
734 ページ - tis no matter; Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if Honor prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can Honor set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honor hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is Honor ? A word. What is in that word, Honor ? What is that Honor ? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died o
680 ページ - It is very common that events arise from a debauch which are fatal, and always such as are disagreeable. With all a man's reason and good sense about him, his tongue is apt to utter things out of mere gaiety of heart, which may displease his best friends.