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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco... ...vouring colonists on Devil's Island, in French Guiana, off the coast of Brazil, in 1859. These are bluish-green flies with three longitudinal bla...

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Sarmiento Y la Patagonia

By: Francisco M. Goyogana

...i bien con una provincia segregada, aunque unida después y definitivamente en 1859 mediante el Pacto de San José de Flores, con la Ley Fundamental p... ...transcribe el meduloso artículo de Sarmiento en La Crónica del 5 de agosto de 1859 y, a partir de allí los diversos acuerdos binacionales, los que n... ...ntine and Chilean Republics” to justify the Argentine claims for the boundary in the summits of the Cordillera de los Andes, according to the Treatie... .... cit, vol. I, p. 150; Appendix to the Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report submitted to the Tribunal Constituted... ...o the Tribunal Constituted by H. B. Majesty's Government acting as Arbitrator in pursuant of the Agreement dated April 17. 1896, Butler & Tanney, Lo... ...ctaba iniciar tratativas con ésta para obtener la modificación del tratado de 1859, a fin de eliminar la cláusula que establecía el jus sanguinis re... ...que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos con el Japón, la China y aun la India en cuanto al transporte de metales preciosos, sob... ...s, estableciendo una vía barata, corta, casi directa, desde los puertos de la China, el Japón, la Cochinchina, el Tíber, la India, la Arabia y el Áf...

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Apec Brochure

By: Apec 2011 Hawaii Host Committee

...RAL RESOURCES, AND CULTURE OF COLLABORATION IS THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH EMERGENT INDUSTRIES CAN THRIVE. TODAY, THE STATE OFFERS ATTRACT... ...DAY, THE STATE OFFERS ATTRACTIVE PROSPECTS AND BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATIONS IN CLEAN ENERGY, EARTH SCIENCES, HEALTH SCIENCES, AND CORPORATE CONVENTI... ... AND CULTURE OF COLLABORATION CREATE THE PERFECT PARADISE FOR INNOVATION IN WHICH EMERGENT INDUSTRIES CAN THRIVE. “Hawai‘i is more than a world-clas... ...omy. Through an international partnership with the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and India, Mauna Kea will be home to the Thirty Meter Telesc... ...e using an automated system.. The Queen’s Medical Center (QMC), founded in 1859 by Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV, is the largest private hospital... ... around the world. Since the late 1700s, waves of immigrants from Europe, China, Korea, Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Japan have settled the 50th S... ...ERCE — THE MAJORITY OF WHICH SERVE APEC MEMBER ECONOMIES FROM AUSTRALIA, CHINA, CANADA, JAPAN, HONG KONG, INDONESIA, KOREA, LATIN AMERICA, PHILIPP...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...April 5, 1835. After graduation fri..m Williams he studied medicine and in 1859 received his M. D. from New York university. During the Civil War he s... ...hich will send delegates to Washington are: Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Japan, In- dia, Australia and the Philip- pines. Mr. R. Saeasin-Warn... ...LIAMS RECORD, MONDAY. DEC. 9, 1907 "Leave your orders at once for Williams china for holiday gifts.* Williums seal Cigarettes at Eddie Dempsey's." WIL... ... year he made a tour of visitation of Christian missions^in Persia. India, China, Korea and Japan. Mr. Speer is the author of many books on religious ... ...he college next Sunday morning. He is a gradu- ate of Yalo of the class of 1859, the some yeorthat Dr. Washington Gladden grndnoted from Willinms. lib...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...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... ...bove has been prescribed by the competent authority. SPRINGFIELD, Jany. 6, 1859. A. LINCOLN. 28 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO M. W . ... ...s of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO M. W . DELAHA Y . SPRINGFIELD, March 4, 1859. M. W. DELAHA Y , Esq. MY DEAR SIR: Y our second letter in relation to... ...again. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO W. M. MORRIS. SPRINGFIELD, March 28, 1859. W. M. MORRIS, Esq. DEAR SIR:—Y our kind note inviting me to deliver a... ...ility. This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in oth... ...probably remain after sat- isfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d ... ...view to the satisfaction of such other just claims of our citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter in the course of our extensive...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...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... ...here, a retired sea captain who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather n... ...already eaten a mouldy biscuit and had a glass of beer at the house of the Chinawoman, so I only said grace for them, and after talking a little while... ... and ascer- tained from him that the natives had several articles, such as china, glass, and the handle of a silver fork, which evidently came from a ... ...U. 1857- . JOHN’S COLLEGE AND LIFU. 1857- . JOHN’S COLLEGE AND LIFU. 1857- 1859. 1859. 1859. 1859. 1859. IT SEEMS TO ME that the years between 1856 an... ...iton, ready to talk untiringly of everyone there. On the New Year’s day of 1859 there was a joyful thanksgiving ser- vice at Taurarua for their safe r... ... Nephew, ‘J. C. Patteson.’ Next follows a retrospective letter:— ‘April 1, 1859: St. John’s College. ‘My dearest Father,—Thirty-two years old to-day! ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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 English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, 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... ...llected edition of his works. He died in Edinburgh on the 8th of December, 1859. II. CRITICAL REMARKS II. CRITICAL REMARKS II. CRITICAL REMARKS II. CR... .... The very same idea had not long before struck the celestial intellect of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that countr... ...f a story told in Staunton’s Account of the Earl of Macartney’s Embassy to China in 1792.”—MASSON. 8 4 ÇA IRA (“This will do,” “This is the go”): “a p...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...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,... ...to the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlan... ... affection, and then say: “The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China trees; now we cross over.” So he crossed over. He gave me the wheel... ...ntations, with only here and there a scattering sapling or row of ornamental China trees. The timber is shorn off clear to the rear of the plantations... ... “ 1 37 1876 War Eagle “ “ 1 37 MISCELLANEOUS RUNS In June, 1859, the St. Louis and Keokuk Packet, City of Louisiana, made the run fr... ...s as follows— VICKSBURG May 4, 1859. ‘My opinion for the benefit of the citizens of New Orleans: The wat...

...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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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ...y favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. During the last year there has not only been no change of... ...NGTON, December 10, 1862. Hon. J. K. DuBois. MY DEAR SIR:—In the summer of 1859, when Mr. Free- man visited Springfield, Illinois, in relation to the ...

...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...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... ...sued from their wrap- pings a silver teapot and some beautiful old English china sent to the baroness by her aunts. This appearance of modern splen- d... ...looked far handsomer than Beatrix. She wore also a little shawl of crimson China crape, crossed on her bosom and tied behind, as they dress a child. F... ...the duchess was certain to encounter in her charitable enterprise. *Before 1859 there was no 13th arrondissement in Paris, hence the saying.—TR. 249 ...

...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...ublished “The Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter A... ...exertions. The European who is accustomed to find a functionary always at *China appears to me to present the most perfect instance of that species of... ...of society is always tolerable, never excellent. I am convinced that, when China is opened to European obser- vation, it will be found to contain the ... ... as in the case of the invasion of Rome by the Northern nations or that of China by the Mongols, the power which victory bestows upon the barbarian is...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

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A Plea for Captain John Brown

By: Henry David Thoreau

...horeau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Plea for Captai... ...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. A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau, the Penns... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...horeau Read to the citizens of Concord, Mass., Sunday Evening, October 30, 1859. I TRUST THAT YOU will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to for... ...rangeness between us and our nearest neighbors. They are our Austrias, and Chinas, and South Sea Islands. Our crowded society becomes well spaced all ...

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Measure, For Measure

By: William Shakespeare

... Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ affect speech & discourse, 8 Since I am put to know, that y... ... 8 Since I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no... ...nstitutions, and the Termes 14 For Common Iustice, y’are as pregnant in 15 As Art, and practise, hath inriched any 16 That we rememb... ... 547 pence; your honours haue seene such dishes) they are not 548 China- dishes, but very good dishes. 549 Esc. Go too: go too: no m... ...t off a mans head? 1858 Clo. If the man be a Bachelor Sir, I can: 1859 But if he be a married man, he’s his wiues head, 1860 And I can...

...re; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus. Esc. My Lord. Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold, Would seeme in me t? affect speech & discourse, Since I am put to know, that your owne Science Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaines But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is abl...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...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. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... 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.... ...es) ....................................................246 Year of Meteors (1859 60).................250 With Antecedents............................... ... over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or talking other dialects, And it seems to me if I co... ...Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea, The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of... ...the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang tse, and the Pearl, I see w... ...ve I have no time to lose. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 249 YEAR OF M ETEORS (1859 60) Year of meteors! brooding year! I would bind in words retrospect...

...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...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 Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ...nto two classes; but this is certainly incorrect. Among the young women or chinas, some deserve to be called even beautiful. Their hair was coarse, bu... ...imy spawn of frogs? *This is stated by Dr. Gunther (Zoolog. Soc. Jan 24th, 1859) to be a peculiar species, not known to inhabit any other country. **V...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...4 9:12 AM Page 57 son,Arizona, in the late 1980s, went as far afield as China, Malaysia, the Philip- pines, and the former Soviet states of Ukraine... ...hese casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered target... ...security were dominated by other issues—among them, Haiti, Bosnia, Russia, China, Somalia, Kosovo, NATO enlargement, the Middle East peace process, mi... ...7). For arrival in Virginia, see ibid. (citing 265A- NY -280350-NH, serial 1859). 65. For Atta’s training at Huffman, see, e.g., FBI report,“Hijackers... ...Virginia, see ibid. (Apr. 4, 2001, entry citing 265A-NY -280350-NH, serial 1859). For their attendance at the Dar al Hijra mosque, see FBI electronic ... ...ine,” Dec. 5, 2003 (May 8, 2001, entries citing 265A-NY -280350-NH, serial 1859); FBI electronic commu- nication, summary of Penttbom investigation, J...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...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. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...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... ...holy facts in history. The Egyptian hierarchy, the pater nal despotism of China, were very fit instruments for carry ing those nations up to the poi... ...“Treatise on the Election of Representatives” (a small volume Published in 1859), and to a pamphlet by Mr. Henry Fawcett, published in 1860, and entit... ...e countries conquered from Mexico; so it seems to be with the Europeans in China, and already even in Japan: there is no necessity to recall how it wa... ...elieve and act upon the lesson.”—(Article in Fraser’s Magazine for April, 1859, headed “Recent Writers on Reform.”) 8 Not always, however, the most ...

....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...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... ...ear a cross-roads post-office called Hale’s Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can no... ...ad studied. While they could locate the Desert of Sahara or the capital of China on an artificial globe, I found out that the girls could not locate t... ...w things are more satisfactory to me than a high-grade Berkshire or Poland China pig. Games I care little for. I have never seen a game of football. I...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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 Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...om primrose marauders. You know the great agitation. They want to set up a china clay factory on Penbeacon, and turn the Ewe, not to say the Leston, i... ...ke the camel’s back, when she heard of the company that only waited to dig china clay out of Penbeacon and wash it in the Ewe till they could purchase... ...tella looked as daintily, delicately pretty as ever, at first sight like a china shepherdess to be put under a glass shade, but on a second view, with... ...ni Benista, a native of Piedmont, to Zoraya Prebel, Hungarian, in the year 1859, when ecclesiastical marriages were still valid without the civil cere...

...gged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns and the Underwoods....

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...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... ..., no time was lost in setting to work to prepare for the new migration. In 1859 the Par- liament was removed to Quebec, with the understanding that it... ...ng four consecutive years:— October, 1858 4,429,055 bushels. “ 1859 5,523,448 “ “ 1860 6,500,864 “ “ 1861 12,4... ... had we so acted! We, forsooth, who carry passengers about the world, from China and Australia, round to Chili and Peru, who have the charge of the wo... ...roposed. South Caro- lina was as eager in 1832 for secession as she was in 1859-60; but the government was in the hands of a strong man and an honest ... ...ize the fourth city in the world—putting out of the question the cities of China, as to which we have heard so much and believe so little. But in maki...

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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

... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...cept in the southern part, at Cape Horn, and in the western parts, near the China and Indian oceans, it has few storms, and is never either extremely... ...he strange spectacle. On the evening of Saturday, the 13th of August, 1859, the superb steamship Golden Gate, gay with crowds of passengers, a... ...I travelled from Stockton to Hornitos, turned off in the high road for a Chinaman, who, with his pan and washer, was working up a hole which an A... ...merican had aban- doned, but where the minute and patient industry of the Chinaman averaged a few dollars a day. These visits were so full of... ...inhabitants, with all the accompaniments of wealth and culture, and now (in 1859) the most quiet and well governed city of its size in the United Sta... ...found myself again in my quarters on the morning of Sunday, December 11th, 1859. My first visit after my return was to Sacramento, a city of a...

... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...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. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...n both.’ Bacon: Advancement of Learning. Down, Bromley, Kent, October 1st, 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec- tion, or the Pres... ...dvice given in ag- ricultural works, even in the ancient Encyclopaedias of China, to be very cautious in transposing animals from one district to anot... ...ses of very different breeds, in various countries from Britain to Eastern China; and from Norway in the north to the Malay Archipelago in the south. ...

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