West American History, Količina 32Bancroft Company, 1902 |
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Stran 16
... turned and fled , and on reaching his companions ex- claimed : " Boys ! I have found hell ! " Around the cool deep crystal waters of Clear Lake are numerous soda springs , sulphur banks , and borax deposits . Down the western slope of ...
... turned and fled , and on reaching his companions ex- claimed : " Boys ! I have found hell ! " Around the cool deep crystal waters of Clear Lake are numerous soda springs , sulphur banks , and borax deposits . Down the western slope of ...
Stran 52
... turned to its summit in the spring for the wagons of his party , and thence to camp , thus , without being aware of it , travelling several times over the very ground of which he was in search . In the Southern Quarterly , in 1845 ...
... turned to its summit in the spring for the wagons of his party , and thence to camp , thus , without being aware of it , travelling several times over the very ground of which he was in search . In the Southern Quarterly , in 1845 ...
Stran 62
... turned me out of his house , and scattered me in all directions , -me , the old friend of the family , all but pitched me out of doors , as if I burnt his fingers . What ! go back to him , to be thrown to his parasites , and toadies ...
... turned me out of his house , and scattered me in all directions , -me , the old friend of the family , all but pitched me out of doors , as if I burnt his fingers . What ! go back to him , to be thrown to his parasites , and toadies ...
Stran 65
... turned by this means into the British treasury , he received from the British government £ 5,000 , and from the Australian government £ 10,000 , while Marshall from his un- grateful country received nothing . Everybody was busy and ...
... turned by this means into the British treasury , he received from the British government £ 5,000 , and from the Australian government £ 10,000 , while Marshall from his un- grateful country received nothing . Everybody was busy and ...
Stran 71
... Turning to my attendant I asked , ' What is that ? ' He replied , ' It is the same man who was with you last night . ' Riding up , I found , sure enough , it was Marshall . It was then raining hard . Have you been here all night ? ' I ...
... Turning to my attendant I asked , ' What is that ? ' He replied , ' It is the same man who was with you last night . ' Riding up , I found , sure enough , it was Marshall . It was then raining hard . Have you been here all night ? ' I ...
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alcalde Applegate Bogus Charley cabin California called camp Canby cañon Captain Jack claims commissioners court death dollars drink eyes feet fight fire Fort Klamath Frémont friends gambler gambling gold hand heart hills honor Hooker Jim horses hundred Indians Jack's Jesse Applegate judge justice killed Klamath lake land lava beds Lost river Marshall Meacham Mexican miles miners mines Modocs Mormon island morning mountains murder natives never night officers Oregon Panamá party passengers peace pistols prison replied round Sacramento saloon San Francisco savages Scarfaced Charley Sconchin sent settlers ship shot side Sierra silver Sonora soon squatters steamer street stronghold Sutter Sutter's fort thing thought thousand tion took town troops Tule lake turned valley voyage women Yainax Yreka
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 249 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Stran 734 - 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.
Stran 399 - 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.
Stran 436 - 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. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
Stran 13 - 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.
Stran 734 - 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
Stran 663 - Dr. Johnson observed, that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine.
Stran 734 - 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
Stran 190 - 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.
Stran 57 - On the 9th of February, I, with Henderson Cox, Beardsley, Beers, two shepherds, and a number more were in the lower end of the mill-race, when Marshall, the overseer, and his little girl came in, and the child picked up a pretty stone, as she called it, and showed it to her father, who pronounced it gold. He was so excited about it that he saddled his horse and that day rode to Sutter's Fort to tell Captain Sutter — but he did not believe it worth notice, and for a while the idea died away.