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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... ...e to coordinate these state laws? Missouri hardly comprehends the laws of Massachusetts. Justice—many strive for justice. Efforts must be doubled. I... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle... ...War II, Bush became for many the ―sage of Cyberspace.‖ Born in Everett, Massachusetts, he earned his bachelor‘s degree at Tufts College in just th... ...ust three years and in 1917 received a joint doctorate in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. By 1945, B...

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...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...o die before a ‗Code Blue‘ situation does them in? ―A court in Massachusetts recently allowed life support to be withdrawn from an 11 year...

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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...ng Stal>lea Uain and Sooth Strssm, Oppoeite Greylork Hotel Wllllamstown, - Massachusetts Lone DI«tance Telephone OLYMPIAN Bowling and Billiard Parlors... .... American and European Plan.... HENRY E. MARSH, Proprietor SPRINGFIELD, . MASSACHUSETTS 1 WILLIAMS ICBCOBD i Bowling and Billiards AT THE CASINO Hoo... ...merican and European Plan .... HENRY E. M^RSH, Proprietor SPRINGFIELD, ... MASSACHUSETTS WIIiLUMK KBOORD Bowling and Billiards AT THE CASINO Hoosac C... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab...

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...lities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic... ...troduction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florent... ...paper, which, in fact, represent an "artificial poem": deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation on... ... factors for more and better creation or work. (Applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, spiritualists.) My Syndrome: Is characterized ... ...ublic (by printing my diary), my private life not private anymore. "Poets' work can stay one near another, philosophers' not" (Schopenhauer). ... ... Stephen A. Fulling and Ludmila G. Popova, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts, 1975. [9] Bouvier, Alain, George, Michel, Dictionnaire des ... ...A Lecture-Note Volume, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1980. [95] Mathematical Logic Around The World, University ... ...robability and Statistics, Fourth edition, Duxbury Press, North Scltuate, Massachusetts, 1975. [99] Mortensen, Chris, Inconsistent Mathematics, Stan...

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...he Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZI... ... priest -- Collection of Peter's pence in the New World -- Crusader volunteers from America -- Interruption of communication -- Disappearance of the N... ... CHAPTER IV. Early Navigators and Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic b... ...y consulting this very ancient map) leads to the belief that Drogio was either Massachusetts or North Carolina. The voyage, however, terminated most d... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al...

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...niel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Hawthorne Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR THE BIR TH... ...ise, the witty, and the famous in every walk of life; princes, presidents, poets, generals, artists, actors, and philanthropists,—all making their own... ... village, the city, life’s high places and low ones, may all produce their poets, whom a common 88 Mosses from an Old Manse temperament pervades like... ... beginning to simmer over the blaze, was the perusal of the current year’s Massachusetts Almanac, which, with the exception of an old black letter Bib... ...mpulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...hey made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed ... ...everal gentle men among them purchased a tract of country on the coast of Massachusetts Bay, and obtained a charter from King Charles, which authoriz... ...the king’s charter in his keeping, and was appointed the first governor of Massachusetts. Imagine him a person of grave and benevolent aspect, dressed... ...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline...

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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 to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...he Hudson; they are now six in number: 1, Connecticut; 2, Rhode Island; 3, Massachusetts; 4, V ermont; 5, New Hamp- shire; 6, Maine. 49 Tocqueville m... ...verbatim *See “Pitkin’s History,” p, 35. See the “History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay,” by Hutchinson, vol. i. p. 9. **See “Pitkin’s History,” ... ...n, vol. i. p. 9. **See “Pitkin’s History,” pp. 42, 47. *The inhabitants of Massachusetts had deviated from the forms which are preserved in the crimin... ...ss progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans, struck by th...

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...y a principle essential to Christianity, a PERSON is eternally differenced from a THING; so that the idea of a HUMAN BEING, necessarily excludes the i... ...al plea—”not guilty;” the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the publ... ...wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing every- thing of which you think me capab... ... our au- thor escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppression assum- ing another, and hardly less... ... not, at that time, know that there was a state of New York, or a state of Massachusetts. I had heard of Pennsylva- nia, Delaware and New Jersey, and ... ... hope for others. Believing in hydropathy, he established, at Northampton, Massachusetts, a large “Wa- ter Cure,” and became one of the most successfu... ..., merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teach- ers; that, while we are engage... ... inward decay. Its auxiliaries are everywhere. Scholars, authors, orators, poets, and statesmen give it their aid. The most brilliant of American poet... ...nt for letting drop a smiling verse of sympathy for the man in chains. The poets are with us. It would seem almost absurd to say it, considering the u...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...es the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and desolate. Massachusetts Avenue runs the whole length of the city, and is inserted on ... ...when Congress meets. I do not think that Congress makes much difference to Massachusetts Avenue. I believe that the city never contains as many as eig... ... the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsylvania Avenue is the only one known to ordi... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ...incoln: V ol Seven must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were ap- plied to ... ...o telegraph the officer in military command at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, suspending the execution of Charles Carpenter, to be execute... ...N. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, June 24, 1864. MES. A. LINCOLN, Boston, Massachusetts: All well and very warm. Tad and I have been to General Gran... ...ovember 8, 1864. TO THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE SAIL- ORS’ FAIR, Boston, Massachusetts Allow me to wish you a great success. With the old fame of t...

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...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...iddle West—was almost a second father to the parentless Dearborn girls. In Massachusetts, thirty years before this time, he had been a farmer, and the... ... II II LAURA DEARBORN’S native town was Barrington, in Worces- ter County, Massachusetts. Both she and Page had been born there, and there had lived u... ...came for her an actual passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of Ne... ...ore a desire than an ambition, but it could not be realised in Barrington, Massachusetts. For a year she temporised, procrastinated, loth to leave the... ...how futile it is, how empty, a vanity of vanities. I had imagined that the poets were wrong, were idealists, see- ing the things that should be rather... ...nce—in my heart, in my very hand, like a mysterious, beautiful exotic. The poets are wrong,” he added. “They have not been idealists enough. I wish— a...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ...ly believe that the public institu tions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, be ne... ... an immense amount of evil passion and misery. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, at Boston, is superintended by a body o... ...is an American fash ion. One of the provinces of the state legislature of Massachusetts is to alter ugly names into pretty ones, as the children impr... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...

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...us peculiarities; and, in describing their customs, refrains in most cases from entering into ex- planations concerning their origin and purposes. As ... ... come immediately under the writer’s cognizance. The con- clusions deduced from these facts are unavoidable, and in stating them the author has been i... ...er were both descended, on the fathers’ and moth- ers’ sides respectively, from have families of British New En- gland and Dutch New York extraction. ... ...l the year 1791, when they were discovered by Captain Ingraham, of Boston, Massachusetts, nearly two centuries after the discovery of the adjacent isl... ...le living in its vicinity ‘Taiohae’, and by Captain Porter was denominated Massachusetts Bay. Among the adverse tribes dwelling about the shores of th... ...riven to de- spair; nothing but the utter ruin of my ‘face divine’, as the poets call it, would, I perceived, satisfy the inexorable Mehevi and his ch...

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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ...equod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...es a man who regards them both with equal eye. Chapter 86 The Tail O ther poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lov... ...ry my hand at raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar. Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; ... ... come in to supply the thoughts. That’s my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch’s navi gator, and Daboll’s arithmetic...

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...omance sheen, like the sunny side of a cloud; and, falling over the wearer from head to foot, was supposed to insulate her from the material world, fr... ...pon the grate, lighted a cigar, and spent an hour in musings of every hue, from the brightest to the most som bre; being, in truth, not so very confi... ...ney. Vividly does that fireside re create itself, as I rake away the ashes from the embers in my memory, and blow them up with a sigh, for lack of mor... ...ve you up as an associate, than that the world should lose one of its true poets!” “Ah, no; there will not be the slightest danger of that, es pecial... ... Arcadians, besides being as practical as the hardest fisted husbandmen in Massachusetts. We did not, it is true, spend 64 The Blithedale Romance muc... ...Well, say so if you like,” answered Zenobia. “You are a poet,—at least, as poets go nowadays,—and must be allowed to make an opera glass of your imagi... ...your soul’s ache into it, and turn your sympathy to good account, as other poets do, and as poets must, unless they choose to give us glittering icicl...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...heeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked her whether she did not admire Lord Ormont, our gener... ...t, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the women, and the poets formed a tipsy chorea. Jour- nalists, on the whole, were fairly halve... ... it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world. Poets could reasonably 25 George Meredith feign it to shake the desk inclo... ..., a Spaniard in my time—a South American I have sent him— two from Boston, Massachusetts—and clever!—all emulous to excel, none boasting. But, to myse...

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... isn’t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der ... ...h along the cushions un- der the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother th... ...’ s the matter with the old man attending to him personally?” said a voice from the frieze ulster. “Old man’ s piling up the rocks. ‘Don’t want to be ... ...en they had to ask that Beverly man how he was off for beans, because even poets must not have things all their own way. Every schooner and nearly eve... ...reakfast, he ought to be switched,” said Salt- ers, upholding the honor of Massachusetts on general principles. “Not but what I’m free to own he’ s co...

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...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...air Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University... ...s—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished s... ...umber of very interesting papers, this is such an interesting subject, the poets, they have been an inspiration for higher thought, in fact wasn’t it ... ...ad seen it on a summer trip to Cape Cod. “Have you been clear to Cape Cod? Massachusetts? I knew you’d traveled, but I never realized you’d been that ... ...t, “Oh my yes. It was a wonderful trip. So many points of interest through Massachusetts—historical. There’s Lex- ington where we turned back the redc... ... oil-wells, the com- parative merits of young men born in Minnesota and in Massachusetts, the question of prohibition, the future cost of motor tires,...

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...“UNEXPECTED OBSTACLE. Please don’t come till thirtieth. Anna.” All the way from Charing Cross to Dover the train had ham- mered the words of the teleg... ...m like the dice in some game of the gods of malice; and now, as he emerged from his compartment at the pier, and stood facing the wind-swept platform ... ... wind-swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out at him as if from the crest of the waves, stung and blinded him with a fresh fury of der... ...th vague yearnings for enfranchisement, who lived in Paris as if it were a Massachusetts suburb, and dwelt hope- fully on the “higher side” of the Gal... ...pre- sented Miss Summers with a prettily-bound anthology of the old French poets and, when she showed a discriminating plea- sure in the gift, observe... ...she explained that the lady in question was a spinster of South Braintree, Massachusetts, who, having come to Paris some thirty years earlier, to nurs...

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...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ... residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent. The practical fus... ...rite some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- lion and a third, almost entirely ...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...nd hand-shaking house- organs, as richly poured forth by the new school of Poets of Business. He had painfully written out a first draft, and he inton... ... The only thing is: I wonder if it sells the goods? Course, like all these poets, this Prince Albert fellow lets his idea run away with him. It makes ... ...ie Swanson. “You ought to get him easy, Mr. Frink, you and he being fellow-poets,” said Louetta Swanson. “Fellow-poets, rats! Where d’ you get that st... ...iversity, an old man and white-bearded, known to come from a distinguished Massachusetts family. “Why, gosh,” Babbitt marveled, “a swell like him in w...

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...have just set down. It is this: I have never touched a character precisely from the life, but some coun- terpart of that character has incredulously a... ...o born and so bred, admired for that which made him hateful, and justified from his cradle in cunning, treachery, and avarice; I claim him as the legi... ... the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from its nature, the most obtrusive, and the most likely to be seen by such... ...tions as naturally occurred to him, being a stranger, about the na- tional poets, the theatre, literature, and the arts. But the informa- tion which t... ...ng the bearer of a letter of introduc- tion to you, sir. From Mr Bevan, of Massachusetts,’ he added, giv- ing it to him. The General took it and read ... ... piece of justice, though it is upheld by the authority of divers profound poets and honourable men, bears a nearer resemblance to the justice of that... ...ooking upward for the current of some half-remembered legend; words of old poets, wedded to such mea- sures that the strain of music might have been t...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...er money (or the greater part of it); and third, she lived at Northampton, Massachusetts. Mallet’s compassion was really wasted, because Cecilia was a... ... Mallet imagined there was a private reason for it—a reason quite distinct from her pleasure in receiving her honored kins- man. The next day he flatt... ...s picked up, with little trouble, for himself. His mother is a widow, of a Massachusetts country family, a little timid, tremu- lous woman, who is alw... ...ntly belonged to that species of emotion of which, by the testimony of the poets, the very name and es- sence is oddity. One night he slept but half a...

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... deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head drooping from side to side, stroking of a dimpled chin with a dimpled hand, sighing ... ...holic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a pencil from his pocket and showed her the fly-leaf of his guide-book. She stood lo... ...od deal?” he asked at last. “Pas beaucoup?” The young lady raised her eyes from her palette, scanned him from head to foot, and alighted with admirabl... ... me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen for whom... ...an, with a strikingly candid physi- ognomy. He was a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and had spiritual charge of a small congregation in an- othe...

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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 power, Cheerful, f...

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.......21 What Place Is Besieged?......................22 Still Though the One I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Startin...

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...ne I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................. ..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ...e with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, With finger p... ...elt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not t... ... Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean sh... ...s, If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one. One from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian’s comrade, From Maine and from hot Ca...

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...e year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl....

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...er,” he began “The House of the Seven Gables.” Meanwhile, he had re- moved from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massa- chusetts, where he occupie... ...s disclosed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” h... ...rne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquired an interest apart from that by which it first appealed to the public. John Hathorne (as the n... ..., we might sug- gest an explanation of an often-suggested mystery. Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowm... ...m table virtually governor of the glorious old State! Governor Pyncheon of Massachusetts! And is there no potent and exhilarating cordial in a cer- ta... ...ly retrieve himself in their good opinion that he shall yet be Governor of Massachusetts? And all these great pur- poses accomplished, will he walk th...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, ...

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.... . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railro... ... on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. 1 From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bang... ...ce, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I ... ...mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik Rive... ...d be a good speculation, as well as a favor conferred on the settlers, for a Massachusetts boy to go down there with a trunk full of choice scions, an... ...inary lakes which the map contains. The Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts is the only one I have seen that at all deserves the name. ... ...ween it and me. It reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus a... ...w? He lives three thousand years deep into time, an age not yet described by poets. Can you well go further back in history than this? Ay! ay! — for t... ...ds, and convinced me that the Indian was not the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the ...

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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 two years and two months. At present I am a soj...

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...owing 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 W... ...n 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 live... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ecomes impossible for them to resume 2 Walden their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;... ... their hands. Gookin, who was su perintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses ar... ...airest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their... .... By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read ... ...why, you couldn’t even hear the whistle! I doubt if there is such a place in Massachusetts now: — “In truth, our village has become a butt For one of ... ...nsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual co...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ...ream so deep and easy that I will venture to call him the best of humorous poets. He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchan... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ... ...ed, if ten men whom I could name – ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this ...

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...nger our religion. The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the titles of all landed p...

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...a single characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office from the King, and wholly indepen- dent of the country; laws made and taxes... ...tation, as if the slightest signal would rouse the whole 5 Hawthorne land from its sluggish despondency. Aware of their danger, the rulers resolved t... ... approaching through Cornhill, louder and deeper, till with reverberations from house to house, and the regular tramp of martial footsteps, it burst i... ...peril, and therefore, in their eyes the most eligible, was the province of Massachusetts Bay. The fines, imprisonments, and stripes, liberally distrib... ...sequence, continued to increase, till, in the year 1659, the government of Massachusetts Bay 44 Twice Told Tales indulged two members of the Quaker s... ...ch was no longer holy, among the people of his persuasion in the colony of Massachusetts. A more worldly consideration had perhaps an influence in dra... ...s been told far and wide, and will forever be a legend of these mountains. Poets have sung their fate. There were circumstances which led some to supp...

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...d a genius, so to speak, for sauntering, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and ask... ...rs in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would de rive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sen... ...hed by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels. It is true, we are but faint hearted crus... ...that use of my figure. I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, b... ...tuated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country. Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged... ...st rots below—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and... ...f common day. English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—brea...

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...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...ch abused Concord River with the most famous in history. “Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream ... ...taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.” 11 HenryDavidThoreau The Mississippi, the Gan... ...bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories. “There is an inwa... ...e, then, could the Red Man set his foot? The honey bee hummed through the Massachusetts woods, and sipped the wild flowers round the Indian’s wigwam,... ...ism, and Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted, and other tracts, done into the Massachusetts tongue, and taught them Christianity meanwhile. “This place,”... ...he Great Spirit.” From their junction it runs south seventy eight miles to Massachusetts, and thence east thirty five miles to the sea. I have traced ...

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...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...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 ... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ... their hands. Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are ... ...rest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the chil dren of Aurora, and emit their... ... such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read th... ...nian. Wise midnight bags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual cons... ...of the Town of Concord,” by one of its citizens, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and ...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ... involuntarily we always read as superior be- ings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures, —in the sacerdot... ...ails of that stately apologue. Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets. When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Soc... ...- mance, the issue is an exact allegory. Hence Plato said 22 Essays that “poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”... ...there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, an... ...on, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large. They...

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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...in 1775 he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...t become eminent in it, and make his for tune by it, alleging that the best poets must, when they first began to write, make as many faults as he did... ...nor Morris. War being in a manner commenced with France, the gov ernment of Massachusetts Bay projected an attack upon Crown Point, and sent Mr. Quin...

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...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...letters. It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the oth... ...rica, there is a provincial tax of this kind upon their importa- tion into Massachusetts Bay, in ships belonging to any other colony, of eight-pence t... ...o their subjects, at an interest of so much per cent. Others, like that of Massachusetts Bay, advance, upon extraordi- nary emergencies, a paper money... ...value to which it gradu- ally falls. In 1747, {See Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts Bay vol. ii. page 436 et seq.} that colony paid in this manne...