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...d by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions and even discussed the adult... ...on his death, the Prince of Wales became King on January 20, 1936. Ernest Simpson - who was having a long-term affair of his own - moved out of the... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ... ago. His brother, Nahor, definitely was born in Ur and, having fathered Lot, also died in Ur Kasdim (Ur of the Chaldeans). Ur was the capital of S... ... was deported to Mesopotamia. The deportation followed mass executions. Many more died from starvation, exposure, dehydration, abuse and outright ... ... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...o protect its trade with Britain. The constitution of the Confederacy prohibited African slave trade (buying slaves from Africa), though it allow...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY ... ...vilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradatio... ...ion. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradations of o... ..., ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from the pangs of outcast... ...cally oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the exces... ...stem. For six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain... ...of them were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment. More than 15 people died in and out of jail due to incarceration. In fact, a special act w... ...hese faults intact, and yet voicing support for the rights 124 of the South Africans and writing as if one has all concern for the Untouchables an... ... you or your populace are indulging in activities against the law, my son has died today; a Brahmin has to live for 100 years, if he dies premature...

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...illing narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a rec...

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

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...AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER ... ...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ...LAGE AND INHUMANITY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR CENTURIES BID DEFIANCE TO THE AR... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...traordinary stories -- How a storm resulted in the discovery and settlement of South America 123- 134 CHAPTER XI. The false Hopes Of Columbus. -- How ... ...- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with t... ...xpedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar -- Reception of da Gama by an African King -- Making good use of a soothsayer -- The King is invited ... ...outh Sea -- Cavendish is appointed to the command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the ... ...t the seventh century. Indeed, St. Brandan, Abbot of Cluainfort, Ireland, who died in 577, is said to have spent 70 years in two unsuccessful voyages...

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...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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...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...n dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those of us who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by... ...ext life. Lucifer already has his lariat around him.‖ --―Ray, let he who has not sinned eat the hottest chili.‖ --―I pray for you every ... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ... Homer for another 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in ... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...rs as your older population. This might be because more are educated. And African-Americans, who have less education on the average, have twice the n... ...ssions. ―We have increased the rights of deserving minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics, while concurrently expanding the rights o...

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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...ms Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Increase Sacred Knowledge The Present Concl... ... us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture ... ...reud seemed to have no insight into how religious experiences affect those who have had them. As the son of a Swiss Protestant minister, Jung was part... ...che to say that to understand a person’s writings you must know the person who wrote them. It took very little time for me to rea lize that neither Fr... ...ion of God arises within some groups (e.g., Jews, Muslims, Hindus, various African tribes, some varieties of American Indian culture), while other gro... ...thy aristocrat in a small state in India. Gautama’s mother is said to have died shortly after his birth leaving him to be reared by his sister. He eve... ... classes should live in luxury while the vast majority lived, starved, and died in a virtual state of endless slavery to the wealthy. Buddhism has alw... ...come to a steep sand bank and then to some red banks of clay on the road’s south side. For a year I live here, experiencing the change of seasons, pic... ...during the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division of the Lakota Sioux ...

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...-In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 “. . .... ...d classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions a... ...attempt at eugenics was aimed at getting the highly educated women, those who were having fewer children, to become 5 multiple mothers. Free ed... ...was it before the British government was able to get rid of those firemen who were being paid but had no coal to shovel? Certainly there were jobs ... ...dical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people. So we have far more people living, but far fewer working. Many wo... ...es shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia for its open door policy for immigrant geniuses. The electi... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...ally qualified for pareenthood. “Some might call it genocide for Africans or Latin Americans if licenses were required in those area, but w... ... Egypt 3500 years ago, after her husband and half-brother King Thutmose II died, she proclaimed herself king—since she was descended from the god Amu...

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...ery difficult. When Kino fails in an experiment it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move f... ...ritage, but a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. He... ...e to rise above the commonplace and to produce caring responsible citizens who were able to enjoy the benefits of human knowledge and to perfect the... ...when one woman told me that my voyage had "frazzed" her. Or the young man who told me that my return had been a complete "gronsk" for his own educa... ...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ...hose ancestors lived longer tend to live longer than those whose ancestors died young, and so on. There are a number of such factors that are update... ...ld have that problem in your country, or even if it were proposed for some African countries by Anglos. But here it is Asians reducing the populatio...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ...b countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans and Arabs, Asians and Africans - think that "the spread of American ideas and customs ... ... the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In Janua... ...nd even more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel ... ...gn merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right" - responds to domest... ...sion - a "natural right" - responds to domestic needs? Wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who claimed that the United States must "constantly acquire new ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o... ...nus, thus gaining entry, for the first time, into Christian Europe. Andronicus III died in 1341and another civil war broke out in Byzantium. John C...

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Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...or her own life. It is generally accepted that one has the right to kill a pursuer who knowingly and intentionally intends to take one's life. It i... ...life. It is debatable, though, whether one has the right to kill an innocent person who unknowingly and unintentionally threatens to take one's life... ...him, someone who hit his mother and brought about a natural abortion) even after he died? Should anyone who knows about an abortion be considered a... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...en connected to "desirable genes" (pleitropy). Sickle cell anemia protects certain African tribes against malaria. This is called "diversifying or ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o...

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... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...or her own life. It is generally accepted that one has the right to kill a pursuer who knowingly and intentionally intends to take one's life. It i... ...life. It is debatable, though, whether one has the right to kill an innocent person who unknowingly and unintentionally threatens to take one's life... ...him, someone who hit his mother and brought about a natural abortion) even after he died? Should anyone who knows about an abortion be considered a... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ...en connected to "desirable genes" (pleitropy). Sickle cell anemia protects certain African tribes against malaria. This is called "diversifying or ... ... hotels (or luxurious apartments) overlooking the communist, or Middle-Eastern, or African shantytowns. They drive utility vehicles to the shabby o...

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...ering misconception of permanence, but the homeless had no such illusion. People such as that were as dust that blew askance from the automated brush... ...nce was substance the policemen thought. Having a matrix of these homeless people, these homelessers abound, was even worse than having to put up wit... ...ed to hunger with the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Her... ...the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Here she was equal t... ... day, the meanderings of ants moving seriatim imbued more sanity, and she who was now crouched in knee-high weeds, mute and dumb, interacting less th... ...perceptibly, from the dank descent of fog that had come upon the earth and died on the earth, anointing the rot of all fallen things, was what she wa... ... she could scarcely sense at all. Nature, including a caterpillar, a southern pine beetle, and a red shouldered stink bug traversed on her body ... ...dengue fever, cholera, and typhoid was an extravaganza for the poor of the South of the city. Here countless men were fishing or over-fishing on t... ...ting one in its thick textured darkness, or fears that a live and growing African Spider Monkey could be swinging from her uterus, ready to come out ...

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...every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own deceptions? Or is she right to listen wi...

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...lodrama take over. Clasping her hands together, she raised them to the man who towered over her. She coughed twice and gasped, “Please, Mr. Farada... ...hild ‘neath your heel?” “What?” Faraday roared and swung to face the man who mocked him. “Oh, it’s you, Connolly. This is none of your affair. ... ...f peace since the fire and she disrupted it? Before the echoes of the bell died away, she had turned and placed her foot on the first step heading b... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ...ss as he’d been, though his stoic reserve never faltered. His proud mix of African and Cherokee blood would not allow it. Helene had been the one ... .... He raised his chin and turned his hawk-like profile. “I am Cherokee and African. It’s in my blood.” “Ah, well, if it is a blood-carried diseas... ...ck wore off. “That would please Rosalie. Her family’s roots are in the South, but she cultivates that drawl of hers like a hothouse magnolia.” ... ... in a tantrum at the depot in Elkhart. When she caught up with the troop in South Bend, she was all smiles and apologies and promises.” “Do you th...

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

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...st of the world knew nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s ... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...nch and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now called Kent; and, although they were a... ...n to drive, and two or three others to fight — all standing up. The horses who drew them were so well trained, that they would tear, at full gallop, o... ...re restored to freedom. No one knows whether his great heart broke, and he died in Rome, or whether he ever returned to his own dear country. English ... ...e hundreds of years old—and other oaks have sprung up in their places, and died too, very aged—since the rest of the his tory of the brave Caractacu... ...a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the South of Britain. All these attacks were repeated, at intervals, dur ing t... ...ndertook a war with the Dutch; principally because they interfered with an African company, established with the two objects of buying gold dust and s...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ...sity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous occurren... ...yrrh, the poet Homer is reported to have been born in the one, and to have died in the other. And so to these instances let us further add, that the m... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ... of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians... ...terly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentle sprinkling... ...rma- tion to the story, and added new honors to the memory of Antaeus. The Africans tell that after the death of Antaeus, 13 Plutarch’s Lives his wif... ...d men, whom for honor’s sake he called Romans, combined with seven hundred Africans, who landed with him when he first entered Lusitania, together wit... ...ephaestion. Afterwards, when Nearchus, with a fleet, was to be sent to the Southern Sea, Alexander bor- rowed money of his friends, his own treasury b...

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...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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...nd looked, without any expression of countenance whatever, at some friends who had come on board with us, and who were crushing their faces into all m... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...ich has since gratified me so much, but I observed that one of our friends who had made the arrangements for our voyage, turned pale on entering, re... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...rasting with the darkness of so many youthful lives within! * * * * * * At South Boston, as it is called, in a situation excel lently adapted for the... ...f respect. Some thing of the same spirit pervades all the Institutions at South Boston. There is the House of Industry. In that branch of it, which i... ...ut half a pony power. Mr. Paap, the celebrated Dwarf, might have lived and died hap pily in the cabin, which was fitted with common sash— windows lik... ...g Pan, and other notorious localities, attractive to all readers of famous Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History. We were now in a narrow channel, with slo... ...es with surprise and fear, like the countless repetition of one astonished African face in some strange mirror. Mount up these other stairs with no le...

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...he jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port,... ...he Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and ... ... of consid- erable resignation. “What happened to the worthy captain?” “He died.” “Fell into the sea?” “No, sir, he died of brain-fever in dreadful ag... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...side and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, — all the ... ...the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given ... ...- selves by casting pebbles into the ocean — see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus.” M. de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and ... ...l so clear, lustrous, and limpid when he pleased. “You have never seen our Africans, count?” said Albert. “Never,” replied the count, who was by this ...

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...efore with myself Whom shall I set so great a man to face? Or whom oppose? who’s equal to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit ... ...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...aking her only privy to it, and commanding her, if she brought forth a son who, when he came to man’s estate, should be able to lift up the stone and ... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ...or, were diligent in performing to her every needful service; but that she died before she could be delivered, and was honorably interred. That soon a... ...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit... ...nians were ever cut off before in any one battle; as they usually employed Africans, Spaniards, and Numidians in their wars, so that if they chanced t...

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...raw-ridged and extra straw-ridged into overlapping compartments like the back of a rhinoceros. Had I not given a lift of fourteen miles to the Coast-g... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...and weeks, in the performance of the forlornest offices that Man can render to his kind; of his having most tenderly and thoroughly devoted himself to... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...e space to suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, mus... ..., but had been an infidel. Many a time had the preacher talked with him on that subject, and many a time had he failed to convince that intelligent ma... ...at least nine-tenths of them. Indeed, saying that I know the church of old Gower’s tomb (he lies in effigy with his head upon his books) to be the chu... ...ates in a mock battle-rush, from which many of the squaws are borne out, much dilapidated. I need not observe how unlike this is to a Drawing Room at ... .... Let me halt on my Uncommercial road, to throw a pass- ing glance on some funeral solemnities that I have seen where The Uncommercial Traveller 271 ...

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...named topic being ever present to them, likewise, in their dreams. All the African travellers, wayworn, solitary and sad, submit themselves again to d... ... burst at one instant from every quarter of the ship. ‘Many of the seamen, who had been remarkably inattentive and remiss in their duty during great p... ...and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommon exertions. Roused by a sense of their danger, the sam... ...nse distances, when I have been out of England. He has fallen sick; he has died and been buried; he has come to life again, and again de parted from ... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ction. A little while afterwards he was in some other strait. I think Mrs. Southcote, his wife, was in extremity—and we adjusted that point too. A lit... ... broken hearted lines, informing me that the dear part ner of his sorrows died in his arms last night at nine o’clock! I despatched a trusty messenge... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...arly age. Now, gas and elec tricity run to the very water’s edge, and the South Eastern Railway Company screech at us in the dead of night. But, the ...

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...CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession ... ...ast moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about... .... We have most of us been at least as far as that with Benham. And we have died like Horatius, slaying our thousands for our country, or we have peris... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...