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In introducing the student to the history of the development of European culture, the problem of proportion
has seemed to me, throughout, the fundamental one. Consequently I have endeavored not only to state matters
truly and clearly but also to bring the narrative into harmony with the most recent conceptions of the relative
importance of past events and institutions. It has seemed best, in an elementary treatise upon so vast a theme,
to omit the names of many personages and conflicts of secondary importance which have ordinarily found
their way into our historical text-books. I have ventured also to neglect a considerable number of episodes...
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With the words ringing out over the clear waters of San Francisco Bay as the Steamer Morgan City pulled
from the dock, Now, mother, do be sure and take the very next boat and come to me, I waved a yes as best I
could, and, turning to my friends, said: I am going to the Philippines; but do not, I beg of you, come to the
dock to see me off.
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It was a warm summer day. Not too warm, for away up in the Connecticut hills the sun seemed to temper its
rays, and down among the shadows of the trees surrounding Great Pond there were cool, shady glades where
one could almost fancy it was May instead of hot July.
At a point not far from the water, leaning against the trunk of a stately maple, stood a young man. His head,
from which he had raised a somewhat old and weather-beaten hat, was finely formed, and covered with
chestnut curls; his clothes, also shabby and worn, were homespun and ill-fitting, but his erect...
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The purpose of this volume is to give a summary of what is known of American Antiquities, with some
thoughts and suggestions relative to their significance. It aims at nothing more. No similar work, I believe, has
been published in English or in any other language. What is known of American Archæology is recorded in a
great many volumes, English, French, Spanish, and German, each work being confined to some particular
department of the subject, or containing only an intelligent traveler's brief sketches of what he saw as he went
through some of the districts where the old ruins are found. Many of the more...
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This paper is the third of a series of preliminary studies of aboriginal ceramic art which are intended to be
absorbed into a final work of a comprehensive character.
The groups of relics selected for these studies are in all cases of limited extent, and are such as can lay claim
to a considerable degree of completeness. It is true that no series of archæologic objects can ever be
considered complete, but in exceptional cases the sources of supply may be so thoroughly explored that the
development of new features of importance cannot reasonably be expected. If any series of American ceramic
products has reached such...
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Marshal Foch, the commander of eleven million bayonets, has written that no man is more qualified than
Gibbons to tell the true story of the Western Front. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American
Expeditionary Forces, has said that it was Gibbons' great opportunity to give the people in America a life-like
picture of the work of the American soldier in France.
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In most instances the old signs which indicated the callings of shopkeepers have been swept away. Indeed, the
three brass balls of the pawn-broker and the pole of the barber are all that are left of signs of the olden time.
Round the barber's pole gather much curious fact and fiction. So many suggestions have been put forth as to
its origin and meaning that the student of history is puzzled to give a correct solution. One circumstance is
clear: its origin goes back to far distant times. An attempt is made in The Athenian Oracle (i. 334), to trace
the remote origin of the...
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The usual mode of capital punishment in England for many centuries has been, and still is, hanging. Other
means of execution have been exercised, but none have been so general as death at the hands of the hangman.
In the Middle Ages every town, abbey, and nearly all the more important manorial lords had the right of
hanging, and the gallows was to be seen almost everywhere.
Representatives of the church often possessed rights in respect to the gallows and its victims. William the
Conqueror invested the Abbot of Battle Abbey with authority to save the life of any malefactor he might find
about to be...
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At the election of President and Vice President of the United States, and members of Congress, in November,
1872, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, and several other women, offered their votes to the inspectors of election,
claiming the right to vote, as among the privileges and immunities secured to them as citizens by the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The inspectors, JONES, HALL, and MARSH,
by a majority, decided in favor of receiving the offered votes, against the dissent of HALL, and they were
received and deposited in the ballot box. For this act, the women, fourteen in number, were arrested and held
to...
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England may boast of two substantial monuments of its early history; to either of which it would not be easy
to find a parallel in any nation, ancient or modern. These are, the Record of Doomsday (1) and the Saxon
Chronicle (2). The former, which is little more than a statistical survey, but contains the most authentic
information relative to the descent of property and the comparative importance of the different parts of the
kingdom at a very interesting period, the wisdom and liberality of the British Parliament long since deemed
worthy of being printed (3) among the Public Records, by Commissioners appointed for that...
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The following pages contain nothing new and nothing original, but they do contain a good deal of information
gathered from various sources, and brought together under one cover. The book itself may be useful, not,
perhaps, to the Professor or to the Orientalist, but to the general reader, and to the student commencing the
study of Arabic. To the latter it will give some idea of the vast field of Arabian literature that lies before him,
and prepare him, perhaps, for working out a really interesting work upon the subject. Such still remains to be
written in the English language, and it is to be...
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Area Handbook for Albania, by
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Area Handbook for Albania, by
Eugene K. Keefe and Sarah Jane Elpern and William Giloane and James M. Moore, Jr. and Stephen Peters and Eston T. White This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Area Handbook for Albania Author: Eugene K. Keefe Sarah Jane Elpern William Giloane James M. Moore, Jr. Stephen Peters Eston T. White Release Date: April...
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This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American
University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic
facts about the social, economic, political, and military institutions and practices of various countries. The
emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the kinds of possible or probable
changes that might be expected in the future. The handbook seeks to present as full and as balanced an
integrated exposition as limitations on space and research time permit. It was compiled from information
available in openly published material....
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When I first broached the matter of writing his autobiography to John H. Cady, two things had struck me
particularly. One was that of all the literature about Arizona there was little that attempted to give a straight,
chronological and intimate description of events that occurred during the early life of the Territory, and,
second, that of all the men I knew, Cady was best fitted, by reason of his extraordinary experiences,
remarkable memory for names and dates, and seniority in pioneership, to supply the work that I felt lacking.
Some years ago, when I first came West, I happened to be sitting on the...
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In this little book the attempt has been to trace Greek History so as to be intelligible to young children. In fact,
it will generally be found that classical history is remembered at an earlier age than modern history, probably
because the events are simple, and there was something childlike in the nature of all the ancient Greeks. I
would begin a child's reading with the History of England, as that which requires to be known best; but from
this I should think it better to pass to the History of Greece, and that of Rome (which is in course of
preparation), both because of...
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A few words by way of Preface are requisite, in order that the objects of the present Work may be stated to the
reader, and that he may also be made acquainted with the sources whence the information here communicated
is derived, and from consulting which he may still further inform himself concerning Australia. The aim of the
writer of the following pages has been,--while furnishing a description of some of the most flourishing and
interesting settlements belonging to the British Crown, which, at the same time, exhibit in contrast to each
other the two extremes of savage and civilised life;--to call the attention of...
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Arenula'--'fine sand'--'Renula,' 'Regola'--such is the derivation of the name of the Seventh Region, which was
bounded on one side by the sandy bank of the Tiber from Ponte Sisto to the island of Saint Bartholomew, and
which Gibbon designates as a 'quarter of the city inhabited only by mechanics and Jews.' The mechanics were
chiefly tanners, who have always been unquiet and revolutionary folk, but at least one exception to the general
statement must be made, since it was here that the Cenci had built themselves a fortified palace on the
foundations of a part of the Theatre of Balbus, between the greater Theatre of...
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As a result of researches in the field of Babylonian-Assyrian divination, now extending over a number of
years[1], it may be definitely said that apart from the large class of miscellaneous omens[2], the Babylonians
and Assyrians developed chiefly three methods of divination into more or less elaborate systems--divination
through the inspection of the liver of a sacrificial animal or Hepatoscopy, through the observation of the
movements in the heavens or Astrology, (chiefly directed to the moon and the planets but also to the sun and
the prominent stars and constellations), and through the observance of signs noted at birth in infants and the
young of animals...
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The original Serbo-Croat names of the Dalmatian towns and islands have been commonly supplanted on the
German-made maps by later Italian names. But as the older ones are those which are at present used in daily
speech by the vast majority of the inhabitants, we shall not be accused of pedanticism or of political bias if we
prefer them to the later versions. We therefore in this book do not speak of Fiume but of Rieka, not of Cattaro
but of Kotor, and so forth. In other parts a greater laxity is permissible, since no false impression is conveyed
by using the non-Slav version. Thus...
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With the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian army, the Serbs and Croats and Slovenes saw that one other
obstacle to their long-hoped-for union had vanished. The dream of centuries was now a little nearer towards
fulfilment. But many obstacles remained. There would presumably be opposition on the part of the Italian and
Roumanian Governments, for it was too much to hope that these would waive the treaties they had wrung
from the Entente, and would consent to have their boundaries regulated by the wishes of the people living in
disputed lands. Some individual Italians and Roumanians might even be less reasonable than their
Governments....
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Gliding up the Seine, on a transport crammed to the lid with troops, in the still, cold hours of a November
morning, was my debut into the war. It was about 6 a.m. when our boat silently slipped along past the great
wooden sheds, posts and complications of Havre Harbour. I had spent most of the twelve-hour trip down
somewhere in the depths of the ship, dealing out rations to the hundred men that I had brought with me from
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No government can live and flourish without having as part of its system of administration of civil affairs
some permanent human force, invested with acknowledged and supreme authority, and always in a position to
exercise it promptly and efficiently, in case of need, on any proper call. It must be permanent in its character.
Only what is permanent will have the confidence of the people. It must always be ready to act on the instant.
The unexpected is continually happening, and it is emergencies that put governments to the test.
The judiciary holds this position in the United States. The institutions which underlie and characterize...
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The pleasant historical novel which is now offered to the American public, refers to a period of history very
much misrepresented, though very frequently written about, or at least referred to by popular writers. In the
contest between Pope Alexander III. and the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa, we see a very important phase of
the long struggle between the spiritual and civil power; a struggle, in which was fought the battle of real
liberty, and real Christian civilization, against brute force and Pagan tyranny. Perhaps nothing has been so
badly understood as the real casus belli in this struggle of centuries. Most non-Catholics firmly believe that
the...
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I shall never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an
unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni. I had learned of the existence of
this cromlech only on my arrival at Champigni in the afternoon, and I had started to visit the curiosity without
calculating the time it would take me to reach it and to return. Suffice it to say that I discovered the venerable
pile of grey stones as the sun set, and that I expended the last lights of evening in planning and sketching. I
then turned my face...
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In a faded and patched blue coat, turned up with red, the bellman of Kinver appeared in the one long street of
that small place--if we call it a town we flatter it, if we speak of it as a village we insult it--and began to ring
outside the New Inn.
A crowd rapidly assembled and before the crier had unfolded the paper from which he proposed reading, an
ape of a boy threw himself before him, swinging a turnip by the stalk, assumed an air of pomposity and
ingenious caricature of the bellman, and shouted:
O yes! O yes! O yes! Ladies and gents all,...
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It was one of those beautiful, lengthening days, when May was pressing back with both hands the shades of
the morning and the evening; May in New York one hundred and twenty-one years ago, and yet the May of
A.D. 1886,--the same clear air and wind, the same rarefied freshness, full of faint, passing aromas from the
wet earth and the salt sea and the blossoming gardens. For on the shore of the East River the gardens still
sloped down, even to below Peck Slip; and behind old Trinity the apple-trees blossomed like bridal nosegays,
the pear-trees rose in immaculate pyramids, and here and there...
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Suppose 't were done! The lanyard pulled on every shotted gun; Into the wheeling death-clutch sent Each
millioned armament, To grapple there On land, on sea and under, and in air! Suppose at last 't were come--
Now, while each bourse and shop and mill is dumb And arsenals and dockyards hum,-- Now all complete,
supreme, That vast, Satanic dream!--
Each field were trampled, soaked, Each stream dyed, choked, Each leaguered city and blockaded port Made
famine's sport; The empty wave Made reeling dreadnought's grave; Cathedral, castle, gallery, smoking fell
'Neath bomb and shell; In deathlike trance Lay industry, finance; Two thousand years' Bequest, achievement,
saving, disappears...
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Since a battery comprises nearly two hundred men, and includes activities of diverse kinds at different places,
it is obviously impossible for a brief narrative such as this, compiled by a single person, to furnish complete
details on all of them. To suggest the life of the men in their various sorts of work, to trace as accurately as
possible the accomplishments of the battery on the front in France, and to recount the outstanding incidents
and events of its history, is as much as can be claimed for these chapters. Primarily intended for the members
of the battery, these pages will, I hope, furnish...
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The story of Pierre Radisson, which is herein related, has passed into history. That he was the first white man
to reach the Mississippi, after De Soto, is now admitted. It was he who founded the Hudson's Bay Company,
and who opened up the great Northwest to the world, receiving the basest of ingratitude in return.
The materials and facts used in this narrative I owe in part to Agnes C. Laut, who has rescued him from
oblivion and given him his rightful place in history. The manner of his death no man knows to this day, but it
is hard to imagine this world-wandered...
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THE following are the circumstances which occasioned the succeeding pages. A gentleman and a friend,
requested the writer to assign reasons why he should not join the Abolition Society. While preparing a reply to
this request, MISS GRIMKÉ's Address was presented, and the information communicated, of her intention to
visit the North, for the purpose of using her influence among northern ladies to induce them to unite with
Abolition Societies. The writer then began a private letter to Miss Grimké as a personal friend. But by the
wishes and advice of others, these two efforts were finally combined in the following Essay, to be presented...
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