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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... ground ; it is as industrious as the sun - it is as restless as the sea - it is as universal as the race itself . It is boundless in its ambition and irrepressible in its hope ! And yet , in the very midst of the great works that mark ...
... ground ; it is as industrious as the sun - it is as restless as the sea - it is as universal as the race itself . It is boundless in its ambition and irrepressible in its hope ! And yet , in the very midst of the great works that mark ...
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... ground for new crops when the rain returns . By the middle of June all the wild fields that are destitute of trees look sandy with this harvest of indigenous and self- sowed grain ; and it is only in May that the plains and hill- sides ...
... ground for new crops when the rain returns . By the middle of June all the wild fields that are destitute of trees look sandy with this harvest of indigenous and self- sowed grain ; and it is only in May that the plains and hill- sides ...
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... ground on the flank is covered with Russian rifle- men ! " Lord Lucan's answer was : " I can not help that ; it is Lord Raglan's positive order that the Light Brigade ' 6 is to attack them . " Lord Cardigan then formed. 58 CALIFORNIA ...
... ground on the flank is covered with Russian rifle- men ! " Lord Lucan's answer was : " I can not help that ; it is Lord Raglan's positive order that the Light Brigade ' 6 is to attack them . " Lord Cardigan then formed. 58 CALIFORNIA ...
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... ground near Captain Nolan , and not very far from Lord Cardigan . Nolan's horse turned Lord Cardigan then round and carried him to the rear . led the brigade down to the main battery in front , about one mile and a quarter distant . On ...
... ground near Captain Nolan , and not very far from Lord Cardigan . Nolan's horse turned Lord Cardigan then round and carried him to the rear . led the brigade down to the main battery in front , about one mile and a quarter distant . On ...
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... grounds that I had first pointed out and declared publicly the existence of gold in California . There is a fact connected with this metal , which is , though generally overlooked , but , if kept in mind , would serve to correct the ...
... grounds that I had first pointed out and declared publicly the existence of gold in California . There is a fact connected with this metal , which is , though generally overlooked , but , if kept in mind , would serve to correct the ...
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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...