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...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ...obscurely outraged by these promiscuous contacts. It was as though all the people about him had taken his measure and known his plight; as though they... ...ndages of the shrieking unescapable Mrs. Murrett, into whose talons he had fallen in the course of his head-long pursuit of Lady Ulrica Crispin. Oh, t... ...ething else: the music, or the cook—when there was a good one—or the other people; generally ONE of the other people.” “I see.” She was amusing, and t... ...e train left Calais her head had dropped back into the corner, and she had fallen asleep. Sitting opposite, in the compartment from which he had con- ... ...th vague yearnings for enfranchisement, who lived in Paris as if it were a Massachusetts suburb, and dwelt hope- fully on the “higher side” of the Gal... ...ade no difficulty about satisfying it in Darrow’s com- pany. Regaining the river they walked on in the direction of Notre Dame, delayed now and again ... ...chitecture, every arch of the bridges, the very sweep of the strong bright river between them, while contributing to this effect, sent forth each a se...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...ice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. In- landers all, th... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; an... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...th occurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man—a whaleman too—who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that th... ... Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...fice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand miles of them — leagues. Inlanders all, th... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and ... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...ccurred to me. I remembered a story of a white man — a whaleman too — who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them. I concluded that th... ...equod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...uishing. You might think her heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minu... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...unday restored and stamped it. By a sudden turn the whole upper-school had fallen to thinking of girls, and the meeting on the Sunday was a pros- pect... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ... a great plane standing to the right of the house, the sparkle of a little river running near; all the scenes she knew, all young and lively. She spra... ...a stile across the meadows, making a short cut by way of a bridge over the river to Busley and North T othill, on the high-road to Hocklebourne. The l... ..., a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all emulous to excel, none boasting. But, to myse...

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... isn’t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der ... ...h along the cushions un- der the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother th... ..., wha-at? Better good job, I say , your boat not catch me. How you come to fall out?” “I was sick,” said Harvey; “sick, and couldn’t help it.” “Just i... ...-an’ he was only a Dutchy , an’ twenty year old at that. How d’you come to fall off in a dead flat ca’ am?” “’Twasn’t a calm,” said Harvey , sulkily .... ... you’re through. Hurry! Dad’ s waitin’.” Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order-never, at ... ...ry .” Harvey had a notion that the greater part of America was filled with people discussing and envying his father’ s dollars. “Mebbe I do, an’ mebbe... ... s the packet that can beat them all. “Now the Dreadnought she lies in the River Mersey , Because of the tug-boat to take her to sea; But when she’ s ... ... and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany to Boston. Indispen... ...reakfast, he ought to be switched,” said Salt- ers, upholding the honor of Massachusetts on general principles. “Not but what I’m free to own he’ s co...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...f the Lake, and since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been falling. The coachmen on the boxes of the carriages that succeeded one anot... ..., that two blocks 8 The Pit distant from the theatre they were obliged to fall into line, advancing only at intervals, and from door to door of the c... ...iddle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty years before this time, he had been a farmer, and the... ... silver skiff drawn by swans, to the gentle current of some smooth-flowing river that ran on forever and forever. But a discordant element developed. ... ...es in the streets. But occasionally, from far away in the direction of the river or the Lake Front, came the faint sounds of steamer and tug whistles....

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ...workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or a... ...what is ridiculous or wrong at home, so I then hoped that the good-humored people of the United States would not be generally disposed to quarrel with... ...oment, tinged its livelier features with no oppressive air of sadness. The fallen leaves, with which the ground was strewn, gave forth a pleas- ant fr... ...espectable wind to go wreaking its vengeance on such poor creatures as the fallen leaves, but this wind happening to come up with a great heap of them... ... in cellars. All day long, a stream of porters from the wharves beside the river, each bearing on his back a bursting chest of oranges, poured slowly ... ...lways turned on, and no water-rate. Independent of three or four slimy old rivers close by, it varied on the farm from four to six foot deep in the dr... ...ng the bearer of a letter of introduc- tion to you, sir. From Mr Bevan, of Massachusetts,’ he added, giv- ing it to him. The General took it and read ...

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...ion in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, fr... ...it of a Lady merely to help him out with a lame phrase; they draw him away from his small question to their own greater ones; so that, after a little,... ... in any one of those situations that, by a logic of their own, immediately fall, for the fabulist, into movement, into a march or a rush, a patter of ... ... steps and stages. I have al- ways fondly remembered a remark that I heard fall years ago from the lips of Ivan Turgenieff in regard to his own experi... ...ving ‘story’ enough. I seem to myself to have as much as I need—to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my meas... ... attendants and enter- 15 Henry James tainers who come down by train when people in the coun- try give a party; they represented the contract for car... ...sh picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long ga... ...rich-coloured rugs, with the books and papers that lay upon the grass. The river was at some distance; where the ground began to slope the lawn, prope... ...learer view. He was the son of a proprietor of well-known cotton- mills in Massachusetts—a gentleman who had accumu- lated a considerable fortune in t...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...er money (or the greater part of it); and third, she lived at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mallet’s compassion was really wasted, because Cecilia was a... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ... immense number of words,” said Cecilia after a pause, “to say you want to fall in love! I ‘ve no doubt you have as good a genius for that as any one,... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...nnecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into the river; they talked like old friends. Rowland lit a cigar, and Roderick refu... ...owland watched the shadows on Mount Holyoke, listened to the gurgle of the river, and sniffed the balsam of the pines. A gentle breeze had be- gun to ... ...es n’t argue nor in- sist. She sits with her eyes full of tears that never fall, and looks at me, when I displease her, as if I were a perfect monster...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... up the Company for high wages is simply a crime, and of course the burden falls on you and me that have to pay a seven-cent fare! Fact, there’s remar... ...ver of Zenith. He thought of the outlying factory suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hil... ...rk! “After twenty-four years of that kind of thing, you don’t expect me to fall down and foam at the mouth when you hint that this sweet, clean, respe... ...o, some day before I past out,” he sighed. From a rough wharf on the North River they stared at the stern of the Aquitania and her stacks and wireless... ...iversity, an old man and white-bearded, known to come from a distinguished Massachusetts family. “Why, gosh,” Babbitt marveled, “a swell like him in w...

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...e which projects into the great open quadrangle. The place was filled with people, the fountains were spouting, a band was playing, clusters of chairs... ...t until two o’clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choos... ...e deal about it.” “Perhaps you think too much. The best thing is simply to fall in love.” “When I find the woman who pleases me, I shall love her enou... ...an, with a strikingly candid physi- ognomy. He was a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and had spiritual charge of a small congregation in an- othe... ... had been very full, and he sat under the great trees beside the miniature river that trickles past the Baden flower- beds, he slowly rummaged it over... ...n’t swear, for the life of me, except in English. When I get mad I have to fall back on our dear old mother tongue. There’s nothing like it, after all... ...ive action. He simply walked; he walked straight before him, following the river, till he got out of the enceinte of Paris. He had a burning, tingling...

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...on of traffic. Never can a composition of this sort have sprung straighter from a dropped grain of suggestion, and never can that grain, developed, ov... ... to shine, and that of “The Ambassadors,” I confess, wore this glow for me from beginning to end. Fortunately thus I am able to estimate this as, fran... ...’s errand and for the apprehension of his issue. These things continued to fall together, as by the neat action of their own weight and form, even whi... ...dful little old tradition, one of the platitudes of the human comedy, that people’s moral scheme does break down in Paris; that nothing is more freque... ... a splendid particu- lar economy. Other persons in no small number were to people the scene, and each with his or her axe to grind, his or her situati... ... his intention that Mrs. Newsome, away off with her finger on the pulse of Massachusetts, should yet be no less intensely than circuitously present th... ...k dark moustache, of characteristically Ameri- can cut, growing strong and falling low, a head of hair still abundant but irregularly streaked with gr... ...wn the Rue de la Paix in the sun and, passing across the Tuileries and the river, indulged more than once—as if on finding himself determined—in a sud... ..., about the steps of our party. He had invited his companions to cross the river with him, offering to show them his own poor place; and his own poor ...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, ...

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.... . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railro... ... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...e was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five ... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ...on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the ... ...angor we passed through the villages of Stillwater and Oldtown, built at the falls of the Penobscot; which furnish the principal power by which the Ma... ...r hand to the grim, untrodden wilderness, whose tangled labyrinth of living, fallen, and decaying trees only the deer and moose, the bear and wolf, ca... ...rprising neighbors that he did n’t know enough to put a question to them. No people can long continue provincial in character who have the propensity ... ... among the parents, than which nothing can be more acceptable to a backwoods people. It was really an important item in our outfit, and, at times, the ...

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...e year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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...er,” he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupie... ...s disclosed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” h... ...fluential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passion- ate error that has ever charac... ... cuted, not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, breth- ren, and wives. Amid the diso... ...lood to drink!” After the reputed wizard’s death, his humble homestead had fallen an easy spoil into Colonel Pyncheon’s 13 Hawthorne grasp. When it w... ...f earth whence Matthew Maule, forty years before, had first swept away the fallen leaves. It was a curious, and, as some people thought, an ominous fa... ...en wilderness. Where the old land surveyor had put down woods, lakes, and rivers, they marked out the cleared spaces, and dotted the villages and tow... ...d it, not in its at- 139 Hawthorne oms, but in its aggregate,—as a mighty river of life, massive in its tide, and black with mystery, and, out of its... ...m table virtually governor of the glorious old State! Governor Pyncheon of Massachusetts! And is there no potent and exhilarating cordial in a cer- ta...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...

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...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...n a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I live... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...ed how often you may go into your neighbor’s land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor.” Hi... ...graph any new arrival; or waiting at evening on the hill tops for the sky to fall, that I might catch something, though I never caught much, and that,... ...gh bor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the s... ... but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, t...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...HE DISCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ANCIENT STATE OF EUROPE, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE............................311 CHAPTER III OF THE ... ......311 CHAPTER III OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF CITIES AND TOWNS, AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ..................................................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ...n afford it, so it is upon the sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and impro... ...about them, and separates them from the sea-coast, and the great navigable rivers. The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in pro... ...rica, there is a provincial tax of this kind upon their importa- tion into Massachusetts Bay, in ships belonging to any other colony, of eight-pence t...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of ... ...with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 100 Other fa... ...r,when they merged their organizations. 29 Bin Ladin Moves to Sudan By the fall of 1989, Bin Ladin had sufficient stature among Islamic extremists tha... ...es and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In the fall of 1993, another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon f... ...sked to fly the Hudson Corridor, a low-altitude “hallway” along the Hudson River that passes New Y ork landmarks like the World Trade Center. Heavy tr...

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...nger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed p...

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...a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly indepen- dent of the country; laws made and taxes... ...nt of the country; laws made and taxes levied without con- currence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizen... ... would lose his head. Still the intelligence produced a marked effect. The people smiled mysteriously in the streets, and threw bold glances at their ... ...tation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole 5 Hawthorne land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved t... ... that “blasted wretch,” as Cotton Mather calls him, who achieved the down- fall of our ancient government, and was followed with a sen- sible curse, t... ...n raised himself to a loftier mien, while the decrepitude of age seemed to fall from his shoulders, leaving him in gray but unbroken dig- nity. Now, h... ...peril, and therefore, in their eyes the most eligible, was the province of Massachusetts Bay. The fines, imprisonments, and stripes, liberally distrib... ...wy images would some- times be seen, like bright things moving in a turbid river; or a strong and singularly-shaped idea leaped forth, and seized at o... ... con of the Shaker settlement, to the village of Parker’s Falls, on Salmon River. He had a neat little cart, painted green, with a box of cigars depic...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ..., with its enormous territorial possessions and increasing population, has fallen asunder, torn to pieces by the weight of its own discordant parts—as... ... of this page would have been as unreasonable had that reader been born in Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the dearly-beloved friends of my fami... ...a, quite as though I were at home. But of a sudden Jones and his wife have fallen out, and there is for awhile in Jones Hall a cat-and-dog life that m... ...de in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the great centra... ... in 1795, stipulated for them a pre- carious right of navigating the noble river to the sea, with a right of deposit at New Orleans. This subject was ...

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...treak as a bird soars across a rivulet—puts the case dramatically. We have fallen behind in the quality of our manhood. In the men of means and leisur... ...s- agreeable quiver up one’s backbone from the wheels, and a real sense of falling. It is quite peculiar to flying that one is incredulous of any coll... ... are gales it moves in uniform masses like the swift, still rush of a deep river. The airman, in Mr. Grahame- White’s phrase, can go to sleep on it. B... ...ound reliefs and opportunities more particularly along the shores of great rivers and inland seas. Trade and travel began, at first only a trade in ad... ...eir lungs become black and choked with small particles of anthracite….” In Massachusetts, at Fall River, the Hon. J.F. Carey tells how little naked bo...

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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 power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ...ith eidolons only. The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities, like eyesight, ... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean sh... ...oom, I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen. The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot soles, talk o... ...f Grass –Whitman 45 The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall, The excited crowd, the policeman with his star quickly working his ...

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...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ...between them. If the Whig abolitionists of New York had voted with us last fall, Mr. Clay would now be President, Whig principles in the as- cendant, ... ...ood to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. On the other hand, I never could very clearly see ... ...y 7, 1846. Dr. ROBERT BOAL, Lacon, Ill. DEAR D OCTOR:—Since I saw you last fall, I have often thought of writing to you, as it was then understood I w... ... Last night we held a Whig caucus for the House, and nominated Winthrop of Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for sergeant-at-arms, Ho... ...nt of Mexico. Third. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people, which settlement has existed ever since long 21 The Writings of Ab... ...; and that, therefore, in marching our army to the east bank of the latter river, we passed the Texas line and invaded the territory of Mexico.” Now t... ...o nega- tive. The main deception of it is that it assumes as true that one river or the other is necessarily the boundary; and cheats the superficial ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ...xt; and as some words of apology, addition, correction, or amplifica- tion fall to be said on almost every study in the volume, it will be most simple... ...as out of character upon that stage. This half apology apart, nothing more falls to be said ex- cept upon a remark called forth by my study in the col... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...e have ever before our eyes the city cut into three by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different sho... ...ewer; or as when the fugitive comes forth at last at evening, by the quiet river- side, and finds the police there also, waiting stolidly for vice and... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax....

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

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...ING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAI...

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...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...approaching storm would soon make necessary. I shortly heard the rain drops falling on deck, thick and fast, and the watch evidently had their hands ... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ...her it was his chronometer or his sextant which was out of order. This land fall settled the matter, and the former instrument was condemned, and, ... .... We met with nothing remarkable until we were in the latitude of the river La Plata. Here there are violent gales from the southwest, called ... ...thwest, called Pamperos, which are very destructive to the shipping in the river, and are felt for many leagues at sea. They are usually preceded by... ...ls of Cape Cod, over our larboard quarter, and before us, the wide waters of Massachusetts Bay, with here and there a sail gliding over its smooth sur...

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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...in 1775 he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival ... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ... persecution, as cribing the Indian wars, and other distresses that had be fallen the country, to that persecution, as so many judg ments of God to... ...t a time when I had such a thirst for knowl edge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. P... ...till Tuesday should come. However, walking in the evening by the side of the river, a boat came by, which I found was going towards Philadelphia, with... ... street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two t...