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In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling "Nineveh and Its Remains" (1849), and were then dispersed into the public domain of popular amusements. That the stones of Assyria resonated in debates far beyond the interests of religious and scientific groups is apparent in the prevalence of poetry, exhibitions, plays, and dioramas inspired by the excavation. Of particular note, correspondence involving high-ranking diplomatic personnel and museum officials demonstrates that the 'treasures' brought home to fill the British Museum served not only as signs of symbolic conquest, but also as covert means for extending Britain's political and economic influence in the Near East. Malley takes up issues of class and influence to show how the middle-class Layard's celebrity status both advanced and threatened aristocratic values. Tellingly, the excavations prompted disturbing questions about the perils of imperial rule that framed discussions of the social and political conditions which brought England to the brink of revolution in 1848 and resurfaced with a vengeance during the Crimean crisis. In the provocative conclusion of this meticulously documented and suggestive book, Malley points toward the striking parallels between the history of Britain's imperial investment in Mesopotamia and the contemporary geopolitical uses and abuses of Assyrian antiquity in post-invasion Iraq.

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic); Belgium; History / Africa / General; History / Africa / Central; History / Europe / Western; Travel / Europe / Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg);

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: New-York in 1835 in 67 pages; Subjects: Slavery; Black race; Blacks; History / Africa / General; History / United States / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Slavery;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. CAIRO.--CONTINUED. Daybreak in Egypt has not those successive and graduated tints that one admires in the South of France. The sun lights all at once the edge of the sky. Hardly announced by a rose glimmering, it bursts suddenly on the horizon and sets in a few moments the whole atmosphere ablaze. Sometimes, however, in winter, and oftener perhaps than one might suppose, it has to raise, before showing itself, the long folds of a greyish mantle that cover the earth all around. The soil of Egypt, watered and heated at the same time, impregnated with the water of the Nile to its full depth, always in evaporation, and having light vapours continually escaping, is covered in the morning with a kind of transparent haze, which reminds one at first sight of the fogs of Paris. But as soon as the red disc of the sun appears over the Mokatam Hill, this thick veil is rent in every direction; in an hour, at most, the humidity of the air is absorbed; it is barely if a few flakes of cloud, tinted by the breaking day, are still floating over the blue of the firmament. Except during the period of the Kamsin, when the air is charged with a reddish dust that the wind perpetually stirs up and never disperses, the rays of the sun pierce rapidly the atmosphere; the coolness and humidity of the night give place, as if by enchantment, to the dryness and the limpidity of the day. It is at the foot of the Mosque of Mehemet-Ali, and the terrace of the Citadel, that it is so fine to see the break of day over still half-slumbering Cairo. It is impossible to render the effect of a panorama which is then presented to the sight; it is unquestionably one of the finest in the world, one of those especially that awakens in the mind the most souvenirs, whilst it produces on the...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... ESSAY II. General Theories involved in the Question of Slavery, viz. Colour, Climate, Monopoly, and Free Labour. Having thus sketched the Colonies as they were; what are they to become? And here more than one important question presents itself at the outset. Is there any physical impediment, any thing in the climate, or in the Negro and African character, to prevent the application of those general principles of Government to the West Indies, which would be adopted, under similar circumstances, in Europe? These points were gone over in 1828, in an argument presented to the Secretary of State; they will be repeated now with such farther observations as experience has since suggested. A change from one climate to another--from heat to cold, or cold to heat--will naturally produce a great effect on the same individual, and it matters, probably, little whether the change be from cold to heat, or the reverse. But a man inured by birth or long descent, or from habit, to a warm climate, may be quite as capable of bearing fatigue. It does not appear, in proof, that he is not equally likely to work laboriously, under a stimulus of any kind in that climate, as another person born in a cold climate would be in a cold one; or that the latter is not equally prone to idleness and self-indulgence when in a savage state. The Indians of Illinois and Paraguay, were not more advanced in civilization, or less indolent than those of St. Domingo; they were much more so than those of Mexico or Peru; and if, in varied climates, uncivilized nations shew the same indifference to labour, their indolence can no longer be attributed to the climate! When Greece, Egypt, or Rome stood pre-eminent over other nations, a contrary theory might have been supported by specific instances equal...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857. Excerpt: ... 41-" It is a fact that rice does not grow well on land that is not burnt. I know this from experience. Many a poor fellow, after all the labor that he has expended in cutting his farm, when he attempts to burn it sees all his labor lost, the fire refusing to do its part; that man is doomed to be hungry for one whole year. This was the cause of the hard times that we have had for the last two years in Liberia; the farms were all cut as usual, but the rains set in before the farms were dry enough to burn, and in some districts, in consequence of this, there was nearly starvation produced. If it had not been for the bountiful provisions of Providence in planting the palm tree, many hundreds would have starved. It did not alone affect the countryman, but the colonist too was the sufferer. Formerly, he could buy his rice for one dollar per bushel, but now the price rose in proportion to the demand, and he had to pay four dollars. Cassada, too, rises in proportion. Formerly, he could get it for twelve and-a-half cents, now he pays fifty. Thus, hard times were universal in all the land. After the burning operation, then comes the planting process. This is done by the women with a small hoe, which is called the rice hoe. This thing is about as large as a large blade of a Congress penknife, and is stuck into a stick about eighteen inches long. With this is done the ploughing that is done in these parts. After the rice is scattered over the ground, then this instrument is used in scratching it under. It is a very tedious process. Often there will be in one field of about five acres some ten or twelve women, and of all the singing and noise that was ever heard, are heard on these occasions. After this operation is over, then there is a season of comparative leisure....

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. in 1889 in 160210 pages; Subjects: Africa, West; Slavery; Indigenous peoples; Sudan; Africa, North; Nigeria; Blacks; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage; History / Africa / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Slavery;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... CHAPTEB IX, A Survey Of Syria At The Period Of Thb Eoyptian Conquest.--Mount Lebanon.--The Druses.--The Pashalic Of Aleppo.--Jerusalem.--Thb, Seat Of Government Established At Damascus.--Factions Of Aleppo.--Beginning Of Discontents Amono The Natives Of Syria.--Sack Of Safet.--Insurrection Of The Mountaineers Of Nablouse And Mount Cassius.--Disarming Of The Inhabitants Of Mount Lebanon--Exasperation Op The Pofulation Of Syria. The geographical configuration of Egypt lias necessarily had much influence on its history. While Egypt is a plain, Syria consists chiefly of a couple of ranges of mountains, running parallel to the sea; and while Egypt has always bent under the conqueror, Syria--at first, on account of its intestine divisions, the easy prey of conquest, has always proved a troublesome acquisition in the sequel. Those infinite varieties of religion and nationality which facilitate the invasion of the country are monuments of the incompleteness of former subjugations; while the prominence of the feudal principle in the political divisions of Syria sprang from the same accidents of political geography. In vain did Turkey trace on the map boundaries of Pashaliks; they remained pale and indistinct beside the bolder lines of feudal authority; and it was not until all the transactions recorded in this history were terminated, that the provincial campaigns of Omer Pasha in Syria, in Koordistan, in Bosnia, and Albania, produced a more vigorous centralization of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. Mount Lebanon is the political key of Syria; and as MOUNT LEBANON. 103 the possession of the citadel of Cairo was during many centuries held to be the visible sign of the command of Egypt, so the possession of Mount Lebanon is considered indispensible to a fi...

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: J.B. Lippincott

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII POLITICAL HISTORY The Portuguese having discovered Delagoa Bay and formed the small station, which they named after the explorer, Lourenco Marques, remained content for a very long period with the bare honour of the discovery and made very little attempt at establishing either "an effective occupation " or a trade with the natives. Up to the beginning of the seventeenth century they did a little trading in the purchase of ivory, sending a small vessel round the coast to the Bay at very long intervals, but eventually they ceased even to do that, although both the English and the Dutch did some trading there. A Dutch expedition landed and formed a small settlement in 1721, on the site of the present town of Lourenco Marques, they having taken possession of the place, which they found uninhabited. They only retained possession for a few years, however, as it proved too unhealthy for them, owing to the prevalence of malarial fever. All around the settlement were large swamps, where the fever microbes flourished, and it is no wonder that they quickly decimated the ranks of the unlucky expedition. An Austrian expedition, which, however, was under the command of an Englishman, established a trading station and erected a fort in 1776, but were, a few years afterwards, expelled by the Portuguese, and their building was destroyed. In 1787 the Portuguese built a fort and trading station, which were afterwards destroyed by the French. In 1822 Captain Owen conducted an expedition to Delagoa Bay for the purpose of making a complete survey of the place. He obtained the sanction of the Portuguese Government, as the expedition was formed entirely in the interests of geography and science, and the Government, moreover, gave directions requiring the coast offici...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. HELPFUL TOKENS.--(Continued); HILE rejoicing over the work accomplished at San Salvador, wherein has been hopefully laid what we trust will prove a firm foundation for the future upbuilding of the Church of God, with all its holy sympathies and far-reaching activities of love and devotion, we may gratefully recall the fact of " the good seed of the Kingdom" having been scattered around and by the way, a fact which we would connect with the promise, "My Word shall not return unto Me void." At Tuka, a town some twenty miles to the south-east of San Salvador, a "wide and effectual door " was opened to Mr. Bentley. In the first instance, there came a request from two leading men to be furnished with the name of the gentleman who sent the brethren out, as they had made up their minds to write to the same person, asking him to send missionaries to Tuka. Afterwards, the King requested Mr. Bentley to go and prescribe for Dom Alvaro, the Sova, or Chief of Tuka, who was very ill. Mr. Bentley stayed over the Sunday, and on that day Dom Alvaro was much better, and called his people that they might have Sl service. The people (about eighty present) listened very attentively and seemed much interested. "Dom Manuel, the second Sova of the town, asked me many questions," says Mr. Bentley, "and told me it was his custom to teach Portuguese to some of the children of the house once a week; now he would teach them the things of which I spoke." Dom Garcia, the Secretary of the King of Congo, pointed out to Mr. Bentley the town of Mbangu, on the range of the Zombo mountains, as being his birthplace, and expressed his anxiety that his people should hear the "glad tidings." Mr. Bentley also visited Nkunga, about five miles south-west of San Salvador, of which Kiambo...

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Macmillan

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1896 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Grinnell Expedition/ 1853-1855) Arctic regions Grinnel Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 Grinnell Expedition, 2d, 1853-1855 Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. I VISIT ENGLAND. The rains ceased and the rivers sank into their ordinary insignificance; the two lawyers, Fleme and Quickset, departed, leaving their tales behind for future use. Jenny Martyn presented the seedy sombrero to Quickset, and it now hangs a trophy in his hall at Clapham, on the horns of a Cape bullock which he knocked down at Table Bay with--a dollar. Jenny herself, thanks to a quick ear, began to touch the guitar with aggravating facility. It was time for us to leave the Martyns to undisturbed possession of their nest. The missing messenger arrived, bringing the long expected letters. The first I opened, from my Sydney agent, was in the highest degree satisfactory. My wool had sold well. A venture in a whaling ship had turned out fortunate; a lot of land in the suburbs of Sydney, which I had taken for a bad debt, had become a valuable corner lot, indispensable for Government use. All I touched seemed turning to gold. The next letter was from my sister Maria, full of pleasant affectionate chit chat. She had heard of me recently as steady and prospering. She urged me to pay England a visit; and jokingly advised me to make the voyage to choose a wife, if not already engaged to some native lady! Women have such odd notions! In a postscript she added, " by the by, I saw an old friend of yours the other THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE. 221 day, so grown and improved you would never know her--little Amy Clewer, the daughter of Eeuben the huntsman. She is governess in Lord Holmesdale's family, and has just returned from a three years' tour with them on the Continent. We made acquaintance on the Ostend packet, returning from our Rhine trip." That postscript set on fire the fuel of home sickness that I had been gathering for more than a year. I was ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND. First Discovery by Gosnold.--Voyage of ChalUms.--Captain John Smith.--Unsuccessful Attempts.--Religious Persecution in Eng. land.--The Brownisls.--Their Colony at New Plymouth.--Persecution of the Puritans.--Numerous Emigrations.--Settlement of Salem and Boston.--First Arrangements of the Colony.--Schism occasioned by Williams.--The Red Cross.--Rise of the Antinomian Sect.--Mrs Hutchinson.--Violent Ferment in the Colony.--Proceedings against the Antinomians.--The Anabaptists.--The Quakers.--Accounts of their Conduct.--Violent Proceedings against them.--Invasion of the Colonial Charter.--Andros Governor.--Revolution of 1688.--Alarm about Witchcraft.--Trials.--Singular Confessions.--Dreadful State of the Colony.--Close of the Proceedings.--The Native Indians.--Dreadful Wars with them.--Measures taken for their Conversion. Gosnold, as we have already seen, in his prosperous voyage to Virginia, touched first upon a part of the coast of what has since been termed New England, and sailed thence southward to the Chesapeake. In this course he discovered that the continent, which was still called Virginia, took a much wider range than the English government had yet been aware of. It appeared now too great to be the object of one grant, or the adventure of one company. While Southern Virginia, therefore, was assigned to a London association, the northern part was bestowed upon the Plymouth Company, formed by merchants of Bristol, and of other towns in the West of England. Although that part of the kingdom could not boast the wealth and extensive resources which have so long centered in the British metropolis, there were not wanting capital and enterprise sufficient to fit out expeditions on a considerable scale. T...

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: John Mason Subjects: Missionaries Methodist Church Missions, New Zealand Missions Maori (New Zealand people) Biography

Subtitle: Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Three Cruizes to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Reeve and Co. Subjects: Voyages around the world Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Departure from Rio de Janeiro -- Fort of Santa Cruz -- Falkland Islands -- Passage round Cape Horn -- Valdivia -- Wreck of H. M. S. Challenger -- Concepcion -- Talcahuano -- Old Concepcion -- Aconcagua -- Valparaiso. On the 28th of August we made sail, our own boats and those of the foreign ships assisting to tow us out. The entrance to the harbour of Rio is less than a mile broad, and has a bar across, generally causing a swell, which, unless the breeze is strong and steady, renders the towing a necessary precaution. This obstacle passed, sufficient breeze is generally found to take a ship clear of the land, and, if there is not, she can anchor and be ready for the first wind that springs up. The foreign boats cast off before we reached the fort of Santa Cruz. This fort mounts thirty guns to seaward and thirty-three towards the city, and if well served they would seriously annoy an enemy, but with a fresh sea-breeze would hardly repulse an English squadron of seven or eight line-of-battle ships. In the afternoon it fell calm, and we had an opportunity of judging of the Raza lighthouse. The light is but a poor one, revolving, or rather irregularly intermittent, and seen perhaps six or seven miles off, certainly not more. On the 30th a fresh breeze sprang up from south-east and east-south-east, continuing three days, when it hauled round to the north-north-east, varying in strength, but carrying us to t...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Smith, Elder & co. in 1903 in 361 pages; Subjects: Australia; History / General; History / Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania; Travel / General; Travel / Australia & Oceania;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: The Linscott publishing company in 1902 in 475 pages; Subjects: New Zealand; New Zealand History; History / General; History / Australia & New Zealand; History / Oceania; Travel / Australia & Oceania;

Title: An Exposition Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, of Hebrews Vi. 4-8: With Reference Likewise to Israel, as a Nation, in Connexion With This Particular Passage of Scripture General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: J. Nisbet Subjects: Bible Religion / Biblical Studies / General Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament Religion / Biblical Criticism

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Printed by Harrison and Co. in 1841 in 166 pages; Subjects: Palestine; History / Middle East / Israel; History / Jewish; History / Middle East / General; Travel / Middle East / General;

Subtitle: With a Short Account of the Antient and Modern Samaritans, [written Originally in French by Claude Fleury]... the Whole Much Enl. From the Principal Writers on Jewish Antiquities General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Printed for W. Baynes

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: H. Milford in 1915 in 172 pages; Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Military ethics; History / Military / General; History / Military / World War I; Technology & Engineering / Military Science;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... SECTION II. SWEDEN. Ystadt--Carlscrona--Arsenal, §c.--Calmar--Jonkoping--Linkoping--State of the Peasantry, fyc.--Stockholm--Society, 8$c.--Commencement of Winter--Arts and SciencesAgriculture--Trade--Currency--Criminal Execution--Swedish Character--Election of Bernadotte--Politics--Treaty of Kiel--Fete at Court--Vision of Charles XI.--Constitution of Sweden--Phenomena attending the severe Cold--Upsala University--Clergy, fyc.--Swedenborg--Mine of Dannemora--Forges, fyc.--Grisleham--Passage over the Gulf of Finland on the Ice--Telegraph---Mineralogical Sketch of Sweden. The short voyage we were about to make seemed scarcely to need the protection of a convoy; it was said, however, that the Danish island of Bornholm swarmed with pirates, and we were, therefore, escorted by a smart gun-brig, called the Venta Littel. Her singular name consists of two words of the most frequent occurrence in the mouth of a Swede, as every traveller in that country must have experienced, and was given from the accidental expression of the late Gustavus IV. at her launch. He was not, it seems, quite prepared when the time of her quitting the stocks was announced: this phrase happening to escape him at the moment, the " king of dreams" seized the omen with a truly classical avidity--and the ship was christened accordingly. Our fellow passengers, during the voyage, consisted of a motley company: a Swedish major and family, a Westphalian merchant, a Gottenburgh supercargo, two German and Swedish barons, a student of Schwerin, a British messenger, an English esquire, a Russian envoy, a Rostock burgomaster, a Scotch mercantile traveller, and a captive pirate, who was about to suffer judgment for his marauding expeditions off the coast, under the licence of the late French admin...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Containing an Account of His Exile Into Siberia, and of the Other Extraordinary Events Which Happened to Him in Russia; Volume: 2387, v. 3; Original Published by: Printed for R. Phillips by T. Gillet in 1802 in 306 pages; Subjects: History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Literary Criticism / European / German; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Travel / Russia;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855. Excerpt: ... Not so with us, whose forms consumed by fire Must turn to ash, or buried, mix with dust; On which account, when Resurrection's trump Shall call the disembodied spirits home, How shall they find the temple once they filled?--If but in ruined state confused it lay, I then could understand and could adore The matchless wisdom, which might stone by stone The well-proportioned building reconstruct. Or did the promise tell of glorious shrine Entirely new, wherein the soul should dwell, I could not doubt the Great Creator's power. But when the declaration meets my ear, That these identic bodies shall be raised, My staggered reason at the thought recoils, And almost doubts if strength Omnipotent Can prove sufficient for a task like this." "Beware, my daughter--(was the priest's reply)--Nor limit thus the Holy One above. Of ' strength Omnipotent' you spoke anon, Yet contradict the term yourself have used, By circumscribing thus its potency. With humble faith His promise we must grasp, And upstart reason may not scan His ways. Submissive learn whate'er He deigns to teach; Refrain from asking what He leaves untold. In ancient Corinth, some were found to raise The same inquiries that you now propound; But holy Paul, inspired with godly zeal, In language bold, but faithful, styled them fools. And folly, sure enough, is manifest In useless efforts to remove the screen Which of necessity must interpose Between the feeble eye of creature-man, And dazzling acts of his Creator-God!--Yet bear in mind that while His deeds surpass, They ne'er oppugn enlightened intellect. Apart from all experimental proof, Would reason e'er suggest, yon white-robed trees Could wear a mantle of the richest green, And branches, seemingly devoid of life, Put forth their leaves, and buds, and rip...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VI. A DAY AT CHANTILLY--DESCRIPTION OF A CHATEAU AND "CHASSE" IN THE BADEN OBEBLAND--A GHOST FIRST REVOLUTION IN THE DUCHY--DESTRUCTION OF GAME--FAMILY OBLIGED TO QUIT DEATH OF GENERAL GAGERN--HIRE A SHOOTING BOX AND MANOR NEAR CARLSRUHE--TROUT FISHING--ANECDOTES OF INTELLIGENT SPORTING DOGS--CALLING ROEBUCK--DRIVE TO BADEN--GERMAN PARLIAMENT--SHOOT A WILD BOAR--WILD FOWL--DECOY FOR DUCKS--SECOND REVOLUTION IN THE DUCHY OF BADEN FLIGHT OF GRAND DUKE--PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT--INSURGENTS--ANECDOTES OF THE REVOLUTION ARRIVAL OF THE PRUSSIAN ARMY BATTLE AT GERNSBACH BURNING OF NIEDER-BUHL--SIEGE OF RASTADT. It has rarely been my fortune to enjoy any sport in France, although I have sometimes been present at the royal stag-hunts, in the days of the Due d'Angouleme. The Princes of the Orleans family used, of late years, to hunt the stag at Chantilly, at the period of the spring races. On one of these occasions I rode to the rendezvous, which presented a very gay scene. Around the carrefour were assembled numerous open carriages, A DAY AT CHANTILLY. 143 filled with the beau monde of Paris. Among these might be seen many gentlemen belonging to the royal hunt, of which they all wore the uniform, and who were not sorry to spend the intervening time in gay badinage with the fair occupants of these equipages. In the centre were grouped the hounds, attended by the usual piqueurs and valets de chiens, &c On the arrival of the Due de Nemours, we trotted off to a part of the forest where it had been ascertained that a stag would be forthcoming. The hounds soon found, and then those concerned in the chase, winding their large French horns, denoted to the experienced ear every change and circumstance attending the sport. The deer, on these occasions, is generally unwi...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX HOMEWARD BOUND Wednesday, October 15th. The train was comparatively comfortable. We had a certain amount of black bread and cheese, and it was possible to obtain the usual supply of hot water at the various stations. There was a young female attendant in charge of our saloon. I must anticipate the cynic by adding that she was plain and ugly, but she made it clear from the outset that her duties were solely to keep the car clean, and not in any way to attend to the commissariat. However, her work, so far as we saw it, consisted very slightly of the latter, and hardly at all of the former. We arrived at Ryejitsa at 7 a.m. on Thursday, October 16th. I was surprised in the morning to receive a telegram from Moscow. It was addressed to--Comrade Malonb, Carriage Number 2, Lettish Railway. and sent off at midnight on the 15th. It went as follows: In your notes it is said that the first effort to conclude peace was the project worked out together with Bullitt. In reality, on our part, there was even earlier made--the whole series of peace offers to the Entente, beginning in August, 19x8--The Sixth Congress of Soviets, of November, 1918, adopted resolution to the effect that peace be offered to the Entente, and in keeping with this proposals have been made by us. A full recounting of our offers is contained in our appeal to the workers' organizations of France, England, and Italy of July 17th, Iojo. This appeal was delivered to you when you visited me the first time. The English Times received by us refers, in addition to other charges, to a would-be article supposed to have been written by Comrade Latzis, and to discussion in the Soviet Press as to which means of torture should best be applied. I beg you to declare in England that this is absolutely fa...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX V. RUSSIA AND KHIvA. TnK following is the substance of an account of the relations with Khiva preceding the Khivan campaign of 1873, given by Terentief, in his ' Russia and England in Central Asia,' chapters v., vi.:--'Immediately on his arrival in Tashkent, General Kaufmann wrote to the Khivan Khan, Mohammed Rahim, a letter of November 19 (December 1), 1867, in which he informed him of his appointment and arrival, of the full powers granted him by the Emperor, and of the movement of our detachment beyond the Syr Darya for the purpose of punishing the marauders who pillaged our caravans, &c. But this letter was evidently understood as a desire on the part of the Governor-General to curry favour, and the Khivans immediately took a lofty tone. 'The Khan did not even answer it himself, but committed the care of his correspondence to his attendants, who in their turn hastened so little that the answer was received only in February 1868. Knowing that Mohammed Rahim, who was only twenty years old, was more occupied in hunting with falcons than with business, which was carried on by his ministers, we did not expect from Khiva any special politeness. The tone of the answer surpassed our anticipations. The Khivan Kush-begi wrote: "Every lord rules his own lands and neither the people there, of old subject to him, nor his army ought to cross the boundary and in this way break the peace. Further, your statement that both sides of the Syr Darya belong to your rule is apparently an infringement of previous treaties, since the southern side of the Syr Darya belongs to us. If, on the southern side of the Syr Darya, rebels disturb caravans, we will put them down; but if they attack the caravans on the other side of the Syr Darya, that is your work." 'In view of ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853. Excerpt: ... as they well know she only calls them in to corroborate. The girl is probably censured by her parents for the falsity or unjustness of her accusation, and is returned,to school, where whatever hardships she endured before, are heaped doubly on her, and even her companions are ordered to avoid her, an order they know too much to dare to disobey. Thus has the victim made her situation far more intolerable than before, and the lone, and now persecuted creature, has only to regret she did not like others make a virtue of necessity, by sacrificing truth to policy, and bestowing praise where reprehension was justly due. On such security stand and flourish many schools that ought long since to have been held up to public obloquy, their owners shamed, and their walls tenantless. Excepting a case that involves the being hungry and houseless, I can conceive no situation in which a child feels itself so utterly desolate, deserted, and spirit-broken, as on the first day or evening, when left among strangers at school, the head of the establishment appears as awful, and is an object of as much dread to the child, as were the superiors of that scene of horrors, the Bastile, to the wretched captive placed in their power. Even man feels an instinctive dislike to, nay horror of, the gaoler who confines or guards him; yet, as man to man, he has, at least, the consciousness of power to repel any undue personal violence offered him. The child sees in her superior one with strength and delegated power, to which resistance would be worse than useless. The mother and child are both received with that apparent amiability the usual class of schoolmistresses can on such occasions assume. Well I know the bland, and pretended fond caresses bestowed on the weeping little creature, to...

Subtitle: A Treatise Upon Their Origin, Varieties, and Culture, Their Value as a Forage Crop, and the Manufacture of Sugar, Syrup, Alcohol, Wines, Beer, Cider, Vinegar, Starch, and Dye-Stuffs : With a Paper by Leonard Wray, Esq., of Caffraria, and a Description of His Patented Process for Crystallizing the Juice of the Imphee : to Which Are Added, Copious Translations of Valuable French Pamphlets General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: A.O. Moore Subjects: Sorghum sugar Sorgo Sorghum Nature / Plants Science / Life Sciences / Botany Technology

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Publisher: The Religious Tract Society Publication date: 1907 Subjects: Missions Uganda History / General History / Africa / General History / Africa / Central Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... In fine, a third embassy came, who took no notice of any of these particulars, but only said, that the Lacedemonians were for peace: but that this could never be, except the Athenians should cease to infringe the liberties of Greece. SECTION XIV. Troubles excited against Pericles. He determines the Athenians lo engage in war against the Lacedemonians. Pericles opposed all these demands with great vigour, and especially that relating to the Megarians. He had great influence at Athens, but at the same time had many enemies. Not daring to attack him at first in person, they cited his most intimate friends, and those for whom he had the greatest esteem, as Phidias, Aspasia, and Anaxagoras, before the people; and their design in this was, to sound how the people stood affected towards Pericles himself. Phidias was accused of having embezzled considerable sums in the forming the statue of Minerva, which was his master-piece. The prosecution having been carried on with the usual forms, before the assembly of the people, not a single proof of Phidias's pretended embezzlement appeared; for that artist, from the time of his beginning that statue, had, by Pericles's advice, contrived the workmanship of the gold in such a manner, that all of it might be taken off and weighed; which accordingly Pericles bid the informers do in presence of all the spectators. But Phidias had witnesses against him, the truth of whose evidence he could neither dispute nor silence; these were the fame and beauty of his works,the ever-existing causes of the envy which attacked him. The circumstance which they could least forgive in him was, his having represented to the life (in the battle of the Amazons, engraved on the shield of the goddess) his own person, and that of Pericles:f and, by...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... A LIST OJ THE PRINCIPAL TRIBES OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZONS. The following alphabetical list is intended to contain every tribe on the main stream of the great river of the Amazons, and on its Peruvian and Ecuadorian tributaries, including all that are mentioned in this volume; and, to that extent, I believe it to be nearly complete. A great number of tribes, inhabiting the " Gran Chacu," and the banks of the Brazilian rivers, will also be found; and many hundreds which wander along the banks of the Tapajos, Xingu, Tocantins, and other great Brazilian streams, might have been added, had they been connected with the subject of the present volume. I have inserted short notices of the more important tribes, taken from various sources; and a few words of explanation will make this list, which I trust will be found useful for purposes of reference in connexion with the voyages of Orellana and Acuna, sufficiently clear. It is essential, in the first place, to pay attention to the date when each authority wrote; because many of the names of tribes may since have disappeared, either from their having been changed, or from the tribe having merged into some other larger tribe, or from its having entirely disappeared, and become extinct. For this purpose the following list of authorities, referred to in the list, with the time when each wrote, will be necessary: Garcilasso de la Vega ( " Commentarios Reales" ), 1609-16. Antonio de Herrera ("Hist. General de las Indias," etc.), 1601-15. Cristoval de Acufia ( "Nuevo Descubrimiento del Rio de las Amazonas), 1639. Manuel Rodriguez ( " Amazonas y Marafion"), 1684. Samuel Fritz's Map, published at Quito, 1707. Stocklein's Reise-Beschreibungen, 1726. Lozano's Descripcion del " Gran Chacu", 1733. La Condamine's Voyage, 1737...

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Volume: v. 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: D.A. Talboys Subjects: History, Ancient Greece Commerce Business

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... IV. HYMNS TO THE GODS. I. Hymn to Adar (Haupt, Ahhadische und Sumerische Keilschrifttexte, ii. No. 10). 1. "The sting of the scorpion (labi),1 the mighty serpent of the god, thou removest, making (its poison) to turn away from the land. 2. Adar, the king, the son of Mul-lil, has caused it to turn into itself. 3. He is the warrior whose lasso overthrows the foe. 4. O Adar, the fear of thy shadow inclines towards the world. 5. He assembles his people in strength to invade the hostile country. 6. Adar, the king, the son of his father, has made them turn the face against distant lands. 7. On the throne of the shrine supreme, even on his seat, is a brilliant light2 when he lights it up. 8. At the festival they establish him joyfully in his seat. 9. He is the rival of Anu and Mul-lil, he maketh the wine to be good. 10. Bahu supplicates him with a prayer for the king. 11. Adar the lord, the son of Mul-lil, is the determiner of destiny. 12. The time is the weapon of my lord, in the mountain are his ears. 13. The god who binds the hosts of the firmament speaks to the lord, to Adar! 14. 'O lord, a station on high (is thy habitation).... 15. 0 Adar, thy command changes not... 16. Anu the lord has created the earth. 17. Adar, the warrior who knows not fear, (has driven away) the pest. 18. The son of the nurse, the unresting, has (suckled) the essence of milk. 1 Not "lion." 2 Compare the Shekinah of the Hebrew writers, the light which shone over the mercy-seat. 19. 0 lord, the offspring that knows not a father, the smiter of the mountain, 20. the strong (darru) hero, before whom the foe exists not, 21. Adar, manly exalter, who makes joyful his side, 22. 0 warrior, like a bull, mayest thou strengthen the side. 23. The lord who (grants) pardon to his city (and) action t...

Publication date: 1864 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: Memoir of the Queen of Etruria, Written by Herself. an Authentic Narrative of the Seizure and Removal of Pope Pius Vii. on the 6th of July, 1809, With Genuine Memoirs of His Journey From Rome to France, and Thence to Savona, Written by One of His Attendants; Subjects: Etruria; Queens; Italy; Biography

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1766 Subjects: Literary Criticism / Ancient

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1761 Original Publisher: Printed by Alex. Donaldson and John Reid, for the translator; sold by A. Donaldson Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient Law Art Science, Ancient Industrial arts Law, Ancient Art / History / Ancient

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Subtitle: A Study in the Development of Religious Consciousness, From the Foundation of the City Until the Death of Gregory the Great General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company Description: "Eight chapters...originally eight lectures delivered before the Lowell institute in Boston, during January, 1911." --Pref. Subjects: Rome Church history History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Rome Religion / Christianity / History Religion / History Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE RELIGION OF THE EARLY EMPIRE: SALVATION BY REASON VERSUS SALVATION BY FAITH Our first two chapters have been in the nature of things more or less introductory. We have chronicled three periods through which Rome's religious consciousness passed, and at the close of the last chapter we found ourselves on the threshold of a fourth period. We have thus far traced religious consciousness from its birth as a purely social instinct, wfcere a man's whole worship was directed towards influencing the gods in behalf of the propagation of thfi jagg, into a period where the purely social instinct turned intoa national instinct, and where men prayed, not for physical increase. in general, but forthe progress and power of the nation. That was our first chapter. Then we saw the rise of the instinct of superstition. Whereas in the first two periods man had been conscious of his own slirengtEand had pray3oTHgodsrather that they might leave him alone and not prove hostile to him, because he felt him- self confident towOTlTouTftEeproblem alone if only he werejnot interferedwiffiTn this new period, with the coming of...