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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 ... ...corded in history (which however he neglects to name) that near the Straits of Gibraltar there was formerly an island called Aphrodisias, thickly inha... ...sland called Aphrodisias, thickly inhabited and planted with many orchards and gardens, and showing other evidences of. great prosperity and a high ci... ...hat King Menelaus, after the destruction of Troy, sailed out of the Straits of Gibraltar, coasted Guinea and Africa, and proceeded thence eastward to ... ...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...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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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. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ... in May. Meanwhile I was occupying myself in classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoologi- cal riches, when the accident happened to the Scoti... ...were at a greater depth, leaving to the black or brown the care of forming gardens and parterres in the remote beds of the ocean. We had quitted the N... ...ory which a narrow isth- mus joins to the mainland, a kind of inaccessible Gibraltar, the fortifications of which were rebuilt by the English after ta... ... 16th of February from the shores of Greece, we had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th. It was plain to me that this Mediterranea... ...Conseil. “I will add,” I continued, “that a similar barrier exists between Gibraltar and Ceuta, which in geological times formed the entire Mediterran...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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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. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ... absolutely enveloped Greenhay; and, for any thing I know, the grounds and gardens which then insulated the house may have long disappeared. Being a m... ...ascending to a height beyond any that I have since seen in fairs or public gardens. Horror was at my heart regularly as the swing reached its most aer... ...des laborers equal to at least two more, were required for the grounds and gardens. And no motive ex- isted any longer for being near to a great tradi... ...nel fleet; Major Gen. X. L., on re- signing the lieutenant governorship of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F ., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta,... ...nce may defeat the provision altogether, (I know a publisher of a splendid botanical work, who told me that, by forbearing to attract notice to it wit...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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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. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... 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,... ...by nature. There are other parks, and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens; for St. Louis interested herself in such improvements ... ... There are other parks, and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens; for St. Louis interested herself in such improvements at an earl... ...Helena. Steel plates, T rumbull’s Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Sally from Gibraltar. Copper plates, Moses Smiting the Rock, and Re turn of the Pro... ...ere thickly peopled by sugar planters, whose showy houses, gay piazzas, trig gardens, and numerous slave villages, all clean and neat, gave an exceedi...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...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 ... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty... ...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... ...rick field, with pigsties close to the broken windows and miserable little gardens before the doors growing nothing but stagnant pools. Here and there... ...arly science— inured me to it. Being the professor’s sole companion in his botanical excursions, I almost forgot that I had ever been afloat, and beca... ...onic Meetings for the season, and Little Swills is engaged at the Pastoral Gardens down the river, where he comes out in quite an innocent manner and ... ...ing. “Where have you sprung up from?” inquires Mr. Guppy. “From the market gardens down by Deptford. I can’t stand it any longer. I must enlist. I say... ...rigidity of a single muscle. “Think as high of the old girl—as the rock of Gibraltar— and still you’ll be thinking low—of such merits. But I never own...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...rick field, with pigsties close to the broken windows and miserable little gardens before the doors growing nothing but stagnant pools. Here and there... ...arly science— inured me to it. Being the professor’s sole companion in his botanical excursions, I almost forgot that I had ever been afloat, and beca... ...onic Meetings for the season, and Little Swills is engaged at the Pastoral Gardens down the river, where he comes out in quite an innocent manner and ... ...ing. “Where have you sprung up from?” inquires Mr. Guppy. “From the market gardens down by Deptford. I can’t stand it any longer. I must enlist. I say... ...rigidity of a single muscle. “Think as high of the old girl—as the rock of Gibraltar— and still you’ll be thinking low—of such merits. But I never own...

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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... ...ly silent, but what would be the effect on Allen, who had been heard of at Gibraltar, and was sure to return before the case was heard in court? 426 ...