The Young Gold-digger; Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Gold RegionsTale of a boy who gets separated from his family on the way to the gold fields of California, gets rich and finds his long-lost grandfather. Gerstaecker was a German who prospected in the 1849 gold rush, and the geography of the story is accurate. Gerstaecker wrote many non-fiction works on California and America for German readers. |
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עמוד 341 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
עמוד 341 - I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles — but as a taste, an instrument, and a mode of pleasurable gratification. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
עמוד 341 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. I speak of it of course only as a worldly advantage, and not in the slightest degree as superseding or derogating from the higher office and surer and stronger panoply of religious principles—but as a taste, an instrument,...
מידע ביבליוגרפי
| כותרת | The Young Gold-digger; Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Gold Regions |
| מאת | Friedrich Gerstäcker |
| הוצאה | Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860 |
| מקור מאת | אוניברסיטת אוקספורד |
| דיגיטלי | 12 יולי 2006 |
| אורך | 339 עמודים |
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