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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ...eat displeasure, did not like the neighbourhood of the inhabited coasts of Brazil, for we went at a giddy speed. Not a fish, not a bird of the swift- ...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...d surprised as the Power that had captured the Haliotis? It explained that colonial governors and far-away men-of-war were difficult to control, and p... ... and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but in their bunks; there were Brazilian boats whose cabins could be hired for mer- chandise, that went ou... ...dgesd’ ye know what freights are noo? an’ pianos, an’ millinery, an’ fancy Brazil cargo o’ every species pourin’ into the Grotkau—the Grotkau o’ the J...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Filozofio (especially chapters 1 and 2), Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. WHAT IS RELIGION? 13 organized and often a corporate body, ... ...ard the Second Coming and the Last judgment). He might be an ordinary post-colonial Ameri- can citizen excited by the press-fed vision of the American... ...n a triumph for the rights of the land owners. Thomas Jefferson, the great Colonial and early American statesman, had throughout his political career ... ...st or ruinous taxation by a tyrannical monarch. This was for many educated colonial and early American white men the most progressive and exciting of ... ... Evaldo: Mil Jaroj de Kristana Filozofio, Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. Peterson, Merrill D.: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, O...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...work force - yet, the published rate is 29%. In numerous countries - from Brazil to Sri Lanka - many people are mainly employed in casual work. The... ...rding to the "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor", is behind South Korea and Brazil in entrepreneurial activity prevalence index. But 7 percent of its ... ... "real" (read: agricultural) goods. There was fear of over- population and colonial immigration coupled with mercantilism was considered to be the so... ...mpathetic politicians. Ask the denizens of Thailand, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, or Morocco and they will tell you how they regard this altruistic ...

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Contributing to Efforts for Greater Financial Markets Stability in Apec Economies

By: Apec Finance Minister Process

...cana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V . It is Latin America's second largest exchange, after Brazil's. Still, the Bolsa remains relatively small compared t... ... by RBA which had targeted Australia’s inflation to fall between 2-3 percent in 2010 (Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010). Following ... ...al Regulation Authority, Accessed April 2010, (www.apra.gov.au/speeches/00_05.cf). Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010, Australian I... ...e Global Asset Management 2010, Australian Inflation Eases Marginally, Economic Note, Colonial First States Global Asset Management, Accessed March 2...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...he World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), put forward by India and Brazil, includes similar themes, as do the Geneva Declaration and the Ade... ...uit of happiness—enunciated in the context of indignation at relatively mild colonial policies of taxation and legislation. How could a man who though...

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The Marriage Contract

By: Honoré de Balzac

... alone know how to distinguish be- tween the diamonds of Asia and those of Brazil. The stones of Golconda and Visapur are known by a whiteness and gli... ...teness and glit- tering brilliancy which others have not,—the water of the Brazilian diamonds having a yellow tinge which reduces their selling value.... ...ins, and said, in a mumbling tone:— “ A good many Portuguese diamonds from Brazil are among them. They are not worth more than a hundred thousand to m... ...oom where the dancing was to be. Bordeaux, a city famous for the luxury of colonial fortunes, was on a tip- toe of expectation for this scene of fairy...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ding in slaves between foreign countries, as, for instance, from Africa to Brazil. In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two slave-State laws in ... ...ion: Is it not plain in what direction we are tending? [Sensation.] In the colonial time, Mason, Pendleton, and Jefferson were as hostile to slavery i...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...ising sons, who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly be... ...e to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There is, of course, a considerable amo... ...merican community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Looks at the World colonial society that has become autonomous. It is a great and deepening po... ...y fecund, and then comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probab... ...in this great admixture and stirring up of peoples. This ingredient is the Colonial British, whose seventeenth century Puritanism and eighteenth centu... ...t) a bank in New Zealand, a railway in Cuba, another in Canada, several in Brazil, an electric power plant in the City of Westminster, and so on, and ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... a century back (about which period our tale opens) devoted to the sale of Colonial produce. A rudely carved image of a negro, with a fantastic plume ... ...ale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the United States of America, erected into a mo...

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