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...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...pes many troubles which befall and vex his white brother. He seldom has to listen to lectures on propriety of behavior, or on any- thing else. He is n... ...re kitchens, wash-houses, dairies, summer-house, green-houses, hen-houses, turkey-houses, pigeon-houses, and arbors, of many sizes and devices, all ne... ... a part of the system, rather than a part of the man. Were slaveholders to listen to complaints of this sort against the overseers, the luxury of owni... ...ll kinds, wild and tame, the common, and the huge Muscovite; Guinea fowls, turkeys, geese, and pea fowls, are in their several pens, fat and fatting f... ... her grand old woods, her fertile fields, her beautiful rivers, her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy i...

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...odern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley , is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...over the elemental foes of our race. As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener’s countenance. At first I perceived that he tried to suppress hi... ...friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is deter ... ...nduct that it would become her to pursue in this emer gency. A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her reli gion and her feelings were alike a... ...an attendant, a native of Leghorn, but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for Germany. “She arrived in safety at a town about ... ...ost beautiful scenes of my own country; I Frankenstein 118 have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpen... ... but to visit Windsor, Frankenstein 121 Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to ar rive at the completion of this tour about the end...

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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 powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...rds all the thirty two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Scienc... ...ether silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a ... ... bed tester; Boileau De spr´ eaux (according to Helvetius) by the peck of a turkey; and this ill starred indi vidual by a rent in his breeches,—for ... ...osed to grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some dr... ...her: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now v...