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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...614, as a delegate of the "third estate" (people who were neither aristocrats, nor clergy). The revolution itself may have been set off by a m... ...tieth century, let alone the 1940s. It is found in the March 23, 1839 issue of the Boston Morning Post, for instance, and did, indeed, stand for "O... ..., brother of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, to the colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts at their first Thanksgiving dinner in the new land... ...that time, pure alcohol consumption per person reached 27 liters (about 7 gallons). Massachusetts had a prohibition law between 1838 and 1840. Maine... ...The transmission of images obsessed inventors as early as 1875 when George Carey of Boston proposed his cumbersome system. Only five years later, th...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...wo hundred mules, mounted archers, stablemen, the Chamberlain, musicians, clergy, wizards, cooks, doctors...the archers wore black and red, the musi... ...in objec- tivity, I have placed a permanent seal on the ages. Later In Boston there have been two mammoth celebrations. Longfellow, Whittier, Eme... ...ray—for what purpose? To escort and conduct a poor trembling slave from a Boston courthouse to the fetters and lash of his master! This display of m... ...e to coordinate these state laws? Missouri hardly comprehends the laws of Massachusetts. Justice—many strive for justice. Efforts must be doubled. I... ...aves of Grass, but it did not appeal to me. The shop reminds me of one in Boston; I told the owner; he laughed: “The shop you mention belongs to my ...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...majority of changes it brought about were confined almost entirely to the clergy and spawned no wide ranging social movements, such as the one devel... ...ealing and usury. Taking prayer book production out of the hands of the clergy tended to downgrade prayers and monkish ideals while it enhanced th... ...luded a wealthy merchant-diplomat who turned pioneer printer, two defiant clergy, and Henry VIII with his mistress-wife Anne Boleyn. “Black Plague” ... ...s Made. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little Brown, 1978. Cleaves, Francis Woodman. The Secret History... ... University Press, 1982. Cohen, Adam. The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and S... ...rton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880–1955. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Tawney, R. H. Religion and the R...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...ty Pins, Medals. Cups, etc. Watches. Diamonds and Jewelry 29 Trcnjcnt St., Boston JOSEPH GRIPPA - Tailor - Graduate of New York Cutting School Spring ... ...boring to cause any alarm are plainly in the wrong when the case of recent Boston legislation is considered. There the estimate of the number of worki... ...alty. GENTLEMEN WHO DRESS FOR SHLE NEATNESS, AND COMFORT WEAR THE IMPROVED BOSTON GARTER THE RECOGNIZED STANDARD "VBThe Name Is stamped on every ^ loo... ...ts of the case are that four of Professor Garfield's predecessors were not clergymen at the time of their election and two of them never became clergy... ...addressed Williams students on many previous occnsiuns and ia a well known clergyman, lec- turer and after-dinner speaker. After leaving Williams, Dr.... ...n the early oenturies all dra- matio representation was perform- ed by the clergy during the festi- vals of the ohurch. The perform- ances took the fo...

...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...majority of changes it brought about were confined almost entirely to the clergy and spawned no wide ranging social movements, such as the one devel... ... dealing and usury. Taking prayer book production out of the hands of the clergy tended to downgrade prayers and monkish ideals while it enhanced th... ...luded a wealthy merchant-diplomat who turned pioneer printer, two defiant clergy, and Henry VIII with his mistress-wife Anne Boleyn. “Black Plague” ... ...s Made. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little Brown, 1978. Cleaves, Francis Woodman. The Secret History... ... University Press, 1982. Cohen, Adam. The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and S... ...rton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880–1955. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Tawney, R. H. Religion and the R...

...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...riests and the number of nuns has reduced by over 50%. On top of this the clergy‘s population is aging and there are few young recruits. Isn‘t that ... ... And in a letter to Jeremiah Moore on August 14, 1800, he wrote that ‗The clergy, by getting themselves established by law, and ingrafted into the m... ... been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, ... ...Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think it's a shame th... ... Mother Theresa or Mikhail Gorbachev equal to the worth of Al Capone, the Boston strangler, or Jack the Ripper? Was the worth of an Adolph Hitler, G... ...o die before a ‗Code Blue‘ situation does them in? ―A court in Massachusetts recently allowed life support to be withdrawn from an 11 year...

...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...e of Indulgences Pg 1015 The Protestant Psychological Reformation of Slavery from Unwilling to Willing Work Slaves Pg 1017 Sharing Pg 1020 Shari... ...ith tempting broadsheets, published persuasive articles and even convinced the clergy to preach of the virtues of supporting colonization. When that... ...g Scientific Services… just like the church used to buy the services of their clergy; by supplying them with vast estates. Only now: scientists are... .... Only now: scientists are much cheaper to buy. The difference is that most clergy actually believe their own propaganda. But most fake scientist... ...each other’s houses, and stole each other’s properties. Even the Governor of Massachusetts whose wife betrayed the British cause and became a spy f... ...Something American history books carefully delete from the history of 1638 in Massachusetts. Named so because of the infamous massacre which gave th... ...es government has been using the tactic of false flag operation ever since the Boston Tea Party in order to go to war. Because the rich profit from ...

... fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization....

...r 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7:...

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Mosses from an Old Manse

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR TH... ...rown,” said he. “The clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston, and that is full fifteen minutes agone.” “Faith kept me back a whil... ...sed to hear that almost every street has its church, and that the reverend clergy are nowhere held in higher respect than at Vanity Fair. And well do ... ...ery. The next whom Roderick honored with his attention was a distinguished clergyman, who happened just then to be engaged in a theological con trove... ...E GE GE GE GE ONE SUNSHINY MORNING, in the good old times of the town of Boston, a young carver in wood, well known by the name of Drowne, stood con... ...roject. Copley, the celebrated painter, then a young man and a resident of Boston, came one day to visit Drowne; for he had recognized so much of mode... ... beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year’s Massachusetts Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black letter Bib...

Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...p, fitting close to his head, as was the fashion of almost all the Puritan clergymen. In their com * There is a statue representing John Winthrop in ... ...r com * There is a statue representing John Winthrop in Scollay Square in Boston. He holds the charter in his hand, and a Bible is under his arm. 11... ...nson had gone, with Governor Winthrop and most of the other passengers, to Boston, where he intended to build a house for Lady Arbella and himself. Bo... ..., her husband had pitched upon a spot for their new home. He returned from Boston to Salem, travelling through the woods on foot, and leaning on his p... ... “Grandfather’s chair came into the possession of Roger Williams. He was a clergyman, who arrived at Salem, and settled there in 1631. Doubtless the g... ...li gious matters differed, in many respects, from those of the rulers and clergymen of Massachusetts. Now, the wise men of those days believed that t...

...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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The Europeans

By: Henry James

... A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, in- different city, seen from the windows of a gloomy- looking inn, is at no time an object of enliv... ... six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards... ...looking out of one of the windows of the best hotel in the ancient city of Boston. She had stood there for half an hour—stood there, that is, at inter... ...e had stood there for half an hour—stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length wit... ...hem from the street, and on the other side of the railing an assemblage of Bostonians were trampling about in the liquid snow. Many of them were looki... ...ssed woman with a foreign air, exclaiming upon the beauties of nature on a Boston street corner in the French tongue, could not be an object of indiff... ...why, then, do not Char- lotte and Mr. Brand, who, as an elder sister and a clergy- man, are free to walk about together, come over and make me wiser b... ...s rapidly asking himself what per- sonal compliment he could pay the young clergyman that would gratify him most. If he could think of it, he was prep... ...o say it as quickly as possible,” said Mr. Brand. “It ‘s because you are a clergyman, you know,” Felix went on. “I don’t think I should venture to say...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a du...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...ty was the sole source of power. Soon, however, the political power of the clergy was founded, and began to exert itself: the clergy opened its ranks ... ...d, his wonders and the judgments of his * “New England’s Memorial,” p. 13; Boston, 1826. See also “Hutchinson’s History,” vol. ii. p. 440. 50 Democra... ... Act of February 22, 1822, for ap- pointing the authorities of the city of Boston. It frequently happens that small towns as well as cities are subjec... ...27; and in the “Collection of the General Laws of Massachusetts,” 3 vols., Boston, 1823. 82 Democracy in America township and the State – In France t... ...ch do not exist in America, and vice versa. The French Government pays the clergy; in America the voluntary principle prevails. In America there is a ... ...o 43 dioceses, with 3,795 churches, under the care of 45 bishops and 2,317 clergymen. But this rapid increase is mainly supported by immigration from ...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ...colored man for ca- 1 Letter, Introduction to Life of Frederick Douglass, Boston, 1841. 12 My Bondage and My Freedom pacities which the pride of rac... ... strike “on their own hook,” against slavery and caste. Differing from his Boston friends in this matter, diffident in his own abilities, reluc- tant ... ...ly papers; his name glided as often—this week from Chicago, next week from Boston—over the lightning wires, as the name of any other man, of whatever ... ... not, at that time, know that there was a state of New York, or a state of Massachusetts. I had heard of Pennsylva- nia, Delaware and New Jersey, and ... ...ondage and My Freedom of exposing the character of the American church and clergy—and as a means of bringing this guilty nation, with yourself, to rep...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...any languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence ... ...ospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half hour... ...lings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a ran kling wound from her barbed arrows. The pavement round about the above described edific... ...eed lessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston. On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen to have arr... ...nturies ago, was occu pied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron clamped oaken doo... ...estern extremity of the market place. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston’s earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there. In fact, this... ... her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, like most of his contemporaries in th... ...ques tion of human guilt, passion, and anguish. “Hester Prynne,” said the clergyman, “I have striven with my young brother here, under whose preachin... ...al drew the eyes of the whole crowd upon the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale—young clergy man, who had come from one of the great English universi ties, bri...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston. His son, Major Thomas Melville, was a leader in the famous ‘Boston ... ...lle’s son Allan, the father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an e... ...k. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian ports, in Octo- ber of 1... ...l the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent isl... ...le living in its vicinity ‘Taiohae’, and by Captain Porter was denominated Massachusetts Bay. Among the adverse tribes dwelling about the shores of th... ...is becoming offensive—the temples themselves need rethatching—the tattooed clergy are alto- gether too light-hearted and lazy—and their flocks are goi...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...equod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...tures as a sea captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston. I have the honor of being a nephew of his. I have particularly ques... ...sh, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s goin... ...ll degree be deemed, under the circumstances, a rather hard one, an honest clergyman of the town respectfully addressed a note to his Grace, begging h... ...ut an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way. Now this doubloon was of pu... ...mark — that I my self — that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy — am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink — “ “Water!” cried...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ... Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...tures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston. I have the honour of being a nephew of his. I have particularly que... ..., impious pride, and abominable, devilish re- bellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catho- lic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s go... ...ll degree be deemed, under the circumstances, a rather hard one, an honest clergyman of the town respectfully addressed a note to his Grace, begging h... ...ut an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky W ay. Now this doubloon was of ... ...nch remark—that I myself—that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy—am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink—” “Water!” cried the...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ... hun- dred students of Blodgett, scores recited more accurately and dozens Bostoned more smoothly. Every cell of her body was alive—thin wrists, quinc... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...e was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire ... ...re!” “Bresnahan?” “Yes—you know—president of the Velvet Motor Com- pany of Boston, Mass.—make the Velvet Twelve—big- gest automobile factory in New En... ...e, a silver frame with photographs of the Baptist Church and of an elderly clergyman, and an aluminum tray containing a rattlesnake’s rattle and a bro... ...derous cli- max when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman’s rear pocket. The audience in the Rosebud Movie Palace squealed ... ...on, senior Parade, junior en- tertainment, commencement address by an Iowa clergy- man who asserted that he believed in the virtue of virtuousness, an...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...n the United Kingdom greatly cares for my opinion of its brandy or sherry. When I go upon my jour- neys, I am not usually rated at a low figure in the... ... I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always w... ...been for some two hours and a half; there was a slight obstruction in the sea within a few yards of my feet: as if the stump of a tree, with earth eno... ...d down the gullies where the land drains off into the ocean, the scattered quarrymen and fishermen in- habiting that part of Wales had come running to... ...rown bottom upward, and that one, with his arm struck through the broken planks and waving as if for the help that could never reach him, went down in... ...was. It was the kind and wholesome face I have made mention of as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wal... ...yed old soul, really not deaf, wonderfully preserved, and amazingly conversational. She had not long lost her husband, and had been in that place litt... ... deaf, wonderfully preserved, and amazingly conversational. She had not long lost her husband, and had been in that place little more than a year. At ... ...bby in contrast with Edinburgh, with Aberdeen, with Exeter, with Liverpool, with a bright little town like Bury St. Edmunds. London is shabby in contr...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ...ple. At the commencement of the fol- lowing year the settlement began; and from that time to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singu... ...d of noth- ing more nor less than what should form the groundwork of every clergyman’s discourse, viz., a firstly and a lastly . He had commenced his ... ...Mr. Le Quoi resumed his seat with a polite reciprocation in his mirth. The clergyman, for such was the office of Mr. Grant, mod- estly , though quite ... ...you will preak ter sleigh and kilt ter horses!” “Good Mr. Jones,” said the clergyman, “be prudent, good sir—be careful,” “Get up, obstinate devils!” c... ...that period, Dr. Todd attained his legal majority. He then took a jaunt to Boston to purchase medicines, and, as some intimated, to walk the hospital;... ...ere tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. During all this tim...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...d not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ough... ...uled. The election of 1960 had been close, and the Democratic Sena tor from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Hol... ...tice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a c... ...the greatest among the Founding Fathers, Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts Congress, said to his fellow Americans, INAUGURAL ADDRESSES... ...USTICE B URGER, Vice President Bush, Speaker O’Neill, Senator Dole, Reverend Clergy, members of my family and friends, and my fellow citi zens: INAUG... ...s, but as Americans united in a common cause. Two of our Founding Fathers, a Boston lawyer named INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED S...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow c... ...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ... man. I remember him well, for when I was a boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great ag... ...ears. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now lives in Boston. He left behind him two quarto volumes, MS., of his own poetry, co... ...r books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. Plutarch’s Lives there was in which I read abundantly, and I s... ...as an industrious lad; was much respected for his learning by several of the clergy and other gentlemen, and seemed to promise making a good figure in... ...se. She was a widow, an elderly woman; had been bred a Protes tant, being a clergyman’s daughter, but was converted to the Catholic religion by her h...

...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 bound apprentice ...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly indepen- dent of the country; laws made and taxes... ...tation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole 5 Hawthorne land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved t... ...coats of the Governor’s Guard, and made their appearance in the streets of Boston. The sun was near setting when the march commenced. The roll of the ... ... approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst i... ...cted the public eye, and stirred up the deepest feeling, was the Episcopal clergyman of King’s Chapel, riding haughtily among the mag- istrates in his... ...e have their nerves a little shaken,” said the widow, with a smile, to the clergyman at the altar. “But so many weddings have been ushered in with the... ... draw a sad but profitable moral from this funeral knell.” But, though the clergyman might have given his moral even a keener point, he did not fail t... ...eaven, a blight fell upon the land in the vicinity of the “bloody town” of Boston, so that no wheat would grow there; and he takes his stand, as it we... ...venturers was Master Ichabod Pigsnort, a weighty merchant and selectman of Boston, and an elder of the famous Mr. Norton’s church. His enemies had a r...

...nger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed p...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...per in the end than that performed by slaves. It is found to do so even at Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia, where the wages of common labour are so... ...eral assembly of the states of the kingdom, where they might join with the clergy and the barons in granting, upon urgent occasions, some extraordi- n... ... contained in the time of Montezuma. These numbers exceed greatly those of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, the three greatest cities of the Englis... ...ucted upon a plan equally frugal. Tithes are unknown among them; and their clergy, who are far from being numerous, are maintained either by moderate ... ... very great sin to refuse them their charity. Over and above all this, the clergy are, in all of them, the greatest engrossers of land. Fourthly, In t... ...rica, there is a provincial tax of this kind upon their importa- tion into Massachusetts Bay, in ships belonging to any other colony, of eight-pence t...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass — here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and the... ...ng prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a half ... ...r nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows. The pavement round about the above described ed... ...well, needlessly and imperceptibly, the mighty flood of commerce at New York or Boston. On some such morning, when three or four vessels happen to have... ...x, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Boston. It has often been a matter of regret with me; for, going back, ... ...n accordance with this rule it may safely be as sumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cor... ...lled her attention was that of the reverend and famous John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, a great scholar, like most of his contemporaries i... ...with a question of human guilt, passion, and anguish “Hester Prynne,” said the clergyman, “I have striven with my young brother here, under whose prea... ...in an authoritative voice, although tempered with respect towards the youthful clergy man whom he addressed: “Good Master Dimmesdale,” said he, “the ...

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