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......................................................................... 109 Columbus Cheney .............................................................. ... burned in a mine, One was killed in a brawl, One died in a jail, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife- All, all are sleeping, sleepin... ...evolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fathe... ...ing with the Indians, and who Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law And emerged from it richer than ever Myself grown tired of toil and poverty And beholdi... ...orting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, When it was ... ...Anthology Doctor Meyers NO other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And... ...u know why? My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. And I turned to the people and poured out my love to them. Sweet it was to see the crowds about... ...isoned me, I think. Now in the Campo Santo overlooking The sea where young Columbus dreamed new worlds, See what they chiseled: “Contessa Navigato Imp... ...gn to eyes of second sight. . . And that I saw! 110 Spoon River Anthology Columbus Cheney THIS weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the mil...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of ... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...veral ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born— indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. In the year 1776 it took form in the n... ...as not this the origin of popular sover- eignty as applied to the American people? Here we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving... ...d by Douglas going there; and I am really tempted to make a flying trip to Columbus and Cincinnati. 36 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five I d... ... and any other friends, and believe me Y ours truly, A. LINCOLN. SPEECH AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. SEPTEMBER 16, 1859. FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE STA TE OF OHIO: ...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...INGTON, November 14, 1863. 12.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Cincinnati, Ohio: I have received and considered your dispatch of yesterday. Of the rep... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...eeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of wors... ...OUGH. EXECU- TIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January 15, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: If Private William G . Toles, of Fifty-ninth Ohio V oluntee... ...RAM TO GOVERNOR BROUGH. W ASHING- TON CITY, May 24, 1864. GOVERNOR BROUGH, Columbus, Ohio: Y ours to Secretary of War [received] asking for something ...

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...an Coast Range, none of its near neighbours rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring- t... ...Bucks, and bears, and rattle-snakes, and former mining operations, are the staple of men’s talk. Agriculture has only begun to mount above the valley.... ... site of sleepy Calistoga; yet in the mean time, around the foot of that 4 mountain the silence of nature reigns in a great m... ...f nature reigns in a great mea- sure unbroken, and the people of hill and valley go sauntering about their business as in the days before the flood. T... ...d a theory of his own, which I did not quite grasp, except that the trees had not “grewed” there. But he mentioned, with evident pride, that he differ... ...ed; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the griz- zly muses undisturbed. But there they bide ... ...an. It is no tie of faith, for we detest each other’s errors. And yet somewhere, deep down in the heart of each one of us, something yearns for the ol... ...I was presented to Mr. Corwin, the landlord; to Mr. Jennings, the engineer, who lives there for his health; to Mr. Hoddy, a most pleasant little gentl...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ...he liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and... ... to force? Never! Driven from Ver- mont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some indepe... ...is section ascended from the south-west to the north-west by Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town, Schuyler, and Fremont, to Omaha. It f...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ...he Rotarians or the Kiwanis, to the Elks or Moose or Red Men or Knights of Columbus or any one of a score of organiza- tions of good, jolly, kidding, ... ... Red Men, Woodmen, Owls, Eagles, Maccabees, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, and other secret orders characterized by a high degree of hearti-... ...motor tour through Ohio, and the exploration of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus; the birth of Verona; their building of this new house, planned to...

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...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...outh, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in hi... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ... getting down into the upper edge of the former battle stretch by this time. Columbus was just behind us, so there was a good deal said about the famo... ...he morning. I was on the “R. H. W . Hill.” T ook over a load of troops from Columbus. Came back, and took over a bat tery of artillery. My partner s...

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...had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight proc... ...wain 3 the high strikes. It made him sick to listen to Tom, and to hear the people say “My land!” “Did you ever!” “My good ness sakes alive!” and a... ...“My good ness sakes alive!” and all such things; but he couldn’t pull away from it, any more than a fly that’s got its hind leg fast in the molasse... ...he would sneak there and get it out and bury it in another place. Of course, people got to avoiding him and shaking their heads and whispering, becaus... ...ade him the greatest man in all that region, and the most talked about; and people come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from o... ... greatest man in all that region, and the most talked about; and people come from as much as thirty miles back in the country, and from over in the I... ...t’s happened is that this old bladder has slid over Illinois and Indiana and Ohio like nothing, and this is the east end of Pennsylvania or New York, ... ...elt pretty good, too, and proud; and we kept watching with the glasses, like Columbus discovering America. But we couldn’t see nothing but ocean. The ... ... follow the river north nearly, an hour and three quarters, till you see the Ohio come in; then you want to look sharp, because you’re getting near. A...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...— Montgomery’ s World before the Flood. “Io! Paean! Io! sing. To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knock- ing people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I c... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...n of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the... ...ng; though we know the sea to be an ever- lasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over number- less unknown worlds to discover his one superf... ...le. Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled—the delicious death of an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found ...

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...Contents Winesburg, Ohio ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe .....................................

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... Winesburg was partly modeled. Clyde looked, I suppose, not very different from most other American towns, and the few of its resi- dents I tried to e... ...im; it certainly should not surprise anyone who reads his book. Once freed from the army, I started to write li- ter-ary criticism, and in 1951 I publ... ... Ohio Lionel Trilling’s influential essay attacking Ander- son, an at-tack from which Anderson’s reputation would never quite recover. Trilling charge... ...he old handicrafts towards our modern life of ma-chines.” There were still people in Clyde who re-membered the frontier, and like America itself, the ... ...er face to the wall and tries “to force herself to face the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.” Or especially in Winesb... ...ually a root condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit- ied and dismissed; at some point ... ...nity in the commu-nity, a lawyer, and a member of the state legislature at Columbus. Joe himself was small of body and in his character unlike anyone ... ...a posi- tion as dispatcher at an increased salary and sent to an office at Columbus, Ohio. There he settled down with his young wife and began buying ... ...marriage. He made for George Willard a picture of his life in the house at Columbus, Ohio, with the young wife. “in the garden back of our house we pl...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...hem to make laws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem... ...ard of a Spanish ship, which was cast away in 1502, during the lifetime of Columbus. Bovadilla, Roldan, and many other Spaniards were lost in her, tog... ...ke Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of the Ohio River. And all around these forts and castles lay the eternal forest, ... ...to describe the bloody defeat of General Braddock, near the sources of the Ohio River, in 1755. But I must not omit to mention that, when the Eng lish...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...art shock before com ing below, which, but that we were the most sanguine people living, might have prepared us for the worst. The imaginative artist... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ... little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe how v... ...wn, and every little boat was splashing noisily in the water; and knots of people stood upon the wharf, gazing with a kind of ‘dread delight’ on the f... ...t of its way to ripple near this mound: and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as ... ...5 CHAPTER XIV —RETURN TO CINCINNATI. A STAGE COACH RIDE FROM THAT CITY TO COLUMBUS, AND THENCE TO SANDUSKY. SO, BY LAKE ERIE, TO THE FALLS OF NIAGARA... ...ground accursed, and made obscene and rank by some great crime. We reached Columbus shortly before seven o’clock, and stayed there, to refresh, that d...

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... distress of their brethren in the far north, whom distance has not barred from the claim of being counted our “neighbours”? And whatever their humane... ...s- lator hopes in the course of a mail or two to receive a com- munication from a leading man of science in the island, which may furnish matter for a... ...ould be arrived at. Yet the translator hopes that what trifling deviations from the text or corrections in foot notes he is responsible for, will have... ...eturn should be the first news of it.” “Do you really think there are many people bold enough?” said I. “Certainly; who would hesitate to acquire such... ...it with all our luggage, the abundance of which rather astonished the good people of Rejkiavik. “Well, Axel,” said my uncle, “we are getting on, and n... ...t the little lake between the house of the bishop and other non-commercial people. I had soon explored these melancholy ways; here and there I got a g... ...rees with logic to support my conviction. Now, this is my pro- posal. When Columbus asked of his ships’ crews for three days more to discover a new wo... ..., recognised the justice of the claim, and he discovered America. I am the Columbus of this nether world, and I only ask for one more day. If in a sin... ...iving and resembling those the bones of which were found in the marshes of Ohio in 1801. I saw those huge elephants whose long, flexible trunks were g...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...ton to Richmond. It is believed that the quickest route would be by way of Columbus, Ky., and up the Ohio River. But in detaching your force the Presi... ...R TOD, EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, March 9, 1863. GOVERNOR DA VID TOD, Columbus, Ohio: I think your advice with that of others would be valuable i... ...Cipher.] EX- ECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, June 18, 1863. GOVERNOR D. TOD, Columbus, O.: Yours received. I deeply regret that you were not renomi- nat...

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...of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I... ... the twilight of New Year’s Eve, I find incidents of travel rise around me from all the latitudes and longitudes of the globe. They observe no order o... ...quence, but appear and vanish as they will—‘come like shadows, so depart.’ Columbus, alone upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the wast... ...one upon the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...edings; it has been his busi ness to write to all sorts and conditions of people, in the names of persons of high reputation and unblemished honour, ... ...hone; and the Seine, and the Saone; and the St. Lawrence, Mississippi, and Ohio; and the Tiber, the Po, and the Arno; and the—‘ Peacoat coughing as if...

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ... sug- gestion of such a policy roused the population upon the banks of the Ohio, then inconsiderable, as one man. Their confidence in Washington scarc... ...o fast in population as have these Western States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Kansas to ... ...er realized the doctrine that honesty is the best policy. Cortez, and even Columbus, the prince of frontier men, are in the same category. The names o...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ..................423 BOOK XXVII..................................435 Prayer of Columbus...........................435 BOOK XXVIII.......................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...ants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going fort... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...lly loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, M...

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...d a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and ask... ..., so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity... ...rs in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would de rive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sen... ...hed by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels. It is true, we are but faint hearted crus... ...lker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People. We have felt that we almost alone hereabouts practiced this noble... ...es, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap. A people who would begin by burning the fences and let the forest stand! I ... ... may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespueius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer amoun... ...ky, the gar dens of the Hesperides, and the foundation of all those fables? Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obe... ...ss the stream, and, as before I had looked up the Moselle, now looked up the Ohio and the Missouri and heard the legends of Dubuque and of Wenona’s Cl...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...nt anew the orders and the ornaments of archi- tecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes. The Doric temple preserves th... ...ious, lofty pitch, Your roof were not sufficient to contain it.” Henry VI. Columbus needs a planet to shape his course upon. Newton and Laplace need m... ...scovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since. Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat. It is curious to see the ... ...s which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles, Xenophon, Columbus, Bayard, Sidney, Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...nd find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...nough once, per chance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep the fire a going; new people put a little dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe w... ...cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou. Even the bison,... ...r a sign. Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channel...

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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...ctedly, and turns these modest riots into a revolution. And there was poor Columbus. He elaborated a deep plan to find a new route to an old country. ... ...s, which was a most unusual for tune for a king to possess in those days. Columbus’s great Mark T wain 107 achievement gave him the discovery fever,... ...arth is 1492 miles in circumference. To proceed with “History” Christopher Columbus was called the Father of his Country. Queen Isabella of Spain sold...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ...e was a scout of General Fremont. He re- ported that he had just come from Columbus, a point on the Mississippi twenty miles below on the Kentucky sid... ...re expecting rebel troops that day. In fact, nearly four thousand men from Columbus were at that time within ten or fifteen miles of Paducah on their ... ...s and one battery with me, but the enemy did not know this and returned to Columbus. I stationed my troops at the best points to guard the roads leadi...