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...outheast Asia 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SIN... ......................................................... 30 FEMALE EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC USEFULNESS ...................................................... ... head start over Kino and is still leading the Asian derby in finance and trade. Again, the Asian intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far pas... ...or farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increased technology had given us better building materials and c... ...est to medicine is somewhat economic, since the electronics manufacturing industry, that once was its bread and butter, has taken a bit of a financia... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...parent is bonded to our economy. If a person is an important figure in an industry, that industry will suffer if the person is absent for several mo... ...he beacon for our societies. With this in mind, the International Olympic Committee takes the lead in many sports related issues, like doping and s... ...sment. Several years ago the IOC sent a directive to the national Olympic committees to make them aware of the extensive problems in the area of gend...

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...ca were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that experience had developed in the government of the Confederation, and they were, therefore, practical and thorough....

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... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...cqueville Upon this inhospitable coast the first united efforts of hu- man industry were made. The tongue of arid land was the cradle of those English... ...these forests were gloomy and obscure, undirected in their course by human industry, preserved in them a constant moisture. It was rare to meet with f... ...nd it often happens that by inheritance, by marriage, or by the chances of trade, he is gradually furnished with the means. Thus, to balance the ten- ... ...r- forms the difficult task of superintending the action of the poor-laws; committee-men are appointed to attend to the schools and to public instruct... ... tion of drains, point out the proper sites for slaughter-houses and other trades which are a nuisance to the neighborhood. See the Act of June 7, 178... ...e, not of their administrative, but of their judi- cial power. ***The town committees of schools are obliged to make an annual report to the Secretary... ...oys them. Oppression has, at one stroke, deprived the de- scendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of hu- manity. The negro of the Unite...

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............................................................................................................................... 104 Chapter 3.3.I. Cause and Effect. .................................................................................................................................. 104...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... defend itself from foreign Despots; crowds towards Townhalls and Election Committee-rooms, to de- fend itself from domestic Aristocrats. Let the Read... ...he Townhall, these astonishing tricolor Municipals; in Council General; in Committee of Watchfulness (de Surveillance, which will even become de Salut... ...y. Lean Beaumarchais, thinking to serve the Fatherland, and do a stroke of trade, in the old way, has commissioned sixty thousand stand of good arms o... ... thousand stand of Dutch arms (which never arrive), and the bold stroke of trade, have turned out so ill!— Beaumarchais escaped for this time; but not... ...otz, Speaker of Man- kind, proses sad stuff about a Universal Republic, or union 73 Thomas Carlyle of all Peoples and Kindreds in one and the same Fr... ...undred and Forty-nine ingenious men, struggling with their whole force and industry, for a long course of weeks, to do at bottom this: To stretch out ... ...nnals: or is there, that thou wottest of, one shabbier? Mumbo-Jumbo of the African woods to me seems venerable beside this new Deity of Robespierre; f...

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................................................................................................................................... 94 CHAPTER VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH.......................................................................

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...nd Leghorn have all become popu- lous, and are or have been great, because trade found them to be convenient for its purposes. Trade seems to have ign... ... without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was at an end. In no town at that time was trade very flourishing; bu... ...or Brooks. He was also, at the time of which I am writing, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a B... ...ign affairs, financial affairs, and army matters, are referred to Standing Committees in both Houses; and these committees have relations with the min... ...go beyond that. He does not comprehend the object and purport of continued industry. If he have money, he will play with it—he will amuse himself with... ...By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to apply to the who... ...; the price of labor forbids it; and it is forbidden also by the career of industry and expansion which has been given to them. But the curse of fight...

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..................................................................................................................... 38 Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. ...................................................................................................... 40 Chapter 2.1.IX. Symbolic. ..................................................................................

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...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...he landed-interest, and all manner of inter- ests, reduced to distress. Of Industry every where manacled, bewildered; and only Rebellion thriving. Of ... ...rld is solid, and cannot dissolve. For the rest, if they have any positive industry, it is that of plots, and backstairs conclaves. Plots which cannot... ...me able editor; and more. Bibliopolic Momoro, Typographic Pruhomme see new trades opening. Collot d’Herbois, tear- ing a passion to rags, pauses on th... ... gods witness, ye are hardly entreated. Oh, if in National Palaver (as the Africans name it), such blessed- ness is verily found, what tyrant would de... ...n—V olume Two What a progress, since the first salient-point of the Breton Committee! It worked long in secret, not languidly; it has come with the Na... ...ouse Captains, the Mayor of St. Cloud; nay, at great length, thus asks the Committee of Researches, and not the Municipal, but the National Assembly o... ...ut any sort of matter: in their towns, the common people beset the passing trader; demanding to hear from what regions he came, what things he got acq...

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...ou not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to him? What is your Senator Martin saying and doing? What is Webb about?...

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...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... would have little support in the North, and by consequence, no capital to trade on in the South, if it were not for his friends thus magni- fying him... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ...d as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buying slaves in ... ... none whom I trusted more. His po- sition as chairman of the State Central Committee led to my greater intercourse with him, and to my giving him a la... ...equally true and faithful to the party. In his position as chairman of the committee, I believe he did all that any man could have done. The best of u... ...edited to this govern- ment, relative to the exhibition of the products of industry of all nations, which is to take place at London in the course of ... ... of the industrial interests of the United States at the exhibition of the industry of all nations to be holden at London in the year 1862. I regret t...

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...ople can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the rebellion, added not a little to the strain?. The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts in the case....

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...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...y arith- metic. Among the people of the settlement, bush farmers and small tradesmen, he found none of uncommon intelli- gence or education; but some ... ...n the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade many mem- bers of which at that time still took pride in being called... ...esident Polk for having unjustly forced war upon Mexico, and he amused the Committee of the Whole by a witty attack upon General Cass. More important ... ...nd in a large number of public letters, written ostensibly to meetings, or committees, or persons of importance, he addressed himself directly to the ... ...Pilgrim Fathers upon Plymouth Rock, a Dutch ship had discharged a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown in Virginia: All through the colonial period th... ...1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and forever the leading industry of the South, and gave a new impetus to the importation of slaves,... ...antage to them than to make valueless in their pockets the reward of their industry. Mr. Chairman, this work is exclusively the work of politicians; a...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...e by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wreck of the Ro... ...sionally had a screw in our hair over each cheek-bone with a slight Thief-flavour in it. Besides prowlers and idlers, we were mechanics, dock-labourer... ...e so deformed as when we paused, sandwich in hand, to consider what would come of that resolution of Wicked- ness in boots, to sever Innocence in flow... ...e about as well in- formed on the matter as most other people. Distinguished speakers were invited down, and very nearly came (but not quite). Subscri... ...anuary, 1862, which is highly remarkable for its philosophical and liter- ary research concerning these Latter-Day Saints. I find in it the following ... ...t, I gave time for the emergence of Jo- seph and Celia, who presently came towards us in the church- yard, bending under dusty matting, a picture of t... ...ates in a mock battle-rush, from which many of the squaws are borne out, much dilapidated. I need not observe how unlike this is to a Drawing Room at ...

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...on of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 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 re...

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...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...y 21, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: I have just been waited on by a large committee who present a petition signed by twenty-three senators and eighty... ...w, will certainly and greatly deteriorate, to the serious injury of honest trade and honest labor. 2. This bill seems to contemplate no end which cann... ...r for our military commanders to employ, as laborers, as many per- sons of African descent as can be used to advantage. The twelfth and thirteenth sec... ... shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so many persons of African descent as can be advantageously used for military or naval purpose... ... be wrong, let them be set right. I think I can perceive in the freedom of trade which Mr. Durant urges that he would relieve both friends and enemies... ... This afternoon the President of the United States gave an au- dience to a committee of colored men at the White House. They were introduced by Rev. J... .... The needful diversion of wealth and strength from the fields of peaceful industry, to the national defense has not ar- rested the plough, the shuttl...

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...ck Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...y have been cloven down, * * * * no matter what complexion an Indian or an African sun may have burned upon him,” not only may “stand forth redeemed a... ... through the same channel. Thus, even the glimmering and unsteady light of trade, which some- times exerts a civilizing influence, is excluded from th... ...carcely a month passed without the sale of one or more lots to the Georgia traders, there was no apparent diminution in the number of his hu- man stoc... ... to be caught by wading, digging and raking for them. Here was a field for industry and enterprise, strongly inviting; and the reader may be assured t... ...d—a thing quite unusual in the south—depended almost entirely upon her own industry for a living. To this fact the dear lady, no doubt, owed the excel... ...ves.” Thus, I was in a pretty fair way to be denounced as an impostor. The committee of the Massachusetts anti-slavery society knew all the facts in m... ...ted by his state to perform, are many that can only be done efficiently on committees; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by trade and a gar- dener by disposition; his little wife Jessica saw to the s... ...rain of poetry in his nature. And Bert touched the fringe of a num- ber of trades in succession—draper’s porter, chemist’s boy, doctor’s page, junior ... ...nd it is related that scarcely a ship-yard or factory in that busy hive of industry resumed work before half-past two. The public mind was just suffic... ... cricket, race meetings, cheap revolvers, petroleum, the factory system of industry, halfpeuny newspapers in both English and the vernacular, inexpens... ...Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the population, of the making ... ... 3 3 3 3 So what historians have come to call the Phase of the Emer- gency Committees sprang from the opening phase and from the phase of social colla... ...y. But at any time such a village would be liable to a raid of Asiatics or Africans or such-like air-pirates, de- manding petrol and alcohol or provis...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... according to the beliefs of that time, in- evitably ensure the Supply. An industry of “Grant earning” 18 The New Machiavelli was created, and this w... ...teach people not science, but how to write answers to these questions, the industry of Grant-earning assumed a form easily distinguished from any kind... ...tle under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a... ...uld have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same ro... ...ote for Remington,” and Willersley no doubt saw himself chair- man of this committee and that, saying a few slightly ironi- cal words after the declar... ... to the ideas of collective action and mutual consider- ation as a Central African negro. There are hordes of such men as he throughout all the modern... ...urprising that Isabel should ask for a lift in our car as far as the Lurky Committee Room, and that she should offer me quite sound advice en route up...

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...r Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported th...

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...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...aty between the United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly r... ...e United States and Great Britain for the suppression of the African slave-trade, made on the 17th day of February last, has been duly ratified and ca... ...here is reason to hope that it may become entirely so with the increase of trade which will ensue whenever peace is restored. Our ministers abroad hav... ... occurred, there is still a great deficiency of laborers in every field of industry, especially in agriculture and in our mines, as well of iron and c... ...UNITED STATES: Herewith I lay before you a letter addressed to myself by a committee of gentlemen representing the freedmen’s aid soci- eties in Bosto... ...the appearance of the letter, because I had had knowledge of Mr. Pomeroy’s committee, and of secret issues which, I supposed, came from it, and of sec... ... shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just en- couragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is 97 The Writings of Abraham Lin...

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...o 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 years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ... same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bismarck’s. Y.M. How ar... ...ired with a longing to ascend the Amazon. Also with a longing to open up a trade in coca with all the world. What Is Man and Other Essays 90 During m... ...dered another dweller in that town to go to the Amazon and open up a world trade in coca on a fifty dollar basis and been obeyed? No, I was the only o... ...came a journalist—another link. By and by Circumstance and the Sacramento Union sent me to the Sandwich Islands for five or six months, to write up s... ... looked like that weary kind of effort in dreams, when the most determined industry seems only to renew the task. The lofty crest of the bell tower wa... ...g child, nor the unintelligent teacher—or rather the unintelligent Boards, Committees, and Trustees—are the proper target for it. All through this lit... ...ust to do, and find it. I know the argot and the quartz mining and milling industry famil iarly; and so whenever Bret Harte introduces that industry ...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in tho...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was...

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...in alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge 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 ... ...f and nestling close, always obligated, Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute, Thither every day... ...nd hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on... ...ypes, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetich, and the obi. I see African and Asiatic towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbu... ...e the constructiveness of my race, I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race, I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go... ...eeps, We plan even now to raise, beyond them all, Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb, A keep for life for practical invention. Leaves of Gra... ... it is, gentlemen of Boston? I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England, They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with... ...ly citizens—look from the windows, women! Leaves of Grass –Whitman 279 The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not s...

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..., 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 sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very part...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Reading . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Winter Animals ... ...lobe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote 8 Walden themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live, — that is, ke... ...hat line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men’s, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable f... ...n snake casts its slough, and the caterpillar its wormy coat, by an internal industry and expansion; for clothes are but our outmost cuticle and morta... ...r to accept the advantages, though so dearly bought, which the invention and industry of mankind offer. In such a neighborhood as this, boards and shi... ...me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears... ...in the retreat from Concord, — where he is styled “Sippio Brister,” — Scipio Africanus he had some title to be called, — “a man of color,” as if he we... ...t thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God ...

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...etians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-pl... ...into the company of a mere smuggler;—shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, fo... ...s from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gon- dol... ...imself in the proceedings of our Combined Additional Endowed Dignitar- ies Committee, and whether it had occurred to him that to shed a little money i... ...HE looked to them, but that Society looked to them. just as it was not Our Committee who wanted the Addi- tional Endowed Dignitaries, but it was Socie... ... of roses than was to be discovered in its many thorns; some new branch of industry made a constant demand upon him. When he cast off the Patriarch at... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...etians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-pl... ...into the company of a mere smuggler;—shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, fo... ...s from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industry; bits of mummy from Egypt (and perhaps Birmingham); model gon- dol... ...imself in the proceedings of our Combined Additional Endowed Dignitar- ies Committee, and whether it had occurred to him that to shed a little money i... ...HE looked to them, but that Society looked to them. just as it was not Our Committee who wanted the Addi- tional Endowed Dignitaries, but it was Socie... ... of roses than was to be discovered in its many thorns; some new branch of industry made a constant demand upon him. When he cast off the Patriarch at... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...