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...lmost 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 bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches....

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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 ... ... closes round you like a shallow sea; next follow the faint line of an old county-road running past two green hollows fringed with wild rose that mark... ...rrity an’ nervous 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 ... ...rganised bubbles and spindrift! There has been a depression in the Gulf of Mexico. Excuse me!” He leaped overside; but his friends took up the tale on... ...imental coach, yelling like school-boys; and briga- diers and colonels and commissioners, and hundreds of pretty ladies joined the chorus. But The Mal...

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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. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ... 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wal... ..., has been fully illustrated by a report of the Board of Engineers and Naval Commissioners lately communicated to Congress, by which it appears that i... ...powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexico for ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in... ... governed in a body, and whose dominions seldom exceeded the dimensions of a county in one of our States, a tumultuous and disorderly movement per mi... ...t people to blend their desti nies with our own. Even our acquisitions from Mexico form no exception. Unwilling to take advantage of the fortune of w... ...earth. Harry S. Truman INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949 A former county judge, Senator and Vice President, Harry S. Truman had taken the o...

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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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. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... the Day ....................................................132 Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?................................................. ... OREIGN L ANDS I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I sen... ... superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, ... ...Lopatka, others Behring’s straits, Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson’s bay or Baffin’s bay, Other... ...ic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign’d by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head... ...mortal. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 409 THE O X T AMER In a far away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme o... ...friend, Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms, In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 410 ...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...ate of the markets, of all the different sorts of grain in every different county of Scotland. If such direct proof could re- quire any collateral evi... ...terwards by particular orders of the justices of peace in every particular county, both these practices have now gone entirely into disuse. “By the ex... ...nsiderable degree of both has now been in- troduced into all of them. Even Mexico and Peru, though they cannot be considered as altogether new markets... ...hey can make by the tolls. If those tolls were put under the management of commissioners, who had them- selves no interest in them, they might be less... ...s for the maintenance of such a work should be put under the management of commissioners or trustees. In Great Britain, the abuses which the trustees ...

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....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ........................................................................ 166 Chapter XV Of Local Representative Bodies ..............................................................................

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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... ...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ...ill which should effect a par ticular purpose, would be imperative on the commissioners, unless they preferred to resign their office. Once framed, h... ...roposed in writing by any member of the House after a measure had left the commissioners’ hands. The alteration of bills by a committee of the whole H... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...embers of the confederation. The warlike proceed ings of the Americans in Mexico was purely exceptional, having been carried on principally by volunt...