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...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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... -- 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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... 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 ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ... that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used sm... ...they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed... ...ble distance from the city, and it was necessary to pass through several large towns which lay in the Mexican valley. He accordingly marched through t... ...hile he smoked a cigar. On nearly all the islands of the Pacific the flute and fife players use their nostrils instead of their mouths which appear to...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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... TO MOTHER MARYANNE....................................................................................................................... 20 XXXII - IN MEMORIAM E. H. ............................................................................................................................... 20...

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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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Don Quixote: Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsb... ...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... ...spute, it is the rash and ill-advised bachelor Samson Carrasco, our fellow townsman.” At this moment he of the Mirrors came to himself, and Don Quixot... ...custom of knights-errant to sleep in the fields and woods in preference to towns, even were it under gilded ceilings; and so turned aside a little out... ... making quarrels out of nothing, contrived to make the people of the other towns fall to braying whenever they saw anyone from our village, as if to t... ... Moors when they rush to battle; trumpets and clarions brayed, drums beat, fifes played, so unceasingly and so fast that he could not have had any sen... ...ves for a while with Sancho’s rich conversation, the melancholy sound of a fife and harsh discor- dant drum made itself heard. All seemed somewhat put... ... great drums which were likewise draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre like the others. Following these came a perso...

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...is labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

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...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...arated myself; the mild air of the evening, the shadows, the rich lights and the silence, made a symphonious accompaniment about our walk; and we both... ...ted the church. There lies Marshal Clarke. But as neither of us had ever heard of that military hero, we bore the associations of the spot with fortit... ...ons of the spot with fortitude. In all garrison towns, guard-calls, and reveilles, and such like, make a fine romantic interlude in civic business. Bu... ...ace was a point in the great warfaring system of Europe, and might on some fu- ture day be ringed about with cannon smoke and thunder, and make itself...

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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. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed... ...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... ...dscape; it has all the sameness of the desert without its dignity; the few towns and villages that break its monotony are mean and commonplace, there ... ...f Benalcazar and Banares, Vicecount of the Puebla Dealcocer, Master of the Towns of Capilia, Curiel and Burguillos In belief of the good reception and... ...lone you might easily perceive he is no muleteer, but a lord of hearts and towns, as I told you already.” 341 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. “Say no m... ... Moors when they rush to battle; trumpets and clarions brayed, drums beat, fifes played, so unceasingly and so fast that he could not have had any sen... ...ves for a while with Sancho’s rich conversation, the melancholy sound of a fife and harsh discor- dant drum made itself heard. All seemed somewhat put... ... great drums which were likewise draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre like the others. Following these came a perso...

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...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. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ... 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.... ...d framed the plain into long, aerial vistas; and the clean, bright, gardened townships spoke of country fare and pleasant summer evenings on the stoop... ...r ever altered – and it was from here that you had the first view of the old township lying in the sands, its white windmills bick- ering in the chill... ...agi- nation, and surprises while it charms. Here you shall see cas- tellated towns that would befit the scenery of dreamland; streets that glow with c... ...e in the dining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or... ...s decided he should take me along with him around a portion of the shores of Fife; my first professional tour, my first journey in the complete charac... ...he complete character of man, without the help of petticoats. The Kingdom of Fife (that royal province) may be ob- served by the curious on the map, o...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Cou...

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...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. ...

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...us belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or offend anyone who is prepared for the expression of a faith different from and perhaps in several particulars opposed to his own. The write...

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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. Under the Storm, or Steadfast’s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge, t... ...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... ...or a great many years, ever since the end of the wars of the Roses. So the towns did not want fortifications to keep out the enemy, and their houses s... ...hey saw a cloud of dust in the distance, and heard the sounds of drums and fifes playing a joyous tune. Kenton drew the old mare be- hind the bank of ... ...ristol, when he had been talking to the butter-merchant’s man. He said the townsfolk would know the reason why, if the soldiers were for holding out l...

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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 Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore... ...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... ... even at those children which slumbered within the security of the largest towns. In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught th... ... same proud front and ordered array was observed, until the notes of their fifes growing fainter in distance, the forest at length appeared to swallow... ... the last laggard of the camp was at his post; but the instant the British fifes had blown their shrill signal, they became mute. In the meantime the ...