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...even o’clock, or thereabouts; when the captain comes down again, in a sou’ wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot coat: making the ground wet whe... ..., and so gravely presented on a small scale, that it was like look ing at Westminster through the wrong end of a tele scope. The governor, as her Ma... ...orded me. * * * * * * To an Englishman, accustomed to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose,... ...like a storm of fiery snow. CHAPTER V —WORCESTER. THE CONNECTI CUT RIVER. HARTFORD. NEW HAVEN. TO NEW YORK LEAVING B OSTON ON THE AFTERNOON of Sat... ...t on next morning, still by railroad, to Spring field. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a distance of only five and twenty mile... ... hours. For tunately, however, the winter having been unusually mild, the Connecticut River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain ... ...ell wrapped up, bade defiance to the weather, and enjoyed the journey. The Connecticut River is a fine stream; and the banks in summer time are, I hav... ...sa luted by a gun considerably bigger than our own chim ney), we reached Hartford, and straightway repaired to an extremely comfortable hotel: excep... ...wooded, and carefully improved. It is the seat of the local legislature of Connecticut, which sage body en acted, in bygone times, the renowned code ...

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...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... ...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... ...readful war that had yet occurred between the Indians and the English. The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated Indian chief named Uncas, bo... ...ull of the same spirit, has borne the like message to the New World of the west. Since the first days of Christianity, there has been no man more wort... ...n roughened by northern tempests and black ened by the burning sun of the West Indies. He wears an immense periwig, flowing down over his shoulders. ... ...er of the room stands his gold headed cane, made of a beautifully polished West India wood. Somewhat such an aspect as this did Sir William Phips 42 ...

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... the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemen... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Cleme... ...t going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway. MARK TWAIN. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 3 A CONNECTICUT ... ...al way: THE STRANGER’S HISTORY I AM AN A MERICAN. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut — anyway, just over the river, in ... ...ar we were from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 8 Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place; which I took to be a l... ...d and gaudy but heartless barrenness and remember that in our house in East Hartford, all unpretending as it was, you couldn’t go into a room but yo... ...ore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. One of my deepest secrets was my West Point — my military academy. I kept that most jealously out of sight... ...ular army.” “Yes — and now ye will marvel to know there’s not so much as one West Pointer in that regiment.” “What are you talking about? Are you in ... ...u will hear them ques tioned.” “That is news to the purpose. I will get one West Pointer in, anyway. Mount a man and send him to that school with a m...

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...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ... the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqueville sa... ... the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular si... ...e those situated 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- s... ...land in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Provi- dence in 1640, began in lik... ...cially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650.** The legislators of Connecticut*** begin with the pen... ...by the royal style. See Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 452. **Code of 1650, p. 28; Hartford, 1830. ***See also in “Hutchinson’s History,” vol. i. pp. 435, 456... ...cclesiastical History of New England, 1620-1698, 2 vols. 8vo, reprinted at Hartford, United States, in 1820.”* The author divided his work into seven ...

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................................................. 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST.......................................................................... ...hom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial town in the west of England. He was seated on a horsehair-cov- ered chair in the middle... ...e added another, which was natural enough though perhaps not noble. “These western cocks have crowed loudly,” we said; “too loudly for the comfort of ... ... 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 ... ...They are Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut— the six States which should be most dear to England, and in wh... ...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... ...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... ...cticut. This proud little State is composed of two old provinces, of which Hartford and New Haven were the two metropolitan towns. Indeed, there was a...

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...e, and place me in your mind. Get me to my home, that’s in the far distant west, To the scenes of my childhood, that I like the best; There the tall c... ...name of Matthias, called himself a Jew, and set out on a mission, taking a western course, and visiting a brother at Roch- ester, a skillful mechanic,... ...abella’s, elsewhere, living himself at the hotel corner of Marketfield and West streets. Isabella found employment at Mr. Whiting’s, Canal street, and... ...ings some three weeks, she returned to Huntingdon, where she took boat for Connecticut. Land- ing at Bridgeport, she again resumed her travels to- war... ...new views and original opinions, requested as a favor that she would go to Hartford, to see and converse with friends of his there. Standing ready to ... ... Narrative of Sojourner Truth perform any service in the Lord, she went to Hartford as desired, bearing in her hand the following note from this broth... ...nd that their spiritual eyes have never been unsealed. While travelling in Connecticut, she met a minister, with whom she held a long discussion on th... ...urances of her continued life and her love. THE SECOND ADVENT DOCTRINES In Hartford and vicinity, she met with several persons who believed in the ‘Se...

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...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... ... children, and was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg ... ...l- dren, Peter Grant. The elder, Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the Br... ...ticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my grand- fathe... ...iver, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the West. My grandmother Grant died in 1805, leaving seven chil- dren. This bro... ...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...