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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the... ...haling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. They have provided a system which for terse compreh... ...ould the King have the head, and the Queen the tail? A reason for that, ye lawyers! In his treatise on “Queen-Gold,” or Queen-pinmoney, an old King’s ... ...n ere I could perish—How’s that?—There’s a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges:—like a hawk’s bea...

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...he protection of the laws of the coun- try—if there be laws, there must be lawyers to explain, and judges to administer them.’ Joshua smiled, and poin... ... eaten by the other. But I say not this to shock you; for, though laws and lawyers are evils, yet they are necessary evils in this probationary state ... ... of fishing practised by your friend Joshua is greatly doubted by our best lawyers; and that, if the stake-nets be considered as actually an unlawful ... ...ereft of his wits; for it seems that young Dumtoustie is ane of the Poor’s lawyers, and Peter Peebles’s process had been remitted to him of course. Bu... ...nothing could have thus subdued nature To such a lowness, but his ‘learned lawyers.’ He was e’en as we have seen him of yore, Alan, when, rather 217 ... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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... T reasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson TREASURE ISLAND T o S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following nar... ...en I’m in Parlyment and riding in my coach, I don’t want none of these sea-lawyers in the cabin a- coming home, unlooked for, like the devil at prayer...

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...ating as such a confession is, I am. But I dined at M. de Villefort’s, and lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some re... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ... ...er and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire t...

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...omposure, chanced on Mr. Carling, the solicitor, where Lincoln’s Inn pumps lawyers into Fleet Street through the drain-pipe of Chancery Lane. He was i... ...aracters …’ ‘Of course,’of course there are; and I could name you some. We lawyers …! ‘You encounter all sorts.’ ‘Between ourselves,’ Carling sank his... ...against propriety. You should read my friend Durance’s Es- say on Society. Lawyers are a buttress of Society. But, come: I wager they don’t know what ... ...rounds for thinking himself of the community of the man of the world. ‘You lawyers dress in another closet,’ he said. ‘The Rev. Groseman has the ear o... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...but stupefying mission. A fluent lin- guist, yet an Englishman, the slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United St... ...xon’s champion. On a day patented for secresy, and swear- ing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the p...

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...ad produced one or two eminent law- 64 Of Human Bondage yers, but eminent lawyers are common, and one or two soldiers of distinction; but during the ... ... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...rtain disinclination for society. Fraulein Hedwig was gone, and Weeks, the American who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a... ...y under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward did not like Weeks. He deplored the American’s black coat and pepper -and-salt trousers, and spoke with a scorn... ...rs were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth be- hind them....

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...blind submissions to the accepted order—to laws, to doctors, to clergymen, lawyers, masters, and all respect- able persons in authority over us, and w... ...nization. Through their want of intelligent direction the great “Trust” of American ironmasters, a gang of ener- getic, narrow-minded furnace owners, ... ...im. This opera- tion of spasmodic underselling was known as “dumping.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British ... ... interests and claims, in which an innumerable and insatiable multitude of lawyers, agents, managers, bosses, organizers lived like fleas in a dirty o...

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...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ...l collector values a thing for its rarity. I don’t suppose the buy- ers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’... ... book that one is never going to read! And I suppose most of the owners of Americana are not historians either?” “No; very few of the historians can a... ...ssary. “And how,” she said, leaning forward, “are you getting on with your Americana?” 19 Edith Wharton His eye became a degree less opaque: it was a... ...eally can’t sit here all night.” “I can go to an hotel. I can telegraph my lawyers.” He sat up, roused by a new thought. “By Jove, Selden’s at Nice—I’...

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...on of the reverse. Nobody cares how many lords and ladies, and divines and lawyers, may have been crowded into these houses in the past – per- haps th... ...arcade listening to an agent; and at certain regular hours a whole tide of lawyers hurries across the space. The Parliament Close has been the scene o... ... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i... ...e kindly jar, the warm at- mosphere of tavern parlours, and the revelry of lawyers’ clerks, do not offer by themselves the materials of a rich existen...

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...her of us could understand a syllable. There were several of his priests and lawyers present (as I conjec tured by their habits), who were commanded ... ...s well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their liv... ...ny thing unbecoming their nature or their office. “It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: an... ...ity, that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind, as these lawyers, by the description I gave of Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 221 t... ...s yet wholly at a loss to under stand what motives could incite this race of lawyers to perplex, disquiet, and weary them selves, and engage in a con... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...s they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am be... ...on attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers. He had found time, nevertheless, to call often in Park Lane, and t... ...es and ev- erybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any fe... ...o simple, to have or to leave, as she justly ob- served, that she made the lawyers of the creditors themselves do the business. And Mr. Lewis represen... ...ngs where she dwelt, while conducting the busi- ness, to treat the enemy’s lawyers: shook hands with them at parting, in excellent good humour, and re... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro...

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...ural and extraordinary. For this reason, you will find men of ex- perience—lawyers, judges, doctors, and priests—attaching 14 The Two Brothers immens... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...y this time had the reputation of being one of the keenest and most astute lawyers in Paris, and who, moreover, did sundry services for personages of ... ...er read the miserable vagabond one of those unanswerable lectures in which lawyers rate things at their actual value; using plain terms to qualify the... ...f-officer of the Emperor! Absurd! Why, we fooled the Chamber of Peers, the lawyers, the government, and the whole of the damned concern. The king’s pe... ...er a meagre dinner, given by Desroches who boarded his head-clerk, the two lawyers put the political convict in the diligence, and wished him good luc...

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...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...at trousers! made, by long wear, as black and shiny as the camlet of which lawyers’ gowns are made! A waistcoat, bought in an old clothes shop in the ... ...d; but he must be quick. The will must be under Esther’s pillow before the lawyers affix the seals here.” And he wrote out the following will:— “Never... ...y, to affect the surprise and anility of an innocent man, while giving the lawyers the spectacle of his sufferings. As has been told, Asie, that skill... ... difficulty brought the Abbe Carlos downstairs to Esther’s room, where the lawyers and the gendarmes were assembled. “That was the best thing he could... ...the police commissioner asked. The police is always incredulous. The three lawyers had spoken, as may be imagined, in a whisper; but Jacques Collin ha...

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..., Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with their wooden walls. Neverthe... ...e have our juries at times not only to endure the prolonged contentions of lawyers with their fees, but also the yet more perplexing strife of the med...

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...ten of the privileged race. They had been conspicuous judges and admirals, lawyers and servants of the State for some years before the rich- ness of t... ...took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a bla... ...ression of the mouth! I recognize them at once. I always feel at home with lawyers, Mr. Denham—” “They used to come about so much in the old days,” Mr... ...her arm, has never heard that there was such a person? Yet it all goes on: lawyers hurrying to their work, cabmen squabbling for their fares, little b... ...ith relief, and she had merely to shake hands with Rodney and to greet the American lady who had come to be shown the relics, before the talk started ... ..., and the polite alacrity with which he was answering the questions of the American visitor. It was certainly a sight to daunt any one coming in with ... ...kid gloves. “You are wonderfully like your grandfather, Miss Hilbery,” the American lady observed, gazing from Katharine to the portrait, “especially ... ...up sharply from his row of little pictures. Katharine was disposing of the American lady in far too arbitrary a fashion. Surely the victim herself mus... ...t know much about the law,” she went on, “though many of my relations were lawyers. Some of them looked very handsome, too, in their wigs. But I think...

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...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...of the veterans of the law had not admitted innovation. One or two eminent lawyers still saw their clients in taverns, as was the general custom fifty... ...ing into this miserable world at such a moment of unutterable mis- ery. We lawyers are not of iron, sir, or of brass, any more than you soldiers are o... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th... ...teresting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion. [Note IX Lawyers’ Sleepless Nights.] And yet I shall be very eager to hear the rattl... ... of having overstepped accuracy in describing the manner in which Scottish lawyers of the old time occasionally united the worship of Bacchus with tha... ...thor (though then young), had the honour of sitting at his board. Note IX.—LAWYERS’ SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. It is probably true, as observed by Counsellor P...

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...explaining to the reader that irreconcilable dispute amongst Parliamentary lawyers as to the question whether Lord Aberdeen’s bill were enactory, that... ...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...terval be- fore the box arrived—three days—in making inquiries relative to American vessels, at the offices of various shipping-agents in the city; an... ...n ill all along, got well now, and those who had been well, got better. An American gentleman in the after-cabin, who had been wrapped up in fur and o... ...he foul atmosphere of a criminal trial, would disgrace your own old Bailey lawyers; why, then I answer plainly, No.’ ‘Oh!’ said Martin; in so exactly ...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th... ...ll probably only be properly set right by a quickening of conscience among lawyers themselves. Of no class of men is the help and service so necessary...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... at all: ocular delusions on the largest scale are common. What’s a court? Lawyers have no better eyes than other people. Their physics are often out ... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...ly, from this dependence upon careless readers. This is Bentley’s case: as lawyers say: ‘My lord, that is my case.’ It is possible enough to write cor... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ... ...earned professions. We have now, it is alleged, no great and comprehensive lawyers like Coke: and the study of medicine 189 Thomas de Quincey is subd...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ... of the lips. “But a deed of such a kind will entail certain expenses, and lawyers are so devoid of conscience! In fact, so extortionate is their avar... ...having to cut the very tail from his coat before he would get clear of the lawyers. “Nevertheless,” added Chichikov, “seeing that you are so hard pres...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ... con- viction if possible. On which the regular sentiment against becoming lawyers was produced, and the subject might have been dropped if Constance ...

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... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...ttorney, now retired, who told me that for fifteen years past notaries and lawyers have distrusted their clients quite as much as their adversar- ies.... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...ng-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then see... ...’s door. Nothing that I can say with reference to the social habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fat... ...unds to 300 pounds a year; but they are, I believe, allowed to practice as lawyers in any counties except those in which they sit as judges—being guid... ... as they are in England; but it is, as I was told, the opinion of Canadian lawyers that the work may be thrown to- gether. Appeal is allowed in crimin... ...ed for such work? And then there arose a clamor of justification among the lawyers; judges and ex-judges flew to Wheaton, Phillimore, and Lord Stowell... ... whether wrong or right, they would not give up Slidell and Mason. But the lawyers soon waxed stronger. The men were mani- festly ambassadors, and as ...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...sive. The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculp- tors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordi... ..., commonly called men of let- ters, are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physi- cians probably would be in, upon the foregoing suppositi... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...d most important, and some of the most frivolous professions; church- men, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musi... ..., nor fidei commisses, bear any resemblance to entails, though some French lawyers have thought proper to dress the modern institution in the language...

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...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...ally, I regret to say, empty. Could your recommendation introduce me to an American publisher? My next book I should really try to get hold of here, a... ...ta in the West. I see I am in a grasping, dismal humour, and should, as we Americans put it, quit writing. In truth, I am so haunted by anxieties that... ...difficult to please. I was inexpressibly touched to get a letter from some lawyers as to some money. I have never had any account with my friends; som...

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.... He received him very courteously. Sir A. ‘I think, Sir, almost all great lawyers, such at least as have written upon law, have known only law, and n... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ... my will, which I have just made, with the assistance of one of the ablest lawyers in the kingdom; and 277 Boswell’s Life of Johnson he will read it ... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage...

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... busily somewhere in the direction between Patrick and the sideboard. ‘Our lawyers have us inside out, like our physicians,’ Mr. Adister resumed, talk... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu...

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...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...w them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam blers and great ladi... ...y thrill you, they’re so queer, and a lovely actress, and an awfully jolly American girl.’ ‘I should love to come,’ said Susie, with an appealing look... ...never see him again. If you’re afraid, you shall be hid den from him, and lawyers shall arrange everything between you.’ 133 Maugham ‘I daren’t.’ ‘B... ...g to do any harm to Margaret. As soon at I get back to London, I’ll see my lawyers, and I daresay something can be done. If he’s really mad, we’ll hav...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...rds might not a Poe claim! Edgar’s father, a son of General David Poe, the American revolutionary patriot and friend of Lafayette, had married Mrs. Ho... ...m $20 monthly for two pages of criticism. Those were discouraging times in American literature, but Poe never lost faith. He was finally to triumph wh... ...tico inquirendo. He has thought it sagacious to echo the small talk of the lawyers, who, for the most part, content themselves with echoing the rectan...

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...ere, who can doubt but that they, like marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawyers, would have been within the province of the writer of plays? And wh... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ...thouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, have “captured” the local ... ...y alike, and from the knowing cards, the pothouse shepherds, and job- bing lawyers who “work” the constituencies, comes the chief opposition to this s...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...good deal like everybody in general. By and by a hearty and healthy German American got in and opened up a frank and interesting and sympathetic conve... ...erhaps we shall get along better, and I shall stop calling Waggner, on the American What Is Man and Other Essays 140 plan, and thereafter call him Wa... ...ar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop talk of lawyers through being for a time the cleark of a stratford court ; just as... ...f er ror.” Such was the testimony borne by one of the most distinguished lawyers of the nineteenth century who was raised to the high office of Lord... ...became Lord Chancellor. Its weight will, doubtless, be more appreciated by lawyers than by laymen, for only lawyers know how impossible it is for thos... ...rd Penzance, to which dignity he was raised in 1869. Lord Penzance, as all lawyers know, and as the late Mr. Inderwick, K.C., has testified, was one o...

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... “You mean about the Elphicks and the Moones?” he an- swered. “Yes—and the lawyers and the estate. Who are they? I wonder whether those painted floors... ...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ...’t any roads?” Skim interrupted, but none laughed. “My uncle he married an American woman for his sec- ond, and she took it up like a like the coroner... .... It’s against their law. There’s only rich and poor allowed. They’ve been lawyers and such like over yon- der for a hundred years but she’s a Lashmar... ... the way o’ talk leading to an- 34 Actions and Reactions other, and those American people at Veering Holler was very obligin’ with news, I’m told, ma...

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...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ... ...he cried under his breath. “The first German light! Hurrah!” And those two American citizens shook hands on it with the greatest fervour, while I turn... ... at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our uneasy heads. We cannot be sufficientl... ...at I mean. This Inquiry is admirably conducted. I am not al- luding to the lawyers representing “various inter- ests,” who are trying to earn their fe...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...s. That unequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which is in itself an inexhaustibl... ...nvites and our interests prompt us to aim at an ascendant in the system of American affairs. The world may politically, as well as geographically, be ... ...er of taxation with the Union. The restriction in question amounts to what lawyers call a negative pregnant that is, a negation of one thing, and an a...

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...to some honor and glory, and to most of them wealth. Imagine the number of lawyers, doctors and business men who could stick to a narrow path if they ... ...sons can fail to observe the close relation between poverty and crime. All lawyers know that the practice of criminal law is a poor business. Most law... ... the most intelligent ones never know or feel the whole code, and in fact, lawyers are forever debating and judges doubting as to whether many ways of... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...aking these judgments. All it furnishes is a tribunal where the contending lawyers can fight, not for justice, but to win. It is little better than th... ...only question settled in court is the relative strength and cunning of the lawyers. The tribu- nal whose duty it is to fix the future place and status... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...ently in order to force Mexico to initiate war. It is to the credit of the American nation, however, that after conquering Mexico, and while practical... ...ng probably less than one hun- dred souls. There was, in addition, a small American trading post, at which goods were sold to Mexican smugglers. All g... ...ion as any in their section of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and som...

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...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ...ssible for these two classes to unite or to put forward any demands… . The American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World repres... ...political rule. This is the essential significance of the recent change in American foreign policy as illustrated by the Spanish War, the Philippine a... ...thinkable thing of deep horror. It is not so that marriage is conceived by lawyers who make settle- ments, or by priests who give the name of “sacrame...

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...tion and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. She was an American woman, with a small infusion of French which seemed to have been... ...the gentleman of that name who formed one of the firm of Laitner and Arobin, lawyers. The young man admitted that Laitner was a warm personal friend, ...

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...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...ry goods stores, tailors’ shops, and banking rooms on the lower floor, and lawyers’ offices in the second story , which you are so anxious to substitu...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans... ... been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public t... ...ly sec- ular struggles for independence after World War I.Western-educated lawyers, soldiers, and officials led most independence movements, and cleri... ... the context of a capture operation. CIA senior man- agers, operators, and lawyers confirmed this understanding.“We always talked about how much easie... ...l other col- laborators and for covering a wider set of contingencies, the lawyers returned to the language used in August 1998, which authorized forc... ... the government in with statements that might later be obtained by defense lawyers in a future court case.At the time, Clarke was aware of the problem...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ...moral or theological discussion. These are to all the world what law is to lawyers; they are everybody’s technicalities; the medium through which all ...