Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier question
19758What is the essential feature of my hammer''s operation?
19759And what should that be?
19759And why has it been possible for France to carry on for four years a successful war against the greatest military power that the world has ever seen?
44684do these cattle mean we should kiss the shoes of every good man?''"
44684that hamlet in Saxon Kent, Shall I find it when I come home?
28607And who would have it otherwise?
28607Were it not for trees, would there be any beauty in mountain, hill, or valley,--for who can conceive of a beautiful landscape scene devoid of trees?
28607Who would care to live by the side of the purest stream or body of water, if it were not fringed with trees?
41030''Any room, sir?'' 41030 The new passenger, without any expression of anxiety, looks into the coach, and then looks up at the coachman:''Now, how do you mean to fix it?''
41030''Shall I close the window?''
41030How delighted were the old tavern- keepers in central New York with the opening of the Erie Canal, on whose boats immigrants ate and slept?
41030Mr. Moore, a traveller toward his home in Dunker''s Bottom, Fayette County, Pennsylvania,[?]
41030That out of the neat[ net?]
41030[ 5] Oliphant''s Iron Furnace, Union Township?
41030[ 7] Bruceton''s Mills, Grant Township, Preston County, West Virginia?
41143How long have you read law and what books have you studied?
41143''So,''says the son,''am I to be served thus for not doing what I am unable to do?
41143B?]
41143Because some of the relatives of the Indian chieftain Logan had been basely murdered, while intoxicated, on Yellow Creek?
41143But what could be said if Virginia purchased the Indian''s claim?
41143Could a king''s proclamation keep the Virginians from a territory to which, for value received, the Indians had given a quit- claim deed?
41143Could she maintain it?
41143How aware?
41143Nor does it seem that there was much abatement during the more inclement( safer?)
41143Where is even the Kentucky historian who has done his state justice in telling the story of Kentucky''s conquest of Ohio and Indiana?
41143Who composed the armies of McIntosh, Brodhead, Crawford, Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne but these rough, wild- looking men who first entered the West?
41143an assurance that"to him that hath shall be given?"
33706And ought not the people have the opportunity to attend church? 33706 After receiving one- half, what per cent does the government return to them? 33706 How much does it expend to ease this burden of six hundred millions which lies so largely on the farmers of America? 33706 Or what joy more exquisite than with pleasant companionship to dash along the smooth highway, drawn by a noble American trotter? 33706 The question is, How much can we save of this half a billion dollars, at the least expenditure of money and in the most beneficial way? 33706 What can be of more interest to every parent than bringing the opportunity of educational instruction within the reach of every child? 33706 What can be of more interest to us than the schooling of our children? 33706 Where does the government build its fine buildings, where does it spend its millions on rivers and harbors? 33706 Who can estimate in mere dollars these advantages to the quality of American citizenship a century hence? 33706 Who wants to be landlocked five months of the year, without social advantages? 33706 Why? 40759 Can we discover any explanation for this coincidence of a prehistoric track with the high- road of our own time, which is almost indifferent to soil? 40759 For this he is still ridiculed, but what else are the most learned saying now? 40759 Now what is the meaning of this multiplicity, and of all this interest in preserving such a multiplicity even by artificial means? 40759 Now, had they any reason to do this? 40759 Now, what would have given this decayed spot its importance long ago? 40759 To sum up all these questions we may ask in one phrase, as we asked at Canterbury: What made Winchester? 40759 When the Straits had been crossed and England entered, whither would the principal road lead? 40759 Why did Canterbury, an inland town, become the goal of this long journey towards the narrow seas? 40759 Why did Winchester come to absorb the traffic of the west, and to form the depôt and the political centre of southern England? 40759 Why was this? 40759 Why? 40759 for the crossing of the clay? 40759 for the neighbourhood of the river? 41067 Here''s some strangers that wants lodging; can we get to stay all night with you?"
41067Is there a ferry here?
41067Leaving this lonely habitation, we continued on our journey, and crossing the Sinecocy[ Monocacy?] 41067 What in the world shall we do?"
41067What''s that you say, stranger? 41067 What''s that?"
41067A portly dame made her appearance at the door, and was saluted with,--"How de do, ma''am-- all well, ma''am?"
41067But our attitude has been that of one asking, Why?--we have not at proper length considered all that would be contained in the question, How?
41067I_ spose maybe_ you think I never_ seed_ a coach?
41067May not an old route have led from Great Meadows thither on the same hillside where we find the Cumberland Road today?
41067On the front these words can be traced:"[ 12?]
41067The question immediately arises, What sort of vehicle could weather such roads?
41067What must have been the price when one horse carried only from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty pounds?
41067Who keeps house?"
41152By land, to the island of Cape Breton?
41152How, my Father,they replied,"are you so bent upon death that you would also sacrifice us?
41152What, is Cape Breton an island? 41152 And was he more at fault for the lack of frontiersmen? 41152 Are you sure of that?
41152Could North Carolina have given birth to a Tennessee if France had made good her claim to the Mississippi?
41152Could Virginia have borne a son in the western wilderness, Kentucky by name, if France had held the Ohio Valley?
41152Only once or twice in the three days he lived did he speak of the battle; and then he only sighed to himself softly:"Who would have thought it?"
41152What men in America, at the time, were more influential in their spheres than Franklin, Washington, and Morris?
41152Who but Gordon would have omitted his name under these circumstances?
41152With our eight hundred men do you ask us to attack four thousand English?
41152will you suffer your father to depart alone?"