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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: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania St... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ... on these trips, the corn would so shift as to become unbalanced and would fall off the horse, and often I would fall with it. As I was not strong eno... ... half off the hinges, doors creaked, window-panes were out, plastering had fallen but was not replaced, weeds grew in the yard. As a rule, there was f... ...received an opportunity to complete a two years’ course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham. Before she went to Framing... ... it more comfortable not to be known as a coloured women in this school in Massachusetts. She at once replied that under no circumstances and for no c... ...and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a for...

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... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ...navigation and commerce, discouragement of necessary manufactures, universal fall in the value of lands and their produce, contempt of public and priv... ...ies of this the greatest of all, I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the rep... ...NTS OF THE UNITED STATES 37 Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior, no country was ever ... ...ature has done so much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each ... ...uled. The election of 1960 had been close, and the Democratic Sena tor from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Hol...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...irls. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 33 P All day in the fragrant lemon forest, fallen fruit underneath the trees...all day alone. I have hated loneliness... ......A journal is for solace, for strength. I write in my library, the rain falling, Kleis in her room, asleep. How sad when youth is tricked! One spe... ... my relationship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipp... ... love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could visualize him, ... ...e to coordinate these state laws? Missouri hardly comprehends the laws of Massachusetts. Justice—many strive for justice. Efforts must be doubled. I...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...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 ... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...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 ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ... 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.” Hipp... ...aph 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, m... ...or, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bound ing on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spr... ... above all, the recollection I had of it from my ear liest voyages up the river, when the house was con cealed behind a dense grove of red maples, t...

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...d a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and ask... ..., so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity... ...rs in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would de rive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sen... ...but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to t... ...lker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People. We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble... ...tion rightly the thick and thin skin. But methinks that is a scurf that will fall off fast enough— that the natural remedy is to be found in the propo... ...out crossing a road except where the fox and the mink do: first along by the river, and then the brook, and then the meadow and the woodside. There ar... ...tuated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country. Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged... ... and beautiful than the tame, so is the wild—the mallard—thought, which ‘mid fall ing dews wings its way above the fens. A truly good book is somethi...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...ng character, yea further in every fact and circum- stance,—in the running river and the rustling corn. Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows,... ... womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite diameters. Genius watches the monad through all his masks... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...triots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. “After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay mis- er... ...gher race; remains fast by the soul and sees the principle, then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places; they know their master, and the me... ...there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, an...

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... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...d- ded a number of times. The moustache rang. I understood that these kind people were planning to make me out the innocent victim of a wily villain, ... ... as my friend has so often said to me, the French are after all the finest people in the world.” This double-blow stopped Noyon dead, but only for a s... ...as faint and almost dead from weariness and I stopped when my overcoat had fallen from my benumbed arm for the sec- ond time: “How far is it?” The old... ...of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliter- ated the unimportant chin. H... ..., and said lazily: 83 e e cummings “De quelle endroit que vooz êtes?” “De Massachusetts,” said I. He wheeled round and stared dumbly at the weak face... ...at one time, seen a bridge hastily constructed by les alliés over the Yser River, the ca- davers of the faithful and the enemy alike being thrown in h...

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...ME A STORY LISA SUHAY TELL ME A Story Lisa Suhay PARACLETE PRESS BREWSTER, MASSACHUSETTS NOTE: This electronic book has been laid out to resemble the ... ...electronic book has been laid out to resemble the original hard bound book from Paraclete Press as closely as possible. The copyright information for ... ...day life. I have been fortunate that my life has contained so many amazing people and experiences. When you are given such a great gift it is only rig... .... My brother for hope. To Fern and Ed for giving them the power that comes from being nurtured. I thank Heaven for all of them. I would like to dedica... ...s a man who sought a way to reach others with words. In his quest to touch people’s lives for his Master, he set out in pursuit of the words his sub- ... ...o fill with salt water. The gulls and sandpipers all gathered around their fallen comrades, forming one large circle. “Stupid little bird,” growled a ... ... flocks of birds, they shifted to a flinty gray. When he turned to the two fallen birds, they went to a sorrowful hazel-green. He carried the child in... ...ct that she loved their home in the cliffs, overlooking the valley and the river, she would go where he led. Every season they moved to a different ne... ...e dawn broke he would begin his hunt for the morning meal of fish from the river or small prey from the valley. Then he would leave her and begin his ...

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...ME A STORY LISA SUHAY TELL ME A Story Lisa Suhay PARACLETE PRESS BREWSTER, MASSACHUSETTS NOTE: This electronic book has been laid out to resemble the ... ...electronic book has been laid out to resemble the original hard bound book from Paraclete Press as closely as possible. The copyright information for ... ...day life. I have been fortunate that my life has contained so many amazing people and experiences. When you are given such a great gift it is only rig... .... My brother for hope. To Fern and Ed for giving them the power that comes from being nurtured. I thank Heaven for all of them. I would like to dedica... ...s a man who sought a way to reach others with words. In his quest to touch people’s lives for his Master, he set out in pursuit of the words his sub- ... ...o fill with salt water. The gulls and sandpipers all gathered around their fallen comrades, forming one large circle. “Stupid little bird,” growled a ... ... flocks of birds, they shifted to a flinty gray. When he turned to the two fallen birds, they went to a sorrowful hazel-green. He carried the child in... ...ct that she loved their home in the cliffs, overlooking the valley and the river, she would go where he led. Every season they moved to a different ne... ...e dawn broke he would begin his hunt for the morning meal of fish from the river or small prey from the valley. Then he would leave her and begin his ...

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...o nearly every mem- ber of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curi- osity exci... ...e for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliver- ance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause of negro emancipation, a... ...ety and a blessing to his race—by the law of the land, by the voice of the people, by the terms of the slave code, he was only a piece of property, a ... ... which sur- rounded this self-emancipated young man at the North,— even in Massachusetts, on the soil of the Pilgrim Fathers, among the descendants of... ...but the absence of all fear of God, all regard for man, on the part of the people of the United States? Heaven speed its eternal overthrow! So profoun... ...arer to it than planting-time, harvest-time, cherry- time, spring-time, or fall-time. A want of information con- cerning my own was a source of unhapp... ... north of Easton, in Talbot county, and is situated on the border of Miles River. The principal products raised upon it were tobacco, corn, and wheat.... ... the very reverse is true. Indeed, it is not uncom- mon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among them- selves about the relative goodness of thei... ...et, and with the highest hopes of future happiness. We sailed out of Miles River for Baltimore on a Saturday morning. I remember only the day of the w...

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...lities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic... ...troduction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florent... ...poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyr... ...isregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will rea... ...1 cS 1 and s 2 cS 2 }. For real positive subsets (most of the cases will fall in this range) one gets inf S 1 0S 2 = inf S 1 - sup S 2 , s... ...1 cS 1 and s 2 cS 2 }. For real positive subsets (most of the cases will fall in this range) one gets inf S 1 ?S 2 = inf S 1 $ inf S 2 , sup S 1... ...ic character of mathematical assertions, it can become itself a knowledge river of future mathematics." (Al. Froda, <Eroare şi paradox în matematic ... ... Stephen A. Fulling and Ludmila G. Popova, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1975. [9] Bouvier, Alain, George, Michel, Dictionnaire des ... ...A Lecture-Note Volume, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1980. [95] Mathematical Logic Around The World, University ...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...f chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, run- ning at convenient distances, present them with h... ...If Shays had not been a desperate debtor, it is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding... ...he appetite, both for the one and for the other? Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinions, be appealed to for an answer to these inq... ...federacy, in a state of separation? Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with p... ... prejudice to trade. The relative situation of these States; the number of rivers with which they are intersected, and of bays that wash there shores;...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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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...