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...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ...til he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there is no requirement. It was legal for Englishmen to... ... liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Engli... ...imes as the Bible has been translated from language to language, that the English language of a few hundred years ago seems to have stuck. Even tran... ...ave stuck. Even translations of the Koran often use that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians ... ...ts and animals had long been changed and improved by the human efforts of botanists, breeders and farmers. Even before Darwin scientific papers had b...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...at an educational conference in Bloomsbury. Like most eminent chemists and botanists, Mr. Bensington was very authori- tative upon teaching—though I a... ...est in hens…. It was already dark—as dark at least as a clear night in the English June can be—when Skinner—or his head at any rate—came into the bar ... ... to be done at once. Other- wise still more undesirable consequences—Times English, you know, for more wasps and stings. Thoroughly states- manlike ar... ...ver each shoulder sloped a gun. It was the oddest little expedition for an English country road, more like a Yankee party, trekking west in the good o... ...ample, cousin of the Earl of Pewterstone, and one of the most promising of English poli- ticians, who, taking the risk of being thought a faddist, wro...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rmed body of a man. Poesy, the rich meditations of which make us roam like botanists through the vast fields of thought, the fruitful com- parison of ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...it will be a coalesced language, a synthesis of many. Such a lan- guage as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Nor... ...nd hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already pre- sents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast ... ...y when every government had in it the near possibility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one... ...r- tips and shake my index-finger in my friend’s face. “By Jove!” I say in English. “They’ve got our doubles!” The botanist snaps his fingers. “Of cou... ...eon surfaces of my botanist’s mind. He has a strong feeling for systematic botanists as against plant physiologists, whom he regards as lewd and evil ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ector dresser in Limoges had placed the bridal wreath and a costly veil of English lace. Veronique wore a gown of simple white muslin. A rather imposi... ...k if he happens to have forgotten his own. She had sent old Pingret a fine English mastiff, which Jeanne Malassis, the servant-woman brought back the ... ...s the poesy of such solitudes, in his “Prairie.” These regions, unknown to botanists, covered by mineral refuse, round pebbles, and a sterile soil, ca... ...ead of fighting capacities, as we do, thwarting them, nullifying them, the English aristocratic class seeks out young talent, rewards it, and is const... ...and things, is prompt in England, whereas with us all is slow; and yet the English are slow by nature, while we are impa- tient. With them money is bo...

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...e, and would do anything to keep us out; but providentially he can’t write English decently, though he can speak any language you please. Well, the ma... ...w or remembered anything about them—there is such a shifting population of English visitors and residents, and it was so long ago. I elicited from my ... ...!’ ‘Ah! you are used to foreigners, Aunt Margaret. You have never fathomed English vulgarity.’ ‘It would serve you right to send you to carry the invi... ...of the treasure she possessed. ‘She and some of her friends are very eager botanists.’ ‘I am sure you may,’ said the lady, amused. ‘Thank you! Then, O... ...f foreign languages, and when once at school, he had shared in the average English boy’s contempt and aver- sion for the French masters who outscreame... ...fe. Unluckily, too, a Piedmontese family, some of them not strong in their English, were on a visit at Monks Horton, and the dialect in which the old ...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nything but what he seems to be— his only advantage is that he can’t speak English and can’t understand it, so he’s perfectly safe.’ ‘He’s very dirty,... ...ay in silence, at the pillared front of the house, sunny and small like an English drawing of the old school, on the brow of the green hill, against t... ...ith his eigh- teenth-century appearance, Gerald the amused, handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politi- cian, democratic and lu... ...e asked her again, later, when he was once more the properly-dressed young Englishman. She hesitated a moment before answering, opposing his persisten... ...a daisy is a company of florets, a concourse, become individual. Don’t the botanists put it highest in the line of development? I believe they do.’ ‘T...

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... Greece to Italy, thence to * The stories of the early Scandinavians. **An English authority on the culture of orchards and gardens. 5 Henry David Th... ... the lower ones, that they looked like pictures of banian-trees. As an old English manuscript says, “The mo appelen the *Jotunheim (Ye(r)t’-un-hime) i... ...k it enough simply to put a fresh load of compost about the tree. Some old English cus- toms are suggestive at least. I find them described chiefly in... ...ht to sing of cider than of wine; but it behooves them to sing better than English Phillips did, else they will do no credit to their Muse. THE WILD A... ...b-Apple till May, 1861. I had heard of it through Michaux, but more modern botanists, so far as I know, have not treated it as of any peculiar importa... ...herculean labor to pluck them. *A Belgian chemist and horticulturist. **An English vegetable physiologist. 16 Wild Apples This is one and the most re...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n Clubs. The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Compare the English carrier and the short-faced tumbler, and see the wonderful differen... ...species. Moreover, I do not believe that any ornithologist would place the English carrier, the short-faced tum- bler, the runt, the barb, pouter, and... ...hroughout the whole great family of Columbidae for a beak like that of the English carrier, or that of the short-faced tumbler, or barb; for reversed ... ... points of structure with all the domestic breeds. Secondly, al- though an English carrier or short-faced tumbler dif- fers immensely in certain chara... ...ations useful to him have probably arisen sud- denly, or by one step; many botanists, for instance, believe that the fuller’s teazle, with its hooks, ... ...of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number of forms have been ranked by on... ...are generally consid- ered as varieties, but which have all been ranked by botanists as species; and in making this list he has omitted many trifling ... ...many trifling varieties, but which neverthe- less have been ranked by some botanists as species, and he has entirely omitted several highly polymor- p...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...feet in height; in France there are but thirty that attain this size.” Later botanists more than confirm his observations. Humboldt came to America to... ...idente FRUX . From the East light; from the West fruit. Sir Francis Head, an English traveler and a Governor Gen eral of Canada, tells us that “in bo... ... at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chau... ...much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before... ...gh they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Ameri cans today. It is not every truth that recommends i...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ... be- fore the Lords, fled to the Netherlands and was trepanned on board an English ship, and put to death as a traitor. Bishop White was deprived the ... ...Coram of Cranbury to secure them even an eatable meal. No doubt such stout English resistance saved the days of compulsory labour from becoming a burd... ...halk-Pit. Parnholt wood, that clothes one side of the mount, is beloved by botanists for possessing tracts of lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis,... ...r Lusitanica. But alas! the giant called “High Farming” is an enemy to the botanists, and had starved out many of the choicest of these, even before t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... con- sidered as very uninteresting, but to anyone accus- tomed only to an English landscape, the novel as- pect of an utterly sterile land possesses ... ...ree, which was so thick that it would never have been penetrated by common English rain; but here, in a couple of minutes, a little torrent flowed dow... ...July 5th, 1832. — A few days after our arrival I became acquainted with an Englishman who was going to visit his estate, situated rather more than a h... ...hey appeared also to recover from any injury much sooner than those of our English breed. The Vam- pire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by bit... ... from this part of South America under the name of inermis. He states that botanists are now generally agreed that the cardoon and the ar- tichoke are... ... Mr. Sabine* from Valparaiso, but that they form a vari- ety which by some botanists has been considered as specifically distinct. It is remarkable th...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ................... 130 LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEA VE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. ...................... 130 UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH’S HO... ...red to put his name and statue beside those of the acknowledged masters of English poetry. But apart from this, we do think that Lord Carlisle has exa... ...all well-educated men. More pointed sayings of Pope are afloat than of any English poet, except Shakspeare and Young. Indeed, if frequency of quotatio... ...e, with Shakspeare, Young, and Spenser, is one of the four most popular of English poets. In America, too, Lord Carlisle found, he tells us, the most ... ... freemasons, join the silent race, Worthy to fill Pythagoras’s place: Some botanists, or florists at the least, Or issue members of an annual feast. N...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...h, of graceful, scholarlike, and classical look, like many a picture in an English book. It loves a swift current and a sandy bot tom, and bites inad... ...meadow are waiting to be made dry land, wild native grass to give place to English. The farmers stand with scythes whet, waiting the subsiding of the ... ...ecedented height. All hy drometers were at fault; some trembled for their English even. But speedy emissaries revealed the unnatural secret, in the n... ... This is ancient Billerica, (Villarica?) now in its dotage, named from the English Billericay, and whose Indian name was Shawshine. I never heard that... ...e them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it. What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The ey...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...he translation? Or were these separate creations of the patro- nymic, some English, some Gaelic? The curiously com- pact territory in which we find th... ...im must be upon their guard, for if his side, which was always that of the English against the French, should chance to be defeated, there would be tr... ...ime to see, in the navy-yard at Helvoetsluys, ‘about twenty of Bonaparte’s English flotilla lying in a state of decay, the object of curiosity to Engl... ...s in Scotland differed essentially in character from those in England. The English coast is in comparison a habitable, homely place, well supplied wit... ...ams were observed to be thickly coated with a green stuff, the conferva of botanists. Notwithstanding the intru- 100 Robert Louis Stevenson sion of t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Rachel in it, to give her helpless cousin assistance in this beginning of English habits. A roomy fly had been engaged for nurses and children, and M... ...ht Francis just commencing an onslaught on the globules, tak- ing them for English sweetmeats of a minute description. The afternoon passed with the s... ...ajor said I need not part with him till he has grown a little more used to English ways.” “He can read, I see,” said Grace, “and he told me he had don... ...n birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have all the English ones.” “Oh, one egg; there’s no harm in taking that; but this nest ... ...ithout it.” “One can have broad ideas without all the petty work of flower botanists and butterfly naturalists.” “Don’t you think the broad ideas woul...