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...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ...a: 4,030 km 2 ; land area: 4,030 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Rhode Island Coastline: 965 km Maritime claim: (measured from claimed arc... ...er age 18 Elections: elections held for People's Congress representatives at county level Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... ...h about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) service... ...s the responsibility of Australia 52 Colombia Sea 400 km Barranq San Felipe Providence. Malpelo, and San Andtes islands are not shown. See regional m... ...50 km 2 ; land area: 750 km 2 Comparative area: about one-fourth the size of Rhode Island Coastline: 148 km Maritime claims: Contiguous zone: 24 nm Ex... ...a: 1,400 km 2 ; land area: 1,400 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Rhode Island Coastline: 764 km Maritime claims: Contiguous zone: 4 nm Con... ...s (Bundes- strassen), 65,425 km state highways (Lan- desstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen); 296,737 km of unclassified communal roads (...

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...................................................111 Included here is a State and County Directory with an indication of whether the States are Lien ... ..., you will want to give up. The material may seem overwhelming and the various County employees less than helpful. The process of sorting through t... ...ow . . . 1 Where do I begin – An Overview All across the United States, State, County and Local Governments raise money to provide benefits and se... ... Wilcox, Winston Alaska: Tax Deed State 27 Counties (called boroughs) Aleutian Islands East, Aleutian Islands West, Anchorage, Angoon, Barrow, Bet... ...gle, Peoria, Perry, Piatt, Pike, Pope, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richland, Rock Island, Saline, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, St. Clair, Stark... ...Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, Wyoming, York Rhode Island: Tax Lien Certificate State 5 Counties Bristol, Kent,... ... Union, Venango, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, Wyoming, York Rhode Island: Tax Lien Certificate State 5 Counties Bristol, Kent, Newpo... ... Rhode Island: Tax Lien Certificate State 5 Counties Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington South Carolina: Tax Lien Certificate State...

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... SAPPHO’S JOURNAL Sappho, walking on her island beach, pauses by a broken amphora: With one foot, she nudges the... ... 9 Villa Poseidon, Mytilene 642 B.C. he great storm beats across the island, rattling the olive and the cypress, piling the surf on the beach... ...of my terra cotta lamp is cold. Some say that a storm will wash away our island, but I do not believe it. Our island will be here long after I hav... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ... Executive Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished fam... ... conflict that assails our country. ...We defy augury; there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it... ...g pair, well-trained, handsomely har- nessed. My driver is a stalwart from Rhode Island; he says he used to work in a cotton mill; now, he looks forw...

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...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ... lowing;; Wednesday tiie oolli'go knew the team had found itself, for tliH Providence live, whii h la- ter won fruni Dartniuiith 22-21 on its liDiiie ... ...o any :lddress WRIGHT &DITSON Bosten and Cambridge, Mass> \ Chicago, Ills. Providence, R. I. DITSON Wilson House ^ Drug Co. Wilson House Block North A... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ...anv address WRIGHT & DITSON Bosten ai)d Cainbridg^e, M.iss> Chicago. Ills. Providence. K. I. Wilson House ii Drug Co. Wilson House Block North Adams, ... ... Henry Root, A. M., one of the most widely known members of the Washington county medical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a ban... ...nchidae, Cos, Hariicarnassos and Cnidus. After Professor Howes has treated Rhodes, Pso- fe«aor Rice will take up Lindos, and Professor Howes, Crete; t... ...THER CHOSEN FROM WILLIAMS Carroll A. Wilson 1907 Selected as Massachusetts Rhodes Scholar At the meeting of the Rhodes scholarship committee of Massa-... ...nrolled in the Harvard Law school, was chosen to receive the Massachusetts Rhodes scholarship. While at Williams last year he became a candidate for t...

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...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...storical context. Take for example the two nuclear plants disasters of 3-mile Island and Chernobyl. The reason that disaster occurred and the reason... ...America was set off by the first European colony establishing a foothold on an island 3 miles off the coast of that continent. We may not see that d... ...to one's family? Work? Neighbors? Neighborhood? Politically? Municipal? County? State? National? How many charities can one support? Which... ...rous split-identities. Try to resolve just how your street-neighborhood-city- county-province-state-national-political identity fits with your family... ...ca: stolen from the German Boers, and the Dutch. The white supremacist nation Rhodesia; created out of the pure greed of one man: Cecil Rhodes…, whi... ...ons. Then you are supposed to love your country, your city, your state, your county, etc…. Without ever being loved back by any of these abstract ... ...ar history of tectonic plate migration and activity… Just so the residents of Rhode Island would know where the earth they own… originally came from... ...nd the Alternative pirate. She’s been at Madagascar, and at Malabar, and Providence, and Portobello. She was at the fishing up of the wrecked ...

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...s fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five hundred acres of land thirty years a... ...ans peur et sans reproche; the driving out of the Knights Hospitallers from Rhodes by the Turks; and the placarding of the Ninety Five Propositions,—... ...pse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America woul... ... at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the par tiality of Providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was op... ... a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The ... ... I felt honored by his notice. He told me the names of dim capes and shadowy islands as we glided by them in the solemnity of the night, under the win... ...tsburgh, little trading scows from every where, and broad horns from “Posey County,” Indiana, freighted with “fruit and furniture”—the usual term for... ...in and their chills again—chills being a merciful pro vision of an all wise Providence to enable them to take exer cise without exertion. And this s... ... Vicksburg 1 38 Milliken’s Bend 1 2 37 Bailey’s 1 3 48 Lake Providence 1 5 47 Greenville 1 10 55 Napoleon 1 16 22 White ...

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...d made treaties with the Indians, and be gan a plantation which he called Providence.” “I have been to Providence on the railroad,” said Charley. “It... ... some persons who had been persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also... ...persecuted in Massachusetts went to the Isle of Rhodes, since called Rhode Island, and settled there. About this time, also, many settlers had gone to... ...nd the sages and ministers of that day were in clined to the opinion that Providence had sent this mortality in order to make room for the settlement... ...m England, who took possession of the 39 Hawthorne old fortress on Castle Island and of the fortification on Fort Hill. Sometimes it was rumored that... ...appened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which was supposed to contain a great deal of gold and silver.... ...ht, in the spirit of the times, be construed into a special appointment of Providence. The name of Waban signified, in the Indian tongue, wind; so tha... ...he people inhabiting the country now comprised within the limits of King’s County, was as follows:— “To the inhabitants of the District of Grand Pre, ... ... great renown at Saratoga, and lost it again at Camden. General Greene, of Rhode Island, was likewise at the council. Washington soon discovered him t...

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...of difference, not a shade. I overheard him. I happened by the blessing of Providence to be by when he named her publicly jilt. And it’s enough that s... ...ilent or discourse humorously. The residence of Sir Lukin Dunstane, in the county of Surrey, inherited by him during his recent term of Indian service... ...her ladyship that he was half a Sussex man, though not exactly born in the county; his parents had removed to Sussex after the great event; and the Do... ...ing from deliberation, the old man said: ‘Ah’m a Hampshireman.’ ‘A capital county!’ ‘Heigh!’ The old man heaved his chest. ‘Once!’ ‘Why, what has happ... ...barbarians, disrupt, as by earthquake, with the unanswer- able question to Providence, Why!—Why twice? Designing slumberers are such infants. When the... ...bout two and twenty, mad for litera- ture; and he must have talent. Arthur Rhodes by name. I may have a chance of helping him. He was an articled cler... ...lear-faced youth, rather flushed, dusty at the legs, addressed Diana. ‘Mr. Rhodes!’ she said, not discouragingly. She was petitioned to excuse him; he... ... to Emma: ‘Lord Dannisburgh!’ her paleness told the rest. Hearing from Mr. Rhodes that he had walked the distance from town, and had been to Copsley, ... ...applies yo them to win recruits for a service under the direct blessing of Providence. Lady W athin left some darts behind her, in the form of moral e...

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...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...ent of the maritime jurisdiction of Spain in the waters which surround the island of Cuba, has been debated without reaching an agree- ment, and it is... ... and, above all, to that moral training which under the blessing of Divine Providence will confer upon them the elevated and sanctifying influences, t... ...uary 20, 1864. HON. W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.: In county and State elections, must citizens of Tennessee take the oath prescr... ...e met, it will be due to those armies; and above all, to the favor of that Providence which leads both nations and men. ORDER ASSIGNING U. S. GRANT TO... ...NSION, W ASHINGTON CITY, September 3, 1864. The signal success that Divine Providence has recently vouch- safed to the operations of the United States... ...souri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, V ermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, cast 3,982,011 votes ... ...hould be added the number of all soldiers in the field from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, and California, who ...

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...ligion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and rose in this island through the last two hun- dred years. It is well known that the two ... ...use of this awakening from slumber in the two established churches of this island, the fact is so little to be denied, that, in both its aspects, it i... ...sed acts ‘for build- ing additional places of worship in the highlands and islands of Scotland.’ These acts may be looked upon as one section in that ... ...sal of land as an act of ‘persecution;’ and upon this principle—that, in a county where his grace was pretty nearly the sole landed proprietor, to ref... ...xious to bring under public notice, with regard to Milton. The reader whom Providence shall send us will not measure the value of these ideas (we trus... ...comparison with Charlemagne. All the knowledge current in Rome, Athens, or Rhodes, at the pe- riod of Caesar’s youth, the entire cycle of a nobleman’s... ...lly in the individual, and in the other with the irre- sistible decrees of Providence. Napoleon Bonaparte and Charlemagne were both, in a memorable de... ...ral depository of Christian knowledge, she seemed specially sta- tioned by Providence as a martial apostle for carrying by the sword that mighty bless... ... enough to have stood a contest for the representation of a great Scottish county; of general information; and, in particular, he is an excellent Gree...

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...Gertrude von der Wart, the stories of the Keys of Calais, of the Dragon of Rhodes, and we fear we must add, both Nelson’s plan of the Battle of the Ni... ...ap of the Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, as it was then called, for the great island of Negropont, or by its old name, Euboea. It looks like a piece brok... ...g into a gulf, that would fit over it, upon the main land, and between the island and the coast is an exceedingly narrow strait. The Persian army woul... ...ated the Carthaginians, and rendered Syracuse by far the chief city in the island, and he contrived to make everyone so much afraid of him that no one... ...vely clear light of the fourteenth century. It took place in the island of Rhodes. This Greek isle had become the home of the Knights of St. John, or ... ...w years, they recruited their forces, and, in 1307, captured the island of Rhodes, which had been a nest of Greek and Mahometan pirates. Here they rem... ... in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of Aargau. Rodolf of Hapsbu... ... left his English wife and her in- fant son at his castle of Cranallagh in county Longford, think- ing them safe there while he joined the royal force... ...his clergy, and their home in the spacious palace, were, no doubt, un- der Providence, a preservative; but, in the opinions of the time, there was lit...

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...fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it be expec... ...now go over that ques- tion again. I then divided the inhabitants of those islands into three classes—the white, the black, and the colored, taking a ... ...as open to no one without a mili- tary pass; and we started, trusting that Providence would supply us with rations and quarters. An officer attached t... ...ke of the coming thaw as of a misfortune which must come, but which a kind Providence might perhaps postpone—as we all, in short, speak of death. In t... ...now, so as to avoid worse consequences, had I only known how to do so. But Providence, even though without curbs and as- sisted only by simple snaffle... ... the unanimous consent of the States present.”* Twelve States were present—Rhode Is- land apparently having had no representative on the oc- casion—on... ...- self. Where would be the State sovereignty and indi- vidual existence of Rhode Island and Delaware, unless they could maintain, in at least one Hous... ... To explain the way in which this will work, I will name the two States of Rhode Island and Iowa as opposed to each other, and the two States of Massa... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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..., And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or ... ...ect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instinct through that waste And trackless region... ...w, With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier wha... ...ss, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief... ... even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite se 156 Chapter 35 The Mast H... ...isaster and death. Therefore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even handed equity never could have sanctioned so gross... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the ... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...the digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest even a...

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...And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Common- wealth o... ...ct millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless re- g... ...l occurred the horrid transactions we are about to relate, belonged to the island of Nantucket.” — “Narrative of the Globe,” By Lay and Hussey Survivo... ...ss, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief... ... even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes. There you stand, lost in the infinite series of the sea, with nothi... ...aster and death. There- fore, I saw that here was a sort of interregnum in Providence; for its even-handed equity never could have so gross an injus- ... ...d him off to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’... ...White Whale; he’ll nail ye! This is a pine tree. My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it... ...the digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest even a...

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...erve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a polity to maintain itse... ...e, the Moon. It is a planet like our planet, the same continents, the same islands, the same oceans and seas, another Fuji- Yama is beautiful there do... ...nd there dismisses it with a spiral whirl. “No!” he says. He seems sent by Providence, for just now we had been discussing how we should broach our re... ...ugh and cheap enough to staff jails as a jail ought to be staffed. Perhaps islands will be chosen, islands lying apart from the highways of the sea, a... ...Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A foolish humour prompts me to unfold all these, hand them to ... ...nity about Welt-Politik, you assume the best race is the “Teutonic”; Cecil Rhodes affected that triumph of creative imagination, the “Anglo- Saxon rac...

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...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...imagination, the depth of thought, and all the gifts which are bestowed by Providence with an equal hand, turned 15 Tocqueville to the advantage of t... ... then be constrained to make the best of the social lot awarded to them by Providence. The Christian nations of our age seem to me to present a most a... ...poor as their equals, they watched over the destiny of those whose welfare Providence had entrusted to their care. The people never having conceived t... ... to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. ... ...h Empire during the whole reign of *The emigrants who founded the State of Rhode Island in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first sett... .... Plymouth, Providence, New Haven, the State of Connecti- cut, and that of Rhode Island** were founded without the co-operation and almost without the... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...uman body. The town- 77 Tocqueville ship is the lowest in order, then the county, and lastly the State; and I propose to devote the following chapter...

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... Some thought it was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the current, with a rising gale, ... ...t was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the current, with a rising gale, Still set them o... ... spread; Or the Red Sea but the sea is not red. And down the cliff the island virgin came, And near the cave her quick light footsteps drew,... ... etiquette In kingly chambers or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. He stood like Atlas, with a world of words About his ... ...deserved. Suwarrow Continued: ‘Your old regiment’s allow’d, By special providence, to lead to morrow, Or it may be to night, the assault: I ha... ..., According to the artillery’s hits or misses, What sages call Chance, Providence, or Fate (Uncertainty is one of many blisses, A mortgage... ...grave, Besides fish, beasts, and birds. ‘The sparrow’s fall Is special providence, ’ though how it gave Offence, we know not; probably it perc... ... have their claret and Madeira To irrigate the dryness of decline; And county meetings, and the parliament, And debt, and what not, for their ... ... great electioneerer, Burrowing for boroughs like a rat or rabbit; But county contests cost him rather dearer, Because the neighbouring Scot...

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...t calculation of beating you and your friends for the lower house, in that county. They offer to bet upon it. Billings and Job, respec- tively, have b... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished... ...f the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from ... ...to violate or disregard it in any part. Imploring the assistance of Divine Providence, and with due regard to the views and feelings of all who were r... ...States and Great Britain concerning the boundary line between V ancouver’s Island and the American continent? In case the referee shall find himself u... ...eiving-ships at New Y ork. Two hundred men to be ready to leave Governor’s Island in New Y ork. Supplies for twelve months for one hun- dred men to be... ...event any expedition from the mainland reaching Fort Pickens or Santa Rosa Island. Y ou will exhibit this order to any naval officer at Pensacola, if ... ...HIRE, ANDREW OF MASSACHU- SETTS, BUCKINGHAM OF CONNECTICUT, AND SPRAGUE OF RHODE ISLAND. W AR DEPARTMENT, September 11, 1861. General Butler proposes ... ...ot altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task ...

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...dation for our pride! when the utmost we can hope is but to be read in one island, and to be thrown aside at the end of one age. All that is left us i... ...dant alders crown’d; 340 Cole, whose dark streams his flowery islands lave; And chalky Wey, that rolls a milky wave; The blue, transparen... ... natural, ver. 131, &c. VI. The unreasonableness of his complaints against Providence, while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels,... ...ire, ver. 259. X. The consequence of all, the absolute sub- mission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, &c. to the e... ... humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold... .... IV. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say, here he gives t... ...gue. Against the thief th’ attorney loud inveighs, For whose ten pound the county twenty pays. The thief damns judges, and the knaves of state; And dy... ...inisters, or kings; 96 ‘Pitholeon:’ The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.—P . 203 The Poetical Works of Alexand...

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... the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this great struggle, I tender more thanks especial... ...So much good has not been done, by one effort, in all past time, as in the providence of God it is now your high privilege to do. May the vast future ... ...on the western Waters, and for his gallantry at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Island Number Ten, and at various other places, whilst in command of the na... ...th, Mississippi. MY DEAR SIR:—This introduces Governor William Sprague, of Rhode Island. He is now Governor for the third time, and senator-elect of t... ...r hundred thousand people, or more than in some of our old States, such as Rhode Island or Delaware, or in some of our newer States, and less than in ... ...ved in myself than I often am, it is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what it is I will do it! Thes... ... Gamble tele- graphed me, asking that the assessments outside of St. Louis County might be suspended, as they already have been within it, and this mo... ...ev. John M. Robinson, of Colum- bia, Missouri; James L. Matthews, of Boone County, Mis- souri; and James L. Stephens, also of Boone County, Mis- souri... ... in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. It is, however, within the range of prac- tical convenience to conf...

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...between two armies; but ’tis certain that when the Turks besieged Malta or Rhodes, I now remember not which it was, Pigeons are then related to carry ... ...member you, that but for my element of water, the inhabitants of this poor island must remain ignorant that such things ever were, or that any of them... ... to be seen on the water’s top. And he says, that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, make the timber for their houses of those fish bone... ... Credulity and Incredulity, printed by him about the year 1670. I know, we Islanders are averse to the belief of these wonders; but there be so many s... ...now, let’s say grace, and fall to breakfast. What say you, scholar, to the providence of an old angler ? Does not this meat taste well? and was not th... ...eved by our learned Doctor Hakewill, who in his Apology of God’s power and providence, quotes Pliny to report that one of the em perors had particula... ... by one Mr. Mascal, a gentle man that then lived at Plumsted in Sussex, a county that abounds more with this fish than any in this na tion. You may ... ...onfidence in the power, and wisdom, and The Compleat Angler — Walton 173 providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream...

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...tual Friend his back to the fire, executing a statuette of the Colossus at Rhodes. T wemlow has before noticed in his feeble way how soon the V eneeri... ...ctable man, Mr Podsnap was sen- sible of its being required of him to take Providence under his protection. Consequently he always knew exactly what P... ...And it was very remarkable (and must have been very comfortable) that what Providence meant, was invariably what Mr Podsnap meant. These may be said t... ...en are V ery Proud of our Constitution, Sir. It W as Be- stowed Upon Us By Providence. No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.’ ‘ And ozer co... ...’ assented Mr Podsnap; ‘But So it is. It was the Charter of the Land. This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as—a... ...ere the sun was setting, she may have had some vaporous visions of far-off islands in 350 Our Mutual Friend the southern seas or elsewhere (not being... ...tched off to a great blank barren Union House, as far from old home as the County Jail (the remoteness of which is always its worst punishment for sma... ... Crusoe,’ says the charmer, exchanging salutations, ‘how did you leave the Island?’ ‘Thank you,’ says Lightwood. ‘It made no complaint of being in pai...

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...little Hopkins, the Bishop’s son, being less certain about the accuracy of Providence than His aim, edged as far as he could away from Benham’s cubicl... ...here’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 H G Wells 5 5 5 5 5 Perhaps... ...n a whistle, and a rather shape- less nose well up to show he didn’t care. Providence had sought to console him by giving him a keen eye for the absur... ... was justified in calling himself aristocratic; at the best his mother was county-stuff; but still if he did there was no great harm in it nowadays.) ... ...r that divided itself indolently into three shining branches so as to make islands of the central portion of the place. And on this river swarmed for ...

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....................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND ................................................................. ................................................. 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND ....................................................................... ...le would only see this, and act in accordance with the circumstances which Providence and the inevitable hand of the world’s Ruler has prepared for th... ... in the way of introduc- tion, I will begin my journey. CHAPTER II NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND We—the we consisting of my wife and myself—left Liverpool for ... ...e way of introduc- tion, I will begin my journey. CHAPTER II NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND We—the we consisting of my wife and myself—left Liverpool for Boston... ...ings which were personally hostile. All the world has heard of Newport, in Rhode Island, as being the Brighton, and Tenby, and Scarborough of New Engl... ... but a small portion of it. The authorized and proper name of the State is Providence Plantation and Rhode Island. Roger Williams was the first founde... ...lony, and he established himself on the mainland at a spot which he called Providence. Here now stands the City of Providence, the chief town of the S... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

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...l take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian seas. Going alongst on the left hand,... ...d Sicily, all ransacked, and Malta too. I wish the pleasant Knights of the Rhodes heretofore would but come to resist you, that we might see their uri... ...t our return. From thence we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It... ...e we will sail eastwards, and take Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, and the Cyclade Islands, and set 115 Rabelais upon (the) Morea. It is ours, by St. Trenian... ...e meanest rub to the reputation of any worthy gentleman, and that, however providence dispose of him, no misfortune shall be able to induce his mind t... ...tro de Padua. At St. Helen. At Casa Nuova. At St. Bartholomew, in the county of Boulogne. At the Porrette, and a thousand other places. And I wo... ...erwise, should not thereby accuse the man, but nature, and the all- seeing providence of God, as is evident in l. Maximum Vitium, c. de lib. praeter. ... ...ly, he did, in my opinion, throw and turn the dice, to the end that by the providence aforesaid the best chance might fall to him whose action was upr... ...as the senior fellows of the college of iniquity, the very outcasts of the county gaol’s common-side. As you love yourself, do not go among ‘em. If yo...

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... buds until the waters subside. You shall perhaps run aground on Cranberry Island, only some spires of last year’s pipe grass above water, to show whe... ...us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, an... ...at on the west side of a little rising ground which in the spring forms an island in the river. Here we found huckleberries still hanging upon the bus... .... “Verily, my angels! I was abashed on account of my ser vant, who had no Providence but me; therefore did I pardon him.”—The Gulistan of Sadi . Most... ...griculture, we have to skip the author’s moral reflections, and the words “Providence” and “He” scattered along the page, to come at the profitable le... ...s. Their harbors lay as smooth and fairy like as the Lido, or Syracuse, or Rhodes, in our imagination, while, like some strange roving craft, we flitt... ...fifteen hundred acres, being the largest body of fresh water in Rockingham County,—comes in near here from the east. Rowing between Manchester and Bed... ...e increasing glit tering sandbar,—and saw the fair and fruitful island of Rhodes “springing up from the bottom, Capable of feeding many me... ...own [Goffstown]. He was one of the oldest practitioners of medicine in the county. He was many years an active member of the legislature.”—”Hon. Rober...

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...o acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used and gave them success. My b... ...ed himself for the business of scriv ener; became a considerable man in the county; was a chief mover of all public spirited undertakings for the cou... ..., Be encouraged to diligence in thy calling, And distrust not Providence. He was a pious and prudent man; She, a discr... ... to that business, having left my father, married, and set up for himself at Rhode Island, there was all appearance that I was destined to supply his ... ...hile I waited for my father’s determination, he set out before me by land to Rhode Island, leaving his books, which were a pretty col lection of math... ... with their approbation and their blessing. The sloop putting in at Newport, Rhode Island, I visited my brother John, who had been married and settled... ...rcumstances of things considered. And this persuasion, with the kind hand of Providence, or some guard ian angel, or accidental favorable circumstanc... ...lin, is empowered to enter into like contracts with any person in Cumberland county. “B. FRANKLIN.” “To the inhabitants of the ... ... to him for the discharge of the servants of three poor farmers of Lancaster county that he had enlisted, reminding him of the late general’s orders o...

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...ile, widespreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a par- ticular manner blessed it with a variety of soils ... ...o have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of bret... ...ust increase your strength, riches, and trade; and by this union the whole island, being joined in affection and free from all apprehensions of differ... .... These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon all occa- sions, discovered a warm zeal for the independ... ...ticut in conse- quence of the enormities perpetrated by the Legislature of Rhode Island; and we reasonably infer that, in similar cases, under other c... ...he same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particu- lar county or district, than an entire State. In the extent and proper structur... ...lished in Massachusetts, would have upon the liberties of New Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York? The inordinate pride of State imp... ...ed with the State of New Y ork will doubt that the active wealth of King’s County bears a much greater proportion to that of Montgomery than it would ... ...s, how is it acquired? No doubt from the information of the members of the county. Cannot the like knowledge be obtained in the national legislature f...

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...ind in the quality of our manhood. In the men of means and leisure in this island there was neither enterprise enough, imagination enough, knowledge n... ...fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consider the navigable balloon the aerial sid... ... up like a bubble in soda water. An armada of navigables sent against this island would end in a dispersed, deflated state, chiefly in the seas betwee... ...ed seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centrics like Gordon, invalids like Rhodes. It has been made, in spite of authority and officialdom, as no othe... ..., where our fathers considered illness as a blend of accident with special providences; we have systematised the community’s water supply, education, ... ...reaming head or the subjugated feet. Even the highly feudal slave-holding “county family” traditions of Virginia and the South pass now out of memory....

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...and the foremost taken The Earl of Pembroke was, Artemidore, Doubtless the county thought his bread well baken; Next Gerrard followed, then with tress... ... quoth he, “thou mayest Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn, The County of Cosenza, three days past, This castle from the Turks did nobly wi... ...ory know, Old men and babes thy foes can overthrow!” LXXIX Thus prayed the County, and his prayers dear Strengthened with zeal, with godliness and fai... ...ound in fetters bring. LXXI “Now on our way, the way to death we ride, But Providence Divine thus for us wrought, Rinaldo, whose high virtue is his gu... ...fair plain doth run, There stood the Soldan like a giant tall, So stood at Rhodes the Coloss of the sun, Waist high, Argantes showed himself withal, A... ...ains; XXXI His forces first on foot he forward brought, With goodly order, providence and art, And gainst these towers which to assail he thought, In ... ...the land, now joined to the shore: 341 Torquato Tasso XVII Both Crete and Rhodes they left by north unseen, And sailed along the coasts of Afric land... ..., come follow, die or win.” 477 Torquato Tasso LXXV Whether the same were Providence divine That made him leave the fortress he possessed, For that t... ...h d 432 “Bold youth,” the tyrant thus began to speak, 121 Both Crete and Rhodes they left by north unseen, 341 Both in one troop, and but a thousan...

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...eration have had. To see its full meaning one must start in the Hawai- ian Islands half a century or more ago.* There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of mis... ...er I. A Slave Among Slaves I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of m... ... from a missionary motive—but to call attention to a fact, and to show how Providence so often uses men and institu- tions to accomplish a purpose. Wh... ...ry, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which, a good Providence has already led us. Ever since I have been old enough to think f... ... heart. I saw coloured men who were members of the state legislatures, and county officers, who, in some cases, could not read or write, and whose mor... ...some power of magic I might remove the great bulk of these people into the county districts and plant them upon the soil, upon the solid and never dec... ...t I feared that people would not believe it. One morning I found myself in Providence, Rhode Island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfa... ...hat people would not believe it. One morning I found myself in Providence, Rhode Island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfast. In cross... ...ople would not believe it. One morning I found myself in Providence, Rhode Island, without a cent of money with which to buy breakfast. In crossing th...

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...d was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg in that count... ...r set up for himself in business, establishing a tan- nery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and ... ...d from Ravenna, and set up the same busi- ness at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor ... ...e debarka- tion, therefore, had to take place by small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles... ...deck. After I had gone ashore, and had been on guard several days at Shell Island, quite six miles from the ship, I had oc- casion for some reason or ... ...it; I have no idea that they could all have been corralled in the State of Rhode Island, or Dela- ware, at one time. If they had been, they would have... ... been extended to protect their homes, many of them never would have gone. Providence ruled differently. Time was given the enemy to collect armies an... ... so limited that one corps, the 17th, under General McPherson, was at Lake Providence, seventy miles above Vicksburg. It was in January the troops too... ...t the front, I ordered General McPherson, stationed with his corps at Lake Providence, to cut the levee at that point. If success- ful in opening a ch...

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...eir own energies. Leaving things to the govern ment, like leaving them to Providence, is synonymous with caring nothing about them, and accepting the... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...ves elected to the Board than they have in being returned to Parliament as county members. In regard to the proper circumscription of the constituen ... ...e State Church, is one which half, or nearly half the people of the larger island have in common with them. There is now next to nothing, except the m... .... There is a wide difference in wealth and population between New York and Rhode Island; between Berne, and Zug or Glaris. The essen tial is, that th... ...e is a wide difference in wealth and population between New York and Rhode Island; between Berne, and Zug or Glaris. The essen tial is, that there sh... ...of the colonies. Why does no one ever hear a breath of disloyalty from the Islands in the British Channel? By race, religion, and geographical positio...

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...d Rhene the meadows wear, A battel soil for grain, for pasture good, Their islanders with them, who oft repair Their earthen bulwarks ‘gainst the ocea... ...and the foremost taken The Earl of Pembroke was, Artemidore, Doubtless the county thought his bread well baken; Next Gerrard followed, then with tress... ... quoth he, “thou mayest Till Phoebus shine again, here take thine inn, The County of Cosenza, three days past, This castle from the Turks did nobly wi... ...ory know, Old men and babes thy foes can overthrow!” LXXIX Thus prayed the County, and his prayers dear Strengthened with zeal, with godliness and fai... ...ound in fetters bring. LXXI “Now on our way, the way to death we ride, But Providence Divine thus for us wrought, Rinaldo, whose high virtue is his gu... ...fair plain doth run, There stood the Soldan like a giant tall, So stood at Rhodes the Coloss of the sun, Waist high, Argantes showed himself withal, A... ...ains; XXXI His forces first on foot he forward brought, With goodly order, providence and art, And gainst these towers which to assail he thought, In ... ...the land, now joined to the shore: 341 Torquato Tasso XVII Both Crete and Rhodes they left by north unseen, And sailed along the coasts of Afric land... ..., come follow, die or win.” 477 Torquato Tasso LXXV Whether the same were Providence divine That made him leave the fortress he possessed, For that t...

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.... If the old system be thought to be vague, as to all the delegates of the county voting the same way, or as to instructions to them as to whom they a... ...join in proposing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judg- ment and c... ...sus, we shall see by the old plan, and by your pro- posed new plan, Morgan County, with a population 16,541, has but ...... 8 votes While Sangamon wit... ...ol Two out Henry Clay? Such a man the times have demanded, and such in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, a... ... us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that in fu- ture national emergencies He will not fail... ...g northwest of the Ohio River. Jefferson, Chase of Maryland, and Howell of Rhode Is- land, as a committee on that and territory thereafter to be ceded... ...engaged in a suit in the United States Court at Chicago, in which the Rock Island Bridge Company is a party. The trial is to commence on the 8th of Se... ...NCOLN. 240 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two ARGUMENT IN THE ROCK ISLAND BRIDGE CASE. (From the Daily Press of Chicago, Sept. 24, 1857.) Hurd... ...as been legally put there. The Afton came there on the 5th and lay at Rock Island until next morning. When a boat lies up the pilot has a holiday, and...

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...t’s all. Dear me suz, if they could think of the discovery of a forty acre island it’s more than I believe they could; and as for the whole conti ne... ... the rising sun, immea surably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American... ...ouisa, as sist me in my capture?” “I will certainly, by the aid of Divine Providence,” answered Louisa, “endeavor to break those slavish chains that ... ...This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever since borne ... ...lous and distinguished missionary. He converted sixteen thousand South Sea island ers, and taught them that a dog tooth necklace and a pair of specta... ...able names and offensive signs: This way to the Whirlpool This way to Goat Island Cave of the Winds this way She says this park would make a tidy summ...

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...nd. Everyone who con- fronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers, seems to have ac- knowledged his superior p... ...sin, still on its greater side, as coming (like all that happens) from the providence of God, it is of divine manufacture. And how just are its blows!... ...beyond the power of men or angels, and is hidden among the secrets of your Providence, which I adore, but do not seek to fathom.”[170] When we reach m... ... saintly life, we find this ever-recurring note: Fling yourself upon God’s providence without making any reserve whatever—take no thought for the morr... ...all his tribe sitting in the school of Christ. And there is perhaps not an island in these southern seas, amongst all those won for Christ, where simi... ..., was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most ce... ...xed direction. From 13 to 18 he studied in Europe and returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to study painting under the guidance of John La Farge. After ... ...rection. From 13 to 18 he studied in Europe and returned to Newport, Rhode Island, to study painting under the guidance of John La Farge. After a year...

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...vocative of wonder at his sources of supply, suggested the habit of tropic islands, a continual cane bottomed chair, a governorship exercised on wide ... ...lf was not of the Middle West—she rather insisted on it—but of New Jersey, Rhode Island or Delaware, one of the smallest and most intimate States: he ... ... not of the Middle West—she rather insisted on it—but of New Jersey, Rhode Island or Delaware, one of the smallest and most intimate States: he could ... ...ebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns House in the county of Kent, scarcely figured as a definite place at all; it showed someho... ...r she sees. If I stick to her—that is to my own poor struggling way, under providence, of watching over them all—she’ll stand by me to the death. She ... ... Maggie’s view—to teach themselves the way of it; whereas the Detroit, the Providence party, rebounding so from Providence, from Detroit, was an old a...