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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ...ny living man in the world ever did, prior to the beginning of the present century (and I might al- most say prior to the beginning of the last half o... ... might al- most say prior to the beginning of the last half of the present century), declare that, in his understanding, any proper divi- sion of loca... ...RINGFIELD, ILL., May 26, 1860. HON. C. B. SMITH. MY DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 21st was duly received, but have found no time until now to say a word in t... ...ted to me a copy of the message sent by my predecessor to that body on the 21st of February last, proposing to take its advice on the subject of a pro...

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...tion of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere....

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...ise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ?A house divided against itself cannot stand.? I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect ...

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...EECH AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858. .................................................................................................................. 12 IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS ...................................................................................................................... 12 SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD, JULY 17, 1858. ........................................

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 3 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Three is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...ome alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts,... ...of that machinery are: Firstly, That no negro slave, imported as such from Africa, and no descendant of such slave, can ever be a citizen of any State... ...inks Douglas’s superior talent will be needed to resist the revival of the African slave trade. Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is... ...as brought forward at a time when nobody asked him; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it, but when they could not well ref... ...on, in the very teeth of the Su- preme Court, for more than a quarter of a century. In fact, they have reduced the decision to an absolute nullity. Th... ...imes and places designated are as follows: Ottawa, La Salle County August 21st, 1858. Freeport, Stephenson County August 27th, Jonesboro, Union Cou... ...t their own sentiments? A Convention of his party in this State met on the 21st of April at Springfield, and passed a set of resolutions which they pr...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...s—(by which we, that speak with precision, mean, par excellence, the tenth century, and the times immediately before and after)—these ages ought natur... ...ssassinations, which has prevailed from an early period of the seventeenth century, that really does surprise me; I mean the assassination of phi- los... ...any additions, from a MS. life, by one of his friends. Spinosa died on the 21st February, 1677, be- ing then little more than forty-four years old. Th... ...l death at forty-four? Hear his biographer’s account:— “Sunday morning the 21st of February, before it was church time, Spinosa came down stairs and c... ... a conjuror’s leger-de-main, such as may be seen every day for a shilling. Southey’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking... ...y’s “Joan of Arc” was published in 1796. T wenty years after, talking with Southey, I was surprised to find him still owning a secret bias in favor of... ...ther too true; for, simply as a monokeras, he is found in the Himalaya, in Africa, and elsewhere, rather too often for the peace of what in Scotland w...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ...is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the E... ...f far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in prac tice in that day also. One ... ... eclipse of the sun in the first half of the sixth century oc curred on the 21st of June, A. D. 528, O.S., and began at 3 minutes after 12 noon. I a... ...rthur’s court for sentence. He ended by condemning me to die at noon on the 21st; and was so little concerned about it that he stopped to yawn befor... ...sels up behind him on his horse, and one rode north, another east, the other south, to seek adventures, and meet again and lie, after year and day. Ye... ...turn we unto Sir Marhaus that rode with the dam sel of thirty winter of age southward —” “Are you going to see if you can work up another half stre... ...made the hermit life peculiarly attractive and diffi cult, and had gone to Africa to take possession, so I thought I would look in and see how the a...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...ure has placed on their shoulders.” Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge shoals of whales, that they w... ... Primer. “We saw also abundance of large whales, there being more in these southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the north... ...h an insupportable smell, as to bring on a disorder of the brain.” Ulloa’s South America. “To fifty chosen sylphs of special note, We trust the importa... ...cked me off to bed, though it was only two o’clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances — this kind of trave... ...ellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed. Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief mate, bef... ... Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning of the present century. Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seven teenth chapter. “By the ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...ure accent,” said Danglars. “The son has been educated in a college in the south; I believe near Marseilles. You will find him quite enthusiastic.” “U... ...inct led you to believe the grant would be given to the company called the Southern. I bought two thirds of the shares of that com- pany; as you had f... ...nly a momentary glance, but it seemed to the countess to have lasted for a century, so much was expressed in that one look. He offered his arm to the ... ...y skull open till that time has elapsed. To-day is the 29th of August; the 21st of September will, therefore, be the conclusion of the term agreed on,... ... in your family, perhaps, one of the frightful monstrosities of which each century produces only one. Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, ... ... is decided that you are to live at Marseilles, and that I am to leave for Africa, where I will earn for myself the right to use the name I now bear, ... ...the devoted mother * The Spahis are French cavalry reserved for service in Africa. 413 Alexandre Dumas felt that she ought not to allow the whole wei...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...tments and agencies that prevailed in the great struggles of the twentieth century must work together in new ways, so that all the instruments of nati... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...nd eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back at the century after the revelations to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its ... ...read of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into Europe within less than a cen- tury—seemed, and seems... ...” undated, p. 6. On Freeh’s efforts, see Howard M. Shapiro,“The FBI in the 21st Century,” Cornell International Law Journal, vol. 28 (1995), pp. 219–2... ...yland, ” May 22, 1998; President Clinton,“Keep- ing America Secure for the 21st Century,” Jan. 22, 1999. 108. Hamilton, How Congress Works, p. 17. Our...

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...r which a certain other party have been sheltering for near a quarter of a century? Has he no acquaintance with the ample military coat tail of Genera... ...ur Petitioner, Joshua Gipson, respectfully represents that on or about the 21st day of December, 1850, a judgment was rendered against your Petitioner... ... the infant child began the race of life together. For three quarters of a century they have travelled hand in hand. They have been companions ever. T... ... of the globe?” This suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race and African continent was made twenty- five years ago. Every s... ...g slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave trade by law. The law which forbids the bringing of slaves fr...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her be...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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