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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...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... 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 ... ...s Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection for phi- losophy ... ...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... ...nwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suit- able establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to ... ...se jails became more unwholesome and more corrupt in proportion as the new establishments were beau- tified and improved, forming a contrast which may...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...r of mine, that paper I should wish to cancel. So that, upon the whole, my new and revised edition is likely to differ by very consid- erable changes ... ...at quadrata rotundis,) it is my purpose to enlarge this edition by as many new papers as I find available for such a station. These I am anxious to pu... ... fact, as a writer for children, she occupied the place from about 1780 to 1805 which, from 1805 to 1835, was occupied by Miss Edgeworth. Only, as unh... ...o all points of the compass, and too often (as must happen in such immense establishments) blundered into my room with that appalling, “Now, sir, the ... ...Lord Auckland’s (Sir Frederic Eden’s) large work on the poor laws. That to York, for example, (two hundred miles,) took a fort- night in the journey, ... ...the same struggle, and for the same cheap reform, commenced about the year 1805- 6. Post-chaise travellers could, of course, have what they liked; and... ...the best features, as to cleanliness and neatness, of well-managed private establishments. NO NO NO NO NOTES TES TES TES TES 1 It marks the rapidity ...

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...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... rustic character, which belonged to the wood- lands of the West-Riding of Yorkshire at that early period. The eldest of these men had a stern, savage... ...pered into the ear of his master, “It is a Jew, who calls himself Isaac of York; is it fit I should marshall him into the hall?” “Let Gurth do thine o... ...ith great perseverance, paying not the least attention to the wants of the new guest. The attendants of the Abbot crossed themselves, with looks of pi... ... of defiance from the northern extremity . All eyes were turned to see the new cham- pion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barrier... ...upon the more apocryphal authority of the Wardour MS. *Henry’s Hist. edit. 1805, vol. vii. p. .146. 209 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER XXIV I’ll woo her as... ...di- cines, as if they were the devices of Satan—The Lord rebuke him!” *The establishments of the Knight Templars were called Preceptories, and the tit...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, t... ...ounds. Like all men engaged in trade, he suffered some anxieties. He was a new beginner; but, already, bad debts had alarmed him; and bills were com- ... ... in a state of transition so sure and so rapid to the headship of domestic establishments belong- 15 Thomas de Quincey ing to themselves, that in eff... ...d 28 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater have had time to relax, some new murder, equally appalling, might be counted upon. Such was the public e... ...ratus was that scamp. So of Martin, the man that parboiled, or par-roasted York Minster some ten or twelve years back; that fellow will float down to ... ...y forgotten. These incendiaries, in short, are as well known as Ephesus or York; but not one of us can tell, without humming and hawing, who it was th... ...empire, it languished for eighteen months purely through their neglect. In 1805, having staid about seven years in India, Lord Mornington was recalled...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ..................................................... 275 Chapter 2.4.V . The New Berline. ................................................................. ...mselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baron Besenval (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the... ...auroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has... ...rofessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jockeys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for Fre... ...ro of Fahrenheit, Seine River fro- zen over. (Marmontel, Memoires (London, 1805), iv. 33. Hist. Parl, &c.) Cold, scarcity and eleutheromaniac clamour:... .... And England has donned the red coat; and marches, with Royal Highness of York,— whom some once spake of inviting to be our King. Changed that humour... .... For it is to be razed, so reports Barrere; all but the National Shipping Establishments; and to be called hence- forth not Toulon, but Port of the M...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ...TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his... ... 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wal... ...9 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall St... ...e and prosperity. Thomas Jefferson SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1805 The second inauguration of Mr. Jefferson followed an elec tion unde... ...we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes... ...he use made of it in reducing the public debt, and in the valuable works and establishments everywhere multiplying over the face of our land. It is a ...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...lly, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis, is a questi... ...he Earl of Downe. His mother was the daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. She had three brothers, one of whom was killed; another died in the s... ...arise the small dowry of Mrs. Pope, not- withstanding the family estate in Yorkshire had centred in her person. But, by the way, we see from the fact ... ... public schools; but in reality he knew nothing of public schools. All the establishments for Papists were nar- row, and suited to their political dep... ...te educa- tion? And where was such an education to be sought? At the petty establishments of the suffering Catholics, the instruc- tion, as he had fou... ...something in it of that guilt which belongs to suicide. On the 9th of May, 1805, his com- plaint reached its crisis. Early in the morning he became de...