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...means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the first page or two of this narrative must be consumed in giving a catalogue of the good things which chance and conduct together had heaped upon this young man?s head....

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...Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed property declared void; the voice of complaint...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this...

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...re Cooper A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. New York by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 James Fenimore Cooper New Y ork by James Fenimore Cooper T HE INCREASE OF THE TOWNS of Manhattan, as, for t... ...pe of improvement. New York will probably never possess any churches of an architecture to attract attention for their magnitude and magnificence. The... ... attract attention for their magnitude and magnificence. The policy of the country , which separates religion from the state, precludes this, by confi... ... ornaments suited to the resources of a branch of the church that, in this country, is by no means affluent. The manner in which the Americans are sub... ...ore consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that re- lates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless, a sensible improvement in this respect has occu... ...to them as extraordinary, or out of rule. There is not a port in the whole country that is less indebted to art and the fostering hand of Gov- ernment...

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...ondescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but in a supreme self-dictation, which keeps varying f...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...

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