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...n Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... figure of a man; jovial and jocu- lar; fond of his garden, which produced under his care the finest fruits of the neighbourhood; and like all the fam... ...icit, the fortune of the golden aunt should in the end repair all. On this understanding Charles Jenkin transported his fam- ily to Church House, Nort... ... was a favourite with Sir Thomas Maitland, High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands – King Tom as he was called – who frequently took passage in the La... ...el of his own, hunting out pirates, ‘then very notorious’ in the Lee- ward Islands, cruising after slavers, or carrying dollars and provisions for the... ...ck, is said to have been the heir to both the estate and the baronetcy; he claimed neither, which casts a doubt upon the fact, but he had pride enough... ...o their places – on to the last block, [and] down the branch, sniffing the guano-scented air and detecting the old bones. The hartshorn flavour of the... ...uano-scented air and detecting the old bones. The hartshorn flavour of the guano becomes very strong, as I near the docks where, across the Elba’s dec...

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...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...uring Congress, and very empty during the recess. By which I mean it to be understood that those streets which are blessed with houses are full when C... ...s more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the States. San Jose, the cap... ...ch is now undergoing all the sorrows of a civil war. The name of secession claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nati... ...here the riches of Mexico and the power of Peru? They still produce sugar, guano, gold, cotton, coffee—al- most whatever we may ask them—and will cont... ...o go back upon the subject, and take its whole history since one man first claimed and exercised the right of forcing labor from an- other man. I cert... ...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...now go over that ques- tion again. I then divided the inhabitants of those islands into three classes—the white, the black, and the colored, taking a ...