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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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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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Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.

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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... ...ife is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the fine arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump; for ... ... they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that... ...ich is synonymous with philoso phy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo,... ... Say, he runs his father in debt irretriev Walden 48 ably. As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion abo... ... or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to... ...gh Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an aza... ...e, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college bred and so called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaint...

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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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... -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...

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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... ...d life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on in the enjoyment of the fine arts which adorn it, my attention being wholly occupied with the jump; fo... ...yself, — Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all ... ...g which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricard... ...ith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably. As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements;” there is an illusion a... ...on or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to... ...ough Bagdad after the race of caliphs is extinct: if thy hand has plenty, be liberal as the date tree; but if it affords nothing to give away, be an a... ...ure, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college bred and so called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquai...

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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. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...he mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colo- nies,) it gives the history of religion, wi... ...an and beg day and night continually. Our house- keeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our mar- riages, our religion we have not chosen, bu... ...nt fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year after- wards in ... ...he delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels him- self stronger than before by a new thou... ... eyes. If the labor is mean, let him by his thinking and character make it liberal. Whatever he knows and thinks, whatever in his apprehension is wort... ...s of persons called high and worthy. Rich, noble and great they are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad. O blessed Spirit, whom I forsak... ...gs was not given. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at l...

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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. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ... is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do. She is very kind and liberal to all men of vicious habits, and certainly does not deny them quar... ...wilderness tints on any poet’s string. These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing, ... ...till find some simili tude to them in our dreams, in which we have a more liberal and juster apprehension of things, unconstrained by habit, which is... ...oat on Merrimack water. We began again busily to put in practice those old arts of rowing, steering, and paddling. It seemed a strange phenomenon to u... ... periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, and New England shakes at the doubl... ... the recoil. They are not subject to great exposure, like the lumberers of Maine, in any weather, but inhale the healthfullest breezes, being slightly... ...rdinate department, and may God speed them. What Fuller says of masters of colleges is uni versally applicable, that “a little alloy of dulness in a ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

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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. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... .... The great contemporary master of wordmanship, and indeed of all literary arts and technicali- ties, had not unnaturally dazzled a beginner. But it i... ...disrespectful in manner. It is not easy to see why I should have been most liberal to the man of least pretensions. Perhaps some cowardice withheld me... ...ich plays and romances are re- spectively based. The purposes of these two arts are so much alike, and they deal so much with the same passions and in... ...t, was in character the very essence of a literary train- ing. Schools and colleges, for one great man whom they com- plete, perhaps unmake a dozen; t... ...en, or Life in the Woods, A W eek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, – such are the titles he affects. He was probably reminded by ... ...have remarked that “there exists already a natural disin- terestedness and liberality” between men and women; yet, he thought, “friendship is no respe...

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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. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...e, because the book was not printed till much later. But Rabelais lived in Maine. In Anjou, which often figures among the localities he names, he must... ...ry genius,—he was one Whose soul so universally was thrown Through all the arts of life, who understood Each stratagem by which we stray from good; So... ...cloth for the linings. The wood was carried by the porters, the masters of arts carried the sausages and the dishes, and Master Janotus himself would ... ...ations thereupon made, he showed them that this was gratis, and out of his liberality, by which they were not in any sort quit of their promises. Notw... ... did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subj... ...ruel Fodder Street he held dispute against all the regents or fel- lows of colleges, artists or masters of arts, and orators, and did so gallantly tha... ...might say, in founding of mon- asteries, building of churches, erecting of colleges, and set- ting up of hospitals, or casting his bacon-flitches to t...

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...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

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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 Federalist Papers, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...y of the Congress; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and endeavors used to deter them from it. But if the people at large h... ...st with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and practices of those nations, their mutual jealousies wer... ...iple, and were accord- ingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exc... ...n their own subjects. A council of state, a chamber of accounts, with five colleges of admiralty, aid and fortify the federal administration. The exec... ...ad. He would never be able to imagine, while any source of information re- mained unexplored, that it was nothing more than an experi- ment upon the p... ...ighborhood do not border on particular States, but encircle the Union from Maine to Georgia. The danger, though in different degrees, is therefore com... ...ngage- ments to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or ex- ecute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good? Let us attend to what would be th...