... ignorance ofthe slaves as an argument against their emancipation, the antislavery men's problem became theeducationofthe master as well as that ofthe slave Believing that intellectual and moral ... 374.] CHAPTER III EDUCATION AS A RIGHT OF MAN In addition tothe mere diffusion of knowledge as a means to teach religion there was a need of another factor to make theeducationofthe Negroes ... contrary tothe stipulation in the treaty of purchase that the inhabitants ofthe territory of Louisiana should be admitted to all the rights and immunities of citizens oftheUnited States, the...
... Long-distance trade in the Mediterranean was mainly a transit trade in goods that came from far away from India, Southeast Asia, and China —and that Italian ships loaded at Alexandria and other ports ... and slavery, which had long been a basic trait of society, gave way to one between warriors and peasants Together, the chaos ofthe period, the scarcity of labor, and the abundance of land made ... makes up only percent ofthe Earth’s land surface, has been called a small peninsula of Asia, and no clear geographical boundary demarcates it fromthe rest ofthe Eurasian land mass The Ural...
... Heads—Visit of Bishop Broughton—Influenza—Octavius Hadfield The east coast—Taumatakura—W Williams moves to Poverty Bay—Ripahau at Cook Strait—Rauparaha—Tamihana learns from Ripahau—Tamihana and ... has rescued from oblivion much ofthe life of those far-off days A part of each day was devoted by the missionaries to their own acquisition ofthe Maori language, and tothe translation ofthe ... Ruatara as a high chief was able to afford, Marsden could never have gained a footing in the land; and without the sustained labour ofthe civilised European, the work ofthe Maori innovator, too...
... when a solution ofthe carbonate of soda is heated with carbonate of ammonia, and probably also when a solution ofthe bicarbonate is heated Its taste is less alkaline than that ofthe carbonate, ... others waited round and were caught afterwards The well-known and easily imitated call ofthe bullfinch at this season ofthe year (autumn) appears to have a greater attraction — for what reason ... natural history collection as is to be found in any ofthe museums ofthe world [Footnote: Some idea ofthe extent ofthe National Natural History Collections may be gathered fromthe pages of...
... antiquity of their own and to claim as early a date as possible for the authentic appearance of their ancestors on the kaleidoscopic stage ofthe Balkan theatre They are also unwilling to admit that they ... Trieste and the Save; these nationalities compose the southern branch ofthe Slavonic race The other inhabitants ofthe Balkan peninsula are, tothe south ofthe Slavs, the Albanians in the west, the ... north-westwards, overran the whole country down tothe shores ofthe Adriatic and as far as the sources ofthe Save and Drave in the Alps From that point in the west tothe shores ofthe Black Sea in the...
... Scott as the founder ofthe so-called historical romance, and to endeavour to trace it to German imitation." He adds that Scott was a Protestant, a lawyer and a Scotchman, accustomed to action and ... if "the name is graven on the workmanship," "Michael" and "The Brothers" are as classical as "Hyperion" or "Laodamia" or "The Hamadryad"; "bald as the bare mountain-tops are bald, with a baldness ... that art is just as poetical as nature, and that it was not the water that gave interest tothe ship but the ship tothe water "What was it attracted the thousands tothe launch? They might have...
... AHistoryof Land and Life scholar, Franz Boas, he saw tothe collecting and safekeeping ofa substantial amount of Cree artifacts drawn mainly fromthe Bear Hills area ofthe Battle River Valley, ... in beaver Among the Stoney they were called the chaba hei Tothe Blackfoot they were the kaghghik-stak-etomo Beaver Hills Lake was called by the Blackfoot the “Kakghikstakiskway – the place where ... severe was the prairie drought in the period from 1200 to 1400 A. D that some have argued for a general abandonment by both human and animal in much ofthe lands tothe east ofthe central and southern...
... principally, at the CPA’s door TheUnitedStates went into Iraq with a maximalist agenda— standing up a model democracy that would serve as a beacon tothe entire region—and a minimalist application of ... Jay Garner to lead what became known as the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), asking Garner to “horizontally connect the plans” for postwar Iraq across a range of U.S ... from Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq’s leading Shi’ite cleric As a result, it had to be amended once again to eliminate both the caucuses and the transitional assembly Instead, a UN...
... antiquity of their own and to claim as early a date as possible for the authentic appearance of their ancestors on the kaleidoscopic stage ofthe Balkan theatre They are also unwilling to admit that they ... ofthe Adriatic and as far as the sources ofthe Save and Drave in the Alps From that point in the west tothe shores ofthe Black Sea in the east became one solid mass of Slavs, and has remained ... kinsmen from Asia, the Tartars, who wrought great havoc and even penetrated as far as the Adriatic coast Nevertheless Hungary was always a menace to Serbia; Croatia, Slavonia, and the interior of Dalmatia,...
... government of another; like Montesquieu, he devotes attention tothe adaptation of government tothe varieties of race and climate The attempts at a general historyof France in the earlier part ofthe ... a miniature drama of passion, and are aided by the repeated lyrical cry ofa refrain As yet, love was an affair for the woman; it was she alone who made a confession ofthe heart None of these ... who had themselves been actors in the events ofthe past quarter ofa century He accompanied the Black Prince to Aquitaine, and, later, the Duke of Clarence to Milan The death of Queen Philippa,...
... edict was instantly fatal tothe circulation ofthe notes Apart fromthe shock it gave to their credit, and as one edict had taken away half their value, another might take away the other half, ... that altogether they may make up exactly the same sum total as before Ignorant of this fact, and flattering themselves with the idea that they could increase capital at pleasure, the British banks, ... silently out of circulation Thehistoryofthe American paper money, is thehistoryofthe French Assignats; it is thehistoryofthe government paper currencies in Austria and Russia, their history...
... cause ofthe peculiarity of their constitution ceases “79 If the charters can be pleaded against the authority of parliament, they amount to an alienation ofthe dominions of Great Britain, and ... speakers of assemblies, planters and merchants ofthe first fortune and character, and lawyers ofthe highest class, many of them educated at the temple, called tothe bar in England, and of abilities ... ofthe army, allows them to be noble and true; but says the application of them to particular cases is wild and utopian How they can be in general true, and not applicable to particular cases,...
... afterwards raised again The Estates had often been obliged to contend against the King and the Roman See at the same time; now the King was allied with them against the Papacy Now that the Parliamentary ... recognised Canute as King The last scion ofthe royal house in the land was banished, and all the claims ofthe family tothe crown again declared void The Anglo-Saxon magnates undertook to make a money ... out ofthe affairs ofthe Palatinate 484 III Parliament ofthe year 1621 497 IV Negotiations for the marriage ofthe Prince of Wales with a Spanish Infanta 509 V The Parliament of 1624 Alliance...
... beauty of their language, or from that language being more familiar to us Mango Capac, the son ofthe sun, is as authentic a founder ofa royal race, as the progenitor ofthe Heraclidae What ... how the case really stood: Elizabeth Lucy was the daughter of one Wyat of Southampton, a mean gentleman, says Buck, and the wife of one Lucy, as mean a man as Wyat The mistress of Edward she notoriously ... previous to bills of attainder The duke of Clarence appears to have been at once a weak, volatile, injudicious, and ambitious man He had abandoned his brother Edward, had espoused the daughter of Warwick,...
... information, read, the great god, foremost ofthe west, that he may give a good burial tothe god’s father of Amun-Re, king of gods, Pawiaenadja, true of voice The arrow points to an apparent ... Hangul, to free Korea ofthe influence of Chinese writing The earliest Japanese writing, dating fromthe 8th c., and perhaps as early as the 6th c., is called manyogana and uses Chinese characters ... to represent Japanese phonetic values (left column) the character segment in red was adapted to form the katakana on the left Today, Japanese uses four different writing systems: romaji, Roman...
... American revolutionary war was as much acivilwar as it was awar against the British rule; and civil wars have a way of arousing strong feelings and long-lasting hatred Robert Julius Mayer ... regular salary of 150 florin Later he changed to Stadtarzt, at the same salary, and in that capacity he had to treat the poor, – free of charge – and also the lower employees ofthe town, like the ... In much ofthe 19th century literature this equation is called the law of Mariotte and GayLussac Nowadays we call it the thermal equation of state for an ideal gas The pioneers ofthe equation...
... the liberal atmosphere ofthe postwar period, Japanese comparativists expanded the scope of their research far afield, and the latter half ofthe twentieth century saw attempts to relate Japanese ... Japanese not only to Korean and Altaic, but also to Austronesian, Dravidian, Tibetan, and toa host of other languages For a time, one popular idea was that Japanese was a “mixed language” with “genetic” ... non-specialist naturally thinks that the Korean language has relatives and a biological family like those people And when apeople as homogeneous as Koreans are told that their language belongs toa family...
... in the North China Plain tothe Yangzi and southward to Vietnam, and fromthe Pacific coast tothe oases of Central Asia Thus Korean history became a part ofa larger historyof East Asia These ... a little larger than that of Britain, France, or Italy, and a little smaller than that of Germany Korea has been a part of an East Asian civilization centered in China China was one ofthe earliest ... important were Pon Kaya (Original Kaya) and Tae Kaya (Greater Kaya) Pon Kaya, also known as Ku ˘mgwan Kaya, was located near Kimhae Iron slags dating to at least the first century BCE testify to the...
... ‘theatres ofwar , similar tothe geographical arrangement of volume V oftheHistoryof Rome As was to be expected, there is a repetition ofthe contradictory assessment ofthe principate as ... Berlin, Ahornallee 40’ They contain thehistoryof Rome from Caesar’s war in Africa, regarded by Mommsen as thebeginningofthe monarchy and the end ofthe Republic’ [MH.I, 1] up tothe Batavian ... in his Historyof Rome—and later— were inspired by Macaulay Macaulay’s programmatic statement that ‘It will be my endeavour to relate thehistoryofthepeople as well as thehistoryofthe government…to...