‘A few years ago I was working a gold-quartz mine in California. It was a worthless mine, under the conditions of that time. I had been dragged into it by the shifts and needs of California life. Destiny probably meant to teach me patience and self-possession in difficulty. So Destiny thrust me into a bitter bad business of quartz mining. If I had had countless dollars of capital to work my mine, or quicksilver for amalgamation as near and plenty as the snow on the Sierra Nevada, I might have done well enough….’
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Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 221 ● ISBN 4064066498566 ● 文件大小 1.5 MB ● 出版者 e-artnow ● 市 Prague ● 国家 CZ ● 发布时间 2021 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7841057 ● 复制保护 社会DRM
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