Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel: Letters and Notes on Sea and LandT. Wilson, printer, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... rising town where new shops and new streets are built , and they see in their minds a fair opening . They open their new shops , but new custom comes slowly , and month by month one may trace the words of failure on the windows . The ...
... rising town where new shops and new streets are built , and they see in their minds a fair opening . They open their new shops , but new custom comes slowly , and month by month one may trace the words of failure on the windows . The ...
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... rising and falling with the waves , aiming to rescue others , whilst men on the war ships looked helplessly on the scene . At one moment the rescuers rose on the surf and then seemed buried below it , but they rose aiming straight for ...
... rising and falling with the waves , aiming to rescue others , whilst men on the war ships looked helplessly on the scene . At one moment the rescuers rose on the surf and then seemed buried below it , but they rose aiming straight for ...
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... rising this morning I could not see a single bird of any kind in sight , although for 5,000 miles we had never been without their cheerful company . The sea last night was very phos- phorescent , and the boys , on throwing a bottle into ...
... rising this morning I could not see a single bird of any kind in sight , although for 5,000 miles we had never been without their cheerful company . The sea last night was very phos- phorescent , and the boys , on throwing a bottle into ...
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... rising up in vast cones to the zenith , and lighted up magnificently by the moon as she seems to ride along over our heads . The air is fine and fresh , and on deck it is most agreeable after a sultry day . We sail along at eight miles ...
... rising up in vast cones to the zenith , and lighted up magnificently by the moon as she seems to ride along over our heads . The air is fine and fresh , and on deck it is most agreeable after a sultry day . We sail along at eight miles ...
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... of other nations , she may yet see her star rising unclouded on the summit of her lofty Cordil- leras as a beacon light to civilization on the Pacific , whilst her enemy may blush to have recorded in history the SPAIN AND CHILE . 183.
... of other nations , she may yet see her star rising unclouded on the summit of her lofty Cordil- leras as a beacon light to civilization on the Pacific , whilst her enemy may blush to have recorded in history the SPAIN AND CHILE . 183.
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Página 227 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 297 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 63 - He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
Página 181 - ... intention to injure us. We ought rather to meet the anticipated danger by a diligent cultivation, and prudent management, of our own resources. We ought to conciliate the respect and good will of other nations, and secure their assistance in case of need, by the benevolence and justice of our conduct. War is not to be resorted to without absolute necessity, nor unless peace would be more dangerous, and more miserable, than war itself.
Página 153 - ... heats it again, and but for your awnings, and the little air put in circulation by the continual flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects.
Página 153 - ... of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which everywhere else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel. Except when in actual danger of shipwreck, I never spent twelve more disagreeable days in the professional part of my life, than in these calm latitudes.
Página 181 - ... individual member of a state, is a just cause of war, if redress be refused, but a nation is not bound to go to war on so slight a foundation ; for it may of itself grant indemnity to the injured party, and if this cannot be done, yet the good of the whole is to be preferred to the welfare of a part.b Every milder method of redress is to be tried, before the nation makes an appeal to arms ; and this is the sage and moral precept of the writers on natural law.
Página 153 - ... flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which every where else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel.
Página 76 - I am Saint Mark, the patron of Venice ! I learned to-night that the Devils, assembled in council at Lido, in the Jews...