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John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

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...A great dog story, a well told tale--the naturalist and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, alone, confronted and conquered their fears of an icy Alaskan glacier in 1880. (Summary by Sue Anderson)...

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...Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some ...

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...In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory ...

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...The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics of the smallest “insect people” amazed him ...

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...John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions a...

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...A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount...

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...ath which in the morning we found our socks and coarse, soggy boots frozen solid. Thus, with perceptive eye for detail, the American naturalist, John Muir, describes life on a pioneer Wisconsin farm in the 1850's. Muir was only eleven years old when his father uprooted the family from a relatively comfortable life in Dunbar, Scotland, to settle in the backwoods of North Am...

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................................49 Hoyt S. Vandenberg...................................51 Curtis E. LeMay.........................................55 Muir S. Fairchild.........................................59 Earle E. Partridge.......................................61 Glenn O. Barcus........................................63 Nathan F. Twining.............................

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...Henry H. “Hap” Arnold (1886–1950) . . .42 Air Corps Tactical School (Acts) . . . . . . . . . .48 Lt Gen Harold L. “Hal” George (1893–1986) 52 Gen Muir S. Fairchild (1894–1950) . . . . . . .58 Brig Gen Kenneth N. Walker (1898–1943) . .64 Gen George C. Kenney (1889–1977) . . . . . 70 Gen Laurence S. Kuter (1905–1979) . . . . . .78 Maj Gen Claire L. Chennault (1890–19...

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...arian La Dow of Albany, N. Y''. ; Miss Moore of Detroit, Miss. ; Miss Anna Muir and Miss Pentnn of Louisville, Ky. ; Miss Helen Perry of Jersey City, ...

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...ot fail to note that this man of method, who was a Scotsman of the name of Muir, was much more frequent in his visits to the quarters of his subordina... ...e, man, and bring up my reserve into the front of the battle. Here is Davy Muir, the quartermaster, dis- posed to make your daughter his wife, and he ... ...ect; and, as your honor has had the condescension to speak to me about Mr. Muir, I trust you will be kind enough to say that the girl is as good as bi... ...like to trust at least; and it has at length come to your turn. Lieutenant Muir, it is true, claims his right; but, being quarter- master, I do not li... ...mart- ness of the profession, made his appearance, and was saluted as “Mr. Muir.” “I have come sir, at your bidding, to know my fortune,” said the Qua... ...d me into a contract which was found to be illegal.” “If I remember right, Muir, there were thought to be two sides to that question, in the time of i... ...e, you are 129 James Fenimore Cooper melancholar this fine evening?” “No, Muir, not melancholy absolutely; but a little thoughtful, I confess. I was ... ...h, or merit—I mean particular merit—” “Na, na; dinna say that, Lundie. The Muirs are of gude bluid.” “W ell, then, without aught but bluid, ye’ve wive... ... is Pathfinder.” “Pathfinder, Major Duncan!” “No more, nor any less, David Muir. Pathfinder is the man; but it may relieve your jealousy a little to k...

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...that helped her. He dined at Driffel, supped at Windielaws. He went to the new year’s ball at Huntsfield and was made welcome, and there- after rode t... ...e of opinion about him the day after the ball – he was none the wiser, he could not suppose himself to be remarked by these entrancing la- dies. At th... ... the back o’ the fire, for that’s the place for them; and awa’ down to a burn side, and wash yersel’ in cauld hill water, and dry your bonny hair in t... ... the principles of the French Revolution, and had ended by bringing him under the hawse of my Lord Hermiston in that furious onslaught of his upon the... ...or, Dandie was sitting with a book in his hand, not reading, only honouring the Sabbath by a sacred vacancy of mind. She came near him and stood still... ...e the star of evening on a lake.” She drank in this hackneyed compliment like wine, and it glowed in her veins. “But I’m saying, Dand” – she came near... ...e and it’s true; when you have a jo, Miss Kirstie, it’ll be for guid and ill. I ken: I was made that way mysel’, but the deil was in my luck! Here, ga...

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... would be the best for both of us.” “Well, then, east, ye see, we have the muirs,” said Alan. “Once there, David, it’s mere pitch-and-toss. Out on yon... ...an. “From now on, these weary dragoons of yours will keep the crown of the muirland, and none will get out of Appin but winged fowls. We got through i... ...e conduct’s there to give the lie to it. It’s true, I fell asleep upon the muir; but that was from weari- ness, and you do wrong to cast it up to me—”... ...nd think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger? Sick or sound, he must aye be moving; with the d...

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...s to such misfortune; as in the old words to the popular tune of ‘Ower the muir amang the heather:’ ‘Down amang the broom, the broom, Down amang the b... ... silent morn, Without the leave of me?”— ‘“Brown Dwarf, that o’er the muirland strays, Thy name to Keeldar tell!”— “The Brown Man of the Mu...

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...word, and sporran—power, strength, and wealth, were all lost on Drummossie Muir.” “It is false!” said Elspat, fiercely; “you and such like das- tardly... ...k place, is thirty-four miles in length. The north side is bounded by wide muirs and inconsiderable hills, which oc- cupy an extent of country from tw... ...ugh, uneven, and heathy declivities, 211 Sir Walter Scott out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they ...

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...twa-three ithers, east an’ wast, Fand satisfaction, Whaur braid the briery muirs expand, A waefu’an’ a weary land, The bumblebees, a gowden band, Are ... ...nd their fair’n’; The wind blaws clean about the cairn Wi’ caller air; The muircock an’ the barefit bairn Are happy there. Sic-like the howes o’ life ...

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...o’er the bent of Killiebraid, And mony a weary cast I made, To cuittle the muirfowl’s tail. [Suum cuique. This snatch of a ballad was composed by An- ... ..., swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock, pawnies, black-cock, muir-fowl, and capercailz- ies;’ not forgetting the ‘costly bedding, vaisel... ...shop of St. Andrews some years before the prelate’s assassination on Magus Muir, an in- cident occurred which interrupted his harangue. The rays of th... ...ereof (he kept sobbing and whining at every pause), tofts, crofts, mosses, muirs—outfield, infield—buildings—orchards —dovecots— with the right of net... ...ervation of Ensign Maccombich, that there ‘was mair tint (lost) at Sheriff-Muir.’ His friend, Lieutenant Jinker, bent his eloquence only to ex- culpat... ...eath. My father saw him twice; once before he was made prisoner at Sheriff-Muir; an- other time, on the morning of the day on which he died.’ ‘How can... ...d got the bonnie baronie back, an’ a’.— And now the eggs is ready, and the muir-cock’s brandered, and there’s ilk ane a trencher and some saut, and th...

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...t o’ their bits o’ bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs!—Ride your ways, Ellangowan.— Our bairns are hinging at our weary bac... ... the house. But she liked the Charlies-hope hams, and the cheeses, and the muir-fowl, that they were aye sending, and the lamb’s-wool hose and mittens... ...ort, I had got my matters settled, and hame I cam; and the morn awa to the muirs to see what the herds had been about, and I thought I might as weel g...

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...for all that, and perspired extremely. From St. Andrews, we drove over Magus Muir. My father had announced we were “to post,” and the phrase called up... ...been suffered to encroach on the truth of the imagination. I still see Magus Muir two hundred years ago; a desert place, quite uninclosed; in the mids... ...military common sense, and that he fig- ured memorably in the scene on Magus Muir, so much and no more could I make out. But whenever I cast my eyes b...

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...ay his name smacks of the gallows. It was he who presided at the trials of Muir and Skirving in 1793 and 1794; and his appearance on these occasions w... ...ese occasions was scarcely cut to the pattern of to-day. His summing up on Muir be- gan thus – the reader must supply for himself “the growl- ing, bla... ...itical trial? A little later, he has occasion to refer to the relations of Muir with “those wretches,” the French. “I never liked the French all my da...

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...ice to the fear of God’s visita- tion. The dead they buried on the Borough Muir; the living who had concealed the sickness were drowned, if they were ...

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...angely steeled. By some dikeside they’ll find a bield, Some couthy neuk by muir or field They’re sure to hit, Where, frae the blatherin’ wind conceale...

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...arth! All through the soul of William Jones Who showed me a letter of John Muir. Samuel Gardner I WHO kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers,...

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...whiles he waukened; whiles he heard the time o’ nicht, and whiles a tyke yowlin’ up the muir, as if somebody was deid; whiles he thocht he heard bogle...

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...ummond of the Braes, T utor of Glenuskie, and divers other persons, on the muir of Hetherfield; and having there cru- elly and maliciously wounded the...

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...uction by A. N. Wollaston (The Wisdom of the East), 1904. See also: Sir W. Muir: The Koran, its Composition and Teaching, 1878; H. Hirschfeld: New Res... ...ishcât, vol. i. p. 524. E. T rans. B. viii. 3, 3. 2 Mishcât, as above. Muir, i. p. xiii. Freyt. Einl., p. 384. Memoires de l’Acad. T. 50, p. 426.... ...s been paid to this subject by Dr. Weil in the work just mentioned; by Mr. Muir in his Life of Mahomet, who also publishes a chronological list of Sur... ...Geiger, Gerock, and Freytag, and to the lives of Muhammad by Dr. Weil, Mr. Muir, and that of Dr. Sprenger now issuing from the press, in German. The m... ...ith the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. “The accounts, however,” says Mr. Muir (vol. ii. 86) “are throughout con- fused, if not contradictory; and we... ... is He to be feared. Meet is forgiveness in Him. 1 This Sura is placed by Muir in the “second stage” of Meccan Suras, and twenty-first in chronologic... ...gry, and who go not astray. 3 1 This Sura, which Nöldeke places last, and Muir sixth, in the earliest class of Meccan Suras, must at least have been ... ...ore prosaic style of this verse indicates a later origin than the context. Muir places the whole Sura in what he terms the fourth stage of Meccan Sura... ... much sterner and clearer. The authorities are given by Weil, Sprenger and Muir. See Sura [lxvii.] xvii. 74-76. 8 Verses 26-33 are probably later tha...

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.... “Keep cool, young ‘un. We’ve got all our work cut out for us. Let’s see. Muir wired half an hour ago: ‘Floods on the Ramgunga. Look out.’ Well, that...

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...92 (NP). It was formed by a band of men and women led by conservative John Muir, who was interested in preserving the “wild” places still on Earth aga...

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... that the author’s own ancestor was one of the mounted party em- bodied by Muir of Caldwell, only a day too late for Pentland. **Wodrow Society’s Sele... ... in my notes – of Edinburgh Spearmen, and on duty in the Castle during the Muir and Palmer troubles, he bequeathed to his descendants a bloodless swor... ... a somewhat violent tradition, both long pre- served. The judge who sat on Muir and Palmer, the fa- mous Braxfield, let fall from the bench the obiter...

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...he other in Scotland—on the very same day. The Scottish one was at Sheriff-muir, and was so doubt- ful, that the old Scottish song about it ran thus— ... ...none won At a’, man; But of one thing I’m sure, That at Sheriff-muir A battle there was, Which I saw, man. And we ran, and the...

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...e trembled when the aveng- ers of blood drew him from his chariot on Magus Muir,– for *Sir J. Turner’s Memoirs, pp. 148-50. *A Cloud of Witnesses, p. ...

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...g. “Keep cool, young’un. We’ve got all our work cut out for us. Let’s see. Muir wired half an hour ago: ‘Floods on the Ramgunga. Look out.’ Well, that...

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...chichte des Qorans, 1860, p. 16. Compare the fuller account in Sir William Muir’s: Life of Mahomet, 3d ed., 1894, ch. iii. 465 William James people, ...