... to no purpose; showed him what rapture it is to work all day long for fifty cents to buy food for next day with, as compared with fishing for pastime and lolling in the shade through eternal Summer, and eating of the bounty that nobody labored to provide but Nature.

By an act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress, the Government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown.

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Page 193 - Ye weary ones that are sick of the labor and care, and the bewildering turmoil of the great world, and sigh for a land where ye may fold your tired hands and slumber your lives peacefully away, pack up your carpet sacks and go to Kailua! A week there ought to cure the saddest of you all. Appears in 6 books from 1938-2007

Page 71 Confucian relationships — between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger brother, and friend and friend — it is noteworthy that three were determined by kinship. As we shall see, the Confucian virtue of "love" (Jen) was equivalent to "graded love" — that is, love for others according to one's relationship to them. Appears in 48 books from 1880-2007

Page 18 ... write so many letters? I never could find that out. However, I suppose I did it myself when I was a stranger. But I will never do it again. Maybe you think I am not happy? the very thing that gravels me is that I am. I don't want to be happy when I can't work; I am resolved that hereafter I won't be. What I have always longed for, was the privilege of living forever away up on one of those mountains in the Sandwich Islands overlooking the sea. Appears in 10 books from 1917-2007

Page 35 ... Church here the kings and chiefs of this land had been buried with the quiet, simple, Christian rites that are observed in England and America, and no man thought of anything more being necessary. But one of the first things Bishop Staley did when he arrived here a few years ago was to write home that the missionaries had deprived the natives of their innocent sports and pastimes (such as the lascivious hula hula, and the promiscuous bathing in the surf of nude natives of opposite sexes... Appears in 6 books from 1938-2007

Page 109 - Calif ornian" (to the natives all whites are haoles — how-ries — that is, strangers, or, more properly, foreigners; and to the white residents all white newcomers are "Californians" — the term is used more for convenience than anything else) . I was told, also, that Kailua was old Kamehameha's favorite place of residence, and that it was always a favorite place of resort with his successors. Very well, if Kailua suits these kings — all right. Appears in 6 books from 1938-2007

Page 121 - ... not merely born; they must also be made. But how? In the field of formal education, what the would-be hole cutter needs is knowledge. Knowledge of the past and present history of cultures in all their fantastic variety, and knowledge about the nature and limitations, the uses and abuses, of language. A man who knows that there have been many cultures, and that each culture claims to be the best and truest of all, will find it hard to take too seriously the boastings and dogmatizings of his own... Appears in 5 books from 1965-2007

Page 32 States forces in the immediate vicinity and in position to afford all needed protection and support the committee would not have proclaimed the provisional government from the steps of the government building. And finally, but for the lawless occupation of Honolulu under false pretexts by the United States forces, and but for Minister Stevens... Appears in 26 books from 1894-2007

Page 39 Europe and became the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the United States military. Appears in 11 books from 1986-2008

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