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...aham Lincoln V olume Seven of Seven Abraham Lincoln V olume 7 of 7 OPINION ON THE LOSS OF GENERAL R. H. MILROY’S DIVISION. October 27, 1863. In June l... ... advised its withdrawal, he never positively ordered it. General Schenck, on the con- trary, believed the service of the force at Winchester was wort... ...vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. This brings us to a difference between Missouri and Maryland. With the same reason in ... ..., while Maryland has not. For example, General Trimble, captured fighting us at Gettysburg, is, without recanting his treason, a legal voter by the l... ...provision on this subject which would at the same time be equitable to the communities more especially interested. I commend to your consideration the... ...special danger of renewed troubles in that neighborhood, and thence on the route toward New Mexico. I am not impressed that the danger is very great o... ...able to yourself, immediately take a trip to Arkansas for me? A. LINCOLN. 66 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR BRAMLET... ...merchandise and other articles so purchased may be transported by the same route, and to the same place, from and by which the products sold and de- l...

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...l character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect:... ...it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, 4 Sartor Resartus on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even gu... ...ion in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile greatness, and invaluable Constitution, ... ...btedly a Spirit addressing Spir- its: whoso hath ears, let him hear. *With us even he still communicates in some sort of mask, or muffler; and, we hav... ...m pass), has had the Bill to dis- charge. But the whole particulars of his Route, his Weather- observations, the picturesque Sketches he took, though ... ...epfuhl standing “in trustful derangement” among the woody slopes; the pa- 66 Sartor Resartus ternal Orchard flanking it as extreme outpost from below... ...earing; and an Architect is hired, and on all hands fitly encouraged: till communities and individuals discover, not without sur- prise, that fashioni...

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...nclosing a draft of two hundred dollars, was duly received. I have paid it on the judg- ment, and herewith you have the receipt. I do not wish to say ... ...1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 1856 you gave me authority to draw on you for any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. I see clearly that s... ...unding country. A.L. FRAGMENT OF SPEECH AT PARIS, ILL., SEPT. 8, 1858. Let us inquire what Judge Douglas really invented when he introduced the Nebras... ...rds. If Judge Douglas did not invent this kind of popular sovereignty, let us pursue the inquiry and find out what kind he 13 The Writings of Abraham... ...erwards to inhabit that Territory, or the other members of the families of communities, of which they are but an incipient member, or the general head... ...on the soil; that it is not a thing which in any way affects the family of communities composing these States, nor any way endangers the General Gover... ...s really for you, as I have expressed it,—I propose asking your attention 66 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five for a while to a few facts. T... ...tage for Naples before daylight in the morning, having come in by the same route after dark the evening, previous to the speaking, when I found you wa... ... and agreeable journey which I have had from home, on my rather circuitous route to the Federal capital. I am very happy that he was enabled in truth ...

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...test of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible develop- ments in the future of some contemporary force or ... ...elt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The r... ...ssentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writer may congratulate himself, is the forecast that under mo... ... affairs demands. The inertia of dead ideas and old insti- tutions carries us on towards the rapids. Only in one direc- tion is there any plain recogn... ...of counting and then of writing and making records, and with that his town communities began to stretch out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, t... ...y exhausted, and from the crater that burst open above it, puffs of heavy 66 The World Set Free incandescent vapour and fragments of viciously puniti... ...ity. The aeroplane and the nearly costless mobile car have abolished trade routes; a common language and a uni- versal law have abolished a thousand r...

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... own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road are in the habit of resting....

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...nts and a large num- ber of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, ... ... hair mingling with those of the goatskin hid their faces, which were bent on the ground, so completely that the garment might have been thought their... ...o be near a loyal neighborhood,— though the growing disaffection along the route made the success of this measure problematical. This old officer, who... ...the land and the superstitions of the inhabitants prevent the formation of communities and the benefits arising from the exchange and comparison of id... ...ow voice: “Give ten picked men to a sergeant, and post them yourself above us on the summit of this slope, just where the path widens to a ledge; ther... ...the path widens to a ledge; there you ought to see the whole length of the route to Ernee. Choose a position where the road is not flanked by woods, a... ...and help to shove on that flock of birds and close up the distance between us. I’ll wait for you.” The captain disappeared. The commander’s eye single... .... The two young men looked at each other for a moment like cocks about to 66 The Chouans fight, and the glance they exchanged gave birth to a hatred ...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or pr...

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...isad- vantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his c... ...s would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results o... ... and there were 5,000 lamps hung on it. Throughout the whole day we all of us wore large white bridal favours and white gloves. Towards evening the cl... ...p behind the Queen’s carriage, but a dragoon with his horse almost knocked us over. So we ran by the side as well as we could, but the crowd was so im... ...l as delight. ‘So I think we may each go on in our several pursuits, each 66 Life of John Coleridge Patteson helping each, and each trying to do so w... ...lness made it more prudent to re- turn by what is on the whole the shorter route, i.e., to the west of New Caledonia. ‘Y ou should have been with me w... ...r it. Ysabel Island is, like almost all the rest, divided among many small communities of warlike habits. And some years previously the people of Maha... ...nd protec- tion we all trust.’ On the 9th, in a letter sent by a different route, he adds:— ‘So I think it will come to my doing my work on Norfolk Is...

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...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ...so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended ... ...ly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anything about King John?” He spent three delightfu... ... use it just as well in the home. And gee, Carol, just think of a bunch of us going out on an auto picnic, some nice spring evening.” “Yes.” “And slei... ... he pretended she was a detective from the Twin Cities. He hid behind the 66 Main Street prescription-counter, and when she stamped her foot he came ... ... the party, but it’s getting late, and a doctor never knows when he’ll get routed out before morning.” (She remembered that he had given this explanat... ... He galloped to the station, brought home rail- way maps, and traced motor-routes from Gopher Prairie to Winnipeg or Des Moines or Grand Marais, think... ...ng star to its service flag and without wishing to knock any neigh- boring communities, we would like to know any town of anywheres near our size in t...

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...book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joine... ...calamo, and the second that of a middle-aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, th... ...e he was by profes- sion a painter and a mediocre one (though he has given us the best portrait we have of Swift), and this may have been strengthened... ...ndustry and acumen could do, and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want. What Hallam says of Shakespeare may be applied to the almo... ...ke an end of you, and annihilate you on the spot; release him instantly.” 66 Don Quixote – Part I The farmer hung his head, and without a word untied... ...land his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the same route and road he had taken on his first journey, that over the Campo de Mo... ... he wheeled round upon the others the agility with which he at- tacked and routed them was a sight to see, for it seemed just as if wings had that ins... ...d more generous to it than fortune; though in the general poverty of those communities my father passed for being even a rich man; and he would have b...

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...azza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall when he let on to be watchi... ...Giotto’s campanile and yet always got tired looking as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case... ...ocked with every imaginable comfort or ne cessity , which the Mississippi’s communities could want, from the frosty Falls of St. Anthony down through... ...“I done it!” “I done it!” “I done it!—have mercy, marster—Lord have mercy on us po’ niggers!” “Very good,” said the master, putting up his watch, “I w... ...erin’ to call you dat, honey, or I’s gwine to make a mistake sometime en git us bofe into trouble. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 17 ... ...the raid for the day, and hurried back to the haunted house by the obscurest route he knew. His mother was gone; but she came back, by and by, with th... ...Driscoll was promptly and in The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 66 dignantly flung on the heads of Sons in the next row, and these Sons ...

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...ed by Edward Buxley, whose ear had likewise taken in the notes, though not on the same night, as the pair publicly proved by dates. Both declared that... ... ing set up for the mysterious voice in the woods. T apping one forefinger on the uplifted point of the other, he observed that to sing abroad in the ... ...hastily to despise them as pipers to dilettante life. Such persons come to us in the order of civilization. In their way they help to civilize us. Sen... ...s. Senti- mentalists are a perfectly natural growth of a fat soil. Wealthy communities must engender them. If with attentive minds we mark the origin ... ...not have her up here, toon and all, some week-day? Sunday birds won’t suit us, you know. We’ve got a piano for her that’s good enough for the first of... ...abella, “that you think of bidding for the Besworth estate. Are you tired 66 Sandra Belloni of Brookfield?” “Not tired; but Brookfield is modern, and... ...ral Burdock called a halt, and betrayed irresolution with reference to the route to be adopted; but as none of his troop could at all share such a con... ...Emilia’s father, if he should be found taking her to the Continent by that route. He waited, and met them at last on the Espla- nade. He telegraphed t...

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...book) ISBN: 1-4033-8038-4 (Paperback) ISBN: 1-4033-8039-2 (Dustjacket) This book is printed on acid free paper. ... ... Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?... ...h their so-called sacred ’rumels’ (a scarf or cord) and secretly burying their bodies. They lived on the proceeds of their homicidal activities and ... ...k and, eventually, the shoreline of their beloved England receded. Helen took Rosita’s arm, ‘Let us find our cabin. I believe it is down this compa... ... please, Isabel,’ said Helen, amazed that the woman was so reluctant to let Audrey Blankenhagen 66 her have access and wondering yet again about t... ...o hard for the good of the State to which he was appointed Resident. ‘It is natural that foreign communities tend to cling together in a country wh... ... and swords of mutinous cavalry, and the murder of inhabitants at every British station along the route of the mutiny. Audrey Blankenhagen 328 S... ...men of the garrison to break through the breached wall and the two forces - besieged and relief - routed the mutineers. The slaughter was horrific a...

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...of the last few months, has been chiefly spent by the author tossing about on the wide ocean. Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see any... ...oncerning their origin and purposes. As writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these subjects, he deems it right... ... writers of travels among barbarous communities are generally very diffuse on these subjects, he deems it right to advert to what may be considered a ... ...unt of whose proceedings in different quarters of the globe—transmitted to us through their own hands— very generally, and often very deservedly, rece... ...us of the vast amount of descriptive detail which is being poured out upon us. It is the varying fortune of the hero which engrosses our attention. We... ...elves for their repulse by setting fire to every house and temple in their route; and a long line of smoking ruins defaced the once-smiling bosom of t... ...to ascend. For a moment we gazed about us in quest of a more prac- ticable route; it was, however, at once apparent that there was no resource but to ... ...ere mockery. In vain did I try to elude the incessant streams that poured 66 Typee upon me; by protecting one part I only exposed another, and the wa... ...Y OF THE TYPEES—THEIR ENJOY- MENTS COMPARED WITH THOSE OF MORE ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITIES—COMPARA- TIVE WICKEDNESS OF CIVILIZED AND UNEN- LIGHTENED PEOPL...

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... here. If your mind is “made up” upon such issues your time will be wasted on these pages. And even if you are a willing reader you may require a litt... ...een reduced to a straightforward story. But I did not want to omit as much on this occasion. I do not see why I should always pander to the vulgar app... ...over it—of the crown. His front is convex. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater part he bears himself as valiantly as a sparrow. Oc... ...then we shall proceed to explore the sort of world these propositions give us…. It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to ... ...obtrudes his personality again. His thoughts have travelled by a different route. “I know,” he says, “that she will be happier here, and that they wil... ...e Ruskins of to-morrow, but a thin spider’s web of inconspicu- ous special routes will cover the land of the world, pierce the mountain masses and tun... ...k. II., Ch. VIII. * The Blythedale Experiment, and see also his Notebook. 66 A Modern Utopia with man as a source of energy but supply the hope that ... ... of custom, the homely methods of identification that served in the little communities of the past when everyone knew everyone, fail in the face of th... ...they not work for a uniform minimum of labour conditions through all their communities? Why, then, should they not—except in the interests of a few ra...

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...seemed absolutely to require. I have never placed my opposition to slavery on a basis so narrow as my own enslavement, but rather upon the indestructi... ...iography, in preference to employing another to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is... ...t rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobiography of Hugh Miller, it carries us so far back into e... ...te, develop and sustain the latter. With these original gifts in view, let us look at his school- ing; the fearful discipline through which it pleased... ... in Europe. Grim, cold, and un- approachable by all genial influences from communities with- out, there it stands; full three hundred years behind the... ... one bushel of In- dian meal—unbolted—of which quite fifteen per cent was 66 My Bondage and My Freedom fit only to feed pigs. With this, one pint of ... ...ON OUR MINDS—PATRICK HENRY— 179 Frederick Douglas SANDY BECOMES A DREAMER—ROUTE TO THE NORTH LAID OUT—OBJECTIONS CONSID- ERED—FRAUDS PRACTICED ON FRE... ...shermen, in the service of a master. On the other hand, by taking the land route, through the counties adjoining Delaware, we should be subjected to a...

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...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania... ... The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] ... ... miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. This gives us the age of that piece of country, without any trouble at all—one hundr... ...or the present—I will give a few more of them further along in the book. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its hist... ...man with a petri fied heart and biler iron bowels! The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of natio... ... furnaces of the sugar mills. Now the Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 66 piles of damp bagasse burn slowly, and smoke like Satan’s own kitchen... ...n. Well, one matchless summer’s day I was bowling down the bend above island 66, brimful of self conceit and carrying my nose as high as a giraffe’s, ... ...e me—to survey, in case anybody wanted it done. I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining ditch in California, and I was on my way thither... ...hed us to New York without missing schedule time ten minutes anywhere on the route; and there ended one of the most enjoyable five thousand mile journ...

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...book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree at New Place joine... ...alamo, and the second that of a middle- aged man writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, th... ...e he was by profes- sion a painter and a mediocre one (though he has given us the best portrait we have of Swift), and this may have been strengthened... ...ndustry and acumen could do, and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want. What Hallam says of Shakespeare may be applied to the almo... ...iend the barber, Master Nicholas, and go with him to Don Quixote’s house. 66 Don Quixote CHAPTER VI Of the diverting and important scrutiny which the... ...land his master had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the same route and road he had taken on his first journey, that over the Campo de Mo... ... he wheeled round upon the others the agility with which he at- tacked and routed them was a sight to see, for it seemed just as if wings had that ins... ...d more generous to it than fortune; though in the general poverty of those communities my father passed for being even a rich man; and he would have b...

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...or arpens of land.” —Holland’ s Pliny. “Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a great many Whales and other monsters of th... ...mong the former, one was of a most mon- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea befor... ...on- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian... ...ecurity, and there sleeps.” — Montaigne. —Apology for Raimond Sebond. “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the n... ...led over from each other, this way and that, and very soon were sleeping. 66 Moby Dick CHAPTER 13 Wheelbarrow N EXT MORNING, MONDAY, after disposing ... ...ily passes through the Dardanelles, hence a sperm whale could, by the same route, pass out of the Mediterranean into the Propontis. In the Propontis, ... ...imly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, espe- cially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent—t... ...d a resolution to patronise nothing but steel pens. 292 Moby Dick CHAPTER 66 The Shark Massacre W hen in the Southern Fishery, a captured Sperm Whale... ...he ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that same gate he was ...

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...young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising danger, heading his army on foot in the most toilsome marches, and defeating a regular force in thre... ...ir lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the brilliancy of its splendour. A long tra... ...and opened with precaution, may be returned to me again, and serve to make us free of his Majesty’s post office, during the whole time of my proposed ... ... be carried on as long as the enve- lopes could hold together.] Mercy upon us, Alan! what let- ters I shall have to send to you, with an account of al... ...a Geddes, with the abrupt, dark, and lofty demeanour of my entertainer on 66 Redgauntlet the preceding evening. Both were blunt and unceremoni- ous; ... ...eavoured to protect the usurper in his flight. ‘As these were successively routed or slain, the formidable Redgauntlet, the mortal enemy of the House ... ...expect that I will not take the precaution of informing some person of the route I am about to take, that in case of accident it may be known where I ... ...er, of late, to concili- 370 Redgauntlet ate the affections of those wild communities that dwell on the Solway, over whom our family possessed a seig...

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...versity. 3 Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. ON A JANUARY EVENING of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing ... ...r opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the garden scene. There was no reason why the young man should not have ... ...ted herself to say to her son: “I’m thankful that Augusta Welland received us alone.” These indications of inward disturbance moved Archer the more th... ...actically a prisoner? Well, what if he did? I hope there isn’t a man among us who wouldn’t have done the same in such a case.” Mr. Jackson glanced ove... ...annoyed that Mr. Letterblair (no doubt prompted by old Catherine Mingott) 66 The Age of Innocence should be so evidently planning to draw him into th... ..., and then trust to her to look after him. In the complicated old European communities, Archer be- gan to guess, love-problems might be less simple an... ...e had spoken of business to Beaufort simply to get rid of him; and to have routed Beaufort was something of a triumph. “I am here to talk about it,” h... ...o know Mr. Winsett.” “Oh, yes—I reached him some time ago; but not by that route,” Winsett said with his dry smile. The Marchioness shook her head rep...

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