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...t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der the w... ...y real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der the wet s... ...t what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a sec- ond-hand hotel cl... ...at’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a sec- ond-hand hotel clerk ... ...uldn’t it be great if we ran down one?” “Shut the door, Harvey ,” said the New Yorker. “Shut the door and stay outside. You’re not wanted here.” “Who’... ...’t it be great if we ran down one?” “Shut the door, Harvey ,” said the New Yorker. “Shut the door and stay outside. You’re not wanted here.” “Who’ll s... ...ichigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River Buffalo to Albany , and B. and A. the same Albany to Boston. Indispens- abl... ... Fe’ at Sixteenth Street next Tues- day p. m. on N. Y . Limited through to Buffalo and de- liver N. Y. C. for Albany.-Ever bin to N’ York, Miss Kinzey... ...any.-Ever bin to N’ York, Miss Kinzey? We’ll go some day .-Ready? Take car Buffalo to Albany on Limited Tuesday p. m. That’ s for Toucey .” “Haven’t b...

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...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade many mem- bers ... ...avery men. Of the two, Seward had the larg- est following, mainly from New York, New England, and the Northwest. Cautious politicians doubted seriousl... ... original- ity. An address delivered by him in the Cooper Institute in New York, before an audience containing a large number of important persons, wa... ...mind is ineffaceable. After his great successes in the West he came to New York to make a political address. He appeared in every sense of the word li... ...he Beardstown road and Hickox’s mill. Away the people swept like a herd of buffalo, and cut down Hickox’s mill-dam nolens volens, to draw the water ou...

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...t interest to the nation; first, upon a demand for creating clergymen by a new process; secondly, upon a demand for Papal latitude of jurisdiction. Ev... ...rivileged from attack. How should that be done? The object was to create a new clerical power; to shift the elec- tion of clergymen from the lay hands... ...s easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 ... ...n will remind the natu- ralist of something resembling it in the habits of buffaloes. Dampier mentions a case which he witnessed in some island with a... ...which he witnessed in some island with a Malay population, where a herd of buffaloes contin- ued to describe concentric circles, by continually narrow... ...ly at the Versailles affair, where parties were incinerated; for which, in York- shire, there is a local word—crozelled, applied to those who lie down... ...such a theme? And what was it, in fact, that Lord Carlisle had said to his York- shire audience? There was, therefore, a double aspect in the public i... ...nintermitting energies of a missionary amongst pagans. The laboring men of Yorkshire have not the clamorous ne- cessities of pagans; and therefore Lor...

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... course,’ said Dan, flushing. ‘Well, Sir Huon was young when that song was new. But about tricks on mortal babies. I said to Sir Huon in the fern here... ...child Meets the Cold Iron.” And there he stood, in clear starlight, with a new, heavy, shin- ing slave-ring round his proud neck. ‘“Is this how it goe... ...e banquet at Brickwall. They say she danced Philip of Spain out of a brand-new king- dom that day. Worth the price of a pair of old shoes—hey?’ She th... ...aid Dan. ‘You come along too.’ ‘Wilfrid—Saint of Sussex, and Archbishop of York. I shall wait till he asks me.’ He waved them forward. Their feet sque... ...Northumbrian folk. I was bring- ing over a few things for my old church at York, and some of the natives laid hands on them, and—and I’m afraid I lost... ... good Eddi was a little out of his senses, and imagined himself teaching a York choir to sing. Even so, he was beautifully patient with them. ‘I heard... ...e log left the dirt and rasped on dry gravel. The butt ground round like a buffalo in his wallow. Quick as an axe-cut, Lewknor snapped on his five hor...

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...LIC DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States ... ...DINNER given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of A... ...ges in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of older cities almost out of recognition... ...r some months past been collecting materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America has much astonished me; seeing that all that time my de... ...s whether a man has a thousand pound, or nothing, there. Particular in New York, I’m told, where Ned landed.’ ‘New York, was it?’ asked Martin, though... ... asked Martin, thoughtfully. 206 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Yes,’ said Bill. ‘New York. I know that, because he sent word home that it brought Old York to hi... ...e or interference in their private affairs than if he had been a bear or a buffalo. ‘That,’ he repeated, nodding condescendingly to Martin, as to an o...

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...e stepped aboard the favorite steamer Fidèle, on the point of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting... ...unalloyed gratulation, and is such to all ex- cept those who think that in new countries, where the wolves are killed off, the foxes increase. Pausing... ...kwoodsmen; farm-hunters and fame-hunters; heir- ess-hunters, gold-hunters, buffalo-hunters, bee-hunters, hap- piness-hunters, truth-hunters, and still... ...mething wrong about his legs, was, in effect, cut down to the stature of a New-foundland dog; his knotted black fleece and good-natured, honest black ... ...awed him. Presently, sobering down, he continued: “Well, I was born in New York, and there I lived a steady, hard-working man, a cooper by trade. One ... ... him sent to me from the Commissioners of Emigration, all the way from New York, culled out carefully, in fine, at my particular request, from a stand... ...t; now a horse-thief like those in Moyamensing; now an assassin like a New York rowdy; now a treaty-breaker like an Austrian ; now a Palmer with poiso...

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...nto the face of such a past. I knew nothing of the history of Kerfol—I was new to Brit- tany, and Lanrivain had never mentioned the name to me till th... ...st and beauty. Mrs. Manstey occupied the back room on the third floor of a New Y ork boarding-house, in a street where the ash-barrels lin- gered late... ...ughter had married in California, and could not afford the long journey to New York to see her mother. Mrs. Manstey, perhaps, might have joined her da... ...er had married in California, and could not afford the long journey to New York to see her mother. Mrs. Manstey, perhaps, might have joined her daugh-... ...nce he had seen Miss Gaynor off, an hour earlier, on her return journey to Buffalo, he had been wondering how he should put in the rest of the afterno...

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...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................

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....................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ................................................. ................................... .......................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................... ............................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. .................................................... ........................................ .................... 125 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1863. ........................................................ ................................................. ............... 126 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1868. .................................................... ............................................. ............... 126 SPEECH: NEW YORK, APRIL 20, 1868. ........................................................ ...re—bethinking myself that you may, if you be so minded, call a butterfly a buffalo, without advancing a hair’s breadth towards making it one—I became ...

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...ng stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then followed more verse, and so on through an unending seri... ...tories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then followed more verse, and so on through an unending series. ... ... London and brought her to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a pro... ...don and brought her to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- ... ...e grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fo... ...andfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortun... ...- 61 Rudyard Kipling ter—a visitation for such good luck, you understand. Buffalo is a large village of a quarter of a million inhabit- ants, situate... ...pt in Chicago nowhere is the fringe deeper or more heavily widened than in Buffalo. The American will go to a bad place because he cannot speak Englis... ... satisfactory, any way you look at them), I turned me to the lake front of Buffalo, where the steamers bellow to the grain elevators, and the locomoti...

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... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ... overthrown by age, the rushing torrent of a cata- ract, the lowing of the buffalo, and the howling of the wind were the only sounds which broke the s... ...was only adopted in New England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this ... ...ors are almost all commingled with the gen- eral mass. In the State of New York, which formerly con- tained many of these, there are but two who still... ...These differences may be perceived to a certain extent in the State of New York; they are very sensible in Pennsylvania; but they become less striking... ...ore remote tribes, beyond the Mississippi, who live where immense herds of buffalo are yet to be found and who follow those animals in *In the thirtee... ...estors, and live without the white man or any of his manufactures. But the buffalo is constantly receding. The smaller animals, the bear, the deer, th...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ............................................................ 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK .......................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ......................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ........................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK.......................................................................... ........................ 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 ... ... Toronto, 55,000. In the States, Chicago has 120,000; Detroit, 70,000; and Buffalo, 80,000. If the population had been equal, it would have shown a gr... ... its way to the Eastern States and to Europe. We had thought of going from Buffalo across Lake Erie to Detroit; but we found that the better class of ...

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...e The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Pag... ...” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their ... ...cases it effectively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- lectual property. ... ... your cultural and innovation needs? If people need Madame Bovary or The New York Times or a new kind of an- tibiotic, surely the market will provide ... ...petunia market work. What about Madame Bovary, or the antibiotic, or The New York Times? Well, it depends. If books have to be copied out by hand, the... ...of us would want to live in. There are exceptions of course. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Mark Helprin—author of Winter’s Tale—argued that intell... ...ture of the Intellectual Property Clause: A Study in Historical Perspective (Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein, 2002), gives a magiste- rial account of the or... ...ture of the Intellectual Property Clause: A Study in Historical Perspective (Buffalo, N.Y.: W. S. Hein, 2002). Ochoa, Rose, and Walterscheid stress th...

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...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...e meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says o... ...s, and also two masts, one of which served for a tent pole at night; for a buffalo skin was to be our bed, and a tent of cotton cloth our roof. It was... ...king the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the buffalo. 43 HenryDavidThoreau The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at l... ...— that the humble life of a Jewish peasant should have force to make a New York bishop so bigoted. Forty four lamps, the gift of kings, now burning in... ...t, and hung a lantern to the tent pole, and so our house was ready. With a buffalo spread on the grass, and a blanket for our covering our bed was soo... ...any similar excursions to the principal moun tains of New England and New York, and even far in the wilderness, and have passed a night on the summit... ...enryDavidThoreau they had landed, and across the spacious outer bay of New York to Sandy Hook and the Highlands of Neversink, and thence over leagues ...

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...nd so brought to ruin at least half an acre of calculations—and Hitchcock, new to disappointment, buried his head in his arms and wept; the heart-brea... ... who had saved the girder of Number Seven pier from de- struction when the new wire rope jammed in the eye of the crane, and the huge plate tilted in ... ...ed to it by this time. Only a tar. It ought to be Ralli’s answer about the new rivets … . Great Heavens!” Hitchcock jumped to his feet. “What is it?” ... ...ays o’ me youth an’ innocence, an’ I wuz grateful when dey boxed me fer N’ York. You can’t tell me anything about Kansas I don’t wanter fergit. De Bel... ...rvous some, but they didn’t allow for that. ’T was in Mon- roe County, Noo York, an’ sence then till I come here, I’ve run away with more men than ‘u’... ... in de stables, fer I saved time on de Belt—an’ time’s what dey hunt in N’ York.” “But the simple child o’ nature—” the yellow horse began. “Oh, go an... ...s of wax and honey, bottles of native spirits, and infa- mous cigars, with buffalo horns and plumes of dried grass. At one end was a rude clay image o... .... “I said—the man that was bound. Is it a jest to bring me one tied like a buffalo? Since when could the Bhil bind folk at his pleasure? Cut!” Half a ... ...rt News; I’ve bin all down the old Atlanta and West Point; an’ I’ve bin to Buffalo. Maybe I’ll fetch up at Haverstraw. I’ve only bin out ten months, b...

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... Two consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of t... ... Jany. 19, 1845. DEAR GENERAL: I do not wish to join in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I... ...uent body, than exists by the old, and which you propose to retain in your new plan. If we take the entire population of the counties as shown by the ... ... on the point in difference between them. If the Whig abolitionists of New York had voted with us last fall, Mr. Clay would now be President, Whig pri... ...ment were for the most part issued upon the principal offices, such as New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Baltimore, etc., where the large offices of p... .... Clay’s chance for an election is just no chance at all. He might get New York, and that would have elected in 1844, but it will not now, because he ... ...things, that sugar had been carried from New Orleans through this canal to Buffalo in New York. This sugar took this route, doubt- less, because it wa... ...e New Or- leans merchant sold his sugar a little dearer, and the people of Buffalo sweetened their coffee a little cheaper, than before,—a benefit res... ...ir advocacy of the freedom of the soil. Mr. Lincoln proceeded to rally the Buffalo convention for forbearing to say anything—after all the previous de...

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...formation of Mr. Washington’s character, then, went the missionary zeal of New England, influenced by one of the strongest personalities in modern edu... ...ard of the head of an important coloured school who was not a preacher. “A new kind of man in the coloured world,” I said to myself—”a new kind of man... ...ought and reading and ob- servation; for the old difficulties remained and new ones 7 Booker T. Washington had sprung up. Then I saw clearly that the... ...the North. The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on the boat that was bringing her North. T... ...s for the completion of our new building. On my way North I stopped in New York to try to get a letter of recommendation from an officer of a missiona... ... I have always tried to keep his advice in mind. Meetings were held in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phila- delphia, and other large cities, and at all ... ...ness men, such, for example, as is found in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Buffalo. I have found no other audience so quick to see a point, and so res... ...to how much of my time is spent in this way, the following clipping from a Buffalo (N.Y.) paper will tell. This has reference to an occasion when I sp...

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...nd Sandwich Islanders as you who read these pages, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condi ... ...ou cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, per chance, to fet... ...ow enough 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 glo... ... was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to... ...al luvion which covers the globe, through Paris and Lon don, through New York and Boston and Concord, Walden 90 through Church and State, through p... ...and others to contemplation in India, and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry.... ...y balancing it, he would set out with it to the woods, like a tiger with a buffalo, by the same zig zag course and frequent pauses, scratching along w... ... convinced. Extra vagance! it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another latitude, is not extravagant l...

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..................................... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ..................... ...For big returns.” “Big. That’s good. Go on, Aleck. What is it?” “Coal. The new mines. Cannel. I mean to put in ten thou sand. Ground floor. When we o... ... and even in that way could not express all his joy and thankfulness. This new access of gratitude and affection carried Aleck quite beyond the bounds... ...l of about the same tenor. I here give honest specimens. One is from a New York paper, one is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a lett... ...e is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a letter from a New York pub lisher who is a stranger to me. I humbly endeavor to make these b... ...l him; I will win his money. I will bet him twenty to one, and let any New York publisher hold the stakes, that the statements I have above made as to... ...have been off hunting and fishing a month, up in the region that she calls Buffalo; I don’t know why, unless it is because there are not any buffa lo...

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... were talking to them of the harm that would be done to the workmen by our new machines and the new working methods at the yard. What makes you do tha... ... gone over to America on one of your father’s ships? You might have seen a buffalo hunt then, or a fight with Red Indians. Mrs.Bernick: Oh, Hilmar—! ... ...er—? Mrs.Lynge: What about him? I know nothing about it at all; I am quite new to the place, you know. Mrs.Rummel: Have you not heard that—? Ahem! (To... ...ar Hilmar, because we are going to build a branch line here. Hilmar: Aha—a new scheme, then? Rummel: Yes, isn’t it a capital scheme? What? Rorlund: Hm... ...and pa- pers.) Krap: The foreign mail, Mr. Bernick—and a telegram from New York. Bernick (taking the telegram): Ah—from the owners of the “Indian Girl... ...t sort of thing—an absolute fraud. The “Indian Girl” will never get to New York; she will go to the bottom like a cracked pot. Bernick: This is most h... ...nths? Johan: I hope so. The wind is fair. In three weeks I shall be in New York—if the “Indian Girl” does not go to the bottom. Bernick (with a start)... ... You had bet- ter run upstairs again. Olaf: Perhaps I shall be going for a buffalo hunt, too, one of these days, uncle. Hilmar: Rubbish! A coward like...

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........................................................................ 41 A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER ................................................ ... of as- suming that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus eve... ... It is quite easy today to find cultivated persons who have never read the New T estament, and on whom there- fore it is possible to try the experimen... ...annot be done in Jerusalem or Juan Fernandez cannot be done in London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. In short, Christianity, good or bad, right or wron... ... and a cabin boy for the purpose of transferring you from Liverpool to New York, or to manoeuvre a fleet and carry powder from the magazine to the gun... ...conceived God as a magnate keeping men and angels as Lord Rothschild keeps buffaloes and emus at T ring. MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM It ...

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...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...Ruth’s portion, the despairing stoicism of her race, and Male mute Kid adding new lines to his face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, ... ...tired, a cowboy told of courts and kings and lords and ladies he had seen when Buffalo Bill toured the capitals of Europe. In a corner, two half breed... ...off a wreck in the schooner that brought him. Mr. Haveby next selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputatio... ...ght. He was a regular little lamb — for ten days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by a combined attack of dysentery and feve... ...ed with business; also, he was unlucky. He had brought Danny Ward out from New York, arranged the fight for him with Billy Carthey, the date was three ...

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... of Salem, Mass., presented the “Na- tional Institute” with an insect from New Zealand, with the following description: “ ‘The Hotte,a decided caterpi... ... loud and gradually increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that... ...oam. The boat made a sharp half turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt. At the same moment the roaring noise of t... ...ense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position, when we gave a wild lurch to star- board, and rushed headlong... ...DESTRIAN TRIP last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as the day declined, somewhat embarrassed about the r...

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...rary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world h...

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..................................................................... 114 THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD ............................................................... ... his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ank... ... hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Com- bine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle c... ...g better, or is it senile decay?” “Climate, all climate.” Sophie swung her new-bought En- glish boots, as she sat on the stile overlooking Friars Par-... ...ion, and Quitting Levels VALKYRIE (racing plane), A. J. Hartley owner, New York (twice warned). GEISHA (racing plane), S. van Cott owner, Philad... ...IR-KIT. RESURGAM AIR-KIT EMPORIUM HYMANS & GRAHAM 1198 Lower Broadway, New York REMEMBER! * It is now nearly, a generation since the Plane was to su- ... ...on. Lo! All the seniors held copies of the pamphlet. “He knows less than a buffalo. He told me on the steamer that he was driven out of his own land b...

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...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ...s great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...y the names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They co... ...er side of it to the other extremity of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue, New York Avenue, Vermont Avenue, and Connecticut Avenue do the same at what is ... ...acquired that, draws men in thousands round her properties. Liverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta, Chicago, and L... ...aps, justi- fies the partiality. The same thing may be said of Chicago, of Buffalo, and of Baltimore. But the same thing cannot be said in any degree ... ...private world had taken out its winter carriages, and wrapped itself up in buffalo robes. Men now spoke of the coming thaw as of a misfortune which mu... ...obably four or five mil- lions of persons. The mail train from New York to Buffalo passes over about four hundred miles, and on its route leaves not o...

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...Contents April Gilbert ?Cancun? ................................................................................... 4 April Gilbert ?My New Dog Neechi? .............................................................. 6 Kimberly Ann Jones ?The Lost Tradition? ........................................................ 7 Kimberly Ann Jones ?Nerves?.....................

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......................................................... 4 April Gilbert “My New Dog Neechi” .............................................................. ...the flow. Best of Freshman Writing 6 April Gilbert Du Bois – English 4 My New Dog Neechi THE TIME I got my first new dog, Neechie, from the Clarion H... ...their cages and tipping over their dishes with ex- citement and hopes of a new and loving home where they would feel safe and loved. Oh, how my heart ... ...e.” Renaissance News 8 (1995): 102-105. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Wash- ington Square Press, 1992. Williams, Edith Whitehurst. “In Defe... ...the Connecticut border and wound its way down through the mountains of New York and into New Jersey be- fore finally ending at the border in Pennsylva... ...orter that Paterno was on his way to New England and Dick Young of the New York Daily News had the story already writ- ten. Sometime after that Joe ca... ...ingham, the second youngest of five children was born December 16, 1931 in Buffalo, N. Y. to Irish immigrants. Richard’s family couldn’t afford to put...

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...re still debatable and may finally be rejected. The scientific mind holds opinions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light....

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...n- ions tentatively and is always ready to reexamine, modify or discard as new evidence comes to light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are man... ...such abnormalities of the mind as are called “criminal” is a comparatively new idea. The whole subject has long been dealt with from the standpoint of... ...l animal life automatically groups itself more or less closely into herds. Buffaloes, horses and wolves run in packs. Some of these groups are knit cl... ...d to follow down the beaten path; they strayed into the wilderness seeking new and bet- 10 ter ways. Sometimes others have followed and a shorter pat... ...tly published, based on inves- tigations by a special committee of the New York State Com- mission of Prisons, shows that in the New Y ork Reformatory... ...this family was made by Richard L. Dugdale, who was connected with the New York Prison Association. It was first published in 1877 and may almost be r... ...e illegitimate. The family came from a barren, rocky, lake re- gion in New York and several generations grew up in the vicinity. The only industry was...

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...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...hey will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, ... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...em a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck... ... of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When these places were visited I would have been gla... ...d from home afterwards, for dallying by the way so long. My sojourn in New York was shorter, but long enough to enable me to see the city very well. I... ...lled constantly between Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande, and some by the buffalo. There was not at that time a single habi- tation, cultivated field... ...large band of wild horses feeding; as numerous, prob- ably, as the band of buffalo roaming further north was be- fore its rapid extermination commence... ...ge would have given out the first day. People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the T exas...

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...ditorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before. Mr. Pontellier wore eye glasses. He was a man... ... there. Meanwhile he held on to his modest position in a mercantile house in New Orleans, where an equal familiarity with English, French and Spanish ... ...sband had disappeared. Robert supposed he was not, as there were a good many New Orleans club men over at Klein’s. When Mrs. Pontellier left him to en... ...er followed him closely. He meant to stop at the wed ding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to ato... ...ite certain she would grow lonely before very long and go to join him in New York. But after all, a radiant peace settled upon her when she at last fo... ...tomed place. “Aren’t you astonished?” “Passably. Where are you going? to New York? to Iberville? to your father in Mississippi? where?” “Just two step... ...rehead. Pelagie was hurt and angry enough about it; and she ordered rugs and buffalo robes to be brought and laid thick upon the tiles, till the littl...

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...pected similarities and disagreements, deep common attractions and repulsions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundamental substances that the new link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first si...

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...I, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 24 -- II, 26 -- III, 28 -- V? Continuity, 31 -- I, 31 -- II, 32 -- III, 35 -- IV, 37 -- VI? The New Frenchwoman, 39 -- VII? In Conclusion, 48 -- I, 48 -- II, 52 -- III, 53...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 VI — The New Frenchwoman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 VII — In C... ...ions, declare themselves. It is one of these fundamental substances that the new link between France and America is made, and some reasons for the str... ...rwald and the forests of Britain are plunged afresh into the wilderness of a new continent, it is natural that in many respects they should be still f... ...ntic sea board, with all its great cities, together with, say, Pittsburg and Buffalo, and all our best manhood were in a fighting line centred along th... ...ine with the wasteful degradation of the unrivalled twin river fronts of New York, may draw his own conclusions as the sheer material advantage of tas... ...ive the classic drama are as packed as the house where “The Mysteries of New York” are unrolled, while on the occasion of the free performances given ...