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This book of poetry was first published in 1990

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...g. As the sun blazes upon the terminal's Scraped concrete The shelved rows of the poor men Hear the sound die on the pavement In a gradual dying echo.... ...t to life; all the tattered people awaken; And a man spits toward the tire of the bus, But misses. And as he watches his own spit vanish From the ha... ...s, But misses. And as he watches his own spit vanish From the hard crest of the world, And silently scrapes his lunch pail against A corner of a met... ... eyes in a more motionless trance than before. New England Washing (Mental Account, Some day of Gorbechev, 1987) ... ...blows The Soviet flag on the wall before his feet. His walls may have many flags, And his mind thoughts of glasnost and communism Intermixed.. impract...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ...ot, who bore no resemblance to the gentle, reserved woman he had married. THE CURSE OF KALI 3 England 1854 It was a beautiful autumn day when Si... ...ima,’ said Rosita in her inimitable Spanish accent, which she had never lost despite her years in England. ‘Your dreams have come true, at last, and... ...enturers to the East, had made his fortune in India in the early 18th century. ‘On his return to England, Sir William’s substantial wealth purchased... ...ounded Highlander, who Helen was treating in the hospital. By evening, the sepoys came with white flags to collect their dead and wounded and the Br...

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...g, by persons who might not know how to contain the arguments. There is nothing racist in my words. For I am not White, and I do not feel that Whites of Continental Europe have any superiority other than what proximity to England can lend to anyone in the world. There might be a query about my right to write this piece of information. I have to mention that I define mysel...

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...he native-English speaking students in Australia find themselves being addressed as Thoo / Thum/ Nee &c. and referred to as USS / Avan / Aval &c. all of which are degrading words that paint dirt on a human personality, they have every right to react. If any Hindi or any other feudal language teachers use such words on them, they need to have the courage to give a cracking ...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...onquests when a warrior-king in France hired a cleric educator from York, England, who would develop a significant information technology. Together,... ...d the groundwork for a coming golden age of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘... ...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no s... ...rmanent settlements, gained control of most of the island, and renamed it England. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Dan...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, 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...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...uster " -- Sailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat... ... of two survivors -- One dies from thirst, the other picked up and returned to England 345- 357 CHAPTER XXXIII. An attack in which Drake is wounded. -... ...- Description of the natives and their customs -- The return trip from Java to England 367- 373 CHAPTER XXXV. Honored as a hero yet condemned as a cor... ... fleet were loaded and fired again and again in honor of the occasion; all the flags were displayed; all the crews paraded in their finest uniforms. T... ...r's necks and embraced like long-separated brothers, the trumpets sounded, the flags were displayed, the drums rolled as though Panama were already in... ...Several canoes directly after put out to the ships, two of which carried white flags which were evidently intended as signs of peace, and their amiabl...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...is favorite mare, both of us a little to the front of the Medici pennants, flags, and jousting gear. As we approached the Duke’s stables at a canter,... ...fend him, troubled by the royal hatred leveled at him, for his loyalty to England was unquestionable. His trial was pure sham. SHEPHERD OF THE OC... ...lied ships for the Queen. In Virginia, my colony is dedicated to all that England stands for. Sirs, I protest! Judge: Damned you are, damning our... ... my Secretary of State has negotiated a successful Anti-Slave Treaty with England. On April 24th, 1862, this treaty was ratified by the Senate. It wa...

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...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ...h At the annual meeting of dele- gates from the four colleges in the Nev,' England intercollegiate bas- ketball league, held at thehome of J. B. Lapha... ...voted no-license. Classical Teachers Meet The Classical Association of New England held its second an nual meeting at Phillijjs-Andover academy, Andov... ... the guest of the even- ing, sjioke on "The Position of Williams Among New England Institutions of Ijoarning. " Other spooohos wore made by Dr. Will- ... ...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...veries were discredited until 1880 when Lowell erected an ob- servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., and confirmed the observations of his predecessor. At bot...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...troduced he was respected. Alas: this did not happen. A century earlier in England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe relig... ...appened with Cromwell’s severe religious Republicanism. As a result of this: England became a land of cottage-industry peasants: far better off than... ...lization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 320 The actual fact is that England did not ever ‘rule the waves’. King Canute tried to do it. He... ... ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sa... ... victories and battles and conquest. Europeans marched happily to war waving flags and cheering; every nation convinced that their side would win ea...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..........

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS........................................................ ...gnominiously blown down by the wind, and in making a vast display of gaudy flags and golden curtains. Fortune, however, favoured him better than he de... ...housand six hundred and sixty. Greeted by splendid dinners under tents, by flags and tapestry streaming from all the houses, by de lighted crowds in ...

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...ics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rtunity university. 3 George Meredith SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I WE ARE TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE wit... ...little estate, sir,” he said. “You’ve seen plenty bigger in Ger- many, and England too. We can’t get more than this handful in our tight little island... ...hile its out-pushing brushwood below drooped under burdens of drowned reed-flags that caught the foam. Keen scent of hay, crossing the dark air, met E... ...sten to Sir T . on Parliament and parties, and chide myself if my interest flags. His algebra-puzzles, or Euclid- puzzles in figures—sometimes about s...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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... ! "# ... ... ! "# ! St. Ives, The Adv... ... ! "# ! St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Lou... ...a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...mes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. St. Ives, The Adv... ...opyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Stevenson St. Ives, The Adv... ...an air of an- gelic candour, yet of a high spirit; she stepped like a Diana, every movement was noble and free. One day there was a strong east wind; ... ...we the plea- sure of this visit? how did you recognise me? and how did you know I was here?’ Carefull separating his coat skirts, the lawyer took a se... ...ikely that I should have recognised our visitors, than that they should have identified the modish gentleman with the miserable prisoner in the Castle...

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... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...rst you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of m... ...uite self possessed in company. Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possess... ... bony. The town itself is perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, als...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. ...

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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..., and ungrateful cries. Pope’s Odyssey. IN THAT PLEASANT DISTRICT of merry England which is wa- tered by the river Don, there extended in ancient time... ...ded, and which had become the universal style of architec- ture throughout England. Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habi- tation, in... ...assail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute. By my faith, I c... ...nk, surrounded a throne deco- rated in the same colours. Among pennons and flags bearing wounded hearts, burning hearts, bleeding hearts, bows and qui...

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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 di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...m on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper delib... ...hat, during the fourteen last years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a s... .... Now, to any man who is acquainted with commer- cial life as it exists in England, it will readily occur that in an opulent English family of that cl... ...f Lord Nelson. In one of the aisles going off from this centre, we saw the flags of France, Spain, and Holland, the whole trophies of the war, swingin... ...Riou and Captain ——, to- gether with its floating pageantries of conquered flags, hav- ing awakened within me, in a form of peculiar solemnity, those ...

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...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumst...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia S... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...TER I – REVISITS ISLAND T HAT HOMELY PROVERB, used on so many occasions in England, viz. “That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,”... ...meward bound from the West Indies, and get them a passage, if possible, to England or France. The first part of the proposal was so generous and kind ... ..., dangerous words the second time, he threatened to carry them in irons to England, and have them hanged there for mutiny and running away with the sh... ...rd, they would follow her. So they cut the cord, which was made of twisted flags, and the cow went on before them, directly to the town; which, as the... ...would be to no purpose; for most of the houses were low, and thatched with flags and rushes, of which the country is full; so they presently made some...

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... world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether I should fling asi...

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...h” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titm... ...Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...warrior and sovereign. This matter being arranged in very few words (as in England, upon most points, is the laudable fashion), the French Chambers be... ...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ... remark frequently made by our orators at public dinners, that “France and England, while united, might defy the world,” was con- sidered as likely to... ...teness to the Pasha, to fight all Europe for maltreating him,— all Europe, England included. He was bent on war, and an immense majority of the nation...

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...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...st we shall rare, And every day we shall eat All as many as we may get. To England will we nought gon, Till they be eaten every one.’” 14 The Talisma... ...xtraordinary an invention as that which imputed cannibalism to the King of England should have found its way into his history. Mr. James, to whom we o... ...ly Wars, has ascribed their prac- tices and propensities to the Monarch of England, whose 15 Sir Walter Scott ferocity was considered as an object of... ...fresh- ment alike to the ear and the taste. Mattresses, wrought of twisted flags, lay by the side of the cell; the sides, like the floor, had been rou... ...ed at a sight so unexpected and singular—for it was customary to leave all flags of truce and other communications from the enemy at an appointed plac... ...ups of palm- trees, was now the centre of an encampment, the embroi- dered flags and gilded ornaments of which glittered far and wide, and reflected a...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...art. The same man, who would drive his poor relatives from his own door in England, would besiege in Samoa the doors of the rich; and the essence of t... ...or not the wretched story. And the end of it spattered the credit alike of England and the States, when this man (the premier of a friendly sovereign)... ...e has been done of late years, though in a better quarrel, by ourselves of England. I shall have to tell how the Germans landed and shed blood at Fang... ...laim, he set up the emblem of his country; and the beach twinkled with the flags of nations. All this, it will be observed, was going forward in that ... ...as ministered by the EBER to T amasese, in the shape of uncountable German flags. The full history of this epidemic of bunting falls to be told in the... ...ter. But the fact has to be chronicled here, for I believe it was to these flags that we owe the visit of the Adams, and my next and best authentic gl...