...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...been lifted up, by the commercial energy of the Atlantic States and by the agricultural prosperity of the Western States, to a degree of national cons... ...f Virginia have been the result. At that time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories... ..., furniture, and all material comforts to the dwellings of most of our own agricultural laborers. Any comparison between the material comfort of a Ken... ... behind him who were his equals. At his installation as president, four ex-presidents of Harvard College assisted. Whether they were all present at hi... ... as President, was a pupil in this school, as indeed have been most of the Presidents of the United States. At the head of the other party, from which... ...that the supporters of Mr. Lincoln were very anxious about their ticket in Alabama, or those of Mr. Breckinridge as to theirs in Massachusetts. In Ala...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...eralls. The most energetic and vital places in town. A large warehouse for agricultural implements. An im- pressive barricade of green and gold wheels... ...f which she had bought in Chicago. She was led about the circle. Her voice mechanically produced safe remarks: “Oh, I’m sure I’m going to like it here... ... studios in New York, in Kan- sas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes. From them she got the same con- fused desire w... ...st manufacturer is but a busier Sam Clark, and all the rotund senators and presidents are village lawyers and bankers grown nine feet tall. Though a G... ...forgot Cy while she was talking with a girl who had taken the Uni- versity agricultural course. Cy could not have returned the bottle; he came stagger...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... ...med one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it. It is by agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early inhabitant... ...med one great desert. The Indians occupied without possessing it. It is by agricultural labor that man appropriates the soil, and the early inhabitant... ...which is opposed by the two other branches of the legislature. But several Presidents of the United States have been known to lose the majority in the... ... while I was travelling through the forests which still cover the State of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log house of a pioneer. I did not wish to... ...*These nations are now swallowed up in the States of Geor- gia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. There were for- merly in the South four great nat... ...- eration. But it is easy to perceive that the South, which has given four Presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, to the Union, which...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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... ...d sea-board; had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spr... ...ates had, as all men know, been in power for many years. Ei- ther Southern Presidents had been elected, or Northern Presidents with Southern politics.... ...entleman, or of a lady whose eye loves to rest always on the beautiful, an agricultural population that touches its hat, eats plain victuals, and goes... ...d, are easily defined. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South wi... ...6,431 Arkansas 331,710 109,065 440,775 Mississippi 407,051 479,607 886,658 Alabama 520,444 435,473 955,917 Florida 81,885 63,809 145,694 Georgia 615,3... ...oment of Northern ascendency. “We submitted,” the North says, “to Southern Presidents, and Southern statesmen, and Southern councils, because 129 Tro...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...y charge 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 ... ..., add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward. 11 As I have walk’d in Alabama my morning walk, I have seen where the she bird the mocking bird ... ...at their benches with tools—see from among them superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3... ...t and lusty flesh clear of taint, Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you? Those of earth born pass... ...peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the ... ... in constellations and named fancy names? Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself? Old institutions, these arts,...

...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...

...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...