History of the Pacific States of North America: California pastoralA.L. Bancroft & Company, 1888 |
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Side 148 - 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.
Side 132 - He is gone who seem'd so great.— Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Side 133 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' 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.
Side 638 - Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hempen string Under the gallows tree!
Side 132 - Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power...
Side 303 - Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen glühn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht, Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin Möcht ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn.
Side 503 - Catecismo político arreglado a la Constitución de la monarquía española para ilustración del pueblo, instrucción de la juventud, y uso de las escuelas de primeras letras, por DJC en Córboba, en la Imprenta Real de D. Rafael García Domínguez, año de 1812.
Side 389 - Upon his head he wore a black silk handkerchief, the four corners of which hung down his neck behind. An embroidered shirt, a cravat of white jaconet tastefully tied, a blue damask vest, short clothes of crimson velvet, a bright green cloth jacket, with large silver buttons, and shoes of embroidered deer skin, comprised his dress.
Side 163 - Priesthood works out its task, age after age: now smoothing penitent death-beds, consecrating graves, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, incarnating the Christian precepts, in an age of rapine and homicide, doing a thousand deeds of love and charity among the obscure and forsaken — deeds of which there shall never be human chronicle, but a leaf or two, perhaps, in the recording angel's book; hiving precious honey from the few flowers of gentle art which bloom upon a howling wilderness...
Side 105 - To be sure," said La Giiera from her corner ; " we can take M. de Humboldt there ; " whereupon he first perceiving her, stood amazed, and at length exclaimed, " Valgame Dios ! who is that girl?