Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just that land should be taxed to the full amount of its annual rental...
...largest in the world, and which only four white men are known to have visited. Another object of the trip is to gather collections of the fauna and flora of Labrador, about which little is definitely known, for the interior of this country is the largest unexplored tract of land in America. The expedition will leave New York in the latter part of June, to return by the first of October. The party will be composed in the main of Pennsylvania students...
...strictly literary work dealt with nature, of which he was a great lover and student. "The Land of the Lingering Snow," and "At the North of Bearcamp Water," show an appreciation of nature, such as perhaps no man has expressed since the time of Thorean...
...life. Nothing in his work, which was at times most perplexing and most discouraging, could ruffle his spirit or make life a burden to him. He could look through all the troubles of his office, and though conscious of their presence, could see beyond them a word of beauty land truth. A hard worker while he worked, he always had the life about him to cheer him and give him rest. To live, to move about in the sunlight in a world of trees and flowers and birds, this was his highest pleasure. His death, then, seems almost a double...
Early in January Paul Du Chaillu, the explorer, is to deliver a lecture on "The Land of the Midnight Sun" at Sanders Theatre...