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...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 -- Bui...

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...H STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its ... ... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...E HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLORERS AND DAUNTLESS SPIRITS WHO HAVE MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS... ...ific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives --... ...y in which infants are attended by their fathers -- A gold and silver monument set over the body of a King -- Its dazzling beauty -- The lion hunters ... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...ght of land was obtained, which proved to be a beautiful island, consisting of alternate mountains and valleys, clothed with the most luxuriant verdur... ...opera dancers could have done. The plaits above the waist were brown and white alternately; the petticoats below were all white. In this dress they ad...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...es in the Castle grounds, using their whips or canes to illustrate some new sword trick which they have heard about; and between the duels, on the day... ...mong the debris of his furniture, now and then staving chance fragments of it across the room with his foot; grinding a constant grist of curses throu... ...they belonged, that it was doubtful if Mark Twain 38 they would ever learn to perform their functions in such remote and unaccustomed localities. The... ...no great deal of it, yet it was called the “Spectacu- lar Ruin.” Mark Twain 74 LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as f... ...urse. His daughter was the “catch” of 107 A Tramp Abroad the region, and she may be already entering into immortal- ity as the heroine of one of Auer... ... away to the zenith from behind the mountain. It was a spectacle to take one’s breath, for the wonder of it, and the sublimity. Indeed, those mighty b...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...e assault is thoroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this p... ... the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, ... ...630. ****By the penal law of Massachusetts, any Catholic priest who should set foot in the colony after having been once driven out of it was liable t... ...berty is maintained in a way of subjection to authority; and the authority set over you will, in all administrations for your good, be quietly submitt... ...privileges, and entered into colli- sion; and to the present day Mexico is alternately the victim of anarchy and the slave of military despotism. The ... ...them for a fresh state of frenzy. When I con- sider their condition, which alternates between misery and crime, I should be inclined to believe that d... ... of the country constantly lead one to sup- pose so. In America all books, novels not excepted, suppose women to be chaste, and no one thinks of relat... ... This is one of the causes to which must be attributed the small number of novels published in the United States. The very circumstances which render ...

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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. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...nd and correspondent. On either side of this double pavilion grows a quick-set hedge, from which the brambles straggle like stray locks of hair. Here ... ...tistic. I have found the oasis that you and I have dreamed of when reading novels,—nature luxuriant and adorned, rolling lines that are not confused, ... ...-workers fashioned those slender filagrees which are not unlike the copies set us by a writing-master. On either side of the rail- ing is a ha-ha, the... ...ng passed away, in the dining-rooms of Paris, be it understood. Here’s the history of my Arcadia. In 1815, there died at Les Aigues one of the famous ... ...almost impossible to describe Les Aigues; and without this description the history of the horrible events that oc- curred there would certainly be les... ...esistance or victory, love or martyrdom. She had left home in a dress with alternate lines of brown and yellow, and a collarette which she pleated her... ...ppear- ance with increasing success, and of his talents for billiards with alternate loss and gain, he flattered himself that the day would come when ...

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