St. Joseph in 1859 had the bustling appearance of a great fair, with excited travelers preparing to make the plains journey in pra...irie schooners, "rickety old farm wagons," and even small two-wheeled push carts. many bore such mottoes as--"Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady," "I Dare," "For Pike's Peak Ho." Before long many were to return, disappointed in their search for gold, hungry, ragged, and dispirited, their brave wagon boasts changed to "Prodigal Son," "Pike's Hell," "A Fool Is Born."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of al...l the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'How far is St. Helena from an Emperor of France?' I cannot see--I cannot tell--the Crowns they dazzle so.... The Kings sit down to dinner, and the Queens stand up to dance. (After open weather you may look for snow!)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St. ...Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.... The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,... And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Emperor Joseph II: Your work is ingenious. It's quality work, and there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and ...it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, majesty?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »