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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...inst whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judgment, as ba... ...ouri, of Mississippi and Arkansas, and through the State of Louisiana. The ancient province so called, the proudest monument of the mighty monarch who... ...uch of the way in which men are settling themselves in this still sparsely-populated country. Here young farmers go into the woods as they are doing f... ...rably bad. They are full of holes. The boards are rotten, and worn in some places to dirt. The nails have gone, and the broken planks go up and down u... ...New Zealand fighting, and the rest of it. Such complaints remind one of an ancient pater familias who insists on having his children and his grandchil... ...ong political existence. The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but “Greece” and “Greek” are bywords now for all that is mean. Cuba is a colony,... ...ery general purpose, if I were to attempt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- a...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... can so well deserve our esteem and love? There may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations of men into cities and nations are the mo... ...s bitter and bloody persecutions. Dur ing the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seek INAUG... ...to extend those limits, and to apply such a sur plus to our public debts as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once ef... ...and powerful fleet. It was, indeed, to the ambition of the leading States of Greece to control the domestic concerns of the others that the destructio... ...ur banner have become nearly threefold their origi nal number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans; and yet t... ...er confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts;...