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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...n any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of ... ...osition of the hereditary aristocracy of the Empire to the enlightened and liberal policy of the Tycoon, designed to bring the country into the societ... ...ble body of troops, it is believed, were ever more amply provided and more liberally and punctually paid, and it may be added that by no people were t... ... constant attention to their material well-being, to their progress in the arts of civilization, and, above all, to that moral training which under th... ...hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were, for reasons there... ... conviction is the hearty devotion everywhere exhibited by our schools and colleges to the na- tional cause. 249 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V o... ...overnment and in its train sound learning, and the progress of the liberal arts. I am, sir, very truly, your obedient servant, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...etails of the administration. See the Statutes of the State of T ennessee, arts. Judiciary, Taxes, etc. 100 Democracy in America of the administratio... ...Statutes, vol. i. p. 455. The Regents of the University annually visit the colleges and acad- emies, and make their report to the legislature. Their s... ...ture. Their super- intendence is not inefficient, for several reasons: the colleges in order to become corporations stand in need of a charter, which ... ...ssion, or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests. It is a... ...services whatsoever are remunerated, and the most subordi- nate agents are liberally paid. If this kind of government ap- pears to me to be useful and... ... it for their own descendants. The English aristocracy is perhaps the most liberal which ever existed, and no body of men has ever, uninterruptedly, f... ... while I was travelling through the forests which still cover the State of Alabama, I arrived one day at the log house of a pioneer. I did not wish to...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1; Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen, and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, becau...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 Book First Chapter 1 O live will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that. About ten; that is ex... ...very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to... ... the other hand, they might simply have proved that he came from Carolina or Alabama. He came, in fact, from Mississippi, and he spoke very perceptibl... ... this idea, and her picture of the part Miss Chancellor might play by making liberal dona tions to a fund for the diffusion among the women of Americ... ... dim presumptions against this versatile being, who naturally had not wanted arts to ingratiate himself with Miss Greenstreet, her eyes, like his own,... ...arrant—a state of intimacy with the newspapers, the cultivation of the great arts of publicity. For this ingenuous son of his age all distinction betw... ...father desired for her was now assured; she expanded, developed, on the most liberal scale. Olive saw the difference, and you may imagine how she rejo... ... should be unspeakably delighted!’ ‘A few more associations. Did you see the colleges as you came?’ ‘I had a glimpse of a large enclosure, with some b... ...ence of palpitation. This superficially ingenuous proposal to walk around the colleges with Mr. Ransom had really another colour; it deepened the ambig...

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Excerpt: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Sa... ...istic style was climbing, steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, and couldn’t be told from the editorial output of that regi... ...king, nobility and gentry, idle, un productive, acquainted mainly with the arts of wasting and destroying, and of no sort of use or value in any rat... ...its life. The farmers were bound to throw in something, to sort of offset my liberality, whether I would or no; so I let them give me a flint and ste... ...her, be sure there will be no devil’s work connected with it. I shall use no arts that come of the devil, and no elements not created by the hand of G... ...t it — with delicacy, until at last it struck me that as I had already been liberal in inventing wordy gratitude for the king, it would be just the t... ...prosperous country, and strangely al tered. Schools everywhere, and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even authorship was taking ... ...th — we haven’t sixty faithful left!” “What are you saying? Our schools, our colleges, our vast workshops, our —” “When those knights come, those esta...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...—he was actuated by a profound de- sire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more than... ...ll listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ‘mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than ... ... a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all he could do—for all my polite arts and blandishments—he would not move a peg, nor say a single word, nor ... ...e business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any mis- cellaneous... ...Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally pro- vides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supply... ...er come back. Black Little Pip—he never did—oh, no! he went be- fore. Poor Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod’s forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, be... ... likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and don’t jump any more.” Hereby perhaps Stubb ...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... — he was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians, the arts whereby to make his people still happier than they were; and more than... ...ll listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ’mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than ... ...a chair; but in vain. There he sat; and all I could do — for all my polite arts and blandishments — he would not move a peg, nor say a single word, no... ...e business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous m... ...Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplyin... ...ot very many of them ever come back. Black Little Pip — he never did! Poor Alabama boy! On the grim Pequod’s forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, be... ... likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. Bear that in mind, and don’t jump any more.” Hereby perhaps Stubb ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...fi- cence and devoted, according to an inscription which it bears, “To the Arts.” It has been turned into an army clothing establishment. The streets ... ...f Virginia have been the result. At that time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories... ...that the supporters of Mr. Lincoln were very anxious about their ticket in Alabama, or those of Mr. Breckinridge as to theirs in Massachusetts. In Ala... ...ions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and those thousand other affairs of the wo... ...er mile. As far as I could learn, the servants of the post-office are less liberally paid in the States than with us, except- ing as regards two class... ...beer. The attendance is good, pro- vided always that the payment for it is liberal. The cost is generally too high, and unfortunately grows larger and... ...iterature, and I may add also, considering the youth of the nation, in the arts. We are, I think, bound to acknowledge that they have succeeded. And i...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... went “twosing,” and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. In her class ... ...or and him- self had been the arbiters. That was as it should be; the fine arts—medicine, law, religion, and finance—recog- nized as aristocratic; fou... ...overing something of her buoyancy, for- get her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teac... ...ay over Carol had decided to use the Thanatopsis as the tool with which to liberalize the town. She had immediately conceived enormous enthusiasm; she... ...science, or this terrible Higher Criticism that’s ruining our young men in colleges. What we need is to get back to the true Word of God, and a good s... ...evated and served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army. The East remembered generations when there had been no rail... ... studios in New York, in Kan- sas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes. From them she got the same con- fused desire w...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...d, are easily defined. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South wi... ...f America. What was the North to do; this foolish North, which has been so liberally told by us that she has taken up arms for nothing, that she is fi... ...heir arrangements. And this has been achieved in a great degree by private liberality. Men in America are not as a rule anxious to leave large fortune... ... The expense of education at Harvard College is not much lower than at our colleges; with us there are, no doubt, more men who are absolutely extravag... ...ored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There are no gates, no porter’s lodges, no butteries, no halls, n... ...c institutions by rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of th... ...d women of the classes to which I allude talk of reading and writing as of arts belonging to them as a matter of course, quite as much as are the arts...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...thousand—three whole thousand! how much of it can we spend, Aleck? Make it liberal!—do, dear, that’s a good fellow.” Aleck was pleased; so pleased tha... ...rest. He worked his reli gions hard, and changed them with his shirt. The liberal spendings of the Fosters upon their fancies began early in their pr... ...everence for wise old age, and his ardent desire to learn many of the fine arts, soon brought him into respectable notice. One mild winter day, as he ... ...per haps answered your question in bitter coldness. I know not the little arts of my sex. I care but little for the vanity of those who would chide m... ...ies, this Innocents Abroad , has actually been adopted by the schools and colleges of several of the states as a text book! But if his falsehoods ar... ...et together and my fingers spread over my heart, I say, in the language of Alabama, “You do me proud.”) I stand guilty of the authorship of the articl...

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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...His father was a man of some property, and intended to have given his son a liberal education; but he, being idle and worthless, was sent off to se... ...er of the horse, we made a settlement with him, and found him surprisingly liberal. All parts of the saddle were brought back, and, being capable of... ...es; for necessity, the mother of invention, had taught me these two latter arts. The Kanakas went up to the oven, and spent the time in sleeping, t... ... natives about them, baptizing them into the church, and teaching them the arts of civilized life. To protect the Jesuits in their missions, and at... ...ins had been spent upon his education which are thrown away, yearly, in our colleges, he would have been a man of great weight in society. Like most ... ...—‘‘Oh, ’vast there!—You don’t know anything about them craft. I’ve seen them colleges, and know the ropes. They keep all such things for curiosities,... ...ving her later record and her historic end,—captured and burned by the rebel Alabama: NEW LONDON, MARCH 17, 1868. RICHARD H. DANA, ESQ.: ...