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... where it established itself from its youth; that is, towards the south of Asia, and the northern part of Africa. In this part, or toward this side, ... ...less difficult to draw a people from the power of one single prince, and from the small territory of Goshen, than to draw them from the power of all ...

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...il the complete ex- ecution of this Act there shall be no election in said Territory,”— which, Trumbull argued, was not only taking the provision for ... ...gent on the subject that, in view of all the difficulties surrounding that Territory, the danger of any experiment at that time of a popular vote, it ... ...ng a great good, and as no movement had been made in that direction in the Territory, I waived this objection, and con- cluded to support the measure.... ...duced the troubles at the annexation of Texas, in the acquisi- tion of the territory acquired in the Mexican War. Again, this was the trouble which wa... ...me in under? Is not the sla- very agitation still an open question in that Territory? Has the voting down of that constitution put an end to all the t... ...ng on this subject, that I make speeches of one sort for the people of the northern end of the State, and of a different sort for the southern people,... ... the resolutions that he read had been passed at a local convention in the northern part of the State, although it was not a local convention that emb... ...stitution of slavery is the mere agitation of office-seekers and ambitious Northern politicians. He thinks we want to get “his place,” I suppose. I 7...

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...raham Lincoln: V ol Five nomination by the Cincinnati convention, that the territory of Kansas would be tranquil in less than six weeks. Perhaps he th... ...on- sequences of the Dred Scott decision, which holds that the people of a Territory cannot prevent the establishment of sla- very in their midst. I h... ...g, supposed to be valid, by which slavery was excluded from almost all the territory the United States then owned. This was the condition of the coun-... .... Applied in government, as he seeks to apply it, it is this: If, in a new Territory into which a few people are beginning to enter for the purpose of... ...irect sympathy and authority of the Almighty. When- ever you can get these Northern audiences to adopt the opin- ion that slavery is right on the othe... ... a matter that you Kentuckians ought to note. That is a vast change in the Northern public sentiment upon that question. Of what tendency is that chan... ...in that idea in Kentucky as much as you please, but you will never win any Northern support upon it. He makes a wiser argument for you: he makes the a... ...different color from your own, is right. He thereby brings to your support Northern voters who could not for a moment be brought by your own argument ... ...w that if he said less than that, he would lose the power of “lugging” the Northern States to your sup- port. Really, what you would push him to do wo...

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...y, With lengths of yellow ringlet, like a girl, For on my cradle shone the Northern star. There lived an ancient legend in our house. Some sorcerer, w... ...ld of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East; ‘Three ladies of the Northern empire pray Y our Highness would enroll them with your own, As Lad... ...So saying from the court we paced, and gained The terrace ranged along the Northern front, And leaning there on those balusters, high Above the empurp... ... And she exclaimed, ‘Peace, you young savage of the Northern wild! What! though your Prince’s love were like a God’s, Have we n... ...ell Into his father’s hands, who has this night, Y ou lying close upon his territory, Slipt round and in the dark invested you, And here he keeps me h... ... the sun, that now Leapt from the dewy shoulders of the Earth, And hit the Northern hills. Here Cyril met us. A little shy at first, but by and by We...

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...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...runs thence north-east as far as Burhampoor, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence eastwardly, mee... ...gling villages, above which rose the minarets of the pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tr... ...th. The English have not been able to secure complete domin- ion over this territory, which is subjected to the influence of rajahs, whom it is almost... ...hias was crossed by eight in the evening, and another halt was made on the northern slope, in a ruined bungalow. They had gone nearly twenty- five mil... ...not now reach Hong Kong for several days; and, this being the last English territory on Mr. Fogg’s route, the robber would escape, un- less he could m... ... and eighty-six miles. Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large t... ...sses along the left bank of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch, follows its southern branch, crosses the Laramie territory... ...t streams, branches of the North Platte River, already appeared. The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense semi-circular curta...

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...nate, a conven- tion for the adjustment of possessory claims in Washington Territory, arising out of the treaty of the 15th of June, 1846, between the... ...o export certain tobacco belonging to the French government from insurgent territory, which tobacco was supposed to have been purchased and paid for p... ...rvice of the United States, or any civil or military officer of a State or Territory not in insurrec- tion, who, by the laws thereof, may be qualified... ...hoochee River, Georgia: I have seen your despatches objecting to agents of Northern States opening recruiting stations near your camps. An act of Con... ...bodied colored men, most of them under arms, defending and acquiring Union territory. The Democratic strategy demands that these forces be dis- banded... ... we would be compelled to abandon the war in three weeks. “We have to hold territory in inclement and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do thi... ...e are at Rock Island, Illinois, as rebel prisoners of war, many persons of Northern and foreign birth who are unwilling to be exchanged and sent South... ...iculties have arisen, especially in Brazilian and British ports and on the northern boundary of the United States, which have required, and are likely... ...souri: It is represented to me that there is so much irregular violence in northern Missouri as to be driving away the people and almost depopulating ...

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...or’s skirmish with the King’s troops in Rob Roy; and near its head, on the northern side, is a waterfall, which is the original of Flora MacIvor’s fav... ...structions, is still used in poetry. 145. Trosachs. “The rough or bristled territory” (Graham); the wild district between Lochs Katrine and Vennachar.... ...rd. The down of the canna, or cotton-grass. 335. Glengyle. A valley at the northern end of Lock Katrine. 337. Brianchoil. A promontory on the northern... ...och Tay. The seat of the Earl of Breadalbane is T aymouth Castle, near the northern end of Loch T ay. For Menteith, see on i. 89 above. 419. Glen Frui... .... has “Highland targe.” 197. Shifting like flashes, etc. That is, like the Northern Lights. Cf. the Lay, ii. 86: “And red and bright the streamers l... ... knew by the streamers that shot so bright That spirits were riding the northern light.” The MS. reads: “Thick as the flashes darted forth By ...

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...y, each in his own sphere of influence, to celebrate the liberation of our territory. Let us show a true patriotism which shall put these liberals, th... ... king. I assemble my friends as much— to celebrate the emancipation of our territory—as to com- memorate my—promotion to the order of the Legion of ho... ...ferent. I assemble my friends as much to celebrate the emancipation of our territory as to commemorate my promotion to the order of the Legion of hono... ...nevertheless, a modest air—”as much to celebrate the eman- cipation of our territory as to commemorate my promotion to the order of the Legion of hono... ... cel- 100 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau ebrate the emancipation of our territory, but to commemo- rate my promotion to the order of the Legion of ... ...or- tant result, sought by the ancients,—the Greeks, the Ro- mans, and all Northern nations,—to whom the preserva- tion of the hair was peculiarly pre...

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..., however, lay General Webb, who com- manded the armies of the king in the northern provinces, with a body of more than five thousand men. By uniting ... ...ndred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the por- tage. That which at first was only rumor, so... ...ads, they proceeded at a slow amble, followed by their train, to- ward the northern entrance of the encampment. As they tra- versed that short distanc... ...er to the scout in her generous ardor; “that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; an... ...eiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disap- peared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that ... ...art of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory. Accordingly, this alarming annun- 300 The Last of the Mohicans ... ...is name, with some slight alteration, to the white usurpers of his ancient territory, as the imaginary tutelar saint* of a vast empire. The Huron chie...

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... It is very clear that it was this king who first prescribed bounds to the territory of Rome; for Romulus would but have openly betrayed how much he h... ...mmanded his friends to bury him in an obscure and contemned quarter of the territory of Miletus, saying that it should some day be the marketplace of ... ...oung children, some of them, passing the Riphaean mountains, fell upon the Northern Ocean, and possessed themselves of the far- thest parts of Europe;... ...ble only to till a small parcel of ground, they must needs possess a great territory, and will not yield any part to us who are strangers, many in num... ... Praenestines and Volscians, who, with large forces, were laying waste the territory of the Ro- man confederates. Having marched out with his army, he... ...ere first encouraged and led on to such evils as appropriations of subject territory; allowances for attending theaters, payments for performing publi... ...ture, they were conjectured to be some of the German races dwelling by the northern sea; be- sides that, the Germans call plunderers Cimbri. There are... ...s, Tigranocerta, Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making t...

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...n him to exonerate himself.” “No; we mount and ride straight away into his territory, spot the treason, deport him, and rule in his place!” It was all... ...o cross me.’ Aminta had confused notions of her being planted in hos- tile territory, and torn and knitted, trumpeted to the world as mended, but not ... .... Between the Aminta of then and now, the difference was marked as between Northern and Southern women: the frozen- mouthed Northerner and the pearl a... ...lse.’ ‘I will go to the boys’ parents. At the worst, we can march into new territory. Emile will stick to us. Adolf, too. The fresh flock will come.’ ...

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...lled the Cowt of Keeldar, “a fairy of the most malignant order—the genuine Northern Duergar.” The best and most authentic account of this dan- gerous ... ...able. “Our agriculture is ruined,” said the Laird of Broken-girth- flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and who...

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...military ser vice, subsequently to which he had ruled over a wild Western territory, had come hither, twenty years before, to spend the decline of hi... ...ight. Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy land, where the Actua... ...wild energy. It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights. In the mere exercise of the fancy, how ever, and the spor...

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...arter. It was the Mouth of the City, and drawn from all directions, over a territory of immense area, this glut of crude subsistence was sucked in, as... ...s was its influence felt. Out, far out, far away in the snow and shadow of Northern Wis- consin forests, axes and saws bit the bark of century-old tre... ...dried, and the pinch of famine made itself felt among the vine dressers of Northern Italy, the coal miners of Western Prussia. Or another channel fill... ...nterested her with his de- scription of his life in the cathedral towns of northern Italy. But at the end of that time dinner was announced. “Has Mr. ... ...opposite the fireplace, worked in the tap- estry of the best period of the northern French school, Halcyone, her arms already blossoming into wings, h...

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...ing freight-cars from the New York Cen- tral and apple orchards, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 B... ...of industrialism, now there’s a literary line where you got to open up new territory. Do you know the fellow who’s really the American genius? The fel... ...l shirt, and never come back to this dull decency! Or, like a trapper in a Northern Canada movie, plunge through the forest, make camp in the Rockies,... ...esick for the home he had left forever. Through the darkness, through that Northern pine-walled silence, he blundered down to the lake-front and found... ...othing settled and everything horribly settled. In a barren freedom of icy Northern wind he sighed, “Thank God that’s over! Poor Tanis, poor darling d...

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...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ... John Cho, who was with us, permission to buy about an acre of land in his territory. John was much staggered at this. It looked to him like a surrend... ...s por- tions of New Zealand. Finally, retaining only the north part of the northern island, to take the Melanesian Bishopric. ‘I urged this plan upon ... ... island of Eangitoto with its double peak and the easternmost point of the northern shore of the harbour, lies a very sheltered bay, with its sea-fron... ... for putting things in daily and immediate use; and the hall, which is the northern part of the side of the quadrangle, is a really hand- some room, w... ...kpat, who had many broth- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeare... ...n Islands, provided that the consecration should take place beyond British territory.’ In consequence it was proposed that the three consecrat- ing Bi...

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...the 39 Joseph Conrad benighted state of mind of the owners of its fertile territory—all these aristocratic old Spanish families, all those Don Ambros... ... rest of Costaguana hangs like a millstone round our necks. The Occidental territory is large enough to make any man’s country. Look at the mountains!... ...’s lighters, and send it across the gulf to a small port out of Costaguana territory just on the other side the Azuera, where the first northbound ste... ...ate, clear- minded, Southern races, wanting in the misty ideal- ism of the Northerners, who at the smallest encour- agement dream of nothing less than... ...ed, if need be, to blow up the whole San Tome mountain sky high out of the territory of the Republic. This resolution expressed the tenacity of his ch... ... roadside stores they had looted hurriedly in their rapid ride through the northern part of the province; for Pedro Montero had been in a great hurry ... ...was worth more in wealth and influence than all the rest of the Republic’s territory. He would get even with Gamacho by-and-by. And Señor Gamacho’s or...

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...o the war of the separation. It then became, in a sub- sequent division of territory, a part of Montgomery; and fi- nally, having obtained a sufficien... ...of the stranger at every few miles as be winds his way through this uneven territory, and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency whi... ...r around the grave of his father. Only forty years* have passed since this territory was a wilderness. Very soon after the establishment of the indepe... ...his life. He became the master of many thou- sands of acres of uninhabited territory, and the supporter of many a score of dependents. He lived greatl... ...ed pain, famine, and disease in accomplishing the settlement of this rough territory , I have not the misery of failure to add to the grievances.” “Fa... ... the placid lake, covered with wild fowl already journeying from the great northern waters to seek a warmer sun, but lingering to play in the limpid s...

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...t when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and ... ...tend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom’s head, and trilled out her imit...

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...?’ ‘I could not venture on an unceremonious invasion of Mrs. James Frost’s territory.’ ‘You’ll find no distinction of territory here,’ laughed Clara. ... ...gony as Louis approached Peru, and beheld the gigantic summits of the more northern Andes, 265 Yo n g e which sunset revealed shining out white and f...