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... taken сар- tive , falling on destruction . Yet swiftly as this chaff of immigration was swept away , mercilessly as California frowned on many , she was not so much to blame , although for a brief space she played the bacchante , for ...
... taken сар- tive , falling on destruction . Yet swiftly as this chaff of immigration was swept away , mercilessly as California frowned on many , she was not so much to blame , although for a brief space she played the bacchante , for ...
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... taken away from their hils at all ; hence come those thicke mists and most stinking fogges . " Inland the country was better . " Infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere , which there we sawe by thousands besides a multitude ...
... taken away from their hils at all ; hence come those thicke mists and most stinking fogges . " Inland the country was better . " Infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere , which there we sawe by thousands besides a multitude ...
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... taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver . " And again : " The earth of the country seemned to promise rich veins of gold and silver , some of the ore being constantly found on digging . " Even a school ...
... taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver . " And again : " The earth of the country seemned to promise rich veins of gold and silver , some of the ore being constantly found on digging . " Even a school ...
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... taken from them ? Perhaps twenty times the following passage in Shelvocke , A Voyage Round the World in 1719-22 , by no means a rare or remarkable book , has been pointed out to me by men whose superficial investigations have led them ...
... taken from them ? Perhaps twenty times the following passage in Shelvocke , A Voyage Round the World in 1719-22 , by no means a rare or remarkable book , has been pointed out to me by men whose superficial investigations have led them ...
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... taken from the San Fernando mines , the greater portion of which was shipped to the United States ; and from that time little is heard of the place till in 1845 Bidwell visited it , and found only thirty men at work whose gains did not ...
... taken from the San Fernando mines , the greater portion of which was shipped to the United States ; and from that time little is heard of the place till in 1845 Bidwell visited it , and found only thirty men at work whose gains did not ...
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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.