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... -- 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 West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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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 ... ...rcumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- ... ...ion of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice t... ...erate men on board the Khadija proved themselves more than a match for all the boarding Portuguese. Those having swords, lances or bucklers stood firs... ...de fast to pieces of ropes and used as clubs, they withstood and drove off the boarding parties. One attack after another was thus repelled. Finally, ... ...m was a great wonder, the flying fishes, and watched the larger fish chase the schools of flyers, waiting until they should return to the water and th... ...ain Cook, the son of a common farm laborer, was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, England, October 27th, 1728. His death occurred at the hands... ...ered in North Baffin Bay a wide extent of open water in which sported numerous schools of whales, and thus was established an extensive whale fishery ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

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...nting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of ...

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... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George’s, Hanover-square, is rated at about sevenpence in the pound, Paddington at about fo... ... suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, must look to ... ...ain, at the evening conversazione at school, charged two-and-sixpence in the half-year’s bill; or breaking down again at that celebrated evening party... ...; but whose intellectual quali- ties in association with dramatic fiction, I cannot rate high. Indeed, he is too honest for the profession he has ente... ...es of orbits, to such an infamous extent that Olympia, stung to madness, actually kicked me. A pretty birthday spec- tacle, when the lights were turne... ...st. And as to the physical portion—I should like to ask Professor Owen.’ It happened that I had a small bundle of papers with me, on what is called ‘T...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ........................................... 155 IV . ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ. IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ............................................ 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. ........................................................... ...y false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit th... ...Of good and evil gods what frighted fools, Of good and evil reason puzzled schools, Deceived, deceiving, taught, &c. After VER. 108, in the MS.— 181 ... ...his diocese of Marseilles in 1720. 91 ‘Bethel:’ a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope’s. 92 ‘Chartres:’ Colonel, infamous for ... ...! Top-gallant he, and she in all her trim, 230 He boarding her, she striking sail to him: ‘Dear Countess! you have charms all...

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...ant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we take the period since its appearance as covering four generations, we find the greatest authority in the earliest, Johnson, speaking of it with something more nearly approaching to enthusiasm than he allowed himself in reference to any other work of an author, to whom he was on the whole so unjust....

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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. Volume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, con... ...ompleted “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Y orkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of e... ...means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved hi... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...and a wind instrument from the Opera band reside within its precincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the... ...leby took a cordial farewell of his fellow-speculators, and bent his steps westward in unwonted good humour. As he passed St Paul’s he stepped aside i... ...itting on his gloves to a nicety , turned upon his way , and walked slowly westward with his hands behind him. ‘Children alive?’ inquired Noggs, stepp... ...d her, very unceremoniously . ‘We must try and get you apprenticed at some boarding- school,’ said Ralph. ‘Y ou have not been brought up too deli- cat...

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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 AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Fait... ...ompleted “Pickwick Papers.” There were, then, a good many cheap Y orkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of e... ...means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, private schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved hi... ...of the “Pickwick Papers,” I consulted with a professional friend who had a Yorkshire connexion, and with whom I concerted a pious fraud. He gave me so... ...and a wind instrument from the Opera band reside within its precincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the... ...leby took a cordial farewell of his fellow-speculators, and bent his steps westward in unwonted good humour. As he passed St Paul’s he stepped aside i... ...itting on his gloves to a nicety , turned upon his way , and walked slowly westward with his hands behind him. ‘Children alive?’ inquired Noggs, stepp... ...d her, very unceremoniously . ‘We must try and get you apprenticed at some boarding- school,’ said Ralph. ‘Y ou have not been brought up too deli- cat...

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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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ..., Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that Pope has sunk i... ...hen a knowledge of the classics, with a tincture of the metaphysics of the schools, was thought a good average stock of learning, although it was the ... ... po- etry. As it is, his works resemble rather the London Colos- seum than Westminster Abbey. They are exquisite imitations of nature; but we never ca... ... my bed; Those are too wise for bachelors to wed. As subtle clerks by many schools are made, T wice-married dames are mistresses o’ th’ trade: ... ...drama, because (as that writer thinks) the Marriage-Hater Matched, and the Boarding School, are better than the What-d’-ye-call-it,’ which is not Mr P... ... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess...

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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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...field was very respectable in his time. The late Dr. Taylor, Prebendary of Westminster, who was educated under him, told me, that ‘he was an excellent... ...minated, to Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, his progress at his two grammar- schools. ‘At one, I learnt much in the school, but little from the master; ... ...man, may be worth relating. When he and I took a journey together into the West, we visited the late Mr. Banks, of Dorsetshire; the conversation turn-... ...ould request him to tell me all the little circumstances of his life; what schools he attended, when he came to Oxford, when he came to London, &c. &c... ...- livened with a gay profusion of colours. Mrs. Bosville, of Gunthwait, in Yorkshire, joined us, and entered into conversation with us. Johnson said t... ...terminate? In mar- rying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her em- ployment now is, “To suckle fools, a... ...end to all improvement. But if we should discuss it in the presence of ten boarding-school girls, and as many boys, I think 588 Boswell’s Life of Joh...

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