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...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... ...CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession ... ...ast moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about... .... We have most of us been at least as far as that with Benham. And we have died like Horatius, slaying our thousands for our country, or we have peris... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...Benham’s spirit. They were written in pencil; they were unfinished when he died. (Surely the man was not a Christian!) “You may be heedless of death a... ...little mother at his elbow. Sometimes in romantic flashes he was adored by German princesses or eloped with Russian grand-duchesses! But such fancies ... ...in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingdoms and duchies and...

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...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... ...efore with myself Whom shall I set so great a man to face? Or whom oppose? who’s equal to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit ... ...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...aking her only privy to it, and commanding her, if she brought forth a son who, when he came to man’s estate, should be able to lift up the stone and ... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ... up to perform the like. Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german. For Aethra was daughter of Pittheus, and Alcmena of Lysidice; and L... ...d not deliver up Daedalus, who was nearly related to him, being his cousin-german, his mother being Merope, the daughter of Erechtheus. In the meanwhi... ...or, were diligent in performing to her every needful service; but that she died before she could be delivered, and was honorably interred. That soon a... ... with her nurse Corcyna, whose grave they yet show. That this Ariadne also died there, and was worshiped by the island, but in a differ- ent manner fr...

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...ll through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between ...

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...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... ... AS THIS WORK PROFESSES, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be glad to know how much of its co... ...a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga.... ...Clinton, then governor of New York, and the father of De Witt Clinton, who died governor of the same State in 1827, commanded the brigade employed on ... ...f God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which fl... ... deer where he pleased!—but if there is a law at all, it should be to keep people from the use of smooth-bores. A body never knows where his lead will... ...as intrusted by his associates with many important political stations; and died just in time to escape the knowledge of his own poverty. It was his lo... ...r.” “Velcome, velcome Tchooge,” said the elder of the party, with a strong German accent. “Miss Petsy vill owe me a kiss.” “And cheerfully will I pay ... ...he quarry , with a pair of eyes that stood out like those of lobsters. The German’s muscles were unmoved, but his quick sight scanned each movement. M...

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...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 Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore... ...ll alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigine... ...that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to corruptions and dialects. The writer r... ...rairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their lan- guages. The warriors appeared to be on the most f... ...the 5 James Fenimore Cooper whites. When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New Y ork), the English, and the French, all gave appella... ...hasn’t dropped a living body on, be it an enemy or be it *Baron Dieskau, a German, in the service of France. A few years previously to the period of t... ... of a fortress in the wilderness. *Evidently the late De Witt Clinton, who died governor of New Y ork in 1828. 150 The Last of the Mohicans It was in... ...It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the plains of Abraham, have yet to learn how much he wa...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ...d classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions a... ...attempt at eugenics was aimed at getting the highly educated women, those who were having fewer children, to become 5 multiple mothers. Free ed... ...was it before the British government was able to get rid of those firemen who were being paid but had no coal to shovel? Certainly there were jobs ... ...dical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people. So we have far more people living, but far fewer working. Many wo... ...ualified and justified reason. We are charitable, but not stupid! Look at Germany where two-thirds of the men have retired before the legal age throu... ...y where you fear the reduction of your Anglo population. The Britons, the Germans, the French, the Chinese all espouse the wish to keep their populat... ... Egypt 3500 years ago, after her husband and half-brother King Thutmose II died, she proclaimed herself king—since she was descended from the god Amu... ...r and, very likely, on the promised lands where the economic promises had died. “We talked about that a bit with Dr. Wang. But what do you se...

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...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... ...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good ... ...r grounds of separation, must, at the very threshold, by warning off those who dis- sent from them, so far operate to limit your audience. To take my ... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...le dancer, at a certain turn of a peculiar dance, could not—though she had died for it—sustain a free, fluent motion. Aerial chains fell upon her at o... ...to be despised even by a Roman senator. He—this imperfectly despicable man—died at an early age, and very soon after the incidents recorded in this ch... ...s by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of the scene is the very evoker of the solemn reme... ...dealizes.] Ascend with me on this dazzling Whitsunday the Brocken of North Germany. The dawn opened in cloudless beauty; it is a dawn of bridal June; ...