The California Scrap-book: A Repository of Useful Information and Select Reading. Comprising Choice Selections of Prose and Poetry, Tales and Anecdotes, Historical, Descriptive, Humorous, and Sentimental Pieces, Mainly Culled from the Various Newspapers and Periodicals of the Pacific CoastH. H. Bancroft, 1869 - 704 Seiten |
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... become famous and immortal . The application to the uses of mankind is scarcely less wonder- ful , and the late extension across a vast ocean , ranks its projectors , and accomplishers with the benefactors of their We repeat here to ...
... become famous and immortal . The application to the uses of mankind is scarcely less wonder- ful , and the late extension across a vast ocean , ranks its projectors , and accomplishers with the benefactors of their We repeat here to ...
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... become reality ; but man has become the monarch of the wave , and his trident is a single wire ! Fellow - citizens : The scene in which we each bear a part to - day is one peculiar , it is true , to the event which we celebrate ; but it ...
... become reality ; but man has become the monarch of the wave , and his trident is a single wire ! Fellow - citizens : The scene in which we each bear a part to - day is one peculiar , it is true , to the event which we celebrate ; but it ...
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... , even while we assemble to mark the deed and rejoice at its completion , the Almighty , as if to impress us with a becoming sense of our weakness , when compared with his power , has set a new CALIFORNIA SCRAP - BOOK . 23.
... , even while we assemble to mark the deed and rejoice at its completion , the Almighty , as if to impress us with a becoming sense of our weakness , when compared with his power , has set a new CALIFORNIA SCRAP - BOOK . 23.
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... become a missionary in the New World . In 1749 he crossed the ocean in company with a number of brother Franciscan Monks , among them several who afterward came with him to California . He remained but a short time in the City of Mexico ...
... become a missionary in the New World . In 1749 he crossed the ocean in company with a number of brother Franciscan Monks , among them several who afterward came with him to California . He remained but a short time in the City of Mexico ...
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... becomes cooler ; a portion of its vapor is thus condensed , and comes down in the shape of rain . Therefore it is that under these calms we have a region of constant precipitation . " But all the moisture which is taken up by the trades ...
... becomes cooler ; a portion of its vapor is thus condensed , and comes down in the shape of rain . Therefore it is that under these calms we have a region of constant precipitation . " But all the moisture which is taken up by the trades ...
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Seite 447 - In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Seite 324 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Seite 449 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Seite 110 - And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Seite 303 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Seite 178 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Seite 303 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Seite 258 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Seite 642 - THOU who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face/ Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.
Seite 589 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...