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...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unifica... ...one by one, following secession conventions and state-wide votes. The Confederacy (Confederate States of America) was born only later. Not all the ... ...buying slaves from Africa), though it allowed interstate trade in slaves. The first Confederate capital was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond... ... was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond, Virginia. The term of office of the Confederate president - Jefferson Davis was the first elected - ... ...t. Nor was he anti-British. When the Boer war broke out, he organized a volunteer corps of 11,000 Indians to defend the British colony of Natal. ... ...the shy recluse. When Gus was committed to an old people's home, Ed's supply of corpses dried up. To replenish it, he proceeded to murder a stri... ...r ship Britannia of the Anchor Line, carrying 500 passengers, was sunk by a German marine raider, Thor, off the west coast of Africa. The few survi...

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...ling of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...ved him with signs of hostility, which they manifested by cries and groans. He states that the island had three volcanoes which continually belched fo... ...had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners into a condition of panic. ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF HANNO. Han... ...arge quadruped, as elephant, rhinoceros, lion, or other dangerous beast, Hanno states that these sentinel snakes would proceed at once to the hut wher... ...ense vessel was propelled by 4000 rowers, besides which she had a crew of 3000 marines, and a great number of servants. The oars used in propelling he... ...d defrauded pirates to assert their claim by force of arms. But Morgan and his confederates, having been sharp enough to defraud the Buccaneer army of... ...he leader had departed and with him went not only the hundred men who were his confederates in the robbery, but even a large share of the plunder that... ...nd Tortuga as poor as when they left, only to find that Morgan had tricked his confederates and after managing to get all the plunder into one vessel ...

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...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...res of rivers and their permanency. These studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is s... ... no doubt the swiftest. The jig maker’s safest. The priest’s dullest. The mariner’s loneliest. The lover’s saddest. VOICES FROM THE PAST 404 ... ...e terrible summer of ’82, when wheat fields were swept by gunfire, 20,000 Confederates died, the Union lost 16,000. Boys, mostly boys. Which General... ...d to show that the negro ought to be a slave—if he shall now fight in the Confederate Army to keep himself a slave, it will be a far better argument... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the slave states. During this year, the slave states had 348,847 mulattoes, all of h... ...the harbor of Charleston, S. C., surrendered yesterday, after 34 hours of Confederate bombardment. The 100 survivors, without food and ammunition...... ...y, the whole constabulary force of the city police, the entire disposable marine of the United States, with its artillery loaded for action, all mar...

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...t the death of their Kings was ever devised and brought in use. All their confederates and n eighbours, all the slave-Helotes, men and women pell- me... ...m as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing all feare of hostile-action from them. But to the en... ...ces where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile law, that what enemie soev... ...brio sibi habere videtur. -- 1 LUCRET. 1. v. 1243. A hidden power so mens states hath out-worne Faire swords, fierce scepters, signes of honours bor... ...awyers, breath- sellers, and pettifoggers, and joyned to the three ancient states, to wit, the Clergy, the Nobility, and the Communaltie; which fourt... ...was my man; who besides his owne report, hath many times shewed me divers Mariners and Merchants, whom hee had knowne in that voyage. So am I please... ...ntaigne/1xxx.htm (6 of 11)4/10/2005 3:41:49 AM Montaigne's Essays who had confederated themselves with their adversaries, to use another kinde of dea... ...uperioritie he had amongst his countriemen (for he was a Captaine and our Mariners called him King), he told me it was to march foremost in any char... ...d were so rudely, churlishly, and villainously used by the passengers and marines, who besides infinite other indignites, loitred so long on the sea...

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.............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...afe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three adva... ...ho is or would be the present owner, bears high command in the army of the Confederates, and knows well by what tenure he holds or is likely to hold h... ... secession. The bounty to fishermen was given to create sailors, so that a marine might be provided for the nation. I need hardly show that the nation... ... near Somerset, toward the south of the State. General Zollicoffer, with a Confederate army numbering, it was supposed, some eight thousand men, had a... ... killed, while his army was cut to pieces and dispersed; the cannon of the Confederates were taken, and their camp seized and destroyed. Their rout wa... ...or the same purpose. But Liverpool is three times the size of Chicago. The corps of clerks 276 North America V ol. 2 required for the window delivery...

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...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...

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...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...R OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the public print... ...enue cutter should proceed to sea to afford pro- tection to the commercial marine, and especially the California treasure ships then on their way to t... ...day, reminding me of a supposed un- derstanding that I would furnish you a corps of 35,000 men, and asking of me the “fulfilment of this understanding... ...u have done your best, so have I. I have not the power now to fill up your Corps to 35,000. I am not demanding of you to do the work of 35,000. I am o... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., August 14, 1862. OFFICER in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: It is believed that a Dr. J. J. ... ...ich is in the following words, viz.: “That any line officer of the navy or marine corps may be advanced one grade if upon recommendation of the Presid... ... slavery—the bone we are fighting over—and the full reinstatement of every Confederate citizen in all the rights of citizenship in our common country....

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...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ... proper ones. Iowa, having an entire Union delegation, will be one of the States the attempt will be made, if upon any. The Gover- nor doubtless has... ...or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Government; all who have left judicial stations under the Unite... ...ll who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutena... ...which is in the following words, viz: That any line officer of the Navy or Marine Corps may be advanced one grade if upon recommendation of the Presid... ...red for two hundred thousand men for the military service (Army, Navy, and Marine Corps) of the United States. The proportional quotas for the differe... ...rates, all civil, military, and naval officers, all soldiers, sailors, and marines, with all loyal and law-abiding people, to convene at their usual p... ...transfer of McClellan’s army from the Potomac, where it had confronted the Confederates at Manassas. See H. J. Raymond: Life of Lincoln, p. 772] whic...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...d his first war experience in the Belmont fight, as a pilot on a boat in the Confederate ser vice. I had often had a curiosity to know how a green ha... ...hat they forgot to look after their horses, which were car ried away by his confederates while he was preaching. But the stealing of horses in one St... ...ssissippi Mark T wain 167 stated that he had more than a thousand sworn confederates , all ready at a moment’s notice to support any of the gang ... ...—left him at the wheel, at the foot of 63, to run off the watch. The ancient mariner went up through the chute, and down the river outside; and up the... ...county seat of a great and impor tant county; town with a big United States marine hospital; town of innumerable fights—an inquest every day; town wh... ...ad ever set his foot in a pilot house! Many and many a time did this ancient mariner appear on the scene in the above fashion, and spread disaster and...

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...Williams been filled in and realized, she would have seen something in the corpse-like face, and heard something in the sinister voice, that would hav... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ..., he had busied himself in piling the clothes elaborately over the child’s corpse. This incident undeniably gave the character of a vindictive proceed... ...atures, and those glazed rigid eyes, that seemed rightfully belonging to a corpse, when one glance at them sufficed to proclaim a death-warrant. Three... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ... was fit for any thing, from the wooden shoon of Cambridge up to the Horse Marines. Now, on the other hand, you, common-place reader, that (as an old ... ...tinately haunted his mind that all the kings and rulers of the earth would confederate in every age against his works, and would hunt them out for ext... ...1 On which account, I am the more struck by the ignoble argument of those statesmen who have contended in the House of Commons that such and such cla...

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...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ... the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I belie... ...ese arid Hebrew studies, I read to her, with a beating heart, “The Ancient Mariner.” It had been first published in 1798; and, about this time (1801),... ...o remember, she laughed at the finest parts, and shocked me by calling the mariner himself “an old quiz;” protesting that the latter part of his homil... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...- lending friend could exist “in Oxford-street;” and, at the same time, he states, as circumstances drawn from my descrip- tion, but, in fact, pure co... ...ugmented and fostered, as a counterbalancing force to the Janissaries, the corps of the Topjees or artillery- men. He amassed preparatory treasures. A... ...had often heard it described; she saw, in apprehension, the savage band of confederate butchers, issuing from the profound solitudes of the forest, in... ...he expulsion of Polynices, the younger son, from Thebes; his return with a confederate band of princes for the recovery of his rights; the death of th...

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...elling power; we have no other. Without it we should be mere inert images, corpses; no one would do anything, there would be no progress, the world wo... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...ing them: THE COMMANDER: “He was in my army.” THE GENERAL: “He was in my corps.” THE COLONEL: “He was in my regiment. A brute. I remember him well.... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but it a... ...d cop pers; being sued himself for shillings and coppers; and act ing as confederate to a neighbor who tried to rob the town of its rights in a cert... ...Boatswain! BOATSWAIN. Here, master; what cheer? MASTER. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, besti... ...fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir! ( Enter Mariners .) BOATSWAIN. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare,... ...uaintance with the technicalities of other crafts and callings, notably of marine and military affairs, was also extraordinary, and yet no one has sus...

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...of times shall ever shock”!’ and he began to hum it. ‘That is the Sicilian Mariners’ hymn,’ said Averil. ‘I can sing you that whenever you please.’ ‘T... ...Let me introduce you to Captain Ernescliffe, of the Dorset Volunteer Rifle Corps; Private Thomas May, of the Cambridge University Corps; and Mr. Aubre... ...ot at himself,’ was Aubrey’s sentiment, ‘for not letting Leonard be in the corps.’ 99 Yo n g e ‘The fellow that you brought to Maplewood?’ asked Hec-... ...ing a little, but still grave. ‘We have had some experience, you know. Our corps was one of the earliest enrolled, and Hector managed it al- most enti... ...aid Ethel. ‘She was the daughter of Mrs. Ledwich’s brother, the Colonel of Marines, and used in old times to be with her aunt; there used to be urgent... ...ton friend, who, while quartered in Canada, had made excur- sions into the States, and acquired such impressions as high- bred young officers were apt... ...matters before your brother that might dissuade him from making the United States his home. You have justly more influence than I. Will you object to ... ...on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, with a population of negroes sure to rise against their ma... ...ll the North, and to be utterly unaware of any argu- ment in favour of the Confederates; but still Averil was, in Cora’s words, ‘too English;’ she cou...

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..., Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling ev... ... By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ing free; Now brigh... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ...s heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough. Enveloped in their shaggy watch coats, and with their head... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...ow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle Ameri- can States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke... ...the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the pri- vate property of three confederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated ... ...ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in. “But, gentlemen, a fool saved the wou... ...es over the wa- ter; and, for a moment, stood thoughtfully eyeing the vast corpse he had made. 279 Herman Melville CHAPTER 62 The Dart A WORD CONCER...

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...esistance. If the unhappy prince gave implicit faith to the professions of statesmen holding such notions, which is implied by his whole conduct. 11 ... ...swork says that he believes he was very familiar with your father, whom he states to have been called Ralph Latimer of Langcote Hall, in Westmoreland;... ...grat nor grained, 118 Redgauntlet but gaed about the house looking like a corpse, but direct- ing, as was his duty, a’ the order of the grand funeral... ... father; ‘and you, who are acquainted with the forms, know that the client states the cause to the agent—the agent to the counsel’— ‘The counsel to th... ...en on the verge of the water, resem- bling one of those fog-banks on which mariners are said to gaze, uncertain whether it be land or atmospherical de... ...le opportunity occur. I will, therefore, rather be your prisoner than your confederate.’ ‘That is spoken fairly,’ he said; ‘and yet not without the ca... ...ou a repeating frigate between Summertrees and the laird! Tell that to the marines—the sailors won’t believe it. But you are right to be cautious, sin... ...her to myself or my friends—I had no means of communicating to our distant confederates (without the greatest risk of discovery) what is known to some... ...ave been influenced by, or might perhaps himself influence, the unresolved confederates with whom he must have associated during his absence. ‘I will ...

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...vel through the country, seeking for heroes to fill up the gaps in Cutts’s corps,—and for adventures to pass away the weary time of a country life. 6... ...rvice of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a lieu- tenant and captain in the Bavarian service; and when, a... ...y Amelia Wilhelmina wore in her bo- som on the night of a certain ball—the corpse of a glorious hope that seemed once as if it would live for ever, so... ...man’s jack-boots, whom one might fancy, if he were anything, to be a horse-marine. 59 Thackeray Of one of these worthies, Mrs. Hayes thought she knew... .... “Who has Nosey brought with him now?” said Mr. Sicklop, Brock’s one-eyed confederate, who, about three hours after the above adventure, was lolling ... ...e other popular nov- elists of the day can never be sufficiently grateful) states that Hayes left his house three or four times during this period, an...

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...ad entered the Liverpool police force, that I might have a look at the various unlawful traps which are every night set for Jack. As my term of servic... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ...trong serpent of engine-hose, watchfully lying in wait for the ser- pent Fire, and ready to fly at it if it showed its forked tongue. A ghost of a wat... ...very living soul. And what the rats—being water- rats—left of Chips, at last floated to shore, and sitting on him was an immense overgrown rat, laughi... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ...it. The drums upon the heights have gone to bed, or I know they would rattle taunts against me for having my unsteady footing on this slippery deck. T... ...th the young and ardent which it were more than heresy to doubt, can scarcely have failed to discover that I love your adorable daughter, deeply, devo... ...nks, I wonder whether the other solitary Sunday man I pass, has designs upon the Banks. For the interest and mys- tery of the matter, I almost hope he...

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...adin?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. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . ...

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...unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in m...

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...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...or safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereign- ties. However extraordinar... ...mies of each other unless their common weakness forces them to league in a confederate republic, and their constitu- tion prevents the differences tha... ...falls within the first descrip- tion. An insular situation, and a powerful marine, guarding it in a great measure against the possibility of foreign i... ... Union, but would not militate against their being all comprehended in one confederate government. And this is the true question, in the discussion of... ...pposition to a general Union of the States, that he explicitly treats of a confederate republic as the expedient for extending the sphere of popular g... ..., and would possess all the means, requisite to the creation of a powerful marine. Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fost... ...of success. An active commerce, an extensive navigation, and a flourishing marine would then be the offspring of moral and physical necessity. We migh...

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...ere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mentio... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...anted. This was the same Ewell who acquired considerable reputa- tion as a Confederate general during the rebellion. He was a man much esteemed, and d... ...s in the company of Captain Holmes, afterwards a Lieutenant-general in the Confederate army. I never came in contact with him in the war of the Rebell... ...osition was reached. One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps. I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infan-... ... three days’ bombardment by the navy an assault was made by the troops and marines, resulting in the capture of the place, and in taking 5,000 prisone... ...t-Commander George Brown commanding, be- low. She met Colonel Ellet of the Marine brigade below Natchez on a captured steamer. Two of the Colonel’s fl...

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... first or last’—‘How so?’ I interrupted him; ‘surely they don’t detain the corpses of prisoners?’ ‘Ay, but mind you — put case that he or that she sho... ...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...ch of water utterly ruins it, taking its life, and leaving a caput mortuum corpse! Upon this caput Kate breakfasted, though her case was worse than mi... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...me to enlighten you, else you ruin 105 Thomas de Quincey the story of the mariner; and by losing all its pathos, lose half the jewels of its beauty. ... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...at they have watched the same individual stratum or phenomenon, exhibiting states removed from each other by depths of many thousand years; how could ... ... combinations are found eminently successful. Having ob- tained from every confederate a pledge, in some shape or other, that he will give them his su...

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...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ... thou now enjoyest, if the confidence reposed in our friends and an- cient confederates had not at this present disappointed the assurance of my old a... ...ered to invade, I say not your countries, but not so much as those of your confederates. And if, by rash and heady counsel, they have attempted any ne... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...o go unto the Lord of Vauguyon, who at all times had been their friend and confederate, and that by him they should be better ad- vised in their busin... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...topsail, and letting go the bowline with the brazen bullets, wherewith the mariners did by way of protestation bake in pastemeat great store of pulse ... ...aging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricio...

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... schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at anchor, ... ...ure was chiefly turned against a large, heavy moulded fellow from the Middle States, who was called Sam. This man hesitated in his speech, and was ra... ...ng down to the beach. Several people were soon collected to see ‘‘los Ingles marineros,’’ and one of them—a young woman—took a great fancy to my pocke... ... of work, and is out of the way, or hanging back, when duty is to be done. ‘‘Marine’’ is the term applied more partic- ularly to a man who is ignora... ...t of the bystanders, who cried out, ‘‘Bravo!’’ ‘‘Otra vez!’’ and ‘‘Vivan los marineros!’’ but the dancing did not become general, as the women and the... ...ed, yet he was so frightened that he never would show himself in the United States again; and I could not persuade him that he could never be tried a... ...fleet ones,—the spaniels and terriers; and then behind, followed the heavy corps—bulldogs, etc., for we had every breed. Pursuit by us was in vain, ... ...ed up, when we found we were prisoners of war, and our ship a prize to the Confederate steamer Alabama. We were then ordered to give up all nautica...