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...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...uster " -- Sailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat... ... of two survivors -- One dies from thirst, the other picked up and returned to England 345- 357 CHAPTER XXXIII. An attack in which Drake is wounded. -... ... in numbers, they soon acquired a considerable influence, and their commercial establishments, like those of the great East India Company in later tim... ...Widdy Thompson, who visited the place where once the city of Cholula stood, in 1843. He says that not a single vestige of that great city remains exce... ...the treaty the English government set to work with great vigor to break up the establishments of freebooters in the English islands. The Buccaneer cru... ...mple to the people by hurriedly contributing all the funds of their respective establishments for the benefit of the pious de Pointis and his companio...

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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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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...n the same document he wrote, ‗What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen... ...s, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against ... ... Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.‘ ―Some question the beliefs of George Washington. He often a... ..., and no punishments or rewards from God. The so-called ‗freethinkers ‗of England in the 17th and 18th centuries were the major protagonists. They w... ...27 in Prussia. And the little publicized discovery of Dr. Martin Berry of 1843 that conception occurs when the sperm meets the ovum. That was not a ...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...rch, during the last generation of suppose thirty years. When two powerful establishments, each separately fitted to the genius and needs of its sever... ... everybody is—that, on the annual meeting of the General Assembly, in May, 1843, the great body of the Non- intrusionists moved out in procession. The... ...ry of mischief skirted the horizon—a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1843, the evil had ‘travelled on from birth to birth.’ Already it had faile... ...vil is now past remedy. As for the other evil, that which acts upon church establishments, not through simple failure in the guarantees of public opin... ... lamps of a light-house are periodically eclipsed. The General Assembly of 1843, when closing her gates upon the Seceders, shut in, perhaps, more of t... ...ive result from this great movement; viz. the general disruption of church establishments. We trust that this anticipation will be signally defeated. ...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of his life became well known in London political society, whom indeed all England, with a curious mixture of mockery and respect and even fear, knew ... ...ured. And perhaps,—as is the singular case in most schools and educational establishments of this unexampled epoch,— it was not the express set of arr... ...e usual senti- mental, not to say meretricious fraudulence of commer- cial establishments in Watering-places. “The bag which Hannah forgot reached us ... ... them! Our little History is now hastening to a close. In the beginning of 1843 news reached us that Sterling had, in his too reckless way, encountere... ...terling, Knightsbridge, London. “Falmouth 8th April, 1843. “Dearest Mother,—I could do you no good, but it would be the greatest... ...g.” To the same. “Falmouth, 12th April, 1843. “Dearest Mother,—I have just received my Father’s Let- ter; which giv...

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...hing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. Find- ing myself out of place, and hearing that Monsieur Phileas F... ...e was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking ser- vice as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master ... ...lanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the Directors of the Bank of England—all rich and highly respectable personages, even in a club which co... ...wd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants d... ... mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and that fina...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ... keels. The area of its drainage basin is as great as the combined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus ... ... the na tions were being persuaded to holy living by the sword and fire; in England, Henry VIII. had suppressed the monaster ies, burnt Fisher and a... ... 15 1840 Ed. Shippen “ “ 5 14 1842 Belle of the West “ 6 14 1843 Duke of Orleans” “ 5 23 1844 Sultana “ “ 5 12 1... ... 1822 Wheeling Packet “ “ 1 10 1837 Moselle “ “ 12 1843 Duke of Orleans “ “ 12 1843 Congress “ “ 12 ... ...h No. 3 “ “ 9 52 FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS 750—MILES D. H. M. 1843 Congress made the run in 2 1 1854 Pike “ “ 1 ... ...y request. One day, during a ramble about the city, I visited one of the two establishments where the Govern ment keeps and watches corpses until the...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t, seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no su... ...light similitude, both in garb and manner, to some grave divine of the New England churches. 29 Hawthorne “Bring forth the converts!” cried a voice t... ...vo, 1842; and “L ’Artiste du Beau; ou le Papillon Mecanique,” 5 tom., 4to, 1843. Our somewhat wearisome perusal of this startling cata logue of volum... ...ody must have heard) was one of the most cunning and potent witches in New England, and might, with very little trouble, have made a scarecrow ugly en... ... older culti vation, larger, and better stocked than most of the frontier establishments. Reuben Bourne, however, was a neglectful husbandman; and, w...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... of the Ponts et Chaussees is immense. In all other countries, in Germany, England, Italy, where institutions like ours do not exist, works of this ch... ...s Europe, which closely observes us, has not established others like them. England, that clever calculator, has better schools among her working popul... ... modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will be honeycombed with... ...eat Ecoles that they have not produced men superior to other edu- cational establishments, it is still more shameful that the grand prix of the Instit... ...hours and moments were claimed by each with jealous eagerness. By the year 1843 the prosperity of Montegnac had increased beyond all expectation. The ...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...ARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. ................................................................................................... 23 SPEECH: LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. .................................................................................

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ................................ .......... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. ........................................................................ ...ed without sorrow, a name in which Scotland had a great triumph, and which England delighted to honour. One of the gifted of the earth has passed away... ...g you as self possessed and unmoved as I should be alone in my own room in England. But when I have the echoes of your cordial greeting ringing in my ... ...ervantes. Speeches: Literary and Social 23 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. This address was delivered at a soiree of the members of the Manches ... ...on, receiving somewhat more than its needful allow ance of cold water. In 1843 it was removed into a more favourable position, and grafted on a noble... ...abric. I never heard but one tangible position taken against edu cational establishments for the people, and that was, that in this or that instance,...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly wit... ...ities! Would England let Ireland walk off by herself, if she wished it? In 1843 she did wish it. Three- fourths of the Irish population would have vot... ...nell had marched down to the Pigeon House, at Dublin, and had taken it, in 1843, let us say, would that have been an argument to us for allowing Irela... ... in the college buildings; but they do not board in those rooms. There are establishments in the town, under the patronage of the university, at which... ...ng the spindles and looms of the cotton mills. Steam is applied in the two establishments in which the cottons are printed, for the purposes of printi... ...travels abroad, ob- 285 Trollope served the effect of large manufacturing establishments on the character of the people, and in the establishment at ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...in of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men... ... vagabond has the best of the comparison. There is now a Villon Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a tas... ...here that we learn that “laird” in Scotland is the same title as “lord” in England. Here, also, is an account of a High- land soldier’s equipment, whi... ...d property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax. The highway-tax he paid, for he said he... ...cture room of a scholastic doctor was some- times under the same roof with establishments of a very dif- ferent and peculiarly unedifying order. The s...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... with Syndicalism—notably the I. W . W . in America and Guild Socialism in England. From this historical survey we shall pass to the consideration of ... .... It is true that before his time there were Socialist theo- ries, both in England and in France. It is also true that in France, during the revolutio... ...rned to Paris, but was expelled from there also. This led him to settle in England—at that time an asylum for friends of freedom—and in England, with ... ...was divided by partitions of board. And this was one of the best millinery establishments in London. Mary Anne Walkley fell ill on the Friday, died on... ...overnment demanded his return, he removed to Paris, where he remained from 1843 to 1847. These years in Paris were important in the forma- tion of his...