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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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...A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF ARISTOTLE BY WILLIAM ELLIS, A.M. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES... ...reatise on Government by Aristotle, trans. William Ellis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...LLIAM ELLIS, A.M. LONDON &.TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J M DENT & SONS LTD. &.IN NEW YORK BY E. P . DUTTON &. CO FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION 1912 REPRINTE... ...ng in the air. Students of the Academy had been actually called on to give new constitutions to Greek states. For the Greeks the constitution was not ... ...changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the position of the AEsumnetes, whom Aristotle describes ... ... to the younger and imperfect. Now in the gener- ality of free states, the governors and the governed alternately change place; for an equality withou... ...are at that time magistrates, as they will, in their turns, alternately be governors and governed, as if they were different men: by the same method d... ...e particulars. He has also neglected in that treatise to point out how the governors are to be distinguished from the governed; for he says, that as o...

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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... ...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 18... ... Court-House. A. LINCOLN. CALL FOR TROOPS. NEW YORK, June 30, 1862. TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES: The capture of New Orleans, Norfolk, and C... ...ALL FOR 300,000 VOLUNTEERS, JUL Y 1, 1862. June 28, 1861. The undersigned, governors of States of the Union, impressed with the belief that the citize... ...al, and I will strengthen it for the offensive again as fast as I can. The governors of eighteen States offer me a new levy of 300,000, which I accept...

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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 t...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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...Contents ON CHRISTIANITY, AS AN ORGAN OF POLITICAL MOVEMENT..................................4 PROTESTANTISM............................................................................................................... 39 ON THE SUPPOSED SCRIPTURAL EXPRESSION FO...

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...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colon...

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ........................................... 135 SANDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSL... ...peare, Spenser, Milton, and Dryden, to fill the six va- cant places in the New Palace of Westminster. This does not substantiate the assertion, that P... ...g through and above the Real, and that lights the poet on to form within a new and more gorgeous nature, the fresh creation of his own inspired mind, ... ... high- est posts in the kingdom, died in the year 1687, in a remote inn in Yorkshire, reduced to the utmost misery.—P . 42 ‘Shrewsbury:’ the Countess... ... Fox and Henley. 109 ‘H—n:’ Hinton. 110 ‘Ebor:’ Blackburn, Archbishop of York, and Hoadley, Bishop of Winchester. 111 ‘O—w:’ Onslow, Speaker of the... ...ibber:’ three very eminent persons, all managers of plays; who, though not governors by profes- sion, had, each in his way, concerned themselves in th...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...N AND NOTES EDITED BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, L.L.D., P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Stre... ... he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the “New England Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later ... ...al editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia, where he arrived in October, 1723... ...ey dislik’d my late intimacy with the members of council, who had join’d the governors in all the disputes about military preparations, with which the... ...scheme was form’d, supposed to answer the same pur pose better, whereby the governors of the provinces, with some members of their respective council... ...lic quarrels were all at bottom owing to the pro prietaries, our hereditary governors, who, when any expense was to be incurred for the defense of th...