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...The War in the Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. W... ...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...ther giant stood just inside the corner of his garden, which was still not built upon and unchanged, except for a couple of advertisement boards, one ... ... it was a secret and he kept it secret in the most elabo- rate fashion. He built his apparatus himself in the safe pri- vacy of the great Crystal Pala... ... the badinage of the passersby. And there were several navi- gable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air. It was all immensely interestin... ...downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea... ...uehanna, and dawn found this ship in sight of and in- deed so close to the Bremen and Weimar that they instantly engaged. There was no alternative to ... ...pped them from end to end. The day broke dim and overcast, and neither the Bremen nor the Weimar realised they had to deal with more than the Susqueha...

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...MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by He... ...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. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” —Jonah. “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” —Psalm... ... grand-children will go for bread.” —Obed Macy’ s History of Nantucket. “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Go... ...that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly ... ... of the Pequod,—this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quai... ...DAY ARRIVED, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen. At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and... ...ng to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness—his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply ...

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...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, considered, it is hoped that, in s...

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...A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robe... ... to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvan... ...well be from the north, it enters almost without dimi- nution; and the war-ships roll dizzily at their moorings, and along the fringing coral which fo... ...ance it is a full day in the harbour; he will then have seen all manner of ships, from men-of-war and deep-sea packets to the labour vessels of the Ge... ... backbone of the land, towards Siumu and Safata. Here, in a safe place, he built himself a town in 38 A Footnote to History the forest, where he rece... ...by horses, which had windows and many decks”; plainly an omnibus. Here (at Bremen or Bremerhaven, I believe) they stayed some while in “a house of fiv... ... the 7th the siege of Lotoanuu was opened with a brisk skirmish. Each side built forts, facing across the gorge of a brook. An endless fusillade and s...

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...The Nibelungenlied Translated by Daniel B. Shumway A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Da... ...elungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway, the Pennsylvania ... ...s he himself tells us, heard the story from Germans in the neighborhood of Bremen and Munster. Since it is thus based on Saxon traditions, it can be c... ...s for the right good knights. When now they all stood dight, (5) there was built for them in haste upon the Rhine a sturdy little skiff, that should b... ...er striven! And tell Ortwin, the dear nephew of mine, that he bid seats be built at Worms along the Rhine. Let my other kinsmen know that I am willed ... ... 90 The Nibelungenlied left undone) afore Kriemhild, the fair, down to the ships. Then the fair-fashioned ladies were lifted from the palfreys. The ki... ...it were solid earth. The wayworn ladies had their ease and rest. Many good ships were lashed to- gether, that neither waves nor flood might do them ha...

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...Excerpt: Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the grandiose name of ?German Ocean.? And through the wide windows w...

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...d oseph Conrad oseph Conrad A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S enn S enn State Electronic Classics S tate Electronic Classics S tate Electronic Clas... ...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. Falk, A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State U... ...n mystery. But we agreed that the times were changed. And we talked of old ships, of sea-accidents, 4 Falk of breakdowns, dismastings; and of a man w... .... & O. boat passed bound down. “One gets jolly good dinners on board these ships,” remarked one of our band. A man with sharp eyes read out the name o... ...erth just ahead of me, and her name was Diana,—Diana not of Ephesus but of Bremen. This was pro- claimed in white letters a foot long spaced widely ac... ...e knobby noses, and they resembled their father a good deal. This Diana of Bremen was a most innocent old ship, and seemed to know nothing of the wick... ...ee. I don’t know, and this is not to the point. All I know is that she was built on a magnificent scale. Built is the only word. She was constructed, ... ... that might follow. Johnson—at home— stood with his back to a native house built on posts and with its walls made of mats. In his left hand he held a ...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...ore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy piggledy whale statements, how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel ce... ...e Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” Jonah. “There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.” Psalms... ...’s grand children will go for bread.” Obed Macy’s History of Nantucket. “I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Go... ...that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cruise in a Whale Boat. “Suddenly a... ...f the Pequod, — this old Peleg, during the term of his chief mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quai... ...day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen. At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and... ... to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness — his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying fish yet captured to supply th...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one M...

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...ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish’d,... ...others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The... ...of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and ... ...all either too far above me, or too far below me; that mine was the middle State, or what might be called the upper Station of Low Life, which he had ... ...er Station of Low Life, which he had found by long Experience was the best State in the World, the most suited to human Happiness, not exposed to the ... ...iz. at South west, for seven or eight Days, during which time a great many Ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common Harbour where ... ...s from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common Harbour where the Ships might wait for a Wind for the River. We had not however rid here so l... ...own’d as they were; and that had the Men been sav’d, we might perhaps have built us a Boat out of the Ruins of the Ship, to have carried us to some ot... ...r other to my Advantage; particularly I found a Kind of wild Pidgeons, who built not as Wood Pidgeons in a Tree, but rather as House Pidgeons, in the ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off hi...

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...Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Def... ...tion Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...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. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and... ...z. at south-west – for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where ... ...s from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river. We had not, however, rid here so... ...wned as they were; and that, had the men been saved, we might perhaps have built us a boat out of the ruins of the ship to have carried us to some oth... ...t; and by this time I had got timber and plank and ironwork enough to have built a good boat, if I had known how; and also I got, at several times and...

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

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

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and wi... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...................9 As I Ponder’d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands...................... ..........273 On the Beach at Night Alone............274 Song for All Seas, All Ships..............274 Patroling Barnegat............................276 ... ... cut, flexibly moving. His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him, His well built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return. I but use... ...ia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro,... ... seal seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberian on his slight built sledge drawn by dogs, I see the porpoise hunters, I see the whale c...

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...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous P... ...ellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ortion in heaven, and to the children whom he loves a rest and a haven not built with hands. Something that I have seen dimly warns me to look no fart... ...nly can deliver him, and with his eyes still tracing in the far distance, ‘Ships, dim-discover’d, dropping from the clouds,’— which a brief interval o... ...pecial defect of eq- uity. Consequently their very sympathy, being so much built upon the assumption that an only child had offended to the extent imp... ...ilosophers, that the muleteer’s stable at Valladolid was worth twenty such ships, though the stable was not insured against fire, and the ship was ins... ...discovery of Ceres by Piazzi, in Palermo, and of Pallas, by Dr. Olbers, at Bremen. These two discoveries, by the way, impressed him much; and they fur...

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...VERSES 1889-1896 by RUDYARD KIPLING A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard... ...Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...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. Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State U... ...fits, For we fancies ourselves at two thousand, we guns that are built in two bits — ‘Tss! ‘Tss! For you all love the screw-guns . . . I... ...eard o’ the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on ‘er ‘ead? She ‘as ships on the foam — she ‘as millions at ‘ome, An’ she pays us poor beggars... ...el, for I don’t know, Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! We broke a King and we built a road — A court-house stands where the reg’ment goed. Kipling 50 An... ...h on her bows, dear lass, And the drum of the racing screw, As she ships it green on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, As she l... ...-and-wing that race the Southern wool; We warn the crawling cargo-tanks of Bremen, Leith, and Hull; To each and all our equal lamp at peril of the sea...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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

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...ISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA BARBARA?HIDE-DROGHING?HARBOR -- DUTIES?DISCONTENT?SAN PEDRO, 46 -- CHAPTER XV ? A FLOGGING?A NIGHT ON SHORE?THE STATE OF THINGS ON -- BOARD?SAN DIEGO, 52 -- CHAPTER XVI ? LIBERTY-DAY ON SHORE, 59 -- CHAPTER XVII ? SAN DIEGO?A DESERTION?SAN PEDRO AGAIN?BEATING UP -- COAST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- J...

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...6 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . ... ... CHAPTER XXXI — BAD PROSPECTS—FIRST TOUCH OF CAPE HORN—ICEBERGS—TEMPERANCE SHIPS—LYING UP—ICE—DIFFI CULTY ON . . . . . . 155 BOARD—CHANGE OF COURSE—... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ... stores, which had not been stowed away. Moreover, there had been no berths built for us to sleep in, and we were not allowed to drive nails to hang ... ...rength enough to hold on to anything, and it was ‘‘pitch dark.’’ This was my state when I was ordered aloft, for the first time, to reef topsails. ... ..., throwing water upon the sails; and looking astern, we saw a small clipper built brig with a black hull heading directly after us. We went to work ... ... had been forty years in the whale trade, and, as he said himself, had owned ships, built ships, and sailed ships. His boat’s crew were a pretty raw s... ...erman.’’ ‘‘What kind of a German?’’ said the cook. ‘‘He belongs to Bremen,’’ said I. ‘‘Are you sure o’ dat?’’ said he. I satisfie...