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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania St... ...angoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas. What was detective Fix, so unluckily drawn on from coun- try to... ... Hong Kong was the last English ground on which he would set foot; beyond, China, Japan, America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge. If the warr... ... whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers. The weath... ...surprised at all he saw. San Francisco was no longer the legendary city of 1849—a city of banditti, assassins, and incendiaries, who had flocked hithe...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ived a large num- ber of contributions. The English Mail-Coach appeared in 1849 in Blackwood. Joan of Arc had already been published (1847) in T ait. ... .... The very same idea had not long before struck the celestial intellect of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that countr... ...THE ENGLISH MAIL-CO THE ENGLISH MAIL-COA A A A ACH CH CH CH CH “In October 1849 there appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine an article entitled The English... ...on. There was no intimation that it was to be contin- ued; but in December 1849 there followed in the same maga- zine an article in two sections, head... ...f a story told in Staunton’s Account of the Earl of Macartney’s Embassy to China in 1792.”—MASSON. 8 4 ÇA IRA (“This will do,” “This is the go”): “a p...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment 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. Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...occasion. T wo Years Ago gives some no- tion of the condition of things in 1849, but by that time there had been some experience, and means of prevent... ..., in his new position, he could or would do so, although his pres- ence in China would be very important to the firm at this juncture; and there would... ... she had not been able to get rid of a single one! Of Clarence’s doings in China I need not speak; you have read of them in the book for yourselves, a... ...with whom she was called on to associate. Somersetshire, Beachharbour, and China occupied our tongues by turns, and we had to begin luncheon without t...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...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. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...to the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Previously the supposition had been that it emptied into the Atlan... ... affection, and then say: “The slack water ends here, abreast this bunch of China trees; now we cross over.” So he crossed over. He gave me the wheel... ...ntations, with only here and there a scattering sapling or row of ornamental China trees. The timber is shorn off clear to the rear of the plantations... ... 14 1843 Duke of Orleans” “ 5 23 1844 Sultana “ “ 5 12 1849 Bostona “ “ 5 8 1851 Belle Key “ “ 3 4 ... ...LOUIS—1,218 MILES D. H. M. 1844 J. M. White made the run in 3 23 9 1849 Missouri “ “ 4 19 1869 Dexter “ “ 4 9 1...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...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... ... through, that compromise. He says now nothing more strong than he said in 1849 when he declared in favor of Mis- souri Compromise,—and precisely four... ... to the lower House of Congress. Was not a candidate for re-election. From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever befo... ...ility. This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in oth... ...probably remain after sat- isfying the claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the awards of the commissioners under the act of the 3d ... ...view to the satisfaction of such other just claims of our citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter in the course of our extensive...

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...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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...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... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...njoyment of it this year; but if I am well and nourishing in the summer of 1849, and all goes right with me, it is one of the jolliest prospects of my... ...anifestation of the tender points of a growing character. In the autumn of 1849, he obtained a second class in the school of Literae humaniores, a pla... ..., which afterwards passed into the hands of Mr. Justice Coleridge, who, in 1849, there built the small church of St. James, with parsonage, school, an... ...here, a retired sea captain who had spent some twenty years of his life in China, and his widow was a Chinese woman, a little dot of a thing, rather n... ...already eaten a mouldy biscuit and had a glass of beer at the house of the Chinawoman, so I only said grace for them, and after talking a little while... ... and ascer- tained from him that the natives had several articles, such as china, glass, and the handle of a silver fork, which evidently came from a ...

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...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ...y favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. During the last year there has not only been no change of... ...and minister plenipotentiary of that, republic. On the 30th day of August, 1849, Senor Don Rafael Rivas was received by this government as charge d’af...

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...re; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords. Duke. Escalus. Esc. My Lord. Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold, Would seeme in me t? affect speech & discourse, Since I am put to know, that your owne Science Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaines But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is abl...

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... Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ affect speech & discourse, 8 Since I am put to know, that y... ... 8 Since I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no... ...nstitutions, and the Termes 14 For Common Iustice, y’are as pregnant in 15 As Art, and practise, hath inriched any 16 That we rememb... ... 547 pence; your honours haue seene such dishes) they are not 548 China- dishes, but very good dishes. 549 Esc. Go too: go too: no m... ...t Folio 1847 Remember now my brother. 1848 Mar. Feare me not. 1849 Duk. Nor gentle daughter, feare you not at all: 1850 He is ...