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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...i by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...hat it wouldn’t be no risk to swim down to the big raft and crawl aboard and listen—they would talk about Cairo, because they would be calculating to ... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ... then Mr. Bixby went into hiding behind a smoke stack where he could observe results. Presently the captain stepped out on the hurricane deck; next th... ...r to steer her than it is to count the Republi can vote in a South Carolina election. One morning, just at daybreak, the last trip she ever made, the... ... rab bit—limbs and features merged together, not strongly de fined; pewter presidential campaign medal; miniature card board wood sawyer, to be att...
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...
...re Cooper A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...CS S ERIES PUBLICATION New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ON New York by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e it bore but a sec- ondary rank among what were then considered the great States of the Confederacy. Massachusetts, proper and singly , then outnumbe... ...rk has none of this adventitious aid. Both of the Governments, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving... ...ntly given on even conflicting reasons. Different minds arrive at the same results by different processes; and it is no unusual thing for men to deny ... ...al executive power that spares the turmoil, ex- pense, and struggles of an election, and which an- swers all the purposes of the real authorities of t... ...among civilized nations. We entertain very little doubt that the cost of a presidential election fully equals the ex- penditures of the empire of Grea... ...hief magistracy . Nor is this the worst of it; for while much of the civil list of a monarch is usefully employed in cherishing the arts, and in foste...
...Excerpt: The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for 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 ...