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... in Graham’ s Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843) CHAPTER I Chapter numbers inserted from non-periodical editions of “Autobiography.” CERTAIN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS... ...foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million of ancestors, within a given number of generations; thereby ... ... lovely vale of Connecticut, and quite near to the banks of the celebrated river of the same name. This renders us strictly Y ankee in our origin, an ... ...bosom, and balmy airs fanning our cheeks. We loved change, too, like other people, and had probably seen enough of vegetation, whether figurative or r... ...k that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact should be concealed. Resp... ... in Williamsburg; of large undivided interests in Milwaukie, Chicago, Rock River, Moonville, and other similar places; besides owning a considerable p... ...d a-year; and he owned the fee of some fifteen or eighteen farms in Orange county, that were falling in from three-lives leases, and which had been in... ...resting; nor could I help seeing it myself—the face of the governess being red, or in that condition which, were she aught but a governess, would be c... ...t do. The marriage was found to stand all the usual tests, and Tom went to Texas. To return to the Electronics Classics Series site, go to http://www....

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...n- tains nor deep valleys. Streams meander through it irregu- larly: great rivers mix their currents, separate and meet again, disperse and form vast ... ... tops of the Rocky Mountains. At the bottom of the valley flows an immense river, into which the various streams issuing from the mountains fall from ... ...which traverses a space of 2,500 miles; the Ar- kansas of 1,300 miles, the Red River 1,000 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in leng... ...ets which unite from all parts *Darby’s “View of the United States.” * The Red River. **Warden’s “Description of the United States.” 28 Democracy in ...

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...small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

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... Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothi... ... this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him. He had already gained fame i... ...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ...n my word I can- not tell whether these titles mean anything) is breathing red- hot vengeance against his enemy. The papers have interviewed both part... ...ing en route to pick up a night’s catch of one of the salmon wheels on the river, and to de- liver it at a cannery down-stream. When the proprietor of... ... halted at a rude wooden warehouse built on piles in a lonely reach of the river, and sent in the fish. I followed them up a scale-strewn, fishy incli... ...r a thing like a chaff-cutter, which, descending, hewed them into unseemly red gobbets fit for the can. More Chinamen, with yellow, crooked fingers, j... ...of the yarns began in this way:—”Red Larry was a bull-puncher back of Lone County, Montana,” or “There was a man riding the trail met a jack-rabbit si...

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...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ...s 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactics 241 8. “THE SYSTEM WAS BLINKING RED” 254 8.1 The Summer of Threat 254 8.2 Late Leads—Mihdhar, Moussaoui, ... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... . Others went to Arlington,Vir- ginia, to the Pentagon.Across the Potomac River, the United States Congress was back in session. At the other end of ... ...ckers wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.The hijackers were wearing red bandanas, and they forced the passen- gers to the back of the aircraft.... ...sked to fly the Hudson Corridor, a low-altitude “hallway” along the Hudson River that passes New Y ork landmarks like the World Trade Center. Heavy tr... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h...