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...s trusted God to enlighten them about what plants created certain medicines. Lawyers, kings, and 40 all kingdoms believed law, power, and wisdom came... ...mily likes to play cards, roller blade together, walk along the levee of the Mississippi River and especially visit anything that has to do with scien...

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...sest to him then ran. There was a three second delay on the grenade. One Mississippi…Two Mississippi…he dove and the explosive triggered, creating ... ...ose the weaknesses that we expose in his forces today, but we’ll do what lawyers and accountants did when they closed loopholes in the law…we’ll fn...

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...roperty bar is a fascinating, brilliant, and engagingly ec- centric group of lawyers. I owe debts to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me ... ...ith my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of the hard wor... ...icy is overwhelmingly and tragically bad in ways that everyone, and not just lawyers or economists, should care about. We are mak- ing bad decisions t... ...resting, they are important. It seems like a bad idea to leave them to a few lawyers and lobbyists simply because you are told they are “technical.” S... ...n intuitive understanding of, the complex reality of “property.” Admittedly, lawyers think about property differently from the way lay-people do; this... ...s of gleeful borrowing, formed as part of a musical commons—the blues of the Mississippi Delta, for example—were eventually commercialized and “frozen...

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...alled his name. Being Sunday evening, and near Christmas, I didn’t expect that any lawyers would be working, but light should be coming from somewhe... ...” “No need to carry on,” she said. “Don’t you go to trial tomorrow? Don’t you lawyers work on weekends before big trials?” “I work at night... ...o do?” His mouth turned up into a bemused smile. “Anything else I should see?” Lawyers. Laura Kate shook her head and took a step, looking at t... ...in a telling mood.” She slowed her step, and said conspiratorially, “I was born in Mississippi.” “You talk like South Georgia.” She smiled. “... ...ought Hannah Jo was too rednecky. Royce was always trying to change me.” “Where in Mississippi were you born?” “Tunica. Dirt poor Tunica.” “Tod... ...its roost. “How were they like the Hatfields and McCoys?” “We all hailed from Mississippi, originally. Horton and Big Eddie were in jail toget... ... wouldn’t do to let that cat out of the bag. I bet you never knew he was once in a Mississippi jail?” “That’s true.” “So Royce came to put things ... ...owd — did have some good ideas, like banning slavery, strong drink, Catholics — and lawyers.” Laura Kate took care to school her smirk. He took th... ... head him off. “What do you know about Hannah Tower’s background, her childhood in Mississippi?” He grunted. “Which story she tell you?” “The ...

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... into her face. Like her, it too was lost, like the howling dog along the Mississippi river bank that ran in one direction, and then turned and went... ...e stereo, and she even missed those family outings in her twenties on the Mississippi River with the monster steering through the inundations, his ey... ... in getting on a cloud at the Jack in the Box and riding an aerial of the Mississippi River she found that the deluge that subjected Northern New Orl... ...em as celestial angels. But her mind was like the inundations of the Mississippi Delta fomented in traffic, albeit the traffic of thought, and t... ...this convenience store, ugly, smelly unbathed bitch that I am-- along the Mississippi river bank the bitches elude the catchers until losing themselv... ...ent on perfect and unobstructed punishment of a culprit not adulterated by lawyers, judges, juries, rights, and appeals. He must see it that way; bu...

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...n with or visited many counties in a number of states both east and west of the Mississippi. This book is written from the perspective of someone w... ..., Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, P... ... Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, , Watonwan, Wilkin, Winona, Wright, Yellow Medicine Mississippi: Tax Lien Certificate State 82 Counties Adams, Alcorn,... ...ln, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Marion, Maries, McDonald, Mercer, Miller, Mississippi, Moniteau, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, New Madrid, Newt... ...al for their outstanding strength and popularity. PPLSI provides advice from top lawyers and business consultants and many other valuable services d... ... document review, tax assistance, a free will or update and more. It’s not about lawyers and consultants. It’s about getting affordable help, as you...

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...entatives are nearly always beholden to somebody: oil interests, doctors, lawyers, Christians, Jews, gambling interests, retired people, teachers, l... ...education is not the key to questioning any creating supernatural entity. Lawyers‘ educations do not explore evolutionary biology. A medical educatio... ..., evolutionary biology, philosophy and history. But the huge majority are lawyers. So they should be pretty competent in writing criminal laws and c... ...ractical science of a Benjamin Franklin? How many physicists, surgeons or lawyers have read Locke, Montaigne, Aristotle and Aquinas? Today‘s studen... ...p all the states or countries together. California produces more GDP than Mississippi, and Ireland produces more than Italy. ―There are som... ...resident, an oil man, first disagreed with its existence, then he assigned lawyers to rewrite the scientific reports to obscure the findings of the r...

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...uela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich Connec... ...om left to right. The most left leaning is Lee. He is one of the few honest lawyers I know. Chet, is the term ‘honest lawyer’ an oxymoron? He’s the o... ....” —“Gosh Lee, I didn’t realize that we had such court decisions. You lawyers and judges have sure screwed up our country!” —“Point taken, ...

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... I earned about $3,000 or $4,000, good for a town that already had eleven lawyers. Springfield, in those days, offered better legal services than sid... .... July 11, 1863 Was it twenty or thirty years ago, we drifted down the Mississippi, three of us on a loaded flatboat? She was well overloaded bec... ... and woman who is among the fin- est. Among them there must be inventors, lawyers, doctors, preachers, teachers—men who never had a chance. It is my... ... that song in New Orleans on my first visit; I heard it later when on the Mississippi, when we were on our cargo-raft, when we tied up at a wharf. T... ...ded with cotton bales, were floated down the LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 609 Mississippi, at New Orleans. Soaked with alcohol, they were set afire... ... ...marks began with Ann Rutledge, resumed in East Salem, continued along the Mississippi and on my legal circuits. For years they lay dormant in Spring...

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...e destructive confidence of a judge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Gov... ... supposed to have thought of it first; has not only opened the floodgates for lawyers to cheat everyone and complicate the system so applying for an... ...ou do; then you are not allowed to use your own idea. If a corporation hires lawyers and brings you to court even though your new idea is valid and ... ...ourt until you die… simply because they have the deep pockets to pay teams of lawyers to obfuscate the legal proceedings, and delay the matter, and b... ... supposed to have thought of it first; has not only opened the floodgates for lawyers to cheat everyone and complicate the system so applying for an... ...ish had exterminated most of the East coast tribes, or pushed them west of the Mississippi, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The ... ... the faces of the tribes already living there… Every area settled west of the Mississippi was only settled after military forts were built first in ... ...rich quickly, the crazed masses of people entering the deep woods west of the Mississippi and beginning to hack at huge forests with the sole intenti... ...nd trading contacts covered the entire Eastern Seaboard from Cape Cod, to the Mississippi, to Lake Winnipeg, to Hudson’s Bay. The Hurons traded cer...

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...l be included among the speak- ers of the evening. The class contains more lawyers than members of .any other pro- fession, there being eleven, includ... ... Dr. Kennon intends to devote his time to visits in Baltimore, Md., and in Mississippi, Dr. King will renmin in Will- iamstown to complete a German te...

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...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ...ve been very great, and perhaps successful. We were told that the American lawyers were against their doing so; and indeed there was such a shout of t... ...ed world be- fore many years have passed. If international law be what the lawyers say it is, international law must be altered to suit the requiremen... ...at time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchase... ...al Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now... ... of these were not now at work. They were resting idle, the trade down the Mississippi below St. Louis hav- ing been cut off by the war. Many of them,... ...Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carried on by these boats while the coun... ... £4000. These friends were not connected with ship- ping matters, but were lawyers and hotel proprietors. The committee conclude “that the vessel was ... ... States; but as I purpose to write a chapter devoted to the law courts and lawyers of the 217 Trollope States, I need not here describe at length the...

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...started the boat along the water like a hor izontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer o... ...s chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic marked whale remains ... ...aling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own leg islators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse compreh... ...ould the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers! In his treatise on “Queen Gold,” or Queen pinmoney, an old King’s ... ...bardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curious of such remains is part of... ...re I could perish — How’s that? — There’s a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges: — like a hawk’s b... ...rk, however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go at ...

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...haling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse compreh... ...ould the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers! In his treatise on “Queen-Gold,” or Queen-pinmoney, an old King’s ... ...bardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Among the more curi- ous of such remains is part ... ...n ere I could perish—How’s that?—There’s a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges:—like a hawk’s bea... ...rk, however the baser currents of the sea may turn and tack, and mightiest Mississippies of the land swift and swerve about, uncertain where to go at ...

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... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ...ans, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Mississippi takes its source above the limit of the two gr... ...nother river,* which empties itself into the Polar seas. The course of the Mississippi is at first dubious: it winds several times towards the north, ... ...eous bed which nature has assigned to it, sometimes swollen by storms, the Mississippi waters 2,500 miles in its course.** At the distance of 1,364 mi... ...Fifty-seven large navigable rivers contrib- ute to swell the waters of the Mississippi; amongst others, the Missouri, which traverses a space of 2,500... ...hortly disappear. The sons of these opulent citizens are become merchants, lawyers, or physicians. Most of them have lapsed into obscu- rity. The last... ...s whose names present no associations to the mind: they are mostly village lawyers, men in trade, or even persons belonging to the lower classes of so... ...rominent part in future society -In what manner the pecu- liar pursuits of lawyers give an aristocratic turn to their ideas -Accidental causes which m... ...ndency – Ease with which the aristocracy coalesces with legal men – Use of lawyers to a despot – The profession of the law constitutes the only aristo...

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...the Scrivener suffered to invade my peace. I am one of those un- ambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury or in any way draws down public applause... ...arkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and... ...er than he came. Also, when a reference was going on, and the room full of lawyers and witnesses, and business driving fast, some deeply — occupied le...

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... can hear me think. I went by the way of Cincinnati, and down the Ohio and Mississippi. My idea was to take ship, at New Orleans, for Para. In New Orl... ... game they brought in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. North America is separated by Spain. America consists fr... ...tiplication table. Did he have something to say—this Shakespeare ador ing Mississippi pilot—anent Delia Bacon’s book? What Is Man and Other Essays 1... ...son—however, I have told all about it in the book called Old Times on the Mississippi , and it isn’t important, anyway, it is so long ago. What Is M... ...ar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop talk of lawyers through being for a time the cleark of a stratford court ; just as... ...rt ; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering Strait whale ... ...f er ror.” Such was the testimony borne by one of the most distinguished lawyers of the nineteenth century who was raised to the high office of Lord... ...became Lord Chancellor. Its weight will, doubtless, be more appreciated by lawyers than by laymen, for only lawyers know how impossible it is for thos... ...rd Penzance, to which dignity he was raised in 1869. Lord Penzance, as all lawyers know, and as the late Mr. Inderwick, K.C., has testified, was one o...

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...im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could ar... ...ALLECK. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, near Corinth, Mississippi: Several despatches from Assistant Secretary Scott and one from... ...H. W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June 8, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give ... .... W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June 18, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: It would be of both interest and value to us here to know how ... ...ri, etc. What should be done is to hold what we have in the West, open the Mississippi, and take Chattanooga and East Tennessee with- out more. A reas... ... Mr. V allandigham, in the very case in question, under the advice of able lawyers, saw not where else to go but to the habeas corpus. But by the Cons...

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... This wish was gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade ... ...- fessional fee at that time, even in any part of America, the paradise of lawyers. I lay great stress on Lincoln’s career as a lawyer—much more than ... ...rned and cultured of his party in New Y ork editors, clergymen, statesmen, lawyers, merchants, crit- ics. They were all very curious to hear him. His ... ...months of the war its ravages had extended from the Atlantic to beyond the Mississippi. Many victories in the West had been balanced and paralyzed by ... ...re perhaps the most dangerous in example and revolting to humanity. In the Mississippi case they first commenced by hanging the regular gam- blers—a s... ...nderstand, the Gen. charges that the whole has been gotten up by a knot of lawyers to injure his election; and as I am one of the knot to which he ref... ...by me ever existed; or if there did, it was forged between Talbott and the lawyers, and slipped into his papers for the purpose of injuring him. Now, ... ...gents. The next thing I shall notice is his favor- ite expression, “not of lawyers, doctors and others,” which he is so fond of applying to all who da...

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...ngs they have already decided, except that there is a little quibble among lawyers between the words “dicta” and “decision.” They have 56 The Writing... ...that court. Now, as to this indirect mode by “unfriendly legislation,” all lawyers here will readily understand that such a proposition cannot be tole... ...h virtually excluded it,— and that upon a very well known principle to all lawyers, that what a Legislature cannot directly do, it cannot do by indire... ... a few years later, Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama. In both deeds of cession it was made a condition b... ...n there, to a certain extent. In 1798, Congress organized the Territory of Mississippi: In the act of organization they prohibited the bring- ing of s... ...trol of it—in a more marked and extensive way than they did in the case of Mississippi. The substance of the provi- sion therein made in relation to s... ....” They were Abraham Baldwin and Jonathan Dayton. As stated in the case of Mississippi, it is probable they both voted for it. They would not have all... ...ere disposed to do so, and we could take up some one of the issues, as the lawyers call them, and I were called upon to make an argument about it to t... ...of obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too power- ful to be sup...

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... hill in the edge of the woods, and sets there and looks away off on the big Mississippi down there a reaching miles and miles around Tom Sawyer, Dete... ...ght along with his awful tale, everybody a staring and gasping, judge, jury, lawyers, and everybody, and Benny and Aunt Sally crying their hearts out....

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...there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in rel... ...iew than when you stand on Summit Avenue and look across Lower Town to the Mississippi cliffs and the upland farms beyond.” “I know but— Of course I’v... ...ar, and frivolous ankles above athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to a palisade of cliffs. Far down bene... ...ll to the round stone tower of Fort Snelling. They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, and recalled the men who had come here eight... ...limbing the giant tableland that slopes in a thou- sand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies. It is September, hot, very dusty. There... ...ga Rustad, she’s still scared of America, but her kids will be doctors and lawyers and governors of the state and any darn thing they want to.” 60 Ma... ...s people who stay too long in the provinces. You’ll find it epidemic among lawyers and doctors and ministers and college-bred mer- chants—all these pe... ... doesn’t deal with him is robbing him. What hurts me is that it applies to lawyers and doctors (and decidedly to their wives!) as much as to grocers. ... ...nant farmers. The Dauntless lies to us about the Nonpar- tisan League, the lawyers sting us, the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over bad years, an...

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... at all: ocular delusions on the largest scale are common. What’s a court? Lawyers have no better eyes than other people. Their physics are often out ... ...ly, from this dependence upon careless readers. This is Bentley’s case: as lawyers say: ‘My lord, that is my case.’ It is possible enough to write cor... ... in the other. They are a sort of snags, such as lie in the current of the Mississippi. There, they do nothing but mischief. Here, when the lines are ... ... a snag from Milton, but one does not altogether like being snagged by the Mississippi. One sees no particular reason for bearing it, if one only knew... ...earned professions. We have now, it is alleged, no great and comprehensive lawyers like Coke: and the study of medicine 189 Thomas de Quincey is subd...

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...eatest embarrassment, when it fortunately came into the head of one of our lawyers to remind us of a privilege we possessed, by which, without much di... ... given up to iniquity, whom money and obscure mistresses alone influenced. Lawyers complained of his caprices, and pleaders of his injustice. At last,... ...e lotteries that were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the ... ...ed, with delight utterly impossible to express, the sight of these haughty lawyers (who had dared to refuse us the salutation), prostrated upon their ... ...X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER XCIX CIX CIX CIX CIX LAW HAD ESTABLISHED his Mississippi Company, and now be- gan to do marvels with it. A sort of langu... ...rtake to explain than the other finance operations. Everybody was mad upon Mississippi Stock. Im- mense fortunes were made, almost in a breath; Law, b... ...escent into the wood of the goulottes, the Regent spoke again to me of the Mississippi, and pressed me to receive some shares from Law. The more I res... ...ain at the ex- pense of others, and would in no way mix myself up with the Mississippi scheme. M. le Duc d’Orleans knew only too well how to reply to ...

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...ented to be a pirate. Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow... ... iff proclaimed the opening of the court. The usual whisper ings among the lawyers and gathering together of papers followed. These details and acco... ...d it, pushed his head and shoulders through a small hole, and saw the broad Mississippi rolling by! And if it had only happened to be night he would...

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...he court—seeing him hear our talk by the river-side sifted by those horrid lawyers?’ The Doctor looked even graver, and his eye fixed as on a thought ... ...e could not have proved it.’ ‘What Quixotry moved my father not to put the lawyers on the scent?’ Ethel explained; and for her pains Tom fell upon her... ... and send them home in a letter.’ ‘An alligator or two, or a branch of the Mississippi,’ said Tom, in a young man’s absent way of half-answering a pet... ...ed, ‘Oh, Ave, Ave, here is Mr. Tom saying I am to send him a branch of the Mississippi in a letter, as an object for his microscope!’ ‘I beg your pard...

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...his advice to her. “No, no, don’t go near the law courts. I know them. The lawyers take all your money, and you lose your case. We’re bad off as it is... ...fter drinking. The entire region was un- tamed. In some places east of the Mississippi nature is cosey, intimate, small, and homelike, like a good-nat...

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...d cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teach- e... ...in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish. The present ...

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...hat Law once held out to the eternally deluded Parisians, in the fantastic Mississippi scheme. As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth... ...o bearer . I say there, for as I did not consider my house safe enough, or lawyers sufficiently discreet, and as landed property carries evi- dence wi... ...out losing their seats; or, if they are separated by too great a number of lawyers, communicate by signs. It was one of the magnificent autumn days wh...

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...he foul atmosphere of a criminal trial, would disgrace your own old Bailey lawyers; why, then I answer plainly, No.’ ‘Oh!’ said Martin; in so exactly ... ...?’ asked Martin of his companion. ‘Extremely probable,’ he answered. ‘Some Mississippi or Mis- souri lot, I dare say.’ ‘However,’ pursued Mark, ‘he ca... ...ivate). ‘Sir—I was raised in those interminable solitudes where our mighty Mississippi (or Father of Waters) rolls his turbid flood. ‘I am young, and ...

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...what might seem a humiliating act; that the journalists, the orators, many lawyers, the Lower House of Congress, and Mr. Lincoln’s own naval secretary... ...w Republic, Mr. Jefferson Davis, was the original inventor of repudiation. Mississippi was the first State which repudiated, Mr. Jefferson Davis was G... ... was the first State which repudiated, Mr. Jefferson Davis was Governor of Mississippi, and the Legislature of Mississippi had passed a Bill recogniz ...

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...rders. The troops were embarked on steamers and were on their way down the Mississippi within a few days after the receipt of this order. About the ti... ...r that borders the bank of the Rio Grande is reached. This river, like the Mississippi, flows through a rich alluvial valley in the most meandering ma... ...an officer, who died of the dis- ease. My regiment was sent to Pascagoula, Mississippi, to spend the summer. As soon as it was settled in camp I obtai... ...ossessed at all by Florida 116 Personal Memoirs or the States west of the Mississippi, all of which were pur- chased by the treasury of the entire na... ...d back down. Mr. Jefferson Davis said in a speech, delivered at La Grange, Mississippi, before the seces- sion of that State, that he would agree to d... ...ion as any in their section of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and som...

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...ed her rival totally from the continent, over which, bounding herself by the Mississippi, she was thenceforth to hold divided empire only with Spain. ... ...ampden—for trial by jury—the Habeas Corpus and Magna Charta. But the English lawyers had decided that Parliament was omnipotent—and Parliament, in it...

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...ity and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We co... ...es of Grass –Whitman 25 Chants of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illino... ... Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her, The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them, Yet ... ...? Is he some Southwesterner rais’d out doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California? The mountains? prairie lif... ...ng sins past and to come, Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery; Wha... ...H AND A leaf for hand in hand; You natural persons old and young! You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! You fr... ...s! with the love of lovers tie you. (Were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? or by arms? Nay, nor the world, n... ...inal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience, The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the ... ...enevolent face, The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back top, The faces of hunters and fisher...

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...who exercises jurisdiction over a piece of land between the Wabash and the Mississippi; and yet so far is this from being all there is between those r... ... within a hundred miles of either. He has a neighbor be- tween him and the Mississippi—that is, just across the street, in that direction—whom I am su... ...e broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, can- not, I think, be distinguished in principle. Each i... .... The next most general object I can think of would be improvements on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. They touch thirteen of our States-Pe... ...ouch thirteen of our States-Pennsyl- vania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Loui- siana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wis-... ... of a man; but who was that man? He was one of the ablest and most learned lawyers of his age, or of any age. It is no disparagement to Mr. Polk, nor ... ... negative principle that no law is free law is not much known except among lawyers. We have some experience of this practical difference. In spite of ...

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...id so with the expressed determination to pre- pare themselves to be great lawyers, or Congressmen, and many of the women planned to become music teac... ...here was a need for something to be done to prepare the way for successful lawyers, Congress- men, and music teachers. I felt that the conditions were... ..., she heard of the need of teachers in the South. She went to the state of Mississippi and began teaching there. Later she taught in the city of Memph... ...teaching there. Later she taught in the city of Memphis. While teaching in Mississippi, one of her pupils became ill with smallpox. Every one in the c... .... Europe I n 1893 I was married to Miss Margaret James Murray, a native of Mississippi, and a graduate of Fisk Univer sity, in Nashville, Tenn., who h...

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...h appeared to be her birth right. Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegras... ...an who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation. It was after they went to Mississippi to live. The young man was engaged to be married The Awakenin... ...en the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers. A magnificent piano crowded the apartment. In the n... ...“Passably. Where are you going? to New York? to Iberville? to your father in Mississippi? where?” “Just two steps away,” laughed Edna, “in a little fo... ...the gentleman of that name who formed one of the firm of Laitner and Arobin, lawyers. The young man admitted that Laitner was a warm personal friend, ...

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...untably ne- glected by writers on this question. How it was that the great Mississippi Bubble, during the Orleans regency in Paris, should have happen... ...er tired of the long suspense, became satisfied that they had reached what lawyers call the “operative” clause of the sentence; and both exclaiming at... ...n case, have found it a vain specu- lation, countenanced only by visionary lawyers, to sue Dumpkins?” Resp. “No; I never lost a shilling by Dumpkins, ...

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...e-ringed sun, Or South to the blind Horn’s hate; Or East all the way into Mississippi Bay, Or West to the Golden Gate; Where the blindest bluffs... ...a second time. Not quite! But give pore Aggie a hundred, and tell her your lawyers’ll fight. She was the best o’ the boiling — you’ll meet her before ...

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...onopoly of the subject, who could not bear all kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housek eepers who pried into my cupboard and bed when I was... ...coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would fi... ...nlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, bu...

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... monopoly of the subject, who could not bear all kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housekeepers who pried into my cupboard and bed when I wa... ...e coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a North West Passage around this continent, that we would... ... enlist. Start now on that farthest western way, which does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, ...

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...icy of their respective sovereigns. Spain thinks it convenient to shut the Mississippi against us on the one side, and Britain excludes us from the Sa... ... to solve to our disadvantage. The disposition of Spain with regard to the Mississippi needs no comment. France and Britain are concerned with us in t... ...Atlantic, on the south the latitude of thirty-one degrees, on the west the Mississippi, and on the north an ir- regular line running in some instances... ... eight miles and three-fourths. The mean distance from the Atlantic to the Mississippi does not probably exceed seven hundred and fifty miles. On a co... ...led by nature and compact to a free participation in the navigation of the Mississippi? Spain excludes us from it. Is public credit an indispensable r... ...er of taxation with the Union. The restriction in question amounts to what lawyers call a negative pregnant that is, a negation of one thing, and an a...

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...sive. The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculp- tors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordi... ..., commonly called men of let- ters, are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physi- cians probably would be in, upon the foregoing suppositi... ...r money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme, the most extravagant project, both of bank- ing and sto... ...d most important, and some of the most frivolous professions; church- men, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musi... ..., nor fidei commisses, bear any resemblance to entails, though some French lawyers have thought proper to dress the modern institution in the language... ...apid when this company was dissolved, after the fall of what is called the Mississippi scheme. When the English got possession of this coun- try, they... ...ormly so since the dissolution of what in England is commonly called their Mississippi company. The profits of the trade, therefore, which France and ... ...Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attorneys, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and if...