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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...om/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true s... ... though not by Mexico, from which it seceded. Its annexation by the USA led to the Mexican War between Mexico and the United States. For centur... ... good repair, according a study published in December 2002 by the China Great Wall Academy. The masonry of the Wall has been eroded by nature and r... ...ck (1744- 1829). He was appointed as the president (1938-56) of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the director (1940-65) of t... ...tan Under British rule, Pakistan was part of India. At the request of the Muslim League, the British decided, in 1947, to split it from India. Pa... ...Father Bernardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods o... ... Alcohol consumption per head dropped to 8 liters (2 gallons). The Anti-Saloon League spearheaded another successful drive to prohibit the manu...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...9 lot. Sayre prepared for school at the Hill school and at Lawrenoe- ville academy. He spent two years in W^yoming and Montana after graduation. Sayre... ...ons BUILDING CON- STRUCTION. 166 Devonshire Street BOSTON, . MASS, MEADE'S Academyof Dancing 12TH SEASON 61 Main St. NO. ADAMS, MASS. Class Fri., Sat.... ... Sons BUILDING CON- STRUCTION. 166 DevoDsbire Street BOSTON, MASS. MEADE'S Academy of DancioE 12TH SEASON 02 Main St. NO. ADAMS, MASS. Class Kri., Sat... ...s from the four colleges in the Nev,' England intercollegiate bas- ketball league, held at thehome of J. B. Lapham, '07 in New York city, March 30, th... ...o send no rejiresenfative to the meeting of the Intercollegiate Basketball leaguedelegates ; no attempt will be made at present to arrange an agreemen... ...ement for a post season series of games between the champion teams of each league for the national championship. There was considerable discus- sion a... ...ticles published hy liiui this sum- mer, one entitled "iSome Little- Known Mexican Volcanoes " which api^eared in the August Popular Science Monthly, ... ...the contents of the July number of the Journal of Geology. The treatise on Mexican volca- noes is illustrated by seven excel- lent cuts made from phot...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ians who have abused their office for financial gain, some of these major league crooks are re-drawing their maps and taking the higher road. If ther... ...ers and sellers? And I guess it would certainly include the Columbian and Mexican drug cartels. To be politically correct should we call white slave ... ...‘s share—and you don‘t even have a welfare state—at least not in the same league with Denmark. But then Denmark didn‘t go to war against some Muslims... ...border or a sea. Albanians crossing to Greece, Africans sailing to Spain, Mexicans scaling the fence, or tunneling under it, to California—all scram... ...igrate to a more economically friendly culture. I have heard the dreams of Mexicans in my travels. They say, ‗I want to immigrate. I want a job, or w... ... ―The inquisitional Christians, the Ku Klux Klansmen, the Jewish Defense League and the Jewish terrorists in the pre-Israel Palestine, the Hindu Th... ...ncient Greeks. Toubi‘s SA, Athens, 1997) 128. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006.) 496 129. Manusmriti: Chapter 8:357-358) 1...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...others: for I ever despise it, and when I am sick, instead of entring into league or composition with it, I then beginne to hate and feare it most: a... ...le be against them: To conclude, all that can be alleaged in favor of the Academy, is to say, that it was friendship, a thing which hath no bad refe... ...le effect of inundation to have removed the same more than twelve hundred leagues, as we see it is. Besides, our moderne Navigations have now almost... ...es since, the Sea encrocheth so much upon them, that they have lost foure leagues of firme land: These sands are her fore- runners. And we see great ... ...iochus, in his youth, had stoutly and vehemently writ ten in favor of the Academy, but being olde be changed copy, and writ as violently against it:... ...e and to fall sicke, in spight of all physicke. It is the first lesson the Mexicans give their children; When they come out of their mothers wombes, ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...l family values. We allow no other activities between 6 and 7 PM—no youth league sports, no TV, no concerts. “We have some other requiremen... ...ho was an amateur here, playing professionally for Arsenal in the Premier League. And we have three actors who have left for professional careers abr... ...mpaign in the U.S. to try to change American negative opinions of illegal Mexican immigrants. He said the situation had become „intolerable‟. I can... ...als have sent back an estimated $23 billion a year to bolster the lagging Mexican economy. Next to oil, the money from America is the highest source... ...5-34 2. Archives of General Psychiatry, Sept. 2007 73 3. American Academy of Pediatrics, vol. 116, 2005 4. Washington Times, August 1, 2004 ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishman, a Mexica... ...aring your favorite team‘s jerseys is a non-violent type of association. Or look at the power groupings in prisons, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexica... ...als. For example, the eleven year old who wants to attend an "X" rated movie should probably be strongly dissuaded. Or the 10-year-old Little League... ...or that person. A father might devote many hours with his son coaching him in athletics. He coaches the boy in Pop Warner football and Little League... ...er they be white, as with the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, or Skinheads; black, as some in the Nation of Islam; or Jewish, as with the Jewish Defense League... ...resses the sex drive it may reappear in the behavior of a second personality. Dual or multiple personalities is the result of this action. The Academ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...f International Strategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the ... ...s is smaller than Mexico's (or Spain's, adds The Economist). According to the Arab League, the gross national product of all its members amounted t... ...lion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the 22 members of the Arab League, Afghanistan and Iran combined - or about half our value-... ...well become the war's greatest victim. In a recent economic conference of the Arab League, then Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Fai... ...de agreement with Chile. Immigration regulations will be relaxed to allow in more Mexican seasonal workers. Chile receives $2 million in military ... ...e USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...rise since 1997), it falls behind Ireland (179%) and South Africa (195%). It is in league with Australia (with 113%) and Spain (132%). The paper no... ...997 Nobel Prize in the Economic Sciences The Pricing of Options The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Bank of Sweden... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. S... ...of particular clients. The Weston Group, in operation since 1988, is active in the Mexican market. It does underwriting, private placements and str... ...tates. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

... When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Chi... ...ic study of haciendas through- out Mexico, and numerous articles about the Mexican haciendas. Bartlett was also an artist whose paintings, illustrati... ...n our lamps and candles and share late communion, get up early, walk many leagues and extol his faith. We will tell it on the hills and in the towns... ... all my schooling did not amount to one year. I was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building ti... ... 530 Evening We were to enroll. Ann was to enroll at Jacksonville Academy. I was to enroll at Illinois College. That year I called on her a... ...a could out- hurdle any other...six foot six inches...then he talked about Mexican horses and Mexican saddles...you should see the one I got as booty...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...ei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of the Hanseatic League)? This is the eternal tension between the individual and ... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ... USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of the Hanseatic League)? This is the eternal tension between the individual and ... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ... USA. 1990 to 1995 President of the Israel chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washi...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...merican institutions appeared in 1840. In 1838 he was chosen member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. In 1839 he was elected to the Cham... ... to two opinions. It was the wish of one party to convert the Union into a league of independent States, or a sort of congress, at which the represent... ...these two theories were exceedingly different. The question was, whether a league was to be established instead of a national Government; whether the ... ...ts at vari- ance. The small States have consequently never been induced to league themselves together in the Senate to oppose the designs of the large... ...s truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a federal system, and they took the ... ...e unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which *See the Mexican Constitution of 1824. 190 Democracy in America give it life. They ... ...pected to arise. But for a long while to come the uncivilized state of the Mexican community, the depravity of its morals, and its extreme poverty, wi...

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Mcteague : A Story of San Francisco

By: Frank Norris

...curl- ing hair and high stock? It was impossible to say. Maria Macapa, the Mexican woman who took care of the lodgers’ rooms, had been the first to ca... ...om of the shop. “Let’s see; you’ve been here before, ain’t you? You’re the Mexican woman from Polk Street. Macapa’s your name, hey?” Maria nodded. “Ha... ... wonderful; it must have been.” On the lower steps of that cheap flat, the Mexican woman and the red-haired Polish Jew mused long over that vanished, ... ...to its full length. The cloth was laid, the chairs—rented from the dancing academy hard by—drawn up, the dishes set out, and the two bouquets of cut f... ...ng, heard nothing. The emptiness of primeval desolation stretched from him leagues and leagues upon either hand. The gigantic si- lence of the night l... ...ound Gold Mountain in the Armagosa hills, barred off from the world by the leagues of the red- hot alkali of Death Valley. “They” would hardly reach h... ...T eague drew breath again, and his eyes once more be- held the illimitable leagues of quivering sand and alkali. “Good Lord! What a country!” he excla...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...arranged.” “Do you think,” said Madame de Villefort, “that Valentine is in league with him? She has always been opposed to this marriage, and I should... ...“Yes.” “Where is it, then? Near Paris, is it not?” “Very near, only half a league from the Barriers, — it is at Auteuil.” “At Auteuil?” said Villefort... ... the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the ... ... Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have discov- ered some mine.” “Very good, very good! ... ...spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone.” “And he is made a member of the Academy of Sciences for this?” “No; of the French Academy.” * Louis David, ... ...us French painter. 102 The Count of Monte Cristo “But what has the French Academy to do with all this?” “I was going to tell you. It seems” — “That h...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...side the old sycamore snag, now.” * So that question was answered. Here were leagues of shore changing shape. My spirits were down in the mud again. T... ...he loneliness of this solemn, stupendous flood is impressive—and depressing. League after league, and still league after league, it pours its chocolat... ...uring forth its muddy mass of waters, and mingling with the deep blue of the Mexican Gulf. I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this en tran... ... great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mout... ... plan tations border both sides of the river all the way, and stretch their league wide levels back to the dim forest walls of bearded cypress in the... ...e is nothing strikingly remarkable about it; but one can say of it as of the Academy of Music in New York, that if a broom or a shovel has ever been u... ... the fact. It is curious that cabbages and hay and things do not grow in the Academy of Music; but no doubt it is on account of the interruption of th...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...ngs of the country, from the city of Quito to that of Cusco (three hundred leagues), straight, even, five-and- twenty paces wide, paved, and provided ... ... at pleasure. Antiochus had in his youth strongly written in favour of the Academy; in his old age he wrote as much against it; would not, which of th... ... to us: is the garden, or half a day’s journey from home, far? What is ten leagues: far or near? If near, what is eleven, twelve, or thir- teen, and s... ...rrel. I marvellously challenge this vicious form of opinion: “He is of the League because he admires the graciousness of Monsieur de Guise; he is as- ... ...eak, and to be sick, in despite of all medicine. ’Tis the first lesson the Mexicans teach their chil- dren; so soon as ever they are born they thus sa...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...bly be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or other, to that rickety national blessing, the British farmer; and at last I was rattled, like a sin... ...a belated soldier in a den of robbers on a tempestuous night) was feelingly lamenting the absence of his faithful dog, and laying great stress on the ... ...ere the boy Horatio Nelson got out of bed to steal the pears: not because he wanted any, but because every other boy was afraid: yet I have sev- eral ... ...ide in its character, has Calais, to be especially commanded to the infernal gods. Thrice accursed be that garrison-town, when it dives under the boat... ...shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean bat... ...it had been poured out again that morning over sea and land, trans- formed into myriads of gold and silver sparkles. The ship was fragrant with flower...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ne, she had really come into contact with her, so that there was a sort of league between the two women. And yet she could not bear her. But she put t... ...eyes, she revealed again the mocking, white-cruel recognition. There was a league between them, abhorrent to them both. They were implicated with each... ...ed her. This picture she entitled ‘Home.’ It would have done for the Royal Academy. ‘Come with us to tea—do,’ said Ursula, as they ran nearer to the c... ... the Futurists, he liked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of m... ...ivity , they kindled themselves at the subtle lust of the Egyptians or the Mexicans. The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wan...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

...emoiselle,—Canalis (Baron of), Constant Cys Melchior, member of the French Academy, born in 1800, at Canalis (Correze), five feet four inches in heigh... ...ree thousand francs’ annuity from the literary fund, two thousand from the Academy, three thou- sand more from the paternal estate (less the taxes and... ... hear the verdict of the prince of science. That illustrious member of the Academy of Sciences put about a dozen brief questions to the blind woman as... ...ity of a civilization that once ex- isted. Art, on the contrary, Egyptian, Mexican, Grecian, 172 Modeste Mignon Roman art, with their masterpieces—no... ...d. “He is a poet,” said Gobenheim, who overheard her. Canalis, who was ten leagues above the heads of his audi- ence, and who may have been right in h... ...ce proposed to arrange a hunt in one of the crown forests, which lay a few leagues from Havre. Thanks to his intimacy with the Prince de Cadignan, Mas...

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A Start in Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ousehold and their own fortune. Confident of his MEANS, she was a thousand leagues from dreaming that this comfortable existence, which had lasted for... ...te, the illustrious sister of our head-clerk and leading lady of the Royal Academy of music and dancing, having obligingly put at the disposition of t... ... on the following day, impatient enough to behold, and be presented to the Mexican Marquise de las Florentinas y Cabirolos. “What luck,” said Oscar to...

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Rhoda Fleming

By: George Meredith

...” the farmer asked. “I should be speculating—deep—couldn’t hold myself in: Mexicans, Peroovians, Venzeshoolians, Spaniards, at ‘em I should go. I see ... ...s in all sorts of colours, Spaniards in black and white, Peruvians—orange, Mexicans—red as the British army. Well, it’s just my whim. If I like red, I... ...ce on Mrs. Lovell, whom it’s your pleasure to call Peggy, when you’re some leagues out of her hearing.” Algernon failed to command his countenance. He... ...to war with the elements, and so long as we fight them, we’re in the right academy for learnin’ how the game goes. Our vulner- ability commences when ...

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The Lily of the Valley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...escott Wormeley Dedication To Monsieur J. B. Nacquart, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine. Dear Doctor—Here is one of the most carefully hewn sto... ... in school were continued under another form during my stay at the Lepitre Academy. My father gave me no money; I was to be fed, clothed, and stuffed ... ...er persisted in the system which had sent me to school without food, to an academy without pocket-money, and had driven me into debt to Doisy. Very li... ...to silence with her proud glance, in which I seemed to read the cry of the Mexican: “And I, am I on a bed of roses?” Ever since that day by the gate o... ...; I have decided on giving you the young man we spoke of yesterday as col- league. Amuse yourself at Clochegourde, friend Cato!” and he laughed as he ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ... private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...is case, Mr Rokesmith. Between my daughter Bella and me there is a regular league and covenant of confi- dence. It was ratified only the other day . T... ... want to take counsel with you. Come, come; no more trifling. You know our league and covenant. We are to work together for our joint interest, and yo... ...schools. There’s the Mincing Lane establishment, and there’s your mother’s Academy. Which might you mean, my dear?’ ‘Both,’ said Bella. ‘Both, eh? Why...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...emporary injury sufficient to make me ineligible, for a time, to enter the Academy. Nothing of the kind occurred, and I had to face the music. Georget... ...t sit in my room doing nothing. There is a fine library connected with the Academy from which cadets can get books to read in their quarters. I devote... ...cure a detail for a few years as assistant professor of mathematics at the Academy, and afterwards obtain a permanent position as professor in some re... ...other towns in that part of the State. CHAPTER III ARMY LIFE—CAUSES OF THE MEXICAN WAR—CAMP SALUBRITY ON THE 30th of September I reported for duty at ... ...render them uncomfortable. I noticed, however, a few years later, when the Mexican war broke out, that most of this class of officers discovered they ... ..., and no doubt I should have been detailed a year or two later but for the Mexican W ar coming on. Accordingly I laid out for myself a course of studi... ...icity would prob- ably at that day have been attributed to witchcraft or a league with the Devil. Immaterial circumstances had changed as greatly as m...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...of infinity, could have denuded the gran- ite over so many thousand square leagues? On a point not far from the city, where a rivulet entered the sea,... ...discoloration of the sea from organic causes. On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the Beagle one day passed through great bands ... ...found this to be the case only on one occasion. At the distance of several leagues from the Archi- pelago of the Galapagos, the ship sailed through th... ...is very inferior in force and rapidity to that of a hawk. *Read before the Academy of Sciences in Paris. L’Institut, 1834, p. 418. 63 Charles Darwin ... ...he Polit. Essay on Kingdom of N. Spain will show how immense a barrier the Mexican table- land forms. Dr. Richardson, in his admirable Report on the Z... ... before the Brit. Assoc. 1836 (p. 157), talking of the identification of a Mexican animal with the Synetheres prehensilis, says, “We do not know with ... ...in late periods, will not fear to speculate on the recent elevation of the Mexican plat- form, or, more probably, on the recent submergence of land in...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... and his concerns in another commence- ment speech, this time at the Naval Academy, in May 1998, the President said: First, we will use our new integr... ...uld become even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could... ...d actually thought the operation too complicated for the CIA—“out of their league”—and an effort to get results “on the cheap. ” But a senior Joint St... ...achi and then to Afghanistan to renew contacts with Bin Ladin and his col- leagues.Though KSM may not have been a member of al Qaeda at this time, he ... ... started training on a Boeing 737 simulator at Pan Am International Flight Academy in Mesa.An instructor there found his work well below standard and ... ...” was aware of how dangerous Khallad was—at one point calling him a “major league killer.” He concluded that “something bad was definitely up.” Despit... ...curely verified when they enter the United States; nor should Canadians or Mexicans. Cur- rently U.S. persons are exempt from carrying passports when ...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...r´ ee, who, with one of the people of the Sieur de Monts, ascended some fifty leagues up the St. John in 1608, found the fish so plenty, “qu’en mettant ... ... Lake, through more than a dozen flourishing towns, with almost every one its academy, — not one of which, however, is on my General Atlas, published, ... ...ng, in the dark, and still in the rain, we pursued our journey. Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils t... ...the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war. Early the next morning we started on our return up the Penob... ..., the map may inform you that you stand on land granted by the State to some academy, or on Bingham’s purchase; but these names do not impose on you, ... ...nsive, that it is said a squirrel might have travelled in several parts many leagues together on the top of the trees.” If it were not for the rivers,...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...ty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inlan... ...nts of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minne... ...ced sisters and the inexperienced sisters! Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virgini... ... the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder’d bones, In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, In vain the ocean settling in hol... ...n farther and farther. A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient, They are but parts,... ...e, rail, prop, wainscot, lamb, lath, panel, gable, Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition house, library, Cornice, trellis, pilaster, ba...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ough the aid of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have attached to cadet life in... ... ever so poor. Poe’s bent was more and more toward literature. Life at the academy daily became in- creasingly distasteful. Soon he began to purposely... ...es- cued by the American consul and sent home. He now entered the military academy at West Point, from which he obtained a dismissal on hearing of the... ...o the southward, and arrived, at nine P .M., over the northern edge of the Mexican Gulf. “April 10th. I was suddenly aroused from slumber, about five ... ...he blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, st...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...l McClellan was not yet thirty- five. He had served, early in life, in the Mexican war, hav- ing come originally from Pennsylvania, and having been ed... ...e made on the purchase of war- rants for land. Soldiers returning from the Mexican wars were donated with warrants for land—the amount being 160 acres... ...was in consequence obliged to abandon his commis- sion and retire from the Academy. Will that young lady ever again sleep quietly in her bed? I should... ...I feel assured that West Point, taken as a whole, is an excellent military academy, and that young men have gone forth from it, and will go forth from... ...ruth reached the consideration of im- portant subjects, and that they were leagues beyond that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that mo...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... on the St. Michael’s pear-tree. The stranger on foot must have worn seven-league boots to travel at such a rate. “Ill news flies fast, they say ,” th... ...nd propriety, that everybody thought her fit to be preceptress of the best academy in the State. But a stranger would have supposed that Mr. Higginbot... ... 106 Twice Told Tales cation, with a classic finish by a year at Gilmanton Academy. After journeying on foot from sunrise till nearly noon of a summer... ...tly he had expended a legacy of a thousand or two of dollars in purchasing Mexican scrip, and thereby became the proprietor of a province; which, howe...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... his aunt’ s port- folio, “that’s a stunner! You should work it up for the Academy.” “This kind of thing is better for the purpose,” Mrs. Grinstead sa... ...lly. They had cap- tured Prospero’s supplanter (he was a Highland chief in league with the Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fellow was Jacobite, so... ...rinstead, and the Rev. E. C. Underwood, and who is a pupil at Mrs. Edgar’s academy for young gentlemen, was, we are informed, in- volved in the most i... ...s he, judging by the depth of colour in those eyes?” “No; his mother was a Mexican, partly Indian. We used to call him the Cacique;” and Geraldine had...

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

...STATES 25 and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press, confined to truth, needs no other leg... ...popularly known as “Old Rough and Ready,” was famous for his exploits in the Mexican War. He never had voted in a national election until his own cont... ...fered by the Constitution. Famed as an officer of a volunteer brigade in the Mexican War, he was nominated as the Democratic candidate in the national... ...TS OF THE UNITED STATES 273 political engagements such as membership in the League of Nations, which may commit us in advance as a na tion to become... ...ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 301 tion from the Military Academy at West Point. A large parade followed the ceremony, and inaugura...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...e answered in my behalf. “One Sabbath, I went to hear the Methodist at the Academy. He spoke of the ushering in of the day of general judgment; and he... ...llu- cinations produced by the intoxicant cactus buds called mescal by the Mexicans:— “When I went in the morning into the fields to work, the glory o... ...omed, my gray gull lifts her wing against the nightfall, and takes the dim leagues with a fearless eye.’ And now, after twenty-seven years of this ex-...

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