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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...o this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ... the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic Indian paintings, which ... ...’ and visited an imposing Indian monarch in the Teche country, whose capital city was a substantial one of sun baked bricks mixed with straw—better ho... ... know it with absolute exactness. If you will take the longest street in New York, and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you... ...ory of his owner; of his owner’s family, with descrip tions of weddings and burials that had occurred in it, to gether with recitals of congratulato... ... and picturesque ness drop gradually out of it as one travels away from New York.” I find that among my notes. It makes no difference which direction...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...n have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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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. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ... of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornel... ...es, which ac- cordingly appeared in the London Magazine in that year. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb’s Essays of Elia, which were ap- pearing in the... ...arged edition by David Masson. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1889-1890. [New York: The Macmillan Co. 14 vols., with footnotes, a preface to each volume,... ...SM 4. D. MASSON. Thomas De Quincey. English Men of Let- ters. London. [New York: Harper. An excellent brief biogra- phy. This book, with a good volum... ...island, and most of us disdained all coaches except his Majesty’s mail, no city out of London could pre- tend to so extensive a connexion with Mr. Pal... ...succession we are going to awake. Liberated from the embarrassments of the city, and issu- ing into the broad uncrowded avenues of the northern sub- u... ... angel’s eye—were these indeed thy children? Pomps of life, that, from the burials of centuries, rose again to the voice of perfect joy, did ye indeed...

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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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...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ... year that the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn was appointed to the diocese of New Zealand. Mrs. Selwyn’s parents had always been inti- mate with the Patt... ...and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish church, and the newly-made Bishop of New Zealand in the ... ...d party at home. I feel as if it were very selfish to be in this beautiful city, and to have been spending so much money at Florence. Neither did Joan... ...rhaps transferring himself to Manchester, Liverpool, London, or some large city, where there was need of mission work among the neglected. His father ... ...yet we are proud and self-justified and vain- glorious! ‘The Archbishop of York, in “Aids to Faith,” on the Death of Christ, has some most solemn and ... ...mmunions, our daily 7 A.M. and 7 P .M. Services, our Baptisms, yes and our burials too, all are so quiet, and there is so much reverence. You see that... ...thedral has been beautifully restored, has it not? Then, I think of you in York Minster on November 20, with that good text from Psalm xcvi. I read yo...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ....................................

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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 ... ...N AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Stre... ...D NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, ... ... he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later ... ...ditor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia, where he arrived in October, 1723. He... ...ed the registers at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that pa... ...s no wind, we row’d all the way; and about midnight, not having yet seen the city, some of the company were confident we must have passed it, and woul... ... this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings The Auto...

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...onal purposes. Beginning with last year?s publication, we began accepting student essays from all twelve Commonwealth College campuses, from students in English 004, 015, and 030. The essays in the current edition are all from students in English 004 and 015 classes....

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...Contents Joshua Gilligan English 4 ? DuBois campus ?Life Flight? ................................................. 4 Keenan Slenker Engligh 4 ? York campus ?Treats & Freaks ? ........................................... 5 Ray McBride English 4 ? York campus ?Abner? ................................................................ 7 Scott Dzienisienski English ? 4 Scran...

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... Writing Volume 8 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor D... ...l the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsyl... ................................................ 4 Keenan Slenker Engligh 4 – York campus “Treats & Freaks “ ........................................... ... ...ks “ ........................................... 5 Ray McBride English 4 – York campus “Abner”........................................................... ...for the hat and the name patch, which I sewed on myself. The hat became my new good luck charm. It seemed that I met more girls when I wore it to the ... ...te rappers com- ing from Detroit. Detroit has always been known as a music city. For decades, it has been a launch pad for many well-established stars... ...o shock their audi- ence. They both make a very good living coming up with new ways to stun the world. Sometimes their methods are vulgar and violent ... ... cars driving up and down the streets of Ridgewood. And the smell of fresh city air (as fresh as NYC air can be) fills our lungs as we jolt out of the... ...nearly every one of America’s conflicts. It was even- tually closed to new burials, but this place is still sacred to all who go there. The reason is ...

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...e had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bl...

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................ 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION......................................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME .............................................................................................................

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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. The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...nd so brought to ruin at least half an acre of calculations—and Hitchcock, new to disappointment, buried his head in his arms and wept; the heart-brea... ... who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from de- struction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in ... ...ays o’ me youth an’ innocence, an’ I wuz grateful when dey boxed me fer N’ York. You can’t tell me anything about Kansas I don’t wanter fergit. De Bel... ...rvous some, but they didn’t allow for that. ’T was in Mon- roe County, Noo York, an’ sence then till I come here, I’ve run away with more men than ‘u’... ...ks ‘em, an’ dey bangs deir tails, an’ dey bits ‘em, 44 Rudyard Kipling de city folk, an’ dey says it’s English, ye know, an’ dey darsen’t cut a horse... ...itten order came from the Government that a Bhil was to repair to a walled city of the plains to give evidence in a law-court, would it be wise to dis... ... with a shudder. “And you?” Scott said nothing. There had been many little burials along his route—one cannot burn a dead baby—many mothers who had we...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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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. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- lous with Christian burials of households, “That died in peace with one another. Father, sister... ...ace of five and twenty years, after running a bright career in the capital city of his native land, and challenging notice from the throne, had retire... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...lly, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis, is a questi... ...he Earl of Downe. His mother was the daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. She had three brothers, one of whom was killed; another died in the s... ...arise the small dowry of Mrs. Pope, not- withstanding the family estate in Yorkshire had centred in her person. But, by the way, we see from the fact ... ...tline, the very same, but not applied to the narrow purpose of obtain- ing burials from a public fund He persuaded, for instance, two beautiful young ...