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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it...

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... He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was att... ...he day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was attached to the end of the string wit... ...ped around it. The worm wriggled and strained against the swift currents of the river trying to entice the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the... ...ely about them. And it was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. ... ... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ... to collect his thoughts and sort out his life, at least his academic life. The fall semester would be coming too quickly, and he knew he had to sto... ... he had hallucinated the whole thing. There was still plenty of time before the fall semester and if he had hallucinated, he would find out soon eno... ...ide of the aisle." "1 thank the Senator," O'Brien, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts said. "I, for one, am looking forward to these hearing...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...zed abortion. But I believe that if you don't stand for something, you‘ll fall for anything.‖ -- ―Yes Father Ray, but Spain was merely follo... ...it is 25 certainly not universally abhorred. For many years after the fall of the USSR there were people who were worse off and who longed for t... ... hoping, why not hope for a Happy Hunting Ground, an ideal life across the River Styx, or a life with our Creator on the other side of the Pearly Gat... ... the House of Song of the Zoroastrians, the land on the other side of the River Styx for the ancient Egyptians, ―I know that you are going to... ...o die before a ‗Code Blue‘ situation does them in? ―A court in Massachusetts recently allowed life support to be withdrawn from an 11 year...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ...consumer options are limited. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a... ...overnment has not helped to improve the irrigation possibilities. ―River-fed irrigation systems were not built in the quantity needed to water... ...water. Shistosomiasis, caused by a fresh water snail, affects 160 million people. That‘s the disease that wiped out Napoleon‘s army in Egypt. Then in... ...are, child marriages, lack of effective education, backbreaking work, all fall on the powerless—our future citizens who will soon manage our world. ... ...told me about one pitiful beggar that he used to encounter near the Hugli River. Without air conditioning all the autos kept their windows down. The ... ... rate. ―In 2008 a number of under-16 year old high school girls in Massachusetts had babies. It was said that they had a pregnancy pact to al... ...age. They demonstrated at the funerals of your war dead. They called the fallen soldiers homosexuals. Then they somehow confused homosexuality with...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

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...pen. Startled, he watched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A ... ...st – a presence with form and face. An indescribable harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple tr... ...he election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, who had been waiting patiently in the Square, that the newly e... ...r place. They have armies, Father. They have money and guns. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents o... ...ion to run for the US Senate. And, it was on that day, at that moment, he had fallen completely in love with her. “You’ll have to give up your Sena... .... Brand stared at Alex for a long time. "For what it's worth," Brand replied falling back onto the bed and stared up at the ceiling again. "My son,... ...Washington, DC, where he got a job working as one of the aides to a prominent Massachusetts Congressman. It didn't take long for the young, handsome... ...as elegantly as a garden. Garlands of flowers weaved through the table like a river. Servants moved like shadows as they brought in an assortment of... ...ears all the networks would be back in place, and the drugs would flow like a river. You are a consumer nation. Your country’s addiction to drugs is...

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...sest, older sib who'd never steered him crooked, had only taught him right from wrong, good from bad—more like their now-dead father than a brother. H... ... he? He couldn't be— "No Ben." Amire shook her head, adamant as she pulled from Ben to stare at the lifeless body sprawled across the bottom of the co... ... he'd believed in kingdom come. He'd believed in money for the way it made people stand up, deliver and respect when he'd produce more than enough. He... ... she's had enough of that from you to last her a lifetime." Who were these people? Kelly wondered. Did he really belong with them? The pasty-faced cou... ...hat?" Kelly snapped. "You scared me, that's all." "What'd you think? I was falling back into another coma?" Kelly teased, knew it hadn't been the righ... ...oncile himself to the idea that someone he knew, someone close to him, had fallen victim to it. An aneurysm was something he'd heard about from TV, in... ...er. He was Dagny Castle Diaz, daughter of the rich pasty- faced Castles of Massachusetts and wife of some gorgeous Latin NYPD narcotics detective. He ... ...ring." "McBride was the other officer?" Kelly asked, unsure from where her river of calmness was flowing. Jackson nodded. "Got it in the head. Never k...

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...e and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...p to this town, but salmon and dace cannot come up, by reason of the rocky falls, which causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the whic... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ...e, then, could the Red Man set his foot? The honey bee hummed through the Massachusetts woods, and sipped the wild flowers round the Indian’s wigwam,...

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Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... He drew aside the window curtain and suffered the light of natural day to fall into the room and rest upon her cheek. At the same time he heard a gro... ... least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England. We are a people of prayer, and good works to boot, and abide no such wickedness.” “W... ...at he could distinguish the accents of towns 26 Mosses from an Old Manse people of his own, men and women, both pious and un godly, many of whom he... ...sadly into her face, and passed on with out a greeting. Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of a witch meetin... ...s, that a multitude of shining ones had assembled on the other side of the river, to welcome two poor pilgrims, who were just emerging from its depths... ...be off directly, and in three minutes you will be on the other side of the river. No doubt you will find coaches to carry you up to the city gates.” A... ... beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year’s Massachusetts Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black letter Bib...

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...ick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas is a publication of th... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ry. It was the custom in the State of Maryland to require the free colored people to have what were called free papers. These instruments they were re... ...ft Baltimore till I reached Philadelphia. The pas- sage of the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace was at that time made by ferry-boat, on board of wh... ...ould decently do so, and went to another part of the boat. Once across the river, I encountered a new danger. Only a few days before, I had been at wo... ...erners re- 10 turning from the Northern watering-places; that the colored people of New York were not to be trusted; that there were hired men of my ... ...d, I was safe in New Bedford, a citizen of the grand old common- wealth of Massachusetts. Once initiated into my new life of freedom and assured by Mr... ... Mr. Johnson told me that there was nothing in the laws or constitution of Massachusetts that would prevent a colored man from being governor of the S... ...and without him failure, so in peace it will be found that the nation must fall or flourish with the negro. Fortunately, the Constitution of the Unite...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...hey made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed ... ... verge of the forest for his homestead; an other is hewing the trunk of a fallen pine tree, in order to build himself a dwelling; a third is hoeing i... ...ut any regular gov ern ment. There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various po... ...Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many... ... 26 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair rosy Miss Betsey did Samuel Sewall fall in love. As he was a young man of good character, industrious in his b...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a du...

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... A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, in- different city, seen from the windows of a gloomy- looking inn, is at no time an object of enliv... ...al umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the cal- endar... ... six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards... ...a couple of remark- ably small horses. When it reached a certain point the people in front of the grave-yard, of whom much the greater number were wom... ...er had given her. It was a bold, expressive sketch of a group of miserable people on the deck of a steamer, clinging together and clutching at each ot... ...ouse to tea. She had let the proposal that she should regularly dine there fall to the ground; she was in the enjoyment of whatever satisfaction was t... ...rs together, there were almost no houses; there were nothing but woods and rivers and lakes and hori- zons adorned with bright-looking mountains. It s... ... within sight. There was a wilderness of woods, and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a... ..., and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts. The road had a wide, grassy margin, on the further side of w...

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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 the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... have themselves created; and thus, at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...n immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly ca... ...he Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. 49 Tocqueville m...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...all do all I could and can to sustain you. Hoped that the opening of James River and putting W ool and Burnside in communication, with an open road to... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strengt... ...e to prevent the main body of the enemy’s forces from leaving Richmond and falling in over- whelming force upon General McDowell. He will move with be... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...es, and processes which Congress had provided, I should let the government fall at once into ruin or whether, availing myself of the broader pow- ers ... ...ac: Owing to the press in behalf of Daniel Sullivan, Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, and the doubt; though small, which you express of his guilty...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ...tages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it i... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...es the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and desolate. Massachusetts Avenue runs the whole length of the city, and is inserted on ... ...sion. Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfac- tory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the gr... ... some degree, I can say that the design is grand. The thing done, however, falls so infinitely short of that design, that nothing but disappointment i... ...olute foundation of the edifice is bad— that the ground, which is near the river and swampy, would not bear the weight intended to be imposed on it. A... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...ly the size and fur niture of an ordinary drawing room by seven, and then fall short of the reality. When the man in reply avowed the truth; the blun... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...tly immense feasibility of sitting there at all times and seasons, and had fallen into a momen tary silence, leaning our faces on our hands and look ... ...d out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river. And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly disce... ...water side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; a... ...ly believe that the public institu tions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, be ne...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...the place, that he is not closely invested, and that he forages across the river. The other brings the firing up to 11 A.M. yesterday, being twenty-t... ...f establishing a yard and depot for naval purposes upon one of the Western rivers. A naval force has been created on those interior waters, and under... ...recated the policy on the ground that it would cost the administration the fall elections. Nothing, however, was offered that I had not already fully ... ...well intended, but from what I hear I fear that, if persisted in, it would fall dead within its own entangling details. Go there and be the judge. A ... ...o telegraph the officer in military command at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, suspending the execution of Charles Carpenter, to be execute...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ...cation and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other, they have fallen through, although, in several instances, anti-slavery friends contri... ...OF BIRTH—CHARACTER OF THE DIS- TRICT—TUCKAHOE—ORIGIN OF THE NAME— CHOPTANK RIVER—TIME OF BIRTH—GENEA- LOGICAL TREES—MODE OF COUNTING TIME— NAMES OF GR... ...la- tion of the place would have quitted it long ago, but for the Choptank river, which runs through it, from which they take abundance of shad and he... ...ark of reverence, “Old Master.” Thus early did clouds and shadows begin to fall upon my path. Once on the track—troubles never come singly—I was not l...

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...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...m the land—and as I stood upon the beach and observed it dimpling the light swell that was coming in, I cast a stone over it. So orderly, so quiet, so... ...d sea, with other chafe and The Uncommercial Traveller 5 trouble, and for the moment nothing was so calmly and monotonously real under the sunlight a... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...on the whole, I should say, it was considered rather a distinction to have a complication of disorders, and to be in a worse way than the rest. From s... ... deaf, wonderfully preserved, and amazingly conversational. She had not long lost her husband, and had been in that place little more than a year. At ... ...erers, all the rigging in the docks was shrill in the wind, and every little steamer coming and going across the Mersey was sharp in its blow- ing off...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...e. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one t... ...er this nation is to ultimately become all slave or all free, and though I fall early in the contest, it is nothing if I shall have contributed, in th... ... come, and he fixes the place at Ossawatomie. This I believe is off of the river, and will require more time and labor to get to it. It will push me h... ...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...rritories south 51 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five of the Ohio River, Mr. Jefferson expressly provided for the prohibition of slavery. Jud...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...ea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the best grapes grow to make the Ger... ...arose in England, which were called the Saxon Heptarchy. The poor Britons, falling back be fore these crowds of fighting men whom they had innocently... ...e Saxon government. He restored such of the old laws as were good, and had fallen into disuse; made some wise new laws, and took care of the poor and ... ... King, that once, when the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat we... ...endure their country, and sailed away across the seas to found a colony in Massachusetts Bay in America. It is said that Hampden himself and his relat...

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...s see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people ap- pear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jac... ...r with a life of adventure. In his account of the singular and interesting people among whom he was thrown, it will be observed that he chiefly treats... ...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classi... ... a lad, and added that while ‘gamming’ on board another vessel he had once fallen in with a member of the boat’s crew which rescued Melville from his ... ...e poems originated, according to the author, in an impulse imparted by the fall of Richmond; but they have as subjects all the chief incidents of the ... ...l the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent isl... ...urface. I remember upon one occasion plunging in among a par- cel of these river-nymphs, and counting vainly on my supe- rior strength, sought to drag...