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...l. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON The site of the present City of Washington was chosen with three special views:... ... but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can... ...ead of at its center. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his country’s capital by George Wash- 5 Trollope ington ha... ...ear I must also say the most pre- sumptuous in its pretensions. There is a map of Washing- ton accurately laid down; and taking that map with him in h... ...ol on each side, so that there are two A streets and two B streets. On the map these streets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North an... ...ieve in cities made after this fashion. Commerce, I think, must select the site of all large congregations of mankind. In some mysterious way she asce... ... Ottawa, in Canada, having turned our back upon Montreal in dud- geon. The site of Ottawa is more interesting than that of Washington, but I doubt whe...

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...es on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I gr... ... in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its bo... ...untry, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. And as I looked at the map of it in a shop-window, it fascinated me as a snake would a bird—a sill... ...n the middle, plain chairs all round the walls, on one end a large shining map, marked with all the colors of a rainbow. There was a vast amount of re... ...abin. The pilgrims were dining in the mess-room, and I took my place oppo- site the manager, who lifted his eyes to give me a ques- tioning glance, wh...

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...s to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t know what your pocket map of the universe is, the map, I mean, by which you judge all sorts of ot... ..., mentally and materi- ally, to build all sorts of things…. Over here, the sites are frightfully crowded….” “And what do you think we are building now... ...ts monstrous cruelty. THE END To return to the Elec- tronic Classic Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.htm To return to...

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...and on the wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral ... ...alled, with pictures of foreign places, and Clarke’s New T estament with a map of Palestine, and a variety of other informing books bought at sales. T... ...ptional cleanliness. And in the attic I found one day a very old forgotten map after the fashion of a bird’s-eye view, representing the Crimea, that f... ...rds, either white and new or a year old and torn and battered, promis- ing sites, proffering houses to be sold or let, abusing and intimidating passer... ...r East Australia. We two discovered in a chance conversation a propos of a map in the library that we were both of us curious why there were Malays in... ... Afterwards we recapitulated all that con- flict by means of a large scale map of the Thames and little paper ironclads in plan cut out of paper. A su... ...nd drew her wet cheek to mine. To return to the Electronic Classic Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to t...

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... letter-press and letter- files, and Harran’s typewriting machine. A great map of Los Muertos with every water-course, depression, and el- evation, to... ...urch itself, while the fourth was open, the wall having crumbled away, its site marked only by a line of eight great pear trees, older even than the g... ...d Stetson hat, sat writing at a roller-top desk. Over this desk was a vast map of the railroad hold- ings in the country about Bonneville and Guadalaj... ... But suddenly his attention was diverted. Directly oppo- 157 Frank Norris site the Post Office, upon the corner of the street, stood quite the best b... ...ame.” The young man departed with the package and Lyman, spreading out the map upon the table, remained for some time studying it thoughtfully. It was... ...me time studying it thoughtfully. It was a commissioner’s official railway map of the State of California, completed to March 30th of that year. Upon ... ...ontractors’ ventures—were scat- tered, the advantages of suburban lots and sites for homes being proclaimed in seven-foot letters upon mammoth bill-bo... ...e new-comer, as she sat down; “surely you are the young girl who sat oppo- site me on the boat. Strange I should come across you again. I’ve had you i... ...he initials of the family were very beautifully worked. But directly oppo- site the fireplace, an extra window, lighted from the ad- joining conservat...

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...n-the-Main, and found it an interesting city. I would have liked to visit the birth- place of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memo- randum ... ...le. Some of these scars are of a very strange and dreadful aspect; and the effect is strik- ing when several such accent the milder ones, which form ... ...ely, “you are right again. Then you take the train for New York in the evening, and the steamer for San Francisco next morning?” “That’s it—that’s the... ...king of) thought that the portier of the hotel would be able to tell us how to find our way. And so it turned out. He showed us the whole thing, on a ... ...e could see our route, with all its elevations and depressions, its villages and its rivers, as clearly as if we were sailing over it in a balloon. A ... ...d put them to bed. Next morning I was considering in my mind our desperate situation and trying to think of a remedy, when Harris came to me with a Ba...

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... battlemented walls and towered gateway, were scattered upon this spacious map; a river gleamed across it; and lakes opened their blue eyes in its fac... ...o the crevices in a long-past age. Yet the plant seemed fond of its native site; and Donatello said it had always grown there from his earliest rememb... ...is friend, full of grave and tender sympathy, “you know not what is requi- site for your spiritual growth, seeking, as you do, to keep your soul perpe... ...th somewhat the sensations of an adventurer who should find his way to the site of ancient Eden, and behold its loveliness through the transparency of... ...lly extended itself over the whole compass of your idea; it covers all the site of your visionary temple, and has room for its cloudy pinnacles be- ne... ...n the heart corresponds to the spell of ruin that has been thrown over the site of ancient empire. He wandered, as it were, and stumbled over the fall...

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...ere the streams join in one; it had a fine autumn smell of burning, the smoke blew in the woods, and the boys were pretty merry and busy. Now I had a ... ...ed; the better for a rowing, when he calls me ‘Papa’ in the most wheedling tones; desperately afraid of ghosts, so that he dare not walk alone up in t... ...road; the garden is part burned, part dug; and Henry, at the head of a troop of underpaid assis- tants, is hard at work clearing. The part clearing yo... ...g you will see from the map; from the house run down to the stream side, up the stream nearly as high as the garden; then back to the star which I hav... ... was; and about 1500 of these are in the dark- ness of the pit. But now the moon is on tap again, and the roads lighted. I have been exploring up the ... ... and like Falconet’s horse (I have just been reading the anec- dote in Lockhart), Mortes forbye. News: Our old house is now half demolished; it is to ...

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...n Architectural Idea will be found lurking; his Body and the Cloth are the site and materials whereon and whereby his beautified edifice, of a Person,... ...selves too often reprobate, as idol- breakers are wont to be, mark out the sites of new Churches, where the true God-ordained, that are to follow, may... ...e would respectfully inquire of the ‘present Editor’ upon what part of the map of Germany we are to look for the city of Weissnichtwo—’Know-not-where’...

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... stript away; except, indeed, that the low roofs of a few of these ancient sites of worship were cov- ered with dingy stucco, and frescoed with script... ...who still journey from remote coun- tries to kneel and worship at the holy sites, among which these haunts of the early Christians are esteemed especi... ...sy as the lane was, it skirted along heaps of shapeless ruin, and the bare site of the vast temple that Hadrian planned and built. It terminated on th... ...nge straight downward into a stonepaved court. “I prefer this to any other site as having been veritably the T raitor’s Leap,” said Kenyon, “because i... ...ggestion, they turned aside, for the sake of treading loftily past the old site of Pompey’s Forum. “For there was a great deed done here!” she said,—”... ... battlemented walls and towered gateway, were scattered upon this spacious map; a river gleamed across it; and lakes opened their blue eyes in its fac...

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...ere fired at us. Peculiar markings, as yet unexplained, were seen near the site of that outbreak during the next two oppositions. The storm burst upon... ...ited people intensely, what- ever their previous apathy. The shutters of a map shop in the Strand were being taken down, my brother said, and a man in... ...hes, squares, cres- cents, gardens—already derelict—spread out like a huge map, and in the southward blotted. Over Ealing, Richmond, Wimbledon, it wou... ...s counted me, among the dead. To return to the Elec- tronic Classic Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/ jimspdf.htm To return to...

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...is two miles west of the region it used to occupy. As a result, the original site of that settlement is not now in Louisiana at all, but on the other ... ...obody smiled at these colossal ironies. These performances took place on the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas, and there the first confis... ...ver. Marquette’s and Joliet’s voyage of discovery ended at the same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon. When De Soto took his fleeting glimp... ...e river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot—the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. Therefore, three out of th... ...rican heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘passed the sites, since become historic, of Vicksburg and Grand Gulf,’ and visited a... ...ion. But I was ashamed to go home. I was in Cincinnati, and I set to work to map out a new career. I had been reading about the recent exploration of ...

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.... They included every phase of every question that then seemed to be appo- site to the great inquiry he was making. The judgment of all who have studi... ...hey were forced to land on that arid coast of New England which is now the site of the town of Plymouth. The rock is still shown on which the pilgrims... ...ir opinion on the means of satisfying it, on the probable expense, and the site which seems to be most favorable. The meeting is consulted on these se... ... consulted on these several points; it adopts the principle, marks out the site, votes the rate, and confides the execution of its resolu- tion to the... ...the selectmen authorize the construc- tion of drains, point out the proper sites for slaughter-houses and other trades which are a nuisance to the nei... ...ral government. The union between these two cantons only subsists upon the map, and their discrepancies would soon be perceived if an attempt were mad... ...ula- tion at that time consisted of 495,207 inhabitants. On looking at the map of Pennsylvania, it will be seen that these thirteen counties are scat-... ...he Union to separate from the other States. When we cast our eyes upon the map of the United States, we perceive the chain of the Alleghany Mountains,... ...s skin, and plumes of eagles’ feathers; on the right hand of the chimney a map of the United States, raised and shaken by the wind through the crannie...

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... will be watched as constantly as its me- teorological phases, and a daily map of the country within a radius of three or four hundred miles showing a... ...ntation; but I think on the whole I have got the main lines of this sketch map of my mental basis true. Whether I have made myself comprehensible is a... ...question al- together. It is for you rather than me to say how this sketch map of mine lies with regard to your own more systematic cartography…. Here... ...anism, of no particular value. To return to the Electronic Classic Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to t...

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... miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king’s order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for... ...onfess, that the many virtues of those excellent quadrupeds, placed in oppo site view to human corruptions, had so far opened my eyes and enlarged my... ...she quitted her grasp, with the utmost reluctancy, and leaped upon the oppo site bank, where she stood gazing and howling all the time I was putting ... .... To receive more classics in PDF return to the Electronic Clas- sics Series site: http://www2.hn.psu.edu/ faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to the...

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... time and another we had sent out topographical expe ditions to survey and map the kingdom, but the priests had always interfered and raised troubl... ...d. But come — never mind about that; let’s — have you got such a thing as a map of that region about you? Now a good map —” “Is it peradventure that ... ..., being boiled in oil, and an onion and salt added thereto, doth —” “What, a map? What are you talking about? Don’t you know what a map is? There, the... ... jimspdf.htm jimspdf.htm jimspdf.htm jimspdf.htm To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark... ...e, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark... ...e, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to To return to our Mark Twain site, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ http://www2.hn.psu.edu...

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...oublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the theatrical mecha- nist, who, whe... ...efore propose “Better Accommodation to the Old Company in the new Theatre, site unknown.”—Mr. Robertson’s speech was most humorously given, and he sat... ...of me, I asked where I was to find the person in whose hands were left the map of the estate, and other particulars connected with the sale. The agent... ...his opinion, which he very ably defends and illus- trates, having been the sites of Druidical temples.] The paint- ings of the saloon came from abroad... ...man of the most decorous reserve), he would willingly point out to you the site of the principal clan-battles, and recount the most remarkable legends... ...ly Review, No. XC., July 1831. To return to the Electronic Classics Series site, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/jimspdf.htm To return to ...