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...e afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the p...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...neither work for others, nor have others working for them. In most of the Southern States, a majority of the whole people, of all colors, are neither... ...llion. “Freedom has given us one hundred and fifty thousand men, raised on Southern soil. It will give us more yet. Just so much it has subtracted f... ...entitled “An act to create additional collection districts in the State of California, and to change the existing districts therein, and to modify the... ...rmity with law, and thus our excellent system is firmly established in the mountains, which once seemed a barren and uninhabitable waste between the A... ...eretofore known, and the coun- try occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains and the subordinate ranges now teems with enterprising labor, whi... ... try occupied by the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains and the subordinate ranges now teems with enterprising labor, which is richly remunerative. It... ...r. I am going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the wa...

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...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 300,00...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...r it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emp tied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Prev... ...d to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlan tic. They believed it emptied into the Gul... ...eeting of the waters from Delaware, and from Itaska, and from the moun tain ranges close upon the Pacific, with the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, his... ...ulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and grass... ...iece out of the moon and hurry the seasons; I shake my self and crumble the mountains! Contemplate me through leather—don’t use the naked eye! I’m th... ... the side of his throat, like a splinter under the flesh. He was only in the Southern trade six months. That Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 77... ...51 Magnolia “ “ 19 50 1853 A. L. Shotwell “ “ 19 49 1853 Southern Belle “ “ 20 3 1853 Princess (No. 4) “ 20 26 1853...

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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 whi...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...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 the principles of government that were essential t...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy 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 powe...

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...Contents 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 T...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours 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 su...

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