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...ion Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylv... ...his one defect grow more and more intoler able with every moment of their united lives. It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape ... ...rful fragrance, capable of impregnating all the breezes that blow across a kingdom. They were of inestimable value, the contents of that little vial; ... ...ch into the reli gion and ritual of the old Persian Ghebers, published in 1841; “La Soiree du Chateau en Espagne,” 1 tom., 8vo, 1842; and “L ’Artiste... ...s God’s creature, and craves love as its daily food. But my father,—he has united us in 59 Hawthorne this fearful sympathy. Y es; spurn me, tread upo... ... older culti vation, larger, and better stocked than most of the frontier establishments. Reuben Bourne, however, was a neglectful husbandman; and, w...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rch, during the last generation of suppose thirty years. When two powerful establishments, each separately fitted to the genius and needs of its sever... ...vil is now past remedy. As for the other evil, that which acts upon church establishments, not through simple failure in the guarantees of public opin... ... is thus al- ready made to what is technically known as Voluntaryism. The ‘United Secession,’ that is the old collective body of Scottish Dissenters, ... ...uation, combined with one of their two characteristic principles. The same United Secession journal openly anticipates an- other and more diffusive re... ...Greek revolution, but who subsequently resigned, and died in the spring of 1841, at his seat in Aberdeenshire,) ‘the conversation hap- pened to turn, ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...er mistaken. Prejudiced, I never have been otherwise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a st... ...Prejudiced, I am not, and never have been, otherwise than in favour of the United States. I have many friends in America, I feel a grateful interest i... ...er, or the reader would believe. CHAPTER III —BOSTON IN ALL THE PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS OF A MERICA, the utmost courtesy prevails. Most of our Depa... ...r circumstances of privation and bereave ment, than in my visits to these establishments. It is a great and pleasant feature of all such institu tio... ...ot very often want the means, may be gathered from the fact, that in July, 1841, no fewer than nine hundred and seventy eight of these girls were depo...

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...Contents SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841.................................................................................................................. 6 SPEECH: JANUARY, 1842. ....................................................................................

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ...o the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd to October 31st he ... ...nwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suit- able establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to ... ...se jails became more unwholesome and more corrupt in proportion as the new establishments were beau- tified and improved, forming a contrast which may...

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...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...hich it was thought expedient thus to establish a new Canadian capital. In 1841, when Lord Sydenham was Governor-General of the provinces, the two Can... ... in the college buildings; but they do not board in those rooms. There are establishments in the town, under the patronage of the university, at which... ...ng the spindles and looms of the cotton mills. Steam is applied in the two establishments in which the cottons are printed, for the purposes of printi...

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