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The Beginnings of America, 1607-1763
by Richard B. MorrisThe seventeenth century in America was the seedtime of colonization. For 115 years after Columbus discovered America, explorers sailed the western waters, and the nations of Europe staked out vast empires. England launched several successful attempts to plant colonies in what is now the United States. In the years following the landing at Jamestown..
Wanderings in Three Continents
by Richard F. BurtonThe essays that follow were all prepared by Burton himself, and most of them were read by him in the form of lectures before sundry geographical and scientific societies at different times. For instance, the description of his expeditions to El Medinah, Meccah, Harar, and Dahomé were delivered by him as a course of four lectures before the Emperor ..
Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony Simply Explained
by Alfred Powell MorganWireless telegraphy, that marvelous art which has made possible the instantaneous transmission of intelligence between widely distant parts having no apparent physical connection save that of the earth, air, and water, is one of those wonders of science which appeal to the average mind as either incomprehensible or only explainable through the use ..
An Attempt to Investigate the Seat of Animal Life
by Henry CurtisThe capacity and aptitude for motion, observable in man, naturally lead us to an enquiry into the general principle of his corporeal functions. To a disquisition of which I devote the following pages. Aware of the intricacy of my subject, and that the operations of the animal body necessarily embrace agents not within the range of our senses, I can..
The Young Continentals at Lexington
by John T. McIntyre“The Young Continentals at Lexington” begins with that vital period of our country’s history when the great forces that made the Revolution were slowly coming together. The port of Boston was closed; an army under Gage occupied the city; Massachusetts Bay was thronged with troop-ships and frigates, and the colonies were writhing under a serie..
A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon
by AnonymousCALM was the Sky, the Sun serenely bright,Shot o’er the Sea long dazzling Streams of Light.Thro’ Orange Groves soft breathing Breezes play’d,And gather’d Sweets like Bees where e’er they stray’d.In fair Relievo stood the lofty Town,Set off by radiant Lights and Shadows brown;While ev’ry Dome, each Cupola and Spire,Shone doubly gilt by the Sun’s lam..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 108, Vol. III, January 23, 1886
by Chambers' JournalI am once more at the water’s edge. It is the Tweed, silver-voiced, musical, its ripples breaking into liquid crystals as the rushing stream leaps into the breast of the softly-circling pool. Here, in its upper reaches, amid the pastoral hills of Peeblesshire, its volume of fair water is untainted by pollution. It has miles and miles yet to run ere..
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 109, Vol. III, January 30, 1886
by Chambers' JournalThe canon of literary criticism is, we have said, not an unvarying one. But undoubtedly there is, for all perfect, and still more for all enduring work in the world of letters a certain measure and standard of excellence in the mode of expression, which even the most brilliant genius cannot afford wholly to disregard, but which is as incapable of e..