Around the World With the Blue Jackets, Or How We Displayed the American Flag in Foreign Waters (Classic Reprint)
Around the World With the Blue Jackets, Or How We Displayed the American Flag in Foreign Waters (Classic Reprint)

Author: Henry Eckford Rhoades

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780332100449

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Excerpt from Around the World With the Blue Jackets, or How We Displayed the American Flag in Foreign Waters Such an expedition partook largely of the nature of an excursion. Applications for service were numerous, and the influence of the powers that be was sought by many officers to enable them to be detailed to the Iroquois. Our twenty-four officers, our one hundred and seventy-five sailors and marines all looked forward to the trip with eagerness, and there was less of the conventional grumbling that is the accompaniment of every voyage - unless it was at the delay in starting. Tiresome business, this of the navy? You ask. Well - no! And yes! The bitter experiences are the long three-years' separa tions from loved ones at home, the weary waiting for news from them, and for the often delayed orders to return after the term of the cruise has expired. Each officer is supposed to be entitled to a certain amount of sea-service, and a corresponding amount of shore-service. Too often, however, favoritism has interfered and permitted certain officers seven and eight years of service at home, while others less fortunate have been compelled to spend more than their rightful Share at sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Around the World with the Blue Jackets; Or, How We Displayed the American Flag in Foreign Waters...
Around the World with the Blue Jackets; Or, How We Displayed the American Flag in Foreign Waters...

Author: Rhoades Eckford

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781314645606

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Sophie's World
Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

BLUE JACKETS OF 76 A HIST OF T
BLUE JACKETS OF 76 A HIST OF T

Author: Willis J[ohn] 1863-1934 Abbot

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781360853970

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Our Country's Flag, and the Flags of Foreign Countries (Classic Reprint)
Our Country's Flag, and the Flags of Foreign Countries (Classic Reprint)

Author: Edward S. Holden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780331828214

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Excerpt from Our Country's Flag, and the Flags of Foreign Countries Looking more carefully at the difference between the two directions of the new education we can see what each accomplishes. There is first an effort to train the original powers of the individual and make him self-active, quick at observation, and free in his thinking. Next, the new education endeavors, by the reading of books and the study of the wisdom of the race, to make the child or youth a participator in the results of experience of all mankind. These two movements may be made antagonistic by poor teaching. The book knowledge, containing as it does the precious lesson of human experience, may be so taught as to bring with it only dead rules of conduct, only dead scraps of information, and no stimulant to original thinking. Its contents may be memorized without being understood. On the other hand, the self-activity of the child may be stimulated at the expense of his social well-being - his originality may be cultivated at the expense of his rationality. If he is taught persistently to have his own way, to trust only his own senses. To cling to his own opinions heedless of the experience of his fellows, he is pre paring for an unsuccessful, misanthropic career, and is likely enough to end his life in a madhouse. It is admitted that a too exclusive study of the knowledge found in books, the knowledge which is aggregated from the experience and thought of other people, may result in loading the mind of the pupil with material which he can not use to advantage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.