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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... King did not wish to marry Simpson, merely to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different... ...ut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's ... ...hired gumshoes, who spent their time mostly spying on each other. In 1923, Walter Law was found dead in his Nash sedan. Belva was involved with hi... ... on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4300 inmates, including dozens of women, wer... ...p de grace. The researchers analyzed more than 12,500 skeletons - half of them pre-Columbian - from 65 sites in North and South America for evidenc... ... shorter and died earlier - on average at age 35 - as the centuries passed. "Pre-Columbian populations were among the healthiest and the least he... ...items. Perforation was introduced only in 1848- 54. Stamps were first proposed by a schoolmaster and civil servant, Rowland Hill, in 1837, in his ma... ... first to be interviewed on TV in April 1930. The Japanese televised an elementary school baseball match in September 1931. Nazi Germany started it... ....de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar2.htm http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/ASLevel_History/week2_theweima rconsitution...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager to citizen 47... ...istration, central offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural centres, centres of excellence and cent... ... of excellence and centres of well-being. In Finland, for example, village schools, shops and other local structures have almost completely disappeare... ...lture is centralizing, fusing, integrating. Centralization is the cultural law of meritocracy. In the postlocal world, centralization continues and na... ...from them. The old person believes that the poisoning should be stopped, a law made to prohibit it. It's harmful to people and animals. Because they a... ...house has been a skill possessed by village men. In the past, every son-in-law had to build his wife a house in her parents' compound; it was proof o... ...geles. Diamond, Stanley (ed.) 1969 (1960). Primitive Views on the World. Columbia Univ. Press, New York – London. Directory of Tribal Villages in N... ...ogy of Rice. Stanley Diamond (ed.), Primitive Views of the World, 151–154. Columbia Univ. Press. Hanks, J. R. – H. M. Hauck – S. Sudsanek 1958. Food... ...onship Between Socio-cultural and Economic Factors. Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University N.Y. London, Bruce 1977. Metropolis and Nation: An Eco...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ligious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or we absorbed simple social as... ...a practice of going to some church each Sunday and of sending me to Sunday school. When I was about thirteen or fourteen I was baptized into a Baptist... ... of Zoroastrianism and through the second major influence—the writings and schools of classical Greece—came a new, carefully defined system of Hebrais... ...n? 35. See Myoho-Renge-Kyo, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, Tokyo, Rissho Kosei-Kai, 1970, pp. 307-8. 36. For example, Paul Tillic... ... the premise which pervades The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, particularly popular in Japan. Nevertheless be- lief in permanent, ult... ...hen reigned supreme in the West, that human intellect is the psychological faculty which is, at least potentially, in ultimate control of life. Belief... ...the traditional Iroquois Creation account. The myth has come down from pre-Columbian times, and has over 300 years of recorded history. What I present... ...many Puritans. There was also at this time a new doctrine in international law, called the law of vacuum domicilium, holding that those people who do ... ... Stanley Diamond (ed.), Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin, Columbia University Press, New York, 1960. Happold, F.C.: Mysticism, Harmon...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been rea...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping historie... ...e Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—wante... ... Western Europe‘s economy deteriorated drastically after the breakdown of law and order in the first half of this period. The resulting unstable env... ...l laws remained in effect so long as they did not conflict with the Great Law. His new laws  Set the death penalty for robbery and ... ...irst voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, where his father‘s copy may still be seen. H... ...apprentice Peter Schoeffer, a calligrapher who would become Fust‘s son-in-law, joined the partnership. Schoeffer helped oversee the Bible project as ... ...notype Model 1 that became the sensation of the Chicago‘s Worlds Fair—the Columbian Exposition—in 1893. Even so, Mergenthaler still faced a poten... ...e and market metric and library devices. Named chief librarian later at Columbia College, New York, he set up its School of Library Economy—the wo...

...et to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nom...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...n the nature of the case, cannot be endowed with the fixity of rock-ribbed law. They are meant for the average case, and must be applied with a cer... ...igious denomina- tions or sects, and philosophical, literary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Libera... ...nosticism, Neoplatonism, Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Sym- bolic school of painters. But do not capitalize any of the above or similar w... ...ities; Smith- sonian Institution, State University of Iowa, Hyde Park High School; the Commercial Academy (Handelsakademie) of Leipzig, the Paris L... ...nt), Declaration of Independence, Act of Emancipa- tion, Magna Charta, Corn Law, Reform Bill (English). 17. Creeds and confessions of faith: Apostl... ...(Second) Kings, Book of Job, Psalms (Psalter), Song of Songs, the [Mosaic] Law and the [writings of the] Prophets, Minor Prophets, Wisdom literatur... ...e Board), the Senate, the Council, 18 The U~iversity of Chicago Press the Faculty of the College of Commerce and Administration (but: the faculty)... ...ence of liquor." "Presidents Hadley, of Yale; Eliot, of Harvard; Butler, of Columbia; and Angell, of Michigan." "Smith was elected president; Jones,...

...hat reflected the title most often used by the book’s audience. The 13th edition incorporated the new United States copyright regulations that became law in 1978, and the production and printing sections of the Manual were revised to discuss the phototypesetting technology that had begun to displace lead type as well as the old Linotype and Monotype metal-casting machines—...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ball manager on the first bal- FRANK B. SAYRE 1909 lot. Sayre prepared for school at the Hill school and at Lawrenoe- ville academy. He spent two year... ...ST "If wt Made It, It'i Right." Official Jewelers of the Losdinp CoIIcecs, Schools ind Associations. Class Pins. Fraternity Pins, Medals. Cups, etc. W... ...Trcnjcnt St., Boston JOSEPH GRIPPA - Tailor - Graduate of New York Cutting School Spring Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hocke... ...6, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05 also to Amherst, Princetoo, Columbia, Dart- mouth, Harvard, V'ale and the others. COTRELL & LEONARD 47J... ...ee. '58 —Benjamin Franklin Lee. LL.D., a noted practitioner and teacher of law, died at his home in New York city on March 3. He was born in New York ... ...!), graduated from Williams in 1858 and in ISfil re- ceived his LL.D. from Columbia law school. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and shortl... ...ated from Williams in 1858 and in ISfil re- ceived his LL.D. from Columbia law school. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and shortly after b... ...e year he was admitted to the bar and shortly after became a member of tho law firm of Turner, Lee it McClure. In 1883 Mr. Lee was npijointed professo... .... Lee was npijointed professor of Real Estate and Equity Juris|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western unive...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...nce XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality of Child Labor XXXIX. Law and Technology XL. The Author Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...dministered by some supreme, transcendental principle is restored. This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the theory yields predic... ...ons which come true, either because they are self-fulfilling or because some real "law", or pattern, has emerged. Alas, this happens rarely. As "Th... ...ous version of market efficiency - i.e., as Aswath Damodaran of the Stern Business School at NYU puts it, that market prices are "unbiased estimate... ... models is called for. The maverick Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, summed up the lure of technical ana... ...igopolies rarely raise prices for fear of attracting new competitors, went the new school. This is especially true in a "contestable" market - wher... ... and competitive restraint for market regulation. Still, Schumpeter believed in the faculty of "disruptive technologies" and "destructive creation"... ...ank is to insolvency, the more inclined it is to risky lending. Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the... ... Andolfatto, from the Department of Economics of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, in his "U.S. Military Spending and the Busines...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...LOPING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY ......................................... 76 LAW ENFORCEMENT .............................................................. ...rary respite. It may lengthen the life of an AIDS patient; give a year of schooling to some impoverished boys, and maybe a few girls; buy some mosqui... ... gremlins that invade our computers or software. Indian lawyers, who are schooled in English and American common law, are used to do a large amount... ...software. Indian lawyers, who are schooled in English and American common law, are used to do a large amount of English and American legal work. The... ...sters could get university educations. And Con, didn‘t your dad teach day school and night school then work weekends lifeguarding at the beach and b... ...ician in a democratic country who tries to force parent licensing into the law would be acting as intelligently as a writer or violinist voluntarily ... ...ful beach. Palm trees all around. Gourmet chefs prepare the meals for the faculty club where professors can dine at no charge. And their families can... ...he Fareed Zakaria interview program on CNN Sept 29, 2008 14. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___ (2008) 15. Gonzales v. O Centro 546 U.S. ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing ... ...pted notes randomly taken and linked to history trails recalled from high school and college studies. Especially rewarding were sweeping histories,... ...e Epilogue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—wante... ... Western Europe‘s economy deteriorated drastically after the breakdown of law and order in the first half of this period. The resulting unstable env... ...l laws remained in effect so long as they did not conflict with the Great Law. His new laws  Set the death penalty for robbery and adultery, ... ...irst voyage to America. The great navigator‘s son, Ferdinand, founded the Columbian Library at Seville, where his father‘s copy may still be seen. H... ...apprentice Peter Schoeffer, a calligrapher who would become Fust‘s son-in-law, joined the partnership. Schoeffer helped oversee the Bible project as ... ...notype Model 1 that became the sensation of the Chicago‘s Worlds Fair—the Columbian Exposition—in 1893. Even so, Mergenthaler still faced a potenti... ...ce and market metric and library devices. Named chief librarian later at Columbia College, New York, he set up its School of Library Economy—the wo...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...side in a tough football game, especially when we played together in high school. Playing with my daughter when she was a child. Watching a Grecian ... ... has a strong motivation for humanitarian love. When you were all in high school it seems that power was your major motivator. And Con, the fact that... ...ities. ―What you have learned at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their... ...nation, contraception, and other self-centered desires run against natural law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Ne... ... gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there i... ...s kind.‘ Then a few hundred years later Christianity rekindled the Jewish law when Matthew wrote ‗So in everything, do to others, what you would have... ...ve four weeks, as does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are ... ...ir influence is small in countries like Norway, it is gigantic in Russia, Columbia and South Africa. These anti-social organizations are often bette... ...s us to do. ―After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans the Columbia Christians for Life announced that it was God‘s punishment becaus...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...es to thank Mr. Rafael Di Tella from Harvard University (Harvard Business School) for his assistance in sharing with the author the article he has c... ...y and should be withheld from certain segments of the population, such as school dropouts, those who never held a job, (in some countries) women aft... ...remains employed. Thus, a graduated incentive scale has to be part of any law and incentive plan. Example: employers will get increasing participati... ...remains employed. Thus, a graduated incentive scale has to be part of any law and incentive plan. Example: employers will get increasing participati... ...worker’s family should also be considered and catered to (kindergarten or school for his children, work for his wife and so on). Fixed term labo... ... allowed (see details below). I recommend altering the Labour Relations Law to allow more flexible hiring and firing procedures. Currently, to dis... ...former East Germany relied on public financing. The government of British Columbia in Canada is equally involved through its "Employee Share Ownersh... ...Israeli mass media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the Law Faculty in Tel-Aviv University (to Prof. S.G. Shoham). 1996 to 1999 Fina...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...its of the ongoing conflict. Budget priorities are also heavily skewed in favor of schools and infrastructure in Jewish municipalities. A lot remai... ... the beneficial effects of positive emotion on thinking, memory, and action in pre-school and older children." If empathy increases with positive e... ...of which are irrelevant to our discussion. Broadly speaking, though, there are two schools of thought: (i) That we are rendered human by the very ... ...s marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua... ...ank is to insolvency, the more inclined it is to risky lending. Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the... ...us marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LEGAL right and corresponding LEGAL... ...d, if so (b) in which circumstances – can be easily settled using modern contract law. Yes, a contract can be annulled and voided if signed under ... ... Why is there a debate regarding this question? "Thou shalt not kill" is a natural law, it appears in virtually every legal system. It is easily an... ...its of the ongoing conflict. Budget priorities are also heavily skewed in favor of schools and infrastructure in Jewish municipalities. A lot remai... ... the beneficial effects of positive emotion on thinking, memory, and action in pre-school and older children." If empathy increases with positive e... ...of which are irrelevant to our discussion. Broadly speaking, though, there are two schools of thought: (i) That we are rendered human by the very ... ...s marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua... ...ank is to insolvency, the more inclined it is to risky lending. Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the... ...us marriages, which was later imitated by lower classes (Ancient Egypt, Hawaii, Pre-Columbian Mixtec). Some societies are more tolerant of consensua...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... of such arrears and overdue payments. 5. To collaborate with legal institutions, law enforcement agencies and private collection firms in assuri... ...ous version of market efficiency - i.e., as Aswath Damodaran of the Stern Business School at NYU puts it, that market prices are "unbiased estimate... ... models is called for. The maverick Andrew Lo, a professor of finance at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, summed up the lure of technical ana... ...nance and Stephen E. Christophe and Michael G. Ferri of George Mason University - School of Management, and published in the Financial Analysts Jo... ...e to the authorities - the tax administration, bank supervision, deposit insurance, law enforcement agencies, and securities and exchange commissio... .... Its board of directors has full authority to run the agency. The board obeys the law, not political masters. The FDIC has a preemptive role. It r... ...ow is an attorney licensed to practice in the State of Florida and the District of Columbia. The Webmaster of www.RealityAtTheSEC.com, he worked at... ...ank is to insolvency, the more inclined it is to risky lending. Nobuhiko Hibara of Columbia University demonstrated this effect convincingly in the... ...nt of an Israeli mass media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the Law Faculty in Tel-Aviv University (to Prof. S.G. Shoham). 1996 to ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...(beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permis... ...ation appliances so much as they are becoming them. The trend is starting in schools, libraries, cyber cafés, and offices, where the users of PCs are no... ...nce and control. We have some hints of what that can look like. Enterprising law enforcement officers have been able to eavesdrop on occu- pants of moto... ...ng used for a call. As these opportunities arise in places under the rule of law—where Introduction 4 some might welcome them—they also arise within ... ...ronic document research over another kind of terminal found at libraries and schools. Computers, then, are only one piece of a mosaic that can be more... ..., or nefarious alteration of vital personal records hosted at medical offices, schools, town halls, and other data repositories that cannot afford a full... ... Working Paper, No. 01–012, 2001), available at http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/workp/swp01012.html (arguing that end-to- end openness is a publi... .... amend. II. Notes to Pages 115–17 283 76. See, e.g., Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F .3d 370, 382–86 (D.C. Cir. 2007); T ony Mauro, Scholar’s ... ...ery.com/atrocity/ (last visited June 1, 2007). 77. See Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette Inc. v. Am. Coal. of Life Activists, 422 F .3d 949 (9...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

... spring sunshine, in 1958, she was reading her book in a far corner of the schoolyard. She had to pee; couldn’t hold it much longer. But to get to the... ...all, until the bell rang for the afternoon classes. 4 SUSAN BRACKEN AFTER SCHOOL Lacey walked home, shoulders slumped, head hanging, dejected. She na... ...utching a worn satin pillow to her chest, wishing she didn’t have to go to school anymore, paralyzed by sorrow and despair. Eventually the tears stopp... ...h the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was nearly ... ... that she was meant to suffer and die, and that she would be breaking some law of nature if she killed herself? Eventually she got out of bed and went... ...mendable what Scott is trying to do for us. And soon, he will be my son-in-law! She tried to concentrate on what was being said, but half her thoughts... ...for a couple of hours, and Jana hoped her status with her future father-in-law was improved when, as his partner, she bid and made a slam that earned ... ...lhousie University, Halifax, NS; {jocelyn.downie@dal.ca} http://law.dal.ca/Faculty/Full_Time_Faculty/Bios/ Jocelyn_Downie/index.php 307 A COURAGEOUS ... ...y, B.C.; rdogden@telus.net http://www.kwantlen.ca/socialsciences/sociology/faculty/ russel_ogden.html KEN VIERS, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; vi...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...miles square, was cut out of the two States and was called the District of Columbia. The greater portion of this district was taken from Maryland, and... ...gement was made, the State of Virginia petitioned to have their portion of Columbia back again, and this petition was granted. Now it is felt that the... ...or or as a Representative. Mount Vernon was never within the Dis- trict of Columbia. When I first made inquiry on the subject, I was told that Mount V... ...d not share it. One of these men had been the parent of the Fugitive Slave Law; the other had been great in fostering the success of filibustering. Bo... ... all the civilized world be- fore many years have passed. If international law be what the lawyers say it is, international law must be altered to sui... ...ceeding. Would Captain Wilkes have been right, ac- cording to the existing law, if he had carried the “Trent” away to New York? If so, we ought not to... ... it. If he have none, he will amuse himself without it. His work is like a school-boy’s task; he knows it must be done, but never comprehends that the... ...cinnati has 170,000 inhabitants, and there are 14,000 children at the free schools—which is about one in twelve of the whole population. This number g... ...scholars throughout the year ended 30th of June, 1861. But there are other schools in Cincinnati—parish schools and private schools—and it is stated t...

... GOVERNMENT ..................................................................................................................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FINANCIAL POSITION ....................................................................................................

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...proved, by many crucial tests, to be a government of “liberty regulated by law,” with such results in the development of strength, in population, weal... ...e sanction of public opinion. If M. De T ocqueville could now search for a law that would negative this provision in its effect upon social equality, ... ... equality, he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwritten law of the natural aversion of the races. He would find it in public opinio... ...ion of the laws, their political education had been perfected in this rude school, and they were more conversant with the notions of right and the pri... ...e Lord assisting our endeav- ors. . . .”* Here follow clauses establishing schools in every township, and obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heav... ... and obliging the inhabitants, under pain of heavy fines, to support them. Schools of a superior kind were founded in the same manner in the more popu... ... *The number of States has now risen to 46 (1874), besides the District of Columbia. 175 Tocqueville all been nurtured at a time when the spirit of l... ...tre, Franklin, Fayette, Mont- gomery, Luzerne, Dauphin, Butler, Alleghany, Columbia, Northampton, Northumberland, and Philadelphia, for the year 1830....

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... opportunities for satisfying that thirst were wofully slender. In the log schoolhouse, which he could visit but little, he was taught only reading, w... ...im his ambition rose to higher aims. He walked many miles to borrow from a schoolmaster a grammar with which to improve his lan- guage. A lawyer lent ... ... lan- guage. A lawyer lent him a copy of Blackstone, and he began to study law. People would look wonderingly at the grotesque figure lying in the gra... ...use. Together with his reputation and influence as a politi- cian grew his law practice, especially after he had removed from New Salem to Springfield... ...ver- whelm his hearers, and make him fairly irresistible. Even an ordinary law argument, coming from him, seldom failed to produce the impression that... ...fering a bill looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, and by his repeated votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended... ...e should be exceedingly glad to see slavery abolished in the Dis- trict of Columbia, he would, as a member of Congress, with his present views, not en... ...ent a step farther in passing a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. The plain people began to look at emancipation on a larger scale ... ...d westward from the Alleghanies to the Mis- sissippi, always in advance of schools and churches, of books and money, of railroads and newspapers, of a...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produce... ...her half of this sheet; and still another set, if you can, by studying the law, think of a form that in your judgment, promises additional security, a... ...souri and Maryland. With the same reason in both States, Missouri has, by law, provided a test for the voter with refer- ence to the present rebellio... ... not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the State existing imme- diately before the so-called act of secessi... ...of educated officers, for which legal provision has been made at the naval school, the vacancies caused by the neglect or omis- sion to make nominatio... ...States in insurrection have been filled by the Secretary of the Navy. The school is now more full and complete than at any former period, and in ever... ... your continued patronage the be- nevolent institutions of the District of Columbia which have hitherto been established or fostered by Congress, and ... ...oofs of this conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the na- tional cause. 249 The Writings of Abraham ...

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