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.... Though Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor, she could not be addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the... ... Her servants were executed, their bodies burnt and their ashes scattered. Being royalty, she was merely confined to her bedroom until she died i... ...nto a horse's stomach and left to die. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime. ht... ...leId=A0000230 Canada, Invasion of The U.S. military developed a "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan--Red" in the 1920s. The detailed Plan was a... ...o Martinique (6100 kilometers) in 10 hours and rose to 4 meters when it struck the shore. New Madrid, Missouri, USA - December 16, 1811, Januar... ...the Irish rebellion of 1798, in September, a sizable French fleet got close to the shore of Ireland but was dispersed by a storm. A part of the fl... ...he flotila went back to France but other French ships landed invading troops on the shores of Ireland and Wales. These surrendered to superior Brit... ... means "Man-Eater", the name given to the fly by Dr. Coquerel, the French Imperial Navy medical doctor who discovered it, busy devouring colonists ... ...olved the secret leasing to private companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural re...

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...'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 -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Sn...

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...nelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voy... ...l lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mer... ... Settlement of Iceland -- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in... ...as of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The fir... ...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...s country -- The city of Quinsai with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- G... ...two fleets, sailing in opposite directions, at nearly the same time. SOLOMON'S NAVY. Thirteen hundred years after, the flood, as the Bible tells us, S... ...red years after, the flood, as the Bible tells us, Solomon built a very large ,navy on the Red Sea at a haven called Ezion Geber, from which a voyage ...

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...ho is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alternation between the two; an electorate... ...wild weather, as the world knows, the roads are untenable. Along the whole shore, which is everywhere green and level and overlooked by inland mountai... ...ave said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the ... ...e was re- fused a bodyguard. He was turned out of Mulinuu, the seat of his royalty, on a land claim of Weber’s, fled across the Mulivai, and “had the ... ...te – and armed and fitted out the cruiser Kaimiloa, nest-egg of the future navy of Hawaii. Samoa, the most important group still independent, and one ... ...g in the family of nations, and send embassies, and make believe to have a navy, and bark and snap at the heels of the great German Empire. But Becker... ...e great lagoon of Jaluit; and upon that narrow land the exiles were set on shore. This was the part of his captivity on which he looked back with the ... ...d not follow, we must set down the praise to the forbearance of the German navy. This is not the last time that I shall have to salute the merits of t... ...osed for ammunition – and drew 65 Robert Louis Stevenson near the Matautu shore. The Mataafa men lay close among the shore-side bushes, expecting the...

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...happy time, and called on to meet the demands of creditors upon commercial establishments with which my fortunes had long been bound up, to the extent... ...river with our eyes and our resolution fixed on that point of the opposite shore on which we purpose to land; but gradually giving way to the torrent,... ...or some time ambassador at Vienna; Sir Basil Keith, Knight, captain in the navy, who died Governor of Jamaica; and my excellent friend, Anne Murray Ke... ...from the chair:— “The King”—all the honours. “The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family.” The chairman, in proposing the next toast, which he wished ... ... chiefly in connection with the busi- ness of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had con- descended in a particular manner to patronize, that... ...nd it was in that view that he proposed to drink to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.—Drunk in solemn silence. The chairman then... ...ellington and the army.” Glee—”How merrily we live.” Lord Melville and the Navy, that fought till they left no- body to fight with, like an arch sport... ... and, like ourselves, struggling to keep as long as possible off the fatal shore, against which we are all finally drifting! I felt this very trite bu... ...glens and moun- tains betwixt us and the sons of Dermid. We will visit the shores of the dark lake; and my kinsmen—for was not my mother of the childr...

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... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...ly twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On the tw... ...I have been called, for some years now, Gentleman T urveydrop, or that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire, on my remov ... ...all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety t... ...rible meaning of the old words now moaning in my ear like a surge upon the shore, “Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace, and you are hers. The time ... ...he Vale of T aunton, is continually doing duty, like a piece of timber, to shore up some decayed foundation that has become a pitfall and a nuisance. ...

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... at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there would be some special and custo... ...n’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to face. One c... ...s to be consistently pleas- ant; and a lax young man of five-and-twenty in navy blue, who mingled Marx and Bebel with the more orthodox gods of the bi... ...in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish and magnificent establishments about Piccadilly Cir- cus, and for the most part she did not... ...Ann Veronica seemed always to be like a ship in adverse weather on the lee shore of love. “For seven years,” said Ann Veronica, “I have been trying to... ...I suppose he’s frightfully clever,” said Miss Klegg. “He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he can’t be much over thirty,” said Miss Klegg. “He writ... ...o the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudg... ...“I felt impudent. I believe I am getting impudent. I had not been near the Royal Society since—since you disgraced me. What’s that?” They both stood l...

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...the English character, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the way of living and... ...on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove ov... ...healing the breach, that the truth lay between the two extremes and that the establishments in question ought to be described as fair middling. This c... ...d.” “You needn’t worry about that. That’s my affair. You needn’t be a better royalist than the king.” “It’s not only that,” said Isabel; “but I’m not ... ...r; he was preoccupied, and with good reason. Miss Molyneux—as if he had been Royalty— stood like a lady in waiting. “Well, I never, Miss Molyneux!” sa... ...them; it certainly isn’t the greatest. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and ha... ...upted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter benea... ...ul might be comforted by endless knowledge. When ever she strolled upon the shore with her cousin—and she was the companion of his daily walk—she loo... ...ere solid and bare, light and clean; so, thought Isabel, are the great penal establishments. Madame Catherine gently pushed open the door of Pansy’s r...

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...has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, any kind of royalty, howsoever modified, any kind of aris tocracy, howsoever pruned... ... means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought. All mines were royal property, and there were a good many of them. They had formerly bee... ...d not even meddled with taxa tion, outside of the taxes which provided the royal revenues. I had systematized those, and put the service on an effec... ...l strike the gong bell two minutes before train leaves — passengers for the Shore line please take seats in the rear k’yar, this k’yar don’t go no f... ...it — timbers propped against men’s lib erties and dishonored consciences to shore up an Established Anachronism with. My missionaries were taught to ... ...ace where we had entered the stream, and were now waltz ing up and down the shores trying to pick up the trail again. When we were snugly lodged in t... ...nce? But guessing was profitless. I must go — at once. I borrowed the king’s navy — a “ship” no bigger than a steam launch — and was soon ready. The p... ...ls, our colleges, our vast workshops, our —” “When those knights come, those establishments will empty themselves and go over to the enemy. Did you th... ...end a ship to Cadiz. There was a reason why I didn’t.” “What was that?” “Our navy had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared! Also, as suddenly and as ...

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...ed with the skins of animals, but seldom, if ever, ven tured far from the shore. They made swords, of copper mixed with tin; but, these swords were o... ...r best magic wands, could not have written it in the sands of the wild sea shore. CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS THE R OMANS HAD s... ...his soldiers, by his brave example, to fight valiantly against them on the shore. At last, he drove them all away; and then there was repose in Englan... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ...ntry, and aided by a storm occasioned the loss of nearly the whole English navy. There was but one man of note, at this miser able pass, who was true... ... This was called ‘touching for the King’s Evil,’ which afterwards became a royal custom. You know, however, Who really touched the sick, and healed th... ...light, were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst, the Royal banner, representing a fighting war rior, woven in gold thread, ador... ...s to its entire completion. There is no doubt that many of these religious establishments were religious in nothing but in name, and were crammed with... ...healthy. The King of France was now in alliance with the Dutch, though his navy was chiefly employed in looking on while the English and Dutch fought....

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... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ...mongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancer... ...ubling of Cape Horn, the shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the ast... ...e, or anywhere off the line of tourists, I and a lieutenant in our English navy paid sixpence uniformly for a handsome din- ner; sixpence, I mean, api... ...and consideration, as those who bear the king’s commission in the army and navy? Can this be affirmed of the continent, either generally, or, indeed, ... ...ndency which sooner or later is destined to fill the whole capacity of the shore. To have proved, therefore, if it could have been proved, that Christ... ...ne, so memorable as the first ground of Greek intercourse with the African shore of the Mediterranean, never consulted the Delphic Oracle in reference... ...ady passed; and the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, which crippled the Turkish navy in a degree never wholly recovered, gave the first overt signal to Eur... ...cking barbarities; at the little island of Castel Rosso, on the Karamanian shore, they butchered, in cold blood, several beautiful T urkish females; a...

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... whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is th... ... in a state of transition so sure and so rapid to the headship of domestic establishments belong- 15 Thomas de Quincey ing to themselves, that in eff... ...e for ever one wilderness of waters—sub- lime, but (like the wilderness on shore) monotonous. All sublime people, being monotonous, have a tendency to... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ...tle before his brother, was thus introduced by Lord Cornwallis to Sir John Shore (Lord T eignmouth, the Gover- nor-general), ‘Dear sir, I beg leave to... ... research;’—just so; there would be danger in that—help might put off from shore;—‘not,’ says he, ‘in the spirit of Johnson, but in our own.’ Johnson ... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,... ...king’s statue:—Till very lately the etiquette of Europe was, that none but royal persons could have equestrian stat- ues. Lord Hopetoun, the reader wi...

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...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...nd pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to see Choiseul; and with that ‘quiveri... ...in the conflux of Eternities, ’ yet manlike towards God and man; the vague shoreless Universe had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he kn... ...r again: “’Tis the twentieth time I hear all that; France will never get a Navy, I believe.” How touching also was this: “If I were Lieutenant of Pol... ... his own lank pocket withal. But surely, in any case, France should have a Navy. For which great object were not now the time: now when that proud Ter... ...782.) It seems as if, according to Louis XV., ‘France were never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; wit... ...smer may pocket his hard money, and with- draw. Let him walk silent by the shore of the Bodensee, by the ancient town of Constance; meditating on much... ...ont Neuf. “We are come to join you,” said the Captain; for the crowd seems shoreless. A large-headed dwarfish individual, of smoke-bleared aspect, sha...

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...ere, so that we saw the fort with all 21 Trollope the honors. A dinner on shore was, I think, a greater treat to us even than this. We also inspected... ...e Nova Scotians seemed to be fully alive. But still, I think the dinner on shore took rank with us as the most memorable and meritorious of all that w... ...uch they first placed their feet on that hallowed rock at Plymouth, on the shore of Massachu- setts. They came here driven by no thirst of conquest, b... ... possible danger; whereupon those who accompanied the prince requested his Royal Highness to forbear. I fear that, in these careful days, crowned head... ...ortation of slaves, her breaches of treaty, and the bribery of her all but royal governor, are known to all men. But Canada is not dishonest; Canada i... ... States it is enacted that the Governor is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and militia, showing that some army over and beyond the militia may b... ... is enacted that the Governor shall be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this State, and of the militia, except when they shall be called in... ...illed less respectably. It is but an industrious idleness, an attempt at a royal road to information, that habit of attending lectures. Let any man or... ...vernment at Washington had justified that proceeding. The Secretary of the Navy had distinctly done so in his official report; and that report had bee...

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...an consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without a shore—then a few sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite str... ...enditure by uniting their slen- 44 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers der establishments. One of the rules applied to the manage- ment of this vast m... ... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ...o avert her own face, to announce him to Don Francisco, to wish him on the shores 86 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers of that ancient river for cro... ...his disloyal desertion of a king’s ship, which might yet perhaps be run on shore, so as to save the stores. All the crew, to a man, deserted the capta... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ...e- thing must be done at once for a livelihood. Urquiza had two mercantile establishments, one at Trujillo, to which he repaired in person, on Kate’s ... ...yours and mine. Bless you, Sir, she would scorn to look at us. I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be. But how can this com... ...rned. 232 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers heroic leader in the English navy; and that in our own times, Admiral Coffin, though an American by birt...

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...ristian churches, atheistically given? We used to be told that there is no royal road to geometry. I don’t know whether there is or not; but I am sure... ...ike a hornet. To be a Cambridge man in those days was to be a hater of all Establishments in England; things and persons were hated alike. I hope the ... ...’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June, 1645), was (I believe) dec... ...le [Greek text] (i.e., in effect of the civilized world, viz., Greece, the shores of the Euxine, the whole of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Carthage, and ... ...at it was then become a solitude, but a solitude in good preservation as a royal park. The vast city had disppeared, and the murmur of myriads: but as... ...u- sades, Joppa revived again into military verdure. The fact is, that the shore of Syria is pre-eminently deficient in natural harbors, or facilities... ... machinery of nerves:—it is the function of health most attended to in our navy; and of all it is the one most painfully ravaged by a London life. Thu...

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...e know enough: what with the labors of our Werners and Huttons, what with the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling; concerning which last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. W...

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... the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the... ...under jewels, because raised in revolt which proved successful, is still the royal standard of that country;” what though John Knox’s Daughter, “who t... ...rabiliar moods, when I read of pompous ceremonials, Frank fort Coronations, Royal Drawing rooms, Levees, Couchees; and how the ushers ADAMITISM 41 a... ... withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of Action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The ... ... them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enli... ...ANIC FILAMENTS 159 pointed him. Thus all things wax, and roll onwards; Arts, Establishments, Opin ions, nothing is completed, but ever completing. Ne... ... deeper than we see into the Deep that is infinite, without bottom as without shore. “Laplace’s Book on the Stars, wherein he exhibits that certain Pla... ...or leaped short; and now swim weltering in the Chaos flood, some towards this shore, some towards that. To these also a helping hand should be held out...

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...wer, emolument, and consequence of the of- fices they hold under the State establishments; and the per- verted ambition of another class of men, who w... ...people. There have been, if I may so express it, almost as many popular as royal wars. The cries of the nation and the impor- tunities of their repres... ...T No. 11 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of Ne... ...ard us, in this respect, would arise from the estab- lishment of a federal navy. There can be no doubt that the continuance of the Union under an effi... ...nment would put it in our power, at a period not very distant, to create a navy which, if it could not vie with those of the great maritime powers, wo... ...ber of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of l... ...fifth degree, in others falling as low as the forty-second. The south- ern shore of Lake Erie lies below that latitude. Computing the distance between... ...ways have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority. This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or ... ... The world has accordingly been witness to few examples of this species of royal prostitution, though there have been abundant specimens of every othe...