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...stian 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 civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... -- 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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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ... with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- Great vessels in the India trade ... ...sland called Aphrodisias, thickly inhabited and planted with many orchards and gardens, and showing other evidences of. great prosperity and a high ci... ...dor by saying that she was provided with colonnades, marble stairs and hanging gardens. Hiero, king of Syracuse (307 B.C.), was also a distinguished p... ...rcon, who had engaged to accompany Bougainville, with a view of increasing his botanical knowledge. She followed her master with extraordinary courage... ...ain Cook, the son of a common farm laborer, was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, England, October 27th, 1728. His death occurred at the hands...

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...arge 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... ...n tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvan... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...er; and had in fact already proposed the same to the proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens, who in the handsomest manner at once consented to his wishes, an... ...ber of legs be longing to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number o... ...begged to introduce it to his countrymen. ‘THE PRESIDENT wished to know what botanical definition the honourable gentleman could afford of the curiosi... ...eared to us very apathetic, heavy headed fellows. The lion at the Zoological Gardens, for instance. He is all very well; he has an undeniable mane, an...

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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. Nuttie’s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ith her mother, the widow of a naval captain. Farther on, with ad- joining gardens, was another couple of houses, in one of which lived Mr. Dutton; in... ...ould serve you right to send you to carry the invita- tion to go round the gardens and houses.’ ‘Do you mean it, aunt?’ ‘Mean it? Don’t you see your u... ..., where high spirits might work themselves off, though the battle over the botanical case was ended by Miss Nugent, who strongly held that ladies shou... ...e plumes of feathering or nodding grass, of which Nuttie made bouquets and botanical studies, and Gerard stored for harvest decorations. They ran and ... ...always forbid you to gossip.’ ‘We didn’t gossip, mother. We went up to the gardens to get some mulberries for our half-holiday feast; and Ronaldson ca... ...the poor Ninon, that she meant to settle in a place with an aw- fully long Yorkshire name.’ ‘Micklethwayte; yes, we lived there, and got on very well....

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

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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. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...up person, or older, and very dull. Then she and her husband went off to a Yorkshire practice, and had four more babies, none of whom photographed wel... ... this, she discovered Mr. Pragmar, the wholesale druggist, who lived three gardens away, and who had been mowing his lawn to get an appetite for dinne... ...his was an imitation of the noises made by the carnivora at the Zoological Gardens at feeding-time; the idea was taken up by prisoner after prisoner u... ...friendship. They even talked about friendship. They went to the Zoological Gardens together one Saturday to see for themselves a point of morphologica... ...westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and...

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...during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacio...

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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. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne , ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...Warden found in a cold round of beef, in a pigeon pie, and a cut or two of Yorkshire ham; not that he was ravenous, but that his stomach was so health... ...thatch, which was verdant with leek, and strange weeds, possessing a whole botanical growth. And birds flew in and out, as if they had their homes the... ...pent in bringing these veg etable sculptures to perfection. In one of the gardens, more over, the ingenious inhabitant had spent his leisure in buil... ... half torpid great grandsires, who [were] moving rheu matically about the gardens, and some children not yet in breeches, who stared with stolid eyes... ...ond said had been taken from those white and red rose trees in the T emple Gardens, whence the partisans of York and Lancaster had plucked their fatal...

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...nting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of ...

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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. Heartsease or Brother’s Wife by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...‘a great heavy fellow.’ ‘Exactly so; it was the case with all of them. The Yorkshire farmer showed in all their ways, and poor Lord George was so asha... ...hought amends due to her for the injustice, and asked her to come into the gardens. ‘Thank you, I should like it; but will he, will Mr.—will Arthur kn... ...ved to have her taken off his hands for a little while. ‘Have you seen the gardens?’ asked Jane. ‘Are not these the gardens?’ said Violet, surprised, ... ...Martindale. She showed off the peacock, and they wan- dered happily in the gardens, most amiably received by Mr. Harrison, who delighted in displaying... ... that it was a good match for Miss Gardner, as he was heir to an estate in Yorkshire.’ ‘Worthbourne! Then I am afraid it must be too true. The author,... ...said Lady Martindale, emphatically. ‘I shall never bear to return to those botanical pursuits. It was for her sake. Dear little Helen and the rest mus...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her ti...

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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. Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t and colonnade; but there was an air as if something ailed the place: the gardens were weedy, the glass doors hazy, the cement stained and scarred, a... ...s bringing docks and darnel out of the hedges, and plants from the nursery gardens, and bringing rockwork, and letting water in to make a swamp. There... ...a gardener? Some day we will go to work, clear the place, and separate the botanical from the intrusive!’ ‘I should like it, of all things!’ ‘I’ll sen... ...d not offer him aught like Louis Fitzjocelyn. He stood in the midst of the botanical garden, and, with almost triumphant satisfaction, prognosticated ... ...!’ said Louis. ‘She made all my mea- surements there, before I planned the gardens.’ ‘Mary seems to be a good friend to your designs,’ said the Earl, ... ...rs, who recommended sea air, and James suggested a secluded village on the Yorkshire coast, where some friends had been reading in the last long vacat...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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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. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...aily road towards the City, his unconscious son was on his way to Staggs’s Gardens. This euphonious locality was situated in a suburb, known by the in... ...us locality was situated in a suburb, known by the inhabitants of Staggs’s Gardens by the name of Camberling Town; a designation which the Strangers’ ... ...wzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer-houses, and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of... ... that gentleman into his confidence; merely informing him that a friend in Yorkshire had written to him (Mr T oots) for his opinion on such a question... ...ly required to be snipped here and there with a pair of scissors, for some botanical reason that was very powerful with Miss T ox. Miss T ox was slow ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens , t... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...or ad vice,’ and with Doctor Mantle’s ‘Laboratory of Medical, Chemical, and Botanical Science’ both healing insti tutions established on one pai... ...d much rained upon; here and there, harvest still unreaped. Well cultivated gardens attached to the cottages, with plenty of produce forced out of th... ...as had left London? London, where there are nice short walks in level public gardens, with benches of re pose set up at convenient distances for wear... ...out. I’ve kept my part of the bargain, and I mean to keep the money. I’m not Yorkshire, myself, young gentleman; but I’ve lived long enough in these p... ...artificial touchwood by smoke and ashes), deep in the manufacturing bosom of Yorkshire. A mys terious bosom it appeared, upon a damp, dark, Sunday ni... ...orrow; who knows? Though assuredly that would be neither turn pike like nor Yorkshire like. The very wind and dust seem to be hurrying ‘t’races,’ as ...

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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. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...oing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...the tardy com- passion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a Yorkshire school; I was the poor lady’s friend, travelling that way; and if... ...parrow to chirrup in its branches. People sometimes call these dark yards ‘gardens’; it is not supposed that they were ever planted, but rather that t... ...E THE FORTUNE WITH- OUT LOSS OF TIME) WA I T UPON MR WACKFORD SQUEERS, THE YORKSHIRE SCHOOLMASTER SNOW HILL! WHAT kind of place can the quiet townspeo... ...all the while, and when it was done, plucked from a neighbouring tree some botanical curiosity , resembling a small pickled cabbage, and offered it to...

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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 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...the tardy com- passion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a Yorkshire school; I was the poor lady’s friend, travelling that way; and if... ...parrow to chirrup in its branches. People sometimes call these dark yards ‘gardens’; it is not supposed that they were ever planted, but rather that t... ...all the while, and when it was done, plucked from a neighbouring tree some botanical curiosity , resembling a small pickled cabbage, and offered it to... ... was informed that Miss Nickleby was then taking her morning’s walk in the gardens before the house. On the question being propounded whether he could... ...kissed his hand and bowed again—’waft mellifluousness over the neighbours’ gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence. That ...

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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. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of the plants which have been longest cultivated in our flower and kitchen gardens. If it has taken centuries or thousands of years to improve or modi... ... very generally considered as va- rieties; and in this country the highest botanical au- thorities and practical men can be quoted to show that the se... ...n give rise to varieties sufficiently well-marked to have been recorded in botanical works. Hence it is the most flourishing, or, as they may be calle... ...ther species, we may clearly see in the prodigious number of plants in our gardens which can perfectly well endure our climate, but which never become... ...ccasional means of distribution. I shall here confine myself to plants. In botanical works, this or that plant is stated to be ill adapted for wide di... ...disgorge pellets, which, as I know from experiments made in the Zoological Gardens, include seeds capable of germination. Some seeds of the oat, wheat...

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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 Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... England afford food to such a multitude of slugs and caterpillars, in the gardens near Rio are untouched. During our stay at Brazil I made a large co... ...e rose out of the plain like isolated beings, without the accompaniment of gardens or courtyards. This is generally the case in the country, and all t... ...ake five as the average of a full- grown elephant. I was told at the Surry Gardens, that a hippopotamus which was sent to England cut up into pieces w... ...74) says that the cardoon and arti- choke are both found wild. Dr. Hooker (Botanical Magazine, vol. lv. p. 2862), has described a variety of the Cynar... ...etation. Georgia, an island 96 miles long and 10 broad, in the latitude of Yorkshire, “in the very height of summer, is in a manner wholly covered wit... ...w, is sufficient, I conceive, to make the Galapagos Archipelago a distinct botanical prov- ince; but this Flora is not nearly so peculiar as that of S...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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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. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eneral rule, improved the higher they rose, and were all interspersed with gardens running up or down, and with a fair sprinkling of trees, whose budd... ... “Belforest seems a jolly, place.” “But you’ve only seen the wood, not the gardens,” said Jessie. “I went down to the lake with Mr. Ogilvie,” said All... ...er side.” “Oh! they are beautiful!” cried Janet, “all laid out in rib- bon gardens and with the most beautiful terrace, and a foun- tain—only that doe... ...nd they filled the platform, armed with sketching tools, sandwich baskets, botanical tins, and all other appliances; but when Mr. Ogilvie accosted Mrs... ...w how, and nothing worse happened than that a very dusty set, carrying odd botanical, entomological, and artis- tic wares, trailed through the streets... ... himself, with whom he meant to walk through the scenery of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as far as the modest sum they allowed them- selves would permit,...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ly Dr. Bathurst, and Mr. Diamond, an apothecary in Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, with whom he and Mrs. Williams generally dined every Sun- day. The... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...irst time, oat ale; and oat cakes not hard as in Scotland, but soft like a Yorkshire cake, were served at breakfast. It was pleasant to me to find, th... ...were done upon the supposition of happiness; grand houses were built, fine gardens were made, 423 Boswell’s Life of Johnson splendid places of public... ... Tyers, the founder of that excellent place of publick amusement, Vauxhall Gardens, which must ever be an estate to its proprietor, 464 Boswell’s Lif... ...re of that.’ He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, ‘Is not every garden a botani- cal garden?’ When told tha...