Full Text Search Details
...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. ... ...y four Union supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary ar... ...hter scale, the San Francisco tremor of 1906 was 8.3 (as was the earthquake in the Mississippi Valley in 1811), and both the Alaskan quake of 1964 ...

Description Details
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

Full Text Search Details
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...ar, its painted chariot, charioteer and horses: The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. Sappho, about 30 years old, her hair braided around her ... ...gh a sheet of green glass the faces of Sappho, Atthis and Anaktoria: a laurel wreath whirls above the Aegean: herons fly, dolphins leap. ... ... as- sortment. I’ve been grinding them. We’ll have a beautiful green, that laurel green LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 239 you’re fond of.” “I’m...

Description Details
...make on your savings or insurance premiums? We all know that basically, they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions have been making Tax Defaulted Paper part of their investment portfolios. Banks and other institutional investors enjoy high...

Full Text Search Details
...onic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the author. ISBN 0-7596-7159-1 This book is printed on ... ...rs who encouraged me to stop investing my talents, skills and intellect in other people and start investing them in myself. Also for being wise eno... ... that will make your journey through the materials go more smoothly. A message from the Author........................................................ ... statutes and rules, it’s easy to get lost. Learn how to organize your journey from someone who has been down the same road. Unfamiliar with real ... ..., they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies ... ... will find the time. It will change your life, isn’t it worth the effort? Most people spend all of their time “getting ready”. You need to get read... ...n with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississippi. This book is written from the perspective of someone w... ..., Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, P... ...an, Hopkins, Jackson, Jefferson, Jessamine, Johnson, Kenton, Knott, Knox, Larue, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Lincoln, Livingston,...

Description Details
... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....

Table of Contents Details
...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...

Full Text Search Details
... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...e of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 1020 Shari... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...battle. The ritual of crowning Kings comes from Rome; 2,300 years ago: as the laurel wreath of hay… and then later oak leaves, denoted who was the b... .... Time for a new war! Just the thing to tone up their Nation and bring them laurels and glory and new wealth. War had been glorified and made att... ...ish had exterminated most of the East coast tribes, or pushed them west of the Mississippi, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The ...

Description Details
...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...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... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...ice were the milestones on a road which could not fail to lead to victory, Laurels in the Worcester meet now seem less unattainable than during the ye... ...rcollegiates—Worces- ter is the Mecca for all but the favored few who seek laurels in the Harvard Stadium on June 1. The twenty-first annual meet will... ...s. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunting and mountain laurel decoration of each pillar along the sides of the hall, and the danc-...

Full Text Search Details
... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ... or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. ... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...0,540 km 2 ; land area: 120,410 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Mississippi Land boundaries: 1,675 km total Coastline: 2,495 km Maritime ... ...overnment leaders: Corazon AQUINO, President (since February 1986); Salvador LAUREL, Vice President and Foreign Minister (since February 1986) Suffrag...

Excerpt Details
... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

Full Text Search Details
... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...f great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American statesman... ...out much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridic... ... This wish was gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade ... ...e and congratulations, and he who had come as a stranger departed with the laurels of great triumph. Alas! in five years from that exulting night I sa... ...months of the war its ravages had extended from the Atlantic to beyond the Mississippi. Many victories in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by ...

Excerpt Details
...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

Full Text Search Details
...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ...sory; the girl had never attempted to write a book and had no desire for the laurels of authorship. She had no talent for expres sion and too little ... ...ed have suggested to a spectator here and there that he was resting on vague laurels. But his triumphs were, some of them, now too old; others had bee... ...timorously bared of their tight black velvet (oh the old clothes! and a gold laurel wreath set upon a multitude of glossy ringlets. She had spoken so...

Excerpt Details
...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 to the preservation of the liberties which...

Full Text Search Details
... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ...they were composed of firs, larches, evergreen oaks, wild olive-trees, and laurels. Beyond this outer belt lay the thick shades of the central forest,... ...they were composed of firs, larches, evergreen oaks, wild olive-trees, and laurels. Beyond this outer belt lay the thick shades of the central forest,...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

Full Text Search Details
...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...l by culinary pro- cess; and the trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail, heart-shaking when heard screaming on the wind and proclaim... ... fluc- tuating mobs of a railway station. The gatherings of gazers about a laurelled mail had one centre, and acknowledged one sole interest. But the ... ...hat a heart-shaking addi- tion!—horses, men, carriages, all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak-leaves and ribbons. The guards, as being offi- cia...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

Full Text Search Details
...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...in its tendency . Immoral! God bless my soul, gentle- men, what is it that people mean? I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all... ...vel by culinary process; and the trumpet that once announced from afar the laurelled mail, heart-shaking, when heard screaming on the wind, and advanc... ...what a heart-shaking addi- tion!—horses, men, carriages—all are dressed in laurels and flowers, oak leaves and ribbons. The guards, who are his majest... ...ering of upper coats. Such a costume, and the elaborate arrangement of the laurels in their hats, dilated their hearts, by giving to them openly an of...

Excerpt Details
...ew moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single glance round the apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answ...

Full Text Search Details
...eded to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there, after a single g... ...resenting himself with rather a work a day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a lo... ...hair, perfectly straight and glossy, and without any di vision, rolled back from it in a leonine manner. These things, the eyes especially, with thei... ...ly have proved that he came from Carolina or Alabama. He came, in fact, from Mississippi, and he spoke very perceptibly with the accent of that countr... ...gin life afresh. One didn’t even know what one had come back for. There were people who wanted one to spend the winter in Boston; but she couldn’t sta... ..., if you like, that I am a painted Jezebel. Try to reform him; a person from Mississippi is sure to be all wrong. I shall be back very late; we are go... ...ed from the doorway. ‘The amount of thought they give to their clothing, the people who are afraid of looking frivolous!’ Chapter 2 W hether much or ... ... to make of the human race is into the peo ple who take things hard and the people who take them easy. He perceived very quickly that Miss Chancellor... ...usky glow in his eyes expressed a softness representing no prevision of such laurels, but which testified none the less to Verena’s influence. ‘And what...

Full Text Search Details
...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...lts or shortcomings of others, and return to Paris stripped of some of the laurels that adorned his brow. But he thought only of the welfare of the St... ...e lotteries that were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the ... ...X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER XCIX CIX CIX CIX CIX LAW HAD ESTABLISHED his Mississippi Company, and now be- gan to do marvels with it. A sort of langu...

Full Text Search Details
...olutely without meaning. Fortunately, after all such churls have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who ar... ...jority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derived from a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;... ... the entire speculation, furnishes the surest means of disen- chanting him from the horror which might else gather upon 5 Thomas de Quincey his feeli... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...ble cases of murder, which long ago the voice of amateurs has crowned with laurel, but especially with the two earliest of the three, viz., the immor-... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...r below-stairs, or in one of the bedrooms above. Immedi- ately a stream of people poured down into the kitchen, where at once they saw the cradle—but ... ...y by comparison with Euripides, that Sophocles is usually crowned with the laurels of art. But there is some danger of doing wrong to the truth 123 T... ... in the other. They are a sort of snags, such as lie in the current of the Mississippi. There, they do nothing but mischief. Here, when the lines are ...

Full Text Search Details
...ion in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, fr... ...it of a Lady merely to help him out with a lame phrase; they draw him away from his small question to their own greater ones; so that, after a little,... ... flower there; and, quite as much, these fine possibilities of recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the... ...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...ere are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself delightful. Those tha... ...; the girl had never at- tempted to write a book and had no desire for the laurels of authorship. She had no talent for expression and too little of t... ... have suggested to a spectator here and there that he was resting on vague laurels. But his triumphs were, some of them, now too old; others had been ... ...orously bared of their tight black velvet (oh the old clothes!) and a gold laurel-wreath set upon a multitude of glossy ring- lets. She had spoken sof...

Full Text Search Details
...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ...- thing of which you think me capable to go to the benefit of my afflicted people, I part with my doubts and hesitation, and proceed to furnish you th... ...trious and money loving can make a few dollars; the great wrestler can win laurels; the young people can meet, and enjoy each other’s society; the dru... ...in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish. The present ...

Full Text Search Details
...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...or- ridge, with sweet milk, and coffee and hot cakes, at Burlington upon the Mississippi. Another long day’s ride followed, with but one feature worth... ...t is done sleep- ing and what part awake, and leave the reader to share what laurels there are, at his own nod, between myself and my collaborators; a...

Full Text Search Details
...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ... day; the beneficent Earth had already absorbed it. The drowned were buried in their clothes. T o supply the great sudden demand for coffins, he had g... ...o-never-failing deserters on my rail- road would by-and-by become a phenomenon. In this agreeable frame of mind I entered the workhouse of Liverpool.—... ...unnel roar of protest at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer ... ...als in where no rea- soning precaution or provision could expect him. As in the following case:— Adjoining the Caves of Ignorance is a country town. I...

Full Text Search Details
...’ burst forth the merry voice of the young- est, ‘you must see our letters from Edinburgh.’ ‘You have heard, then? It was the very thing I came to ask... ...orge had often driven my father out,’ said Aubrey, again looking lazily up from bal- ancing his spoon. Ethel laughed; and even Richard smiled; then re... ...rs’ respite. It ensued upon an attachment that had grown up with the young people, so that they had been entirely one with each other; and there had b... ... the maiden’s affection or her father’s consent; but both had been implied from the first. The bride- groom was barely of age, the bride not seventeen... ...Trial it a wholesome one, because it is so visible and unjustifiable, that people strive against it. And the rest? Was Henry able to see his father or... ...0.’ ‘There are some Axworthys still,’ said Ethel, ‘but not very creditable people.’ ‘You may say that,’ said Dr. May emphatically. ‘There was a scapeg... ...in it.’ ‘My word is my word,’ said Leonard, snapping little boughs off the laurels as he walked. ‘A hasty word ought not to be kept.’ His face looked ... ... and send them home in a letter.’ ‘An alligator or two, or a branch of the Mississippi,’ said Tom, in a young man’s absent way of half-answering a pet... ...ed, ‘Oh, Ave, Ave, here is Mr. Tom saying I am to send him a branch of the Mississippi in a letter, as an object for his microscope!’ ‘I beg your pard...

Excerpt Details
...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

Full Text Search Details
...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...untably ne- glected by writers on this question. How it was that the great Mississippi Bubble, during the Orleans regency in Paris, should have happen... ...try is perfected and made orbicular, that from that day we might claim the laurel equally, whether for dignity or grace. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES...

Excerpt Details
...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 power, Cheerful, f...

Table of Contents Details
.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

Full Text Search Details
..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...l’d off a live oak in Florida as it hung trailing down, Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage, And here what I now draw from the w... ...the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp! The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness and ba... ...n their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I’d rear laurel cover’d monument, High, high above the rest—To all cut off before ...

Full Text Search Details
...ing. He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker ... ...beard was neatly and closely trimmed. Once in a while he withdrew his glance from the newspaper and looked about him. There was more noise than ever o... ...er at the house. The main building was called “the house,” to distinguish it from the cottages. The chattering and whistling birds were still at it. T... ...over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s t... ...it had again assumed its entertaining aspect; about the wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet u... ...h appeared to be her birth right. Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegras... ...e, and you would be unfit to asso ciate with the wives and daughters of the people who trust you.” Madame Ratignolle had spoken what she believed to ... ...t felt to rest thus in a strange, quaint bed, with its sweet country odor of laurel lingering about the sheets and mattress! She stretched her strong ... ...The Doctor was a semi retired physician, resting, as the saying is, upon his laurels. He bore a reputation for wisdom rather than skill—leaving the ac...

Full Text Search Details
...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ... Competition universal 5 Charles Darwin — Effects of climate — Protection from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plant... ...ection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common par- ent — Explains the Grouping of all organic beings. Chapt... ...eons have been watched, and tended with the utmost care, and loved by many people. They have been domesticated for thousands of years in several quart... ...to the sheep of parts of Yorkshire, that ‘as they generally belong to poor people, and are mostly in small lots, they never can be improved.’ On the o... ...fficulty in pair- ing them; in donkeys, from only a few being kept by poor people, and little attention paid to their breed- ing; in peacocks, from no... ...he stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the back of the leaf of the common laurel. This juice, though small in quan- tity, is greedily sought by insec... ...med! Good observers have estimated that sediment is deposited by the great Mississippi river at the rate of only 600 feet in a hundred thousand years.... ...ira, naturalised Languages, classification of Lapse, great, of time Larvae Laurel, nectar secreted by the leaves Laws of variation Leech, varieties of...

Full Text Search Details
... of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and ... ... in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. Their affections and comprehension are with the fathers, ... ...s still a sense of experience, and a pleasure in tracing the perspec- tive from another point of sight, where what was once dis- tant has become near ... ...early days with Beechcroft, Stoneborough, and V ale Leston, when they were peopled with the outcome of a youthful mind, and that they may be ready to ... ...t take Clement a bunch of those dear white violets. I know where they came from,” and she held them to her lips. “Some primroses too, I hope.” “A few;... ...yellow dust.” “I don’t want to worry her, but there never were such groovy people as you are! I shall think it over, and make up my mind by the time I... ... was in earnest or in mischief.” And she read aloud— “Dreaming of her laurels green, The learned Girton girl is seen, Or under the tr... ...es. “They hope to regulate the stream. They might as well hope to regulate Mississippi.” “Well-chosen simile! The current is slow and sluggish, but ir...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...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... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...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... ...e Those made not poets, but the poets those.” 11 HenryDavidThoreau The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Ro... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...steadily upward in a straight line through a dense undergrowth of mountain laurel, until the trees be gan to have a scraggy and infernal look, as if ... ...n bank, surrounded by the glossy leaves of the red variety of the mountain laurel, just above the head of Wicasuck Island, where we could observe some...