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...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...onishment. 1 Another clergyman in New England, Mr. Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the sa... ...State; the paragraph in the Parker’s Falls Gazette would be reprinted from Maine to Florida, and per- haps form an item in the London newspapers; and ... ... THE THE THE THE THE WHITE MOUNT WHITE MOUNT WHITE MOUNT WHITE MOUNT WHITE MOUNTAINS AINS AINS AINS AINS AT NIGHTFALL, once in the olden time, on the ... ...conclusion, that an odder society had never met, in city or wilderness, on mountain or plain. The eldest of the group, a tall, lean, weather-beaten ma... ...ust after the Great Carbuncle, he had been condemned to wan- der among the mountains till the end of time, still with the same feverish hopes at sunri... ...dependent, not, as now, merging their separate exist- ences into connected ranges, with a front of tiresome iden- tity,—but each possessing features o...

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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...than Golconda and the treasures of the world! In the heart of the remotest mountains rises the little Kirk; the Dead all slumbering round it, under th... ...g, at the Baths of Mont d’Or: ‘The savages descending in torrents from the mountains; our people ordered not to go out. The Curate in surplice and sto... ... Let the old sea-hero rest now, honoured of France, in his native Cevennes mountains; send smoke, not of gunpowder, but mere culinary smoke, through t... ...nnion; Les Lyonnais Sauveurs des Dauphinois; Massacre au Mans; Troubles du Maine (Pamphlets and Excerpts, in Hist. Parl. iii. 251; iv. 162-168), &c.) ... ...t must be rammed down there, and shaped stair-wise into as many as ‘thirty ranges of convenient seats,’ firm-trimmed with turf, covered with enduring ... ...hem, Barbaroux says ‘with tears:’ they consider what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these A...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation requires more than Food and... ...nd was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man ... ...on or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to... ...more or less of this auroral character, reminding me of a certain house on a mountain which I had visited the year before. This was an airy and unplas... ... a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north west, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, a... ...e? They are proof sheets which need no correction. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four ...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature, from the mountains and the lights of the firmament. These hints, dropped as it were ... ... value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral. When we have gone through this process, a... ...me train of images, will yet super- induce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses, bu... ...he delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels him- self stronger than before by a new thou... ...e and effect are two sides of one fact. The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues, and extinguishes each in the light of ...

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...SERIES PUBLICATION Verses 1889 - 1896 by Rudyard Kipling 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd my son to him!” With that he whistled his only son, that dropped from a mountain-crest — He trod the ling like a buck in spring, and he looked like... ...lew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. “Ha’ done! ha’ done!” said the Colonel’s son. “Put up the st... ... Horse neighed Behind her to the Unlighted Shrine — then fled North to the Mountain where his stable lies. They know who dared the anger of Taman, And... ...morning On the thin, tin, crackling roofs, To the haze of the burned back-ranges And the dust of the shoeless hoofs — To the risk of a death by drow... ...— and a thief has caught us all! By every butt in Oregon and every spar in Maine, The hand that spilled the wind from her sail was the hand of Reuben ... ...entle, not to break the bloomin’ glass, Though the Arabites ‘ad all their ranges marked; But we dursn’t ‘ardly gallop, for the most was bottled Bass,...

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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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