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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...ook- port, N. Y. 'i)0—Rov. Carroll Perry, rontor of St. Philip's Kpiscoiml church at Garrisons, N. Y,, has accepteil a call from tho St. Peter's churc... ...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ... Ethel Warrick and Frederick Squires of New York oily, were married at the Church of the Ascension in that city at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Murch... ...on Dr. Zelie to Preach Rev. John Sheridan Zelie '87 of the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian ohiiroh, Plainfiehl, N. J., will preach in the college chapel ... ...d Woloott, N. Y., and for nearly a year occupied the pulpit of the Calvary Presbyterian church of Auburn, N. Y. From li)03 till (ho time of his death ... ...ulty is for the Church, by abandoning its creed, to recognize what its own ministers are preaching, that the SPIRIT of Christianity is strong enough t...

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...nthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...d Boston Common are very pleasant. Excel- lent houses there are, and large churches, and enormous hotels; but of such things as these a man can write ... ...rd Northern gentlemen complaining of the President, complaining of all his ministers, one after another, com- plaining of the contractors who were rob... ...land never scramble. Her father and mother, who are no more than her chief ministers, walk before her out of the saloon, and then she—swims after them... ...cultural population that touches its hat, eats plain victuals, and goes to church, is more picturesque and delightful than the thronged crowd of a gre... ...elsewhere. The Congregationalist, as far as I can learn, is very near to a Presbyterian. In New England I think the Unitarians would rank next in numb...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] j...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... to him. A man’s, or a nation of men’s. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he 6 Thomas Carlyle professes, the articles of faith wh... ...re the still more melodious Priest of a true Ca- tholicism, the “Universal Church” of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh ascet... ...ng, this Island of ours, will hold but a small fraction of the English: in America, in New Holland, east and west to the very Antipodes, there will be... ...omplish this? Acts of Parliament, administrative prime-min- isters cannot. America is parted from us, so far as Parliament could part it. Call it not ... ... Island there arose a Puri- tanism, which even got itself established as a Presbyterianism and National Church among the Scotch; which came forth as a... ...eration a revolution; no way of changing a ministry but by hanging the old ministers on gibbets: this is a historical spectacle of no very singular si... ...es First, had no way of making any tenable arrangement with him. The large Presbyterian party, apprehensive now of the Independents, were most anxious...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen wh... ...great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ter. 9 Daniel Defoe I lived without Aldgate, about midway between Aldgate Church and Whitechappel Bars, on the left hand or north side of the street;... ...r chance trade, but among the merchants trading to the English colonies in America, so my effects lay very much in the hands of such. I was a single m... ...s was in going through a narrow passage from Petty France into Bishopsgate Churchyard, by a row of alms-houses. There are two churchyards to Bishopsga... ..., as I may say , all out of their wits already. Neither can I acquit those ministers that in their sermons rather sank than lifted up the hearts of th... ...e, than drives us by terror and amazement, so I must confess I thought the ministers should have done also, imitating our blessed Lord and Master in t... ... monarchy, about four years before; but the ministers and preachers of the Presbyterians and Independents, and of all the other sorts of professions, ... ... I say, it could not be obtained. The quarrel remained; the Church and the Presbyterians were incompatible. As soon as the plague was removed, the Dis...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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... QUAKERS......................................................................................................................... 16 LETTER V.?ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .................................................................................................. 20 LETTER VI.?ON THE PRESBYTERIANS.............................................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was b...

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................................................................................................................... 13 COMMENCEMENT OF ISABELLA?S TRIALS IN LIFE ................................................................................................................................................... 14 TRIALS CONTINUED ....................................................

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ... time when such exchanges are made. The discovery of the abundant mines of America, reduced, in the sixteenth century, the value of gold and silver in... ...n all Christian countries, I believe, the education of the greater part of churchmen is paid for in this manner. Very few of them are educated altoget... ...ore, of those who are, will not always procure them a suitable reward, the church being crowded with people, who, in order to get employment, are will... ...s. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to re... ...ll vacant benefices. In Scotland, the most extensive country in which this presbyterian form of church government has ever been established, the right... ... either in the clergy or in the people of Scotland. The equality which the presbyterian form of church govern- ment establishes among the clergy, cons...

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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...On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge, 39 -- Happiness, 40 -- A Wish: Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792, 43 -- An Ode in the Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, ...

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