Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California of Important Points Usually Visited by TouristsHazlitt & Reed Printers, 1877 - 256 pàgines |
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Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California of Important ... Caroline M. Churchill Visualització completa - 1878 |
Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California, Embracing All ... Caroline M. Churchill Visualització completa - 1884 |
Over the Purple Hills: Or, Sketches of Travel in California, Embracing All ... Caroline M. Churchill Visualització completa - 1884 |
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Pàgina 50 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a Man with seven Wives. Each Wife had seven Sacks, Each Sack had seven Cats, Each Cat had seven Kits. Kits, Cats, Sacks, and Wives, How many were going to St. Ives ? VOL.
Pàgina 151 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go ! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go ! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. Look next on greatness : say where greatness lies, Where, but among the heroes and the wise...
Pàgina 159 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down...
Pàgina 256 - Any contractor, sub-contractor, or agent of contractor or sub-contractor, foreman or employer who shall violate the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in...
Pàgina 152 - Shall I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease ? While others fought to win the prize, And sailed through bloody seas.
Pàgina 24 - State and is under fine cultivation. Fields of wheat were standing fence high, green as a meadow, and level as a house floor, and so heavily laden as to tremble in the breeze from their weight.
Pàgina 137 - I remember to have • thought a hundred and seven feet pretty well up from the ground, when climbing to the tower of a village water tank; but to compare this height with three or four thousand feet perpendicular is rather more than one can comprehend with the eye when it comes to altitude.