This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...sent down rays that pierced like needle-points. All beauty was forgotten. The chaperon and the blossoms reached the mountain road, then turned back to quaff from the spring. The climb through the underbrush was taken. The physical and the esthetical waged a war. The love of beauty triumphed. My hot ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...sent down rays that pierced like needle-points. All beauty was forgotten. The chaperon and the blossoms reached the mountain road, then turned back to quaff from the spring. The climb through the underbrush was taken. The physical and the esthetical waged a war. The love of beauty triumphed. My hot thirst for water was abated by the approaching view of the Pacific. The last rock was scaled. I stood on the top with arms outstretching like a cross. Nature had lifted me above the level of vegetation and cast aside the mountain's drapery of fog. I could see where wheat fields, groves and orchards meet the waters of the great salt sea, and the little villages of wild, romantic beauty, half hidden by the oak trees and the willows. Just beyond the Golden Gate I could see Sutro Heights, with its classic beauty, a landmark of the endless waste beyond. There are panoramas of the Hudson, and the Rhine, but there are none to equal the cycle of Tamalpais, where the human vision leaps from city to city, from bay to bay, from village to village, from lake to lake, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to infinite space. Harr Wagner. From "Story of the Files of California"; San Francisco: 1893. A TRIBUTE TO STARR KING As the man plodded down Geary street, he came to an old building of gray stone, whose walls were half buried beneath a dense growth of English ivy which framed the arched doorway. Some meeting was being held inside, and through the stained-glass windows the light fell in brilliant patches on the moist green sward, reaching the outlines of a low Gothic tomb, where all that was mortal of Starr King had been placed by loving hands, in sight of the church that had been the scene of his unselfish ministrations. In his extremity of need the...
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Add this copy of Centennial History of Missouri (the Center State) One to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A. rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salt Lake City, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by S. J. Clarke.
