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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r, and so she soon drew away and left me to her lord, who talked of French politics, Africa, and domestic economy with great vivacity. From Ostend a s... ...I knew I was in Scotland, and launched out forthright into Educa- tion and Politics and the aims of one’s life. I told him how I had found the peasant... ... of the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON BOARD SS. ‘D... ...the mistress. R. L. S. CHAPTER IV – THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT, MONTEREY AND SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 1879-JULY 1880 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN ON BOARD SS. ‘DEVON... ...e closes. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [IN THE EMIGRANT TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsb... ...oses. Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [IN THE EMIGRANT TRAIN FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsburgh... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am...

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rth America V ol. 1 chew the cud and digest the bearings of those external politics. But it is unjust in the one to decide upon the political aspirati... ...on of ideas which I take to be neces- sary to the understanding of English politics! The gentle- man who scorned my wife for hugging her chains had ce... ...rained them from rushing to the seizure of New Orleans, when the treaty of San Lorenzo El Real, in 1795, stipulated for them a pre- carious right of n... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ... the shrine of the coined goddess has carried them across from New York to San Francisco. Men who kneel at that shrine are called on to have ready wit... ... shrine of the coined goddess has carried them across from New York to San Francisco. Men who kneel at that shrine are called on to have ready wits an...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ...n that line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son of the W... ...at line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son of the Wolf,... ...pect, with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son of the W... ..., with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son of the Wolf,... ...ther for company, begin to quarrel. Weatherbee loved to discourse blatantly on politics, while Cuth fert, who had been prone to clip his coupons and ... ...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ... an institution, you know. It belongs to the State of California and is run by politics. I know. I’ve been here a long time. Everybody trusts me. I ru...

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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: This is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy--or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possibl...

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...s Series Publication The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... forming the character of my poor dear wife. Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take somethin... ...ming the character of my poor dear wife. Just before they set out from San Francisco for the South Seas old Mr Hurlbird said he must take something wi... ...t struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding chairs. So he boug... ...chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs in a special case that ... ...ing. He was keen on soldiering, keen on mathematics, on land-surveying, on politics and, by a queer warp of his mind, on literature. Even when he was ... ...sh society. Indeed, Englishmen seem to me to be a little mad in matters of politics or of religion. In Edward it was particularly queer because he him...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...O. Mills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. That bank, a profitable business with unlimited credit, boa... ...ills Bank in Sacramento in 1850 and later helped organize the Bank of San Francisco. That bank, a profitable business with unlimited credit, boasted... ...nt and returned East in 1873. Just two years later, that same Bank of San Francisco closed its doors with millions in liabilities and only hundr... ...and returned East in 1873. Just two years later, that same Bank of San Francisco closed its doors with millions in liabilities and only hundred t... ...n are tales of ―palace intrigue‖ as well as political machinations, power politics, information manipulation, etc., through the ages. The Stationers‘... ...Y: Anchor Press, 1976. Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880–1944. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. ...

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............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...esort. The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his mor als, his religion. He creates none of these ... ... a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he came by his politics, and which breed of news paper he reads to get light, and which b... ...rane ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had lon... ... ous matter that helped me to another link. It made me notorious, and San Francisco invited me to lecture. Which I did. And profitably. I had long ha... ...s: “In that region the weather —” “At that time it was a custom —” “But in California one never heard —” Eleven of them. They initialed the brief divi... ...ghtning; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and... ...ing; its duty was to remind me when it was time to begin to talk about San Francisco weather, where there is no lightning—nor thunder, either—and it ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

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...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ich were common in the West at that time. He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he ... ...ss for one term during the rebellion. Mr. White was al- ways a Democrat in politics, and Chilton followed his fa- ther. He had two older brothers—all ... ...mber, small trains were sent from Corpus Christi, with cavalry escorts, to San Antonio and Austin, with paymasters and funds to pay off small detach- ... ... nied one of them in December, 1845. The distance from Cor- pus Christi to San Antonio was then computed at one hundred and fifty miles. Now that road... ...ARRIAGE— ORDERED TO THE PACIFIC COAST— CROSSING THE ISTHMUS—ARRIVAL AT SAN FRANCISCO MY EXPERIENCE in the Mexican war was of great advantage to me aft... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...sease did not break out again on the way to California, and we reached San Francisco early in September. CHAPTER XV SAN FRANCISCO—EARLY CALIFORNIA EXP...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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