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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my op... ...ges, can ever hear that name with indifference. A further account has been published by Dr. Howe, since the report from which I have just quoted. It d... ... or enters into conversation with the pas sengers about him. A great many newspapers are pulled out, and a few of them are read. Everybody talks to y... ...ively by females actively emp loyed in the mills, ’ which is duly printed, published, and sold; and whereof I brought away from Lowell four hundred go... ...ssible variety of twist, doing, but amusing themselves? What are the fifty newspapers, which those precocious urchins are bawl ing down the street, a... ...ngs with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains b... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...tain side. But now, again, there were reports and many para graphs in the newspapers, affirming that the likeness of the Great Stone Face had appeare... ...uniform; the member of Congress; the sheriff of the county; the editors of newspapers; and many a farmer, too, had mounted his patient steed, with his... ..., a war party of Indians captured our unlucky merchant, and carried him to Montreal, there holding him in bondage, till, by the payment of a heavy ran... ...olved in acids, melted in the crucible, and burned with the blow pipe, and published the result of his experiments in one of the heaviest folios of th... ... White Mountain Post Office—an establishment which distributes letters and newspapers to perhaps a score of per sons, comprising the population of tw...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...r trouble, crying. I tried to help her out—she died— They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me, My wife perished of a broken heart. And pneumonia ... ... And pneumonia finished me. Mrs. Meyers HE protested all his life long The newspapers lied about him villainously; That he was not at fault for Minerv... ...d the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Montreal. I learned nothing and returned home, Roaming the fields with Bert... ...n Horace Burleson I WON the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I went to the city for themes a... ...ences In your young men and in generations to come, In spite of attacks of newspapers like the Clarion; A regular visitor at Springfield When the Legi... ... found among his papers by William Marion Reedy and was for the first time published in Reedy’s Mirror of December 18th, 1914. Index of First Lines A ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t Mr. Seward would find any other line of conduct very in- convenient. The newspapers, one after another, came round. That, under all these circumstan... ...overn- ment behaved well in the matter, no one, I think, can deny; but the newspapers, taken as a whole, were not very consistent, and, I think, not v... ...d that he is going seven or eight hundred miles. He is supplied with fresh newspapers three or four times a day as he passes by the towns at which the... ...ates, was at this time secretary to a sanitary commission on the army, and published an abstract of the results of the inquiries made, on which I beli... .... In every word of his official writings, of which a large volume has been published, he shows plainly that he intends to be considered as the man of ... ... no less authority than *I ought perhaps to state that General Fremont has published an answer to the charges preferred against him. That answer refer...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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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 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...phenomenon, which 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 Sta...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...Quds al Arabi, the same Arabic-language newspaper in London that had first published Bin Ladin’s February fatwa, and it conveyed the same message—the ... ...attached to having a contribution included in one of the classified daily “newspapers”— the Senior Executive Intelligence Brief—or, better still, sele... ...cation documents that appeared valid on their face. Contrary to numer- ous published reports, there is no evidence the hijackers ever used false Socia... ...telligence dailies or FBI interview memos.The information was in all major newspapers and highlighted in network television news.Though the Jordanian ... ...aking them up. Between May 2001 and September 11, there was very little in newspapers FORESIGHT—AND HINDSIGHT 359 Final 10-11.4pp 7/17/04 4:12 PM P... ...i, Feb. 23, 1998 (trans. Foreign Broadcast Information Service), which was published for a large Arab world audience and signed by Usama Bin Ladin,Aym...

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...; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till these evil times, however, such all...

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