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...GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Th... ...R’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Whole Hi... ...’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...ned, lugging in a large pair of scales. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing bulky commodities; and quite a bulky commodity w... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... .... 61 Hawthorne Next comes a class in arithmetic. These boys are to be the merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics of a future period. Hitherto they hav... ...ther here explained some of the circumstances that made the situation of a colonial governor so difficult and irk some. There was not the same feelin... ...sman Hutchinson. It was by their advice that the king had acted in all the colonial troubles. But the day of recompense was come. “See the old tory!” ...

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Excerpt: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet ... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ne towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I... ...d, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while ... ...nds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered ... ... highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the deliver... ...n the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was concer...

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...Introduction: In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, ?Fanshawe.? It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-page of the original was from Southey: ?Wilt thou go on with ...

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... The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Res... ...ns Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Contents PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . . . . . .... ...ht c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Contents PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . . . . . . . . . . .... ...scends towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield be fore her breast, and... ...gland, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin wh... ...ounds, perhaps, were all alive be fore his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, ente... ...m the highest rank, he still held an honourable and influential place among the colonial magistracy. Another and far more important reason than the del... ...ed in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates. So far as a demeanour of natural authority was co...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden h...

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