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...nged and I moved my disabled daughter, her son and my boxes all over central Texas. Kicking, screaming and complaining, my focus quietly shifted from ... ...sionaries go through extensive training, including learning the language and cultures of the countries they’re traveling to. Writers need to learn eve... ...D and wait patiently for him.” Psalm 37:7 (NIV) “New Y ork City!” a bunch of Texas cowboys retort in a TV ad when another cowpoke reveals he bought hi... ...s he bought his salsa in the eastern state. New Y ork editors might not make Texas salsa, but when one is confirmed as a Texas writer’s conference gue... ... arrives at the conference. Even with a few editor/agent interviews under my Texas belt buckle, never had I met an editor from New Y ork, New Y ork! M... ...n. Although young and fit, she seemed a bit travel weary after her flight to Texas. I asked the first few questions, about her trip, accommodations, a...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...asting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tang... ...ved that in a world of nonsense spoken by barbarians little outside of human culture had a positive worth except for friendship, and if he needed to l... ... in the Ozarks with high hills everywhere. He had lived in both Missouri and Texas depending on the needs of his father's work. They had homes in bot... ... for her indulgence in being allowed to study abroad in that quasi-nation of Texas. Merging the more affluent family to hers had been the price for R...

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...iences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world. ―Our cultur... ... a common purpose and dynamic leadership, they stop growing when the individual selfishness of greed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the cultur... ...anguage for frivolity rather than for philosophy. But guys, let‘s get serious again. Our mental environment is undoubtedly important. What our cultur... ...faction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, faith, and discipline. In a cultur... ...gh their attitudes are conventional, they relate to ends rather than means. While they tend toward the conventional and exist well within the cultur... ...elves. These are the so-called ‗lost boys.‘ 49 ―In the famous Texas ... ... children. The subservient wives controlled their children and had the power of God directing them to heaven if they obeyed. ―When the Texas ...

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...f Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those of us who like Szechwan and Thai.‖... ...y congruent. George Bush‘s approach to capital punishment, as governor of Texas, was that he trusted what the courts had found through their complet... ... case. He did this in the 152 death cases that he affirmed as governor of Texas. But when the courts found that Terry Schiavo was brain-dead he was ... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...ious country is a more moral country. The idea that materialism leads to ―cultures of death‖ is the official opinion of your church, father. Pope Jo... ...n Plyler v. Doe (30) illegal immigrants were allowed public education in Texas. It also held that the state could not enforce illegal immigration. ... ... a felony conviction of a year for possessing four ounces of marijuana in Texas. ―When looking at the negatives for your ideal society you ma...

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...zu and Confucius from the East. There were the portrayals of the pharaohs' cultures. There was homage paid to the achievements of the university at ... ...oney by not farming or renting. So tenant farmers have lost their jobs. In Texas rice farming has decreased by 60% under the new laws. But property o... ...ational facilities and experience your musical presentations. I think every culture has something to teach other cultures, or they wouldn‘t have endu... ...t and the West. There are arts and music that are eternal arising from most cultures. ―On the other hand, the urge to war seems to be a cult...

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...e was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to finish a fi... ... a living memory. The visitors to the museum were usually enthusiasts ofIndian culture, curious, or just plain lost. It was near closing time when ... ...iver Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed the other tanned thigh... ...epresented the University's inter­ est and concern in preserving American Indian culture. The security guard at the entrance to Matloch's estate spok... ...cheology from Gonzaga University. Your Doctoral Thesis was on American In­ dian Culture and Artifacts. Let's see ... " Matloch thumbed through some ... ... to choke the proverbial horse, "Senator Langdon, the Ranking Re­ publican from Texas said, and a nervous ripple of laughter flut­ tered throughout t... ... on that, Mr. Secretary?" Before he could answer, the husky voiced Senator from Texas bellowed, " Mr. Chairman, with all due respect, we have been s... ...rol One', "This is the front gate," Taranto spoke into the ra­ dio mimicking the Texas accent of the first guard, "We've got an intruder. We need ass...

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...rief period of her life only to be ultimately taken away by their move to Texas--roasting hotdogs and marshmallows in a forest not so different from ... ...drops on her tongue, the way she, a belated American Indian severed of the culture, horselessness notwithstanding, had galloped her bicycle on rainy ... ...f business. Can’t you see that? The whole economy would suffer. If the cultured people were all to forego pleasures for your sakes there would be ... ...by the rich. Innocence needs to be denuded and deflowered by the filthy. Culture and progress have to be made on the backs of laborers. Handsome po... ... Twenty One "Oh, Sister Connie, with rare exceptions, American culture is diarrhea of the mind. This CD isn't so bad, I suppose. It isn't... ... Catholic and atheist. Who is so original that she can think outside her culture fully? We are from whence we come. Do I believe in Chuckles...

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... deal. You tell me what I want to know and I will try to cut back on the pop culture metaphors. Not promising, but I’ll at least try.” “I guess ... ...bers, but I’m scared. Get real. “Make you a deal, hot stuff. You keep your culture to yourself and I won’t try to teach you how to speak in the mo... ... was sure. Mr. Ravell was one person I’d hate to go up against in a game of Texas Hold ‘em. Then again, I wouldn’t turn down a game of Strip Poker...

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...s are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of t...

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...elations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basi... ...f France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 13 basin of the M... ...m; a fanciful pilot house, a glass and “gingerbread,” perched on top of the “texas” deck behind them; the paddle boxes are gorgeous with a picture or ... ...ded rays above the boat’s name; the boiler deck, the hurricane deck, and the texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings; there is ... ...r rope; bright brass knobs for the bells; and a tidy, white aproned, black “texas tender,” to bring up tarts and ices and coffee during mid watch, da... ...p in a week’s apprenticeship over in Jersey just before we sailed. My cattle culture and cattle enthusiasm have served their turn—I shan’t need them a... ...the repulse of the Union forces with great slaughter. Chapter 4O Castles and Culture BATON R OUGE WAS CLOTHED IN FLOWERS, like a bride—no, much mo... ... the toma hawk of commercial enterprise, sounding the warwhoop of Christian culture, tearing off the reeking scalp of sloth and Life on the Mississip...

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...ame had preceded him. He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain ... ...s, only to overhear, 12 American Notes when I expected the level voice of culture, the staccato “Sez he,” “Sez I” that is the mark of the white serva... ...ales of riata-throwing in Mexico and Arizona, of gambling at army posts in Texas, of newspaper wars waged in godless Chi- cago (I could not help being... ... been spending the evening. 19 Rudyard Kipling Read about politics as the cultured writer of the maga- zine regards ‘em, and then, and not till then,... ...By consequence she has welded on California beauty, Paris dresses, Eastern culture, Europe trips, and wild Western origi- nality, the queer, dreamy su...

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... of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too power- ful to be suppressed by the ordinary cour... ...f South Carolina, Geor- gia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue ... ...f South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis- sissippi, and Texas was ordered to be established: And whereas, since that date, public p... ...overnment service. Of course the se- ceded States, so called (and to which Texas had been joined about the time of the inauguration), gave no troops t... ...h came into the Union directly from a condition of dependence, ex- cepting Texas. And even Texas in its temporary independence was never designated a ... ..., the latter are co-operat- ing with them in establishing civilization and culture on the American continent. Such being the general principles which ...

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...m that the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennes- see, North Carolina, and the State of... ...inia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas in an orderly manner seize and use any property, real o... ...- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, pa... ...ay in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Ber- nard, Plaquemines, Jeffer... ...uth Caro- lina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi- ana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida (except the in- habitants of that... ...of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia (except the forty-eight...

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...r the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing called General Culture. In her class there were two or three prettier girls, but none more... ... corker— not a better man in the state to go hunting with; and if you want culture, besides Vida Sherwin there’s Reverend Warren, the Congregational p... .... He passed the stewed apricots effusively. “There are a great many bright cultured people here. Mrs. Wilks, the Christian Sci- ence reader, is a very... ...—have you met him? —oh, you must!—he’s simply a darling—intel- ligence and culture and so gentle.) But I don’t care so much about the ugliness. That w... ... for farmers’ wives. And they do take such an inter- est in refinement and culture. So—in fact, so very unique.” Carol was disappointed—by nothing ver... ... and asked Bresnahan what he thought about the Packard car, investments in Texas oil-wells, the com- parative merits of young men born in Minnesota an... ...nest kind of critter that God ever made—meaner than the horned toad or the Texas lallapaluza! (Laughter.) And do you know what the animile was? He was... ... parties, and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith th... ...he doc write you about the luck B. J. Gougerling had hunting ducks down in Texas?” 443 Sinclair Lewis When the news had been told and their enthusias...

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...ern stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisiana purchased, and Missouri and Kansas rescued from ... ...rs, and al- most always to the detriment of the South. In 1845 Florida and Texas were admitted into the Union as slave States. I think that no State h... ..., I imagine, impossible—unless such object were gained by the admission of Texas. We all remember that fight about Kansas, and what sort of a fight it... ...themselves to a man in the ranks of abolition. What was the acquisition of Texas against such hosts as these? An evil day was coming on the Southern p... ... a State. Florida still belonged to Spain, and was all but unpopulated. Of Texas no man had yet heard. Of the slave States, Virginia, the two Carolina... ...haps in af- fection; but he cannot separate himself from England in mental culture. It may be suggested that an Englishman has the same advantages as ...

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...es of Other Days”; “Religion in History”; “Dream Land”; “The Ad vantages of Culture”; “Forms of Political Government Com pared and Contrasted”; “Mel... ...after I’ve spied around a little and think things look well for it. Then for Texas! We’ll leg it together!” This was satisfactory. Both men presently ... ...ht flamed in his eyes. “I’ll need your help in it. When it’s finished — then Texas. Go home to your Nance and your kids, and stand by till you hear fr... ...ing on me and doing me mean tricks. If it hadn’t been for me he’d be down in Texas now, all right.” Then Huck told his entire adventure in confidence ...

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...irst or senior wrangler, with every advantage that high training and broad culture and association with the wisest and the best of men and women can g... ...th had been spent in the forest or on the farm and the flat- boat, without culture or training, education or study, by the random reading, on the wing... ...prehended from it till, by the invention of the cotton gin in 1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and forever the leading industry of t... .... It was a great audience, including all the noted men—all the learned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, ... ..., and their hundreds of others, scampering away with the pub- lic money to Texas, to Europe, and to every spot of the earth where a villain may hope t...

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...avage race has produced architects who could approach the air in genius or culture. No civilized race has produced architects who could plan a house b... ...inct. O.M. She has cows, and milks them. Y.M. Instinct, of course. O.M. In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivat... ... had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple. There are several curious “compositions” in the l... ...s are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. Pride of profes sion is one of the boniest bones in existence, if... ... stem to rudder post with the memorials of strenuous experience, and is so cultured, so educated, so limitlessly erudite that one may say of him “all ... ... he was induced to enter upon a course of most ex tended study and mental culture, is almost insuperable. Still it was physically possible, provided ...

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...natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree of culture and enlightenment in society.* At the first glance it may be imagin... ...d manufacture centres in the hands of the Anglo-Americans. But the case of Texas is still more striking: the State of T exas is a part of Mexico, and ... ...reseen that if Mexico takes no steps to check this change, the province of Texas will very shortly cease to belong to that government. If the differen... ... exas. The inhabitants of the United States are perpetually migrat- ing to Texas, where they purchase land; and although they conform to the laws of t... ... the empire of their own language and their own man- ners. The province of Texas is still part of the Mexican do- minions, but it will soon contain no... ...ong as it is only sur- *[This was speedily accomplished, and ere long both Texas and California formed part of the United States. The Rus- sian settle... ...s degree, amongst all democratic nations. Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sci- ences, or of the more elevated departments of sc... ...the midst of a democracy, not unprepared by ancient traditions and present culture to partake in the pleasures of the mind. Ranks are there inter- min... ... all received the same edu- cation; they do not possess the same degree of culture as their fathers, nor any resemblance to them – nay, they per- petu...

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...such a manner as to convince him that cramming had more to do than general culture with success. He had a certain consciousness that most people thoug... ...ject?’ said May. She seemed to think it preferable to driving pigs in the Texas, like her son Malcolm.’ ‘Yes, but then that was the Texas.’ ‘Oh May, ...

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...n to ornament these pretty villas and render them attractive, leads to the culture of trees and flowers, and the laying out of well kept gardens, the ... ...alking in front of the house), he would clean up his musket, and be off to Texas to morrow morning. He was one of the very many descendants of Cain pr...

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... the “Mysterious Island” and “Michael Strogoff,” or even to “Mr. Potter of Texas” and “Mr. Barnes of New York.” But she had set herself to accomplish ... ...urtis; a great, strong, kind-hearted man, with no little graces, nor petty culture, nor trivial fine speeches, nor false sham, imita- tion polish. I l...

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...ch them agri INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 23 culture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which a... ...on are much more so, for no such nation can long exist with out the careful culture of those feelings of confidence and affection which are the effec... ...to distribute the burdens as equally as possible among them. The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union, to form a part of... ...with us the blessings of liberty secured and guaranteed by our Constitution. Texas was once a part of our country—was unwisely ceded away to a foreign... ...e question of annexation as belonging ex clusively to the United States and Texas. They are inde pendent powers competent to contract, and foreign n... ...wise than pacific. Foreign powers should therefore look on the annexation of Texas to the United States not as the conquest of a nation seeking to ext... ... and opening to them new and ever increasing markets for their products. To Texas the reunion is important, because the strong protecting arm of our ... ...vering and have been able to meet all the requirements of the service. Agri culture has been very slow in reviving, but the price of cereals at last ... ... interest with them. They are each of them building a racial character and a culture which is an impressive contribution to human progress. We wish on...

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... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...abroad, lacked the perspective and skills needed to understand a different culture. Frustrated in their search for a decent living, unable to benefit ... ... Al Gore’s concession, no one knew whether Gore or his Republican opponent,Texas Governor George W . Bush, would become president in 2001. The dispute... ... tral Intelligence John McLaughlin led a team to Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, and gave him a wide-ranging, four-hour review of sensitive informa- ...

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...y, the world caught on and rap transformed into hip hop. Now, hip hop is a culture. It has become a style of dress, a type of lingo, and a state of mi... ...When I finally snapped out of it, I was on my final flight to San Antonio, Texas. The time was rolling by so fast that there wasn’t any time to accept...

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..., I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner tha... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...s of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pro... ...e by the pains which be takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the f... ... not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few ex ceptions, no ... ...rides of any nation. But consider how little this village does for its own culture. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them,... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...

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... secur- ing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most re- quest is conformity. Self-rel... ... beam over the universe as on the first morning. 2. It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England... ...ts of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him. These appearances indicate the fact that the univer... ...se like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed. But culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world and aiming at the ... ...er in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation. Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in seas... ...he northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geograp...

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...trenchments. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 78 34 Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped t... ...ways the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the silver mount... ...s solitary just aside the horse path; Leaves of Grass –Whitman 180 Down in Texas the cotton field, the negro cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen b... ...n and Western, The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest, Thy limitless crops, grass, wheat, sugar, oil, corn,... ..., To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs, To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere; To ... ...Grass –Whitman 555 (Wrapt in these little potencies of progress, politics, culture, wealth, inventions, civilization,) Have lost my recognition of y...

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...ifferent instincts, different appetites, different morals, and a different culture. It is well for one man to say that slavery has caused the separati... ...e said that it was honestly achieved. I heartily believe that the whole of Texas is improved in every sense by having been taken from Mexico and added... ...Southern or slave States, properly so called, are easily defined. They are Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South... ...pulation of which must be divided into free and slave: Free. Slave. Total. Texas 415,999 184,956 600,955 Louisiana 354,245 312,186 666,431 Arkansas 33... ...and New York the third. New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Delaware, and Texas owe no State debts. All the other State ships have taken in ballast. ... ...y, nor ragged, nor rough. They have about them no signs of want, or of low culture. Many of us also know the appearance of those girls who work in the... ... which I ever read, that of the same State is, I should say, the worst. In Texas now, of which as a State the people of Massachusetts do not think muc...

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... to cut them down.”’* * “One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in Texas is a petrified forest, near the head of Pasigno river. It consists of... ...pecuniary resources, might, while retaining the neces- sary idea of art or culture, or, as our author expresses it, of interest, so imbue his designs ... ...d beauty, magnificence, and strangeness, shall convey the idea of care, or culture, or su- perintendence, on the part of beings superior, yet akin to ... ...s, deli- cacy, daintiness, voluptuousness, and a miraculous extremeness of culture that suggested dreams of a new race of fairies, labori- ous, tastef...

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...now where it will stop: so, in fact, you know, she may choose to steam for Texas. But the present impression is, that she will settle down by the side... ...h and the nectarine are said to have radiated from this austere stock when cultured, developed, and trans- ferred to all varieties of climate. Superst... ...flictions of our human state that spring up as inevitably without separate culture and in defiance of all hostile culture, as verdure, as weeds, and a... ...rom the bosom of war itself. Gradu- ally the mere practice of war, and the culture of war though merely viewed as a rude trade of bloodshed, ripened i...

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... “that your children are at their present growth in the Elizabethan age of culture—” But again began a “Well, but papa!” but, he exclaimed, “Do look a... ... school. No school would give all three that kind of—what shall I call it?—culture, and intelligence, that they all have; besides, the little one has ... ...ous, but selfish, extravagant, and heedless of all but ease, pleasure, and culture. Some of the enervation of his youth had really worn off, though it... ...derings we got out of the more established regions into the south-west. In Texas we found a new township, called Burkeville, with- out a resident medi...