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...ch a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her cours... ...tance. During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pr... ...s even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast s... ...ed by fishermen, has now become very rare, and taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon become extin... ... January, we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the northern hemisphere. During the day a formidable troop of sharks accompanie... ...urred which ruined the enterprise. It was within 638 miles of the coast of Ireland; and at half-past two in the afternoon they discovered that communi... ... was not more than 500 miles from Newfoundland, when they telegraphed from Ireland the news of the armistice concluded between Prussia and Austria aft... ...y, and the Nautilus was then not more 263 Jules Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my gre...

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...o rival heat of self-assertion, very loftily towering: there were Kings in Ireland: cry for one of them in Uladh and you will hear his name, and he ha... ...e had visited in this country: and the scenery reminded him of his part of Ireland: and on 8 Celt and Saxon landing at Holyhead he had gone off strai... ...in the art.’ ‘I am not aware that there is now an art of fencing taught in Ireland.’ ‘Nor am I,’ said Patrick; ‘though there’s no knowing what goes on... ... raised his head: ‘I’d not suffer myself to be asked twice.’ The sceptical northern-blue eyes of his host dwelt on him with their full repellent stare... ...ssion with his own. ‘Surgery’s a little in their practice too, we think in Ireland,’ said Patrick. Mr. Camminy assented: ‘No doubt.’ He was hungry, an... ...racter, or merely an Irish character. As to the unwontedness of the scene, Ireland was chargeable with that; and Ireland also, a little at his expense...

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...ech-trees; and breaking into peaty, boggy ground on the southern side. The northern side is of good rich loam, favourable to the growth of fine trees,... ...in order to protect this and the back of the castle, by which is meant the northern side, another embankment was made and finished with a parapet. Als... ...eing carried by the enemy, it would be impossible for the defenders in the northern part of the castle to run round the castle and into shelter by the... ...r so as to have it con- cluded before his departure to take the command in Ireland. The terms were finally settled, and Richard and Dorothy were marri... ...aid a visit to Hursley after part- ing with the Protector on his voyage to Ireland; but he never seems to have gone thither in person, though he wrote... ...tars; and that something very like it was an- ciently the usage among most northern nations.* But what- ever be its origin, or in whatever way it be a... ... as a Commander in the guards, and was much wounded. He was in the wars of Ireland and Flanders. He had one son who dyed before him. He departed this ... ... water. There was then a great central entrance-hall, in the middle of the northern side of the house, with stone steps going up at each end, outside,...

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...basis of the social theory of the United States were first combined in the Northern English colonies, more generally denominated the States of New Eng... ... honour of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia; Do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in ... ... States and That of a Constitutional King of France Executive power in the Northern States as limited and as partial as the supremacy which it represe... ...the militia. In the war of 1812 the Presi- dent ordered the militia of the Northern States to march to the frontiers; but Connecticut and Massachusett... ...uth, though conquered, still presents a formidable spirit of opposition to Northern government. – T ranslator’s Note, 1875. 201 Tocqueville very litt... ...Of these, 4,104,553 spoke English – that is, they came from Great Britain, Ireland, or the British colonies; 2,643,069 came from Germany or northern E... ...ntracted an alliance which has never been dissolved. About fifty years ago Ireland began to pour a Catholic population into the United States; on the ...

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...lows in every other part of the world—in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had op... ... when he grew large enough to regard a Southern white man as he regarded a Northern one. It is well for our common country that the day is come when h... ...the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the northern armies conquered. Every success of the Federal armies and every de... ... the confi- dence of the best people in the North. The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on... ...boat that was bringing her North. They fell into a conver- sation, and the Northern lady became so much interested in the effort being made at Tuskege... ...ven. The other guests were ex-President Ben- jamin Harrison and Archbishop Ireland, who were in Paris at the time. The American Ambassador, General Ho...

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...be Bakri Scott to the end of his days.” (Bakri in the 140 Rudyard Kipling Northern vernacular, means a goat.) “What a lark! I’d have given a month’s ... ...im had ex- tended Scott’s idea and was feeding large flocks on the useless northern grains. Sufficient paddy had come now into the Eight Districts to ... ...Rudyard Kipling * * * Morning brought the penetrating chill of the Northern De- cember, the layers of wood-smoke, the dusty grey-blue of the t... ...f the tamarisks, the domes of ruined tombs, and all the smell of the white Northern plains, as the mail-train ran on to the mile-long Sutlej Bridge. W... ...and saddles. The greater part of them wore jackets like William’s, for the Northern cold is as little to be trifled with as the Northern heat. And Wil... ...before the middle watch it was a sou’wester in airnest. “‘She’ll edge into Ireland, this gait,’ says Bell. I was with him on the bridge, watchin’ the ...

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...ounger son, These archers be, and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and forests hoar, Di... ...and with them come withal, A people near the Northern Pole that wone, Whom Ireland sent from loughs and forests hoar, Divided far by sea from Europe’s... ...labor spent, To assail those parts that to the mountains laid, Against the northern gate his force he bent, Gainst it he camped, gainst it his engines... ...Such was their fury, as when Boreas tears The shattered crags from Taurus’ northern clift, Upon their helms their lances long they broke, And up to he... ...I With equal rage, as when the southern wind, Meeteth in battle strong the northern blast, The sea and air to neither is resigned, But cloud gainst cl... ...ags ascend, My squadrons with mine engines huge shall fight And gainst the northern gate my puissance bend, That so our foes, beguiled with the sight,... ...shaft I view, Although the quarrel fly in skies aloft, Whether the same of Ireland be, or France, And from what bow it comes, what hand perchance. 46...

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...nsiderable places in England were visited more or less, and the kingdom of Ireland in some places, but not so universally. How it fared with the peopl... ... to the Canaries, to Guinea, and to the West Indies, and par- ticularly to Ireland; but as the plague spread itself every way after it had been in Lon... ... be among them, which made them fare the better. For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by my Lord Mayor not to come ...

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...and enriching of the family. About the year 1734 there arrived among us from Ireland a young Presbyterian preacher, named Hemphill, who deliv ered wi... ...se in which they began has been half consumed. In 1739 arrived among us from Ireland the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, who had made himself remarkable ther... ...to yield three times as much clear revenue to the crown as the postoffice of Ireland. Since that imprudent transaction, they have receiv’d from it—not... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...

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...here are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of th...

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...an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their... ...veterans leaped out and kissed the earth at Port Patrick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they wer... ...Austrian Empire would seem to answer, no; the far more galling business of Ireland clenches the nega- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, c... ...of all possible accommoda- 55 Memories and Portraits tion, pitched on the northern inlet as the scene of opera- tions. For it was no accident that ha... ...here cheek by jowl, with our feet upon our baggage, in a beautiful, clear, northern summer eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were ... ...he year 1818, the grandson of Thomas Smith, first engineer to the Board of Northern Lights, son of Robert Stevenson, brother of Alan and David; so tha...

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...ce the Tr e n t out rage, and when we are no longer feeling towards the Northern Americans as men feel towards those with whom they may be on the p... ...wishing what ought to have been wished, regarding the contest in which the Northern States are engaged with the South. In considering this matter, we ... ... number, gave the hideous de tails of the burning alive of an unfortunate Northern huck ster by Lynch law, on mere suspicion of having aided in the ... ... these ardent revolutionary principles con sent to their being applied to Ireland, or India, or the Ionian Islands. How have they treated those who d... ... by Mr. Carey), the Slave States are intersected in the middle, from their northern frontier almost to the Gulf of Mexico, by a country of free labor—... ...tutions. With no one of these propositions can I agree. Whether or not the Northern Americans will succeed in reconquering the South, I do not affect ...

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...us, that the Popes, who had been origi- nally transplanted from England to Ireland, had in the per- son of some cadet been re-transplanted to England;... ...ly with Thomson or with Berkeley, or any of his diplomatic friends; not to Ireland, where his presence would have been hailed as a na- tional honor; n... ...ally quitted it, as stealthily as he had be- fore quitted T wickenham, for Ireland, never more to return. He left a most affectionate letter for Pope;... ...ton, in great vexation for the surreptitious publication of his letters in Ireland, under date of February 4, 174-0/1. But why not have printed it int... ...icate and evanescent as the colored pencillings on a frosty night from the northern lights, than in the better parts of Lamb. T o appreciate Lamb, the... ...They gave a restlessness to the character of his intellect, shifting, like northern lights, through every mode of combination with fantastic playfulne... ...ysical signs which preceded this earthquake, are aware that in England and Northern Germany many sin- gular phenomena were observed, more or less mani...

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...rowned A happy life with a fair death, and fell Against the heathen of the Northern Sea In battle, fighting for the blameless King. 81 Idylls of the ... ...looms his valley, sighs to see the peak Sun-flushed, or touch at night the northern star; For one from out his village lately climed And brought repor... ...d Of Arthur, made by Merlin, with a crown, And peaked wings pointed to the Northern Star. And eastward fronts the statue, and the crown And both the w... ...r than when first Her light feet fell on our rough Lyonnesse, Sailing from Ireland. ’ Softly laughed Isolt; ‘Flatter me not, for... ...d, and she thought, ‘He spies a field of death; For now the Heathen of the Northern Sea, Lured by the crimes and frailties of the court, Begin to slay... ...s, The craft of kindred and the Godless hosts Of heathen swarming o’er the Northern Sea; Whom I, while yet Sir Lancelot, my right arm, The mightiest o...

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... steadily through life the motto, ex pressed in the burning words of your Northern poet— “The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’... ...y brother died, and when my poor mother and I brought the little baby from Ireland to England, and acted three nights in En gland, as we had acted th... ...land, and acted three nights in En gland, as we had acted three nights in Ireland, with the pretty creature lying upon the only bed in our lodging be... ...ng, and every evening, there are railway trains running pretty smoothly to Ireland and to Scotland at the rate of fifty miles an hour; Speeches: Lite...

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... I heard the mailØd Monarch’s troublous cry — ‘‘Ah! wherefore does the Northern Conqueress stay! Groans not her chariot on its onward way?’... ... cried, Halloo! To him alone the praise is due. FIRE Sisters! I from Ireland came! Hedge and corn-fields all on flame, I triumph’d o’er the ...

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...nce I rode. Perhaps when you come back from Ire- land.” “I am not going to Ireland.” “I thought you said—” said Fanny looking up surprised; “I am very... ... lowing, and by way of preliminary, asking when Colonel Keith was going to Ireland. “Oh!” said Fanny, blushing most suspiciously under her secret, “he... ...id Fanny, blushing most suspiciously under her secret, “he is not going to Ireland now.” “Indeed! I quite understood he intended it.” “Yes,” faltered ... ... you told me.” “Only ill enough to convince me that the need of avoiding a northern winter was not a fallacy, and likewise to make Tibbie insist on co...

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...570–632), Allah and the laws of Islam held sway:  From Arabia across northern Africa to Spain.  Throughout most of the Middle East.  Across... ...1 robbed China of its papermaking secret, Arab conquests continued across northern Africa to Spain, throughout most of the Middle East, and across C... ...terior Asian plateau and release what little moisture they carry onto the northern Khenti Mountain Range. That leaves dry the huge terrain to the sou... ... predecessor had offered his allegiance to the Jurched Dynasty that ruled northern China, Manchuria, and much of modern-day Inner Mongolia. After... ...the examples of Chinese block printing on textiles and paper that reached northern Europe. Some reports indicate that they inspired Johann Gutenberg... ...spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, their Celts ancestors had laid the Indo-European seedbed for the ...

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...any • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iraq • Ireland • Israel • Italy • Jamaica • Japan Jordan • Kazakhstan • Kenya • ... ...ners to begin construction. The dome housing the telescope will rise on a northern plateau within the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated l... ...perates in tandem with its Hawaiian twin to provide full coverage of the northern and southern hemispheres. In June 2011, a team of international a...

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...utes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southern U.S. and in the low latitude countries, but in the northe... ... countries. I found evidence of sexual harassment and abuse in every country. Young girls have been raped by their coaches. Olympic coaches in Irelan... ...cial system than by their internal drives. ―Two researchers were intrigued by the fact that in your country many more Southerners than Northe... ...h were more externally controlled. Southerners tended to believe in fate, luck, and the will of God far more than did the people of the North. Northe... ...nd and Sweden generally in the top ten. Norway ranges from 10 to 19. Switzerland, Austria, Malta and Luxemburg are often in the top ten, with Irelan...

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... the throne, and the kingdom was overrun everywhere with the Danes. In the northern part some had even settled down and made themselves at home, as th... ...arl of Pembroke, called Strongbow, one of Henry’s nobles, had gone over to Ireland and obtained a little kingdom there, which he pro- fessed to hold o... ...- fessed to hold of Henry; and thus the Kings of England be- came Lords of Ireland, though for a long time they only had the Province of Leinster, and... ... he could do more than make himself duke of Lancaster. King Richard was in Ireland, where his cousin, the governor— Roger Mortimer—had been killed by ... ... as heir to his grandfather, the king-maker. Suddenly, a young man came to Ireland and pretended to be this Earl of Warwick. He deceived a good many o... ... join him, and the Scots did not care about him; so James sent him away to Ireland, whence he went to Cornwall. However, he soon found fight- ing was ... ...e. And as steam cannot be had without fire, and most of the coal is in the Northern parts of England, almost all of these works were set up in them, a...

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... 1760s. Oil on canvas, approximately 40 x 49 inches. Na tional Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Forthwith a power of English shall we levy; Whose arms we... ...y head My shames redoubled! for the time will come, That I shall make this northern youth exchange His glorious deeds for my indignities. Percy is but...

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...rth and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself.... ... England, which is the great workhouse of the world. Or I could refer you to Ireland, which is marked as one of the white or enlightened spots on the ... ...e whizzing sound, I look up from my book and see some tall pine, hewn on far northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the... ...on a heart leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern shore quaffs a deep draught of the once scorned water, and passe... ...ous. I have in my mind’s eye the western indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully scolloped southern shore, where successive ...

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...my scalp was sore. With this high wintry wind, and the grey sky, and faint northern daylight, it was quite wonderful to hear such a clamour of blackbi... ...R. L. S. 187 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO ALEXANDER IRELAND [CHALET AM STEIN, DAVOS, MARCH 1882] MY DEAR SIR, – This formidable... ...y and blackhearted and fundamentally at enmity with joy. I trust that Mrs. Ireland does not object to smoking; and if you are a teetotaller, I beg you...

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...ways painful. There is a parish called Hogglestock lying away quite in the northern extremity of the eastern division of the county—lying also on the ... ...re for the due explanation of all these localities. Framley is also in the northern portion of the county, but just to the south of the grand trunk li... ...g along them. Such is the general nature of the county; but just up in its northern extrem- ity this nature alters. There it is bleak and ugly, with l... ...ruggling through the life of a curate in a bleak, ugly, cold parish on the northern coast of Cornwall. It had been a weary life and a fearful struggle... ...eaks to you when he asks you how the cow gets on which he sent to you from Ireland, or to Mark about Ponto’s shoulder. He told me that he knew papa, a...

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.... Once, in a year or two, some shadow of him shall be seen hovering on the Northern Border, seeking election as National Deputy; but be sternly beckon... ...er of dead dogs. Swiss Claviere could found no Socinian Genevese Colony in Ireland; but he paused, years ago, prophetic before the Minister’s Hotel at... ...hern Perpignan has its tocsin, by torch light; with rushing and onslaught: Northern Caen not less, by daylight; with Aristocrats ranged in arms at Pla... ...gar can be had; for good reasons. Poor Simoneau, Mayor of Etampes, in this Northern region, hanging out his Red Flag in some riot of grains, is trampl... ...his Army. Legislative Commissioners are posting towards him and it, on the Northern Frontier, to congratulate and perorate: he orders the Municipality... ...ll beleaguer Verdun; and Clairfait and Austrians press deeper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty th...

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.... . . 43 TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 THE WIND AMO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 RED HANRAHAN’S SONG ABOUT IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSELVES IN THE W... ...IX THOSE DANCING DAYS ARE GONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 XX ‘I AM OF IRELAND’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 XXI THE DANCER... ...cient Ollave said, While he bent down his fading head. ‘He drives away the Northern cold.’ They will not hush, the leaves a flutter round me, the beech... ...ll but the loud beat Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet. TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES Know, that I would accounted be True brother of... ... that I would accounted be True brother of a company That sang, to sweeten Ireland’s wrong, Ballad and story, rann and song; Nor be I any less of them... ...YEATS On the maternal midnight of my breast Before I had marked him on his northern way, And seemed to stand although in bed I lay. I struggled with t...

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... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...uding Naples and T alleyrand, were delighted. “Is not this a great day for Ireland?” said the Marquis, with a tear trickling down his noble face. “O I... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...gory Macarty, a one-eyed man from Clonakilty, in the neighborhood of Cork, Ireland (of whom more anon), and waited, according to his instructions, at ... ...the southern gate; Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the northern bartizan. “An Ivanhoe, an Ivanhoe!” he bellowed out, with a shout ... ...e said “hoe!” “Ivanhoe! Ivanhoe!” a shrill voice cried from the top of the northern bartizan. Ivanhoe knew it. “Rowena my love, I come!” he roared on ... ...nterior of the prison. These decorations, knowing several gentlemen of the Northern Circuit, Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe eas- ily procured, and with feelin... ...verity, and our country shall be free once more. “‘His Majesty the King of Ireland, my august ally, has sent, under the command of His Royal Highness ... ...er mingled with the mane of the Shetland pony which he rode, the Prince of Ireland trotted off with his aides-de-camp; who rode the same horses, power...

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... 110 T wo Cupids squirt before: a lake behind Improves the keenness of the northern wind. His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you loo... ...our Argos in her way. Ev’n those who dwell where suns at distance roll, In northern wilds, and freeze beneath the pole, And those who tread the burnin... ...Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 the Princess Caroline. 75 ‘Blunderland:’ Ireland. 76 ‘Meadows:’ see verses to Mrs Howe. 77 ‘God send the king safe... ...to the papers of the Drapier against the currency of Wood’s copper coin in Ireland, which, upon the great discontent of the people, his Majesty was gr... ...at name, of which one sheet was printed many years ago, by Amb. Philips, a northern author. It is a usual method of putting out a fire to cast wet she... ... fine gentle- men of his age, that he was obliged to remove his music into Ireland. After which they were reduced, for want of compos- ers, to practis...

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...east coast harbour, a refuge liable to aeroplanes, or to the west coast of Ireland—and the real naval war, which, as I have argued in an earlier chapt... ...e majority of people detest the preposterously clumsy attempts to amputate Ireland from the rule of the British Parliament which have been going on si... ...on of A’s. Such a situation actually oc- curs in both Ulster and Home-Rule Ireland. But now let us suppose another arrangement, and that is that the w... ...—let us say—some foolish project for rearranging the lo- cal government of Ireland without opening the door upon a vista of fantastical fiscal adventu... ...- tion of the English-speaking, originally middle-class, English- thinking northerner in the American mind, it is to be found in the spread of social ... ...voir after reservoir was tapped and exhausted. Nowadays England, Scotland, Ireland, France and 234 An Englishman Looks at the World Scandinavia send ... ...ng in the dark. One goes from the abound- ing movement and vitality of the northern cities to this sunny and enervating place through the negligently ...

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...e suffrage, are not, in this coun try, nor probably any where save in the Northern United States, accessible to the whole people, nor does there exis... ...her portion of the British dominions. The only remaining real grievance of Ireland, that of the State Church, is one which half, or nearly half the pe... ...eir hankering after Cuba is, in the same manner, merely sectional, and the Northern States, those opposed to slavery, have never in any way favored it...