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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... ALEXANDER SYMPSON, Esq. DEAR SIR:—Y ours of the 6th received. If life and health con- tinue I shall pretty likely be at Augusta on the 25th. Things l... ...ect equality. He knows that we advocate no such doctrines as these, but he cares not how much he misrepresents us if he can gain a few votes by so doi... ...ted maxim of the party, the idea put forth by Judge Douglas, that he don’t care whether slavery is voted down or voted up.” I am quite willing to beli... ...ndly relations may remain undisturbed, arid also my fervent wishes for the health and happiness of yourselves personally. 206 The Writings of Abraham... ...ri- time war, we have removed all obstructions from the way of this humane reform except such as are merely of temporary and accidental occurrence. I ...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... year she anxiously related all her experiments and partial successes to a career. Daily, on the library steps or in the hall of the Main Building, th... ...ho were not betrothed meant to be teachers. Of these there were two sorts: care- less young women who admitted that they intended to leave the “beastl... ...shapely white 8 Main Street neck, and he had never lived among celebrated reform- ers. She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement- house, l... ...n stranger to a friend, whose gossip was im- portant news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had seemed irregular and lar... ...ndergarten methods or the Gary system?” “Oh. Those. Most of these would-be reformers are sim- ply notoriety-seekers. I believe in manual training, but... ...technic dimness. When her eyes had recovered she felt expanded, drunk with health, mistress of life. The world was so luminous that she sat down at he...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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...Introduction: In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, ?Fanshawe.? It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-p...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

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Excerpt: The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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