... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ite man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instructions while dying -- Finding of a skeleton i... ... Caught by a terrible storm and driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ...oes of discovery who have planted the cross of civilization among all the wild tribes of the world. To this end, and to create a fresh interest in a s... ...aters, which is a manifest indication that they were separated from all, other tribes. Being thus isolated, and regarded as robbers or savages, and de... ...of seeing everything that is to be seen, is one Anthony Pigapheta, a Knight of Rhodes, who dabbled in letters, has written a little poetry at times, a...

...stian 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 civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...riting forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less ... ...tions. InfoTech through time and space In about 3500 BC, many nomadic tribes—rather than migrate seasonally—settled down in southern Mesopotamia... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...they first raided southern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Brit... ... fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to darken.‖ Barbarian natives from the north periodically ruptured such defenses as the seventy- ... ...ibraries in forty- seven of the forty-eight states back then, missing only Rhode Island. Almost three out of four were built in small towns with fewe...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...riting forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less ... ...dations. InfoTech through time and space In about 3500 BC, many nomadic tribes—rather than migrate seasonally—settled down in southern Mesopotamia... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...they first raided southern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Brit... ...by fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to darken.‖ Barbarian natives from the north periodically ruptured such defenses as the seventy- ... ...ibraries in forty- seven of the forty-eight states back then, missing only Rhode Island. Almost three out of four were built in small towns with fewe...

...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...mmon fact concerning the oldest tribal cultures they have studied. Stone-age tribes all over the world regularly set fire to entire landscapes. Fi... ...d out before they learned to use fire? One of the most common ways Stone Age tribes committed mass murder was to set fires to entire areas of grass... ...d the perimeters of these male territories, and come running in to see if the native pride is weak enough to be chased or killed off. The entire lif... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ... When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It was a ver... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...ca: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created out of the pure greed of one man: Cecil Rhodes…, whi...

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ...lesale tloecing system em- ployed by the merchants and shop-keepers on the natives. T'liese gamesters declined to buy furs and fish on a crtsh basis, ... ...heft, and lying. Paton early recog nized that the principal curse of these natives was wur and a desire for human flesh, a taste stronger than drink, ... ...ed for New American House Boston, Mass. oause of the oiigration of Astatic tribes whiob extended to Europe and threatened the very life of the oiTiliz... ...nchidae, Cos, Hariicarnassos and Cnidus. After Professor Howes has treated Rhodes, Pso- fe«aor Rice will take up Lindos, and Professor Howes, Crete; t... ...THER CHOSEN FROM WILLIAMS Carroll A. Wilson 1907 Selected as Massachusetts Rhodes Scholar At the meeting of the Rhodes scholarship committee of Massa-...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...rk, I paid a visit to the different public institutions on Long Island, or Rhode Island: I forget which. One of them is a Lunatic Asy lum. The buildi... ...venge themselves upon the decent old restraints of home), they surpass any native specimens that came within my range of observation: and I often grew... ...rospect, we took possession of our new quarters with much pleasure. If the native packets I have already described be un American Notes – Dickens 16... ...ry river, as though it shared one’s feelings of compassion for the extinct tribes who lived so pleasantly here, in their blessed ignorance of white ex... ...ber of that church. It also sends missionaries from hence among the Indian tribes. The Unitarian church is represented, in this remote place, as in mo...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...heir Discovery – Forests of North America – Prairies -Wandering T ribes of Natives – Their out- ward appearance, manners, and language – T races of an... ...streams issuing from the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The India... ...e deserts were not, however, devoid of hu- man inhabitants. Some wandering tribes had been for ages scattered among the forest shades or the green pas... ...d those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T artars, and other wandering tribes of Asia. The land occupied by these tribes is not very distant from ... ... to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. ...

...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...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...ne of the five first projectors of the new colony. He soon returned to his native country. But his descendants still remain in New England; and the go... ... of multifarious business, and had no time to look back regretfully to his native land. He felt himself fit for the New World and for the work that he... ... some persons who had been persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also... ...man. Be that as it may, death had certainly been very busy with the savage tribes. In many places the English found the wigwams deserted 30 TheWholeH... ...earth. But he believed that the red men were the descendants of those lost tribes of Israel of whom history has been able to tell us nothing for thous... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

...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 Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore... ...ty, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, r... ... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...re but two or three lan- guages, properly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United Sta... ... each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and i... ...r it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having al... ...il, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so * In the state of Rhode Island there is a bay called Narragansett, so named after a powerful ...

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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...

...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... ...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...ys; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Yankees have often scared the natives. But New Bedford beats all Water street and Wapping. In these last ... ...the savage away to far distant scenes, I know not, but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go on and te... ... even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite se 156 Chapter 35 The Mast H... ...eli able uniformity. And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus. “There go flukes!” was now the cry from Tashtego; and t... ...er also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider...

...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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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...nest flowers of Palestine were here exhibited in rich relief, and in their native colors, either woven in the loom, or by the needle of the embroidere... ...per materials were used by the poorer He- brews, especially of the Bedouin tribes—burnt almonds, lamp-black, soot, the ashes of particular woods, the ... ...d con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, as a present made by the native princes to distinguished officers. The Caftan, or festival robe of t... ...self and its rapid succession of wars between barbarous and semi-barbarous tribes, might, if any one chapter in history, be presumed barren of either ... ...comparison with Charlemagne. All the knowledge current in Rome, Athens, or Rhodes, at the pe- riod of Caesar’s youth, the entire cycle of a nobleman’s... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

...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 Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...erve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a polity to maintain itse... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...things, no crowd of identically similar persons, but massed sub-races, and tribes and families, each after its kind unique, and these again are cluste... ...population travelled and travelling to an extent quite beyond anything our native earth has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever e... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...change out of a gold coin, upon which I suppose in ethics and the law some native Utopian had a better claim. We may already have got ourselves into t... ...nity about Welt-Politik, you assume the best race is the “Teutonic”; Cecil Rhodes affected that triumph of creative imagination, the “Anglo- Saxon rac...

...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...Gertrude von der Wart, the stories of the Keys of Calais, of the Dragon of Rhodes, and we fear we must add, both Nelson’s plan of the Battle of the Ni... ...the hospital, whose life de- pended on his care—many of them of those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...e dark-skinned Ethiopian, and over all these ruled the keen-witted, active native Persian race, the conquerors of all the rest, and led by a chosen ba... ...e under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Campagna, a... ...pt upon the hills and did nothing to save the country, and the wild desert tribes of Numidians came rush- ing in to plunder what the Romans had left. ...

... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...encourage it?—or only when presented by dead hands? Worse than that alter- native dirty drab, your recurring rose-pink is rebuked by hid- eous revelat... ...tic satisfaction on hearing that the faces most admired by him were of the native isle. He looked upon one that came whirling up to him on a young off... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... common human sum. “Pariah” and “taboo” are words we borrow from barbarous tribes; they stick to me.’ ‘My Tony, you look as bright as ever, and you sp... ...bout two and twenty, mad for litera- ture; and he must have talent. Arthur Rhodes by name. I may have a chance of helping him. He was an articled cler... ...lear-faced youth, rather flushed, dusty at the legs, addressed Diana. ‘Mr. Rhodes!’ she said, not discouragingly. She was petitioned to excuse him; he... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven by Mark Twa... ... a balloon and sailed up and up and up, in front of a map that was as big as Rhode Island. He went on up till he was out of sight, and by and by he c... ...oon and sailed up and up and up, in front of a map that was as big as Rhode Island. He went on up till he was out of sight, and by and by he came dow... ... drawback to the harmony, you understand; and then there was a lot of Injun tribes, and they kept up such another war whooping “Extract from Captain... ... riv ets. Tourists from Goobra (I mean parties that lived and died there — natives) come here, now and then, and in quire about our world, and when... ...tes and T erritories of the Union, and all the kingdoms of the earth and the islands of the sea are laid out here just as they are on the globe — all... ... is that?” “Well, you will find it the same in any State or Territory of the American corner of heaven you choose to go to. I have shot along, a whole... ...a little dab of people like that over these hundreds of billions of miles of American territory here in heaven, it is like scattering a ten cent box o...

...a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the lot of them! Of course there weren?t any of them going my way, as a steady thing, you know, because they travel in a long circle like the loop of a lasso, whereas I was pointed as straight as a dart for the Hereafter; but I happened on one every now and then that was going my way for an hour or so, and then we had a bit of a brush toge...

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...ates for the sole purpose of evad- ing duties imposed by the laws of their native countries, to which on becoming naturalized here they at once repair... ...e measures provided at your last session for the removal of certain Indian tribes have been carried into effect. Sundry treaties have been negotiated... ... in the establishment of per- manent friendly relations with such of these tribes as have been brought into frequent and bloody collision with our out... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... ...l kinds, hemp and cord- age, intoxicating drinks other than beer and light native wines. To vessels clearing from foreign ports and destined to the po... ...souri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, V ermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, cast 3,982,011 votes ...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

...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... ...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ...chanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native-born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other cou... ...I believe, nearly a hundred millions) to relieve Florida of the aboriginal tribes. Is it just that she shall now be off without consent or without mak... ...ympathize with your Excellency in the wish to preserve the peace of my own native State, Kentucky. It is with regret I search, and cannot find, in you... ...HIRE, ANDREW OF MASSACHU- SETTS, BUCKINGHAM OF CONNECTICUT, AND SPRAGUE OF RHODE ISLAND. W AR DEPARTMENT, September 11, 1861. General Butler proposes ... ...en from the pension rolls. The relations of the government with the Indian tribes have been greatly disturbed by the insurrection, especially in the s...

...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. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylv... ...y are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode Island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashi... ...to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode Island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who, after their fashion, kn... ...ed enemies were the Indian priests, or powwows, who had often scared their native forest with more hideous incantations than any known to English witc... ...y, and make us feel as if, after all, we were yet within the limits of our native earth. We will only add to this very cursory notice that M. de l’Aub... ...d fain do the little in our power towards introducing him favorably to the American public. The ensuing tale is a translation of his “Beatrice; ou la ... ...h new members of the board of aldermen. On the other hand, here come whole tribes of people whose physical lives are but a deteriorated variety of lif... ... reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself. He was the first American who is known to have at tempted—in a very humble line, it is true...

...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 Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ut him changed by imperceptible gradations and a long pale alley where the native cart track drove into the forest, opened slowly out of the darkness,... ...here’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 H G Wells 5 5 5 5 5 Perhaps... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ... and Vienna and St. Petersburg and Rome take sides as though these beastly tribes and leagues and superstitions meant anything but blank, black, damna... ...His explorations in Hayti had been terminated abruptly by an affair with a native policeman that had neces- sitated the intervention of the British Co... ...r that divided itself indolently into three shining branches so as to make islands of the central portion of the place. And on this river swarmed for ...

...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 ... ...th, Mississippi. MY DEAR SIR:—This introduces Governor William Sprague, of Rhode Island. He is now Governor for the third time, and senator-elect of t... ...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r hundred thousand people, or more than in some of our old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our newer States, and less than in ... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ...dvantages, and espe- cially because of the similarity of climate with your native soil, thus being suited to your physical condition. The particular p... ...nths now reported upon by the Interior and not by the Treasury. The Indian tribes upon our frontiers have during the past 181 The Writings of Abraham... ...d in open hostilities against the white settlements in their vicinity. The tribes occupying the Indian country south of Kansas renounced their allegia...

...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...

...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ....................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND ................................................................. ................................................. 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND ....................................................................... ....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ... in the way of introduc- tion, I will begin my journey. CHAPTER II NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND We—the we consisting of my wife and myself—left Liverpool for ... ...ut that it might stretch as a broad waste barrier, infested with war- like tribes, between the Anglo-American power and the silver mines of Mexico. Wi... ...eld in durance. The question of the war with En- gland is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York. I know what Englishmen will say in an...

...RODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ...................................................................

...N—ROMANCE OF HIDE DROGH ING—SAN DIEGO AGAIN CHAPTER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAP... ... 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... ...gun our long, long journey. This was literally bidding ‘‘good night’’ to my native land. - 2 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER... ...Boston. They were both steering westward, and were bound in for our ‘‘dear native land.’’ Thursday, Aug. 21st. This day the sun rose clear, we ... ... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ...ed voyagers of the Spanish crown. It was found to be inhabited by numerous tribes of Indians, and to be in many parts extremely fertile; to which, o... ...the fog again, something about Bristol—Probably, a whaleman from Bristol, Rhode Island, bound out. The fog continued through the night, with a ver...

... 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...

...ST, 63 -- CHAPTER XVIII ? EASTER SUNDAY???SAIL HO!???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 9...

...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 Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ... LENGTH, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord, weighed anchor in this river port; for Concord, too, li... ...lender threads, we weighed anchor again, and were soon out of sight of our native village. The 18 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers land seemed to ... ...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...e, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes, “Some nation yet shut in With hills of ice.” There are other... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...s. Their harbors lay as smooth and fairy like as the Lido, or Syracuse, or Rhodes, in our imagination, while, like some strange roving craft, we flitt... ...s, on his shoulders from the ru ins of T roy. Or rather, like some Indian tribes, we bear about with us the mouldering relics of our ancestors on our...

...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. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...is stage of their progress, require. Accordingly, the civilization of such tribes, when not the result of juxtaposition with others already civi lize... ...their savage independence, any improving restraint. The mode in which such tribes are usually brought to submit to the primary conditions of civilized... ...d indefinitely if the sub ject population had been left unassisted to its native tenden cies and chances. In a country not under the dominion of 58... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... .... There is a wide difference in wealth and population between New York and Rhode Island; between Berne, and Zug or Glaris. The essen tial is, that th... ...nience of the governing state, should be admitted to equal rights with its native subjects in all other parts of the empire. Outlying territories of s...

....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

...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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ... so it is this same disposition which renders that difference useful. Many tribes of animals, acknowledged to be all of the same species, derive from ... ...-hound from a spaniel, or this last from a shepherd’s dog. Those different tribes of animals, however, though all of the same species are of scarce an... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... merchant whose capital exports the surplus pro- duce of any society, be a native or a foreigner, is of very little im- portance. If he is a foreigner... ...er of their productive labourers is necessarily less than if he had been a native, by one man only; and the value of their annual produce, by the prof... ...sturbances, used to be but about £18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and ...

...ts 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 DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ... to that business, having left my father, married, and set up for himself at Rhode Island, there was all appearance that I was destined to supply his ... ...hile I waited for my father’s determination, he set out before me by land to Rhode Island, leaving his books, which were a pretty col lection of math... ...eave the house while he remain’d in it. He dissuaded me from returning to my native country, which I began to think of; he reminded me that Keimer was... ...imer and Bradford; but Dr. Baird (whom you and I saw many years after at his native place, St. Andrew’s in Scotland) gave a contrary opin ion: “For t... ...le that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihi lated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the sea coast. In 1751, Dr. Thomas Bond, a ...

...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...t’s all. Dear me suz, if they could think of the discovery of a forty acre island it’s more than I believe they could; and as for the whole conti ne... ... the rising sun, immea surably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American... ...ewport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. As a rule they spent a part of every Sab bath—after ... ...ets to ward the Academy, which stood upon a small eminence, surrounded by native growth—some venerable in its appear ance, others young and prospero... ...p in the Chero kee country, with the same equal proportions as one of the natives. But little intimacy had existed between them until the year forty ... ...dle, and made a name for himself in that line; he had dwelt among the wild tribes; he had philosophized about the despoilers of the kingdoms of the ea... ...not get any great pleasure out of them, as a rule. Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth f...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

...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 Federalist Papers, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... .... These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon all occa- sions, discovered a warm zeal for the independ... ...ticut in conse- quence of the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature of Rhode Island; and we reasonably infer that, in similar cases, under other c... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ...merican posses- sions and in relation to us, a common interest. The savage tribes on our Western frontier ought to be regarded as our natural enemies,... ...tion, to wit: to regulate commerce among the several States and the Indian tribes; to coin money, regu- late the value thereof, and of foreign coin; t... ... is open to merit of 236 The Federalist Papers every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or ...

...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...e debarka- tion, therefore, had to take place by small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles... ...d a fine instrumentality for securing this prime object of government. The native population had been in the habit of using “the weed” from a period, ... ... Spanish colonists adopted the use of to- bacco almost as generally as the natives. Spain, therefore, in order to secure the largest revenue from this... ...it; I have no idea that they could all have been corralled in the State of Rhode Island, or Dela- ware, at one time. If they had been, they would have... ...st we were free from Indian wars. There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Wash...

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...r get outgrown; and I confess that to find my humble self promoted from my native wilderness to be actu- ally for the time an official here, and trans... ...er against Christian- ity. The suddenness of her conversion shows well how native the sense of God’s presence must be to cer- tain minds. She relates ... ...merit of the worshiper; and the sacrifices and servilities by which savage tribesmen have from time immemorial exhibited their faithfulness to chiefta... ...aders were absolutely needed for the tribe’s sur- vival. If there were any tribes who owned no leaders, they can have left no issue to narrate their d... ...xed direction. From 13 to 18 he studied in Europe and returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to study painting under the guidance of John La Farge. After ...

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