The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Količina 35A. L. Bancroft, 1888 |
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... towns and cities are being built , and a race of men and women developing which some day will make the nations marvel . The bay of Kieselarke has been called golden because of its shin- ing sands ; but far more proper may our beautiful ...
... towns and cities are being built , and a race of men and women developing which some day will make the nations marvel . The bay of Kieselarke has been called golden because of its shin- ing sands ; but far more proper may our beautiful ...
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... town of Vacaville , was the first to carry the news to Governor Alvarado at Monterey , presenting him with an ounce of gold con- tained in quills , from which was made a pair of ear- rings for his wife and a ring for his eldest daughter ...
... town of Vacaville , was the first to carry the news to Governor Alvarado at Monterey , presenting him with an ounce of gold con- tained in quills , from which was made a pair of ear- rings for his wife and a ring for his eldest daughter ...
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... town . Next morning Mr Wiemer went out to select a site for the saw - mill , and I , a site for the house . He was to oversee the Indians , be a handy man about , and I was to be cook . We had from fifteen to twenty men employed . ' But ...
... town . Next morning Mr Wiemer went out to select a site for the saw - mill , and I , a site for the house . He was to oversee the Indians , be a handy man about , and I was to be cook . We had from fifteen to twenty men employed . ' But ...
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... town of about seven hundred native inhabitants , dwelling in some fifty windowless , bamboo huts , with thatched , palm - leaf roofs , and having open entrances , and the bare ground for a floor . The town was surrounded by heaps of ...
... town of about seven hundred native inhabitants , dwelling in some fifty windowless , bamboo huts , with thatched , palm - leaf roofs , and having open entrances , and the bare ground for a floor . The town was surrounded by heaps of ...
Stran 159
... town of Aspinwall , with its hybrid population and streets of intersecting stagnant pools . A bed of slime and decaying vegetation reeking pestilence , alive with crawling reptiles , given over of nature to the vilest of her creations ...
... town of Aspinwall , with its hybrid population and streets of intersecting stagnant pools . A bed of slime and decaying vegetation reeking pestilence , alive with crawling reptiles , given over of nature to the vilest of her creations ...
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alcalde Applegate bank Bogus Charley cabin California called camp Canby cañon Captain Jack claims commissioners court death dollars drink eyes feet fight fire Fort Klamath Frémont friends gambler gambling gold hand heart hills honor Hooker Jim horses hundred Indians Jack's Jesse Applegate judge justice killed Klamath lake land lava beds Lost river Marshall Meacham Mexican miles miners mines Modocs Mormon island morning mountains murder natives never night officers Oregon Panamá party passengers peace pistols prison replied round Sacramento saloon San Francisco savages Scarfaced Charley Sconchin sent settlers ship shot side Sierra silver Sonora soon squatters steamer street stronghold Sutter Sutter's fort thing thought thousand tion took town troops Tule lake turned valley voyage women Yainax Yreka
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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.