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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...der 16. “Women are not allowed to perform priestly duties in the Mormon Church. Neither were African- Americans men until a new revelation i... ...s of having many of the best football and basketball players at the major Mormon university, Brigham Young University, being Afro-American.” ... ... into question. It‟s the same with Protestant Evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons. The more conservative, or I should say the more reactionary the ph... ...he religious right in America or the fundamentalist Muslims, Catholics and Mormons. JUSTICE “Our justice system is a bit different from y... ...thing from the Soviet society. They built Young Pioneer Palaces. The Young Pioneers were the future of their society. They were something like the Bo... ...ous populations. This may cause frictions with the natives. Catholics and Mormons may blend in, because they usually dress like the native population...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...et Champ Perry in the post-office—and de- cided that in the history of the pioneers was the panacea for Gopher Prairie, for all of America. We have lo... ...et unimagined how, turn it back to simplicity? She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys. Champ Perry was the buyer at the grain-elevator. He w... ...he bosses of Gopher Prairie.” She smiled at him, and the Perrys faded, the pioneers faded, till they were but daguerreotypes in a black walnut cupboar... ...inclair Lewis “How? I’ve failed at everything: the Thanatopsis, par- ties, pioneers, city hall, Guy and Vida. But— It doesn’t matter! I’m not trying t... ...to reason. It proved that the only problems which America had to face were Mormonism and Prohibition: “Don’t let any of these self-conceited fellows t... ...m is in eternal peril and, to return to this vital and terrible subject of Mormonism—and as I say, it is terrible to realize how little attention is g... ...of arising in their might and passing a law that any one admitting he is a Mormon shall simply be de- ported and as it were kicked out of this free co... ... moment, especially as there are more of them in this state than there are Mormons, though you never can tell what will happen with this vain gen- era... ... of bread, and many of them lis- 340 Main Street tening to these sneaking Mormon missionaries—and I actually heard one of them talking right out on a...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...o, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives and Lazarus; jesters and mourners, teetotalers a... ...dy Ground, Kentucky: ‘They were strong, brave men; but, unlike many of the pioneers in those days, theirs was no love of conflict for conflict’s sake.... ...mahawk. The three successive 151 Melville husbands of this woman had been pioneers, and with them she had wandered from wilderness to wilderness, alw...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...affected my reputation unfavourably, and produced in the few discour- aged pioneers of those days a quite touching gratitude. Over my mantel as I writ... ...inating. It has been made by odd and irregular means by trading companies, pioneers, explorers, unauthorised seamen, adventurers like Clive, ec- centr... ...s from party and make some special appeal, say to the teetotal vote or the Mormon vote or the single tax vote, and so squeeze past O, P , Q, R, who ha...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...rtunate could go by Cape Horn or by the Isthmus of Panama; but the mass of pioneers crossed the plains with their ox-teams. This took an entire summer... ... in the “divinity” of hu- man slavery, as there are now people who believe Mormon- ism and Polygamy to be ordained by the Most High. We forgive them f... ...ority for feed- ing them unless they were employed as teamsters, cooks and pioneers with the army; but only able-bodied young men were suitable for su... ...he labor of building the batteries and intrenching was largely done by the pioneers, assisted by negroes who came within our lines and who were paid f... ...rienced railroad builder. He had no tools to work with except those of the pioneers—axes, picks, and spades. With these he was able to intrench his me... ... It was seen that the volunteers of the Mexican war largely com- posed the pioneers to settle up the Pacific coast country. Their numbers, however, we...

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