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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...RACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EART... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...e -- Description of the habitations of the Philippine Islanders -- An alliance established by exchanging and drinking blood -- Zebu selected as a plac... ...n scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have perished wi... ...and if he cannot, will bemoan the fate that lies before him. He considers many places ill-omened; Eddystone Rock, the Straits of Messina, where in anc... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an... ...ve the ground. A SURPRISING THING SEEN ON THE NEW GUINEA COAST. On August 23d, 1870, Cook left Booby Island, off the coast of Australia, and sailing i...

...scoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civiliz...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...ture, too, is valuable or not valuable at different times and in different places. Bribery in one situation is OK, in another it is not. ―Pe... ...Moore on August 14, 1800, he wrote that ‗The clergy, by getting themselves established by law, and ingrafted into the machine of government, have bee... ...ristianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in lait... ...eople. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy to be convenient auxiliaries‘ ―John Adams seemed ... ...s of every child under 18 are given $150 a month, and in the more sparely populated areas an additional $50. There are also substantial tax deduction... ...exact. When we say Asians, do we mean all Asians, Chinese who came before 1870, Chinese who have come in the last ten years, Cambodians, Indians—who... ...wo years later he made it the doctrine of the Church. But it wasn‘t until 1870 that he decided that the Pope was infallible in matters of the church...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...ing to its liv- ing congregation having deserted it for the neighbouring school-room, and yielded it up to the dead. The very Com- mandments had been ... ... ca- pacity, when separated from her compeers; every one of these wards, day room, night room, or both combined, was scru- pulously clean and fresh. I... ...nt the length of drinking beer at the bar of the neighbouring public-house, some of us drank spir- its, crowds of us had sandwiches and ginger-beer at... ...re again!’ Or, take any other of the numerous travelling instances in which, with more time at your disposal, you are, have been, or may be, equally i... ...ttle paved court-yard in front enclosed by iron railings, which have got snowed up, as it were, by bricks and mortar; which were once in a suburb, but... .... This pledge will be in course of administration to all teetotal processionists, not pedestrians, at the publishing office of ‘All the Year Round,’ o...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...rs, and some clean misses. Much that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were still plenty of sceptics of the... ...ty—more particularly after the ascendancy of the T rinitarian doctrine was established—was and is a theological religion; it is the religion that triu... ...won- derful an opportunity for a cleaning-up and sweeping-out of those two places, and for a profitable new start in British education. The cessation ... ...actories—there is a not inconsiderable list of dead and wounded from those places—have killed for ever the poor argument that women should not vote be... ...are powerful links. But both France and Britain are old countries, thickly populated, with a great and ancient finish and completeness, full of im- pl... ...nd—these graves. You were tricked into it, as you were tricked into war in 1870—but this time it has not turned out quite so well. And besides, after ...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...uch we never knew, till he spoke out one day when very ill at our house in 1870. He was not apt at teach- ing, but he used conscientiously to hear a y... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o... ... CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XII THE L THE L THE L THE L THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- AST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- AST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- AST EIGHTEEN MO...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...................................... ... 137 SPEECH: BIRMINGHAM, JANUARY 6, 1870. ........................................................................ ................................. ........... 179 ST. JAMES’S HALL, MARCH 15, 1870. ........................................................................ ...when I came up by the Hog’s Back, the Frying Pan, Hell Gate, and all these places? Why, when, not long ago, I visited Shakespeare’s birth place, and ... ...nothing new to say to you: but I do so, notwithstanding. To say nothing of places nearer home, I had the honour of attending at Manchester, shortly be... ...ness than we are for our public folly and failure, I take to be as clearly established as the sun, moon, and stars. T o set this right, and to clear t... ...ted, and half recognized profession, than when there is a public opin ion established in it, by the union of all classes of its mem bers for the com... ...e often hear of our Charles Dickens 138 common country that it is an over populated one, that it is an over pauperized one, that it is an over coloni...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...de the revolutionaries masters of the town. They held it for five days and established a revolutionary govern- ment. Bakunin was the soul of the defen... ...unciating this doctrine,[“Marx, as a thinker, is on the right road. He has established as a principle that all the evolutions, political, reli- gious,... ...it and of having enunciated it as the basis of his whole economic system. (1870; ib. ii. p. xiii.)] but nevertheless con- tinued to think in terms of ... ...se du T ravail, and again with the Syndicats in the same industry in other places. “It was the purpose of the new organization to secure twice over th... ...n- crease without limit. If the whole surface of the world were as densely populated as London is now, it would, no doubt, require almost the whole la... ...ket-gardeners in Great Britain, in the neighborhood of Paris, and in other places, he says:— They have created a totally new agriculture. They smile w... ...European immigrants also compete, but they are not excluded. In a sparsely populated country, indus- trious cheap labor could, with a little care, be ...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...lieve that a little investigation would bring to light, in countless other places, much that is well worth remembrance. For the benefit of those who t... ...m Winchester to Romsey, and nearly at an equal distance from each of those places. The parishes by which Hursley is surrounded were, when Mr. Marsh wr... ..., if not in their nature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally... ...mber 1868 Sir William retired from Parlia- ment, and, on the 9th of August 1870, was sworn of the Privy Council. This appointment gave him the greater... ...g the Itchen, and it used to be at Chandler’s Ford before the place was so populated. It seems also to haunt ponds or marshy places in woods, for a yo...

...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tr... ...ion, with him, seems easy, and while the descriptions are marvelously well established in his stories, the reverse is true of Flaubert’s, which always... ...l bullets, and Flemish tapestry, now cut to ribbons and hanging in rags in places, from sword-cuts, told too well what Mademoiselle Fifi’s occupation ... ...es on milk and on water, who can touch objects, take them and change their places; who is, consequently, endowed with a material nature, although impe... ...occasion- ally, and birds of passage, such as rarely venture into our over-populated part of the country, in- variably lighted amid these giant oaks, ... ...bors, loud enough for me to hear: *Volunteers, in the Franco-German war of 1870- 71, of whom the Germans often made short work when caught. 227 Selec...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, the Pennsylvania ... ...ast week or so I had been rather on the look-out for him in all the public places where in a provincial town men may expect to meet each other. I saw ... ...d was known to the whole town as exhibited on the consular fore-arm in all places, at all hours, but mainly at the hour of the fashionable promenade o... ...e had breathed on them lightly. On entering the long room I perceive Mills established in an armchair which he had dragged in front of the divan. I do... ... lonely spot, sketched for me some time ago by a few words from Mr. Blunt, populated by the agile, bearded beasts with cynical heads, and a little mis... ...do with it, we have been ruined in a most righ- teous cause), at a certain established height one can disregard narrow prejudices. Y ou see examples i... ...end- ships, infinite kindness—but a life hollow , without occupation… Then 1870—and chivalrous response to adopted country’s call and again emptiness,...

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