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... the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known ...

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...t contributes to the importance of a great com- mercial mart, renders them one of the most remark- able places of the present age. Within the distinct... ...of the State of New Y ork and the people of the city , was about as ten to one. Between 1830 and 1840, the former had so far in- creased in numbers as... ...wns on the Bay of New Y ork and its waters—has been entirely lost, five to one being near the truth at the present moment. It is easy to foresee that ... ...iew often a deceptive and dangerous method of construing a law , since the vote is very frequently given on even conflicting reasons. Different minds ... ... put at the disposition of Conventions of the several States; in fact, the votes of these Conventions, or that of the respective legislatures acting i... .... But we are willing to concede this point and admit that it does. Can the vote of a single State, which is one of a body of thirty, and which is boun... ...he scenes can as securely anticipate the obedience of their agents, as the members of the bureaux in any cabi- net in Europe can look with confidence ... ... the truth of this copartnership principle, in which every man is so far a member of the firm that he may take his share of the assets, we cannot see ...

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...at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her last remark, ?You imply that you do tell fibs. Perhaps that is one.? ?Oh no; there is nothing wonderful in my being glad to see you,? Mrs. Luna rejoined, ?when I tell you that I have been three long weeks in this unprevaricating city.? ?That has an unflattering sound for me,? said the yo...

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... answer to her last remark, ‘You imply that you do tell fibs. Perhaps that is one.’ ‘Oh no; there is nothing wonderful in my being glad to see you,’ Mr... ...ld like to go with her. It wasn’t a party—Olive didn’t go to parties; it was one of those weird meetings she was so fond of. ‘What kind of meetings do... ...don’t go out much, except to the courts.’ ‘Do you mean the law courts? Every one has got some profession over here! Are you very ambitious? You look a... ...guests presently made their way, and where they were joined by various other members of the good lady’s circle. Indeed, it completed Miss Birdseye her... ... candour of allusion to her neighbour was probably not habitual to her, as a member of society in which the casual expression of strong opinion genera... ...’s door in the exercise of this function), had afterwards been for a while a member of the celebrated Cayuga community, where there were no wives, or ... ... didn’t care anything about female suffrage! And I didn’t feel the want of a vote to day at all, did you?’ Verena inquired, ending, as she always ende... ...stituencies than by being elected. People might be found eccentric enough to vote for him in Mississippi, but meanwhile where should he find the twenty... ...e made a great many excursions on the water. She was de 302 The Bostonians voted to boating and an ardent fisherwoman, and they used to pull out into...

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...nd regard attaching something of interest to matters ever so slightly connected with my fortunes or my speculations, even my place of residence might one day have a kind of charm for them. Bearing this possible contingency in mind, I wish them to understand, in the outset, that they must never expect to know it....

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...cted with my fortunes or my specula tions, even my place of residence might one day have a kind of charm for them. Bearing this possible contin genc... ... can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. But for many years I have led a lonely, so... ... never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. But for many years I have led a lonely, solita... ...dear to me. The moth and spider are my constant tenants; for in my house the one basks in his long sleep, and the other plies his busy loom secure and... ...erson the dignities of wholesale fruiterer, alderman, common councilman, and member of the worshipful Company of Patten makers; who had superadded to ... ...s, as it was proper that a wholesale fruiterer, alderman, common councilman, member of the worship ful Company of Patten makers, past sheriff, and, a... ...quite in the House of Lords (for she had married a feeble peer, and made him vote as she liked),—he, this man, this learned recorder, had said, ‘my lo... ...eper of yours; it’s a low subject, damned low. ‘I tell you what, sir. If you vote me into one of those empty chairs, you’ll have among you a man with ... ... to my three friends, who Master Humphrey’s Clock — Dickens 76 unanimously voted his admission into our body. We all looked forward with some impati...

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...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a s...

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.... NOTE: The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais. The thre... ...ently combined under the title The Thirteen. THE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN EYES ONE OF THOSE SIGHTS in which most horror is to be encoun- tered is, surely,... ...leration bears its fruits, and in the salon, as in the street, there is no one de trop, there is no one absolutely use- ful, or absolutely harmful—kna... ... solicitors’ clerks; in fine, all the work- ing, thinking, and speculating members of that lower middle class which honeycombs the interests of Paris ... ...to be flinging them away broadcast. The first, on the faith of a hope, de- vote themselves without conviction to a system which has wind and tide agai... ...hirty Another Study of Woman Ferragus The Duchesse of Langeais The Member for Arcis To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http:/...

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...r, like the voices of the sea and the wind, were as an outer memory to a contemplative listener; but not particularly so to Mr. Riderhood, who sat on one of the blunt wooden levers of his lock-gates, dozing. Wine must be got into a butt by some agency before it can be drawn out; and the wine of sentiment never having been got into Mr. Riderhood by any agency, nothing in na...

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...templative lis- tener; but not particularly so to Mr Riderhood, who sat on one of the blunt wooden levers of his lock-gates, dozing. Wine must be got ... ... always attended by an angry stare and growl, as if, in the absence of any one else, he had aggres- sive inclinations towards himself. In one of these... ...recommendation, honest fellow,’ said Eu- gene, ‘for the next candidate—the one who will offer himself when you are transported or hanged. Don’t be lon... ...e, and I should like to know what you’d have said if any other un- married member of the family had done it!’ He read the letter, and faintly exclaime... ...inds himself engaged to a young lady , and it comes (even on the part of a member of the family) to vipers, you know!— I would merely put it to your o... ...as belonging to another station, and quite cut off from you in honour. Re- member that I have no protector near me, unless I have one 67 Charles Dick... ...ead. Good gracious! My T wemlow forgotten! My dearest! My own! What is his vote? Twemlow has the air of being ill at ease, as he takes his hand from h...

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...concerted plan we feel called upon to serve it. And in no connection would one so like to think oneself un-original as in this connection. It would be... ...ginal as in this connection. It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing 5 H.G. Wells anything here which was not the possible tho... ...es of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes in such a book as this not to express oneself but to swell a cho... ...- tory one. The Finn or the Pole, who has hitherto been a rather reluctant member of the synthesis of the Russian em- pire, may well wish to end that ... ...em- pire, may well wish to end that attachment in order to be- come a free member of a worldwide brotherhood. The de- sire for free arrangement is not... ...osals with the simple suggestion that each sovereign power should send one member to the 11 H.G. Wells projected parliament of mankind. This has a pl... ...of mankind. This has a pleasant demo- cratic air; one sovereign state, one vote. Now let us run over a list of sovereign states and see to what this l... ...this college which elects the President is elected on the same register of voters as that which elects the Senate and Congress, and at the same time. ... ...ief defect of the American Presidential election is that as the old single vote method of election is employed it has to be fought on purely party lin...

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...ies Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable ... ...ion, in any way. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ... an equal opportunity university. 3 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One The Writings of Abraham Lincoln V olume 1 of 7 INTRODUCTORY IMMEDIATELY... ...reponderance of sentiment in the Leg- islature, followed by only one other member, he recorded his protest against a proslavery resolution,—that prote... ...mancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, and by his repeated votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended to exclude slavery from the T... ... vice to his country in solving the great problem. Nor had his career as a member of Congress in any sense been such as to gratify his ambition. Indee... ...s which then became vacant; and when he, an old Whig, could not obtain the votes of the Anti-Nebraska Democrats neces- sary to make a majority, he gen... ...sary to make a majority, he generously urged his friends to transfer their votes to Lyman Trumbull, who was then elected. Two years later, in the firs... ...as in the Legislature and Douglas in the lobby; and again in 1836, both as members of the Legislature. Douglas, a very able politician, of the agile, ...

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...ite and black races; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to ... ...y, social and political, between negroes and white men. I recollect of but one distinguished instance that I ever heard of so frequently as to be enti... ... State which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes. I will add one further word, which is this: that I do not understand that there is any... ... proved to be very offen- sive to him. The Judge was at that time out upon one of his speaking tours through the country, and when the news of it reac... ... the reporters that portion of Judge Trumbull’s Alton speech which was de- voted to this matter, and also that portion of Judge Douglas’s speech made ... ...or Kansas, and put in force, with- out giving the people an opportunity to vote upon it, and that Mr. Douglas was in the plot.” I will state, without ... ...s. He says: “I will ask the senator to show me an intimation, from any one member of the Senate, in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, and in the Un... ...nt his face and tell you that he personal1y knows it to be a lie! He was a member of Congress at the only time I was in Congress, and [Ficklin] knows ... ...o, that Washington ever said so, that any President ever said so, that any member of Congress ever said so, or that any living man upon the whole eart...

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...mas Carlyle deal with her! This month of September, 1792, which has become one of the memorable months of History, presents itself under two most dive... ...story, presents itself under two most diverse aspects; all of black on the one side, all of bright on the other. Whatsoever is cruel in the panic fren... ...efiance of Twenty-five million men, stand here in abrupt contrast, near by one another. As indeed is usual when a man, how much more when a Nation of ... ...e, with his hardness and sharp falchion and aegis, that shall have casting vote? Melodious agreement of vote; this were the rule! But if otherwise, an... ...te? Melodious agreement of vote; this were the rule! But if otherwise, and votes diverge, then surely Andromeda’s part is to weep,—if possible, tears ... ...ricolour sashes speak encouragement and well-speed-ye. Nay finally ‘twelve Members of the Legislative go daily, ’ not to encourage only, but to bear a... ...ng to suspect in this man; I am for granting him his liberty. Is that your vote?” To which all the judges answered: “Oui, oui; it is just!”’ And there... ... not to be expected. The Legisla- tive had much ado to save one of its own Members, or Ex- Members, Deputy Journeau, who chanced to be lying in arrest... ... except in print. Of Minister Danton, who will lay down his Ministry for a Membership, we need not speak. Paris is fervent; nor is the Country wanting...

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...u could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You would not require much, of such an engine as... ...rfected result, build the fine engine. O.M. You would require much of this one? Y.M. Oh, indeed yes. O.M. It could drive lathes, drills, planers, punc... ...other engine and raptur ously praise it? Y.M. Yes. O.M. But not the stone one? Y.M. No. O.M. The merits of the metal machine would be far above those... ... duties. Y.M. Take the case of a clergyman of stainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party’s ticket, and against... ...get more light than he wants. In America if you know which party collar a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he came by his pol... ...ave yourself, by contenting the Master. Y.M. How do you mean? O.M. Has any member of the family ever implored you to watch your temper and not fly out... .... The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me. It was not so with other members of the family. Susy died in the Mark T wain 81 house we built in H... ...rom me. She knew all the birds; she was high up in that lore. She became a member of various humane societ ies when she was still a little girl—both ... ... the sumac berry. Mark T wain 149 One has no time to examine the word and vote upon its rank and standing, the automatic recognition of its su prema...

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...do everything else, and cannot authorize them to prohibit slavery. That is one of the things the court can decide, but can never give an intel- 5 The... ...erently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Buchanan. Fremont. ... ... By this you will see, if you go through the calculation, that if they get one quarter of the Fillmore votes, and you three quar- ters, they will beat... ...u go through the calculation, that if they get one quarter of the Fillmore votes, and you three quar- ters, they will beat you 125 votes. If they get ... ...votes, and you three quar- ters, they will beat you 125 votes. If they get one fifth, and you four fifths, you beat them 179. In Madison, alone, if ou... ... beat them 179. In Madison, alone, if our friends get 1000 of the Fillmore votes, and their opponents the re- mainder, 658, we win by just two votes. ... ...er of per- sons who are afterwards to inhabit that Territory, or the other members of the families of communities, of which they are but an incipient ... ...lions of free men. That gen- eration of men, though not to the full extent members of the convention that framed the Constitution, were to some extent... ...embers of the convention that framed the Constitution, were to some extent members of that convention, holding seats at the same time in 73 The Writi...

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...l opportunity University. 3 A Tramp Abroad A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of ... ...ty permits this house to belong to private parties, instead of gracing and dignifying herself with the honor of possessing and pro- tecting it. Frankf... ...were nearly always nice enough to take into a body’s lap. And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, they were new- ness and brightness carried to perfe... ...the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, composed of British and American students, had twent... ... a dozen of them sat to- gether and a lady or a gentleman passed whom one of them knew and saluted, they all rose to their feet and took off their cap... ...each other, but nothing further. For example, when the regular dueling-day of one of the corps approaches, its president calls for volunteers from amo... ...ptains with a frequency accord- ingly. We framed in our minds the usual resolution of thanks and admiration and gratitude, and took the first opportun... ...a hot punch for ourselves, to keep off consump- tion. After supper and punch we had an hour’s soothing smoke while we fought the naval battle over aga... ...med to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have had no experience of those wonderful Swiss and African ones...

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...uri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in object. One of them, ad- dressed to nobody, and without place or date, but having t... ...ar operations in East Ten- nessee. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script pages, and one newspaper in extenso, and yet I do not find... ...oyal man has been harmed by reason of being disarmed, or that any disloyal one has harmed anybody by reason of being armed by the Federal or State Gov... ... has made out the certificates, and they are al- ready in the hands of the members. I suggest that they come on with them; but that, for greater caut... ...y answer for one. If you could procure the same to be done for the Oregon member it might be well. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE M... ... can serve both the country and himself more profitably than he could as a member of Congress upon the floor. The foregoing is what I would say if Fra... ...evented by his provost-guards. He says that at some of those places Union voters will not attend at all, or run a ticket, unless they have some assur... ...remaining point of your letter is a protest against any person offering to vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. This brings ... ... same reason in both States, Missouri has, by law, provided a test for the voter with refer- ence to the present rebellion, while Maryland has not. F...

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...mutual confession. We arranged to hold a series of meetings in which first one and then another explained the faith, so far as he understood it, that ... ...irregu- lar and fragmentary nature of the creeds we produced, clot- ted at one point, inconsecutive at another, inconsistent and unconvincing to a qui... ...cing to a quite unexpected degree. It would not be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer floundering about with an air of exquis... ... extensively or intensively, that is to say whether in relation to all the members of the species or in relation to an imaginary typical specimen. The... ...hat I throw them off as a child scribbles on a slate. Mr. Ruskin, if I re- member rightly, accused Whistler of throwing a pot of paint in the face of ... ... me as it were in a scheme, the latter illuminates and inspires me. I am a member in that great being, and my function is, I take it, to develop my ca... ... the members according to a contract which the whole community should have voted acceptable. The community would be the guardian of money deposited or... ...ure of our case, a triumphant majority in power, before allowing anyone to vote, might impose an oath whereby the leader of the minority and all his a... ...every question, however subtle and special its issues may be, to a popular vote. The community is regarded as a consultative committee of profoundly w...

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...g whatever to tell the reader about them. Mr. Bensington won his spurs (if one may use such an expression of a gentleman in boots of slashed cloth) by... ... paper that he imagined himself to be reading audibly; and once I remember—one midday in the vanished past—when the British Association was at Dover, ... ...ess learn in the course of ten or twelve years almost as much chemistry as one could get in one of those objectionable shilling text-books that were t... ...iety for the Total Suppression of Boomfood claims to have several thousand members,” said Winkles, changing the subject. “They’ve drafted a Bill,” sai... ...t do all that,” said Winkles. “But public opin- ion is public opinion, and votes are votes. Everybody can see you are up to a disturbing thing. And th... ...ence shows that the Commission had, under the tute- lage of that most able member, Doctor Stephen Winkles (F.R.S. M.D. F.R.C.P . D. Sc. J.P . D.L. etc... ...ed young Caddies. I gather the embarrassment continued until the swain re- membering his manhood, vehemently, with loud shouts, threats, and virile bl... ...or his animal prototype. What did exist were gatherings, and caucuses, and votes—above all, votes. He was votes incarnate—millions of votes. And now i... .... And now in the great crisis, with the Giants broken but not beaten, this vote-monster talked. It was so evident that even now he had everything to l...

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...e. Long, however, as it had been considered, it was unheeded on account of one more interesting to the general public assembled round the table. “I sa... ...r ashamed; and when Mary brought back the dish replenished with slices, no one said a word as to whether the butter were thick or thin. The silence se... ...y Mr. Henry Merrifield,” said Susan, at last able to speak. “Don’t believe one word, David dear; Hal is laughing at you.” “But how does a pig do it?” ... ..., Susie; we’ll do it all without you, never fear!” “And now,” said Sam, “I vote we have some fun in the garden.” Some readers may be disposed to doubt... ...nd good breeding that mark the gentleman had not been wanting to the elder members of the family. The father of these children was a captain in the na...

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...with him in his journeyings, a man may lose himself in the streets, not as one loses one’s self in London, between Shoreditch and Russell Square, but ... ... loses one’s self in London, between Shoreditch and Russell Square, but as one does so in the deserts of the Holy Land, between Emmaus and Arimathea. ... ...o save the secretaries who sit in the bu- reaus from a too rapid influx of members of Congress. This statement I by no means indorse; but it is undoub... ...bitants have no politi- cal power, as power is counted in the States. They vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no me... ...y vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no member to Congress, either as a senator or as a Representative. Mount Verno... ...he mind of man can conceive. Its ordinary male population, counting by the voters, is 1500, and of these 700 were in the Southern army. The place had ... ...would be very fatal to the society of Washington. It was not only that the members of Congress were not there. As to very many of the Representatives,... ...ncy of the American machine. When any matter of real interest occasioned a vote, the ayes and noes would be given aloud; and then, if there were a dou...

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...ess, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of livi... ...s to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one hand his broad method and concep- tions, and upon the other his intimat... ... that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’s time have come near to one another; it is no simple story of white passions struggling against the... ...st me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queechy and the Wide Wide World. She ... ...itten. “We ought to keep off fine writing,” said Shoesmith. “It’s cheek. I vote we don’t have any.” “We sha’n’t get any,” said Cossington, and then as... ... the writing,” said Shoesmith. “We don’t want to give ourselves away.” “I vote we ask old T opham to see us through,” said Naylor. Britten groaned al... ...by the nature of things least oppressed by them,—except when it comes to a vote in Convocation. We were still in those days under the shadow of the gr... ...e higher division of the Civil Service, and who had become an enthusiastic member of the London School Board, upon which the cumulative vote and the s... ...voice made her laugh. She told me I had bold eyes, and so far as I can re- member I said she made them bold. “Blue they are,” she 109 H G Wells remar...

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...nd save him from the latter. For instance, our planks and boards, and what one can do with them, have been a great discovery. Lots of boys and girls s... ...d boards we have are of various sizes. We began with three of two yards by one; they were made with cross pieces like small doors; but these we found ... ...a yard square, thirty inches square, two feet, and eighteen inches square— one or two of each, and a greater number of smaller ones, 18 x 9, 9 x 9, an... ...citizens with two legs and at least one arm and capable of standing up may vote, and vot- ers may poll on horseback; boy scouts and women and chil- dr... ...vot- ers may poll on horseback; boy scouts and women and chil- dren do not vote, though there is a vigorous agitation to remove these disabilities. Zu... ...are riderless horses and camels; but the el- ephant has never attempted to vote on any occasion, and does not seem to desire the privilege. It influen... ...y, soul without body, a kind of metallic rage. This it was that our junior member instantly knew for a ‘lectric, and loved from the moment of its stri...

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...hardly fair to Mr. Kipling to call “American Notes” first impressions, for one reading them will readily see that the impressions are superficial, lit... ...ught being put upon the writing. They seem super-sarcastic, and would lead one to believe that Mr. Kipling is antagonistic to America in every respect... ... men. Think of it! Three hundred thou-sand white men and women gathered in one spot, walking upon real pavements in front of plate- glass-windowed sho... ...inces in America—at least with crowns on their heads—but a generous-minded member of some royal family received my letter of introduction. Ere the day... ...oyal family received my letter of introduction. Ere the day closed I was a member of the two clubs, and booked for many engagements to dinner and part... ...ed their fists on the table and spoke of political “pulls,” the vending of votes, and so forth. Theirs was not the talk of village babblers reconstruc... ...ough him the negro in service generally. He has been made a citizen with a vote, consequently both political par- ties play with him. But that is neit... ... anything it pleases until that much-to-be-de- sired hour when the Gentile vote shall quietly swamp out Mormonism; but the garrison is kept there in c...