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...on itself wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the ... ...tunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup But, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promi... ...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...goal from placement on tlie 18- yard line. Dartmouth's defense against New Hampshire was poor. During the last 10 minutes of play the Springfield Trai... ... Aunapolis 12 Maryland A. C. THECRIMSON SATURDAY CALENDAR Dartmonth 10 New Hampshire State Harvard the Tennis Champion By winning both the singles and... ...ng work in Fulton, N. Y. Harton is teaohing English at Midtllose.x school, Concord. Mass. Bates is teaching in the Univer- sity school ill New tlrlean...

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of t... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania Sta... ...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...ving a poor beast to some meeting house horse sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a moun tain top on the Sabbat...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...wise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various points along the coast of New England, there we... ...on afterward it began to flow. General Gage sent eight hundred soldiers to Concord, about eighteen miles from Boston, to destroy some ammu nition and... ...rned. Nearly three hundred were strewn, dead or dying, along the road from Concord. The yeomanry had risen upon the in vaders and driven them back.” ...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... .... Israel W ashburn, Jr., Governor of Maine. H. S. Berry, Gov- ernor of New Hampshire. Frederick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont. William A. Buckingham, ... ...istence.” On the 12th day of December, 1846, a treaty of amity, peace, and concord was concluded between the United States of America and the Republic...

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...Contents INTRODUCTORY NOTE ................................................................................................................ 4 A SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE ......................................................................... 7 ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE...................................................... 21 ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF THE DO...

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................................................................... 4 A SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE .................................................... ............................................................. 7 ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE .................................................... ... I have an in- stinct that I had better keep quiet. Perhaps I shall have a new spirit of vigor if I wait quietly for it; perhaps not.” In an- other: “... ...journey, with his friend Ex-President Pierce, through the southern part of New Hampshire. A week passed, and all was ended: at the hotel in Plymouth, ... ...ney, with his friend Ex-President Pierce, through the southern part of New Hampshire. A week passed, and all was ended: at the hotel in Plymouth, New ... ...shed “Dolliver Romance” lay upon his coffin during the funeral services at Concord, but, contrary to the impression sometimes entertained on this poin... ...at bedtime, or the fitful vigor that often sports irrever- ently with aged people, had caused an unfrozen drop of youthfulness, somewhere within him, ... ...sy, we have allowed him the honorary title of Doctor, as did all his towns-people and contemporaries, except, perhaps, one or two formal old physician...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...ar, and we gave ‘em that dinner in the City, sir, and we saw the Temple of Concord, and the fire- works, and the Chinese bridge in St. James’s Park, c...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...ar, and we gave ‘em that dinner in the City, sir, and we saw the Temple of Concord, and the fire- works, and the Chinese bridge in St. James’s Park, c...

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...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...- try,” wished to be taken for Yankees. James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Sweden, both proved that they were free ... ...und pictures of New England streets: the dignity of Falmouth, the charm of Concord, Stockbridge and Farmington and Hillhouse Avenue. The fairy-book su... ...udios, with orange curtains and pots of mignon- ette; marble houses on New Hampshire Avenue, with but- lers and limousines; and men who looked like fi...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...the younger fellows, without knowing what affected them, were moved by the new picture of a girl, as if it had been a frontispiece of a romantic story... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...rshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broad new road, good for ten abreast—counting a step of the slopes—ran transverse... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...the southern heights about London, round away to the south- western of the Hampshire heathland, were accurately mapped in the old warrior’s brain. He ... ... their comfortable progress, and expectations of crossing the borders into Hampshire before sunset. Morsfield and Cumnock shrugged at the bumpkin arti... ...d the familiar question again; and at every suggestion of his on behalf of concord he heard from Lady Charlotte that 205 George Meredith he had no pr...

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...he squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire heath-country; a lonely circle of enclosed brook and pasture, wit... ...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ocured food for me; I have an idea of feeling a damp forehead and drinking new milk, and by- and-by hearing a roar of voices or vehicles, and seeing a... ...ade it sound hollow to their music. Milk, and no cows anywhere; numbers of people, and no acquaintances among them; my thoughts were occupied by the s... ...twithstanding my father’s elo- quent talk of ruling a realm, shepherding a people, hurling British thunderbolts. The day’s discipline was, that its se... ...s sister, Miss Bannerbridge, who said they hoped they would have news from Hampshire very early, so that the poor child might be taken away by the fri... ...distractions, or I should have asked her whether my amazing and delightful new home had ever shown symptoms of vanishing; it appeared to me, judging f... ...mmediately, and also too true a balance, but it will not detect a depth of concord between two souls that do not show some fretfulness on the surface....

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...ng to have broken them. My plain story is of two Kentish damsels, and runs from a home of flowers into regions where flowers are few and sickly, on to... ...d Kentish extraction, albeit varieties of the breed. The farm had its name from a tradition, common to many other farmhouses within a circuit of the m... ...ective reading of her Bible, and to thoughts upon flowers eternal. Country people are not inclined to tolerate the dis- play of a passion for anything... ...ng to build up her children to stoutness, and but for the blindness of all people, save artists, poets, novelists, to the grandeur of their own creati... ... transported nearer to see the show, and stood like friends anxious to re- new acquaintance. Dahlia and Rhoda taught the children to perceive how they... ...do,” thought the farmer in an interval of his wrath; and the wrath is very new which has none of these cool intervals. The pas- sions, do but watch th... ...ltar-flame. 113 George Meredith CHAPTER XVI FAIRLY, Lord Elling’s seat in Hampshire, lay over the W arbeach river; a white mansion among great oaks, ... ...as carelessly giving note to a popular opera tune, with happy disregard of concord. It chanced that the tune was one which had taken Dahlia’s ear, and... ...g, who replied, “Very well, I thank you.” Their legs were swinging forward concordantly. Algernon plucked out his purse. “I have to beg you to excuse ...

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... words a more universal criticism of life than he did when he wrote “I saw from the beach,” with its moral of— “Give me back, give me back, the wild f... ...ut it; I do not think that we could de- rive the full quantity of pleasure from him without it. The exuberant romantic faculty of Joseph Andrews and i... ...ga- docio can go together, that the man of honour may be a selfish pedant. People have been unwilling to tell and to hear the whole truth even about W... ...and true are Colo- nel James and his wife. They are both very good sort of people in a way, who live in a lax and frivolous age, who have plenty of mo... ...This, he said, was what they call garnish, and concluded with advising his new customer to draw his purse upon the present occasion. Mr. Booth answere... ...pence. You will pay a few sighs, perhaps a few tears, at parting, and then new scenes will drive away the thoughts of poor Amelia from your bosom; but... ... good fortune removed us from the county of Essex 269 Henry Fielding into Hampshire, where a living was conferred on him by one of his old school-fel... ...say , doctor,” cries Mrs. Atkinson; 408 Amelia “there seems to be a false concord. I protest I never thought of it before.” “And yet this is the Virg...

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... aware that it was a part she had to play in the composition of a singular people. She did a little mischief by dropping on the stock-markets; in othe... ...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...they positively guaranteed the safety of our virgins and coffers. Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for un- reasonably disturbing them... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...ntelligible Whig. He inherited the estate of Holdesbury, on the borders of Hampshire and Wilts, and espoused that of Steynham in Sussex, where he gene... ...f our men get elanned, we shall see them refusing to come up to time. This new crossing and medalling is the devil’s own notion for upsetting a solid ... ...ed earthiest earth. He praised Re- publicanism for that. The spirit of the new and short-lived Republic wrought that change in Venice. ‘Oh, if they’re... ...rument, and each relies on his fellow with confidence, and an unri- valled concord comes of it. That is our republic each one to his work; all in unio... ...nergies of opposition, which— you have only to look to see—goes far beyond concord in the promotion of harmony. This is our English system; like our E...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... .................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT........................................................ ............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...t ten weeks. There are in the State eight judges—three supreme, who sit at Concord, the capital, as a court of appeal both in civil and criminal matte... ...ures in Boston. Of course I visited Bunker Hill, and went to Lexington and Concord. From the top of the monument on Bunker Hill there is a fine view o...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ...

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... . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of... ... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ... proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the ... ...n the sunlight, — think how it stands with it now, — sold, perchance, to the New England Friction Match Company! There were in 1837, as I read, two hu... ...rprising neighbors that he did n’t know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity ... ... among the parents, than which nothing can be more acceptable to a backwoods people. It was really an important item in our outfit, and, at times, the ... ...d with life everlasting, in the towns about Boston, even on the high road in Concord, and not in the backwoods of Maine. Supper was got before our eye... ... persons engaged in this branch of industry are generally emigrants from New Hampshire. . . . . In the summer they unite in small companies, and trave...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...uction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sis... ...he sub- sisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its o... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...verned by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord. Is it not (we may ask these projectors in politics) the true inter... ...mber this State, than to establish their own pre- tensions. These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upo... ...s, let our gratitude mingle an ejaculation to Heaven, for the propi- tious concord which has distinguished the consultations for our political happine...

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...l and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in th...

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... reached a sec- ond edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotati... ...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ...star on their base, are picked up in the gravels and called by the country people Shep- herds’ Crowns—or even fossil toads. Large boulder stones are a... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...ng put under forest laws at the time when the district of Ytene became the New Forest. Probably the king was able to ride over down, heather, and wood... ...difficulties or controversies attended to, confirmation given to the young people and children, and, after a meal, the bishop proceeded, sometimes to ... ...emains of a cusp at the top of the arch. The bells were in one of the true Hampshire weather-boarded square towers, of which very few still exist in t... ...s of the Itchen valley, may be seen the woods of Colden Common rising into Concord Hill, and beyond them the view is closed by the broken outline of L...

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...resents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...le call Yankee intonation are to be found in perfection in the cottages of Hampshire and West Sussex— are being quickened, perhaps from the same sourc... ... are produced, and the teacher noses blindly through the product for false concords, prepositions at the end of sentences, and, if a person of peculia...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...the present disturbances, used to be but about £18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of... ...so effectually and so universally restrained as in France and England. The concordat afterwards, in the sixteenth century, gave to the kings of France... ...lican church. Since the establishment of the pragmatic sanction and of the concordat, the clergy of France have in general shewn less respect to the d...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...r, he let fall a word of ‘having more of Wiltshire than was agree- able to Hampshire’—his county. People asked what that meant. Yet, according to the ... ...night on that crazy stool! ‘Besides, Mariandl is bound to go to-day to her new place, and who’s to cook for us? Do you propose fasting as well as watc... ...he name of the person disturbing her; it fused best, she thought, with the new element she had been compelled to take into her system, to absorb it if... ...bjects to kindle the utmost hatred of dissension, if men are not perfectly concordant. They agreed upon land to ban- ish any talk of Women or Theology... ...sleep. A cunning infant not a cry in him to excuse a father for preferring concord or si- lence or the bachelor’s exemption. ‘He is a strong boy,’ the...

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......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...ed; that who seeks a treasure must not speak; and the like,—I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne. Is it otherwise in ... ...and in complaining the rest of his 43 Emerson life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, ... ...e. In the morning I awake and find the old world, wife, babes, and mother, Concord and Boston, the dear old spiritual world and even the dear old devi...

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...g storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she wa... ...st disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful, her parents, and other people who were familiar with her, used to call Violet. But her brother w... ...ers that came under his consideration. With a heart about as tender as other people’s, he had a head as hard and impenetrable, and therefore, perhaps,... ...began with saying, besought their mother to let them run out and play in the new snow; for, though it had looked so dreary and dismal, drifting downwa... ...r play place than a little garden before the house, divided by a white fence from the street, and with a pear tree and two or three plum trees oversha... ...So thought the mother; and thought, likewise, that the new snow, just fallen from heaven, would be excellent material to make new beings of, if it wer... ...anterbury Pilgrims” Nathaniel Hawthorne 57 one of the Shaker brethren, to Concord, where they were published in the New Hampshire Patriot. Meantime... ...one of the Shaker brethren, to Concord, where they were published in the New Hampshire Patriot. Meantime, another of the Canterbury pilgrims, one so d...

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...ly liked, evinces a peculiar construction of mortal. Mr. Melchisedec, whom people in private called the great Mel, had been at once the sad dog of Lym... ...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...t a man who wishes to pass off for more than he is, Kilne, and impose upon people,” he says, “he’s contemptible, Kilne! contempt- ible!” So that, you ... ...g children, and wrote frequently; but of course they had to consider their new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the wor... ...’s invitation to him goes for nothing.’ ‘Rose? inviting the Count? down to Hampshire?’ The diplomatist’s brows were lifted. ‘No, I mean the other,’ sa... ...riet—’ Mr. Andrew hesitated, and branched off: ‘You ‘ve heard we ‘ve got a new baby?’ Evan congratulated him; but another inquiry was in Mr. Andrew’s ... ...er resemblance of his manner to Andrew’s. Behind this unaffected fraternal concord, however, the fact that they were pledged to a race in eccentricity... ...announce to them that the sovereign remedy for human ills, the promoter of concord, the healer of feuds, the central point of man’s destiny in the fle...