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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. Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mil... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I... ... be, we may imagine a despot observing many of the rules and restraints of constitutional government. He might allow such freedom of the press and of ... ...urse? Is he to defer to the nation? If so, he is no longer a despot, but a constitutional king; an organ or first minister of the people, distinguishe... ...ion. The mon arch would have to succumb, and conform to the conditions of constitutional royalty, or give place to some one who would. The despotism,... ...or should be allowed to vote only for two; and Mr. Disraeli, in the recent debates, 97 J S Mill revived the memory of the fact by reproaching him for... ...lly becoming still weaker) to make its adoption desirable.” 4 On the other debateable points connected with the mode of voting, it is not necessary to...

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...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... ... letter of the 29th January was re- ceived last night. Being exclusively a constitutional argu- ment, I wish to submit some reflections upon it in the... ...ropose. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You... ...nity to say a few words in relation to a point raised in the course of the debate on this bill, which he would now proceed to make if in order. The po... ... of policy. General Cass, once elected, will not trouble himself to make a constitutional argument, or per- haps any argument at all, when he shall ve... ...he sum of this message. And this, with the exception of what is said about constitutionality, applying as forcibly to what is said about making improv... ...like to be Speaker go right up and see Arnold. He is talented, a practised debater, and, I think, would do himself more credit on the floor than in th...

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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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...papers, and was also, from that time until he was fifty years old, an able debater in the soci- eties for this purpose, which were common in the West ... ...d- emy. I saw in this an honorable way to obtain a discharge, and read the debates with much interest, but with impatience at the delay in taking acti... ...tead of this the seceding States cried lustily,—“Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us.” Newspapers and people at the No... ...e enemy. But when he was summoned to surrender by a band of guerillas, his constitutional weakness overcame him. He inquired the number of men the ene... ...ho had known him all their lives. I had also read the remarkable series of debates be- tween Lincoln and Douglas a few years before, when they were ri... ...mmanders could execute an order without his pres- ence. His difficulty was constitutional and beyond his con- trol. He was an officer of superior abil...

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...where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and stay. But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had ...

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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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...r an or any pur y pur y pur y pur y purpose pose pose pose pose, , , , , and in an and in an and in an and in an and in any w y w y w y w y wa a a a a... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducte... ...think the inhabitants of the city were desert ing it one after another. Our debates possess’d me so fully of the subject, that I wrote and printed an... ...he more agreeable to me, as I was at length tired with sitting there to hear debates, in which, as clerk, I could take no part, and which were often s... ...son, who had in the preceding war been an officer in the army rais’d against Canada, was my aid de camp, and of great use to me. The Indians had burn... ...respondence; appointed one of the commissioners to secure the cooperation of Canada. 1776 Placed on the committee to draft a Declaration of In depend... ... committee to draft a Declaration of In dependence; chosen president of the Constitutional Commit tee of Pennsylvania; sent to France as agent of th...

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 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... ...of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and in curable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that prac tically speaking, when I have l... ...y any existance for him. He was about twenty eight years old, and had left Canada and his father’s house a dozen years before to work in the States, a... ... “No one runs to revel On thy rail fenced lea.” ... “Debate with no man hast thou, With questions art never perplexed... ...cled about over my head, twenty nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with a regular honk from the leader at intervals, trusting to break... ...re. The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a...

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...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. ...

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...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN 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 myse... ... 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 ... ...e of all obsti nacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices. I confess, that practically speaking, when I have l... ...dly any existence for him. He was about twenty eight years old, and had left Canada and his father’s house a dozen years before to work in the States,... ...le sunshine innocent.” * * No one runs to revel On thy rail fenced lea.” * * Debate with no man hast thou, With questions art never perplexed, As tame... ...rcled about over my head, twenty nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with a regular honk from the leader at intervals, trusting to bre... ...here. The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in...

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...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

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...rrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Little Dorrit?s Lover 19. The Father of the Marshalsea in two or three Relations 20. Moving in Society 21. Mr Merdle?s Complaint 22. A Puzzle 23. Machinery in Motion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disapp...

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...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

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...ilverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do. They--the Wa...

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