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... appeared the 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 ...
... appeared the 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 ...
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... appearing , " came a man of a large body and goodly aspect , bearing the Septer or royall mace ,. . . whereupon hanged two crownes , a bigger and a lesse , with three chaines of a maruellous length , " and so on . It was with difficulty ...
... appearing , " came a man of a large body and goodly aspect , bearing the Septer or royall mace ,. . . whereupon hanged two crownes , a bigger and a lesse , with three chaines of a maruellous length , " and so on . It was with difficulty ...
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... appeared like gold ; but in order to be further satisfied , I brought away some of it which we lost in our confusions in China . ' " " Now in the first place this navigator - whose map by the way shows the two Californias together as an ...
... appeared like gold ; but in order to be further satisfied , I brought away some of it which we lost in our confusions in China . ' " " Now in the first place this navigator - whose map by the way shows the two Californias together as an ...
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... appearance may pos- sibly have given rise to the reports , which were spread , as it is supposed , by the Jesuits , who formerly endeavored to make an establishment upon the river , of gold dust being intermixed with the sand . " Fay ...
... appearance may pos- sibly have given rise to the reports , which were spread , as it is supposed , by the Jesuits , who formerly endeavored to make an establishment upon the river , of gold dust being intermixed with the sand . " Fay ...
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... appeared to Sutter in the spirit and told him where to find gold , begging him meanwhile to buy with it a rifle for every member of his tribe . In 1864 John Bidwell was told by Brig- ham Young that some of his men claimed to have found ...
... appeared to Sutter in the spirit and told him where to find gold , begging him meanwhile to buy with it a rifle for every member of his tribe . In 1864 John Bidwell was told by Brig- ham Young that some of his men claimed to have found ...
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Stran 732 - 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 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.
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 732 - 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.
Stran 582 - 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
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 663 - Dr. Johnson observed, that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine.
Stran 660 - 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.
Stran 665 - Drinking may be practised with great prudence ; a man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk...
Stran 74 - 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.