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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

...S, VISIONS, AND Compacts with the Devil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YORK: ... ...elieve the existence of a Devil is a like debt to reason; one is a demonstration from the reality of visible causes, and the other a deduction from t... ... like reality of their effects. One demonstration of the existence of God is from the universal well-guided consent of all nations to worship and... ... and adore a supreme power; one demonstration of the existence of the Devil, is from the avowed ill-guided consent of some nations, who, knowing no ... ...ms, that the Creator of heaven and earth had adopted this nation for his chosen people, and therefore demanded their exclusive homage, and that they... ... which she called Prick-ear, Jack and Frog. Several witnesses, poor and ignorant people, were brought to testify to the mischief which had been done ... ...ntribute anything to the very useful object of your work, it is no matter – let people think what they will. Be that as it may, I vouch for the trut... ...known, whether husband, wife, lover or friend. THE CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE SALEM WITCHES, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S. We now commence some detail o... ...d in trade, but being unsuccessful he turned to the ministry and was settled at Salem village. At the time now in view, his parish was in a high qua...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Women with Hiv/Aids

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...enix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning ... ...1-800-521-0600 (Customer Service) http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/ and online from: Publishing Online, Co. (Seattle, Washington State) ... ...a Kandasamy. Cover design by Meena Kandasamy. Many books can be downloaded from this E-Library of Science: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache... ...n urban areas are kept secret. Secondly due to increased awareness, the urban people may be well aware of HIV/AIDS. As in South Africa, Kenya, Tanza... ...departments conducted a medical camp here recently they found that 50% of the people were suffering from tuberculosis. Child marriage and inadequate... ...s which is a poor nation became victims of HIV/AIDS, likewise the poor rural people of India have all chances and in majority of the cases to becom... ... a women aged 35 years who has studied up to the 5th standard. She hails from Salem. She is married for the past ten years and has a son. Her 88 ... ...cated 40-year-old woman on 08-03-2002 at the Tambaram Sanatorium. She is from Salem. She knows both Tamil and Telugu. Her husband is also uneducate... ... or dead. They earn about Rs.2000 to Rs.3000 a year. They have a own house at Salem. She has no other property. She lives in a joint family. Her mar...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...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,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...by the Author Edited by STEVEN JAMES BARTLETT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Salem, Oregon AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS P. O. Box 6141 Salem, Oregon 97... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ... the wilderness; I wish to write about my mother, about my village of New Salem, my home in Springfield with its maple trees. I see the sunlight in ... ...ficulty in acquiring legal land titles. I became a sort of clerk in New Salem; I served as postmaster; then came the Black Hawk War; I was elected...

...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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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... 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... ....‖ 4 —―Mr. Ghosh, we are deeply honored that you would take time from you presidential duties to meet our clan.‖ —―The honor is mine, I ... ...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... ...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... ... arsenic from ground water. You remember that Bangladesh had millions of people exposed to ground water arsenic at 100 times the maximum proposed b... ... 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... ... not suffer a witch to live‘ gives us the command that the Inquisition and Salem have used to enforce the Divine authority. :Recently a fam... ...Gulliver Returns‖ . (http://andgulliverreturns.info) 28. Prince v. Massachusetts 321 U.S. 158, 165 (1944) 29. Wisconsin v. Yoder, 40...

...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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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...onic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the author. ISBN 0-7596-7159-1 This book is printed on ... ...rs who encouraged me to stop investing my talents, skills and intellect in other people and start investing them in myself. Also for being wise eno... ... that will make your journey through the materials go more smoothly. A message from the Author........................................................ ... statutes and rules, it’s easy to get lost. Learn how to organize your journey from someone who has been down the same road. Unfamiliar with real ... ..., they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies ... ... will find the time. It will change your life, isn’t it worth the effort? Most people spend all of their time “getting ready”. You need to get read... .... Marys, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, Worchester Lillian R. Villanova 118 Massachusetts: Tax Lien Certificate State 14 Counties Barnstable, ... ...ucester, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union, Warren New Mexico: Tax Deed State...

...make on your savings or insurance premiums? We all know that basically, they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions have been making Tax Defaulted Paper part of their investment portfolios. Banks and other institutional investors enjoy high...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...ng Stal>lea Uain and Sooth Strssm, Oppoeite Greylork Hotel Wllllamstown, - Massachusetts Lone DI«tance Telephone OLYMPIAN Bowling and Billiard Parlors... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...sville, N. Y., and thence by wagon to where the "Bear Trail" beKins at New Salem. A study was made of the numer- ous Devonian limestone fossils, sink ... ...19 at Peeksk^l, N. Y., and received his preparatory education at the North Salem.and later at the Red Hook academy. In 1834 he entered the junior clas...

...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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Mosses from an Old Manse

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...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... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR TH... ... WN WN WN WN YOUNG G OODMAN B ROWN came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exch... ...nstable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem; and it was I that brought your father a pitch pine knot, kindled at ... ... 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... ...ith thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble both Sabbath day and lec... ...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... ...ard with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil. The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wil...

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A Message from the Sea

By: Charles Dickens

...les Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Charles Dickens A Message From the Sea by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I THE VILLAGE “AND A MIGHTY SING’LA... ...rty good-nature which is quite exultant in the innocent happiness of other people, had undoubted him- self, and was going to start a new subject, when... ... our way, cautiously and toilsomely, over the pulverised embers, one of my people sank into the earth breast-high. He turned pale, and ‘Haul me out sm... ...inds to say, unless he’s telling her that ‘t’ll soon be over, or that most people is so at first, 20 A Message from the Sea or that it’ll do her good... ... atop of the first page here, is my name and address: ‘Silas Jonas Jorgan, Salem, Massachusetts, United States. ’ If ever you take it in your head to ... ...f the first page here, is my name and address: ‘Silas Jonas Jorgan, Salem, Massachusetts, United States. ’ If ever you take it in your head to run ove... ... the whole, without exception, to come and stay several months with him at Salem, Mass., U.S. And there as he stood on the spot where he had seen that...

...as built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses, placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there....

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...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... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...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... ...hem to make laws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem... ... few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem. {Foot Note: The Puritans had a liking for Biblical names for their c... ... their children, and they sometimes gave names out of the Bible to places, Salem means Peace. The Indian name was Naumkeag.} Peter Palfrey, Roger Cona... ...esolate waves, they prosecuted their voyage, and sailed into the harbor of Salem in the month of June. At that period there were but six or eight dwel...

...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 Europeans

By: Henry James

... 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... ... 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... ...e had stood there for half an hour—stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length wit... ...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... ...e. “I really can’t say. It will be interesting to discover.” “Oh, the rich people can’t!” said the Baroness. “Are you very sure they are rich?” asked ... ...nephew, what is his profes- sion?” asked an old gentleman—Mr. Broderip, of Salem— who had been Mr. Wentworth’s classmate at Harvard Col- lege in the y... ...in satisfaction in being able to say it. And Mr. Broderip had gone back to Salem with a feeling that this was probably a “European” expression for a b... ..., 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...

...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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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...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... ... 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 ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...es the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and desolate. Massachusetts Avenue runs the whole length of the city, and is inserted on ... ...when Congress meets. I do not think that Congress makes much difference to Massachusetts Avenue. I believe that the city never contains as many as eig... ...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... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ...t as they are with us. If a young Benedict cannot get along as a lawyer at Salem, perhaps he may thrive as a shoemaker at Thermopylae. Jefferson B. Jo...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...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-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ... 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... ...as not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving... ...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...licans and other opposition elements for the canvass of 1860, is received. Massachusetts is a sovereign and independent State; and it is no privilege ... ...ty- two. At twenty-one I came to Illinois, Macon County. Then I got to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon, now in Menard County, where I remained a y...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ve in it, among whom the author happened to make one. In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old King Der... ...any languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence ... ...ospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hour... ...she overshadows with her wings. Neverthe less, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing... ...lings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a ran kling wound from her barbed arrows. The pavement round about the above described edific... ...e elderly citi zen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchant... ...r successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments. This old town of Salem—my native place, though I have dwelt much away from it both in boyhoo... ...itude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contr... ...n thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held. Such were some of the people with whom I now found myself connected. I took it in good part, at t...

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The Early Short Fiction

By: Edith Wharton

...he reasons she gave for its being obtainable on these terms—its remoteness from a station, its lack of electric light, hot-water pipes, and other vulg... ...inued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was suc- cessively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse t... ...with a sudden relapse to distrust: “And the ghost? Y ou’ve been concealing from us the fact that there is no ghost!” Mary, at the moment, had laughed ... ...you appear to—I mean about the cir- cumstances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked up again. And I... ...ll, and most of the prominent names in the place are down on the list, and people began to wonder why—” Parvis broke off to fumble in an inner pocket.... ...onest use, but I am not even sure that they are the right ones, and so few people really know what they mean.” “Y ou were married,” said the Spirit, “... ...d been a magician’s wand to him. In the hall of the old Bracknell house at Salem there hung a series of yellowing prints which Uncle Richard Saulsbee ... ... Tony was sure, than had ever hap- pened in Boston in a twelve-month or in Salem in a long life- time. For here, by their garb, were people of every n... ...r of other characters of a kind not openly mentioned in taking a census of Salem. Tony, who was not averse from reading when nothing better offered, h...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ... seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their 44 Chap... ...equod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...ry my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar. Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; ...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ... seventh heavens. Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor s... ... Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...ry my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar. Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; ...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...er money (or the greater part of it); and third, she lived at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mallet’s compassion was really wasted, because Cecilia was a... ... Mallet imagined there was a private reason for it—a reason quite distinct from her pleasure in receiving her honored kins- man. The next day he flatt... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...hter of a retired sea-captain, once fa- mous on the ships that sailed from Salem and Newburyport. He had brought to port many a cargo which crowned th... ..., upon a pension of his own providing. He was to be seen for a year on the Salem wharves, smoking the best tobacco and eying the seaward horizon with ... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...ofession which consists exclusively, as she supposes, in making figures of people without their clothes on. Sculpture, to her mind, is an insidious fo...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...er,” he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupie... ...he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupied wit... ...s disclosed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” h... ...rne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne (as the n... ...lled), the great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a magis- trate at Salem in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and officiated at the ... ...to the following effect. Philip En- glish, a character well-known in early Salem annals, was among those who suffered from John Hathorne’s magiste- ri... ...fluential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passion- ate error that has ever charac... ... cuted, not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, breth- ren, and wives. Amid the diso... ...re, had first swept away the fallen leaves. It was a curious, and, as some people thought, an ominous fact, that, very soon after the workmen began th...

...e year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ...hey would be followed by Hani Hanjour and two brothers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Salem al Hazmi. 11 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed were fl... ..., without alarm, through the metal detector. A short time later, Nawaf and Salem al Hazmi entered the same checkpoint. Salem al Hazmi cleared the meta... ...anuary 2000. Initially, only the first names of three were known—“Nawaf, ”“Salem, ” and “Khalid. ” NSA analysts surmised correctly that Salem was Nawa...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s ca...

...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...n 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 live... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ecomes impossible for them to resume 2 Walden their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;... ...ed 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 ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...now enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe... ...h the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough. You will export such articles as the... ... their hands. Gookin, who was su perintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses ar...

...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in 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 there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly indepen- dent of the country; laws made and taxes... ...nt of the country; laws made and taxes levied without con- currence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizen... ... would lose his head. Still the intelligence produced a marked effect. The people smiled mysteriously in the streets, and threw bold glances at their ... ...tation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole 5 Hawthorne land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved t... ...tury afterwards, of another encounter between the troops of Britain, and a people struggling against her tyranny. Though more than sixty years had ela... ... approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst i... ...inal and authentic portrait of the Evil One, taken at a witch meeting near Salem; and that its strong and ter- rible resemblance had been confirmed by... ...uries ago, the English colors were displayed by the standard-bearer of the Salem trainband, which had mustered for martial exer- cise under the orders... ... for a ship arrived yesterday from England.” Mr. Williams, the minister of Salem and of course known to all the spectators, had now reached the spot w...

...nger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed p...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ... of this page would have been as unreasonable had that reader been born in Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the dearly-beloved friends of my fami... ...ould be well for all parties if the whole State could be swal- lowed up by Massachusetts or by Connecticut, either of 34 North America V ol. 1 which ... ... to inspire disgust by the enormity of their ugliness, nor are they called Salem, Ebenezer, and Sion, nor do the 320 North America V ol. 1 ministers ...

...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...herefore, to republish his introductory sketch with out the change of a word. SALEM, March 30, 1850 THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LE... ...t move in it, among whom the author happened to make one. In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old King... ... many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass — here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and the... ...ng prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half ... ...which she overshadows with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the ... ...r nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows. The pavement round about the above described ed... ...ind the elderly citizen of that period, before the last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merc... ...omptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to c... ...erson thoroughly adapted to the situation which he held. Such were some of the people with whom I now found myself connected. I took it in good part, ...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...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 ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...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... ...nough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe w... ...the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough. You will export such articles as the ... ... their hands. Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are ...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

... 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 ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ..., of Sidney, of Marmaduke Robinson; before a French Reign of Terror, and a Salem hanging of witches; before a fanatic Revival and the Animal Magne- ti... ...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... ...nt anew the orders and the ornaments of archi- tecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes. The Doric temple preserves th... ...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... ... the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom, and Lynn in a shoe, and Salem in a ship. Witness the cider-barrel, the log-cabin, the hickory-stick...

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