The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Količina 35A. L. Bancroft, 1888 |
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... MINERS CHAPTER XVII . SQUATTERISM PACIFIC COAST PRISONS CHAPTER XVIII . CHAPTER XIX . SOME INDIAN EPISODES CHAPTER XX . SOME CHINESE EPISODES . CHAPTER XXI . • 381 • 396 413 436 • . 561 COURTS OF JUSTICE AND COURT SCENES . 582 CHAPTER ...
... MINERS CHAPTER XVII . SQUATTERISM PACIFIC COAST PRISONS CHAPTER XVIII . CHAPTER XIX . SOME INDIAN EPISODES CHAPTER XX . SOME CHINESE EPISODES . CHAPTER XXI . • 381 • 396 413 436 • . 561 COURTS OF JUSTICE AND COURT SCENES . 582 CHAPTER ...
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... miners , and the priests who were with them ; since which time the lode has not been worked , and the place had been forgotten by all except those engaged in the massacre . M. S. Brockway saw there in 1851 veins of antimonial silver ...
... miners , and the priests who were with them ; since which time the lode has not been worked , and the place had been forgotten by all except those engaged in the massacre . M. S. Brockway saw there in 1851 veins of antimonial silver ...
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... miner of 1849 cut the letters for pastime , and then threw the stone away , or gave it to some one to make a good story out of . And now comes Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo with similar testimony , that the Spaniards in California knew of ...
... miner of 1849 cut the letters for pastime , and then threw the stone away , or gave it to some one to make a good story out of . And now comes Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo with similar testimony , that the Spaniards in California knew of ...
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... miners , in the vicinity of the Las Vírgenes rancho , remarked that wherever these stones were found gold must exist . Francisco Lopez , the discoverer , overheard the observation and remembered it , when , some months later , while ...
... miners , in the vicinity of the Las Vírgenes rancho , remarked that wherever these stones were found gold must exist . Francisco Lopez , the discoverer , overheard the observation and remembered it , when , some months later , while ...
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... miners , were able by merely looking at the ground , to tell whether or not it contained gold , and would scrape the surface with a scoop or spoon made of bullock's horn . The earth was then thrown into a basket , which was emptied on a ...
... miners , were able by merely looking at the ground , to tell whether or not it contained gold , and would scrape the surface with a scoop or spoon made of bullock's horn . The earth was then thrown into a basket , which was emptied on a ...
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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.