Bits of Travel at HomeRoberts Brothers, 1878 - 413 pages |
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Page 376 - Railroad, is six miles from Fort Garland. The road to it from the fort lies for the last three miles on the top of a sagegrown plateau. It is straight as an arrow, looks in the distance like a brown furrow on the pale gray plain, and seems to pierce the mountains beyond. Up to within an eighth of a mile of Garland City, there is no trace of human habitation. Knowing that the city must be near, you look in all directions for a glimpse of it ; the hills ahead of you rise sharply across your way. Where...
Page 73 - And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Page 198 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 175 - This languishing head is at rest ; Its thinking and aching are o'er; This quiet, immovable breast, Is heaved by affliction no more This heart is no longer the seat Of trouble and torturing pain; It ceases to flutter and beat — It never shall flutter again.
Page 196 - Extremely anxious for their safety, they stood longing to embrace them, until at length, concluding from the noise they heard without that some of them were come, they unbarred the gate in a hurry to receive them ; when, lo ! to their inexpressible disappointment and surprise, instead of their husbands, in rushed a number of hideous Indians, to whom they...
Page 174 - Thy word commands our flesh to dust : Return, ye sons of men. All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again.
Page 197 - Having passed thro' more vicissitudes, And endured more hardships, Than any of her cotemporaries. No more can Savage Foes annoy, Nor aught her wide-spread Fame destroy.
Page 149 - I ever heard. 6. You are three hours going from Truckee to Lake Tahoe, and it is so steadily up hill that you begin to wonder long before you get there why the lake does not run over and down. At last you turn a sharp corner, and there lies the lake, only a few rods off. What color you see it depends on the hour and the day. It has its own calendars — its spring-times and winters, its dawns and darknesses — incalculable by almanacs. 7. It is apt to begin by gray, early in the morning ; then the...
Page 198 - Mother's (irief, her Anguish show, Or paint the Father's heavier woe, Who now no nat'ral offspring has His ample Fortune to possess, To fill his Place, stand in his Stead, Or bear his name when he is dead. So God ordain'd.
Page 378 - I observed one peculiarity in the speech at Garland City. Personal pronouns, as a rule, were omitted: there was no time for a superfluous word. "Took down this house at Wagon Creek," he continued, "just one week ago; took it down one morning while the people were eating breakfast; took it down over their heads; putting it up again over their heads now.