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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...thologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! Philos... ...-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developin... ...hips of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great Powers, led by Russia, pressured Turkey to cease its mistreatment of the Armenians. Thi... .... Casualties: 700 dead Felt as far as: Los Angeles in the south and Coos Bay, Oregon, to the north Side effects: At least a 430 kilometers f... ...and "All Hallows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also ... ... it gave birth to him - and remained a virgin in perpetuity. This is the official (Catholic) doctrine. But Jesus had brothers and sisters - plent... ...10328.htm http://www.trosch.org/the/brothers.html http://www.godonthe.net/evidence/catholic.htm Jesus, Year of Birth Was Jesus born 2002 years ago?...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...et what I want to be, but thank God, I am no longer what I used to be. I can press on toward the goal. So I’m showing up again, wearing the armor of G... ...g. They don’t necessarily lead to treasures in this lifetime. There’s a real pressure on new writers to polish their work, join critique groups and qu... ... Matthew 5:48 says, “It is the duty of Christians to desire, and aim at, and press towards perfection in grace and holiness. And therein we must study... ... Raul Escobar. He told the woman of the house in Argentina, “I…I think I’m a Catholic.” She replied, “That is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. You d... ...eorgia. Kate Dolan, after coming east from Chicago to attend college at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, grew 171 attached to t... ...and is a member of Word and Pen Christian Writers Club. Sally Stuart (Aloha, Oregon) has been writing for 41 Y ears— full-time for the last 23. She ha... ...columnist for the Christian Communicator, The Advanced Christian Writer, and Oregon Christian Writers, she is considered the leading authority on the ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...OMPILATION OF THE TYPOGRAPHICAL RULES IN FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS TO WHICH ARE APPENDED SPECIMENS OF TYPES IN USE CHICAGO THE UNI... ... ARE APPENDED SPECIMENS OF TYPES IN USE CHICAGO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS I COPYUGEIT I@ BY Tux Ummusm OF CHICAGO Published N-ber I@ Co... ...he typographical rules and practices in force at the University of Chicago Press. Having its genesis, more than a decade ago, in a single sheet of ... ...nct parliamentary faction); Christian, Protestantism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Re- formed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, ... ...The University of Chicago Press communistic theory, single-taxer, anarchim; catholicity of mind, puritanical ideas, evangelical spirit, nonconformis... ...h (=organized Christianity), the Eastern (Greek Orthodox) church, the Roman Catholic church, the estab- lished church (but: the Establishment), the ... ..."The book has a very complete index." 73. Names of ships : the U. S. SS. "Oregon.', 74. Titles of works of art: Murillo's "The Holy Family." Ma... ...tations and such con- nections as: General Schofield, U. S. A,; U. S. SS. "Oregon;" in footnotes and similar references: U. S. Geological Survey. ...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Style, publish...

...on: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its own composing room with experienced typesetters who were required to set complex scientific material as well as work in such then-exotic fonts as Hebrew and Ethiop...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ...ossibilities and explain them in their decisions. A medical ethicist at a Catholic hospital will often have a quite different decision on what is et... ...ondoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the rising number of Catholics in Latin America who say they are warning Pope Benedict XVI: tha... ...them in poverty. I don‘t know how true it is but I‘ve read in the popular press that 70% of Brazilian women use artificial contraception.‖ ... ... ―Every system, whether primitive or modern, seems to have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically el... ...isdom, say that there are three divine persons in their one God. And when pressed, they say that it can‘t be explained because it is a mystery, a div... ...erity of your sentence compared with the punishment for the same crime in Oregon. Human rights sound good to UN politicians and to the person on the ... ...ents who die.‖ —―Then would one have to be terminally ill, as in Oregon‘s law, or merely very sick or in great pain, or maybe well enough t... ...‖ ---―In the U.S. the states are allowed to opt for euthanasia laws. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act was passed by a ballot measure in 1994 and...

...rching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...r saw the best solutions to the problem. Those were to be his scoop. As the press conference ended, Chet moved to the exit doorway to catch the hero... ...lete with religiously unethical behavior by the proponents of every belief. Catholics fought Protestants. Protestants fought each other. The Muslims... ...stant Dr. King would still face the ire of the protestant evangelicals, the Catholics, the Mormons and the Muslims. No matter how important an idea,... ...religions, into Islam, ‘born again’ evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics like me. “Of course you can’t put religious leaders in... ...s one child policy, is still at 1.8 children per woman. And if the internal pressure forces the rulers to relax the one child policy its rate will go... ...ndling all of its cradle to grave promises. Now in many countries financial pressure is often being exerted on parents, both married and unmarried, ... ...e notes on a couple of cases. In Pierce v School Sisters (17) the state of Oregon was not allowed to require that all children be forced to take the...

...rching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... posts Communists: the PDPA claims 160,000 members (1986) Other political or pressure groups: the military and other branches of internal security are... ...imates of religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mo... ...61% Spanish, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman Catholic Language: Catalan (official); many also speak some French and Ca... ... petence, personality, and orientation toward Spain or France; various small pressure groups developed in 1972; first formal political party, Andorran... ...undu, 25% Kimbundu, 13% Bakongo, 2% Mestico, 1% European Religion: 68% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, about 12% indigenous beliefs Language: Portugue... ...P, 16 seats; indepen- dent, 1 seat Communists: negligible Other political or pressure groups: An- tigua Caribbean Liberation Movement (ACLM), a small ... ...1,001,450 km 2 ; land area: 995,450 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Oregon and Texas combined Land boundaries: 2,580 km total Coastline: 2,45... ...8,540 km 2 ; land area: 230,020 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon Land boundaries: 2,285 km total Coastline: 539 km Maritime claims:... ...5,860 km 2 ; land area: 245,860 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon Land boundaries: 3,476 km total Coastline: 320 km Maritime claims:...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...vement. Your ‗do-gooders‘ in the West aren‘t doing us any favors when you pressure your companies to equalize our situation with yours. Our comforts ... ... education in Europe, the U.S. or Russia. But Americans are following the Catholic idea which is still officially pushing for more births. Pope Paul... ...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ...e. ―I know that Eastern Europe is reducing its population. Even the Catholic countries, like Hungary, are following the trend. Statisticians e... ...have probably heard of some yogis who can drop their heart rate and blood pressure—and even stop their hearts and breathing. This is an example of th... ... He also promised more transparency in government and more freedom of the press.(13) So the Chinese said they were going to make more human rights c... ...ld. ―In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court made it absolutely clear, in Oregon Department of Human Resources versus Smith (31), that First Amendme... ...S. 205 (1972) 95 30. Prince v. Massachusetts, (1944) 31. Oregon Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990) 32. Oklahom...

...rching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...website (www.susanbracken.ca) Distributed in Canada by: David Edwards, RNU Press, Barrie ON; www.davids-books.com / www.rnupress.com and Ardith Publis... .... It is amazing there – I get to see famous writers all the time. When the presses are going it’s like thunder rumbling. And these pneumatic tubes run... ...appeared and she typed her name. White letters ‘Lacey Brock’ appeared. She pressed the backspace and they disappeared. What fun! Hey! Maybe I can writ... ...ed up in her because she knew that if she had been lucky enough to live in Oregon, or Washington, or the Netherlands, among other places, she would si... ...e are reports based on many years of data collected in the Netherlands and Oregon that prove there is no such thing as a ‘slippery slope’ where assist... ...ng, and yet governments resist. There is proof that the 240 SUSAN BRACKEN Catholic Church spends millions of dollars on coercion of gov- ernment offi... ...010 SELECTED SCHOLARLY WORKS AND REPORTS Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in “...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ontal Lateral Mobility Pg 176 The Fear of all Pyramidal Power Pg 177 Peer pressure Chapter Three A: Summary of Hominid-Human development P... ...of leadership and Ruthlessness Pg 347 The Dynamic of Degradation and Rot and Pressure due to Accumulation Pg 350 The Concept of Accumulation Pg 3... ... a walnut is oriented 90 degrees to the split of its outer shell: the intense pressure needed to split the shell apart at its seams automatically cr... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...d sodomy charges today… then what does this say of the one thousand years of Catholic Priests before today…? When such child-protection laws never ... ...on trains, the first settlers to cross the plains and the Rockies to end up in Oregon or California or god knows where… the myths of the great Americ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...e were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, masturbation i... ...ic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to or... ...ecies) every time. This delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the singl... ... into the Body and Blood of Christ, is the express doctrine of the Church ...." (Catholic Encyclopedia) "CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the... ...Blood-the species Only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation; let him be ... ...ing himself to the Chinese Room (in his disputation). Whereas Searle would be hard pressed to prove (to himself) that the English speaker in the ro... ... sheep are different to those of straight sheep, a study conducted recently by the Oregon Health & Science University and the U.S. Department of Ag...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...e were be able to identify the chosen one and eliminate only it? In many religions (Catholicism) contraception is murder. In Judaism, masturbation i... ...ic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to or... ...ecies) every time. This delicate and self-correcting balance between the needs and pressures of competing populations is manifest even in the singl... ... into the Body and Blood of Christ, is the express doctrine of the Church ...." (Catholic Encyclopedia) "CANON lI.-If any one saith, that, in the... ...Blood-the species Only of the bread and wine remaining-which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation; let him be ... ...ing himself to the Chinese Room (in his disputation). Whereas Searle would be hard pressed to prove (to himself) that the English speaker in the ro... ... sheep are different to those of straight sheep, a study conducted recently by the Oregon Health & Science University and the U.S. Department of Ag...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...to i.oo j). in. daily, telephone 39-2 ; Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and FridHys, press room, ]. II., 8.00 to so.00 p. ni. Manager, 12.30 to i.oop. ni. daily... ...ith the negative deHtrnotive process of ousting the 'Ijosses, " and eiij)- pressing dishonesty and vice in I)oliticB. Future niuiiioipal good governme... ... and, in the near future, improvsd conditions are promised. lg)illiamstown Press Co. win bo oooH for Btnlnosm OoU IB Spring Stroot, Wllllammtown 3ob p... ...re to the otHce of Chief Justice of the Supreme Coiirt of the Territory of Oregon. He reniained in Oregon till 1853. when ho returned to his eastern l... ...at Cooperstown, N. Y. Matthews is in the real estate business in Portland, Oregon, at No. 722 Chamber of Commerce. A. W. and L. W. Mitchell are in the... ...ains of the flamingo have been found as far north as the Columbia river in Oregon. The first trip made by Mr. Chap- man in search of a flamingo oolony... ..."Greatness" of Fred- erick II of Prussia (Prof. Good- rich). 14. The Roman Catholic Church and ''Modernity" (Prof. Spring). 16. Walt Whitman (Prof. Sp...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

... and Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy. It was said that Lincoln, when pressed to rid his cabinet of Cameron, had replied, that when a man was cro... ...st of all there reached us, by telegram from Cape Race, rumors of what the press in England was saying; rumors of a meeting in Liverpool, and rumors o... ...ave ventured to go at once against it, and to do so without any exter- nal pressure. 37 Trollope Then came the one ministerial blunder. The President... ...heir own State and the Capitol. A Senator, therefore, from Cali- fornia or Oregon has not altogether a bad place; but the halcyon days of mileage allo... ... a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union; all as free States. Th... ...heir coun- try-men, as was the case long since with reference to the Roman Catholic adherents of the Stuarts, and as has been the case since then in a... ...a free-soil State, after a terrible struggle, and shortly previous to that Oregon and Minnesota, also free States, had been added to the Union. Up to ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...led; and no less fortunately, when, later, the territorial governorship of Oregon was offered to him, Mrs. Lincoln’s protest induced him to decline it... ...arduously fought the antislavery battle in the popular assembly, or in the press, or in the halls of Congress, far surpassed him in prestige, and comp... ...is certainly true that he could not witness any individual distress or op- pression, or any kind of suffering, without feeling a pang of pain himself,... ...ection by territorial legislation. In an im- provised caucus the policy of pressing the interrogatory on Douglas was discussed. Lincoln’s friends unan... ...ling, his sublime charity to the enemies of his country, and his broad and catholic humanity: “If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of tho...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...lf the task of giving true, absolutely true, poetical ex- 11 Frank Norris pression to the life of the ranch, and yet, again and again, he brought up ... ...ss—a compact, solid, slowly moving mass, huge, without form, like a thick- pressed growth of mushrooms, spreading out in all direc- tions over the ear... ...ailing were the high desks where the books were kept, the safe, the letter-press and letter- files, and Harran’s typewriting machine. A great map of L... ... Well, with you it is different,” he answered. “But there are a great many Catholics in the county—some on your ranch. And so few come to the Mission.... ...s, and please notice the very drastic cut from Red Bluff, north, along the Oregon route, to the Oregon State Line.” “Where not a carload of wheat is s... ...ng.” She was tired out by now, and the idea oc- curred to her to enter the Catholic church in whose shadow she stood, and sit down and rest. This she ...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ot and crowded bazars blazed with light as they made their way through the press of all the races in Upper India, and the lama mooned through it like ... ...he was unscrupulous, Mahbub Ali used to taking all sorts of gusty chances, pressed him into service on the spot. A wandering lama with a low caste boy... ...min, dropped in later, and naturally started a theological argument to im press the family. By creed, of course, they were all on their priest’s side... ... neck. I thought perhaps you might help me.’ Between himself and the Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Irish contingent lay, as Bennett believed, an unbr... ...se I can’t touch the subscription money if I intend, as I do, to make ye a Catholic. If he doesn’t, ye’ll go to the Military Orphan age at the Regime... ...ancy I ought to sometimes. But I’m hop ing he’ll be brought up as a good Catholic. All that troubles me is what’ll happen if the old beggar man ’ ... ... dare: He danced the dread Kloo Kwallie Dance T o tickle Itswoot the Bear! Oregon Legend KIM FLUNG HIMSELF whole heartedly upon the next turn of the...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me. My sensations were... ...hese words: “Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press upon me. I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson th... ...e as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said tha... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg h... ...; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black bisons of distant Oregon? No: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of t... ...e knowl edge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that savage musk, the rending, goring bison he... ...nable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via the Cape of...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me. My sensations were... ...hese words: “Shipmates, God has laid but one hand upon you; both his hands press upon me. I have read ye by what murky light may be mine the lesson th... ...e as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said tha... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied. “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Cap- tain Peleg there, and Queequeg... ...; for what knows he, this New England colt, of the black bisons of distant Oregon? No; but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the in- stinct of... ...the knowledge of the demonism in the world. Though thousands of miles from Oregon, still when he smells that sav- age musk, the rending, goring bison ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... feeling could be roused in her. Will had been lordly—stalwart, jolly, im- pressively competent in making camp, tender and under- standing through the... ...rie. You want to get over your city idea that because a man’s pants aren’t pressed, he’s a fool. These farmers are mighty keen and up-and-coming.” “I ... ...d head. The only habitable structures to be seen were the florid red-brick Catholic church and rectory at the end of Main Street. 26 Main Street Caro... ...ital places in town. A large warehouse for agricultural implements. An im- pressive barricade of green and gold wheels, of shafts and sulky seats, bel... ...hich looked as hard as steel plate. On another side street a raw red-brick Catholic Church with a varnished yellow door. The post-office—merely a part... ...s go through. It was their romance; their only mystery besides mass at the Catholic Church; and from the trains came lords of the outer world— traveli... ...he hinted to Kennicott of the probable medical advantages of Mon- tana and Oregon. She knew that he was satisfied with Gopher Prairie, but it gave her...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and the rest ... ...rtis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we read. A sort of mocking indignation... ..., they merely figure for awhile, as a beautiful episode in the epic of op- pression; sometimes they are entirely absent, as in Quatre Vingt T reize. T... ...rposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is among the happiest achievements of American... ...mond of Hawthornden, and a good pugilist like Cap- tain Barclay. They were catholic, as none but the entirely idle can be catholic. It might be Pierre... ...duction to a book* in which he exposes the hypocritical de- mocracy of the Catholics under the League, steps aside for a moment to stigmatise the hypo... ...izabeth succeeded to the throne of England. And just as the acces- sion of Catholic Queen Mary had condemned female rule in the eyes of Knox, the acce...

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

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...misunderstood as saying that we should not discuss foreign politics in our press, our parliament, our public meetings, or our private houses. 9 Troll... ...when made are subject to a cor- rection which is both rough and ready. The press, though very liable to error, labors hard at its vocation in teaching... ... South will make her demands for secession with an arro- gance and instant pressure which exasperates the North; and the North, forgetting that an equ... ...; and has it not always 58 North America V ol. 1 been the case with Roman Catholics when they have been forced to measure themselves against Protesta... ...e their fate in the country. Surely one may declare as a fact that a Roman Catholic popula- tion can never hold its ground against one that is Protes-... ...against one that is Protes- tant. I do not speak of numbers; for the Roman Catholics will increase and multiply, and stick by their religion, al- thou... ...count for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washing... ...hese huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition to form themselv... ...d Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska 28,892 Washington ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ier, robed in royal scarlet: these and a thousand others were laboring and pressing onward, and locked and bound and hus- tling together in the narrow... ... your facts and your wisdom— poor Pall Mall dullards. Stupid slaves of the press, on that ground which you at present occupy, there were men of wit an... ...treams of Ching- wang-foo; where the minarets soar sparkling above the cy- presses, their reflections quivering in the lucid waters of the Golden Horn... ...urpose: this author or au- thoress with the most delicate skill insinuates Catholicism into you, and you find yourself all but a Papist in the third v... ...e account at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn’t be alive t... ...icer before them (I have the honor to hold that rank in the service of his Catholic Majesty), and more- over one six feet four in height, and armed wi... ...miserable captain—oh shame! Of what creed is he?” “I am an Irishman, and a Catholic.” “But he has not been very particular about his religious du- tie...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...a cathedral. When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross, its music, its processions, its Saints’ days an... ...private vengeance comes in. If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life g... ...he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood, the cat-like love of garrets, presses and corn-chambers, and of the conveniences of long housekeeping. Hi... ...do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel, or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same tune. We have a g... ... est men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its am... ..., or a mouse to Hecate; that I do not tremble before the Eumenides, or the Catholic Purgatory, or the Calvinistic Judgment-day,—if I quake at opinion,... ...d for two ele- ments, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. We adjust our instrument for general obser- vation, and sweep the... ...r them when they came to see me, and could well consent to their living in Oregon, for any claim I felt on them,—it would be a great satisfaction. 31...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

..., and Parish’s Geography, and flash novels two or three. Under the Ktaadn 15 pressure of circumstances, we read a little in these. With such aid, the ... ...e sometimes found standing in this wilderness, which were set up by the first Catholic missionaries who came through to the Kennebec. In the next nine ... ... man’s Land. We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us. Though the railroad and the t... ...tenderness of the hoofs, which divide very far up, and the one half could be pressed very much behind the other, thus probably making the animal surer... ...nd he uses it all himself in lumbering operations. The barn was crowded with pressed hay and a machine to press it. There was a large garden full of r... ...recognized my companion, was full of mirth and gestures, like a Frenchman. A Catholic priest crossed to the island in the same bateau with us. The Ind... ...nt, in his own language, which probably was taught his tribe long ago by the Catholic missionaries. He translated it to us, sentence by sentence, afte...

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

...buses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; free dom of the press, and freedom of person under the pro tection of the habeas corpus,... ...s course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentious... ...ral States against falsehood and defamation, but public duties more ur gent press on the time of public servants, and the of fenders have therefore ... ...ory which lies beyond the Rocky Mountains. Our title to the coun try of the Oregon is “clear and unquestionable,” and already are our people preparin... ...husetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown that morning before joining President Eisen...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...to bury his mind in the music of the rhythm that had come to him, that ex- pressed the dusty boredom, the harsh constriction of warm bodies full of ge... ...d, glinting with sweat in the heat of the room. As he was leaving the hut, pressed in a tight stream of sol- diers moving towards the door, Andrews he... ... spoke. He strained his eyes to make out something. The darkness seemed to press in upon his eyeballs, blinding him. Sud- denly he noticed voices near... ...Fuselli. “They say we’re going to the Third Army.” “Where’s that?” “In the Oregon forest,” ventured somebody. “That’s at the front, ain’t it?” At that... ...oad; French, British, every old kind.” “Tell me they’s raisin’ hell in the Oregon forest.” They walked slowly across the road. A motorcycle despatch- ... ...n, ain’t yer? Well, he’s a good friend o’ hers; see? Bein’ as they’re both Catholics … But I’m goin’ out this afternoon, see what the town’s like … an... ...tring the barbed wire for you?” “There warn’t no barbed wire strung in the Oregon forest where we was, boy. What d’ye want barbed wire when you’re adv... ...ns go in to?” “T o the colonel, or whoever he appoints to handle it. You a Catholic?” “No.” “Neither am I. That’s the hell of it. The regimental ser- ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...en for the small matter that the truth would not permit him. Under the im- pression thus made I gave the vote before mentioned. I propose now to give ... ... the less valuable half is not a speculative, but a prac- tical, question, pressing closely upon us. And yet it is a question which the President seem... ...f inquiry and discussion of public events through the medium of the public press. The committee, however, has not been insensible to its duty of guard... ...rget the Washington territorial law passed in 1853. This was a division of Oregon, organizing the north- ern part as the Territory of Washington. He a... ...He asserted that by this act the Ordinance of ’87, theretofore existing in Oregon, was repealed; that nearly all the members of Con- gress voted for i... ... will read “all men are created equal, except negroes and for- eigners and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall pre- 195 The Writings of Abraha...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...xas was at this time the subject of violent discussion in Congress, in the press, and by indi- viduals. The administration of President T yler, then i... ...ception of their magnitude until they were fought over in the North by the Press and the reports came back to us. At the same time, or about the same ... ...ich challenge the respect of all who study them. Lawlessness was soon sup- pressed, and the City of Mexico settled down into a quiet, law-abiding plac... ....” Poor Slaughter! it was his last sea voyage. He was killed by Indians in Oregon. By the last of August the cholera had so abated that it was deemed ... ...rdered to Fort V ancouver, on the Columbia River, 107 U. S. Grant then in Oregon Territory. During the winter of 1852-3 the territory was divided, al... ...he territory was divided, all north of the Columbia River being taken from Oregon to make Washington T erritory. Prices for all kinds of supplies were... ... citizens of all nationalities; from all denominations—the Protestant, the Catholic, and the Jew; and from the various societies of the land—scientifi...

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