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...llow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for ...

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...Contents Introduction LEAVES OF GRASS INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing As I Ponder'd in Silence In Cabin'd Ships at Sea To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginner...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...LLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yesterday is just received. I will answer ... ...your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork rivers than by a land march. In order, therefore, to in- crease the strengt... ...S. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 1.30 P.M. COLONEL MILES, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether e... .... WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 7.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, Franklin, Virginia: Many thanks for the promptness with which you have answered that ... ...oln: V ol Six we shall find a little more than one third of its length are rivers, easy to be crossed, and populated, or soon to be populated, thickly... ...erage as many? Is it less fertile? Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior to Europe in any na...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...itten by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ndon, October 18, 1852. 4 Henry Esmond – Book One PREFACE. THE ESMONDS OF VIRGINIA. THE ESTATE OF CASTLEWOOD, in Virginia, which was given to our anc... ...sty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was once as great as an English Princi... ...uce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose ... ...tory, written by himself, is contained in the accompanying volume, came to Virginia in the year 1718, built his house of Castlewood, and here permanen...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...e another step toward literature. For amusement I scribbled things for the Virginia City enterprise. One isn’t a printer ten years without setting up... ... of their stolen rights, or in no long time blood would flow—blood, blood, rivers of blood! It was great fun. But all of a sudden the aspect of things... ...rld derived from Julius Caesar or Augustus Caesar. Where are the following rivers: Pisuerga, Sakaria, Guadalete, Jalon, Mulde? All you know of the fol... ...hn Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get fugitives slaves into Virginia. He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally con quered and ... ... Italy has three or four domestic brands: the Minghetti, the T rabuco, the Virginia, and a very coarse one which is a modification of the Virginia. Th...