California Missions and Landmarks: El Camino Real1925 - 392 strani Contains history of California; history and descriptions of the missions, non-church landmarks and buildings. Describes El Camino Real Association of California, which sought to memorialize the road with Mission Bell guideposts, and political history and people. |
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California Missions and Landmarks: El Camino Real (Classic Reprint) Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
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Stran 119 - Now know ye, that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration...
Stran 119 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Stran 24 - King's bed-chamber, and said that there seemed to be a light, and that he should look at it. He did so, and saw it. The Admiral said the same to Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia, whom the King and Queen had sent with the fleet as inspector, but he could see nothing because he was not in a place whence anything could be seen. After the Admiral had spoken he saw the light once or twice, and it was like a wax candle rising and falling.
Stran 283 - Monday 24th this day some kind of mettle was found in the tail race that looks like goald first discovered by James Martial, the Boss of the Mill.
Stran 263 - With full confidence in the honor and integrity of the inhabitants of the country...
Stran 260 - Mexico, with whom the United States are at war. To strike her flag, and to hoist our own in the place of it, is our duty. It is not only our duty to take California, but to preserve it afterwards as a part of the United States, at all hazards.
Stran 262 - California will be free from all such troubles and expenses ; consequently, the country will rapidly advance and improve both in agriculture and commerce, as, of course, the revenue laws will be the same in California as in all other parts of the United States...
Stran 349 - For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old; One sound to all, yet each Lends a meaning to their speech, And the meaning is manifold. They are a voice of the Past, Of an age that is fading fast, Of a power austere and grand; When the flag of Spain unfurled Its folds o'er this western world. And the Priest was lord of the land. The chapel that once looked down On the little seaport town Has crumbled into the dust And on oaken beams below...
Stran 269 - California it is without a rival. It has been erected out of the slender proceeds of town lots, the labor of the convicts, taxes on liquor shops, and fines on gamblers. The sche,me was regarded with incredulity by many; but the building is finished, and the citizens have assembled in it, and christened it after my name, which will now go down to posterity with the odor of gamblers, convicts, and tipplers.
Stran 262 - ... rights and privileges they now enjoy, together with the privilege of choosing their own magistrates and other officers for the administration of justice among themselves; and the same protection will be extended to them as to any other state in the Union.