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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

... of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name: turn lemons into lemon... ...All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or trans­ mitted in any form or by any means, electro... ...ts used with acknowledgment of publisher and author. Portions of material in chapters 3 and 4 have been derived from The Famous Amos Story, © Wally ... ...her as well. My work managing bands on road trips took me to many distant cities. I would often extend these excursions for a day or two in order to... ...o committed my time and resources to a dropout prevention program, called Cities in Schools, that supports and encourages children to stay in school... ...social services alongside an academic program. During the seventies, the Cities in Schools idea was formalized and brought into public institutions... ...e. In addition to the bakery in McComb, he had facilities in Missouri and Kentucky, as well. I shared ideas and my love of the cookie business with ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 Armenians in Turkey com... ...d Arkansas - joined them only after the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. Two - Kentucky and Missouri - seceded but were controlled by the Union... ...- December 16, 1811, January 23 and February 7, 1812 Felt as far as: Louisville, Kentucky (300 kilometers away); Cincinnati, Ohio (600 km. away);... ...05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jose, Salinas, and Santa Rosa)... ... used astronomical observations to calculate the difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now Asw ān) and Alexandria, Egypt. Democritu...

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Steel Dust Dawn

By: John Richman

...arned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas. This second novel in the Montana series takes place in the... ...finds all the excitement he can handle working on one of the biggest ranches in the state. It was his interest in race horses that took him there i... ...the other strong men and women he meets along the way, searches for his place in a world that, in many respects, isn’t all that different from today... ...st legs if I ever saw ‘em. Of course, Tom, the original Steel Dust came from Kentucky in the forties. Might be there’s another branch of the family... ... “Can’t say I have. What’s a fair got to do with grocery stores and buildin’ cities? And what’s any of that got to do with horses?” “Fair Park is... ...t? “It’s hard to tell, Montana. Most of these Steel Dust horses came out of Kentucky and the Middleton Perry and Jones Greene stock. All except W... ...ybe… records got lost during the war, but we’re convinced they all go back to Kentucky, though there’s likely been some mixing along the way. So, R...

...This second novel in the series follows young "Montana" to Fort Worth, Texas in 1886, where he hires on at a major cattle ranch and ultimately saves it from foreclosure. A good deal of the story involves his horse "Spirit" and his involvement ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Le... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-6-3 Table of Contents Arriving in Indus ..................................................................... ...ted. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a few years ago mounting d... ...an‘t keep your horse stabled all the time then just let it out to run the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National. ―To be prepared to meet the cha... ...at age 31 and 9 months. ―And with more and more people settling in cities, and growing old there, municipalities around the planet are facing... ...hat percentage. This may be because we have less homosexuality, fewer big cities where prostitution can thrive, or because we are too poor to inject ...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...s 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 Lien Certifica... ...ins general definitions, guidelines and simple forms. It will assist the reader in understanding the general principles involved, and in drafting s... ...nts. It is not meant to provide business, legal, accounting or tax advice. When in doubt, the reader is cautioned to seek the advice of the appropr... ...duct Tax Deed Sales, ask which governmental entity does. You may find the local Cities and towns conduct the sales or that it is handled by the sta... ...e purchaser. County A division within a state, usually encompassing one or more cities or towns. Covenant that runs with the land A promise or ob... ...legal counsel. Due to the variations in the law throughout the many localities, cities, counties and states, we recommend that you seek professiona... ...mas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita, Wilson, Woodson, Wyandotte Kentucky: Tax Lien Certificate State 120 Counties Adair, Allen, An...

...ther institutional investors enjoy high yield returns on their money, many times using the capital provided by the small investor, such as you and I. In exchange for the use of that capital, they pay interest rates that ar...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of other days, the mother of us all, love, pulsing in ... ..., storm, heat, cold, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We nev... ...rossing the Lop Desert on camelback; I imagined visiting the Khan’s great cities; I dreamed of sketching palaces, temples, courtiers. I wanted to cl... ...ve Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—se... ...... My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky about 1781, where a year or two later he was killed by Indians, no... ... he grew up literally without education. When I was eight he removed from Kentucky to Indiana; we reached our new home about the time the state came...

...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 pri...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our missio... ...ludes any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyri... ...ios All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-el... ... he had played with Brent for years. "You want a drink? Got a special bottle of Kentucky Bourbon just waiting to be opened," he said with a sparkle ... ...clean up costs," Brent added. "That's just the beginning. We'll have to abandon cities and infrastructures, farms, manufacturing plants. The health ... ...Federally-owned Lands for the Johnarhan Cross building of new communities and cities. Along with the Secre­ tary of Interior, the Army Corp of Engi... ...has asked him to provide designated Federal Lands for the construc­ tion of new cities. He's got to be the only one who knows where the plutonium is...

A One man's quest for truth, freedom and pure spirituality in a world without.

...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...hat a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie following order; .VIIirinative... ...at a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly understood by some of the sp... ...tor than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States." The debate will be held on Thursday, May 9. T... ...|)any at Fort Wayne, Ind. Pierce is coaching athletics and teaching at the Kentucky military academy, Lyndon, Ky. Porter is studying medicine at Harva...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...eve? In Canada their census data showed that 16% had no religion, but the cities had much higher percentages than the rural areas. Atheists and agno... ...ntry have learned to accept. The ever-present graffiti and tagging in our cities is such a testimony to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to t... ...has resulted in Oslo and Copenhagen being two of the three most expensive cities in the world. And of the ten most expensive cities in the world, eig... ...ps the winners of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, or a psychologist‘s favorite rat.‖ —―Let‘s get back...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...ght a ticket in the Chinchon station and boarded a bus. All bus terminals in cities under a million people had cement floors and were dark and dirty l... ...norant that more missiles were coming. "Let others die but not me; let other cities perish but not ours" was a dominant thought in everyone's head. It... ...a for some weed if you are living in Albany like there ainチOt drugs in other cities." "DonチOt know anybody else," she said. "Just the Candyman." Her... ...y would have cloyed her sanity. Being with that same man 24 hours a day at a Kentucky Derby, an Indianapolis 500 or other non-Parmenidetian activity t...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York Sta... ...arms beyond.” “I know but— Of course I’ve spent nine years around the Twin Cities—took my B.A. and M.D. over at the U., and had my internship in a hos... ... theirs is a pio- neer land. What is its future? she wondered. A future of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields? Homes universal ... ...and the sky was wider and loftier and more resolutely blue than the sky of cities…she declared. “It’s a glorious country; a land to be big in,” she cr...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...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. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ss. And yet Washington has been a failure. It is commerce that makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and... ...and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. Bu... ...to what was intended than does Washington. For myself, I do not believe in cities made after this fashion. Commerce, I think, must select the site of ... ..., 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Flor... ... be the Representative of to- morrow. Mr. Crittenden, who was Senator from Kentucky, is now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in ... ...ll probably be dictated by the North. It may still be hoped that Missouri, Kentucky, Vir- ginia, and Maryland will go with the North, and be res- cued...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...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... ...ANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1864. 2 P.M. GOVERNOR BRAMLETTE, Frankfort, Kentucky: Y ours of yesterday received. Nothing is known here about Genera... ...derstand how doing so is bad faith and dishonor, nor yet how it so exposes Kentucky to ruin. Military men here do not perceive how it exposes Kentuck... ...Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular c... ...- PARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, February 28, 1864. GENERAL L. THOMAS, Louisville, Kentucky: I see your despatch of yesterday to the Secretary of War. I wish ... ...irs, first begun at Chicago and next held in Boston, Cincinnati, and other cities. The motive and object that lie at the bottom of them are worthy of...

...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...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...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... ...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... ...wonder if there are some Kentuckians about this audi- ence—we are close to Kentucky; and whether that be so or not, we are on elevated ground, and, by... ...e it. In this matter Judge Douglas is preparing the public mind for you of Kentucky to make perpetual that good thing in your estimation, about which ... ...not to Kentuckians! Mr. LINCOLN: I beg permission to speak as I please. In Kentucky perhaps, in many of the slave States certainly, you are trying to ... ...ent means to counteract, even, if neces- sary, to the bombardment of their cities and, in the extremist necessity, the suspension of the writ of habea...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ...mitted by private messengers, who pursued a circuitous way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the norther... ...: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give you all of Kentucky and Tennessee. In your movement upon Chat- tanooga I think it prob... ...here to McClellan, they will let us have Rich- mond, and retake Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the... ...ay, in your judgment, be neces- sary to garrison and hold all the numerous cities and military 69 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six positions... ...tin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee. H. R. Gamble, Governor of ... ...thampton, Elizabeth City, Y ork, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the pre...

...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...I — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 I ... ... observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could ... ...e than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work imp... ...s grown up as it has about similar carefully guarded relics in our expanding cities, and in many European ones as well. It is probable that not a day ... ... by what they saw if Germany held our Atlantic sea board, with all its great cities, together with, say, Pittsburg and Buffalo, and all our best manho... ... the French have beautiful stone quays along the great rivers on which their cities are built, and why noble monuments of archi tecture, and gardens ... ... not some races—the artistically non creative—born as irremediably blind as Kentucky cave fishes? The answer might be yes, in the case of the wholly n...

...FACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecuti...

...lectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ... Lincoln’s in wretchedness. He first saw the light in a miserable hovel in Kentucky, on a farm con- sisting of a few barren acres in a dreary neighbor... ...usly of his outward appearance. So far he had been content with a garb of “Kentucky jeans,” not seldom ragged, usually patched, and always shabby. Now... ...politi- cal distinction before him, he paid his addresses to Mary Todd, of Kentucky, and was accepted. But then torment- ing doubts of the genuineness... ...o of so dramatic a con- test, he had been induced to visit several Eastern cities, and had astonished and delighted large and distinguished audiences ... ... to be immortalized; their names were to be transferred to coun- ties, and cities, and rivers, and mountains; and to be re- vered and sung, toasted th...

...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 strong for the lib...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...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. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...d one died in a lunatic asylum. It was in the blood. She was from Lexington, Kentucky. Name was Horton before she was married.” And so on, by the hour... ...d. First, the new railroad stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger trav... ...ania’s had happened near her doors, and she was experienced, above all other cities on the river, in the gracious office of the Good Samaritan” The si... ... think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of... ...sted herself in such improvements at an earlier day than did the most of our cities. The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for s... ...elp prospering. When I turned out, in the morning, we had passed Co lumbus, Kentucky, and were approaching Hickman, a pretty town, perched on a hands...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...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. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ied at Nagasaki, while I roast a battered heart before the shrine of a big Kentucky blonde, who had for a nurse when she was little a negro “mammy.” B... ...er holden, and through the medium of their more dignified journals the two cities were yahooing and hi-yi-ing at each other like opposition news- boys... ...nd cut-stone residences of those who have money and peace. All the Eastern cities own this fringe of elegance, but except in Chicago nowhere is the fr... ...blow any outsider into h—l.” They might invent. They might lay waste their cities and retire inland, for they can subsist entirely on their own pro- d...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ses and all conditions. In the kind of pro vincial life which prevails in cities such as this, the Pulpit has great influence. The peculiar province ... ...e roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are... ...treets: not, per haps, that there are more here, than in other commercial cities; but elsewhere, they have particular haunts, and you must find them ... ...President on what he had to say, and wouldn’t bate him a grain. Another, a Kentucky farmer, six feet six in height, with his hat on, and his hands und... ...we shortly afterwards had a new kind of visitor in the person of a certain Kentucky Giant whose name is Porter, and who is of the moderate height of s... ... being versed in the vagabond arts of sleight of hand and hocus pocus. The Kentucky Giant was but another illustration of the truth of this position. ...

...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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Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

...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. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...your vision watched for men and women Hiding in burrows of fate amid great cities, Looking for the souls of them to come out, So that you could see Ho... ...e I WA S the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood both. To them I owe all that I bec... ... something washed and ironed. Harmon Whitney OUT of the lights and roar of cities, Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River, Burnt out with the fire ... ...hered power of my soul was moving So swiftly it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under 123 Edgar Lee Masters Spheres of silver and chan...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...d when *This may have been true in 1832, but is not so in 1874, when great cities like Chicago and San Francisco have sprung up in the Western States.... ... of North Carolina, art. 31; Virginia; South Carolina, art. I, Section 23; Kentucky, art. 2, Section 26; Tennessee, art. 8, Section I; Louisiana, art.... ...s the name of the river. These two States only differ in a single respect; Kentucky has ad- mitted slavery, but the State of Ohio has prohibited the e... ...er to New Or- leans across five hundred leagues of continent. The State of Kentucky was founded in 1775, the State of Ohio only twelve years later; bu...

...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...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...

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Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...phy of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper Originally published in Graham’ s Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843) A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S... ...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. Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper... ...only difference is, that in the social pictures offered by what are called cities, the cancans are in the strongest light, and in the most conspicuous... ...ation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depths of Chimborazo.” Tom meant to reverse t... ...ou,” she said. “Chimborazo is not particularly low, nor are the caverns of Kentucky so strikingly elevated.” “Ascribe it all to that fatal, heart-thri...

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Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field

By: Sir Walter Scott

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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The Blithedale Romance

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...urning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...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... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...an of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might haply g... ...ugh the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving vil lages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swam... ...ugh which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities. Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from o... ...mpletely separated from it, with a lantern we might descend into the great Kentucky Mammoth Cave of his stomach. But let us hold on here by this tooth...

...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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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...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 ... ...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... ...thing about her health. I reckon it will scarcely be in our power to visit Kentucky this year. Be- sides poverty and the necessity of attending to bus... ... In Philadelphia alone this drain averaged $5000 per quarter; and in other cities of the seaboard it was proportionate. (7) The embarrassment of the d... ...here were many, but he was very confident there were some. His friend from Kentucky near him, [Mr. Gaines] told him he himself was one. There was stil... ...s tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois... ...aid the damages. Even between the different wards and streets of towns and cities we find this same wrangling and difficulty. Now these are no other t...

...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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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By: Kate Chopin

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...Excerpt: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: ?Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That?s all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bir...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

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...lmost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches....

................ 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION......................................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME .............................................................................................................

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

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...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

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Winesbur Inesbur, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ... that, at this time, there was a company of forty trappers and hunters from Kentucky, with their rifles, who had made their head quar ters at the Pu... ...ening destruction to the rebels, but never stirred from his fort; for forty Kentucky hunters, with their rifles, were a match for a whole regiment o... ...ibutaries—the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Feather Rivers—to the far inland cities of Sacramento, Stockton, and Marysville. The dock into whic... ...ies.* Lies! thought I, that must be the man who came across the country from Kentucky to Monterey while we lay there in the Pilgrim in 1835, and made ... ...es, and agricultural wealth, and rapidly filling population, and its large cities, so far from the coast, with their education, religion, arts, an...

... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till these evil times, however, such all...

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