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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a providential event; it is like a deluge ... ...vident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some i... ...thodical order seems to have regulated the separa- tion of land and water, mountains and valleys. A simple, but grand, arrangement is discoverable ami... ...i. Section 8. **See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia. 129 Tocqueville him of his power, is to commit what all the world... ...r. The question was most elaborately considered in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia, and was decided by the majority of the Supreme Court in the affirm... ...es, not palpable to the senses but discovered by the mind, the imagination ranges freely, and poets, finding a thousand subjects to delineate, also fi... ...ide, but its boundaries are de- termined. In democracies ambition commonly ranges in a narrower field, but if once it gets beyond that, hardly any lim...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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