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...thers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de... ...c, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... that person 36 The Two Brothers was Colonel Philippe. His misfortunes in Texas, his stay in New Y ork,—a place where speculation and individualism a... ...d divert himself. It was certainly a fine concep- tion,—that of conquering Texas with the remains of the imperial army. The failure was less in the id... ...Giroudeau, trying to pose as an uncle, “the colonel has just returned from Texas.” “ Ah! you were taken in by that affair of the Champ d’Asile, were y... ... Sassari, the second capital of the island, with Cagliari by a magnificent highway (the only one ever made in that wild waste by name Sardinia), the d... ...standing near him threw a gleam upon his soldierly face, lit up his brow, 114 The Two Brothers and brought out admirably his clear skin, his ardent e...

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...eets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis... ...CATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...ing-bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, but Carol dared not go. She sat alone. 114 Main Street CHAPTER X The house was haunted, long before evening. Shado... ... to the railroad track, whose direct- ness and dryness make it the natural highway for pedes- trians on the plains. She stepped from tie to tie, in lo... ... and asked Bresnahan what he thought about the Packard car, investments in Texas oil-wells, the com- parative merits of young men born in Minnesota an... ...nest kind of critter that God ever made—meaner than the horned toad or the Texas lallapaluza! (Laughter.) And do you know what the animile was? He was... ... parties, and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith th...

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...ooked impatiently at his gigantic client. “If your Majesty would condescend to state your case,” he remarked, “I should be better able to advise you.”... ...ed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff. “Pray continue your very interesting statement.” “There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chai... ...estrians. It was difficult to realize as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side up... ... claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and we had a wild, free life of i... ...Lon don, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union.” “Texas, I think.” 92 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes “I was not and a... ...e?” 7 “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” The Strand January 1892 pp. 73 85 114 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes “Yes.” “It is to him that this tr... ... gray suit, who seemed to be looking in my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are usually people there. This man, however, was lea...

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...13 The Forge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 114 The Gilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46... ...ore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy piggledy whale statements, how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel ce... ...Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State — (in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.” Opening sentenc... ...have a sea of oil swimming in them.” Extracts 7 Fuller’s Profane and Holy State. “So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathans to attend t... ...barrow that Tartar air! — how I spurned that turnpike earth! — that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turn... ...n oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and ... ...ut floating forts; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the l... ... region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more trav ellers than in any other part. It was no... ...land, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whol...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...y nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate rial contained ... ...f our people must INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 114 consume. The burdens of government should as far as practicable be d... ...to distribute the burdens as equally as possible among them. The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union, to form a part of... ...with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteed by our Constitution. Texas was once a part of our country—was unwisely ceded away to a foreign... ...e question of annexation as belonging ex clusively to the United States and Texas. They are inde pendent powers competent to contract, and foreign n... ... American merchant marine, once the pride of the seas in all the great ocean highways of com merce. To my mind, few more important subjects so impera... ...9 tion grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings ...

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...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 capital at a time of great partisan divis...

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...adin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, 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? . . . ...

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...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...86 CONTENTS v Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page v 3.5 . . . and in the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White... ...5 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactic... ...lers were attempting to ascertain the alti- tude of the southbound flight. 114 Military Notification and Response. Boston Center did not follow the pr... ...rgain with T urabi, Bin Ladin used his construction company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qae... ...mic extremist from Pakistan, shot and killed two CIA employees at the main highway entrance to CIA headquarters in Virginia. (Kansi drove away and was... ... Al Gore’s concession, no one knew whether Gore or his Republican opponent,Texas Governor George W . Bush, would become president in 2001. The dispute... ... tral Intelligence John McLaughlin led a team to Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, and gave him a wide-ranging, four-hour review of sensitive informa- ... ...ral FDNY Incident Command was transferred to his location on the West Side Highway. In all, 22 of the 32 senior chiefs and commissioners arrived at th...

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...ead the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......................20 Me Imperturbe....................................20 Savantism...........................

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and wi... ...se, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...y nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained wi... ...trenchments. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 78 34 Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped t... ...hletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall... ...he cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road. O highway I travel, do you say to me Do not leave me? Do you say Venture no... ...ways the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the silver mount... ...s solitary just aside the horse path; Leaves of Grass –Whitman 180 Down in Texas the cotton field, the negro cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen b... ... What best I see in thee, Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways, Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle, Or that ...

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...is publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s ongoing Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty e... ... the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity stir within h... ...w storms and rain storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them ope... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...the village, half a mile from the nearest neighbor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bound ing on the river, which the owner said... ...metimes one would circle round and round me in the woods a few feet Walden 114 distant as if tethered by a string, when probably I was near its eggs.... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...

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...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Gra... ...Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...my sentiment so palpably that there was no mistaking it. The annexation of Texas was at this time the subject of violent discussion in Congress, in th... ... set up an independent gov- ernment of their own, and war existed, between Texas and Mexico, in name from that time until 1836, when active hostilitie... ...an they could possibly lay any claim to, as part of the new ac- quisition. Texas, as an independent State, never had exer- cised jurisdiction over the... ...sy of defence. It was important, therefore, to get possession of the great highway between the sea-coast and the capital up to the point where it leav... ...years later the Republican party was successful in electing its candidate 114 Personal Memoirs to the Presidency. The civilized world has learned the...

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...North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by ... ...erica: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated wit... ...e said that it was honestly achieved. I heartily believe that the whole of Texas is improved in every sense by having been taken from Mexico and added... ...e is no road within two miles of the house. The lake therefore is the only highway, and that is frozen up for four months in the year. When frozen, ho... ...Southern or slave States, properly so called, are easily defined. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South... ...pulation of which must be divided into free and slave: Free. Slave. Total. Texas 415,999 184,956 600,955 Louisiana 354,245 312,186 666,431 Arkansas 33... ...tely at a distance from any thoroughfare. At first the margins of nature’s highways, the navigable rivers and lakes, were cleared. But as the railway ... ...country of still greater extent. No river on the face of the globe forms a highway for the produce of so wide an extent of agricultural land. The Miss...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...ncoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...s (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff que... ... consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of those... ... V .B., but they say he will not be the candi- date, and that they are for Texas anyhow. As ever yours, A. LINCOLN. 1845 SELECTION OF CONGRESSIONAL CA... ...on the subject of the tariff, the currency, the improve- ment of our great highways, rivers, lakes, and harbors, the will of the people, as expressed ... ...ut in my present condition, I can do nothing. Yours, as ever, A. LINCOLN. 114 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 15, 1849. _... ... whatever the retiring J. P. might have done. As to the proviso to Section 114 I think it was put in to cover possible cases, by way of caution, and n...

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...NARRATIVE and MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous P... ...ellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...But then, fever and delirium would wait no longer; the killing exhaustion 114 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers would no longer be refused; the feve... ...now where it will stop: so, in fact, you know, she may choose to steam for Texas. But the present impression is, that she will settle down by the side... ...me striking prophecies, not verbal but symbolic, if we turn from the broad highway of public histories, to the by-paths of private memories. Either Cl...

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...Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson... ...CATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and witho... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... to the soldiers of the capital: so out of the hu- man heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dom... ...of man. We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe, or we pursue 114 Essays persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these w... ...he northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geograp... ...asures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone. We may climb... ...lt. Moreover, in popular experience everything good is on 221 Emerson the highway. A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a lands...

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...nsolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves i... ...e driver of yourself. Talk of a divinity in man! Look at the teamster on the highway, wending to market by day or night; does any divinity 4 Walden s... ...snow storms and rain storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them op... ...ly of such a distant and exorbitant market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace every where, and anticip... ...object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any ne... ... York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communic... ...the village, half a mile from the nearest neigh bor, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bounding on the river, which the owner said ... ...n amount, and this overflow must be referred to causes which affect the deep 114 Walden springs. This same summer the pond has begun to fall again. It... ...goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion 205 Mr. —— of G...

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...uld, as an author, reduce one’s reader, “artistically” inclined, to such a state of hallucination by the images one has evoked as does n’t permit him ... ...march of my original expression; that my apprehension fits, more concretely stated, without an effort or a struggle, certainly without bewilderment or ... ...that phase of anxiety, I was rejoicingly to learn, belonged all but to the state of postponed experience or to that of a prolonged and fatalistic indi... ...pply the place by artificial, by make believe ones, by any searching of the highways and hedges. Oh yes, they had acquaintances enough—but a marriage w... ...undiminished existence. She had him, it was true, only in America, only in Texas, in Nebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns Ho... ...at he was n’t, that he was just her extraordinary equal and contemporary, 114 The Golden Bowl this was what added to her act the long train of its ef...