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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... ... -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at which numbers of humans are sacrificed -- Differences in d... ... tales, the poet matter for a score of epics. It is impossible to overrate the literary value of material which had its origin in the sailor's fancy. ... ...tist, John Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD.... ...third; all except one were broken by the fall, or in some measure defaced. Mr. Wales measured this one, and found it to be fifteen feet in length, and...

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Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

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...lication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...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 U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University... ...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... ................................ .................. 163 iv SPEECH: THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND. ............................................................... ...e great plea sure and interest with which your gracious presence at these festivals never fails to inspire us. There is no English custom which is so... ...morations; and that an immense number of new marriages, and other domestic festivals naturally consequent upon those marriages, may be traced back fro... ...the large central room, and covers were laid for 200 guests. The Prince of Wales acknowledged the toast of his health and that of the Princess, the Du...

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......................................................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her ti...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...nting over a spacious park, the undulating ground here turning a broad lawn towards the beams that silvered every blade of grass; there, curving away in banks of velvet green; shadowed by the trees; gnarled old thorns in the holiday suit whence they take their name, giant?s nosegays of horse-chestnuts, mighty elms and stalwart oaks, singly or in groups, the aristocracy of ...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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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. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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... ...he honor of his familiar presence, nor the recollections of that brilliant literary circle with whom he lived in the metropo- lis, have yielded much m... ...o Addison in particular, it is time to correct the popular no- tion of his literary character, or at least to mark it by severer lines of distinction.... ... some peculiar force or beauty in the passage. Such was the outline of his literary taste. And was it upon Shakspeare only, or upon him chiefly, that ... ...at poet’s fame, of rank and 13 Thomas de Quincey of genius. The Prince of Wales and John Milton; the first being then about sixteen years old, the ot... ...ileged thing; he was obliged to do so; for take away from great ceremonial festivals, such as the solemn rendering of thanks, the cel- ebration of nat... ...ts adjacent, were of a corre- 166 Biographical Essays sponding character. Festivals were annually celebrated at a short distance from the walls, whic...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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