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...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...nthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University,... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...................................................................... 318 4 North America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER ... ................................................................ 318 4 North America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 WASH... ... Tucking your trowsers up to your knees you will wade through the bogs, 6 North America V ol. 2 you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will ...

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...VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI ...........................................................

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...nthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University,... ........................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST................................................................ ....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...................................................................... 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER ... ................................................................ 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTR... ...nal satis- faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an...

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...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...esearch are somehow against the will of God. Also, the quick profits that American companies usually seek is not a factor in the minds of the Orienta... ...aying them pensions. ” —“I‟ve seen the statistics on European and American workers between the ages of 50 and 70. At 50 about 90% of men wer... ... Albanians. In Norway it is the Lithuanians and Pakistanis. In France, the North Africans. Every European country is a home to unwanted immigrants. A...

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...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 outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had unde...

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...ig 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 m... ...grim 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... ...or New York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days out. She then filled away and left... ...red her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days out. She then filled away and left us to plough on thr... ... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ..., of course, is not kept up off Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, and in extreme north and south latitudes; but I have seen the decks washed down and scr... ...of Europe, probably Portugal. Sunday, September 7th. Fell in with the north east trade winds. This morning we caught our first dolphin, which I... ...t, was all that we could expect. We continued running large before the north east trade winds for several days, until Monday— September 22d... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun...

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...Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition...

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...an. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much ... ...glish itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...ncisco. He wittily reproves English ignorance as to the status of women in America; but has he not himself forgotten Wyoming? The name Yankee, of whic... ...I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, something at once rougher and more tender, at once more reserve and ... ...r of each is plainly demonstrated to the other. Our tasks ended, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock y... ...rent social constitution from his fellow-countrymen either of the south or north. Even the English, it is recorded, did not loathe the Highlander and ... ...shadowy walks, and the splendid breadth of champaign that one saw from the north-west corner. The garden and gar- dener seem part and parcel of each o...

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...eclaration 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 the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in...

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...ry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve i... ... or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve, ... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Tocqueville Democracy In America Volume 1 By Alexis de Tocqueville T ranslator – Henry Reeve Book On... ...that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the prin- ciples of government that wer... ... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ..., manners, and language – T races of an un- known people. Exterior Form Of North America North America presents in its external form certain general f... ...ded, almost equally, into two vast regions, one of which is bounded on the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west....

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...r principal Trading being upon the Coast, from the Latitude of 15 Degrees, North even to the Line it self. I was now set up for a Guiney Trader; and m... ...d the like. The same Day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African C... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D... ... about 12 days time, and were by our last Observation in 7 Degrees 22 Min. Northern Latitude, when a violent Tournado or Hurricane took us quite out o... ...uite out of our Knowledge; it began from the South East, came about to the North West, and then settled into the North West, from whence it blew in su... ...s positively against that, and looking over the Charts of the Sea Coast of America with him, we concluded there was no inhabited Country for us to hav... ... of the World this might be, otherwise than that I know it must be Part of America, and as I concluded by all my Observations, must be near the Spanis... ...justify the Conduct of the Spaniards in all their Barbarities practis’d in America, and where they destroy’d Millions of these People, who however the... ... bound from the Buenos Ayres, or the Rio de la Plata, in the South Part of America, beyond the Brasils, to the Ha vana, in the Gulph of Mexico, and s...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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... CHAPTER I T HE WEATHER DOOR of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn t... ... into a credit to your country if you don’t take care.” “I know it. I’m an American-first, last, and all the time. I’ll show ‘em that when I strike Eu... ...er around and let’ s hurry .” Harvey had a notion that the greater part of America was filled with people discussing and envying his father’ s dollars... ...here they all live mostly , an’ mostly them Galway men are good in a boat. North, away yonder-you’ll hear him tune up in a minute is Tom Platt. Man-o’... ...! What did I tell you?” A melodious bellow stole across the water from the northern dory. Harvey heard something about somebody’ s hands and feet bein... ...answerin’.” “Haul that in,” said Harvey , pointing to leeward. “Fwhat? The North Atlantuc?” “No, the boom. Then run that rope you showed me back there... ... Long Jack and Tom Platt arrived on deck together, it seemed, one half the North Atlantic at their backs, and the dory followed them in the air, landi... ...Beats me how them 73 Rudyard Kipling Frenchmen fetch anywheres, exceptin’ America’ s fair- ish broadly . Forty-six forty-nine’ s good enough fer them... ...ted him as a brother. Then the trade began. They had tobacco, plenty of it-American, that had never paid duty to France. They wanted chocolate and cra...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 3...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...and East,” for which The Cen- tury paid the largest price ever given by an American maga- zine for a story. The following year Mr. Kipling married Mr.... ...m his brother- in-law, Beatty Balestier, a tract of land about three miles north of Brattleboro’, Vt., and on this erected a house at a cost of nearly... ...doing here, then? This is about the lowest ward in the city. Go six blocks north to corner of Geary and Markey, then walk around till you strike corne... ...d by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introducer, who had served as a trooper in the Northern H... ...not consort with him. In some States miscegenation is a penal offence. The North is every year less and less in need of his services. And he will not ... ... for the fourth; (c) civil war, in which, as the case in the affair of the North and South, the regular army would be swamped in the mass of militia a...

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...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 existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its presen...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...eral Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FIRST CHEAP EDITION OF “AMERICAN NOTES” It is nearly eight years since this book was first publishe... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ... height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper ... ... reli gious sect from whom it takes its name. To this end, we went up the North River again, as far as the town of Hudson, and there hired an extra t... ...y we had come upon the previous day. There, we took the steamboat down the North River towards New York, but stopped, some four hours’ jour ney short...

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... in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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...rchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several St... ...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The sh... ...more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea. Three seconds after read- ing the letter of the honourable Secre... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...f Natural His- tory.” But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the... ...o be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North. I am portraying this hardy companion as I really knew him. We are ol... ...the name of their native town, Cape Horn. The course was taken towards the north-west, and the next day the screw of the frigate was at last beating t...

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...e Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the wid...

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... other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...s from Wales, and had been most of his life a blacksmith at an inland forge; a few years in America and half a score of ocean voyages having sufficed ... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...lked the deck and looked round upon my fellow- passengers, thus curiously assorted from all northern Eu- rope, I began for the first time to understan... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...ound myself unable to decide if he were Scots, English, or Irish. He had certainly employed north- country words and elisions; but the accent and the ... ... you dare not lie, or a harbour impossible to enter with the wind that blows. The life of a North Sea fisher is one long chapter of exposure and hard ... ...omposure. Next day by afternoon, Lough Foyle being already far be- hind, and only the rough north-western hills of Ireland within view, Alick appeared...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere....

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...t by Sinclair Lewis To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer THIS IS AMERICA—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...she sat upright. Here—she meditated—is the newest empire of the world; the Northern Middlewest; a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new auto... ...for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- pl...

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...ubject of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. Th... ... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...ntly, “arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...hly nervous—and not at all strong.” 56 The Ambassadors “You mean she’s an American invalid?” He carefully distinguished. “There’s nothing she likes l... ...” he laughed, “if it were the only way to be the other.” “Consent to be an American in order to be an invalid?” “No,” said Strether, “the other way ro... ...fixing some particularly large iceberg in a cool 362 The Ambassadors blue northern sea. “It’s magnificent!” he then rather oddly exclaimed. But his f...

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...ltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated....

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...r many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational p... ... no end to our projected travels, and we im- mediately directed our course northward, rather for the plea- sure of crossing the Alps, than from a supp... ...ad concluded on was a valley between two toler- ably high hills, which ran north and south; at the bottom, among the trees and pebbles, ran a rivulet,... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...to di 303 Rousseau conidenza’, in an undress more than wanton, unknown to northern countries, and which I will not amuse myself in describing, althou... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,... .... John, Neuveville, Berne, and Bienne, lie in a line from the south to the north, to the extremity of the lake, the whole interspersed with very agree...

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... back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we could do, toward the north: by which time our victuals failed us, though we had made good spare of them....

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...with a point east; which carried us up, for all that we could do, toward the north: by which time our victuals failedus, though we had made good spare... ...hat the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, toward the north, as it were thick clouds, which did put us in some hope of land, kn... ...stine, was likewise great. China also, and the great Atlantis (that you call America), which have now but junks and canoes, abounded then in tall ship... ..., and other things necessary. So as marvel you not at the thin population of America, nor at the rudeness and ignorance of the people; for you must ac... ...deness and ignorance of the people; for you must account your inhabitants of America as a young people, younger a thousand years at the least than the... ...low. So you see, by this main accident of time, we lost our traffic with the Americans, with whom of all others, in regard they lay nearest to us, we ... ...trance of strangers; which at that time (though it was after the calamity of America) was frequent; doubt ing novelties and commixture of manners. It...

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...greements, deep common attractions and repulsions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundamental substances that the new link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in...

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... is one of these fundamental substances that the new link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the strength of the link ought to b... ...ollar. To do that is to follow the line of least resistance in writing about America: you have only to copy what all the other travellers have said. T... ...ecific instances. There fore, when he had laid down the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance,... ...is this passion, that in cultivated and intellec tual Boston —the Athens of America—which possesses a beautiful cemetery in its peaceful parklike sub... ...t cavern decorated with prehistoric paintings was discovered at Altamira, in north western Spain. Its discoverer was regarded with suspicion and conte... ... the discovery of similar painted caves in all directions 32 V — CONTINUITY north and south of the Pyrenees at last vindicated Se˜ nor Sautola’s sinc... ...nd a race that has had a recent beginning. The English and Dutch settlers of North America no doubt carried many things with them, such vital but impo... ...erate beauty and temperate wealth. FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING 35 Farther north, man might grow austere or gross, farther south idle and improvi d... ...for it in all their appreciations of life. The artless astonish ment of the northern races in the face of the oldest of human phenomena is quite 38 ...

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...his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Y our obliged friend and servant, W. M. Thackeray. Lo... ...ood still. And rather than disturb him, I would turn monk, or disappear in America.” As he spoke so to his dearest mistress, for whom he would have be... ...soil, and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island f... ...and in a land that is independent in all but the name, (for that the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...ur place knows us not. Esmond thought of the courier, now galloping on the North road to inform him, who was Earl of Arran yesterday, that he was Duke... ...ee if the door leading to my lady’s rooms,” (so we called the rooms at the north-west angle of the house,) “see if the door is barred as he saith.” We... ...e to the head-quarters of his Order; and actually reap- peared among us in America, very old, and busy, and hopeful. I am not sure that he did not ass...

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...I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am, Y our obliged friend and servant, W. M. Thackeray. Lo... ... near to the kitchen and butteries. A dozen of living-rooms looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel that faced east- 32 Henry ...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...to make such a transfer that I may be found to possess by law or custom in America. I wish this transfer were likely to be of more value. But the veri... ... man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encum- bered with a quantity of plate. How he came by it, or w... ...heroine, and from the unsettled state of society at that period in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startled with d... ...entioned in the “Autobiographic Sketches,” through Stamford to Laxton, the Northamptonshire seat of Lord Carbery. From Stamford, which I had reached b... ...ogress, we excelled in that; it was our forte; we could have backed to the North Pole. That might be the way to glory, or at least to distinction—sic ... ...rick; whilst he (with- out affecting any delight in the hunting systems of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire) yet took pleasure in explaining to me ... ... Forest is mixed up with the pure Icelandic forms of the English lakes, of North Yorkshire, and of Northumberland. In Scotland, it needs but a slight ...