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... the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemen... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Cleme... ...t going to have anything particular to do next winter anyway. MARK TWAIN. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 3 A CONNECTICUT ... ...and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut — anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees — and practical; y... ...he end of an hour we saw a far away town sleeping in a valley by a wind ing river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and tu... ...yed upon them; and then the great gates were flung open, the drawbridge was lowered, and the head of the cavalcade swept forward under the frowning a... ...nd to hold it long at a time. Well, you know, when you perspire that way, in rivers, there comes a time when you — when you — well, when you itch. Yo... ... When you can say that of a man, he has struck bottom, I reckon; there is no lower deep for him. I rather wished I had gone some other road. This was ... ...n I called in couple of monks, locked the door, took a candle, and made them lower me in the bucket. When the chain was all paid out, the candle confi...

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...re the following incident oc- curred. Charlemagne, while chasing the Saxons (as he said), or being chased by them (as they said), arrived at the bank ... ... be as difficult to land a monarch as it is to launch a ship. But as to Heidelberg. The weather was growing pretty warm, —very warm, in fact. So we le... ...he gorge and form two bold and conspicuous headlands, with Heidelberg nestling between them; from their bases spreads away the vast dim expanse of the... ..., and beyond that a nobler and loftier one. The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges sp... ...ot up and went into the west balcony and saw a wonderful sight. Away down on the level under the black mass of the Castle, the town lay, stretched alo... ...solving splendors, while through rifts in a black cloud-bank above the sun, radiating lances of diamond dust shot to the ze- nith. The cloven valleys ... ...ds its motion on the down trip. About the same speed—three miles an hour— is maintained both ways. Whether going up or down, the locomotive is always ... ...d the finest wood-erbeeren were growing in abundance but a few yards from the ice. The inn stands in a charmant spot close to the Côte de la Riviére, ... ...us. Philadelphia Terrapin soup. Butter-beans. Sweet-pota- toes. Oysters roasted in shell—Lettuce. Succotash. Northern style. String-beans. Soft-shell ...

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...tages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burden. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen, and at present it i... ...ity of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Vermont Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue do the same at what is generally called President’s Squa... ...everybody does so enter it—are first called on to rise to the level of the lower floor by a stiff ascent of exterior steps, which are in no way grand ... ...olute foundation of the edifice is bad— that the ground, which is near the river and swampy, would not bear the weight intended to be imposed on it. A... ...of General Washington, whose seat, Mount Vernon, stands about twelve miles lower down the river and here, no doubt, Washington often stood, looking on... ...ington, whose seat, Mount Vernon, stands about twelve miles lower down the river and here, no doubt, Washington often stood, looking on the site he ha... ... think, the only special privilege attaching to the public purse which the Lower House enjoys over the Up- per. Amendments to such bills can be moved ... ...red! Pennsylvania does not, in my mind, stand on a par with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to co... ...al purposes. Rhode Island may do so, and so may Massa- chusetts, New York, Connecticut, and the other rich At- lantic States. They may tax themselves ...

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...erprises, and the nobles ex- hausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce. The influence of money ... ...itical rights to the people. Or, more fre- quently, the king permitted the lower orders to enjoy a de- gree of power, with the intention of repressing... ...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it ... ...tic liberty of their mother-country, but of that freedom of the middle and lower orders of which the history of the world had as yet furnished no comp... ...e those situated to the east of the Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- s... ...land in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Provi- dence in 1640, began in lik... ...cially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650.** The legislators of Connecticut*** begin with the pen...

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...fter a long drought there was a terrible tempest which not only raised the river to a great height but loosened the surface of the mountain so that a ... ...eat Stone Face? Embosomed amongst a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley so spacious that it con tained many thousand inhabitants. Some of th... ...d have spoken, would have rolled their thunder accents from one end of the valley to the other. T rue it is, that if the spectator approached too near... ... education only to look at it. According to the belief of many people, the valley owed much of its fertil ity to this benign aspect that was continua... ...te in the shape of furs; hot Africa sifted for him the golden sands of her rivers, and gathered up the ivory tusks of her great elephants out of the f... ...ines, that had drifted down the headlong current of the Amonoosuck, on the lower bank of which they were to pass the night. There was but one of 32 T... ...s of the surrounding mountains and the rock bestrewn bed of the turbulent river with an illumination un like that of their fire on the trunks and bl... ...e diffi culties he had met with half a century ago in travelling from the Connecticut River through the Notch to Conway, now a single day’s journey, ... ...s, who sometimes shrouded themselves in the snowstorm and came down on the lower world. There are few legends more poetical than that of the’ Great Ca...

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...; and others were coiling ropes and busy with oakum yarns; and others were lowering heavy packages into the hold; and the purser’s head was barely vis... ...d out of dock yesterday afternoon and was now lying at her moorings in the river. And there she is! all eyes are turned to where she lies, dimly disce... ...water side, and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river. The houses are chiefly of wood. The market is abundantly supplied; a... ...el it, and soon discovered the way in which the upper plate moved upon the lower one; but this was not enough for him, so lying down upon his face, he... ... attainable by stairs of the same construction and material: excepting the lower one, which is on the ground. Behind these, back to back with them and... ...ountry, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it scarcely has a name; now catch hasty glimp... ... hours. For tunately, however, the winter having been unusually mild, the Connecticut River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain ... ...ell wrapped up, bade defiance to the weather, and enjoyed the journey. The Connecticut River is a fine stream; and the banks in summer time are, I hav... ...wooded, and carefully improved. It is the seat of the local legislature of Connecticut, which sage body en acted, in bygone times, the renowned code ...

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...ds, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river became navigable to the tide. While, in the pursuit of their daring p... ... leaders abroad, and the fatal want of energy in her councils at home, had lowered the char- acter of Great Britain from the proud elevation on which ... ...one of the latter of which was a plated spur, completed the costume of the lower extremity of this figure, no curve or angle of which was concealed, b... ...t which verified the true scripture war-horse like this: ‘He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men. H... ...produced by chance. His eye, alone, which glistened like a fiery star amid lowering clouds, was to be seen in its state of native wildness. For a sing... ...CHAPTER 3 “Before these fields were shorn and till’d, Full to the brim our rivers flow’d; The melody of waters fill’d The fresh and boundless wood; An... ...xpected event. The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, over- hanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deepe... ...urn, to the land of spirits. I am on the hilltop and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps there will no longer be any ... ...tor in the art of psalmody.” “Anan!” “I teach singing to the youths of the Connecticut levy.” “Y ou might be better employed. The young hounds go laug...

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...d it was necessary to transport the bag gage of the troops by means of the rivers—a devious but practicable route. One brigade ascended the Mohawk unt... ...gh the valleys until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops... ...ding surface. In the vale, which lay at a distance of several hundred feet lower, there was what, in the language of the country, was called a clearin... ...trigger. The deer dashed forward undaunted, and apparently unhurt. Without lower- ing his piece, the traveller turned its muzzle toward his vic- tim, ... ...any deer,” said the Judge; “take it, 18 The Pioneers I entreat you;” and, lowering his voice to a whisper, he added, “It is for a hundred dollars.” F... ...er, he continued: “Now, if that young man who was in your sleigh is a real Connecticut set- tler, he will be telling everybody how he saved my horses,... ...ottom, was nothing less than one of the many sources of the Susquehanna; a river to which the Atlantic herself has extended an arm in welcome. It was ... ... settlement; but, as most of its inhabitants were from the moral States of Connecticut and Massachu- setts, when the wants of nature were satisfied th... ...hborhoods, who were tempted by their representations to leave the farms of Connecticut and Massachusetts, to make a trial of fortune in the woods. Dur...

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...Maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 48 The First Lowering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 49 The Hyena .... ..., shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his t... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and ... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ... stood on board the schooner. Hoist ing sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice cove... ... deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the midst of this consternation, Quee... ...er; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The Chapter 16 The Ship 79 helmsman who s... ...ypo, Ishmael. Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Ver mont, far removed from all beasts of prey — why is it that u... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the green; and...

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..., shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he em- ploys? There stand his... ...nged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phan- tom of life; an... ... the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake... ...we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet river. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-cove... ... deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the midst of this con- sternation, Qu... ...er; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in... ...le and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respe... ...ypo, Ishmael. Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of V ermont, far removed from all beasts of prey—why is it that upon... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’s frolic o...

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... of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode Island, besides several of the Indian powwows, who, a... ...ses from an Old Manse enemy, with whom he fought so fierce a battle in the Valley of Humiliation? He was the very fellow to manage the en gine; and s... ...from the heart of the Hill Difficulty have been employed in filling up the Valley of Humiliation, thus obviating the necessity of descending into that... ...s, that a multitude of shining ones had assembled on the other side of the river, to welcome two poor pilgrims, who were just emerging from its depths... ...be off directly, and in three minutes you will be on the other side of the river. No doubt you will find coaches to carry you up to the city gates.” A... ...eam ferry boat, the last improvement on this impor tant route, lay at the river side, puffing, snorting, and emit ting all those other disagreeable ... ... the French governor of Louisbourg, and the knees of which had touched the lower step of the throne of Louis le Grand. The Frenchman had given these s... ...thing remained the same, except that a thick covert of bushes shrouded the lowerpart of the rock, and would have hidden Roger Malvin had he still been... ...lar ity observable in this tree which made Reuben tremble. The middle and lower branches were in luxuriant life, and an excess of vegetation had frin...

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...I thought all England was a garden. There’s your spire, George, across the valley. How curious!” They walked toward it through an all abandoned land. ... ...ir feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat. At the bottom of the valley a little brook had undermined its footbridge, and frothed in the wre... ...e son that was in America?” she asked. “Yes, ma’am. On my uncle’s farm, in Connecticut. He was what they call rood-master there.” “Whereabouts in Conn... ...you’ve got ‘em all?” “Sure.” He smiled. “And the woods? High Pardons Wood, Lower Pardons, Suttons, Dutton’s Shaw, Reuben’s Ghyll, Maxey’s Ghyll, and b... ...nt rather better than usual for Garm’s deep bay in their rear. There was a river to be forded, and four bullocks pulled the carriage, and Vixen stuck ... ... duck, and tell us all about your feelings.” “I wish she’d go!” Sacharissa lowered her voice. “She meets these—er -oddities as they dry out, and cuddl... ...ich it ap- peared) A T NINE O’CLOCK of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run... ...curious to watch the action of the holding-down clips all along the frosty river front as the boats cleared or came to rest. A big Hamburger was leavi... ...E OF THE GIHON HUNT A FOX CAME OUT of his earth on the banks of the Great River Gihon, which waters Ethiopia. He saw a white man riding through the d...

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...red cedars. Just beneath them, in a great shining curve, flowed the goodly Connecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into th... ...nnecticut. They flung them- selves on the grass and tossed stones into the river; they talked like old friends. Rowland lit a cigar, and Roderick refu... ...owland watched the shadows on Mount Holyoke, listened to the gurgle of the river, and sniffed the balsam of the pines. A gentle breeze had be- gun to ... ...ummits, and brought the smell of the mown grass across from the elm-dotted river meadows. He sat up beside his companion and looked away at the far- s... ... tone, “I feel much more sure of myself. I have got more facility!” And he lowered his voice as if he were commu- nicating a secret which it took some... ...er; he is not the first that has had his head turned,” Mrs. Light resumed, lowering her voice to a confidential undertone; a favor which, con- siderin... ...ght, in an attitude, apparently habitual, of ceremonious rigidity; but his lower jaw had fallen and was propped up with his cane, and his dull dark ey... ...umstance, it was crowded with hungry tourists. It stood in a high, shallow valley, with flower- strewn Alpine meadows sloping down to it from the base... ...ng, his companions established themselves under his guidance in the grassy valley. He had crossed the Saint Gothard Pass with them, in the same carria...

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...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...ut any regular gov ern ment. There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various po... ...Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ...readful war that had yet occurred between the Indians and the English. The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated Indian chief named Uncas, bo... ...amounted to at least seven thousand men. They steered for the mouth of the river St. Lawrence. “Cotton Mather prayed most fervently for their success,... ...ive that this governor’s example would awaken no turbulent ambition in the lower orders; for it was a king’s gracious boon alone that made the ship ca... ... was placed in the T own House, which we now call the Old State House. The lower floor of this edifice had hitherto been used by the merchants as an e... ...d the people’s hearts. Hurrying from the spot, he entered Cornhill, as the lower part of Washington Street was then called. Op posite to the Town Hou...

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... of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistful- ness over her quality of suspended freedom... ...r hand to her mouth, her forefinger and thumb quite painfully pinching her lower lip, and frowned, and enjoyed being aloof. A classmate named Stewart ... ... green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties... ...before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters a... ...; and she heard again the startled bells and thick puffing of high-stacked river steamers wrecked on sand-reefs sixty years ago. Along the decks she s... ... of any lovelier view than when you stand on Summit Avenue and look across Lower Town to the Mississippi cliffs and the upland farms beyond.” “I know ... ...he did feel supe- rior to ordinary people. Well, he was! And the Minnesota Valley— I used to sit there on the cliffs above Mankato for hours at a time... ...bove Mankato for hours at a time, my chin in my hand, looking way down the valley, wanting to write poems. The shiny tilted roofs below me, and the ri... ...overn- ment clerk from Gopher Prairie, Minnesota She started dejectedly up Connecticut Avenue. She stopped, her heart stopped. Coming toward her were ...

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...r, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, a...

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...e was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five ... ...on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the ... ...; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boa... ..., and comparatively worthless for want of a grafter. And so it is generally, lower down the river. It would be a good speculation, as well as a favor ... ...t Branch toward Canada, on the north and northwest, and toward the Aroostook valley on the northeast; and imagine what wild life was stirring in its m... ...re would anon work up, or work down, into the smiling and verdant plains and valleys of earth. This was an undone extremity of the globe; as in lignit... ... this expedition; and this shoulder, as it did all the work, was perceptibly lower than its fellow, from long service. Such toil soon wears out the st... ...or the lumberers consider the Penobscot, where we struck it, twenty five feet lower than Moosehead, — though eight miles above it is said to be the hig... ...rhaps the tent poles. And not long since, similar beds were spread along the Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware, and longer still ago, by the T...

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.......... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................................ 51 CHAPTER V: UPPER CANADA ...........................................................................

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.............................................................. 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................. ...aders that, at the beginning of the war, Lord Russell, who was then in the lower house, declared, as Foreign Secretary of State, that England would re... ...de in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the great centra... ... in 1795, stipulated for them a pre- carious right of navigating the noble river to the sea, with a right of deposit at New Orleans. This subject was ... ...ile portion is watered by the Mississippi and its vast tribu- taries. That river and those tributaries are navigable through the whole center of the A... ...er and more fa- mous sisters. She has a governor, and an upper house and a lower house of legislature; and she is somewhat fantas- tic in the use of t... ... parties if the whole State could be swal- lowed up by Massachusetts or by Connecticut, either of 34 North America V ol. 1 which lie conveniently for... ...sists of the six States of Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. This is especially the land of Yankees, and ... ...They are Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut— the six States which should be most dear to England, and in wh...

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...DAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric....................105 A W... ...ith eidolons only. The noiseless myriads, The infinite oceans where the rivers empty, The separate countless free identities, like eyesight, ... ...ile in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whi... ...exican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inland, A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or o... ... Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! Land of... ...nd there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be; Along the lower’d eve he came horribly raking us. We closed with him, the yards ent... ...own hands. We had receiv’d some eighteen pound shots under the water, On our lower gun deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all ... ...ers, and the ample side round of the chest, Upper arm, armpit, elbow socket, lower arm, arm sinews, arm bones, Wrist and wrist joints, hand, palm, knu... ... fields and tides. Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life old Thames, By you Potomac ...

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...appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure t... ...and drove out of the beaten track, he burned several blocks of houses in the lower streets of heaven, and scorched the surface of the earth, and dried... ...gh bor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the s... ... but above all, the recollection I had of it from my earliest voyages up the river, when the house was concealed behind a dense grove of red maples, t... ...w and darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important. From a hill top near by, ... ...nd rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mamm... ...ar northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within ten minutes, ... ...ed with me some long winter evenings. One of the last of the philosophers, — Connecticut gave him to the world, — he peddled first her wares, afterward... ...le tree wood, which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts, — from an egg deposited in t...

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...ic states— They form a distinct region of consciousness— Examples of their lower grades— Mysticism and alcohol— “The anaes- thetic revelation”—Religio... ...nted Thomas Davidson and to the use of his books, at Glenmore, above Keene Valley, I owe more obligations than I can well ex- press. Harvard Universit... ...hat the whole sys- tem of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called ... ...this complex sacrificial constitution, in which a higher happiness holds a lower unhappiness in check. In the Louvre there is a picture, by Guido Reni... ... all we have, but yet if we possess our souls in patience, we may pass the valley of the shadow, and come out in sunlight again. We may or we may not!... ... heaves him by the foot into the Scamander, and calls to the fishes of the river to eat the white fat of Lycaon. Just as here the cruelty and the symp... ...power of the Holy Spirit on the second evening of November, 1829. Madison, Connecticut, 1830. I select this case because it shows how in these in- ner... ...that time comes, if ever it comes, I will find a home in the bottom of the river.’ But the Lord so ordered it that when that time did come I was not a... ...en that time did come I was not able to walk one quarter of the way to the river. As I sat there thinking, I seemed to feel some great and mighty pres...

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...as no time is allowed on board ship for sentiment. As we drew down into the lower harbor, we found the wind ahead in the bay, and were obliged to com... .... We met with nothing remarkable until we were in the latitude of the river La Plata. Here there are violent gales from the southwest, called ... ...thwest, called Pamperos, which are very destructive to the shipping in the river, and are felt for many leagues at sea. They are usually preceded by... ...ind was light, put the helm down and hove her aback. The watch on deck were lowering away the quarter boat, and I got on deck just in time to heave m... ...green and well wooded, with some large, and, I am told, exceedingly fertile valleys, with mule tracks leading to different parts of the island. ... ...eagerness to get on shore. The captain having ordered the quarter boat to be lowered, we both sprang down into the forecastle, filled our jacket pock... ...g our wind, brought the little harbor, which is rather the outlet of a small river, right before us. Every one was anxious to get a view of the new pl... ... kept on her course. She proved to be the brig Solon, of Plymouth, from the Connecticut river, and last from New York, bound to the Spanish Main, wit... ... and Sturgis, in 1843, to Mr. Thomas W. Williams, a merchant of New London, Connecticut, who employed her in the whaletrade in the Pacific. She was ...

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... . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of ... ...peatedly and unsuccessfully try- ing to contact it. 44 At 8:52, in Easton, Connecticut, a man named Lee Hanson received a phone call from his son Pete... ...rs observed the plane in a rapid descent; the radar data termi- nated over Lower Manhattan. At 9:03, United 175 crashed into the South Tower. 130 22 T... ...s at FAA headquarters to improve awareness and organize a common response. Lower-level officials improvised—for example, the FAA’s Boston Center bypas... ..., who led a strong faction of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Many of his fol- lowers became important members in the new organization, and his own close ... ...9/11 in a fraudulent driver’s license scheme. 76 Rababah, who had lived in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, told investigators that he had recom... ...ccess. He says he then suggested that Hazmi and Hanjour travel with him to Connecticut where they could look for a place to live. 77 On May 8, Rababah... ...sked to fly the Hudson Corridor, a low-altitude “hallway” along the Hudson River that passes New Y ork landmarks like the World Trade Center. Heavy tr... ...unicated on the Manhattan dis- patch channel by an FDNY boat on the Hudson River; but to our knowledge, no one at the site received this information, ...

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...fternoons, nowadays,” he records, shortly before beginning the work, “this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden Sunshine... ...I delight to think that you also can look forth, as I do now, upon a broad valley and a fine amphitheater of hills, and are about to watch the stately... ... retiring beneath the third, threw a shadowy and thoughtful gloom into the lower rooms. Carved globes of wood were affixed under the jutting stories. ... ...en wilderness. Where the old land surveyor had put down woods, lakes, and rivers, they marked out the cleared spaces, and dotted the villages and tow... ...sagreeable conclusions as to the temper and manners of what she termed the lower classes, whom heretofore she had looked down upon with a gentle and p... ...f he feels himself a little above common folks, he only stoops so much the lower to them. I met your cousin, the Judge, ten minutes ago; and, in my ol... ... man- ners. Hepzibah then took up Rasselas, and began to read of the Happy Valley, with a vague idea that some secret of a contented life had there be... ...d it, not in its at- 139 Hawthorne oms, but in its aggregate,—as a mighty river of life, massive in its tide, and black with mystery, and, out of its... ...ed New England and the Middle States, as a peddler, in the employment of a Connecticut manufac- tory of cologne-water and other essences. In an episod...

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...When he was re- leased he rented a room above a shoe-repairing shop at the lower end of Main Street and put out the sign that announced himself as a d... ...is house and went for a long walk. The Bentley farm was situated in a tiny valley watered by Wine Creek, and Jesse walked along the banks of the strea... ... his own land and on through the fields of his neighbors. As he walked the valley broadened and then narrowed again. Great open stretches of field and... ...d to where Saul and the men of Israel were fighting the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. Into Jesse’s mind came the conviction that all of the Ohio ... ...gh the for- est Wine Creek wriggled its way over stones to- ward a distant river. All the afternoon Jesse had 68 Sherwood Anderson been in a meditati... ... he was a boy again. One day he killed a squir- rel that sat on one of the lower branches of a tree and chattered at him. Home he ran with the squir- ... ... would never come back, she took the two children and went to a village in Connecticut where she had lived as a girl. In the end she married a man who... ...o had also married a mechanic and lived in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. Then began the hard years for Tom Foster’s grandmoth... ...noon, preparatory to the Saturday rush of trade, and the rich odor invaded lower Main Street. Tom Foster appeared and sat on a box at the rear of the ...

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...ht that saddened me! How came it in your mind too?” said Edith, in a still lower tone than he, for it was high treason to be sad at Merry Mount. “Ther... ...erry Mount. The ring of gay masquers was disor- dered and broken; the stag lowered his antlers in dismay; the wolf grew weaker than a lamb; the bells ... ...to its lowest depths. The sands of the second hour were principally in the lower half of the glass when the sermon concluded. An approving murmur foll... ...wy images would some- times be seen, like bright things moving in a turbid river; or a strong and singularly-shaped idea leaped forth, and seized at o... ...ok when I thus with- drew my arm, and left her journeying through the dark valley alone! for her soul was faint, and she had leaned upon my prayers. N... ... con of the Shaker settlement, to the village of Parker’s Falls, on Salmon River. He had a neat little cart, painted green, with a box of cigars depic... ...on chaise, horseman, nor foot trav- eller, till, just as he crossed Salmon River, a man came trudg- ing down to the bridge with a bundle over his shou... ...estimony, in the negative. Here is a note relating to a suit of his in the Connecticut courts, 79 Hawthorne which was delivered me from that gentlema... ...could remember when he first took up the search, there went a fable in the valley of the Saco, that for his inordinate lust after the Great Carbuncle,...