The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days ppt

... in a half-audible voice. Now and again he gave a little cry a cry of loyalty at mention of those victories of Austerlitz and Jena, of Wagram and of Eckmühl, at mention of those imperial eagles ... de Marmont I cannot stomach. What was he before Bonaparte made him a marshal of France and created him Duc de Raguse? An out-at-elbows ragamuffin in the ranks of the repu...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... all the people who fancy that they are of importance make a point of getting seats as near as they can to the captain, and important people are not, as a rule, anything like as pleasant as the ... during the last few days hampers of presents of all kinds had arrived in a steady flow at Eastbourne Terrace. There had been[Pg 33] great feeling of commiseration among...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... now breaking asunder and again returning to the charge. But at last Olaf gained the mastery, and his adversary lay panting and exhausted on the coveted straw. Olaf sat upon the animal's ... surface, and then emerging amid the spray of the waterfall, where the shafts of sunlight made a rainbow arc. And at last Olaf came out and ran swiftly backward and forward on...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... was floating over a Hudson Bay Company's post that had bartered in the trades of the North for more than a hundred years. Through that hundred years Athabasca Landing had pulsed with the ... Athabasca, fighting the Death Chute, hazarding valiantly the rocks and rapids of the Grand Cascade, the whirlpools of the Devil's Mouth, the thundering roar an...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Europe, of the books that they had read Scott and Dickens, Thackeray and Hugo and of the music that they had heard, particularly the favourite arias of Italian opera. Mrs. Markham and Miss Harley ... had read of the agile Italian politicians of the Middle Ages, and for a moment paused at the doctrine of reincarnation. Then he was ashamed of himself. He was wronging...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... employment. But read another writer's pronouncement: "At the end of an ocean voyage of at least five days& apos; duration, the fixed tariff of fees exacts a sum of two dollars and a half per passenger ... gentleman? Can a maid be a lady? Would a gentleman or a lady accept a gratuity? What would happen if a tip should be offered to the average "gen...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... three hundred miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) ... water far beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advanc...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... made him widely known as the reform mayor of Buffalo. His record and reputation naturally attracted the attention of the state managers of the Democratic party, who were casting about for a ... people, and there were many indications of popular sympathy. Stories of his exploits have had an extensive sale, and his name has become a center of legend and ballad some...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20