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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...e restored to the active list, and not otherwise.” In conformity with this law, Captain David G . Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance... ...on could arise which would more fully correspond with the intention of the law or be more preg- nant with happy influence as an example, I cordially r... ...he said United States, it became a military necessity to de- clare martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and ... ...bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now leg... ...cted, That no slave escaping into any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia from any other State shall be delivered up or in any way impeded o... ...d this without any apparent consciousness of evil from it. The District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and Dela- 191 The Writings of Abraham ... ...BETH J. GRIMSLEY, Springfield, Ill.: Is your John ready to enter the naval school? If he is, telegraph me his full name. A. LINCOLN. 299 The Writings... ... 28, 1863. MAJOR GENERAL SCHENCK, Baltimore, Md.: Every place in the Naval school subject to my appointment is full, and I have one unredeemed promise... ...ld, Ill.: I mail the papers to you to-day appointing Johnny to the Na- val school. A. LINCOLN 376 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six TO CRITIC...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...tary Hamilton Fish to go to Japan as the Mikado’s adviser in international law. The ancestral home of the Balestiers was near Brattleboro’, Vt., and h... ... “Hazel Kirke.” The next spring Mr. Kipling purchased from his brother- in-law, Beatty Balestier, a tract of land about three miles north of Brattlebo... ...ds. How do these things happen? Oliver Wendell Holmes says that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are resp... ...Northern Horse, throw- ing in emendations from time to time. “Tales of the Law,” which in this country is an amazingly elastic affair, followed from t... ...vented them and soldered the aperture. Except for the la- bel, the “Finest Columbia Salmon” was ready for the mar- ket. I was impressed not so much wi... ... fare with the Indians “way back in the fifties,” when every ripple of the Columbia River and her tributaries hid covert danger. God had dowered him w... ... welfare of his two little sons—tanned and reserved children, who attended school daily and spoke good English in a strange tongue. His wife was an au... ... of being alive. This have I known once in Japan, once on the banks of the Columbia, what time the salmon came in and California howled, and once agai... ...nd sunk in their stirrups with a conscientiousness that cried out “Riding- school!” from afar. Other young men in the park were riding after the En- g...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...8 The Ox Tamer...................................410 An Old Man’s Thought of School......411 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn.............. ...d space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws, To make himself by them the law unto himself. WHEN I R EAD THE B OOK When I read the book, the biogr... ...he herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie! Lands where the north west Columbia winds, and where the south west Colorado winds! Land of the east... ...ears old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but... ...en and she with her half spread wings, I see in them and myself the same old law. The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They... ...mets. I help myself to material and immaterial, No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 75 I anchor my ship for a litt... ...atever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools, The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, s... ... in cabins among the Californian mountains or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia, Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly... ...o introduce the stranger, (what else indeed do I live to chant for?) to thee Columbia; In liberty’s name welcome immortal! clasp hands, And ever hence...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...a doctrine. As regards our parliament, that is probably the best Brit- ish school of foreign politics, seeing that the subject is not there often take... ... own, had also her own carriage. These carriages were always open, and the law of the land imperatively de- mands that the occupants shall cover their... ...f this nature. Such an arrangement partakes of all the vice of a sumptuary law, and sumptuary laws are in their very essence mistakes. It is well that... ...o Mr. Neal Dow, the Father Matthew of the State of Maine, the Maine liquor law is still in force in that State. There is nothing to drink, I should sa... ...lation of the United States as it stood in 1860,— The separate District of Columbia, in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Governme... ...own with their hands in their pockets—had they done as second-rate boys at school will do, declare that they had been licked, and then feel that all t... ... of its scenery. It is the Sandhurst of the States. Here is their military school, from which officers are drafted to their regiments, and the tuition... ...same. These four States, by two of which the capital, with its District of Columbia, is sur- rounded, might be gained or might be lost. And these four... ...any of the poor of Baltimore had lived, was desecrated in my eyes by those columbiads. The neat earth-works were ugly, as looked upon by me; and thoug...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

... or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- du... .... Also my staff says -” “Peace, thou!” lowed the Bull. “The worship of the schools is mine, and they talk very wisely, asking whether I be one or many... ... of strange Gods, and I listen. Faith follows faith among my people in the schools, and I have no anger; for when all words are said, and the new talk... ... that my people grow rich and praise me. Shiv has said that the men of the schools do not forget; Bhairon is content for his 26 Rudyard Kipling crowd... ...he ship, “but you must also ex- pand yourselves sideways. Expansion is the law of life, chil- dren. Open out! open out!” “Come back!” said the deck-be... ... a Bhil was to repair to a walled city of the plains to give evidence in a law-court, would it be wise to disregard that order? On the other hand, if ... ...” Chinn demanded of Bukta, impatiently. “I am a soldier. I do not know the law.” “Hoo! Law is for fools and white men. Give them a large and loud orde... ...ment to her steam- whistle, the twelve-hundred-ton ocean-going steam-yacht Columbia, lying at her private pier, to take to his office, at an average 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 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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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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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

... 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produce... ...st be supported by sus- tained, deliberate explanation, and by teaching in school and church and press of the whole mass of all the peoples con- cerne... ... 10 In the Fourth Year with foreign powers, to maintain a supreme court of law. Everything else—education, militia, powers of life and death—the state... ...ves or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal government h... ...s of mankind. Whether that joint control comes through arms or through the law is a secondary consideration. To refuse to bring our affairs into a com... ...acks if we have no general watcher of African conditions? We want a common law for Africa, a general Declaration of Rights, of certain elementary righ... ...tional control. It requires no special knowledge nor wisdom to see that. A schoolboy can see it. Any one but a statesman absolutely flaccid with overs... ...ical ideas and new antagonistic conditions. It is the unhappy usage of our schools and universities to study the history of mankind only during period...

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