 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 454 pages
...to be gold. This became the all-absorbing topic of thought and discourse, and " there was no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The unskilful refiners, whom Newport had brought over with him, pronounced this shining sand to be... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 430 pages
...to be gold. This became the all-absorbing topic of thought and discourse, and " there was no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The unskilful refiners, whom Newport had brought over with him, pronounced this shining sand to be... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 530 pages
...discovered grains of gold in a glittering earth, which abounded near Jamestown; and " there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The refiners were enamoured of their skill; Martin, one of the council, promised himself honors in... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...grains of gold in a glittering earth, which abounded near Jamestown ; and " there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The refiners were enamoured of their skill ; Martin, one of the council, promised himself honors in... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...discovered grains of gold in a glittering earth which abounded near Jamestown; and " there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The refiners were enamored of their skill; Martin, one of the council, promised himself honors in England... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 394 pages
...believed to be gold. This became the allabsorbing topic of thought and discourse, and a there was no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The unskilful refiners, whom Newport had brought over with him, pronounced this shining sand to be... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 pages
...discovered grains of gold in a glittering earth which abounded near Jamestown ; and " there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The refiners were enamored of their skill : Martin, one of the council, promised himself honors in... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 526 pages
...gentlemen, and goldsmiths," and added little or nothing to the strength or importance of the colony. There was no talk now — no hope — no work ; but dig gold — wash gold — refine gold — and load gold. The refiners were enamored of their skill, and supposed themselves on the road to... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 pages
...discovered grains of gold in a glittering earth which abounded near Jamestown ; and " there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold." The refiners were enamored of their skill ; Martin, one of the council, promised himself honors in... | |
 | Barbara Hawes - 1844 - 414 pages
...grains of gold in a glittering earth which abounded near Jamestown, " so that there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold;" and the foolish Newport, believing himself immeasurably rich, embarked again for England with a freight... | |
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there was now no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold. 
