Excerpt Details
... 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 -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the...

Full Text Search Details
...rcumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- ... ...ion of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice t... ...f Marco Polo excited ambition to reach Zipangu and Cathay -- The search voyage westward -- Discoveries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the wo... ...plored a great extent of the coast from Hudson Bay on the north, and as far as Virginia on the south. Like his father, he was compelled to return to E... ...wn expense, and in 1585 accompanied Sir Richard Greenville on an expedition to Virginia, with the intention of planting a colony; but the venture was ... ...mong the unknown regions of the earth; and in six months after his return from Virginia, with the part of his fortune which still remained to him he e... ...r the uncertain navigation of a treacherous sea is rapidly being supplanted by railroads through every part of Siberia, but man feels a natural and co...

Full Text Search Details
...French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (E... ...) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_ Gibraltar 93^ Greece 9 Greenland 95 Grenada 96... ...ge Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Co... ... afghanis=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 21 March-20 March Communications Railroads: 9.6 km (single track) 1.524- meter gauge, spur of Soviet line ... ...ersion rate: 4.14 leks=US$l (1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 437 km 425 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track, governmen... ...gerian dinars=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 4,146 km total; 2,632 km stan- dard gauge (1.435 m), 1,258 km ... ...0 km 2 ; land area: 50,660 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia Land boundaries: 670 km total Coastline: 1,290 km Maritime claim... ...: 108,330 km 2 ; land area: 105,980 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Virginia Land boundaries: 2,309 km total Coastline: 901 km Maritime claim... ...: 103,000 km 2 ; land area: 100,250 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Virginia Coastline: 4,988 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: edge of ...

Full Text Search Details
... Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. College it it Photographers Also ... ...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ...Columbia Columbia Columbia Annapolis 4 Georgetown 4 Wash, and Leo 10 U. of Virginia it) U. of Virginia 7 Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia Columbia ... ...erce Commission, Under tbe present system of rate- making which leaves the railroads free to make rates, there is abund- ant opportunity for further i... ...does the negative propose to treat with the problem in question? Shall the railroads continue to have the power of making unreasot'iablo rates? Eustac... ... just basis. Mr. Seligman stated that the rates ob- taining among American railroads are not exorbitant, as compared with European tariffs of a simila...

Full Text Search Details
...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...town was first established on an island on the South coast of what now is now Virginia. Jamestown and Province Town were planned as a dual venture; ... ... overpopulated civilization, sent there by investors of the London company of Virginia to get rich quick. . After dying in droves from one year... ... Finally the uprising of the colonists in 1662 brought about the demise of the Virginia holding company The Crown took over the fort and it became ... ...her obscene lie modern history books spout…the virtue of these new industrial railroads serving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is ... ...ving as cheap mass transportation for the poor. That is total bullshit. The railroads were built by rich Robber Barons to get rich quick. The ... ...h peasants were herded into railroad cars like cattle on the hoof. The first railroads were used for transporting of English peasants from the count...

Full Text Search Details
...LLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yesterday is just received. I will answer ... ...ral McDowell is in position on your right, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to sup... ...S. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 1.30 P.M. COLONEL MILES, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether e... .... WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 7.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, Franklin, Virginia: Many thanks for the promptness with which you have answered that ... ... Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six ORDER TAKING MILITARY POSSESSION OF RAILROADS. W AR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862. Ordered: By virtue of the authori... ...ted by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroads in the United States from and after this date until further order... ...rter. Nothing further from McClellan. If Porter effects a lodgment on both railroads near Hanover Court-House, consider whether your forces in front o... ...see how, lacking that, you can have any, except the scrap from Richmond to West Point. The scrap of the Virginia Central from Richmond to Hanover Junc... ...tion, remembering that our object is to give such protection as you can to western 45 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six Virginia. Many thanks...

Full Text Search Details
...and Duffle got considerable advantage of the enemy at and about Lewisburg, Virginia: and on Saturday, the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahan... ... EXECUTIVE MAN- SION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John ... ... or other civil obligation on the ground of alienage. In common with other Western powers, our relations with Japan have been brought into serious jeo... ...o that of establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, a... ...to me as directed a day or two ago, also send Edwin C. Claybrook, of Ninth Virginia rebel cavalry. A. LINCOLN. 54 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ... ...atriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the subject. A.... ... with military land war- rants, agricultural scrip certified to States for railroads, and sold for cash. The cash received from sales and location fe...

Full Text Search Details
...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ...treets which are really inhabited cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the C... ...n. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance with the points of ... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ...r- ginia be saved, its position will be most unfortunate. I fancy that the railroads in those days must have been doing a very prosperous business. Fr... ... never paid a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy ... ...olice and criminal regula- tions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and those thou...

Full Text Search Details
...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...w Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance of 1787,... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...essed that idea. That same idea was expressed by the Richmond Enquirer, in Virginia, in 1856,—quite two years before it was expressed by the first of ... ..., that barrier. Come down again to our State of Illinois. The great North- west T erritory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin... ... better remain in Chicago, with such a chance for copartnership. If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas, to Leavenworth or Atchison. Both of the... ...ttended to: 1. Let Manassas Junction (or some point on one or other of the railroads near it) and Strasburg be seized, and permanently held, with an o... ...rvation, one occupying Sedalia and the other Rolla, the present termini of railroads; then recruit the condition of both corps by re-establishing and ... ...d equipments, and pro- viding less uncomfortable quarters. Of course, both railroads must be guarded and kept open, judiciously employing just so much...

Full Text Search Details
...historian thus puts in antithesis. Abraham Lincoln, the rail-splitter, the Western country lawyer, was one of the shrewdest and most en- 6 The Writin... ... characteristic of the time and the impatiently enterprising spirit of the Western people. Lincoln, no doubt with the best intentions, but with little... ...ence; it was true moral valor, too; for at that time, in many parts of the West, an abolitionist was regarded as little better than a horse-thief, and... ...issippi, always in advance of schools and churches, of books and money, of railroads and newspapers, of all things which are generally regarded as the... ... them at the Bar and on the Bench, without re- sort to technical learning. Railroads, corporations absorb- ing the chief business of the community, co... ...ock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period their importation had continued. ... ...l justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to the standard of freedom which he... ...s in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by inaction and disasters in Virginia, only partially redeemed by the bloody and indecisive battle of An... ...ly proves to be labor lost. There cannot justly be any objection to having railroads and canals, any more than to other good things, provided they cos...

Full Text Search Details
...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ... the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville sa... ... the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular si... ...us that these very tribes *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior for... ...ctions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190. What is said by Jefferson is of especial weight, on... ...w World. *i The Europeans *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior for... ...y the Northern States which are in possession of ship- ping, manufactures, railroads, and canals. This difference is perceptible not only in comparing... ...n five hundred leagues in extent which separates the two seas. The longest railroads which have been constructed up to the present time are in America...

Full Text Search Details
...e white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? Y ou would not believe that I had been to school... ...cool, Stopping to club the walnut tree Standing leafless against a flaming west. Now, the smell of the autumn smoke, And the dropping acorns, And the ... ...MY valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, cou... ... That’s my son. Hamilton Greene I WA S the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood both... ... Springfield When the Legislature was in session To prevent raids upon the railroads And the men building up the state. Trusted by them and by you, Sp... ...eld my peace. And what could I do, all covered over And weighted down with western soil Except aspire, and pray for another Birth in the world, with a...

Full Text Search Details
...aid, ‘and thought the Faithfull sisters would like to be reminded of their West Indian feasts.’ And, ‘to make the balance true,’ he had in the other p... ..., ‘ Ah! I see you understand these things! Yes, they are very interesting! Virginia will be delighted; she has been begging me for an aquarium whereve... ...ness who was pouring out the tea. ‘The reconnoitring party!’ eagerly cried Virginia. ‘Did you find the cousin?’ ‘Yes, we did.’ ‘Oh! Then what is he li... ...n see how pretty a woman your Aunt Louisa must have been.’ ‘News!’ laughed Virginia; ‘when mamma is always preach- ing to me to be like her!’ ‘Is he g... ...KINDL UT KINDL UT KINDL UT KINDL UT KINDLY Y Y Y Y Go not eastward, go not westward, For a stranger whom we know not. Like a fire upon the hearthstone... ...er mother might, they could not move Miss Ponsonby from Bryanstone Square. Railroads and country were both her dread; and she was not inclined, to ove...

Full Text Search Details
..., and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to t... ...in whatever fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hard... ...her, welded and riven together in one single, mighty song, the Song of the West. That was what he dreamed, while things without names—thoughts for 9 ... ...idea occurring to him, “that don’t shut you out from work. There are other railroads in the State that are not controlled by the P . and S. W.” Dyke s... ...s supper was over, the floor was cleared again. The guests clamoured for a Virginia reel. The last quarter of the evening, the time of the most riotou... ...can woman by the door and hustled her, all confused and giggling, into the Virginia reel, then at its height. Every one crowded around to see. Old Bro... ...ncers on the floor of the barn, frolicking through the last figures of the Virginia reel and the boisterous gathering of men in the harness room, down... ...d at every turn,” observed Magnus sadly. “The courts, the capitalists, the railroads, each of them in turn hoodwinks us into some new and wonderful sc... ... first. The man who, even after twenty years’ training in the operation of railroads, can draw an equitable, smoothly working schedule of freight rate...

Full Text Search Details
...r way to the fields, a bookseller’s stall on which lay a copy of “Paul and Virginia.” She had a fancy to buy it for the sake of the engraving, and her... ...could be more childlike and innocent and pure than the history of Paul and Virginia? But the warmth of the tropics, the beauty of the scenery, the alm... ... stretch or directly across it, in the midst of a fertile panorama. On the west, after the river leaves the embankment of the epis- copal gardens, it ... ...e facade on the gardens, which is absolutely the same as the others, looks westward. The towers have but one window on the facade; 115 Balzac the mai... .... Already a few gray clouds chased by a chilly wind were hurrying from the west. It was then three o’clock. V eronique had taken more than four hours ... ...its resources,—this is why we are still dis- cussing the practicability of railroads while other coun- tries are making theirs. If ever France was to ... ...ngland, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will be honeycombed with railroads when French engineers are still surveying ours, and selfish inter... ... by the peasant and the small burgher, the postponement of the building of railroads in France.” “Then what is it you all want?” she asked. “We want t... ...llows, osier, alder, ash, the aspen of Hol- land, the poplars of Italy and Virginia, hawthorns and roses, acacias, birches, all choice growths arrange...

Full Text Search Details
...as smaller, less commodious and less substantial—the cabins erected in the western states by the first settlers. T o my child’s eye, how- ever, it was... ...pted to promote the comforts and conveniences of its inmates. A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, an- swered the ... ...s, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in favor of this opini... ... Lloyd’s plantation, as destitute of clothing as any little heathen on the west coast of Africa; and this, not merely during the summer months, but du... ...old and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! The ... ...ible. They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose very breathing is of ... ...he accommo- dation of colored travelers, was established on nearly all the railroads of New England, a dozen years ago. Regarding this custom as foste...

Full Text Search Details
...s about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which... ...alked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washi... ...d to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be Annie Oakley, the Wild Western Wampire, and I bought oh! a vociferous skirt which revealed my perf... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ...rices in Chicago, but when we tried to get freight cars to ship there, the railroads wouldn’t let us have ‘em—even though they had cars standing empty... ...ations when there had been no railroad, and had no awe of it; but here the railroads had been before time was. The towns had been staked out on barren... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ... ...dvantages, so that the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriet... ...tan Apollo nameless and evasive—building a house in the Berk- shires or in Virginia; exuberantly buying a chair with his first check; reading poetry t...

Full Text Search Details
...nment and assurance. Here reigned the dashing and all-fusing spirit of the West, whose type is the Missis- sippi itself, which, uniting the streams of... ... ge’mman wid a big book, too; and a yarb-doctor; and a ge’mman in a yaller west; and a ge’mman wid a brass plate; and a ge’mman in a wiolet robe; and ... ...cred page no longer meets her eye; but, as at evening, when for a time the western hills shine on though the sun be set, her thoughtful face retains i... ...of the little colony of Wrights and Weavers, originally seven cousins from Virginia, who, after successive removals with their families, at last estab... ... began to wreathe, glancing from the smoker to the pottery, “I will have a Virginia tobacco-plant set over my grave beside the Catawba vine.” “Improve... ...specially in these parts of it, some stories are told about steamboats and railroads fitted to make one a little appre- hensive, yet, I may say that, ...

Full Text Search Details
...n another; the inflow of English and other immigrants another; their drift westward (my ancestors among them) another; the settlement of certain of th... ...e another step toward literature. For amusement I scribbled things for the Virginia City enterprise. One isn’t a printer ten years without setting up... ...Henry II. Give him thirty five squares of red paper. These hens must face west, like the former ones. (Image not available—ed. ) This hen differs fro... ...y a lantern when he goes visiting in the night to keep from stumbling over railroads that have been built since his last round. And also in that day, ... ...gainst the sky. But by mid afternoon some elevations which rise out of the western border of the desert, whose presence you perhaps had not detected o... ...hn Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get fugitives slaves into Virginia. He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally con quered and ... ... Italy has three or four domestic brands: the Minghetti, the T rabuco, the Virginia, and a very coarse one which is a modification of the Virginia. Th...

Full Text Search Details
...ou say—of Northampton, Massachu- setts?” “He lives here, but he comes from Virginia.” “Is he a sculptor by profession?” “He ‘s a law-student.” Rowland... ...very remarkable?” “Why, my dear cousin,” Rowland answered, “Mr. Hudson, of Virginia, is an extraordinary—” Then suddenly stop- ping: “Is he a great fr... ...ns and needles about her son. She had some property herself, and married a Virginian gentleman of good estates. He turned out, I believe, a very licen... ...an the Virginian, and immediately obtained a commis- sion. He fell in some Western battle and left his mother inconsolable. Roderick, however, has giv... ...k into the earth. What is the name of your little place?” 51 Henry James “West Nazareth,” said Miss Garland, with her usual so- briety. “It is not so... ...t ‘s smaller than Northampton.” “I wonder whether I could find any work at West Nazareth,” Rowland said. “You would not like it,” Miss Garland declare... ...s once a pretty woman! Get him to tell you what he made a figure upon. The railroads have brought in the vulgarians. That ‘s what I call it now—the in... ...gh I don’t see why. We have got no money, and you have to pay money on the railroads.” Mrs. Hudson surreptitiously wrung her hands. “Listen to him, pl...

Full Text Search Details
...ain of inspired truth every where sealed up; but a whisper ran through the western nations of Europe that the work of Tho- mas à Kempis contained some... ...h regarded my sister’s memory, in one hour I received a new heart. Once in Westmoreland I saw a case resembling it. I saw a ewe suddenly put off and a... ...cribed in the following lines:— “Such thou art as when The woodman winding westward up the glen 41 Autobiographic Sketches At wintry dawn, when o’e... ...ed that she is the person de- scribed by Miss Edgeworth, under the name of Virginia, in the latter part of her “Belinda.” How that may be, I cannot pr... ... and the same docility to any chance impres- sions, which characterize the Virginia of Miss Edgeworth. She was a reputed daughter (as I have said) of ... ...is system had become hopeless, a new prospect was suddenly opened to us by railroads; which again, considering how much they have already exceeded the...

Full Text Search Details
...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the ne... ...ht he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, con- trasting climates, zone by ... ...gineering forces employed in the construc- tion of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...iness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, ... ...n, the only true lamp—all others but liars! Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor...

Full Text Search Details
...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a wh... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the nee... ...ght he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, thi... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zo... ...gineer ing forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American ... ...iness over the soul at the bare mention of that name, while the thought of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is full of a soft, dewy, distant dreaminess? Or why, ... ... the only true lamp — all others but liars! Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia’s Dismal Swamp, nor Rome’s accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor...

Full Text Search Details
...ll three minutes ago.” V Before he followed his wife, Babbitt stood at the westernmost window of their room. This residential settle- ment, Floral Hei... ...ester- day,” said the Scholar, “and you remember the blizzard they had out West three days ago—thirty inches of snow at Greeley, Colorado—and two year... ...th pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat. Along the Third Street side were a Western Union Telegraph Office, the Blue Delft Candy Shop, Shotwell’s Stati... ...” and created a somber oligarchy by gaining control of banks, mills, land, railroads, mines. Out of the dozen contradictory Zeniths which together mak... ...our vertebrae. Well, my guest to-day is from such a place, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with 226 Babbitt memories of good ol... ...ntity. He recalled their high lights the sum- 302 Babbitt mer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour thr...

Full Text Search Details
... read the thoughts of Lucien and Esther, who seemed paralyzed, as Paul and Virginia might have been at the sight of two dreadful snakes, and he said i... ...y and the Rue de Harlay are the limit line of the Palais de Justice on the west. Formerly the Prefecture de Police, once the resi- dence of the Presid... ...t the quay, on the east at the headquarters of the Municipal Guard, on the west at the courtyard of the Conciergerie, and on the south they adjoin a l... ...ing All-working. Science is changing the face of the world by constructing railroads. In Argot the train is le roulant Vif, the Rattler. The name give...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank...

Full Text Search Details
...thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty five thou sand, which is the... ...rch accommodations for thirty five thou sand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Pro... ..., if loud winds arise, To lash the surge and bluster in the skies, May the west its furious rage display, Toss me with storms in the watery way. (Ente... ...ion of the Declaration of Independence, the speech of Patrick Henry in the Virginia House of Delegates, and many other old time reminiscences of stirr... ...ng suicide in other forms. The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one third of a man each; and the rest of that ... ...r beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me. And my advice to all people is, Don’t sta...

Table of Contents Details
...RA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .....................................................................

Full Text Search Details
................................................. 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST.......................................................................... ...hom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial town in the west of England. He was seated on a horsehair-cov- ered chair in the middle... ...e added another, which was natural enough though perhaps not noble. “These western cocks have crowed loudly,” we said; “too loudly for the comfort of ... ...t the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, though they are attached to the South ... ...n in the great social institution of slavery—for Maryland, Dela- ware, and Virginia are slave States—and I think that the North will ultimately make g... ...im. Maryland and Delaware lie, as it were, behind the capital, and Eastern Virginia is close upon the capital. And these regions are not tropical in t... ...s, have begun by the erection of first class hotels and the fabrication of railroads. Let the Old World bid them God speed in their work. Only it woul... ...urrent expenses. It is in this way that the thousands of miles of American railroads have been opened; and here again must be seen the immense advanta...

Excerpt Details
... Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-h...

Full Text Search Details
...lative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From... ...as cended by white men in 1804. It was visited by Professor J. W. Bailey of West Point in 1836; by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the State Geologist, in 18... ...g, perhaps, on all accounts, than they would reach by going a thousand miles westward. The next forenoon, Tuesday, September 1st, I started with my co... ...e surface. Afterwards, the prevailing fences were log ones, with sometimes a Virginia fence, or else rails slanted over crossed stakes, — and these zi... ...must have the credit of saying this just before the general breaking down of railroads and banks. He had a great idea of education, and would occa si... ...mericana (marsh pennywort), Sanicula Canadensis? (black snake root),Clematis Virginiana? (common virgin’s bower), Nasturtium palustre (marsh cress), R... ...ylus rostrata (beaked hazel nut), Diervilla trifida (bush honeysuckle),Prunus Virginiana (choke cherry),Myrica gale (sweet gale), Nemopanthes Canadensi...

Full Text Search Details
... children, and was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg ... ...ticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my grand- fathe... ...iver, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the West. My grandmother Grant died in 1805, leaving seven chil- dren. This bro... ...me. There were no telegraphs in those days to disseminate news rapidly, no railroads west of the Alleghanies, and but few east; and above all, there w... ...try from what one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, an... ...ley was the cadet who had preceded me at West Point. He was killed in West Virginia, in his first engagement. As far as I know, ev- ery boy who has en... ...nfined almost exclusively to the territory where it existed. The States of Virginia and Kentucky came near abolishing slavery by their own acts, one S... ... The enemy was in force at Corinth, the junction of the two most important railroads in the Mississippi valley—one con- necting Memphis and the Missis... ... constantly. Some of the men who had been engaged in various capacities on railroads before the war claimed that they could tell, by putting their ear...

Full Text Search Details
... other part of the world—in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had oppressed every... ...Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth,... ...oom, the “cat-hole,” —a contrivance which almost every mansion or cabin in Virginia possessed dur- ing the ante-bellum period. The “cat-hole” was a sq... ...ked, and the family ate a meal in a civilized manner. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten by the chil- dren very much as ... ...ing the Federal soldiers, it seems, he found his way into the new state of West Virginia. As soon as freedom was declared, he sent for my mother to co... ...edom was declared, he sent for my mother to come to the Kanawha Valley, in West Virginia. At that time a journey from Virginia over the 25 Booker T. ... ...es and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the ea...

Full Text Search Details
... Sweet Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores .............................................. ...n Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Sometimes with One I ... ...eaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Sometimes with One I Love...............141 To a Western Boy..............................142 Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love... ...ays from Your Fathomless Deeps...........................................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships................ ... Gray and Dim.....................................319 As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods...........................................320 Not the Pi... ...ic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian! O all and each well loved by me! my int... ...gen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth, I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe... ...h the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors, In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly, Home to the houses of m... ...actories, arsenals, foundries, markets, Shapes of the two threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, a...

Full Text Search Details
...ere are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff question; and 5 T... ... and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether... ...w in a great measure superseded by what had fallen from the gentleman from Virginia who had just taken his seat. He begged to assure his friends on th... ...man in poli- tics, while in this respect he agreed with the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Botts], whom he wished to oblige whenever it was in his power... ... those who, conceding all this to be true, assume the ground that the true western boundary of Texas is the Nueces, instead of the Rio Grande; and tha... ...all included in the following propositions (1) That the Rio Grande was the western boundary of Loui- siana as we purchased it of France in 1803. (2) T... ...t at last effecting the ostensible object of the bill— the construction of railroads in the new States; and secondly, that Congress would be forced to...

Full Text Search Details
...Anderson married and three years later moved to Elyria, a town forty miles west of Cleve- land, where he established a firm that sold paint. “I was go... ...e was a feud be- tween the baker and a grey cat that belonged to Sylvester West, the druggist. The boy and his mother saw the cat creep into the door ... ...in. Three times he walked up and down the length of Main Street. Sylvester West’s Drug Store was still open and he went in and bought a cigar. When Sh... ...ments made through the influence of friends. Left with but a small income, Virginia Richmond had settled down to a retired life in the village and to ... ...eping and when he had gone to bed, you crept into his room and kissed him. Virginia Richmond could not understand why her son did not do these things.... ...horse races,” they declared boast- fully. After the disappearance of Seth, Virginia Rich- mond walked up and down the floor of her home filled with va... ...talked about the advisability of the government’s owning and operating the railroads and the man gave him a cigar. It was Enoch’s notion that such a m... ...t yet come, the laborers worked in the fields or were section hands on the railroads. They worked twelve hours a day and received one dollar for the l...

Full Text Search Details
...dreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take ... ...ed the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- ing checkpoint; United Airlines, which was the respon... ...- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. ... ... was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon. 59 At 9:32, con- trollers at the Dulles Terminal Rada... ... Sector Graphics courtesy of ESRI Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 15 Virginia, which oversees daily traffic flow within the entire airspace syst... ...ard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other facilities, not on “alert, ” would need time to arm the... ...pping containers have just begun. Surface transportation sys- tems such as railroads and mass transit remain hard to protect because they are so acces...

Full Text Search Details
...Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points... ...d the boundary which is established be tween the territories of the parties westward of the Mis sissippi, heretofore in dispute, has, it is thought,... ...d complete protection to the vast and very valuable productions of our whole Western coun try, which find a market through those streams. By a treaty... ...ng country such as the world has never witnessed. This trade is conducted on railroads and ca nals, on noble rivers and arms of the sea, which bind t... ... Dakota has now a population greater than any of the original States (except Virginia) and greater than the aggregate of five of the smaller States in... ...s ness and abuses of power of the great combinations of capital invested in railroads and in industrial enterprises carrying on interstate commerce. ... ...eth ods, further legislative and executive action are needed. Relief of the railroads from certain restrictions of the antitrust law have been urged ... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 347 Adams and a Virginia planter named Jefferson, mem bers of that remarkable group who ...

Full Text Search Details
...outh part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between Hopkinton and Southborough, through Fra... ... or Assabeth River, which has its source a little farther to the north and west, goes out at the northeast angle, and flowing between Bedford and Carl... ...her in the fields or higher on the bank were seen the purple Gerardia, the Virginian rhexia, and drooping neottia or ladies’ tresses; while from the m... ... Cummings, it may be, from highest noon till the red vesper sinks into the west. The fisherman, mean while, stands in three feet of water, under the ... ...oldest in the country, and has even an antique look beside the more modern railroads, is fed by the Concord, so that we were still floating on its fam... ...s” about it, as they supposed, came all the beaver that was traded between Virginia and Canada,—and the Potomac was thought to come out of or from ver... ... rel, Sciurus striatus ( Tamias Lysteri, Aud.), sat upon the end of some Virginia fence or rider reaching over the stream, twirling a green nut with... ...sible. Lawsuits, as we hear, have in some cases grown out of these causes. Railroads have been made through certain irritable districts, breaking thei...

Full Text Search Details
... preparations could be made, and soon set sail for Alabama. Steamboats and railroads had not then annihilated distance to the extent they now have, an... ...e, and place me in your mind. Get me to my home, that’s in the far distant west, To the scenes of my childhood, that I like the best; There the tall c... ...sionally Mr. Pierson, who engaged her to keep his house while Katy went to Virginia to see her children. This engagement was considered an answer to a... ...name of Matthias, called himself a Jew, and set out on a mission, taking a western course, and visiting a brother at Roch- ester, a skillful mechanic,... ...abella’s, elsewhere, living himself at the hotel corner of Marketfield and West streets. Isabella found employment at Mr. Whiting’s, Canal street, and...

Full Text Search Details
...antly shown by the religious teachings that shape the ethical ideas of the Western world. The Old Testament abounds in the justification of vengeance.... ... With the introduction of the modern machine, the fac- tory system and the railroads, in the last century, our great modern cities were evolved. As th... ...e of the weak, the wretched and the poor, has a somewhat different origin. Westermarck in his “History of Human Marriage” shows that in the early trib... ...cal and civil equality for the black man, and forbidding discrimination on railroads, in hotels, restaurants, theatres and all public places, have nev... ...isrup- tion of established folk-ways. For more than four years most of the western world did nothing but kill. The whole world talked of slaughter and... ...a- bor, the odd jobs and common labor in small towns, the cheaper labor on railroads, in factories and all industrial plants is given to this sort of ... ...the English society that banished them for England’s good. The colonies in Virginia with access to land and a chance to make homes for themselves esta...

Full Text Search Details
...l standing, at the epoch of his entombment, in a vast plain of sand to the westward of Thebes. He recollected, however, (talking of the porticoes,) th... ...en in Egypt or elsewhere. I here asked the Count what he had to say to our railroads. “Nothing,” he replied, “in particular.” They were rather slight,... ...me an inexpressible charm: — O saw ye not fair Ines? She’s gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest; She took... ...a capacity for love! But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into a western couch of thunder-cloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees... ...me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia’s spirit free. My mother—my own mother, who died early, Was but ...

Full Text Search Details
...Where d’ye come from, buddy?” “Oh, I come from New York. My folks are from Virginia,” said Andrews. “Indiana’s ma state. The tornado country … . Git t... ...epe-myrtle bush at the end of the overgrown garden he had passed the long Virginia after- noons, thinking, while the dryflies whizzed sleepily in th... ...ffers, and now and then the shrill whistle of an engine. “Hell, the French railroads are rotten,” said someone. “How d’you know?” snapped Eisenstein, ... ...le drifts of warm and chilly air in the breeze that blew fitfully from the west. Fuselli was waiting. He took out his watch now and then and strained ... ... as much as I do. But first what’s your name?” “Andrews.” “Folks come from Virginia?” “Yes.” Andrews got to his feet. “Then you’re related to the Penn... ...ard.” “Harvard … . Guess we haven’t got a chapter there … . I’m from North Western. Anyway you want to go to school in France here if you can. So do I... ...you mean?” “People are fighting to beat the cats everywhere except on the’ western front,” said Henslowe. “But that’s where I come in. The Red Cross s...

Full Text Search Details
...able, therefore, that the descendants of a Pyncheon who had emi- grated to Virginia, in some past generation, and became a great planter there,—hearin... ...ion, and impelled by the splendid generosity of character with which their Virginian mixture must have enriched the New En- gland blood,—would send he... ...oonlight now, except only a little flush of faint crimson, upward from the west, between those build- ings,” remarked Phoebe. “I must go in. Cousin He... ...rtility and beauty. But in our ascending spiral, we escape all this. These railroads— could but the whistle be made musical, and the rumble and the ja...

Full Text Search Details
...er, and this had never been forgiven. The young couple had gone out to the West Indian isles, where the early home of her husband had been, and where ... ...at speculations, coupled with judicious stock-jobbing among the distressed West Indians, after the emancipation. “He was a sinister-looking old fellow... ... into whose feelings no one ever inquired. Mr. Barnes had gone back to the West Indies at once, and never appeared in England again till he came home,... ...were fewer conveniences for the siege on the last day of the journey, when railroads were no more; but some- thing could be done on board the steamer ... ...the wedding, Barbara re- ceived a letter. “Ashton Vineyard, Virginia. September 30th. “My Dearest Babie,—I have l... ...ine gift, a sweet and fair 553 Yonge vision of peace, is a Miss Ashton, a Virginian. She broke down, not with the disease, only fatigue, and I gave h...