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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...RACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EART... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...e -- Description of the habitations of the Philippine Islanders -- An alliance established by exchanging and drinking blood -- Zebu selected as a plac... ...n scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and nations have perished wi... ...and if he cannot, will bemoan the fate that lies before him. He considers many places ill-omened; Eddystone Rock, the Straits of Messina, where in anc... ... or to perform any other labors which he might desire. The country was densely populated, and Cortez was offered such aid that in a short while a suff... ...pulation was not less than 500,000 souls, the adjacent district was numerously populated, and every advantage was upon the side of the Mexicans for an... ...n 1827, reached 79°; Kane, in 1850, 80° 30'; Hayes, in 1861, 81° 30'; Hall, in 1871, 82° 16'; Nares, in 1876, 83° 20'; and Lieutenant Lockwood and Ser...

...scoveries, 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 earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civiliz...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...rs, and some clean misses. Much that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were still plenty of sceptics of the... ...ty—more particularly after the ascendancy of the T rinitarian doctrine was established—was and is a theological religion; it is the religion that triu... ... buoyantly and con- fidently than any other combatant. It expected another 1871; at the utmost it anticipated a year of war. Never were a people so di... ...ittle of the psychology of this new Germany that has come into being since 1871, but it is doubtful if it will accept defeat, and still more doubtful ... ...won- derful an opportunity for a cleaning-up and sweeping-out of those two places, and for a profitable new start in British education. The cessation ... ...actories—there is a not inconsiderable list of dead and wounded from those places—have killed for ever the poor argument that women should not vote be... ...are powerful links. But both France and Britain are old countries, thickly populated, with a great and ancient finish and completeness, full of im- pl...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... Smith of Rochester, N. Y., a noted author and jurist, who was selected in 1871 by Secretary Hamilton Fish to go to Japan as the Mikado’s adviser in i... ...talked over their liquor as men who had power and unquestioned ac- cess to places of trust and profit. The magazine writer discussed theories of gover... ...onshire; deli- cate and of gracious seeming those who live in the pleasant places of London; fascinating for all their demureness the damsels of Franc... ... with her goes without saying, but that is not enough. A mission should be established. 29 Rudyard Kipling III III III III III Amer Amer Amer Amer Am... ...lings for half- crown cigar-cases. When the country fills up to a decently populated level a few million people who are not aliens will be smitten wit...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...eemed at first a fantastic exception, a mad inversion of all that was most established and fundamental in the constitu- tion of matter, is really at o... ...be as that….’ By that phrase he meant a kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its h... ...recognition of needs so clamorous and imperative and facts so aggressively established as to invade even the dingy seclusions of the judges and threat... ... was a great man, was he? Well, in a law-court great men were put in their places. ‘We want to know has the plaintiff added anything to this 35 H G W... ...ry that had been determined by the experiences of the Franco-German war in 1871. There was also artillery, and for some unexplained reason much of thi... ..., from the people who were emerging from the small theatres and other such places of entertain- ment which abounded in that thoroughfare. This was an ... ...nished, industry was completely disorganised and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or trembled on the verge of starvation. Most of...

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

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ding with the uncompleted sheets, bearing as their last date September 19, 1871. The boy’s first school was at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire, of whic... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o... ...GHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- AST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- AST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 1870- 1871. 1871. 1871. 1871. 1871. THE prosperous days of every life pass away a...

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

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...with whom he was to carry on a lifelong battle. At a much later period, in 1871, he gave the following ac- count of his relations with Marx at this ti... ...de the revolutionaries masters of the town. They held it for five days and established a revolutionary govern- ment. Bakunin was the soul of the defen... ...unciating this doctrine,[“Marx, as a thinker, is on the right road. He has established as a principle that all the evolutions, political, reli- gious,... ...se du T ravail, and again with the Syndicats in the same industry in other places. “It was the purpose of the new organization to secure twice over th... ...n- crease without limit. If the whole surface of the world were as densely populated as London is now, it would, no doubt, require almost the whole la... ...ket-gardeners in Great Britain, in the neighborhood of Paris, and in other places, he says:— They have created a totally new agriculture. They smile w... ...European immigrants also compete, but they are not excluded. In a sparsely populated country, indus- trious cheap labor could, with a little care, be ...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. John Keble’s Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne by ... ...lieve that a little investigation would bring to light, in countless other places, much that is well worth remembrance. For the benefit of those who t... ...m Winchester to Romsey, and nearly at an equal distance from each of those places. The parishes by which Hursley is surrounded were, when Mr. Marsh wr... ..., if not in their nature , altogether unlike those which were at this time established by the Normans. “Under the feodal system, the tenant originally... ...curate, the Rev. Peter Young, was pre- sented to the living of Hursley. In 1871 the Rev. William Bigg Wither, after thirty-five years’ diligent work i... ...g the Itchen, and it used to be at Chandler’s Ford before the place was so populated. It seems also to haunt ponds or marshy places in woods, for a yo...

...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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