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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near 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, ...

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...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...h as I learn, talking largely about it. If they do so, it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem t... ....... 992 162 686 —— —— —— 3050 1426 3003 By this you will see, if you go through the calculation, that if they get o... ... aside and busy ourselves with something else. But let us inquire a little into this insignificant matter, as it is called by some, and see if it is n... ...at I think I can recollect it. It runs I think as follows: “We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initi- ated with the avowed object a... ...nt, I still regard it as an exceeding small matter. I think we have fairly entered upon a durable struggle as to whether this nation is to ultimately ... ...dingly I write this as a sort of introduction of myself to you. Y ou first entered the Senate during the single term I was a member of the House of Re... ...tageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully... ...t she acknowledged the Constitution of the United States, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in pursuance of the Constitution, to be ...

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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