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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...lly overloaded with documents—like some outland- ish mule. Legal books and newspapers filled shelves. A narrow window faced the street; another windo... ...hakespeare? I have not. That I have read LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 547 the newspapers? I have not. During bouts of fever I let myself return to other ... ...bout fifty-seven when he was President. I recall his vivid description of abolitionist Lovejoy’s printing press tragedy, in Alton, in ’37, how the m... ...believe that by wheedling we can conquer; some voice the old voice of the abolitionists; some offer a packet of new tricks; theirs is a jack-in-the-...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ...t Mr. Seward would find any other line of conduct very in- convenient. The newspapers, one after another, came round. That, under all these circumstan... ...overn- ment behaved well in the matter, no one, I think, can deny; but the newspapers, taken as a whole, were not very consistent, and, I think, not v... ...ple,” and of the ruin to those efforts which arises from the malice of the abolitionists. To all this you make some answer with your tongue that is ha... ...arty of the North is divided into two sections, of which one may be called abolitionist, and the other non-abolition- ist. Mr. Lincoln’s government pr...

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...Excerpt: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the convention:-- If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object ...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 3 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 3 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Three is a public... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Three is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Three is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... and by which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Sena- tor. Mr. DOUGLAS was not present.] Mr. PRESIDENT AND GE... ... least, so I believe. I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any Abolitionist,—I have been an Old Line Whig,—I have always hated it; but I h... ... that some Southern men do free their slaves, go north, and become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go south and become most cruel slav... ...another topic to which I desire to allude. I seldom refer to the course of newspapers, or notice the articles which they publish in regard to myself; ... ...ication to make of my Democracy against the Washington Union, or any other newspapers. I am willing to allow my his- tory and action for the last twen...

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...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...

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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 existenc...

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...y, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? ...

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...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... question about a matter which had been much debated by the public and the newspapers; he answered the question without any hesitancy. “General, who p... ...or in time their names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and th... ...imself is sincere—his heart is in his protest. Robert Hardy was our first abolitionist—awful name! He was a journeyman cooper, and worked in the big ... ...was decided that he was a coward. All of a sudden he proclaimed himself an abolitionist— straight out and publicly! He said that negro slavery was a c... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too st...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours 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 su...

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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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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...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... ...y bar, or smoking in a comfortless reading-room among a deluge of American newspapers. And I protest also—hoping as I do so that I may say much in thi... ...rs; it has three or four churches, and intends to thrive. It possesses two newspapers, of the prosperity of which I should be in- clined to feel less ... ...uthern States, not because they care for cotton, not because they are anti-abolitionists, not because they admire the hearty pluck of those who are en... ...ents of volunteers consisting wholly of Germans. And the Ger- mans are all abolitionists. To all the men of the West the name of Fremont is dear. He i...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen a...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large f...

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