Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study, Volumen1History Company, 1891 Biographies of businessmen, miners, ranchers. industrialists, explorers, railroad men, shippers, lumber men, etc., with descriptions of their enterprises. It is a history of the development of the West. |
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CHRON OF THE BUILDERS OF THE C, Volumen6 Hubert Howe 1832-1918 Bancroft Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 515 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?
Página 626 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 632 - The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.
Página 419 - The constitutional guaranty of the right of the people to be secure in their papers against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to their papers, thus closed against inspection, wherever they may be. Whilst in the mail, they can only be opened, and examined under like warrant, issued upon similar oath or affirmation, particularly describing the thing to be seized, as is required when the papers are subjected to search in one's own household.
Página 417 - That power undoubtedly extends to all regulations affecting the health, good order, morals, peace and safety of society, and is exercised on a great variety of subjects, and in almost numberless...
Página 414 - In its enactment, the Legislature has given the sanction of law to a rule of conduct, which the entire civilized world recognizes as essential to the physical and moral well-being of society. Upon no subject is there such a concurrence of opinion, among philosophers, moralists and statesmen of all nations, as on the necessity of periodical cessations from labor.
Página 391 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Página 632 - There is, indeed, an essence of immortality in the life of man, even in this world. No individual in the universe stands alone ; he is a component part of a system of mutual dependencies ; and by his several acts, he either increases or diminishes the sum of human good now and forever.
Página 515 - Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it is now.
Página 416 - Field entered upon the duties 18 of this great trust with his usual zeal and energy, and that he leaves the office not only with greatly increased reputation, but that he has raised the character of the jurisprudence of the State. He has more than any other man given tone, consistency, and system to our judicature, and laid broad and deep the foundation of our civil and criminal law.