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...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. Are ...

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...e to invest your money! A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Incl... ...ova This book is meant solely as a broad guideline. It is meant to assist the Layperson in understanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax... ... written consent from the author. ISBN 0-7596-7159-1 This book is printed on acid free paper. 1stBo... .......................9 It can seem intimidating to go to an auction and buy liens on property that you have not seen on the inside. It can seem even ... ...aper? I define it as Real Estate related liens or tax deeds that are created by Counties across the United States as the result of non- payment of r... ...er investors. I have worked through the process and spoken with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississipp... ...n with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississippi. This book is written from the perspective of someone w... ...ve, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, Yuma Lillian R. Villanova 112 Arkansas: Tax Lien Certificate State 75 Counties Arkansas, Ashley,... ..., Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, P...

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...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have th...

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...olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publicat... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...endered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occa... ...im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could ar... ...ebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 1862. For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially rec- ommend that they should, by name, recei... ... South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennes- see, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia except the... ...nes- see, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia except the fol- lowing counties-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Prest... ... Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas in an orderly manner seize and use any property, real or personal,... ...hat the enrolled militia alone would now maintain law and order in all the counties of your State north of the Missouri River. If so all other forces ...

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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 o...

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...

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... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... ...s or arpens of land.” Holland’s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ... monstrous size. * * This came towards us, open mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. ... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and ... ...eizing the line knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reac... ...started the boat along the water like a hor izontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer o... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow white chapels, whose spires stand... ...s chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic marked whale remains ...

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...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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 any- o... ...ity of Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea... ...s we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center.... ...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ... a slave State, lying to the west of the Missis- sippi and to the north of Arkansas. It forms a portion of the territory ceded by France to the United... ... that this is not as though certain aristocratic families in a few English counties should find themselves divided off from the politics and national ... ..., also in the State, Tennessee. Price had been driven out of Missouri into Arkansas by General Curtis, acting under General Halleck’s orders. The chie... ...t courts, the districts or States having been grouped into circuits as the counties are grouped with us. To each of these circuits is assigned one of ...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

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...olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a public... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...aham Lincoln V olume Seven of Seven Abraham Lincoln V olume 7 of 7 OPINION ON THE LOSS OF GENERAL R. H. MILROY’S DIVISION. October 27, 1863. In June l... ... advised its withdrawal, he never positively ordered it. General Schenck, on the con- trary, believed the service of the force at Winchester was wort... ...r proclaim, declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Flori... ...e known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Nort... ...stinct parts, with no practical communication between them. Tennessee and Arkansas have been substantially cleared of insurgent con- trol, and influe... ...r at most Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in pa... ... different wards, towns, town- ships, precincts, or election districts, or counties, will be made known through the Provost Marshal-General’s Bureau, ...

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Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

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...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...or arpens of land.” —Holland’ s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ...on- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; an... ...eizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reac... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand... ...bardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curi- ous of such remains is part ... ...rk, however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go at ...

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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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...an Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., 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... ...ise than in favour of the United States. No visitor can ever have set foot on those shores, with a stronger faith in the Republic than I had, when I l... ...he one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morn ing of the third of January eighteen hundred and forty two, I... ...d out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river. And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly disce... ...two ways about THAT; and so I tell you. Now! I’m from the brown forests of Mississippi, I am, and when the sun shines on me, it does shine —a little. ... ...y please. I an’t a Johnny Cake, I an’t. I am from the brown forests of the Mississippi, I am’ —and so on, as before. He was unanimously voted one of t... ...he Legislative Hall of the Territory. Meetings have been held in different counties of Wisconsin, denouncing the practice of secretly bearing arms in... ..., and he sunk, to rise no more!’ American Notes – Dickens 251 ‘MURDER IN ARKANSAS. ‘We understand that a severe rencontre came off a few days sinc...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, 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 anyo... ...at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday a... ..., another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of th... ...lowed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through it from end to end; and h... ... and threw a sudden flare over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering pro... ..., translated names of cities, where the Missis- sippi runs by T ennessee and Arkansas; and both, while I was crossing the continent, lay, watched by a... ...or- ridge, with sweet milk, and coffee and hot cakes, at Burlington upon the Mississippi. Another long day’s ride followed, with but one feature worth... ...le’s jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distan...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

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...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...ated, but it was neither speculative nor experimental as to the principles on which it 4 Democracy in America was based. If they were true principles... ... have slumbered in the minds of the people until they were suddenly forced on our attention by unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, M. De T... ... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ... amongst others, the Missouri, which traverses a space of 2,500 miles; the Arkansas of 1,300 miles, the Red River 1,000 miles, four whose course is fr... ...e reader the general principles on which the political organization of the counties and town- ships of the United States rests, I have thought it expe... ...ical notions on the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights. The Counties of New England The division of the countries in America has consid... ... extent of country. *In 1818 Congress appointed commissioners to visit the Arkansas T erritory, accompanied by a deputation of Creeks, Choctaws, and C...

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...y 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 Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to hi...

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...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...nclosing a draft of two hundred dollars, was duly received. I have paid it on the judg- ment, and herewith you have the receipt. I do not wish to say ... ...1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 1856 you gave me authority to draw on you for any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. I see clearly that s... ...be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Buchanan. Fremont. Fillmore. Bond ................ ...u to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the encour- agement of our folks nominating ... ... a few years later, Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition b... ...r the Union, while in oth- ers—as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas— the Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silenced. The course... ...yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Caro- lina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgents in all the said States claim to act un...

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...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, 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 anyo... ...ably old and faded and dry and musty and ancient he came to look as he went on! Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the we... ...rible strokes, and Sir Launcelot after him with all his might, and smote him on the shoulder, and clave him to the middle. Then Sir Launcelot went int... ... and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. Everybody praised the valor and magnanimi... ...” “I know of governors of places, and seneschals of castles, and sheriffs of counties, and many like small offices and titles of honor, but him you ca... ...othing out of the way about it, but now its note was discordant. It was good Arkansas journalism, but this was not Arkansas. More over, the next to t... ...hing, very neat and pretty to see. It resembled a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi; and dur ing the next fifteen minutes we stood under a stead... ...s — well, I never saw anything to begin with it but a fight between an Upper Mississippi sunset and the aurora borealis. The huge camp of beflagged an...

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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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...olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publicat... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. ... ...day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses,... ...r proposed stipulation that all the candi- dates shall remain in their own counties, and restrain their friends in the same it seems to me that on ref... ...ropose to retain in your new plan. If we take the entire population of the counties as shown by the late census, we shall see by the old plan, and by ... ...who exercises jurisdiction over a piece of land between the Wabash and the Mississippi; and yet so far is this from being all there is between those r... ...d to have it done—concurring, as he did generally, with the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Johnson] that the postpone- ment might jeopard the safety of ... ... on this separate proposition, he re- peated that, with the gentlemen from Arkansas, he should prefer it lest they should lose all. But if there was t...

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... CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE??...

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...u Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEP... ... . . . . 6 CHAPTER III — SHIP’S DUTIES—TROPICS CHAPTER IV — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HO!’’—POMPERO—CAPE HORN . . ... ...LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CA... .... . . . . . 46 DUTIES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—... .... We met with nothing remarkable until we were in the latitude of the river La Plata. Here there are violent gales from the southwest, called ... ...thwest, called Pamperos, which are very destructive to the shipping in the river, and are felt for many leagues at sea. They are usually preceded by... ...ights and measures; then the states of the union, with their capitals; the counties of England, with their shire towns; the kings of England in thei... ...ous high pres sure steamers, as large and showy as those of the Hudson or Mississippi, bodies of dazzling - 202 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard... ...ements in Missouri and - 212 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana Arkansas, and the mountains of California, trapping in Colorado and Gi...