...t Syles and Slioeniaking in Spring and Summer Footwear Including Boots and Oxfords In Gun Metal. Box Calf, Tan Calf, Dry Calf, Coltskins, and Tan Leat... ...yles M Slioemakiiiff in Spiioi and Siiiiinier Footwear Including Boots and Oxfords In Gun Metal, Box Calf; Tan Calf, Dry Calf, Coltskins, and Tan Leat... ...es aod Stioeiiiakiiii in Spniig and Suiiiiuer Footwear Including Boots and Oxfords In Gun Metal, Box Call", Tan Calf, Dry Call". Coltskins, and Tan Le... ...es and Slioeiiiakiiig in Spriii and Syiiiiiier Footwear Including cots and Oxfords In Gun Metal, Box Call", Tan Call", Dry Calf, Coltskins, and Tan Le... ...st Syles anil Siioemaking in Spring and Summer Footwear Including oots and Oxfords In Gun Metal, Box Calf, Tan Calf, Dry Calf. Coltskins. and Tan Leat... ... 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...

... brother. At age twenty-two, before he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, Twain apprenticed at his brother‘s Hannibal Journal and then ... ...y. (Hardly anything ―happens in the real world in alphabetical order,‖ an Oxford American Dictionary editor once remarked.) The DDC established t... ...31 32 This happened often enough for ETAOIN SHRDLU to be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dic... ...w American Library, 1967. Blake, N. F. Caxton, William (1415~24–1492): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ... ...991. Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. Kernan, Alvin B. Printin... ...rennial, 1995. Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, US: Blackwell, 1992. Reid, T. R. The Chip: How T...

...er brother. At age twenty-two, before he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, Twain apprenticed at his brother‘s Hannibal Journal and then ... ...y. (Hardly anything ―happens in the real world in alphabetical order,‖ an Oxford American Dictionary editor once remarked.) The DDC established t... ...31 32 This happened often enough for ETAOIN SHRDLU to be listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dic... ...w American Library, 1967. Blake, N. F. Caxton, William (1415~24–1492): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ... ...991. Kaplan, Robert. The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. Kernan, Alvin B. Printing... ...rennial, 1995. Ratchnevsky, Paul. Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, US: Blackwell, 1992. Reid, T. R. The Chip: How T...

...n with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississippi. This book is written from the perspective of someone w... ..., Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, P... ...Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washing... ... Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, , Watonwan, Wilkin, Winona, Wright, Yellow Medicine Mississippi: Tax Lien Certificate State 82 Counties Adams, Alcorn,... ...ln, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Marion, Maries, McDonald, Mercer, Miller, Mississippi, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid, Newt...

...s of gleeful borrowing, formed as part of a musical commons—the blues of the Mississippi Delta, for example—were eventually commercialized and “frozen... ..., pt. 3, Of the Expenses of Public Works and Public In- stitutions, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1880), 2:339: “When a company of merchan... ...s, for example, that by Robert C. Allen, Enclosure and the Yeoman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). In the twentieth century, the negative ef... ...The Economic Journal 92 (1982): 937–953; Enclosure and The Yeoman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Allen argues that the enclosure movement ... ...’s arguments more than 30 years on. Neil Netanel’s book Copyright’s Paradox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), is the single most comprehensive ... ...nformation Society, ed. Rochelle Dreyfuss, Diane Zimmerman, and Harry First (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), at 341. (This entire volume is su...

...ivable, for you, for me.” So I wrote her. Stratford YEARS AGO At Oxford, it is pleasant to recall, I stopped at Duvenant’s inn frequently, t... ...ing his clay pipe, brandy in reach, his comments as mellow as his drink, Oxford accent to my liking. Ere we were ten days old at sea I had written... .... July 11, 1863 Was it twenty or thirty years ago, we drifted down the Mississippi, three of us on a loaded flatboat? She was well overloaded bec... ... that song in New Orleans on my first visit; I heard it later when on the Mississippi, when we were on our cargo-raft, when we tied up at a wharf. T... ...ded with cotton bales, were floated down the LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 609 Mississippi, at New Orleans. Soaked with alcohol, they were set afire... ... ...marks began with Ann Rutledge, resumed in East Salem, continued along the Mississippi and on my legal circuits. For years they lay dormant in Spring...

...p all the states or countries together. California produces more GDP than Mississippi, and Ireland produces more than Italy. ―There are som... ...An Inquiry into Some Varieties of Praternatural Experience. London: Oxford University Press. 1973. 44. Curlin et al. ―Religion, Conscience, an...

...eld in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of fifteen, De Quincey was ready for Oxford; he had not been praised without reason, for his schol- arship was f... ...fter three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation which dep... ...ey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be looked upon ... ...alised and glorified object to an impassioned heart; and naturally, in the Oxford of that day, all hearts were im- passioned, as being all (or nearly ... ...ll) in early manhood. In most universities there is one single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, ... ... this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now, it is hardly worth while to answer a pure fiction gravely...

...ly have proved that he came from Carolina or Alabama. He came, in fact, from Mississippi, and he spoke very perceptibly with the accent of that countr... ..., if you like, that I am a painted Jezebel. Try to reform him; a person from Mississippi is sure to be all wrong. I shall be back very late; we are go... ...d for some work which would transport him to the haunts of men. The State of Mississippi seemed to him the state of despair; so he surrendered the rem... ...g patronising to people in misfortune that had prevented her from writing to Mississippi. If it had been possible to send Mrs. Ransom money, or Chapt... ...h her, it was both an impulse and a principle to defy. He was too simple—too Mississippian— for that; she was almost disappointed. She certainly had n... ...one of those really mediaeval universities that we saw on the other side, at Oxford, or Gottingen, or Padua. You would have been in perfect sympathy w... ... portraits and lighted by stained windows, like the halls of the colleges of Oxford; and the third, the most interesting, a chamber high, dim, and sev...

...oi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire was in Oxford Street, at a piano-forte maker’s; and, as it promised to be a confla... ...Consulting Grant’s “Observations on the Bills of Mortality,” (4th edition, Oxford, 1665,) I find, that out of 229,250, who died in London during one p... ...TION. TION. TION. TION. SOME TWENTY or more years before I matriculated at Oxford, Mr. Palmer, M.P . for Bath, had accomplished two things, very hard ... ... total distance. 87 object to an impassioned heart; and naturally, in the Oxford of that day, all hearts were awakened. There were, perhaps, of us go... ...awakened. There were, perhaps, of us gownsmen, two thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these ... ... this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now, it is hardly worth while to answer a pure falsehood grave...

...n the long thoroughfare, dotted with bright jets of gas, it is reminded of Oxford Street, or Piccadilly. Here and there a flight of broad stone cellar... ...two ways about THAT; and so I tell you. Now! I’m from the brown forests of Mississippi, I am, and when the sun shines on me, it does shine —a little. ... ...y please. I an’t a Johnny Cake, I an’t. I am from the brown forests of the Mississippi, I am’ —and so on, as before. He was unanimously voted one of t... ... ance, ‘I an’t a Johnny Cake, — I an’t. I’m from the brown forests of the Mississippi, I am, damme!’ I am inclined to argue from this, that he had ne... ...added proudly. He told me that he had been away from his home, west of the Mississippi, seventeen months: and was now returning. He had been chiefly a... ... began. Nor was the scenery, as we approached the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at all inspiriting in its influence. The trees were stu...

...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ...at time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchase... ...al Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now... ... of these were not now at work. They were resting idle, the trade down the Mississippi below St. Louis hav- ing been cut off by the war. Many of them,... ...Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carried on by these boats while the coun... ...ment exactly where he would have stood had he been a tutor at a college in Oxford instead of a Professor at Cambridge in Massachusetts. Prescott is re...

...rand compound massacre (in another sense, one might have applied to it the Oxford phrase of going out as Grand Compounder), always assumed black silk ... ...en sure of a distant sale, though re- turns would have been slow, viz., at Oxford and Cambridge. We know from Milton that old Hobson delivered his par... ... MSS., on the simple condition of editing them with proper annotations. An Oxford man, and also the celebrated Mr. Christian Curwen, then member for C... ...wen, then member for Cumberland, made, in my hearing, the same report. The Oxford man, in par- ticular, being questioned as to the probable amount of ... ...even; and from Eton, in his eighteenth year, he was sent to Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated as a nobleman. He then bore the courtesy titl... ... in the other. They are a sort of snags, such as lie in the current of the Mississippi. There, they do nothing but mischief. Here, when the lines are ... ... a snag from Milton, but one does not altogether like being snagged by the Mississippi. One sees no particular reason for bearing it, if one only knew...

... in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the bank... ...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... ...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... ...ar, and frivolous ankles above athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to a palisade of cliffs. Far down bene... ...ll to the round stone tower of Fort Snelling. They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, and recalled the men who had come here eight... ...limbing the giant tableland that slopes in a thou- sand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies. It is September, hot, very dusty. There... ...ages anyway! He kind of lets people assume he went to Harvard or Berlin or Oxford or somewhere, but I looked him up in the medi- cal register, and he ... ...in Gopher Prairie… . I wonder which is really the best, Harvard or Yale or Oxford?” II The people who hemmed her in had been brilliantly rein- forced ...

...k at him, and forces him to neglect work for him, and keeps him under rigid coercion. I once knew a fancy terrier who kept a gentleman—a gentleman who... ...ide-mouthed bottle, unless he is with them and barking tremendously. There is a dog residing in the Borough of Southwark who keeps a blind man. He may... ...unnel roar of protest at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer ... ...als in where no rea- soning precaution or provision could expect him. As in the following case:— Adjoining the Caves of Ignorance is a country town. I... ... Momuses, nine in num- ber, were announced to appear in the town-hall, for the gen- eral delectation, this last Christmas week. Knowing Mr. Barlow to ... ...Knowing Mr. Barlow to be unconnected with the Mississippi, though hold- ing republican opinions, and deeming myself secure, I took a stall. My object ... ...rs on the tambourine and bones. The cen- tre Momus, a black of melancholy aspect (who inspired me with a vague uneasiness for which I could not then a...

...ss. He has been brought up as a gentleman; he has been at every college in Oxford 16 Reprinted Pieces and Cambridge; he can quote Latin in his letter... ... Piccadilly is also very kind to me when I am hard up. Likewise Mr. Nix of Oxford Street. I get a trifle from them occasionally, and rub on as well as... ... thanks and Good Night sink into their graves again. Thus, we make our New Oxford Streets, and our other new streets, never heeding, never asking, whe... ...rish are. In one, The Ethiopian party are expected home presently— were in Oxford Street when last heard of—shall be fetched, for our delight, within ... ... 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...

... even redundantly native, he was placed for some three years in residence at Oxford. Oxford swallowed up Harvard, and Ralph became at last English eno... ...less liberty of appreciation. He began with being a young man of promise; at Oxford he distinguished himself, to his father’s ineffable satisfaction, ... ...ibilities of penetration. Daniel Touchett had been neither at Harvard nor at Oxford, and it was his own fault if he had placed in his son’s hands the ... ... sounded them his son would have thought less well of him. Ralph, on leaving Oxford, had spent a couple of years in travelling; after which he had fou... ... Baltimore was a Western city and was perpetually expecting to arrive at the Mississippi. He appeared never to have heard of any river in America but ... ...Mississippi. He appeared never to have heard of any river in America but the Mississippi and was unprepared to recognize the existence of the Hudson, ...

...n re- dundantly native, he was placed for some three years in residence at Oxford. Oxford swallowed up Harvard, and Ralph became at last English enoug... ...ss liberty of appreciation. He began with being a young man of promise; at Oxford he distinguished himself, to his father’s ineffable satisfaction, an... ...ilities of penetration. Daniel Touchett had been neither at Harvard nor at Oxford, and it was his own fault if he had placed in his son’s hands the ke... ...ounded them his son would have thought less well of him. Ralph, on leaving Oxford, had spent a couple of years in travelling; after which he had found... ...altimore was a Western city and was perpetually expecting to arrive at the Mississippi. He ap- peared never to have heard of any river in America but ... ...issippi. He ap- peared never to have heard of any river in America but the Mississippi and was unprepared to recognise the ex- istence of the Hudson, ...

......................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI................................................................... .................................................... 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI................................................................... ...ch side win that may. “We will never abandon the right to the mouth of the Mississippi.” That, in all such arguments, is a strong point with men of th... ... which he made in New York on the 4th of July, 1861. “The Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers,” he says, “with their hundred tributaries, give to the ... ...s restrained. There is no embargo on the beer-shops either at Harrow or at Oxford—and 199 Trollope certainly none upon the young ladies. Occasional d... ..., and, I may almost say, is to all the Northern States, what Cambridge and Oxford are to England. It is the seat of the university which gives the hig... ...d to any final examination as is the case with a candidate for a degree at Oxford and Cam- bridge. It is, perhaps, in this respect that the greatest d... ...es Harvard College utterly uneducated than goes in that con- dition out of Oxford or Cambridge. The education at Harvard College is more diversified i... ...him out of debt. The arrangement will not recommend itself to young men at Oxford quite so powerfully as it may do to the fathers of some young men wh...

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...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... ...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... ...an officer, who died of the dis- ease. My regiment was sent to Pascagoula, Mississippi, to spend the summer. As soon as it was settled in camp I obtai... ...ossessed at all by Florida 116 Personal Memoirs or the States west of the Mississippi, all of which were pur- chased by the treasury of the entire na... ... was always prompt, was up by the 29th to Cottage Hill, ten miles north of Oxford. He brought three divisions with him, leaving a garrison of only fou... ...expe- dition of Hovey and Washburn. The enemy was followed as far south as Oxford by the main body of troops, and some seventeen miles farther by McPh... ... a short matter, and, later, rails were laid for cars. During the delay at Oxford in repairing railroads I learned that an expedition down the Mississ... ...e his orders: Headquarters 13th Army Corps, Department of the Ten- nessee. Oxford, Mississippi, December 8,1862. Major-General W . T . Sherman, Comman... ...e from Helena and Memphis on Vicksburg. On the 5th again I suggested, from Oxford, to Halleck that if the Helena troops were at my command I though it...

...h of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford, and still more so at Cambridge. Academic persons stationed themselv... ... 1644, when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the king in Oxford; and one such special visitation would be likely to do more serious ... ...y traversed vindictively from without, and harassed by flying parties from Oxford, or others of the 18 Biographical Essays king’s garrisons. Thirdly,... ...explained. Stratford-upon-Avon, lying in the high road from London through Oxford to Birming- ham, (or more generally to the north,) had been continua... ... not- withstanding an inevitable delay, occasioned by the distance of Lord Oxford, his godfather, and the excessive rains, which prevented the earl be... ...untably ne- glected by writers on this question. How it was that the great Mississippi Bubble, during the Orleans regency in Paris, should have happen...

...e proceeded to mention some of the miseries that he had learnt through the Oxford House—dilating on them with much enthusiasm—till presently his uncle... ...s 87 Yo n g e of things there.” “Y ou might go in for physical science at Oxford or Cambridge.” “I expect that is all my father would allow. In spite... ...es. “They hope to regulate the stream. They might as well hope to regulate Mississippi.” “Well-chosen simile! The current is slow and sluggish, but ir... ...her Claude and his contemporaries, Rotherwood is the only one left—were at Oxford, they got raised into a higher atmosphere, and came home with beau- ... ...y, and now he came in with— “Lance, I must have it out with some one.” “An Oxford scrape?” said Lance. “Oh no, I wish it was only that.” Then a silenc... ...n. Gerald was, by the unanimous wish of his uncles, to finish his terms at Oxford. Whatever might be his fate, a degree would help him in life. He had...

...s the rest of their lives. Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever? Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal education... ...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...

...dies the rest of their lives. Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever? Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal educati... ...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, ...

... It seems to be so in some of the inland parts of England, particularly in Oxfordshire, where it is usual, even in the fires of the common people, to ... ...leetwood, however, from an account in 1425, between the prior of Burcester Oxford and one of his canons, gives us their price, at least as it was stat... ...r money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme, the most extravagant project, both of bank- ing and sto... ...apid when this company was dissolved, after the fall of what is called the Mississippi scheme. When the English got possession of this coun- try, they... ...ormly so since the dissolution of what in England is commonly called their Mississippi company. The profits of the trade, therefore, which France and ... ... pro- vided he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many year...