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...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...taneously lit of in every major city across the world. The intense heat, fames, and wind scorched and destroyed structures, cars, and people themse... ...cause I do,” Vincent calmly stated. He slammed on the brakes and spun the sports car around. Quickly pushing a 11 7 Scorpions: Rebellion buton whil... ...w had frozen. Vincent got out and hurried over to the wreckage, which had fames and smoke pour - ing out of it, but no explosion. Josh couldn’t contr... ...ion,” Zo- diac responded as they exited the room. There was no one in the hallway. No staf bustling with reports. Nothing. The two contin- ued walkin... ...d saw someone dressed in tight fting, black motorcycle leath- ers riding a sports bike. “Damn rice burners,” Vincent commented. Everyone then turned ... ... out,” Lexi clarifed. Both Lexi and Vincent began slowly walking down the hall- way toward the bedroom. As they got closer, they did not like what i... ...sest to him then ran. There was a three second delay on the grenade. One Mississippi…Two Mississippi…he dove and the explosive triggered, creating ...
...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....
...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...ries of lectures was delivered Fri- day evening in the art room of Hopkins Hall on Raphael and Uembrandt and was illustrated by slides both of the art... ...ance and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. J. H. THURSDAY, MA... ...osiery Scotch Ulsters. Heavy Knick- erbockers and Norfolk Suits for Winter Sports Catalogue with illustrations mailed on request. and occasion is take... ...iery Scotch I'lsters. Heavy Kiiick- erbookors and Norfolk Suits for Wilder Sports Gatnliigiui with illustrations mailed on request. lations" implies o... ...te Dr. John- son; and there is to be found in all the wide Held of the far-famed "college aQtivities" no harder task than the "Gol." editor undertakes... ... Dr. Kennon intends to devote his time to visits in Baltimore, Md., and in Mississippi, Dr. King will renmin in Will- iamstown to complete a German te... ... Students accounts re- ceived on liberal terms. ChiIS. S. Colb, President. Fames W. Buhock, Vice-President. W. B. Clark, Cashier. H. P.COLE it A Colle...
...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...
...936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. ... ...y Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any elec... ...n a back page corner of the Times. The only mention of Daniel was “wife of famed tenor, Daniel Connolly.” She went out and got all the papers that ... ...c Box, the latest of the countless contraptions he thought would bring them fame and riches beyond their wildest dreams. But Morgan had quickly dis... ...son, that’s all I ask.” Camilla hauled Morgan by the hand through the back hall to the parlor. The room was awash with candlelight. A gilt wreath... ...he made it clear she would allow no dawdling as she steered Morgan into the hall. “What are you plotting now with this sudden urge to visit your mo... ... Missouri once. St. Louis.” “Ah, St. Louis. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Mark Twain. Have you read any of his work?” “No, I’m a... ...tion she saw in his eyes. It melted away the ragged edges of her nerves. “Sports quite a shiner, doesn’t she, Cully.” “I’d have been hard pressed...
...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true...
... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...uela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich Connec... ...oil income, the main hospital of its capital city finds people bedded in the halls, set off from the passers-by by screens. And with the exception of... ...and the way Microsoft had changed the world. Mother Theresa gained unwanted fame through her quiet charity. I don’t have the rabid following of a f... ...haracter - that is the goal of true education. I know you have been to Royce Hall at UCLA and seen Josiah Royce’s words that ‘Education is learning t... ...re like peas in a pod. We thought alike. We acted alike. We played the same sports and were in the same club at LA High, the Saints. The name wasn’t...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 364 One Basic Effect of Accumulation: Antagonism and Competition Pg 366 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg ... ...40 The Vicious Cycles of Civilized Ease and Hardship Pg 747 Play and Sports Pg 757 Toys Pg 757 Humor Pg 771 Failure and Success Pg 771... ...lished in scientific journals and his ideas would never have gained worldwide fame. After he predicted that light rays actually bend around the Moon... ...s to be feared. Whether you love God or hate him: he is feared. What is the hallmark of all Ancient Gods? Exploding into rage and laying waste to ... ...d lapdog. He came out of the worst politically corrupt machine since Tammany Hall. He did not fight the Corporatizing of the USA after the war. ... ...ish had exterminated most of the East coast tribes, or pushed them west of the Mississippi, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The ... ... the faces of the tribes already living there… Every area settled west of the Mississippi was only settled after military forts were built first in ...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...
...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ...eeded players; but marriage was more than play--it could not be had with sportsmen, but required true and deep intellectual and spiritual bonds, an... ...or Canyon Grande—Canyon Pococito too if lured in by a pimp and auri sacra fames.” She remembered this dithering bunkmate, this rare voice that had s... ... into her face. Like her, it too was lost, like the howling dog along the Mississippi river bank that ran in one direction, and then turned and went... ...e stereo, and she even missed those family outings in her twenties on the Mississippi River with the monster steering through the inundations, his ey... ...an ingenuity knowing the deficiencies of the world and wishing them, nay hallucinating them, to be something other than what they were, roseate idea... ... hymen, causing blood to be cast upon the face of the Earth, she began to hallucinate spills spelling out "l-i-a-r" while fire ants and sweat bees, w... ...is with my disability money, money that he uses as a down payment on a new sports car and god knows what...I know. He thinks I don’t, but I do. I so...
...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...
...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...e ever stroked are the ones you take off as a precursor to your copulatory sports." The gecko stuck out its tongue. "Brackish succulent skin of an edi... ... in a sidewalk restaurant and being molested as a "cheap date", he used to hallucinate about talking mosquitoes; so if the mosquitoes were Jatupon's o... ... and the most ignorant believed the myths that made their besmirched flesh hallowed enough to be at one with them. He scolded himself for wanting a de... ...otted, to strut his succulence more fully on life's propitious catwalks of fame. That had been the initial impression that had come about, to some deg... ...irement he would stare up into empty space from the bleachers near the lit sports stadium in that area where they both lived (an area convenient to As... ... car so they bought some fast food and turned into a parking lot along the Mississippi River. There they began to eat while looking out onto the sodde... ...hings worse. "Maybe they've been in the delta all along but migrate up the Mississippi River during abnormally warm springs." "Whatever!" she responde...
...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...nd the limits of any paths to happiness. Was it money, God, philanthropy, fame, family, self realization or any of the other human goals and endeavo... ...s? If you go to college is it to gain knowledge and experiences now, like sports and parties, or is it to gain the tools you need for your future oc... ...ituations our personal comfort is more important. A few years ago Lincoln Hall, an Australian, was in a group climbing Mount Everest. He was injured.... ...at first sight as can a face, a chest or a leg. We reward, with money and fame, the young Miss World or Mr. Universe but we hide the budding Curies o... ... of them. --―But we still have a bunch of them flying around every Halloween! —―It was no joke to those who were tortured until they ad... ...ky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all create stumbling blocks for those pur... ...p all the states or countries together. California produces more GDP than Mississippi, and Ireland produces more than Italy. ―There are som...
...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... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State ... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BO... ...lvin, Benvenuto Cellini, and the Emperor Charles V. were at the top of their fame, and each was manufacturing history after his own peculiar fashion; ... ...ime.” “How on earth am I ever going to learn it, then?” “How do you follow a hall at home in the dark. Because you know the shape of it. You can’t see... ...he banks of this interminable river as well as I know the shape of the front hall at home?” “On my honor, you’ve got to know them better than any man... ...ly hide the exiled town. In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill cities—for Bat... ...45 Sout Sout Sout Sout Souther her her her hern Spor n Spor n Spor n Spor n Sports ts ts ts ts IN THE N ORTH ONE HEARS THE WA R MENTIONED, in s...
...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 300,00...
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in rel... ...s and partial successes to a career. Daily, on the library steps or in the hall of the Main Building, the co-eds talked of “What shall we do when we f... ...arol did not hear him. She was completing the roof of a half-timbered town hall. She had found one man in the prairie village who did not appreciate h... ...iew than when you stand on Summit Avenue and look across Lower Town to the Mississippi cliffs and the upland farms beyond.” “I know but— Of course I’v... ...and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go hunting together a lot. The old cheese there is... ...ps loved the silken fur. Her liveliest activity now was organizing outdoor sports in the motor-paralyzed town. The automobile and bridge-whist had not... ...d, and did not know that she was humming. She was the young poet attacking fame and Paris. In the Minneapolis station the crowd of lumberjacks, farmer...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...
...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...to all comers. It was given out in the clear, ringing tones, wherewith the hall of shields was wont to resound of old, yet neither Garrison, nor Phill... ...n constructing nets, her perse- verance in using them, and her wide-spread fame in the ag- ricultural way he adds, “It happened to her—as it will hap-... ...import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with the other children, a shade of disquiet rested upon me. The abs... ... his meals on the clay floor. He never has the misfortune, in his games or sports, of soiling or tearing his clothes, for he has almost none to soil o... ...ast to Col. Lloyd. He was contin- ued in his office on the plantation. His fame as an overseer went abroad, and his horrid crime was not even submitte... ...ar a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box.”—“Halloo, nigger! come, turn this grindstone.”—“Come, come! move, move! and b... ...in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish. The present ...
...eries Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ... look at the resplendent creatures with little back parlours for servants’ halls, and turn up bedsteads to sleep in, at our watering place. You have n... ...oatmen of our watering place in our love and honour, and are tender of the fame they well deserve. 30 Reprinted Pieces So many children are brought d... ...e; we have had the honour of living in both, and can testify. The entrance hall of the first we in habited was ornamented with a plan of the estate, ... ...y tune: the strain we have most fre quently heard being an appeal to ‘the sportsman’ not to bag that choicest of game, the swallow. For bathing purpo... ... on these occasions donkey races with English ‘Jokeis,’ and other rus tic sports; lotteries for toys; roundabouts, dancing on the grass to the music ... ... Rhine, and the Rhone; and the Seine, and the Saone; and the St. Lawrence, Mississippi, and Ohio; and the Tiber, the Po, and the Arno; and the—‘ Peaco...
............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...secretly entered upon the self-appointed task for which he is now known to fame—a task which the proud King of a vainglorious Court would have lost no... ...d neither sticks nor stones could dislodge it. La V arenne and a number of sports- men gathered around the tree and tried to drive away the magpie. Im... ...sents. Let us leave them on their journey, and admire the Providence which sports with the thoughts of men and disposes of states. What would have sai... ...seigneur, perhaps because he often went to the opera. The fish-fags of the Halles thought it would be proper to exhibit their affection, and deputed f... ...had said. A troop of courtiers met him. In their midst he passed the Great Hall of the Guards, and instead of going to Madame de Maintenon’s by the pr... ...e lotteries that were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the ... ...X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER XCIX CIX CIX CIX CIX LAW HAD ESTABLISHED his Mississippi Company, and now be- gan to do marvels with it. A sort of langu...
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.
... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e regulated and directed forwards; if there be less splen- dor than in the halls of an aristocracy, the contrast of misery will be less frequent also;... ...ality it loves, and to curse that cause of liberty as a foe which it might hallow by its alliance. By the side of these religious men I discern others... ... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ...ans, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Mississippi takes its source above the limit of the two gr... ...oluntary pride in the name it bears, or a vague reminiscence of its bygone fame, suffices to give them the impulse of self- preservation. Nor can the ... ...berty; for it does not excite those 187 Tocqueville insatiable desires of fame and power which have proved so fatal to great republics. As there is n... ...s neigh- bor devotes to gain, turns with him to a passionate love of field sports and military exercises; he delights in violent bodily exertion, he i...
...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 the principles of government that were essential t...
...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... his box was packed, I know; for I saw it, in the morning, standing in the hall.’ ‘He slept last night at the Dragon,’ returned the young lady, ‘and h... ...responsive to whose note a great footman appeared in due time at the great halldoor, with such great tags upon his liver- ied shoulder that he was per... ...alleys when he answered the door, and there to play at leap-frog and other sports with vagrant lads, until pursued and brought back by the 136 Martin... ...han to achieve many and many a deed to which the doubtful trumpet blown by Fame has lustily resounded. Doubtful, because from its long hovering over s... ...l scent in patriotic nostrils, and curling upward to the seventh heaven of Fame. Once or twice, when there was a pause, Martin asked such ques- tions ... ...?’ asked Martin of his companion. ‘Extremely probable,’ he answered. ‘Some Mississippi or Mis- souri lot, I dare say.’ ‘However,’ pursued Mark, ‘he ca... ...ivate). ‘Sir—I was raised in those interminable solitudes where our mighty Mississippi (or Father of Waters) rolls his turbid flood. ‘I am young, and ...
...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...
... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or- ridge, with sweet milk, and coffee and hot cakes, at Burlington upon the Mississippi. Another long day’s ride followed, with but one feature worth... ...er rival, who, for no apparent merit, was raised to opu- lence and momentary fame, and, through no apparent fault was suffered step by step to sink ag... ... ing; and the air rang with the report of firearms and the admiring cries of sportsmen. Overhead the birds were in 71 Robert Louis Stevenson constern... ...to look at the upper surface where the sun was still shining and the guns of sportsmen were still noisy through the tufted plain) the Cigarette was dr... ... bull’s-eyes discovered; and in the chequering glimmer, under the huge windy hall of the night, and cheered by a rich steam of toasting tinware, these... ...d it empty, rather than like drilled actors performing a set piece to a huge hall of faces. But presently my dreamer began to turn his former amusemen... ...if a man love the labour of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. He may have the general vocation too: he ...
... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...
...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ......................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI................................................................... .................................................... 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI................................................................... ...udden Jones and his wife have fallen out, and there is for awhile in Jones Hall a cat-and-dog life that may end—in one hardly dare to surmise what cal... ...eve beyond measure in a general way at the temporary break up of the Jones-Hall happiness. I express general wishes that it may be temporary. But as f... ...ang up the new revolution; and as it has grown 35 Trollope in wealth, and fame, and size beyond other towns in New England, it may be allowed to us t... ...witzerland, I had no idea. Much of this scenery, I say, is superior to the famed and classic lands of Europe. I know nothing, for instance, on the Rhi... ...here in great numbers, excepting those who intend to settle there. A stray sports- man or two, American or English, as the case may be, makes his way ...
...ND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ................................................................................................
... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...136 The Prairie Grass Dividing...............137 When I Persue the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California... ...ity and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We co... ...es of Grass –Whitman 25 Chants of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illino... ...mprovements, structures, arts, Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls, Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my ne... ...gh the gymnasium, through the curtain’d saloon, through the office or public hall; Pleas’d with the native and pleas’d with the foreign, pleas’d with ... ...tless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible t... ...darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on! How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!) How the trees rise and stand up, ...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...
...Contents 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 T...
.....................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings........................................................... ...110 The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...h appeared to be her birth right. Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegras... ...night. The cottages were all dark. A single faint light gleamed out from the hallway of the house. There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an ... ...an who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation. It was after they went to Mississippi to live. The young man was engaged to be married The Awakenin... ... “Where did you say the Goncourt was?” IX IX IX IX IX EVERY LIGHT IN THE HALL was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking... ...ve lost splashing about like a baby!” She would not join the groups in their sports and bouts, but intoxicated with her newly conquered power, she swa... ... fall in love with him.’ Or, ‘I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?’ Or, ‘This financier, who controls the world’s m...
... all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence....
............................................99 The Kiss.......................................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings..............................................................103 The Locket..................................................................................106 A Reflection.....................................
...den Economy 1 Economy W 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 hous... ... 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 la... ...rtal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with ... ...hoes, and he can make them do. Only they who go to soir´ ees and legislative halls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in... ...ts, and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by... ...live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn ... ...ection on the score of humanity, I am compelled to doubt if equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when some of my friends have a... ...e coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a North West Passage around this continent, that we would... ... enlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, ...
...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 tw...
...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...
...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rders. The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days after the receipt of this order. About the ti... ...f the sick lieutenant until thus relieved, and went on. I had never been a sportsman in my life; had scarcely ever gone in search of game, and rarely ... ... I had time to reflect upon the matter, I came to the conclusion that as a sportsman I was a failure, and went back to the house. Benjamin remained ou... ...r that borders the bank of the Rio Grande is reached. This river, like the Mississippi, flows through a rich alluvial valley in the most meandering ma... .... G. Foster, of the corps of engineers, all officers who attained rank and fame, on one side or the other, in the great conflict for the preser- vatio... ... MOLINO DEL REY— STORMING OF CHAPULTEPEC—SAN COSME—EVACUATION OF THE CITY— HALLS OF THE MONTEZUMAS THE ROUTE FOLLOWED by the army from Puebla to the C... ...eums, re- ceptions, etc. This is the building generally designated as the “Halls of the Montezumas.” 85 U. S. Grant CHAPTER XII PROMOTION TO FIRST LI...
Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.
...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...al nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with ou... ..., and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county. It should not be by t... ...ve simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn h... ...public and private, with their al most innumerable apartments, their huge halls and their cellars for the storage of wines and other muni tions of p... ...tion on the score of humanity, I am compelled to doubt if equally valuable sports are ever substituted for these; and when some of my friends have ask... ...coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would fi... ...nlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, bu...
...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...fect poise whose other name is genius. Mr. Washington has won a world-wide fame at an early age. His story of his own life already has the distinction... ... upon the dirt floor. I was asked not long ago to tell something about the sports and pastimes that I engaged in during my youth. Until that question ... ...our; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports. During the period that I spent in slavery I was not large enough to... ..., she heard of the need of teachers in the South. She went to the state of Mississippi and began teaching there. Later she taught in the city of Memph... ...teaching there. Later she taught in the city of Memphis. While teaching in Mississippi, one of her pupils became ill with smallpox. Every one in the c... ...fallen asleep. While putting up our first building, which was named Porter Hall, after Mr. A.H. Porter, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who gave a generous sum tow... ...sgiving Day of that year we held our first service in the chapel of Porter Hall, although the building was not completed. In looking about for some on...
...NARRA NARRA NARRA NARRA NARRATIVE OF TIVE OF TIVE OF TIVE OF TIVE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF THE... ...E OF TIVE OF TIVE OF TIVE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DO... ... admira- tion, I rose, and declared that Patrick Henry, of revolution- ary fame, never made a speech more eloquent in the cause of liberty, than the o... ...es the following anecdote in a speech delivered by him in the Conciliation Hall, Dublin, before the Loyal National Repeal Association, March 31, 1845.... ...ard to that (for the colored man) Valley of the Shadow of Death, where the Mississippi sweeps along. Again, we have known you long, and can put the mo... ... He was continued in his station as overseer upon the home plantation. His fame as an overseer went abroad. His horrid crime was not even submitted to... ...ing opossums, hares, and coons. But by far the larger part engaged in such sports and merriments as playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddl... ...eath is attributed to trick- ery. rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and ac-countable ... ...r a hand, and get up a fire as quick as lightning under that steam-box.”— “Halloo, nigger! come, turn this grindstone.”— “Come, come! move, move! and ...
Excerpt: Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas.