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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...t in the van of the Crusaders -- Discovery of Iceland -- A fish as large as an island -- Settlement of Iceland -- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Gr... ...short history of the life of this great voyager -- His efforts to colonize the Falkland Islands -- Afterwards is commanded to transfer them to the Spa... ... to the North Pole 513- 520 CHAPTER LI. Story of a Starving Crew. -- Northwest Fox -- Founding of the Hudson Bay Company -- Everything frozen -- Looki... ...charms; a bit of the sea calf's skin protects him from the lightning, though a fox tail, a gull's wing or an eagle's beak is almost equally good; he l... ...ROM CAVENDISH. Being driven out to sea by a storm, he discovered and named the Falkland Islands, though history has denied to him the honor of this di... ...r years the first designation given them by Davis is maintained. After leaving Falkland Islands, the misfortunes which drove Davis there did not abate... ... the Atlantic to Denmark where they were received as from the dead. NORTH-WEST FOX. Twelve years later the search was resumed by Luke Fox, better know...

...ers 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 -- 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 Wes...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ng the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any... ...ng the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any... ...and the government was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ... ...and the government was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ... ...ens with Norwegians. A person gets his welfare payment sent to the Canary islands but he works there driving a taxi or opening a bar. A friend of mi... ...ens with Norwegians. A person gets his welfare payment sent to the Canary islands but he works there driving a taxi or opening a bar. A friend of mi... ...ility. So do we drop them from the human race? ―But do you support fox hunting, dog fights, restraining egg laying chickens or managing mink ... ...n. I was first made aware of it in old Bombay where Indian prostitutes on Falkland Road were known as the ‗women in cages‘. From pre- teenagers to se...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...u will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. Engla... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...t of these Is lands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly li... ...go, before Our Saviour was born on earth and lay asleep in a manger, these Islands were in the same place, and the stormy sea roared round them, just ... ..., that Arthur, be tween the two, might as well have been a lamb between a fox and a wolf. But, being so young, he was ardent and flushed with hope; a... ...e say—sounded through the Castle Hall, uttering these words: ‘You have the fox in your power. Let him go now, and you must hunt him again.’ Charles D... ...of his men, that he died within a week), at Newbury (in which battle Lord Falkland , one of the best noblemen on the King’s side, was killed), at Lei... ...rd Cobham 344 Lord Darnley 324 Lord Essex 420 Lord Falconberg 399 Lord Falkland 376 Lord Grey of Werk 424 A Child’s Histroy of England 442 Lord...

...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 little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map a...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...d, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mounta... ...d, In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mounta... ...ew, And morning dawned on Benvenue. 23 Sir Walter Scott CANTO SECOND. The Island. I. At morn the black-cock trims his jetty wing, ‘T is morning pr... ...ly spy hath harbored here, What may we for the Douglas fear? What for this island, deemed of old Clan-Alpine’s last and surest hold? If neither spy no... ...h to your oars for the ever-green Pine! O that the rosebud that graces yon islands Were wreathed in a garland around him to twine! O that some... ...n, The woods are wrapt in deeper brown, The owl awakens from her dell, The fox is heard upon the fell; Enough remains of glimmering light T o guide th... ... we slip or bow we bend Who ever recked, where, how, or when, The prowling fox was trapped or slain? Thus treacherous scouts,—yet sure they lie Who sa... ...es, and wall-flowers. “The tufted grass lines Bothwell’s ancient hall, The fox peeps cautious from the creviced wall, Where once proud Murray, Clydesd... ...them the victory in every conflict. At length, the king, while residing at Falkland, contrived to escape by night out of his own court and palace, and...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...vian mythologies: that they have been pre- served so well. In that strange island Iceland,—burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of th... ...wift subtle Demon, of the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never ha... ...wift subtle Demon, of the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never ha... ...erficial one,—as of Heathen and Chris- tian, or the like. But all over our Island we are mingled largely with Danes proper,—from the incessant invasio... ... superficial, small; for the uses of the day merely.—But does not the very Fox know something of Nature? Exactly so: it knows where the geese lodge! T... ...t this and the like of this? Nay, it should be considered too, that if the Fox had not a certain vulpine morality, he could not even know where the ge... ...table vulpine gifts and graces, he would catch no geese. We may say of the Fox too, that his morality and in- sight are of the same dimensions; differ... ...y; and he looked so strange, among the elegant Eu- phemisms, dainty little Falklands, didactic Chillingworths, diplomatic Clarendons! Consider him. An...

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Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field

By: Sir Walter Scott

... his rival slumbers nigh; Nor be thy requiescat dumb, Lest it be said o’er Fox’s tomb. For talents mourn, untimely lost When best employed, and wanted... ...h, here let prejudice depart, And, partial feeling cast aside, Record that Fox a Briton died! When Europe crouched to France’s yoke, And Austria bent,... ... the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force no wizard grave E’er framed in dark Thessal... ...ling ocean frown; Then from the coast they bore away, And reached the Holy Island’s bay. IX. The tide did now its floodmark gain, And girdled in the s... ...; And, as they caught the sounds on air, They echoed back the hymn. The islanders, in joyous mood, Rushed emulously through the flood, T o hale ... ... charge She should be safe, though not at large? They durst not, for their island, shred One golden ringlet from her head.” XVIII. While thus in Marmi... ...nd, broad between them rolled, The gallant Frith the eye might note, Whose islands on its bosom float, Like emeralds chased in gold. Fitz Eustace’ ... ... me remind of peaceful game, When blither was their cheer, Thrilling in Falkland woods the air, 116 Marmion In signal none his steed should spare,...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...dation for our pride! when the utmost we can hope is but to be read in one island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one age. All that is left us i... ... O’er heaps of ruin stalk’d the stately hind; 70 The fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, And savage howlings fill the sacred ch... ...dant alders crown’d; 340 Cole, whose dark streams his flowery islands lave; And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave; The blue, transparen... ...dant alders crown’d; 340 Cole, whose dark streams his flowery islands lave; And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave; The blue, transparen... ... humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold... ...the good alone unhappy call, For ills or accidents that chance to all. See Falkland dies, the virtuous and the just! See godlike T urenne prostrate on... ...l-whipt cream of courtly sense, 70 That first was Hervy’s, Fox’s next, and then The senate’s, and then Hervy’s once again. Oh come, th...

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Barnaby Rudge a Tale of the Riots of Eighty

By: Charles Dickens

...on; it was at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for s... ...s at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for some debts... ...s at the time when press warrants were issued, on the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman’s husband was pressed, their goods seized for some debts... ...s being more consistent (so she argued) with a benighted Mussulman or wild Islander than with a stanch Protestant. Arguing from this imperfect state o... ...e open sky—no one will repine for him. But forty thousand men of this our island in the wave (ex clusive of women and children) rivet their eyes and... ...nted to the living in his gift any but a three bottle man and a first rate fox hunter. He mistrusted the honesty of all poor people who could read and... ...ht of (I ran away on the same day, father), he made a voyage to one of the islands, where a school friend of his had settled; and, finding him, wasn’t...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y cousin,’ said he, ‘standing amazed to see how we have caught a barbarous islander of our own, and are trying to train her to civilization. Here—let ... ... white collar fastened by two silken tassels (such as I remem- ber my Lord Falkland used to wear). It became him better than the gay coats of some of ... ...dkin was not in his time.’ ‘I understand, Madame, after the lion comes the fox. I thank you for your warning until the time—’ ‘Come, come, we do not i... ...al! She is carrying off the Italian rolled up in a mattress! Down with the fox!’ came another terrible outcry; but by this time M. Darpent had been hu... ...pe of success—the idea of Eustace going to face the winds of spring in the islands of Scotland was shocking enough. ‘The hyperborean Orcades,’ as the ... ...pe of success—the idea of Eustace going to face the winds of spring in the islands of Scotland was shocking enough. ‘The hyperborean Orcades,’ as the ...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...lumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of So... ...slow has pub- lished a list of the plants collected by me at the Keel- ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plant... ...T, June 9, 1845 THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE CHAPTER I ST. JAGO — CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS Porto Praya — Ribeira Grande — Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria — Ha... ...ng its victim. It then commenced as regular a hunt as ever hound did after fox; making short semicircular casts, and all the time rapidly vibrating it... ... by rain-bearing winds, has a strongly marked exception in the case of the Falkland Islands. These islands, situated in the same latitude with Tierra ... ...fted from that country, and frequently thrown on the shores of the Western Falkland. Hence perhaps it is, that there are many plants in common to the ... ...ecies is the Polyborus Novae Zelandiae, which is exceedingly common in the Falkland Islands. These birds in many respects resemble in their habits the... ... to drive animals across the plains; for if in the night a puma, or even a fox, approaches, nothing can prevent the horses dispersing in every directi... ...f which are as large as hen pheasants. Their destroyer, a small and pretty fox, was also sin- gularly numerous; in the course of the day we could not ...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...ed Distribution of fresh-water productions — On the inhabitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela... ...hians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela- tion of the inhabitants of islands to those of the near- est mainland —On colonisation from the neares... ...he change has, it is believed, been chiefly ef- fected by crosses with the fox-hound; but what con- cerns us is, that the change has been effected unc... ...- times see are almost always imported from some other country, often from islands. Although I do not 46 On the Origin of Species doubt that some dom... ...old climate of Faroe in the north 132 On the Origin of Species and of the Falklands in the south, and on many is- lands in the torrid zones. Hence I ... ...nd many is- lands situated at a much less distance are equally barren. The Falkland Islands, which are inhabited by a wolf-like fox, come nearest to a... ...e equally barren. The Falkland Islands, which are inhabited by a wolf-like fox, come nearest to an exception; but this group cannot be considered as o... ...; on elephants and mastodons; and Cautley on mammals of sub-Himalayan beds Falkland Island, wolf of Faults 439 Charles Darwin Fear, instinctive, in b... ... of cattle Sphex, parasitic Spiders, development of Spitz-dog crossed with fox Sports in plants Sprengel, C.C., on crossing; on ray-florets Squirrels,...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...N—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAP... ...y, Nov. 4th. At day break saw land upon our larboard quarter. There were two islands, of different size but of the same shape; rather high, beginnin... ...y, Nov. 4th. At day break saw land upon our larboard quarter. There were two islands, of different size but of the same shape; rather high, beginnin... ...ue color, and in a few hours we sank them in the northeast. These were the Falkland Islands. We had run between them and the main land of Patagonia... ... and in a few hours we sank them in the northeast. These were the Falkland Islands. We had run between them and the main land of Patagonia. At suns... ...e near breathing of whales. It was on the night that we passed between the Falkland Islands and Staten Land. We had the watch from twelve to four, a... ...ue. The coati (a wild animal of a nature and appearance between that of the fox and the wolf) set up their sharp, quick bark, and two owls, at the en... ...dventure. The coati, of which I have before spoken,—a sort of mixture of the fox and wolf breeds,—fierce little animals, with bushy tails and large he... ...in voyages round the Cape from the Pacific, to keep to the eastward of the Falkland Islands; but as it had now set in a strong, steady, and clear so...

...ST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 9...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

... buds until the waters subside. You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island, only some spires of last year’s pipe grass above water, to show whe... ...at on the west side of a little rising ground which in the spring forms an island in the river. Here we found huckleberries still hanging upon the bus... ... as sweet and melodious as an instrument. The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon, may have first suggested the notes of t... ... preserve the memory of its freshness to mid day. As we passed the various islands, or what were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down s... ... preserve the memory of its freshness to mid day. As we passed the various islands, or what were islands in the spring, row ing with our backs down s... ...wn stream, we gave names to them. The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one fine densely wooded island surrounded by deep water and... ...ng side of the stream, as in the case of the countryman with his corn, his fox, and his goose, which had to be transported one at a time. Whether they... ...ns to get to the seaboard, and see the world; and would possibly visit the Falkland Isles, and the China seas, before they again saw the waters of the... ...enetrating beams, Ruler of fire breathing horses, has it.” The shifting islands! who would not be willing that his house should be undermined by su...

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...ool his talent tries; It asks some toil to imitate the wise; Tho’ few like Fox can speak — like Pitt can think — Yet all like Fox can game — like P... ...wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire; The Channel there, the Islands and white sails, Dim coasts, and cloud-like hills, and shoreless... ...wood, And cots, and hamlets, and faint city-spire; The Channel there, the Islands and white sails, Dim coasts, and cloud-like hills, and shoreless... ...he high noon, Yet if Leviathan, weary of ease, In sports unwieldy toss his island-bulk, Ocean behind him billows, and before A storm of waves brea... ... made they, and uproar, As when the mad Tornado bellows through The guilty islands of the western main, What time departing from their native shore... ... made they, and uproar, As when the mad Tornado bellows through The guilty islands of the western main, What time departing from their native shore... ...e sees far off a swinging bough! ‘‘’Tis He! ’Tis my betrothØd Knight! Lord Falkland, it is Thou!’’ She springs, she clasps him round the neck, She... ...e heads of tall flowers that behind her grow, Lychnis, and willow-herb, and fox-glove bells: And suddenly, as one that toys with time, Scatters the... ... serv’d the party; — The self-same things had said and writ, Had Pitt been Fox, and Fox been Pitt; Content his own applause to win, Would never da...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...he world as it moves along. Your father is a Judge in a remote part of the island, and all his notions are taken from the old world. Besides, Sir, the... ...ed by a description, as it afterwards was, in his Jour- ney to the Western Islands. After we had again talked of my setting out for Holland, he said, ... ...ed by a description, as it afterwards was, in his Jour- ney to the Western Islands. After we had again talked of my setting out for Holland, he said, ... ...romore, Dr. Barnard Bishop of Killaloc, Dr. Marlay Bishop of Clonfert, Mr. Fox, Dr. George Fordyce, Sir William Scott, Sir Jo- seph Banks, Sir Charles... ...having published my Account of Corsica, with the Journal of a Tour to that Island, I returned to London, very desirous to see Dr. Johnson, and hear hi... ...h some Collectanea, obligingly furnished to me by the Rev. Dr. Maxwell, of Falkland, in Ire- land, sometime assistant preacher at the Temple, and for ... ...f peace which he had so beautifully recommended in his pamphlet respecting Falkland’s Islands, that I was sorry to see him appear in so unfavourable a... ...ey, Sir Charles Bunbury, Dr. George Fordyce, Mr. Steevens, and Mr. Charles Fox. Before he came in, we talked of his Journey to the Western Is- lands, ... ...t one of Dryden’s careless verses. Sir Joshua. ‘I was glad to hear Charles Fox say, it was one of the finest poems in the English language.’ Langton. ...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, —the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my ... ...them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, —the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my ... ...the egg presuppose air. He cannot live without a world. Put Napoleon in an island prison, let his faculties find no men to act on, no Alps to climb, n... ...the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf’s teat, Wintered with the hawk and fox. Power and speed be hands and feet. II. SELF-RELIANCE I read the other... ...nachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quak- erism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called “t... ... the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole. You cannot recall the spo- 64 Essays ken word, ... ..., every evil to which we do not succumb is a bene- factor. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes ... ...e great range of affinity. I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (“that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow w... ... the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden- 276 Essays houses, islands, parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these s...

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Biographical Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

... and diction of Caliban by one of Charles’s confidential counsellors, Lord Falkland, that the king’s admiration of Shakspeare had impressed a determin... ...Somers on the Bermudas, (which were in consequence denominated the Somers’ Islands,) did not occur until the year 1609. In the opening of the fourth a... ...Somers on the Bermudas, (which were in consequence denominated the Somers’ Islands,) did not occur until the year 1609. In the opening of the fourth a... ..., in effect, our life is a little tract of feverish vigils, surrounded and islanded by a shoreless ocean of sleep—sleep before birth, sleep after deat... ...one is still the nearest successor of the other, just as Connaught and the islands in Clew Bay are next neighbors to America, although three thousand ... ...one is still the nearest successor of the other, just as Connaught and the islands in Clew Bay are next neighbors to America, although three thousand ... ...re were nearly “fifty good years of fair and foul weather.” Cromwell, 8 a fox-hunting country gentle- man, but uniting with that character the preten...

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