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...s 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 civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which charact...

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...TIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOP... ... The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectral ship -- Ghostly ships of extraordinary proportions -- A Monk who visited islands of the... ... of Tacuba -- Mexican treasure sunk in the lake -- The Mexicans are reduced to slavery -- Work of rebuilding the capital -- Magnificence of Cortez's p... ...e of Indians -- Applying live coals to the feet of a Mexican King -- Origin of slavery on the Caribbean islands -- Kidnapping natives -- Cattle raisin... ...- The extraordinary coolness with which he submits to the executioner's axe -- Incidents in the passage of Magellan Strait -- A slaughter of penguins ... ...ted by a recovery from ancient history of the fact that there was a profitable maritime commerce carried on between ports of the Mediterranean and Ind... ...ith her white sails mirrored in almost every wave of the sea, and retained her maritime importance until the second Punic war, or about 200 B.C. when ... ... greater indignities, which Cortez had foreseen could not be continued without involving the Spaniards and Mexicans in open hostility. His next act wa... ...sk he desired them to undertake, nothing less than the suppression of a mutiny involving three-fourths of the men, of his fleet, but not a man faltere...

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... The Sale of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 102... ...Protestants Pg 1025 Unions Pg 1045 Upward Mobility-Progress-Hope Pg 1051 Slavery Pg 1052 The Slavery of Ownership Pg 1054 The Slave Culture ... ...and fire will protect them from marauding bears. That is why so many camping incidents of people being attacked by predators at night are campers w... ...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ...e coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and westerly storms th... ...for most of these British sailors to die before ever being released from their maritime slavery. 70% of all the sailors in the Royal navy were kille... ...duce car accidents. But the exact opposite is true: instead, it increases the incidents of collisions with people falling asleep at the wheel. This... ...The English God-given right to get drunk any time they pleased came from their maritime history of imported wealth. Sailors arriving home filthy ric...

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...l Legislature to do everything else, and cannot authorize them to prohibit slavery. That is one of the things the court can decide, but can never give... ...V ol Five ON SLA VERY IN A DEMOCRACY . August ??, 1858 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Wha... ...e every constitutional method to prevent the evil from becoming larger and involving more negroes, more white men, more soil, and more States in its d... ... the advantage of another; while the other party argues that, with all its incidents, in the long run all classes are benefited. In the Chicago platfo... ...ree hundred men to be kept ready for departure from on board the receiving-ships at New Y ork. Two hundred men to be ready to leave Governor’s Island ... ...ich, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps, through all the incidents, to the complete destruction of the Union. The sophism itself is ... ...espondence be- tween this, government and foreign powers with reference to maritime right , I transmit a report from the Secretary of State. ABRAHAM L... ...that from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclamation all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabitan... ...y him, would be considered rather as the expression of a sentiment than as involving any constitutional question. Mr. Hall, of Missouri, thought that ...

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...e with whom only he can ever have a real sympathy—the sincere opponents of slavery. It will be a mistake if he shall allow the provocations offered hi... ...ess declaring forfeitures and con- fiscation of property and liberation of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated, and also declaring th... ...nd other belligerent operations, between the Government and several of the maritime powers, but they have been discussed, and, as far as was possible,... ...ality of their adjudications, have commanded the respect and confidence of maritime powers. The supplemental treaty between the United States and Grea... ...now rapidly improving part of the country. A novel and important question, involving the extent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters wh... ...nited States of Colombia, and have accredited a minister to that Republic. Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my at... ...ls and naval warfare since the introduction of steam as a motive power for ships of war demands either a corresponding change in some of our existing ... ...ng, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as w... ...he question of guilt, bear a far different aspect. That on this contract, involving some twelve hundred thousand dollars, the contractors would plan,...

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...s of the Constitution have so changed this, that those who were then negro slaves are clothed with the rights of citizenship, including the right of s... ...ttack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it. In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whilst the inde... ...,” etc. The clauses of the statute inflict a heavy fine on all captains of ships who should import Quak- ers into the country. The Quakers who may be ... ...uthority which each of two governments was to enjoy, as to foresee all the incidents in the existence of a nation. The obligations and the claims of t... ...e laws; and the President may frequently change his line of policy without involving the State in difficulty or destruction. Whatever the prerogatives... ...ly prescribes the rule of competency. Thus all the questions which concern maritime commerce evidently fall under the cognizance of the Federal tribun... ... jurisdiction, the national courts can only hear causes which originate in maritime affairs. The Constitution comprises under one head almost all the ... ...f the Federalists to power was, in my opin- ion, one of the most fortunate incidents which accompa- nied the formation of the great American Union; th... ...01 Tocqueville No great change takes place in human institutions with- out involving amongst its causes the law of inheritance. When the law of primog...

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...and, having slain Iphitus, retired to Lydia, and for a long time was there slave to Omphale, a punish- 9 Plutarch’s Lives ment which he had imposed u... ...e youths were not slain by Minos, but spent the remainder of their days in slavery in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves o... ...captives. Pherecydes adds that he bored holes in the bottoms of the Cretan ships to hinder their pursuit. Demon writes that T aurus, the chief captain... ...ing by sea to Athens, Minos, contrary to this decree, pursued him with his ships of war, was forced by a storm upon Sicily, and there ended his life. ... ...ere eager to interfere again in Egypt, and to disturb the king of Persia’s maritime do- minions. Nay, there were a good many who were, even then, poss... ...housand men at arms, openly declared that they had undertaken this distant maritime expedition for the sake of Alcibiades, and that, if he was ill-use... .... There are some, too, who even at this day take names from certain casual incidents at their nativity; a child that is born when his father is away f... ...is; but there his soldiers’ hearts failing, after exposing his project and involving the Spartans in a dangerous war, he retreated to Thespiae. After ... ...a war which had been protracted in its continuance, and diversified in its incidents and its fortunes to a degree exceeding belief, compared with all ...

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...eir own gates, and the rest within yielded up themselves and were sold for slaves. This action made Sertorius highly renowned throughout all Spain, an... ...entreated Cinna to use his power more moderately. And in the end, when the slaves whom Marius had freed at his landing to increase his army, being mad... ...those coun- tries that were of military age, and undertook the building of ships and the making of all sorts of warlike engines, by which means he kep... ...k again into Spain, whence he was also repulsed, and, some Cilician pirate ships joining with him, they made for the island of Pityussa, where they la... ...eparations, resolving with a high hand to dispossess the Spartans of their maritime supremacy . Lysander was eager for the opportunity of going over a... ...vantage. For Sardis itself, the chief seat of the barbarian’s power in the maritime provinces, and many other considerable places were surrendered to ... ...o his fellow citizens. For it will not even do to say, that he dreaded the involving the city in war, by seizing Nicanor, and hoped by professions of ... ...erent kind. They did not set about removing partial evils and curing petty incidents of disease, which would have been (as Plato says), like cutting o... ...m yours is proud and brave, but in his presence unmanly and dejected;” and incidents that occurred appeared to show that the Egyptian spoke truth. For...

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... the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded, and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us... ...leading outline, the Iliad may be true to historic fact, that in the great maritime expedition of western Greece against the rival and half-kindred em... ...ican governments, the close military array, the improved con- struction of ships, the Amphiktyonic convocations, the mu- tual frequentation of religio... ...up no less than half the Iliad, and are supplied with so vast a variety of incidents, that no one bears a likeness to another; such different kinds of... ...greatest princes were put to the sword, and their wives and daughters made slaves and concubines? On the other side, I would not be so delicate as tho... ...resume whate’er thy avarice craves (That trick of tyrants) may be borne by slaves. Yet if our chief for plunder only fight, The spoils of Ilion shall ... ...y, Though mine the sweat and danger of the day. Some trivial present to my ships I bear: Or barren praises pay the wounds of war. But know, proud mona... ...e, warrior, haste! preserve thy threaten’d state, Or one vast burst of all-involving fate Full o’er your towers shall fall, and sweep away Sons, sires...

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...e Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” Jonah. “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” Psalms... ...that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly a... ...d respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who aint a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea captains may order me ... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...g gained, the Moss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan. Sideways leaning,we sideways darted; every rope ya... ...g terrible events, — as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, whe... ...walled up. In the sperm fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remarkable incidents in all the business of whaling. One day the planks stream with fr... ...foundations for cathedrals. Yet was this half horrible stolid ity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all ramifying heartlessness; — yet was i...

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...Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” —Jonah. “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” —Psalm... ...that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly ... ... respectfully obey that old hunks in that particular instance? Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me ... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...g gained, the Moss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a slave before the Sultan. Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeya... ...ing terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wh... ...led up. In the sperm fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remark- able incidents in all the business of whaling. One day the planks stream with fr... ... foundations for cathedrals. Y et was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;—yet was it ...

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...aten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of... ... in the mud—our 25 Charles Dickens two colliers (our watering place has a maritime trade em ploying that amount of shipping) have not an inch of wat... ...wo of the boys who were entered for that raffle have gone to India in real ships, since; and one was shot, and died in the arms of his sister’s lover,... ...he mind. The poet’s words are sometimes on its awful lips: And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish’... ... opportunity of observing in connexion with the Drama—which, by the by, as involving a good deal of noise, appears to me to be occasionally con found... ...first burnt in kilns, and is then laid under the four iron feet of a demon slave, subject to violent stamping fits, who, when they come on, stamps awa... ...nger immediately started up again, and said that after those observations, involving as they did ample concession to his honour without compromising t... ...s opinions, and I believe he is known to be well informed.’ The commonest incidents and places would appear to have been made special, expressly for ... ... of the people, or per mitted by the Institutions of the country. He is a slave, of course. The ladies of France (who are also slaves) invariably hav...

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... the badinage of the passersby. And there were several navi- gable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air. It was all immensely interestin... ...downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea... ...- ture, for example, in the grim intensity,of her political method, in her maritime and commercial ascendancy. But she repeated no previous state at a... ... a fight and New York had hoisted the white flag. 4 4 4 4 4 The lamentable incidents that followed the surrender of New York seem now in the retrospec... ...of A. The war became perforce a universal guerilla war, a war inextricably involving civilians and homes and all the apparatus of social life. These a... ...attlettes”! To such a spectator as Bert it presented itself as a series of incidents, some immense, some trivial, but collectively inco- herent. He ne... ...on. “Brasted cheek!” he said. “One’d think I was one of ‘is beastly German slaves! 194 The War in the Air “Prancing beggar!” And then he fell specula...

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...n were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or agains... ...toes. Any- where in the immediate vicinity there might be seen pictures of ships speeding away full sail to all parts of the world; out- fitting wareh... ...ch, to work its way securely to any desert island in the world. Many minor incidents in the household life of the Ships’ Instrument-maker who was prou... ...olomon Gills himself (more generally called old Sol) was far from having a maritime appearance. T o say nothing of his Welsh wig, which was as plain a... ... ‘and really feel it as a honour to receive your commands, be- ing a black slave and a mulotter. Mrs Richards, if there’s any other orders, you can gi... ...mbey was in a difficulty. He would have liked to give him some explanation involving the terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currenc... ...ld soldier. Mrs Pipchin’s middle- aged niece, her good-natured and devoted slave, but possess- ing a gaunt and iron-bound aspect, and much afflicted w... ...took its own way, and did what it liked with it. The recollection of those incidents, and his own share in them, may have been made the more captivati... ...dded pain of thinking that she had been, perhaps, the innocent occasion of involving W alter in peril, and all to whom he was dear, herself included, ...

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...mself behind, with his big face all on one side. Our excitement at that crisis was great, and our delight unbounded. After this era in our existence, ... ...ersey, and roll- ing them into hailstones to pelt him with. Mercantile Jack was hard at it, in the hard weather: as he mostly is in all weathers, poor... ... weak- minded and feeble-bodied constable? To resume the consideration of the curious question of Refreshment. I am a Briton, and, as such, I am aware... ... smooth was the old high road, and so fresh were the horses, and so fast went I, that it was midway between Gravesend and Rochester, and the widening ... ...n all else is change wherever one goes, there yet seem, in every place, to be some few people who never alter? As the sight of the greengrocer’s house... ...d. Some years ago, this man at my feet, whose over-fraught heart is heaving as if it would burst from his breast, and whose tears are wet upon the dre... ...s. Having newly taken the lease of a house in a certain distinguished metropolitan parish— a house which then appeared to me to be a frightfully first... ...career and never known that when I see a white horse on a barge’s sail, that barge is a lime barge. For precious secrets in reference to beer, am I li... ...entlemen themselves seemed conscious of their inferiority, and to know submissively that they could never hope to hold their own against the Pensioner...

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...n were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promise of fair weather; winds blew for or agains... ...toes. Any- where in the immediate vicinity there might be seen pictures of ships speeding away full sail to all parts of the world; out- fitting wareh... ...ch, to work its way securely to any desert island in the world. Many minor incidents in the household life of the Ships’ Instrument-maker who was prou... ...olomon Gills himself (more generally called old Sol) was far from having a maritime appearance. T o say nothing of his Welsh wig, which was as plain a... ... ‘and really feel it as a honour to receive your commands, be- ing a black slave and a mulotter. Mrs Richards, if there’s any other orders, you can gi... ...mbey was in a difficulty. He would have liked to give him some explanation involving the terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currenc... ...ld soldier. Mrs Pipchin’s middle- aged niece, her good-natured and devoted slave, but possess- ing a gaunt and iron-bound aspect, and much afflicted w... ...took its own way, and did what it liked with it. The recollection of those incidents, and his own share in them, may have been made the more captivati... ...dded pain of thinking that she had been, perhaps, the innocent occasion of involving W alter in peril, and all to whom he was dear, herself included, ...

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...mlet standing dark, and the vast substance of Falstaff—that I followed the incidents excitedly, and really saw them, which was better than understandi... ...bian Nights together, or, rather, he read them to me, often acting out the incidents as we rode or drove abroad. An omission to perform a duty was the... ...ere’s no declining, I hope. Wonderful men, those Romans! They fought their ships well, too. A question to you, Greg. Those heathen Pagan dogs had a re... ...r-trees wonderfully magni- fied, and larches and birches rigged like fairy ships, all start- ing up to us as we passed, and melting instantly. One cou... ...our of the day—absolutely twenty-three hours of the man’s life are chained slaves, beasts of burden, to the four-and-twentieth! So, I repeat, fag at y... ...curiosity of our worship of aristocracy and royalty; and we, who were such slaves to rank, and such tyrants in our own households,—we Britons were the... ...uld demand explanations of my father with re- gard to this terrible rumour involving Ottilia, I found my- self in the box of the City widow, Lady Samp... ...son.’ ‘But you must know that he sets his face against legal pro- ceedings involving exposure.’ ‘But surely, Richie, exposure is the very thing we cou... ...act guineas from “old ocean” like salt. Precious few barristers understand maritime cases. The other day I was in Court, and prompted a great Q.C. in ...

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... of confessing his innermost beliefs—which should console him for the hard slavery of the pen. III LIBERTY OF IMAGINATION should be the most precious ... ...otor-car, its sen- sations, its fatigue, its vast topographical range, its incidents down to the bursting of a tyre, are brought home to you with all ... ...es and a German Emperor condescendingly suggested the last improvements in ships’ dining-tables. The best idea of the inconceivable antiquity of that ... ... his own, but of all nations, that Marryat is largely human. He is the en- slaver of youth, not by the literary artifices of pre- sentation, but by th... ...pon the sea with the same covetous steadiness, for he has become of late a maritime eagle, and has learned to box the compass. He gazes north and sout... ...ical city that I ceased to be a child, became a boy, had known the friend- ships, the admirations, the thoughts and the indig- nations of that age. It... ... Peace with Honour, had long forgotten the war episodes belong- ing to its maritime history. It was a peaceful coast, agricultural, industrial, the ho... ...ll possible accidents of the sea. But suppose a collision out on the ocean involving damage as extensive as this one was, and suppose then a gale of w... ... speeds, and it ought to be remembered that in case of a big liner’s loss, involving many lives, she is gen- erally sunk by a ship much smaller than h...

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...sides of every bay and river as high up in each as it might be navigable for ships of war. By these fortifica tions, supported by our Navy, to which ... ...e neutral, they would be found eminently useful, as, by keeping their public ships at a distance from our cities, peace and order in them would be pre... ...taken, without interfering with its other duties, for the suppression of the slave trade and of piracy in the neighboring seas. The situation of the U... ...prehend vari ance with any power, unless it proceed from a violation of our maritime rights. In these contests, should they occur, and to whatever ex... ...ease of the Navy, toward the effectual suppression of the African traffic in slaves; in alluring the aboriginal hunters of our land to the cultivation... ...t is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past. The striking incidents of your history, replete with instruction and furnishing abunda... ...nsfer of American control to the new government is of such great importance, involving an obligation resulting from our intervention and the treaty of...

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...nly can deliver him, and with his eyes still tracing in the far distance, ‘Ships, dim-discover’d, dropping from the clouds,’— which a brief interval o... ...t folio volume, in which were entered all the charges, of whatever nature, involving any serious ten- dency—in fact, all that exceeded a misdemeanor—i... ... pre- judged him in the opinions of many, who fancy all such per- sons the slaves of corporeal enjoyments. But, with submis- sion, the truth lies the ... ...articularly remarked that she seemed agitated; and now, at recalling these incidents, Agnes reminded me that I had noticed that circumstance to hersel... ...guilty design in what before had seemed accident, and links uniting remote incidents which else seemed casual and dis- connected, greatly disturbed an... ...ou know, though not flotsam, because it would not float, was certainly, by maritime law, ‘jetsom.’ It would be the idlest of scruples to fancy that th... ...ide of Peru, but, of course, somewhere on its outside—and the outside of a maritime land must be the shore; so that, if she kept the shore, and went f... ...nction of carrying along with them their entire families, women, children, slaves, their herds of cattle and of sheep, their horses and their camels. ... ... trade in slaves. And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving manifest injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion...

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...her, my memory welcomes you and I confess to you I should like to know the incidents on the road which has led you to where you are now.” And he answe... ...ad in my mind was Theodosia!’ Allegre con- sented to answer. ‘Originally a slave girl—from somewhere.’ “My mother can be marvellously indiscreet when ... ...im figures of the workers moved in the biting dawn and the masted forms of ships were coming out dimly, as far as the eye could reach down the old har... ...self of its habitual customers, mostly people con- nected with the work of ships and cargoes, she came quietly to sit at our table and looking at me v... ... my inexperience. I looked at her from time to time thinking: She has seen slavery, she has seen the Com- mune, she knows two continents, she has seen... ...ailway station, after many adventures, one more disagreeable than another, involving privations, great exertions, a lot of difficulties with all sorts... ...he was as new to love as he was. During their retreat in the region of the Maritime Alps, in a small house built of dry stones and embowered with rose...