invisible men of mars

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) ... music, are soft and low; and we are a people of few words John Carter has told me of the din of Earthly cities and of the brasses and the drums and the cymbals of Earthly music, of the constant, ... officers The jeds nodded "We shall now determine which of you are best fitted to serve as officers of our fighting men, " said one; and, speaking to an officer standing near us: "Fetch seven of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, of ‘the study of nature and experimental philosophy to the prince of Wales, and to men of fortune and leisure, as the surest means of enlarging ... the Enlightenment dream of ‘improvement’ offered the professional classes a way of establishing their position as the new moral centre by addressing themselves to the urgent task of curing what ... ideals of disinterested behaviour and panoptic social knowledge from the loftier rhetoric of aristocratic detachment into the idiom of professional life My second qualification to Kramnick’s argument,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... to a share of the products of other men save through a simple and bald assertion of ownership over the materials and the men Landownership and human slavery were the first instruments of the acquisitive ... flow around Europe: one a stream of goods made up of every sort of product of every clime; the other a stream of money coined in the little mints of hundreds of petty princes These fustian makers ... hands of the electors, a small group of dukes and archbishops The Margrave of Brandenburg, the Count Palatine of the Rhine, and the electors of Mainz and of Trier were practical gentlemen and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 23:20

... versions of Mars are great Brackett's Mars is set firmly in a world of interplanetary commerce and competition, and one of the most prominent themes of Brackett's stories is the clash of planetary ... wild skirling of the mountain pipes and the 34 broken thunder of drums, and a wordless scream of exultation that rang back from the Wall of Kushat like the very voice of battle The men of Mekh began ... feel of it The crowd was still churning around him, growing larger, and now he heard the tramp of military feet A small detachment of men in light armor pushed their way through A very young officer...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... of the roof reserved for military ships, I saw the fliers of a number of high officers of the Warlord's staff Being a frequent visitor at the palace and being well known by all the officers of ... sight of the city without any place of concealment in the event that the ruins happened to be occupied by one of the numerous tribes of green men who infest the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom, often...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) ... the story of the interesting periods of my life and of my death I cannot explain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange ... noiselessness of their approach, and, in 18 common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars The highest type of man and one other animal, the only mammal existing on Mars, ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... the bars of the cage smacked against the cement wall of the pit, John Carter's arms shot out with the quickness of a striking snake His fingers closed in a grip of steel about the ankle of the ... lodged part way in the floor of Pew Mogel's compartment The tail of the craft was protruding out of the top of the howdah, but the craft's door was inside the compartment John Carter sprang from...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) ... Morgor commencement in the role of a willing sacrifice 45 "How many of you men are expert swordsmen?" I asked About hail of them claimed to be, but it is a failing of fighting men to boast of their ... than the hideous kaldanes of Bantoom those horrifying spider men into whose toils fell Tara of Helium during that adventure which led her to the country of The Chessmen of Mars; they, at least, had...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars ... half filled Most of the slaves were women—young women, and many of them were beautiful With the exception of two men, one sitting at either end of the table, all the occupants of the room were ... headquarters of one of the most powerful guilds of assassins on Mars The land of my birth is cursed with its gangsters, its killers, and its kidnappers but these constitute but a slight menace as...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... drying with soft towels, and the bath was over Typical of the life of the princess was the simple elegance of her bath—no retinue of useless slaves, no pomp, no idle waste of precious moments In ... small musical instruments of a single string Upon each instrument were characters which indicated the pitch and length of its tone The instruments were of skeel, the string of gut, and were shaped...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... Giant of Mars (1940) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... several men and women chained to the wall, and in front of them, evidently directing and operating the movement of the secret doorway, a wicked-faced man, neither red as are the red men of Mars, ... the weight of the testimony of several of us the truth of our statements may be accepted, and at least a compromise effected which will result in the dispatching of an expedition of investigation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... I found myself dreaming of Mars and John Carter, of Dejah Thoris, of Tars Tarkas and of Woola as if they had been entities of my own experience rather than the figments of your imagination It ... into his coffers His treatment of me was based entirely upon scientific requirements I offered a problem I was either, quite evidently, not a Barsoomian at all, or I was of a species of which...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • Thuvia Maid of Mars (1920) ... held the mother of my boy, Carthoris of Helium The race of blacks that for ages had worshiped Issus, the false deity of Mars, had been left in a state of chaos by my revealment of her as naught ... ships and fighting men of the red men of Helium Fierce green warriors from the ocher sea bottoms of outer Mars had ridden their wild thoats across the sacred gardens of the Temple of Issus, and Tars...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... the Giant of Mars (1940) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1930) • The Master Mind of Mars (1927) • Swords of Mars (1934) • The Warlord of Mars (1918) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) ... the persons of the royal women of the courts of Mars are held but little less than sacred The act of Astok, Prince of Dusar, was profanation There was no terror in the eyes of Thuvia of Ptarth—only ... what less could one expect of the son of such a sire?" He bowed his acknowledgment of the compliment to his father, John Carter, Warlord of Mars And then the guardsmen, panting from their charge,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... Teutonic lover of freedom Hence the recommendation so strongly urged in the report of the Committee of Ten and emphasized, also, in the report of the Committee of Fifteen that the study of Greek, ... the day of Tiew; Wednesday, the day of Woden; Thursday, the day of Thor; and Friday, the day of Frija Frija's son was Baldur; who was the favorite of all the gods Only Loki, the spirit of evil, ... a large sum of money and a portion of country south of the Danube This made peace, but the peace did not last long In a few years Attila appeared at the head of an army of 700,000 men With this...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... memory of their country CHAPTER I The passage of years has a way of diminishing the stature of men thought great, and often of increasing that of men thought little Few American statesmen, for ... tears to the eyes of every lover of his country Of all this we shall tell, as simply as may be, giving the story of our country's history and development in terms of its great men So far as possible, ... the men it has produced, the story of whose lives is the story of its history There are two kinds of greatness greatness of deed and greatness of thought The first kind is shown in the lives of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... pause of the game of polo, determines without appeal the course of the paper in any crisis of business or politics Captains of Industry, by James Parton I not complain of this arrangement of things ... seventy-five years of age, the wife of one of the leading men of Salisbury, a woman of singular excellence and dignity of character, was among the convicted She was a neighbor of Major Pike's, ... soul of the enterprise, and the real founder of St Louis He was one of that stock of Frenchmen who put the imprint of their nation, never to be effaced, upon the map of North America a kind of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... memory of their country CHAPTER I The passage of years has a way of diminishing the stature of men thought great, and often of increasing that of men thought little Few American statesmen, for ... tears to the eyes of every lover of his country Of all this we shall tell, as simply as may be, giving the story of our country's history and development in terms of its great men So far as possible, ... the men it has produced, the story of whose lives is the story of its history There are two kinds of greatness greatness of deed and greatness of thought The first kind is shown in the lives of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... document For the personages of his pictures he painted a great number of miniatures from life, which, in many cases, are the only surviving presentments of some of the most prominent men of the ... CHAPTER I "MEN OF MIND" In the companion volume of this series, "Men of Action," the attempt was made to give the essential facts of American history by sketching in broad outline the men who made ... philanthropists and reformers, men of affairs, actors and inventors and it may be truly argued concerning some of them that they were more "men of action," and less "men of mind" than many who were...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:20

... fashions of language and the necessities of a suitor, there is too much of insincere profession of disinterestedness, too much of exaggerated profession of admiration and devoted service, too much of ... Praise of Knowledge belongs, also, one in Praise of the Queen As one is an early specimen of his manner of writing on philosophy, so this is a specimen of what was equally characteristic of him ... improvement of the revenue; the defence of extreme rights of the prerogative in the case against Whitelocke; the great question of calling a parliament, and of the true and "princely" way of dealing...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 00:20