The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Količina 35A. L. Bancroft, 1888 |
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Stran 36
... asked a grant of the lands . This grant , which comprised an area measuring eighty kilometres in length and sixteen in width , was traversed by the route from San Francisco to the American posts on the Columbia river . It was a virgin ...
... asked a grant of the lands . This grant , which comprised an area measuring eighty kilometres in length and sixteen in width , was traversed by the route from San Francisco to the American posts on the Columbia river . It was a virgin ...
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... asked Francisco Lopez - for that was the name of the man who found it - to take them at once to the locality . Soon afterward they set forth , with a number of their friends , for the San Fernando valley , guided by the two vaqueros ...
... asked Francisco Lopez - for that was the name of the man who found it - to take them at once to the locality . Soon afterward they set forth , with a number of their friends , for the San Fernando valley , guided by the two vaqueros ...
Stran 52
... asked for two pack - horses laden with provisions , and an Indian boy to attend him . He wished to go in search of gold , he said , and he would be absent several days . There was a company of Canadian trappers in the vicinity about to ...
... asked for two pack - horses laden with provisions , and an Indian boy to attend him . He wished to go in search of gold , he said , and he would be absent several days . There was a company of Canadian trappers in the vicinity about to ...
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... asked him whether he knew of any one having a thousand dol- lars to invest in something which would yield enor- mous returns , and being thereupon introduced to one George McDougall , said that he wanted a thousand dollars to invest in ...
... asked him whether he knew of any one having a thousand dol- lars to invest in something which would yield enor- mous returns , and being thereupon introduced to one George McDougall , said that he wanted a thousand dollars to invest in ...
Stran 65
... asked Hargraves . " I am sure of it , " said Marshall . " If I thought so I would go . " And he went . And for the millions of pounds sterling turned by this means into the British treasury , he received from the British government ...
... asked Hargraves . " I am sure of it , " said Marshall . " If I thought so I would go . " And he went . And for the millions of pounds sterling turned by this means into the British treasury , he received from the British government ...
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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.