History of the Life of William Gilpin: A Character StudyHistory Company, 1889 - 62 strani |
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History of the Life of William Gilpin: A Character Study (1889) Hubert Howe Bancroft Predogled ni na voljo - 2008 |
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acres appointed Arkansas arrived Beaubien Bent's Bent's fort Benton Brandywine brother Buren camp canoe Carlos Beaubien cavalry Chihuahua City Colonel Gilpin Colorado command commonwealth of England continent Cosmopolitan railway Denver desired dollars Donahue Doniphan election father fighting Florida force Fort Bridger Fort Hall Fort Leavenworth Fremont friends frontier Governor Gilpin Harney horses Hudson's Bay Company hundred Independence Jackson county Joshua Gilpin journey Kansas Kentmere land learning Leavenworth Lieutenant Gilpin London Major Gilpin manor of Kentmere McLaughlin ment Mexico miles Missouri mountains named Newell North American ocean once Oregon Orleans Pacific party passed Philadelphia Polk present president quaker railway regiment remained requesting river Sangre de Cristo Santa Fé secessionists sent soldiers St Louis supplies territory Thomas Gilpin tion took trail turned United Vancouver vote wagons Walla Walla Washington wilderness William Gilpin winter young
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Stran 15 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Stran 61 - Extravagance with him was another word for injustice. Amidst all his business he found leisure to look into his affairs, well knowing that frugality is the support of charity. His intimacies were but few. It was his endeavour, as he thought the spirit of Christianity required, to dilate rather than to contract his affections ; yet where he professed a particular friendship he was a religious observer of its offices.
Stran 15 - What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is.
Stran 58 - The pioneer army perpetually advances, reconnoitres, strikes to the front. Empire plants itself upon the trails. Agitation, creative energy, industry, throb throughout and animate this crowding deluge. Conclusive occupation, solidity, permanence, and a stern discipline, attend every movement and illustrate every camp. The American realizes that
Stran 4 - The race that once went bravely forth To slay the wild boar in his den, Now meets the bigots in their wrath, And boldly claims the rights of men.
Stran 60 - He sees that in the first three centuries now rolling over our race upon this continent, from nothing \ve have become one hundred millions of people. From nothing we have grown to be in agriculture, commerce, and native ability the first among existing nations; and this is but the beginning. We have yet vast areas of the continent to subdue, and to perfect the industries and institutions of the parts whose occupation is begun. Such is the mission of the North American people, to animate their own...
Stran 61 - March, 1583, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and was interred in his own church. As to his character. His person was tall and slender* in the ornament of which he was at no pains. He had a particular aversion to the fopperies of dress. In his diet he was very temperate, rather abstemious. His parts were very good i his imagination, memory, and judgment, were lively, retentive, and solid.
Stran 61 - Jess of moroseness, or could mix more agreeably with whatever was innocent in common life. He had a most extraordinary skill in the art of managing a fortune. He considered himself barely as a steward for other people; and took care therefore that his own desires never exceeded what calm reason could justify. Extravagance with him was another word for injustice.
Stran 58 - A glance of the eye thrown across the North American continent, accompanying the course of the sun from ocean to ocean, reveals an extraordinary landscape. It displays immense forces characterized by order, activity, and progress. The structure of nature, the marching of a vast population, the creations of the people, individually and combined, are seen in infinite varieties of form and gigantic dimensions. Farms, cities, states, public works, define themselves, flash into form, accumulate, combine,...
Stran 57 - In geography the antithesis of the Old World, in society it is and will be the reverse. North America will rapidly attain to a population equalling that of the rest of the world combined : forming a single people, identical in manners, language, customs, and impulses: preserving the same civilization, the same religion : imbued with the same opinions, and having the same political liberties.
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