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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...nelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voy... ...l lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mer... ...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...two fleets, sailing in opposite directions, at nearly the same time. SOLOMON'S NAVY. Thirteen hundred years after, the flood, as the Bible tells us, S... ...a ship the name of which begins with a letter S or 0, for he can recall a long list of vessels whose names began with these unlucky letters, and every... ...ave pushed the old sailor into the background; the world has no longer time to listen to his stories; the steam engine does his work, heaves his ancho...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...hird-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that your flag is hoisted on board one of the grandest... ...people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick pe... ...mbling, shining, purple waves:and there we beheld, for the first time, the Royal red and yellow standard of Spain floating on its own ground, under th... ...Bundy 8 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo and Her Majesty’s Royal mail embarked with much majesty; and in the twinkling of an eye, the ... ...hat musi- cal-box—how pleased he wound it up after dinner—how hap- pily he listened to the little clinking tunes as they galloped, ding- dong, after e... ...o talk about it, simple as it is:he has been seven-and-thirty years in the navy, being somewhat more mature in the service than Lieutenant Peel, Rear-... ...t, and grinning quite as eagerly as the black minstrel. As he sang and we listened, figures of women bear- ing pitchers went passing over the Roman b...

...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ho is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alternation between the two; an electorate... ...wild weather, as the world knows, the roads are untenable. Along the whole shore, which is everywhere green and level and overlooked by inland mountai... ...ave said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the ... ...e continued to strengthen himself in Leulumoenga, and Laupepa sat inactive listening to the song of consuls. Captain Brandeis. The new actor was Brand... ...te – and armed and fitted out the cruiser Kaimiloa, nest-egg of the future navy of Hawaii. Samoa, the most important group still independent, and one ... ...g in the family of nations, and send embassies, and make believe to have a navy, and bark and snap at the heels of the great German Empire. But Becker... ...ites were still to be seen running with their guns. All morning shots were listened for in vain; but over the top of the forest, far up the mountain, ...

...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...e Government above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutenant in the navy; all who left seats in the United States Congress to aid the rebellion... ...Congress to aid the rebellion; all who resigned commissions in the Army or Navy of the United States and afterwards aided the rebellion; and all who h... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ... ...ering greatly by a few armed vessels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same quarter as... ...te Commander D. D. Por- ter to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 4th July, 1863, to fill an existing vacancy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... ...asury having designated New Orleans, Mem- phis, Nashville, Pensacola, Port Royal, Beaufort (North Caro- lina), and Norfolk, as places of purchase, and... ..., in the State of Virginia; Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina; Port Royal, in the State of South Carolina; Pensacola and Fernandina, in the Sta...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...R HAD I SEEN A YEAR GOING OUT, or going on, under quieter circumstances. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine had but another day to live, and truly its en... ...er, haply turning this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragm... ... of the cup I drink! But I bow submissive. God must have done right. I do not want to feel less, but to acquiesce more simply. There were some Jewish ... ...JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack, as well ... ...d forks, three-quarters of an hour for the chops, and an hour for the potatoes. On settling the little bill—which was not much more than the day’s pay... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe... ... trying to pick out the prettiest sister (for which I am far from blaming him), somebody cried, Hark! The man below must be playing Blindman’s Buff by...

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...bstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be described upon the shore we have left, whilst the current sweeps us along, and drives us back-... ...; I had rather injure the success of my statements than add my name to the list of those strangers who repay the generous hospitality they have receiv... ...rwards, under Charles II. that their existence was legally recognized by a royal charter. This frequently renders its it difficult to detect the link ... ...dure of England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style. See Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 452. **Code of 1650, p. 28; Hartfor... ... a corrupt nature which is effected both by men and beasts to do what they list, and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all res... ...thing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is supplied by voluntary service. Bu... ...ls, but they cannot refuse a willing subsidy to defray the expenses of the navy; for if the fleets of Europe were to blockade the ports of the South a...

...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 the principles of government that were essential t...

...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything — I mean in a dog fightless i... ...t pat tern with a most gentle and winning naivety, and ready and willing to listen to anybody else’s lie, and believe it, too. It A Connecticut Yanke... ...has to love and honor the stranger that kicks him! Why, dear me, any kind of royalty, howsoever modified, any kind of aris tocracy, howsoever pruned... ... means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought. All mines were royal property, and there were a good many of them. They had formerly bee... ...l strike the gong bell two minutes before train leaves — passengers for the Shore line please take seats in the rear k’yar, this k’yar don’t go no f... ...nce? But guessing was profitless. I must go — at once. I borrowed the king’s navy — a “ship” no bigger than a steam launch — and was soon ready. The p... ...end a ship to Cadiz. There was a reason why I didn’t.” “What was that?” “Our navy had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared! Also, as suddenly and as ...

...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...n loudly proclaimed; but it is very likely to have indisposed them towards listening. Meantime, so far as I am acquainted with these Roman Catholic de... ...s in my family as otherwise might be unimportant, I here record the entire list of my brothers and sisters, according to their order of succession; an... ...sion of public joy for a victory,—bells ringing in the distance,—or when a royal birthday, or some traditional commemoration of ancient feuds, (such a... ...ar that the public service must have languished deplorably for want of the royal signature. In sailing past his own dominions, what dolorous outcries ... ... his own dominions, what dolorous outcries would have saluted him from the shore—“Hollo, royal sir! here’s the deuse to pay: a perfect lock there is, ... ...by way of anticipation; else he was too young at this time to serve in the navy. Afterwards he did so for many years, and saw every variety of service... ... and saw every variety of service in every class of ships belonging to our navy. At one time, when yet a boy, he was captured by pirates, and compelle...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. We saw them in imagination lining the opposite shore; eagle and standard-bearers, and gallifers, brandishing their fowls a... ...of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? These were questions, and Ministers were called upon to answer them. ... ...he Press answered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of ... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ...have given him anything— the last word in favour of the Country versus the royal Mar- tyr, for example, had he insisted on it. She gathered, bit by bi... ...h face con- cerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to wh...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...very impatient of cer- tain little affectionate lectures to which Clarence listened meekly. My father and mother were both of the old-fash- ioned orth... ...oy ourselves quietly, threading beads, drawing, or putting up puzzles, and listen or not as we chose, only not interrupt, as we sat at the big, centra... ... and allowances made for faults in indolent despair. My mother thought the Navy the proper element of boy- hood, and her uncle the Admiral promised a ... ...he other day in my mother’s desk, folded over the case of the medal of the Royal Humane Soci- ety, which Griff affected to despise, but which, when he... ...g, perjured Clarence.’ —King Richard III. THERE WAS MUCH stagnation in the Navy in those days in the reaction after the great war; and though our fami... ... the sickening horrors that haunted Clarence in the Clotho.) Also, when on shore at Malta with the young man whose name I will not record his evil gen... ...ty, and he would hardly consent to take Griffith with him by the West- ern Royal Mail, warning him and all the rest of us that our expectations would ...

...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more...

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...pendix B] with empty window arches, ivy- mailed battlements, moldering towers—the Lear of inani- mate nature—deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storm... ... this one gives. The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable... ...or. Well, one Sunday morning 13 A Tramp Abroad I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hill... ...I framed this idea into a proposition. But it was not accepted. The code was in the way again. I proposed rifles; then double-barreled shotguns; then ... ...ee that the King is pleased; and as to the actor encored, his pride and gratification are simply bound- less. Still, there are circumstances in which ... ...ide Pictures) MEN AND WOMEN AND CATTLE were at work in the dewy fields by this time. The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the ... ...n; the waves rose to the gunwale, and splitting on the hard stones, the Boat broke into Pieces. The youth sank into the depths, but the squire was thr...

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...utlined reasons for believing that the pike-fishing was better on the west shore of Lake Minniemashie than on the east—though it was indeed quite true... ...oys— Barroom? Why, Perce Bresnahan was saying there isn’t a finer bunch of royal good fellows anywhere than just the crowd that were here tonight!” Th... ...g in a white and mahogany room with a small bed. “Oh, do you have your own royal apartments, and the doctor his?” Carol hinted. “Indeed I do! The doct... ...y of a congressman, a cyni- cal young widow with many acquaintances in the navy. Through her Carol met commanders and majors, newspa- permen, chemists... ...is poverty. “We’re no million- aire dudes,” he boasted. Yet these army and navy men, these bureau experts, and organizers of multitudinous leagues, we...

...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...

...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...of his youth, the sole bad step chargeable upon his antecedents. But do we listen to them? Shall we not have them turned out? He gives the sign for it... ...entative statue of City Corporations and London’s maj- esty, the figure of Royalty, worshipful in its marbled redun- dancy, fronting the bridge, on th... ... there, and he could not induce his legs to take advantage of the gaps; he listened to a warning that he would be down again if he tried it, among tho... ... ‘No, Fenellan! Besides they’ve got to land. I guarantee a trusty army and navy under a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. We’ll start a Nat... ...he 34 One of Our Conquerors winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- s... ...d then desired to receive. It hardly mattered:— considering that the Dutch Navy did really, incredible as it seems now, come sailing a good way up the... ...g. Widows in mourning, when they do not lean over extremely to the Stygian shore, with the complexions of the drugs which expedited the defunct to the...

Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ... that his fa- ther, as a young page of Louis XIII., gained favour with his royal master by his skill in holding the stirrup, and was fi- nally made a ... ... to private life. Upon his return to Court, taking up apartments which the royal favour had reserved for him at Versailles, Saint- Simon secretly ente... ...d) King of England looked on at this 13 Saint-Simon naval battle from the shore; and was accused of allowing ex- pressions of partiality to escape hi... ...is conduct; but railing against him, with tears in her eyes, she would not listen, and drove him from her room. Her husband, who shortly afterwards jo... ... to contain myself. I spoke to M. de la Rochefoucauld; I tried to make him listen to me, and to agree that we should complain to the King, but I spoke... ... brother, the Chevalier de Luynes, who served with much distinction in the navy , and together they arranged the matter. They seized an opportunity wh... ...ich are still felt by the State. Pontchartrain, Secretary of State for the Navy, was the plague of it, as of all those who were under his cruel depend...

Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

...ssics Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...estern wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the shore!) ‘Mi... ...shin’-rod. ‘Pon my sainted Sam, but we look the complete Bug-hunters! Now, listen to your Uncle Stalky! We’re goin’ along the cliffs after butterflies... ...ed leisurely over the combes till they reached the line of notice-boards. “Listen a shake. Foxy’s up wind comin’ down hill like beans. When you hear h... ...d. They waited through one suffocating week till Prout and King were their royal selves again; waited till there was a house-match—their own house, to... ...attray unguardedly. “Ah! The learned Lipsius is airing himself, is he? His Royal Highness has gone to fumigate.” McTurk climbed on the railings, where... ...f-balls.” He passed on. Next day Richards, who had been a carpenter in the Navy, and to whom odd jobs were confided, was ordered to take up a dormitor... .... “Larned a little ‘fore iver some maidens was born. Sarved in the Queen’s Navy, I have, where yeou’m taught to use your eyes. Yeou go ‘tend your own ...

...IN AMBUSH? ................................................................................................................................. 6 SLAVES OF THE LAMP ............................................................................................................... 29 AN UNSAVORY INTERLUDE ...............................................................................

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ed with the skins of animals, but seldom, if ever, ven tured far from the shore. They made swords, of copper mixed with tin; but, these swords were o... ... lovely girl of only seven teen or eighteen, to be stolen from one of the Royal Palaces, branded in the cheek with a red hot iron, and sold into sla... ...ntry, and aided by a storm occasioned the loss of nearly the whole English navy. There was but one man of note, at this miser able pass, who was true... ... This was called ‘touching for the King’s Evil,’ which afterwards became a royal custom. You know, however, Who really touched the sick, and healed th... ...of peace, in writing, as he lay very ill in bed, they brought him also the list of the de serters from their allegiance, whom he was re quired to pa... ...eir allegiance, whom he was re quired to pardon. The first name upon this list was John, his favourite son, in whom he had trusted to the last. ‘O Jo... ...healthy. The King of France was now in alliance with the Dutch, though his navy was chiefly employed in looking on while the English and Dutch fought....

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the old couple seated motionless in their armchairs, like Chinese images, listening to their daughter, and admiring her with all the powers of their ... ...to a species of inward delirium. 31 Balzac Silent and self-contained, she listened as much to herself as she did to others. Feeling within her the mo... ... the ex- pectation that the priest-party (a term invented by Montlosier, a royalist who went over to the constitutionals, and was dragged by them far ... ...port from this forest, for many of the trees would make fine masts for the navy; but it will wait until the increasing population of Montegnac makes a... ...ons. The head-forester of Montegnac was a former cavalry-ser- geant in the Royal guard, born at Limoges, whom the Duc de Navarreins had sent to his es... ... naturalist—to the pretty meadow of the valley of the Gabou, where, at the shore of the first lake, two of the 203 Balzac boats were floating. This m... ...hese causeways were used to go from lake to lake without passing round the shores. From the chalet could be seen, through a vista among the trees, the...

...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ime unsuccessful. “I was found with the mark of the Beast upon me in every list,” was Invernahyle’s expression. At length Colonel Whitefoord ap- plied... ...river with our eyes and our resolution fixed on that point of the opposite shore on which we purpose to land; but gradually giving way to the torrent,... ...or some time ambassador at Vienna; Sir Basil Keith, Knight, captain in the navy, who died Governor of Jamaica; and my excellent friend, Anne Murray Ke... ...from the chair:— “The King”—all the honours. “The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family.” The chairman, in proposing the next toast, which he wished ... ... chiefly in connection with the busi- ness of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had con- descended in a particular manner to patronize, that... ...ellington and the army.” Glee—”How merrily we live.” Lord Melville and the Navy, that fought till they left no- body to fight with, like an arch sport... ...d I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoever my mind listed. I left my lodgings as hastily as if it had been a pest-house. I did...

...Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the wri...

...Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire sympathy with the royal Swede, that he fought for the freedom of conscience. Many an enlighte... ...shment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explana- tion—that no... ...mongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from the Papal Chancer... ...times in every week dinner invitations to all the families on her visiting list, and lying within her winter circle, which was measured, by a radius o... ...e, or anywhere off the line of tourists, I and a lieutenant in our English navy paid sixpence uniformly for a handsome din- ner; sixpence, I mean, api... ...and consideration, as those who bear the king’s commission in the army and navy? Can this be affirmed of the continent, either generally, or, indeed, ... ...ndency which sooner or later is destined to fill the whole capacity of the shore. To have proved, therefore, if it could have been proved, that Christ...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

... Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...d- der-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. Always watching his face, the girl instantly answered to the action ... ...’s point. She is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a little list of her lovers, and she is always booking a new lover, or striking out ... ...a new lover, or striking out an old lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or ot... ...ared him a Circumnavigator. Was 147 Charles Dickens pitch-forked into the Navy, but has not circumnavigated. I announced myself and was disposed of w... ...ne at the stools and boxes, and spitting in the fireplace, and so loitered royally to the window and looked out into the narrow street, with his small... ...im from a window of the Observatory, where the Familiars of the Astronomer Royal nightly outwatch the winking stars. But, the minutes passing on and n... ... army?’ ‘Not exactly,’ said Fledgeby, rather flattered by the ques- tion. ‘Navy?’ asked Miss Wren. 707 Charles Dickens ‘N—no,’ said Fledgeby. He qual...

...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... mythological about them. A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Me... ...gh of rather a stern countenance, talking with two persons who appeared to listen to him with respect. D’Artagnan fancied quite natu- rally, according... ...rding to his custom, that he must be the object of their conversation, and listened. This time D’Artagnan was only in part mistaken; he himself was no... ...perhaps, before himself. Thus Louis XIII had a real liking for T reville—a royal lik- ing, a self-interested liking, it is true, but still a liking. A... ... destroyed every day some 414 The Three Musketeers little vessel; and the shore, from the point of l’Aiguillon to the trenches, was at every tide lit... ...u may perceive, madame, by my uniform, that I am an officer in the English navy,” replied the young man. “But is it the custom for the officers in the... ...plied the young man. “But is it the custom for the officers in the English navy to place themselves at the service of their female compatriots when th...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...t my godmother and I sat at the fireside. I was reading aloud, and she was listening. I had come down at nine o’clock as I always did to read the Bibl... ...was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat tim... ... Mr. Jarndyce doubted whether he might not already be too old to enter the Navy, Richard said he had thought of that, and perhaps he was. When Mr. Jar... ...ble men!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished o... ...n!” said Mr. Badger in a tone of confidence. “Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy, who was Mrs. Badger’s first husband, was a very distinguished officer... ...s barely twenty,” said Mrs. Badger, “when I married Captain Swosser of the Royal Navy. I was in the Mediterra nean with him; I am quite a sailor. On ... ...all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy shore. My housekeeping duties, though at first it caused me great anxiety t...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ... , and wishing to relieve it, I posted off myself to the Queen Charlotte’s Royal Married Females,’ which you had forgot, and put the question, Was the... ...t driven to despair on your account. But it did so happen, that one of the Royal Married Females, hearing the inquiry, re- minded the matron of anothe... ...have attained a pretty green old age, have not been wanting in the English Navy. The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chro- nometers, ba... ...ook written, or a story told, expressly with the object of keeping boys on shore, which did not lure and charm them to the ocean, as a matter of cours... ...r Dombey’ s teeth, cravat, and watch-chain, and borne her away to the blue shores of somewhere or other, triumphantly . But these flights of fancy sel...

...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...

...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... whose past was untraceable to any European eye, it is well known that the navy (especially, in time of war, the commercial navy) of Christendom is th... ...s his peremptory negative on all these flattering prospects. Second in the list of his household, stands his pretty and amiable wife, who is happy aft... ...possible answer to this final appeal, became a duty of spas- modic effort. Listen, therefore, poor trembling heart; listen, and for twenty seconds be ... ...e for ever one wilderness of waters—sub- lime, but (like the wilderness on shore) monotonous. All sublime people, being monotonous, have a tendency to... ...d butler within, whom Pharaoh ought to have hanged, but whom he clothed in royal apparel, and mounted upon a horse that carried him to a curule chair ... ...tle before his brother, was thus introduced by Lord Cornwallis to Sir John Shore (Lord T eignmouth, the Gover- nor-general), ‘Dear sir, I beg leave to... ... guard his official seat, a coal- black night, lamps blazing back upon his royal scarlet, and his blunderbuss correctly slung. T riton would not stay,...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., of him who least deserves it. There would be madness, Tom!’ Mr Pinch had listened to all this with looks of bewilderment, which seemed to be in part... ...nswer to the simplest inquiry; though Mr Pecksniff could make out, by hard listening at the door, that they two being left together, he was talkative ... ...witness that he, of all the crowd, impressed one solitary footprint on the shore of boyish memory, whereof the tread of generations should not stir th... ...thout it, and if she don’t see him a-waving his pocket-handkerchief on the shore, like a pictur out of a song-book, my opinion is, she’ll break her he... ...nd,’ said Mr Pecksniff, ‘you may well in- quire. The heart is not always a royal mint, with patent machinery to work its metal into current coin. Some... ...n good health, I believe,’ said Martin. ‘Queen Victoria won’t shake in her royal shoes at all, when she hears to-morrow named,’ observed the stranger,... ...wit society, and by the gallant defenders of their country in the army and navy, but particularly the former. The least of their stories had a colonel...

...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...

...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he listened and pretended to read the Times. He was struck disagreeably by Ram... ...pat-able—imitating the woman quite remarkably and cleverly. He resumed his listening. She was discussing one of those modern advanced plays with a rem... ... at the window of a shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided that perhaps there would be some special and custo... ...s to be consistently pleas- ant; and a lax young man of five-and-twenty in navy blue, who mingled Marx and Bebel with the more orthodox gods of the bi... ...Ann Veronica seemed always to be like a ship in adverse weather on the lee shore of love. “For seven years,” said Ann Veronica, “I have been trying to... ...I suppose he’s frightfully clever,” said Miss Klegg. “He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he can’t be much over thirty,” said Miss Klegg. “He writ... ...o the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudg...

...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, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, a...

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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...he discipline of the nursery was delightfully vague and the oppor tunity of listening to the conversation of one’s elders (which with Isabel was a hi... ...he became aware of a step very different from her own intellectual pace; she listened a little and perceived that some one was mov ing in the library... ...the English character, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the way of living and... ...on the river, the dear little river, as Isabel called it, where the opposite shore seemed still a part of the foreground of the landscape; or drove ov... ...d.” “You needn’t worry about that. That’s my affair. You needn’t be a better royalist than the king.” “It’s not only that,” said Isabel; “but I’m not ... ...them; it certainly isn’t the greatest. I came into the world in the Brooklyn navy yard. My father was a high officer in the United States Navy, and ha... ...upted her journey to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter benea...

...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ..................................................... ............ 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,............................................................ ...................................... .................. 163 iv SPEECH: THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND. ......................................................... ...nerous welcome less, I should be better able to thank you. If I could have listened as you have listened to the glowing language of your distinguished... ...ar and wide—dreamed by day and night, for years, of setting foot upon this shore, and breathing this pure air. And, trust me, gentlemen, that, if I ha... ...u in your summer walks, and gather round your winter evening hearths. As I listened to his words, there came back, fresh upon me, that touching scene ... ...reams. We are only what might have been, and we must wait upon the tedious shore of Lethe, millions of ages, before we have existence and a name.” “An... ... Duke of Cambridge responded to the toast of the army, Mr. Childers to the navy, Lord Elcho to the volunteers, Mr. Motley to “The Prosperity of the Un...

...PEECH: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.............................................................................................................. 58 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE,....................................................................................................................... 58 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855. .............................................................

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ... the ardent genius of their disciples, it has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the Creation of a World is little more mysterious than the... ...rds all the thirty two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Scienc... ...ether silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a ... ...under jewels, because raised in revolt which proved successful, is still the royal standard of that country;” what though John Knox’s Daughter, “who t... ... withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of Action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The ... ... them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enli... ... deeper than we see into the Deep that is infinite, without bottom as without shore. “Laplace’s Book on the Stars, wherein he exhibits that certain Pla...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only wh... ...fter day, and only ebbs towards the short hours of night), may this of the royal sickness emerge from time to time as an article of news. Bets are dou... ...in the conflux of Eternities, ’ yet manlike towards God and man; the vague shoreless Universe had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he kn... ...r again: “’Tis the twentieth time I hear all that; France will never get a Navy, I believe.” How touching also was this: “If I were Lieutenant of Pol... ...strength of Heaven assisting him, to avoid the like—for the future!” Words listened to by Richelieu with mastiff-face, growing blacker; answered to, a... ...has taken office with the noblest plainness of speech to that effect; been listened to with the noblest royal trustfulness. (Turgot’s Letter: Condorce... ... his own lank pocket withal. But surely, in any case, France should have a Navy. For which great object were not now the time: now when that proud Ter...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ere, so that we saw the fort with all 21 Trollope the honors. A dinner on shore was, I think, a greater treat to us even than this. We also inspected... ...ake it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them. Then the ladies, or probably some one lady, will sing, and ... ...e lion of Quebec may be regarded as “done,” and may be ticked off from the list. The most considerable lion, according to my taste. Li- ons which roar... ... possible danger; whereupon those who accompanied the prince requested his Royal Highness to forbear. I fear that, in these careful days, crowned head... ...ortation of slaves, her breaches of treaty, and the bribery of her all but royal governor, are known to all men. But Canada is not dishonest; Canada i... ... States it is enacted that the Governor is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and militia, showing that some army over and beyond the militia may b... ... is enacted that the Governor shall be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this State, and of the militia, except when they shall be called in...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...people. There have been, if I may so express it, almost as many popular as royal wars. The cries of the nation and the impor- tunities of their repres... ...T No. 11 The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of Ne... ...ard us, in this respect, would arise from the estab- lishment of a federal navy. There can be no doubt that the continuance of the Union under an effi... ...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...ber of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores; the facility of communication in every direction; the affinity of l... ...ates are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, there will... ...ways have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority. This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or ...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an 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 it...

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...an consciousness, finding itself afloat upon the bosom of waters without a shore—then a few sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite str... ... a vast distance from the metropolis, she had positively no friends on her list of visitors who resided in this great capital; secondly, and far above... ... to find much leisure for answering individual questions. Some, how- ever, listened with a marked air of attention to my earnest request for the circu... ... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ...o avert her own face, to announce him to Don Francisco, to wish him on the shores 86 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers of that ancient river for cro... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ...rned. 232 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers heroic leader in the English navy; and that in our own times, Admiral Coffin, though an American by birt...

........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

...ics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rmixed; I fancy it’s we with him and with me when we’re talking of army or navy,’ said Patrick. ‘But Captain Con’s a bit of a politician: a poor busin... ... was for him to throw in a conversational word or two. He was rewarded for listening devoutly. Mr. Adister burst out again: ‘ And why not come over he... ...ces. The quiet course of things within the house appeared to him to have a listening ear for big events outside. He dreaded a single step in the wrong... ...nd a single one of them does not offer space. It would require money and a navy.’ He mused. ‘South America is the quarter I should decide for, as a yo... ...nced her approaching union; and as she couldn’t have a scion of one of the Royal House of Europe, she put her foot on Prince Nikolas. And he ‘s not to... ...hing I confess; I never have yet brought myself to venerate thoroughly our Royal Stan- dard. I dare say it is because I do not understand it.’ A stron... ...hole, John Mattock could shake his hand heart- ily when he was leaving our shores. Patrick was released by Miss Grace Barrow’s discovery at last of a ...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landow...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequal towns on either hand. We forget all that enumer... ...of falsehood. And then, when we come to the place where Lantenac meets the royal- ists, under the idea that he is going to meet the republicans, it se... ...es, “that a soul which has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul such an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressi... ...on a favouring breeze towards the gal- lows; the disorderly abbess of Port Royal, who went about at fair time with soldiers and thieves, and conducted... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...s. In the exploits of Hawke, Rodney, or Nelson, this dead Mr. Pepys of the Navy Office had some considerable share. He stood well by his business in t... ...ts youth, he tells about it, as a matter of course, to a lieutenant in the navy; but in 1669, when it was already near an end, he could have bitten hi...

...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 ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...when his race clamored for justice, nor when it languished for pity, would listen without hire! How gladly would man turn away from his false rapaciou... ...nity and free-thinking bishops before now. England can show a considerable list of such people—even Rome has a smaller list. Rome, that weeds all libr... ...ristian churches, atheistically given? We used to be told that there is no royal road to geometry. I don’t know whether there is or not; but I am sure... ...’s pri- vate cabinet of papers, all written in cipher, and captured in the royal coach on the decisive day of Naseby (June, 1645), was (I believe) dec... ...le [Greek text] (i.e., in effect of the civilized world, viz., Greece, the shores of the Euxine, the whole of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Carthage, and ... ...u- sades, Joppa revived again into military verdure. The fact is, that the shore of Syria is pre-eminently deficient in natural harbors, or facilities... ... machinery of nerves:—it is the function of health most attended to in our navy; and of all it is the one most painfully ravaged by a London life. Thu...

...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ... as by the multitude of its islands, and the proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable to the infant navigation of the world; when, f... ...ter, bring on the peculiar infirmity of the trade. If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity, they have frequently occasio... ...egrees of preferment in both. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the... ... or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and 214 The Wealth of Nations ought nev... ...d, was established by act of parliament in 1695, and the other, called the Royal Bank, by royal charter in 1727. Whether the trade, either of Scotland... ...e officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers. They are the servants of the public, and ... ...is the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violenc...

Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...