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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...RACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EART... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...e -- Description of the habitations of the Philippine Islanders -- An alliance established by exchanging and drinking blood -- Zebu selected as a plac... ...n scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have perished wi... ...and if he cannot, will bemoan the fate that lies before him. He considers many places ill-omened; Eddystone Rock, the Straits of Messina, where in anc... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an... ...d arctic explorers of more modern times: Parry, in 1827, reached 79°; Kane, in 1850, 80° 30'; Hayes, in 1861, 81° 30'; Hall, in 1871, 82° 16'; Nares, ...

...scoveries, 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 the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civiliz...

... -- 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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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ...l homes for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable for underground cities. ... .... The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly places has given way to the reality of Jews, Chinese and Japanese outper... ...alent number of roads for a world population of 50 billion, if the sparsely populated U.S. kept an equivalent percentage of people it would have near... ..., mothers began chasing their babies from their nests— before trust could be established. Dominant males got tired of protecting t heir territories an... ...gladesh killing over a million people, still Bangladesh is the most densely populated large country in the world with over 1000 people per square ki... ... “We are so often prisoners of our times. A woman who wanted an abortion in 1850 was imprisoned more often then than she would be today. Today if sh...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ... to live in. The dormitories are used by students who have come from other places. We have cleaner air here than downtown. Rents are even higher there... ...field? How do you feel about the advancing technology? That today, in many places, people are replaced by machines? Yes, we all think this way. We thi... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...lienated from society, and no longer have a future in any case. In densely populated villages, deaths of ten people from Aids constitutes a rare cause... ...s is heritage from agrarian communities, having become polished in densely populated villages, where insulting one's fellow human beings was unaccepta... ...ss of America, Lanham. Ingram, James C. 1971. Economic Change in Thailand 1850–1970. California Univ. Press, Stanford. Irvine, Walter 1984. Decline ...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...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. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...talked over their liquor as men who had power and unquestioned ac- cess to places of trust and profit. The magazine writer discussed theories of gover... ...onshire; deli- cate and of gracious seeming those who live in the pleasant places of London; fascinating for all their demureness the damsels of Franc... ... with her goes without saying, but that is not enough. A mission should be established. 29 Rudyard Kipling III III III III III Amer Amer Amer Amer Am... ...lings for half- crown cigar-cases. When the country fills up to a decently populated level a few million people who are not aliens will be smitten wit... ...ows, and the decorations upon the tables were after the manner of the year 1850. Main Street was full of country folk from the desert, come in to trad...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...elf with renewed zest to his law practice, acquiesced in the Compromise of 1850 with reluctance and a mental reservation, supported in the Presidentia... ...near. The peace promised, and apparently inaugurated, by the Compromise of 1850 was rudely broken by the introduc- tion of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h... ...ublic utility of internal improvements. That the poor- est and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads... ...and join mine, this being the case it was agreed that they should exchange places and answer to each other’s names—as it was ex- pected we all would b... ...o the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering...

...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...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. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...e completion of which there can now, I imagine, be but little hope. Of all places that I know it is the most ungainly and most unsatisfactory: I fear ... ...d, between Emmaus and Arimathea. In the first place no one knows where the places are, or is sure of their existence, and then between their presumed ... ...depth and tenacity, and yet there is but one post-office. Nor is there any established system of letter-carriers. To those who desire it letters are b... ...been from year to year elected; when we remember the position of the newly populated States from which the members have been sent, and the absence thr... ...d for sixty years Congress has fully answered the purpose for which it was established. With no antecedents of gran- deur, the nation, with its Congre... ...The pay of the cavalry is about ten per cent. higher:— Lieutenant-General* 1850 pounds. Major-general 1150 “ Brigadier-General 800 “ Colonel 530... ...ates should take a part. Now there are thirty-four States. The territories populated by American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to t...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvani... ...is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume; but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein described ac... ...rism—if slavery can be honored with such a distinction—vault into the high places of the most advanced and painfully acquired civilization. Ward and G... ... The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely against the wishes and ... ...county town of that county, there is a small district of coun- try, thinly populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn... ...phatically such, being but a boy seven or eight years old. He was too well established in his profession to per- mit questions as to his native skill,... ...my ex- emption from the democratic operation of the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. But for this, I might at any time become a victim of this most cruel ... ...Rochester ochester ochester ochester ochester, , , , , D D D D December 1, 1850 ecember 1, 1850 ecember 1, 1850 ecember 1, 1850 ecember 1, 1850 More t...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...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. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ... for eight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES DICKENS” EDITION... ...ng locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of out of the way places where there is no thor oughfare; sending wild stewards, with elfin ... ...ce of things left far away; put on the well remembered aspect of favourite places dearly loved; and even people them with shadows. Streets, houses, ro... ...g: a gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon. I was now comfortably established by courtesy in the ladies’ cabin, where, besides ourselves, the... ...e left each of them in high good humour. Not only is a thorough confidence established, by those means, between the physician and patient, in respect ... ...ful operation among us for some years past. America, as a new and not over populated country, has in all her prisons, the one great advantage, of bein...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...at have no connection with the General Government. After Judge Douglas has established this proposition, which nobody disputes or ever has disputed, h... ...asures shows con- clusively that the authors of the Compromise measures of 1850 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of th... ...ing through more than three hours, if you undertake to read it, he at last places the whole matter under the control of that power which he has been c... ... regard to the admission of Missouri, by which the Missouri Compromise was established and slavery excluded from a country half as large as the presen... ... in such slow degrees as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their places be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrar... ... Missouri Compromise, but it did not stay settled. Then the compromises of 1850 were declared to be a full and final settlement of the question. The t... ... own country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of thei...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...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 U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...ly news, it was history. But the world is enor mous now, and prodigiously populated—that is one change; and another is the lightning swiftness of the... ...the one village in that early time; I am in the other now. These times and places are sufficiently wide apart, yet today I have the strange sense of b... ...tion of Joyce was a fine and picturesque thing. It drew a vast crowd. Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lem... ... the smith who welded together the broken parts of a great republic and re established it where it is quite likely to outlast all the monarchies prese... ...us Congress met in Philadelphia. The Constitution of the United States was established to ensure do mestic hostility. T ruth crushed to earth will ri... ...eteenth century who was raised to the high office of Lord Chief Justice in 1850, and subsequently became Lord Chancellor. Its weight will, doubtless, ...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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 John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...near Auckland, for the sons of the colonists, St. John’s College, which in 1850 was placed under the Reverend Charles John Abraham, the former Eton ma... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...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. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...de the revolutionaries masters of the town. They held it for five days and established a revolutionary govern- ment. Bakunin was the soul of the defen... ... various countries. Bakunin was sentenced to death on the 14th of January, 1850, but his sentence was commuted after five months, and he was delivered... ...unciating this doctrine,[“Marx, as a thinker, is on the right road. He has established as a principle that all the evolutions, political, reli- gious,... ...se du T ravail, and again with the Syndicats in the same industry in other places. “It was the purpose of the new organization to secure twice over th... ...n- crease without limit. If the whole surface of the world were as densely populated as London is now, it would, no doubt, require almost the whole la... ...ket-gardeners in Great Britain, in the neighborhood of Paris, and in other places, he says:— They have created a totally new agriculture. They smile w... ...European immigrants also compete, but they are not excluded. In a sparsely populated country, indus- trious cheap labor could, with a little care, be ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...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. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...ent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an... ...re amiable and respect able when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the heart... ...to extend those limits, and to apply such a sur plus to our public debts as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once ef... ...ur banner have become nearly threefold their origi nal number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans; and yet t... ...t remedies to enforce the constitutional provisions. I hold that the laws of 1850, commonly called the “compromise measures,” are strictly constitutio... ...er confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts;... ... the executive oath of office to Vice President Millard Fillmore on July 10, 1850 in the Hall of the House of Representatives. Presi dent Zachary Tay...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...lieve that a little investigation would bring to light, in countless other places, much that is well worth remembrance. For the benefit of those who t... ...m Winchester to Romsey, and nearly at an equal distance from each of those places. The parishes by which Hursley is surrounded were, when Mr. Marsh wr... ..., if not in their nature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally... ...urch, measured the font and the height to the ceiling, and in due time, in 1850, there arrived the beautiful carved canopy, the donor never being know... ...g the Itchen, and it used to be at Chandler’s Ford before the place was so populated. It seems also to haunt ponds or marshy places in woods, for a yo...

...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...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 Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tr... ...y in his work. Of De Maupassant we know that he was born in Normandy about 1850; that he was the favorite pupil, if one may so express it, the literar... ...e work of Petronius, so is it impossible to fully comprehend the France of 1850-90 with- out these stories of Maupassant. They are no more the whole i... ...ion, with him, seems easy, and while the descriptions are marvelously well established in his stories, the reverse is true of Flaubert’s, which always... ...l bullets, and Flemish tapestry, now cut to ribbons and hanging in rags in places, from sword-cuts, told too well what Mademoiselle Fifi’s occupation ... ...es on milk and on water, who can touch objects, take them and change their places; who is, consequently, endowed with a material nature, although impe... ...occasion- ally, and birds of passage, such as rarely venture into our over-populated part of the country, in- variably lighted amid these giant oaks, ...

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