California Inter Pocula, Volume 35History Company, 1888 - 828 pages |
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Page 248 - sunshine still running to waste without; and in the midst of all death, cold, relentless death, horrible termination to happy hopes! The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea,
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Page 664 - I reminded him how heartily he and I used to drink wine together when we were first acquainted, and how I used to have a headache after sitting up with him. He did not like to have this recalled, or perhaps thinking that I boasted improperly.
Page 435 - 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. Once begin upon this downward path you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated
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Page 120 - CHAPTER VI. THE VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA—NEW YORK TO CHAGRES. Some set out, like crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm, and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.
Page 87 - and her men could not desert. CHAPTER V. THE JOURNEY OVERLAND. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.
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Page 82 - often give an ounce of it, which is worth at our mint eighteen dollars or more, for a bottle of brandy, a bottle of soda powders, or a plug of tobacco." Then streams began to form in every quarter; inland streams and ocean currents, social tricklings and
Page 663 - that had once been universal, and raising woman to a new position in the domestic circle, they have contributed very largely to refine manners, to introduce a new order of tastes, and to soften and improve the character of men." The Norsemen taught the English to dismiss their ladies from their