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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h... ...e to his character, and the thirty-five years that have since elapsed have established his place in history as one of the great benefactors not of his... ...wn judgment on the matters at issue. We only regret in this case, that the publications were not made some weeks before the election. Such a course mi... ...y what foundation will the fabric have left to stand upon? General Adams’s publications and out-door maneuver- ing, taken in connection with the edito... ...but was satisfied taxation and revenue could not be connected with it now. 1841 TO JOHN T. STUART—ON DEPRESSION SPRINGFIELD, Jan 23, 1841 DEAR STUART:...

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

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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 elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocquevi... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ...e. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had been previously established for the great purpose of their preservation and enforcement. Th... ...o the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd to October 31st he ... ...hinted at in a single composition is then repeated in a multitude of other publications. The language in which a thought is embodied is the mere carca... ...defray the expenses of the editor. The number of periodical and occasional publications which appears in the United States actually surpasses belief. ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...g: a gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon. I was now comfortably established by courtesy in the ladies’ cabin, where, besides ourselves, the... ...e left each of them in high good humour. Not only is a thorough confidence established, by those means, between the physician and patient, in respect ... ...hich includes some prisoners and many witnesses. These in stitutions were established, no doubt, upon the prin ciple that those who had so large a s... ...ot very often want the means, may be gathered from the fact, that in July, 1841, no fewer than nine hundred and seventy eight of these girls were depo... ...ir to any place in this city of London, where scat tered numbers of these publications are to be found; and there, let him form his own opinion. 1 I...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ages as it seemed fair towards the writer to omit. Criti- cisms upon their publications are of course a different thing. My desire has been to give en... ... and the deep study and searchings of heart of the last few months. He was established in a small house at Alfington—the usual habitation of the Curat... ...the Bishop had acquired a knowledge of the language, and it was more- over established in the Bauro mind that a voyage in his ship was safe and desira... ... all day in the boat, he and Patteson touched at eleven in three days, and established the first steps to communication by obtaining 127 names of pers... ... with a great deal of dry humour about it, not unlike Newman’s more recent publications. “It is,” he (Montrouzier) says, “thought very highly of in Fr... ...is something hazy about your friend Davis’s writ- ings. I know some of his publications, and sympathise to a very considerable extent with him. But I ...

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...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... is an equal opportunity University. Contents SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841.......................................................................... ...eeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public dinner, given in honour of Mr. Dickens, and pre sided o... ... the greatest relative encouragement to the dis semination of such useful publications as “Macaulay’s His tory,” “Layard’s Researches,” “T ennyson’s... ...ness than we are for our public folly and failure, I take to be as clearly established as the sun, moon, and stars. T o set this right, and to clear t... ...ted, and half recognized profession, than when there is a public opin ion established in it, by the union of all classes of its mem bers for the com... ...ntial and benevolent considerations, there came Charles Dickens 118 to be established among railway officers and servants, nine years ago, the Railwa...

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...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. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...aturalists will re- member, that they must refer for details to the larger publications which comprise the scientific results of the Expedition. The Z... ...bout fifty years ago, under the old Spanish government, a small colony was established here; and it is still the most southern position (lat. 41 degs.... ... from any house or man. I often wondered how so firm a friendship had been established. The method of education consists in separating the puppy, whil... ...ch other, than eggs or seeds are t their parents. It seems now pretty well established tha plants propagated by buds all partake of a common duratio o... ...escribed this Bar in detail, in the Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag., vol. xix. (1841), p. 257. 548 The V oyage of the Beagle of these, part of the town of...