... NEW YORK: M. YOUNG, PUBLISHER, 173 GREENWICH STREET. ACT IV. A Cavern. In the Middle, a Boiling Cauldron. Thunder. Enter the three Witches.... ...ier cries, – ‗t is time, ‗t is time. First Witch. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison‘d entrails throw. Toad, that under the cold stone Day... ...rgyman named Lowes, who had been vicar of Brandeston, near Framlingham, in that county fifty years, a well known opponent of the new church governme... ...people in fifteen years. As many were banished form that country; so that whole towns were on the point of becoming desolate. In 1524, a thousand pe... ...itchcraft, in the jurisdiction, a case occurred. It was in Springfield upon the Connecticut river, and in the family of the Rev. Mr. Moxam. Two of hi... ...were many supposed cases of the offence. In 1662 witchcraft passed over to Connecticut. In Hartford at that time, there was imprisoned a witch,... ...ed cases of the offence. In 1662 witchcraft passed over to Connecticut. In Hartford at that time, there was imprisoned a witch, a Mrs. Greensmi... ... that they had no more power, and soon departed. In 1682 one Desbourough of Hartford was possessed of a chest of clothes, claimed by his neighbo...

...narch, or god of the whole clan of Hell; justly distinguished by the term, The Devil, or as the Scots call him, the muckle-horned Dee‘l, or as others in a wilder dialect, The Devil of Hell, that is to say, The Devil of a devil; or (better still) as the Scriptures expresses it, by way of emphasis, the great red dragon, the Devil, and Satan....

...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in these ancient memorials of any l...

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We 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 se... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble. T... ...Alger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh... ...ng compositor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things ... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the e...

...irst Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

...rge 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 State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from N... ...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...aking their whole congrega tion along with them. They founded the town of Hartford. In 1638 Mr. Davenport, a very celebrated minister, went, with oth... ..., there was still a quiet and natural growth. The Legislature incorporated towns, and made new purchases of lands from the Indians. A very memo rable... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ...s, who often came through the woods from Canada and assaulted the frontier towns. Villages were sometimes burned, and the inhabitants slaughtered, wit... ...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, ...

...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We 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 se... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble.... ...ger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh... ...ng compositor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two thing... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the...

...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We 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 cra...

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...n he can do at Boston. I confess that in this respect I think that but few towns are at present more fortunately circum- stanced than the capital of t... ... capital of the Bay State, as Massachu- setts is called, and that very few towns make a better use of their advantages. Boston has a right to be proud... ... parties if the whole State could be swal- lowed up by Massachusetts or by Connecticut, either of 34 North America V ol. 1 which lie conveniently for... ...sists of the six States of Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. This is especially the land of Yankees, and ... ...lready corn and wheat are not the common crops of New England. Boston, and Hartford, and Lowell are fed from the great Western States. The State of Ne... ...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 ... ...d as en- titled. CHAPTER XVI BOSTON From New York we returned to Boston by Hartford, the capital or one of the capitals of Connecticut. This proud lit...

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...r, Massachu- setts, in May, 1630. In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years... ...n this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by d... ...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 ... ...t in visiting friends in Georgetown and Cincinnati, and occasionally other towns in that part of the State. CHAPTER III ARMY LIFE—CAUSES OF THE MEXICA... ...nemy. But the streets leading to the plaza—all Spanish or Spanish-American towns have near their centres a square called a plaza—were commanded from a... ...d run the 252 Personal Memoirs batteries at Port Hudson with the flagship Hartford and one iron-clad and visited me from below Vicksburg. The 13th of...