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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org ... ... Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subj... ...odd moments for the individual guidance of the first proofreader; added to from year to year, as opportunity would offer or new necessities arise; ... ...Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the Far East, Orient, Levant; the North, South, East, West (United States). But... ... West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adjectives derived from such names, even if used substantively; nor nouns simply designatin... ...ganiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- so... ...n if applied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local typographical union... ...ical feast-days: Fourth of July (the Fourth), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day; Easter, Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, New Year's Day [but: sabbath =da... ..."In Illinois there are seventeen such institutions; in Ohio, twenty-two; in Indiana, thirteen;" "In Lincoln's first cabinet Seward was secretary of ...

...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,...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: 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 wer...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ...r later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscribers. Strowger died in 1902... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ...pone.html Car Race The first car race in the Unites States, sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald was held in 1895. The contestants drove fro... ...Conversation in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Os...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... ...drawn with power. Bartlett is an accomplished writer.” PAUL ENGLE in The Chicago Tribune: “...articulate, believable ... charms with an expert know... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone... ...Commander-in-Chief. My qualification: integrity. I can not sleep. In Chicago, one windy night, I attended my first symphony concert. I was in t...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...onment of my life (interviews) 20 About experiences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * ... ...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the cit... ...d, Ban Dong, is a small forest village in the mountains skirting the north-eastern parts of the province. In my previous study (1979) I applied non- p... ...eys, other provinces. Lampang plain is skirted by mountains to the north, east and south. The river valley opens out to the south-west, where the Wa... ...n Nai. A Hamlet in Central Thailand. Ph.D. thesis, Institute of Folklore. Indiana University 1967. Kurusapha Press, Bangkok. Ayabe, Tsuneo 1962. Vil... ...ok. — 1972. Rice and Man. Agricultural Ecology in Southeast Asia. Aldine, Chicago. — 1975. The Thai Social Order as Entourage and Circle. G. William... ...east Asia. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 29. Quadrangle Books, Chicago. Murray, Charles A. 1977. A Behavioral Study of Rural Modernizatio...

...e, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages ...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...ing of Faraday’s other arm and stumbled. Only his relentless grip kept her from falling. “It wasn’t his fault, Mr. Faraday.” Her voice came out ... ...n’t happen again, I promise.” Faraday cleared his throat and edged away from her. “He’ll never have the opportunity. Not when I have him arres... ...ed. “The full contract.” Listen With Your Heart 9 Chapter 1 Chicago, October 8, 1871, five years later Daniel Connolly smiled ... ... Morgan had the papers spread all over the parlor floor. The Great Chicago Fire recreated in words and illustrations and maps lay scattered... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ... ***** On a broad slope sweeping down to the Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale of a house for... ...old buggy could be as lullin’ as a cradle. You’ve slept the whole way from East Had— “ Even before Ivor rolled to a halt, Morgan was slowly rising... ...volio in Twelfth Night in a company set to tour through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana startin’ in one week. Do you think he’s up to it?” Smothering...

...adour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using...

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Against the War : A Novel of the Vietnam War Era

By: Roland Menge

...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one as a medic. The other two of the four friends, i...

...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the roa...

...fter Matt; they come upon Morris in uniform 9. Brandt rescues Morris in a fight with an antiwar demonstrator 10. Steward gets some heartfelt advice from Barbara Carpenter 11. Steward visits his draft board to ask about his status 12. Steward bores Mary’s sister, Ellen; she winds up with Morris 13. Matt and Mary discuss their relationship and make a commitment 14. VIS...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...- but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists and that it has the potential to de... ... But why do shareholders cooperate with such corporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web ... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ... efforts" (in Georges Duby, "The age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that ... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...- but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists and that it has the potential to de... ... But why do shareholders cooperate with such corporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web ... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ... efforts" (in Georges Duby, "The age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that ... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...rs with penetrating head injuries suffered in World War I. Orbitomedial wounds made people "pseudopsychopathic": grandiose, euphoric, disinhibited, ... ...ication) or a general medical condition (e.g., head trauma)." (DSM-IV-TR, p.689) From my book "Malignant Self-love - Narcissism Revisited": "I... ...rs are perfectly "normal". Surely, this indicates a genetic predisposition of some people to developing personality disorders. Still, this oft-to... ... judgement … that has nothing to do with developmental psychology." (H. Kohut. The Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976. Marian and Paul Tolpin (Ed... ...uded, welcomed, and enjoyed." (Paul and Marian Tolpin (Eds.). The Preface to the "Chicago Institute Lectures 1972-1976 of H. Kohut", 1996) One no... ...hich reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of American Hi... ...onija", "Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review", and ot... ... the Link and Factoid Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern Europe categories in various Web directories (Open Direc...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...drawn with power. Bartlett is an accomplished writer.” PAUL ENGLE in The Chicago Tribune: “...articulate, believable ... charms with an expert know... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...than create a vague illusion of the past. He conveys the character of real people, their interior life and outer world. A mature artist, he writes wi... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...lities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic... ...troduction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florent... ...poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyr... ...isregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will rea... ...ok: NonPoems, by Florentin Smarandache, Xiquan Publishing House, Phoenix, Chicago, 1991, 1992, 1993; the volume contains very experimental so called... .... Exercises for readers: If China and Japan are in the Far East, why from USA do we go west to get there? Are humans inhuman... ...our place at the debate table - allows you to be." (Andrei Ple şu, <Some Eastern Neuroses>) If you seriously speak, you are laughing at me. I... ...colae, "Cuget ări", edited by Elisabeta Jurca-Pod, The Yellow Bird Publ., Chicago, 1991. [14] Jaspers, K., "Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Unders... ...Haiku, Bucharest, 1994. [45] Veatch, H.B., "A Contemporany Appreciation", Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1974. [46] Vlastos, Gregory, "The ...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of... ...hicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NORRIS... ...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...tion and, while waiting, found a vague amusement in counting the number of people who filtered in single file through the wicket where the tickets wer... ...f. And such toi- lettes!” 7 Frank Norris With every instant the number of people increased; progress became impossible, except an inch at a time. The... ...s it rolled gigantic and majestic in a vast 64 The Pit flood from West to East, here, like a Niagara, finding its flow impeded, burst suddenly into t... ... arranged pa- per bags half full of samples of grains, stretched along the east wall from the doorway of the public room at one end to the telephone r... ...p, it would appear, was promising enough, as was also that of Missouri. In Indiana, however, Jadwin could guess that the hopes of even a mod- erate yi...

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

... Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothi... ... this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him. He had already gained fame i... ...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ...ermont home, where they collaborated on “The Naulahka: A Story of West and East,” for which The Cen- tury paid the largest price ever given by an Amer... ...rs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a m... ...he Yellowstone ........................................................ 37 Chicago ...................................................................... ...es says that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. I know be... ...certain of it, why, then—I waited developments. “And what did you think of Indiana when you came through?” was the next question. It revealed the myst...

...small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

...American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 37 Chicago ..................................................................... 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America?s Defenceless Coasts ................................. 60...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 4 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...lly in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on ... ...groes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical diffe... ... that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law to keep them from it; but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great apprehens... ...e in great apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, I give him the most solemn pledge that I will to the very last sta... ...ngress, re- turned to Illinois in the month of August, he made a speech at Chicago, in which he made what may be called a charge against Judge Douglas... ...e points Judge Douglas makes upon Judge Trumbull is, that when he spoke in Chicago he made his charge to rest upon the fact that the bill had the prov... ... drew the line to- 32 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four ward the east, you narrowed the boundary and diminished the domain of slavery, and b... ...r time a moment with what he said. Mr. Clay was at one time called upon in Indiana, and in a way that I suppose was very insult- ing, to liberate his ... ...n of it is in these words: “What is the foundation of this appeal to me in Indiana to liberate the slaves under my care in Kentucky? It is a general d...

...hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it....

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridicule, how much this ki... ...m H. Lambert, of Philadelphia, and Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chi- cago, to the Chicago Historical Association and person- ally to its capable Secretary, M... ..., Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & Co., of Boston; to A. C. McClurg & Co., of Chicago; to The Robert Clarke Co., of Cincin- nati, and to the J. B. Lippin... ...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...bate with Dou- glas had given him a national reputation. The people of the East being eager to see the hero of so dramatic a con- test, he had been in...

... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

................................................................. 4 SPEECH AT CHICAGO, JUL Y 10, 1858. ..................................................... ... evidences of design, and con- cert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning. The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more t... ...lavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition. Four days... ...nt gained. But, so far, Congress only had acted, and an indorsement by the people, real or apparent, was indispensable to save the point already gaine... ...to any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there- from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic instituti... ...is sure to come. 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three SPEECH AT CHICAGO, JUL Y 10, 1858. IN REPL Y TO SENATOR DOUGLAS DELIVERED AT CHICAGO,... ...t believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana, the oyster laws of Virginia, or the liquor laws of Maine. I have s... ...in favor of Illinois going over and interfering with the cranberry laws of Indiana? What can authorize him to draw any such inference? I suppose there... ...h? Why, I know this people better than he does. I was raised just a little east of here. I am a part of this people. But the Judge was raised farther ...

...T SPRINGFIELD, JUNE 17, 1858 ............................................................................................................ 4 SPEECH AT CHICAGO, JULY 10, 1858. .................................................................................................................. 12 IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS ..........................................................

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...ounded on the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irr... ...; and yet it may be said that at present it is but a mighty desert. On the eastern side of the Alleghanies, between the base of these mountains and th... ... may have been true in 1832, but is not so in 1874, when great cities like Chicago and San Francisco have sprung up in the Western States. But as yet ... ...n North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Missouri. In V ermont, Indiana, Illinois, South *This passage is extracted and translated from M. ... ...r list. Lastly, in the States of Missouri, Alabama, Illinois, Louisi- ana, Indiana, Kentucky, and V ermont, the conditions of vot- ing have no referen...

...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 to the preservation of the liberties which...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... .... LINCOLN. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...e told me that within a reasonable time you would seize the railroad at or east of Knoxville, Tenn., if you could. There was then in the department a ... ...in 300 miles of Knoxville, nor within 80 miles of any part of the railroad east of it, and not moving forward, but telegraphing here that you could no... ...he did! D.W .] REPL Y TO A COMMITTEE FROM THE RELI- GIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF CHICAGO, ASK- ING THAT THE PRESIDENT ISSUE A PROCLA- MATION OF EMANCIPATION... ...nduce me to believe we should re- voke or suspend the order suspending the Chicago Times; and if you concur in opinion, please have it done. Y ours tr...

...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ed cluster round that half of it which runs westward from the Capitol. The eastern end, running from the front of the Capitol, is again a desert. The ... ...t a plan.” The Capitol was intended to be the center of the city. It faces eastward, away from the Potomac—or rather from the main branch of the Potom... ...iverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta, Chicago, and Leghorn have all become popu- lous, and are or have been great... ...elphia, perhaps, justi- fies the partiality. The same thing may be said of Chicago, of Buffalo, and of Baltimore. But the same thing cannot be said in... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...h which led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work in a Chicago school. Her imagination carved and colored the new plan. She saw he... ...gain. She wrote to him once a week—for one month. VI A year Carol spent in Chicago. Her study of library-cata- loguing, recording, books of reference,... ...There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustabl... ...rol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street ... ...infested with curiosity. In France or Tibet quite as much as in Wyoming or Indiana these timidities are inherent in isolation. But a village in a coun...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ...es as many captured at Gettysburg, to say nothing of similar operations in East Ten- nessee. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script ... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven ANNOUNCEMENT OF UNION SUCCESS IN EAST TENNESSEE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., De- cember 7, 1863. ... ... upon a call of the greatest respectability, a convention has been held at Chicago upon the same subject, a summary of whose views is contained in a m... ...W ASHINGTON, December 19, 1863. GENERAL GRANT, Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Indiana delegation in Congress, or at least a large part of them, are very ... ...CUTIVE MAN- SION, W ASHINGTON D. C., December 26, 1863. HON. U. F. LINDER, Chicago, Ill.: Y our son Dan has just left me with my order to the Secretar...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...the Ohio is low, you’ll find a wide band of clear water all the way down the east side of the Mississippi for a hundred mile or more, and the minute y... ...little trading scows from every where, and broad horns from “Posey County,” Indiana, freighted with “fruit and furniture”—the usual term for de scri... ...dent in the Sandwich Islands; next, a roving correspondent in Europe and the East; next, an instructional torch bearer on the lecture platform; and, f... ...s. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 229 One can do this in Boston and Chicago. The “burnt dis trict” of Boston was commonplace before the fire... ... disease.’— North American Review, No. 3, Vol. 135. In an address before the Chicago Medical Society, in ad vocacy of cremation, Dr. Charles W . Purd...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ...Y DEAR SIR:—Y our doleful letter of the 8th was received on my return from Chicago last night. I do hope you are worse scared than hurt, though you ou... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...cuttings of Lincoln’s speeches at Peoria, in 1854, at Springfield, Ottawa, Chicago, and Charleston, in 1858. They were pasted in a little book in whic... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ...d all I ever received from you; and certainly one since my return from the East. Opinions here, as to the prospect of Douglas being nomi- nated, are q... ...e ground that I think is right—right for the North, for the South, for the East, for the West, for the whole country. And in doing so I hope to feel n...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...hemselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; th... ... these familiarities, into a sort of worthless toleration for me. We reached Chicago in the evening. I was turned out of the cars, bundled into an omn... ..., and driven off through the streets to the station of a different railroad. Chicago seemed a great and gloomy city. I remember having sub- scribed, l... ...e were deposited at the Pacific Transfer Station near Council Bluffs, on the eastern bank of the Missouri river. Here we were to stay the night at a k... ...till westward that they ran. Hunger, you would have thought, came out of the east like the sun, and the evening was made of edible gold. And, meantime...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...h salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, 32 Around the ... ...ious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent. The celebrated East India Com- pany was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gai... ...roctor. “Now or never!” “Very good. You are going to New York?” “No.” “T o Chicago?” “No.” “T o Omaha?” “What difference is it to you? Do you know Plu... ...Fogg in a few hours to Omaha. Thence the trains eastward run frequently to Chicago and New York. It was not impossible that the lost time might yet be... ...t fully comprehended that that gentleman had no time to lose. It traversed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like a flash, rushing through t...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...F THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF AN AFFLICTED, DESPISED AND DEEPLY OUT- RAGED PEOPLE, BY RANKING SLAVERY WITH PI- RACY AND MURDER, AND BY DENYING IT EITH... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ... to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior... ...der this head in the daily papers; his name glided as often—this week from Chicago, next week from Boston—over the lightning wires, as the name of any... ...APPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that county, there... ...tty meanness of stealing a hoe—or taking a hoe that did not belong to him. Eastern Shore men usually pronounce the word took, as tuck; Took-a-hoe, the... ...nd lecturing, in company with William A. White, Esq., through the state of Indiana. Anti-slavery friends were not very abundant in In- diana, at that ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ...m. Half cold, anyway!” 17 Sinclair Lewis Ted Babbitt, junior in the great East Side High School, had been making hiccup-like sounds of interruption. ... ...ceries and laundries and drug-stores to supply the more immediate needs of East Side housewives. The market gar- dens in Dutch Hollow, their shanties ... ...ed golf, he often smoked cigarettes instead of cigars, and when he went to Chicago he took a room with a private bath. “The whole thing is,” he explai... ...s place.” “Yuh, but say, any of you fellows ever stay at the Rippleton, in Chicago? I don’t want to knock—I believe in boosting wherever you can—but s... ...and communism—Atlanta with Hartford, Rochester with Denver, Milwaukee with Indianapolis, Los Angeles with Scranton, Portland, Maine, with Portland, Or...

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

By: Thomas H. Kean

...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...in. Around this time Sweeney told W oodward that the hijackers were Middle East- erners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little Eng... ...is flying the plane—I think we are going down—I think they intend to go to Chicago or someplace and fly into a building—Don’t worry, Dad— If it happen... ...s turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and failed to co... ...s MAK. 40 Other cities with branches of al Khifa included Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and T ucson. 41 Al Khifa recruited American Muslims to...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s ca...

...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...wo hundred and fifty miles from north to south, and the same distance from east to west; whereas the State called Rhode Island is about forty miles lo... ...itself at Bristol, and at other stated times at Kingston, and at others at East Greenwich. Of all legislative assem- blies it is the most peripatetic.... ...nada, Quebec has 60,000; Montreal, 85,000; Toronto, 55,000. In the States, Chicago has 120,000; Detroit, 70,000; and Buffalo, 80,000. If the populatio... ...ion of inhabitants, while Montreal has 85,000? Why has that babe in years, Chicago, 120,000, while Toronto has not half the number? I do not say that ... ... in population as have these Western States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Kansas to which ...

...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ... I Take My Pen in Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Somet... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ...? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...summer ripples on Paumanok’s sands, Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town, Observing shows, births, improvements, s... ...adly and savage, Manhattan rising, advancing with menacing front—Cincinnati, Chicago, unchain’d; What was that swell I saw on the ocean? behold what c...

...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 power, Cheerful, f...

.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ...ood to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. On the other hand, I never could very clearly see ... ...ncoln: V ol Two VERSES WRITTEN BY LINCOLN AFTER A VISIT TO HIS OLD HOME IN INDIANA- (A FRAGMENT). [In December , 1847, when Lincoln was stumping for C... ...nt of Mexico. Third. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people, which settlement has existed ever since long 21 The Writings of Ab... ...de on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fifth. Whether the people of that settlement, or a majority of them, ... ...nstead of the Rio Grande; and that, therefore, in marching our army to the east bank of the latter river, we passed the Texas line and invaded the ter... ...d, and also, at the rate of $1500 per year, for the Piqua, Fort Wayne, and Chicago service, as mentioned above. These accounts have already been discu... ...to be given to Illinois, and that Mr. Ewing desires Justin Butterfield, of Chicago, to be the man. I give you my word, the appointment of Mr. Butterfi...

...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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Winesbur Inesbur, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

... Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked, I suppose, not very different from most other American towns, and the few of its resi- dents I tried to e... ...im; it certainly should not surprise anyone who reads his book. Once freed from the army, I started to write li- ter-ary criticism, and in 1951 I publ... ...he old handicrafts towards our modern life of ma-chines.” There were still people in Clyde who re-membered the frontier, and like America itself, the ... ...lks expected him to become a “go-getter,” And for a time he did. Moving to Chicago in his early twenties, he worked in an advertising agency where he ... ...ge in his life. At the age of 36, he left behind his business and moved to Chicago, becoming one of the rebellious writ- ers and cultural bohemians in... ...er face to the wall and tries “to force herself to face the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.” Or especially in Winesb... ...got from a box of goods seen at a freight station as he hurried through an eastern Ohio town. He had an aunt in Winesburg, a black-toothed old woman w... ...tern towns lived. In those days young women did not go out of our towns to Eastern colleges and ideas in re- gard to social classes had hardly begun t... ...en had been somewhat limited. He was the son of a wagon maker from Muncie, Indiana, and had worked his way through college. The daughter of the underw...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ...n were all born in this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held ... ...3 we moved to Georgetown, the county seat of Brown, the ad- joining county east. This place remained my home, until at the age of seventeen, in 1839, ... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...tled, but wolves had been driven out long before I left. Benjamin was from Indiana, still less populated, where the wolf yet roamed over the prairies.... ...oms, and su- perintended their drill. It was evident, from the time of the Chicago nomination to the close of the canvass, that the 115 U. S. Grant e... ...accepted with their organizations as they were, except in two instances. A Chicago regiment, the 19th infantry, had elected a very young man to the co...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...y that was the mess hall. Chins down, chests out, legs twitching and tired from the afternoon’s drilling, the company stood at atten- tion. Each man s... ...s where violet arc lamps al- ready contested the faint afterglow, drooping from their iron stalks far above the recently planted saplings of the avenu... ... me, a cabin de lux, when I git rich.” But here he was in this town in the East, where he didn’t know anybody and where there was no place to go but t... ...od friend who’s a kike.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came... ...y?” “Oh, I come from New York. My folks are from Virginia,” said Andrews. “Indiana’s ma state. The tornado country … . Git to work; here’s that bastar... ...selli, “everything’s awful pretty-like. Picturesque, they call it. And the people wears peasant costumes … . I had an uncle who used to tell me about ... ...n the white hyacinths. They made him think of florists’ windows at home at Eastertime and the noise and bustle of San Francisco’s streets. “God, I hat... ...room when the Peace Conference meets.” Andrews heard Aubrey’s voice with a Chicago burr in the r’s behind him in the stairs. “Fine, let’s hear it,” sa... ...e paper on the edge of the billiard table and wrote: “John Brown, aged 23. Chicago Ill., Etats-Unis. Musician. Holder of passport No. 1,432,286.” “Mer...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...can’t quite tell which is which, any more. By and by Aleck subscribed to a Chicago daily and for the Wall Street Pointer. With an eye single to finan... ... beans and black coffee, and nothing of ornament but war pictures from the Eastern illustrated pa pers tacked to the log walls. That was all hard, ch... ...n point. I find it without trouble, in the morning paper; a cablegram from Chicago and Indiana by way of Paris. All the words save one are guessable b... ...ind it without trouble, in the morning paper; a cablegram from Chicago and Indiana by way of Paris. All the words save one are guessable by a per son... ... I wish it would stay with the other animals … . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain … . we? Where did I get that word—the new c...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ... out in the lighter or the small boat, in a long, heavy roll from the nor’-east. When the dog was taken out, he got awfully ill; one of the men, Geord... ...ain, it shrinks together, as if for warmth, on one of the withering, clear east-windy days, until it seems to lie underneath your feet. I want to let ... ...ISCO, AUGUST 1879.] DEAR COLVIN, – I am in the cars between Pittsburgh and Chicago, just now bowling through Ohio. I am taking charge of a kid, whose ... ...use, hurried by child’s games… . Have at you again, being now well through Indiana. In America you eat better than anywhere else: fact. The food is he...

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