... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...itnessed the agitations and terrors of the Restoration and of the Sec- ond Republic, fruitful in crime and sacrifice, and barren of any good to mankin... ... places and took up the pow- ers and duties of local government in perfect order and with- out embarrassment. This would have dispelled his appre- hen... ...hat is said by Jefferson is of especial weight, on account of the personal merit of the writer, of his peculiar position, and of the matter-of-fact ag... ...he ordinances of God are bent against it. But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a li... ...berty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives and what- soever crosses it is not authority, but a distemper thereof. This liberty is maint... ... from Great Britain, Ireland, or the British colonies; 2,643,069 came from Germany or northern Europe; and about half a million from the south of Euro... ...least revolutionary part, of a demo- cratic army, will always be its chief commanders. But the remarks I have just made on officers and soldiers are n...

...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 th...

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...usive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or I... ...Soto took his glimpse of the river, Ignatius Loyola was an obscure name; the order of the Jesu its was not yet a year old; Michael Angelo’s paint was... ...erly ruled in columns; a bill head worded something like this— STEAMER GREAT REPUBLIC. JOHN SMITH MASTER PILOTS, JOHN JONES AND THOMAS BROWN. ———————... ...s was new to me. It is beautiful and very extensive, and has the excel lent merit of having been made mainly by nature. There are other parks, and fi... ... horse, sailed in, too, leading his troops as lively as a boy. By and by the Federals chased the rebels back, and here they came! tearing along, every... ...had to go off to the Hot Springs. When there, I got a good many letters from commanders saying they wanted me to come Life on the Mississippi Mark ... ...to the long avenue of silence. A pirogue sometimes flits from the bushes and crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sad fac...

...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...

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ... of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously el... ...reater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one ha... ... since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of gov ernment are justly considered, perhaps, as deepl... ...ot have paid the officers who col lected them, and because, if they had any merit, the State authorities might adopt them instead of others less appr... ...on maimed and defenseless captives. And, what was never before seen, British commanders have extorted victory over the unconquerable valor of our troo... ...ice Edward White on the East Portico of the Capitol. The specter of war with Germany hung over the events surrounding the inauguration. A Senate filib... ...ted. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise o...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ................................................... 475 BOOK 3.V . TERROR THE ORDER OF THE DA Y ............................................................ ...t utter Darkness swallow it! The soft young heart adopts orphans, portions meritorious maids, delights to succour the poor,—such poor as come pictures... ...l be, the parent of misery. This land calls itself most Christian, and has crosses and cathedrals; but its High-priest is some Roche- Aymon, some Neck... ...agorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic (London, 1798), para Valadi.) De Morande from his Courrier de l’Eu... ...to be faithful not to the King only, but to the Law and the Nation. Do our commanders love the Revolution? ask all sol- diers. Unhappily no, they hate... ...ing at Liege; ‘three thousand horses’ ambling hitherward from the Fairs of Germany: Cavalry enrolling; likewise Foot-soldiers, ‘in blue coat, red wais... ... French Nation any more? Your Departmental Guard seemed to point that way! Federal Republic? Federalist? Men and Knitting-women repeat Federaliste, wi...

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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e chosen this period either for my book or for my visit. I say so much, in order that it may not be supposed that it is my special purpose to write an... ... has combined in his mind the idea of a monarch, so called, with that of a republic, properly so named—a combination of ideas which I take to be neces... ...l, I think the dinner on shore took rank with us as the most memorable and meritorious of all that we did and saw at Halifax. At seven o’clock on the ... ...nother, com- plaining of the contractors who were robbing the army, of the commanders who did not know how to command the army, and of the army itself... ...fax. When I was in Canada I heard the question discussed of 95 Trollope a federal government between the provinces of the two Canadas, New Brunswick,... ...try is larger than England, Ire- land, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain together, and is undoubtedly composed of much more ferti... ...e Hudson. From that time Broadway never again takes a straight course, but crosses the various avenues in an oblique direction till it becomes the Blo...

...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................