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...ry to sustain his character. Invernahyle was afterwards pardoned under the Act of Indemnity. The Author knew him well, and has often heard these cir- ... ... the pocket of his night-gown. But there 31 Sir Walter Scott was no overt act which an attainder could be founded on; and government, contented with ... ...f money out of his native country into the hands of the false English. But patriotism as it is the fairest, so it is often the most suspicious mask of... ..., and dinmonts, and stots, and runts, and kyloes, and a proposed turnpike- act; while Balmawhapple, in notes exalted above both, ex- tolled his horse,... ...sconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawh... ...s have shrouded them under the opinions which she had been taught to think patriotism. Such instances of devo- tion were not uncommon among the follow... ... boughs Brave summer’s drought and winter’s gloom! Rome bound with oak her patriots’ brows, As Albyn shadows Wogan’s tomb. Whatever might be the real ... ... education and early prejudice have gilded with 212 Waverley the names of patriotism and heroism;—Justice, when she se- lects her victims from such a... ...ack for French prisoners. May repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman, who, amongst his last services to Scot- land, interpos...

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...o question the existence of Alexander the Great, would be a more excusable act, than to believe in that of Romulus. To deny a fact re lated in Herodo... ...us gave the rein, 30 The Odyssey of Homer Did fate, or we, the adulterous act constrain? Did fate, or we, when great Atrides died, Urge the bold trai... ...essage of invading foes? Or say, does high necessity of state Inspire some patriot, and demand debate? The present synod speaks its author wise; Assis... ...nd, (On whom the virtues of thy sire descend,) Make future times thy equal act adore, And be what brave Orestes was before!” The prudent youth replied... ...us and Echephron the victim led; The axe was held by warlike Thrasymed, In act to strike; before him Perseus stood, The vase extending to receive the ... ..., victorious in the fray. While thus the peerage in the games contends, In act to speak, Laodamas ascends. “O friends (he cries), the stranger seems w...

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...ge.’ ‘So vast a throng the stage can ne’er contain.’ ‘Then build a new, or act it in a plain.’ Thus critics, of less judgment than caprice, Curious, n... ...ics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons are made to act in a poem: for the ancient poets are in one re- spect like many modern ... ...eric, or poetic fit, 60 On various tempers act by various ways, Make some take physic, others scribble plays; Who caus... ...test eyes could ease: Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin, That single act gives half the world the spleen.’ The goddess with a discontented air S... ...s its woe. Here tears shall flow from a more generous cause, Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws: He bids your breasts with ancient ardour rise... ...ot (exalted to whate’er degree) Ashamed of any friend, not even of me: The patriot’s plain, but untrod path pursue; If not, ’tis I must be ashamed of ... ...nd reflected in his race; Where other Buckhursts, other Dorsets shine, And patriots still, or poets, deck the line. 155 The Poetical Works of Alexand... ...’d, Fix’d to one side, but moderate to the rest: An honest courtier, yet a patriot too; Just to his prince, and to his country true: Fill’d with the s... ... blooming round, Could save a parent’s justest pride from fate, Or add one patriot to a sinking state; This weeping marble had not ask’d thy tear, Or ...

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...y’s Chief Secretary of State and most honourable Privy Council. That, this patriot would be produced before them. That, his position and attitude were... ...s), was in a manner contagious; more especially the bright virtue known as patriotism, or love of country. That, the lofty example of this immaculate ... ...on of what he was soon to become. When toned down again, the unimpeachable patriot appeared in the witness box. Mr. Solicitor General then, following ... ...box. Mr. Solicitor General then, following his leader’s lead, examined the patriot: John Barsad, gentleman, by name. The story of his pure soul was ex... ... dear no. Swear that? Over and over again. No motives but motives of sheer patriotism? None whatever. The virtuous servant, Roger Cly, swore his way t... ... engaged him. He had not asked the prisoner to take the handy fellow as an act of charity never thought of such a thing. He began to have suspicions o... ...nners and appearance, owned to being a Mother. Indeed, except for the mere act of bringing a troublesome creature into this world which does not go f... .... Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly believed, when they had bowed a customer ... ...es may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it. A Tale of ...

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...ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the agitations of that body; and at a... ... is created, subdivides itself into several successive acts. The ini- tial act belongs to the patron of the benefice: he must ‘present;’ that is, he n... ...ice upon A B, to a public body which officially takes cog- nizance of this act; and that body is, not the particular par- ish concerned, but the presb... ...eological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two the church, passing by the act of ‘presentation’ as an obstacle too formidable to be separately attack... ...ich had settled on the French banners, have given an electric shock to the patriotism of the audience, such as would have been capable for the moment ... ...s the birth of republican sentiments, and built on a reaction of civic and patriotic ardor. In the very plenitude of their rage against kings, the Fre... ...opposite of those which had originally given them birth. Nothing less than patriotic ardor in defence of what had at one time appeared to be the cause... ... charming away their sternest resolutions, and of relaxing the hand of the patriot when grasping his noblest birthright, has ever lain in great milita... ... Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two qualities, a caprice of patriotic benevolence by those who do. According to the construction of the...

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...Fifteen; or Imagination and Heart. By Jane Morgan.” In conformity with the Act of Congress of the United States entitled, “An Act for the encouragemen... ...etors of such copies, during the times herein men- tioned.” And also to an Act, entitled, “an Act, supplementary to an Act, for the encouragement of L... ...ung women, at that tender age when the feel- ings of their nature begin to act on them most insidiously, and when their minds are least prepared by re... ...n the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee. —Midsummer Night’ s Dream Act II, Scene 1, lines 137-141 “DO—write to me often, my dear Anna!” said t... ...9 Tales for Fifteen itself required too much of the care of her rulers and patriots to admit of the consideration of lesser objects. With the best of ... ...th the heroine of our tale. Under the age of five-and-twenty, men commonly act at the instigation of sud- den impulse, and young Weston was not yet tw...

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... were not good enough for Mr. Tristram. He had never been a very conscious patriot, but it vexed him to see them treated as little better than a vulga... ...ng seri- ously,” she said, “I believe in you, Mr. Newman. You flat- ter my patriotism.” “Your patriotism?” Christopher demanded. “Even so. It would ta... ...the head of the clan. With those people the family is everything; you must act, not for your own pleasure, but for the advantage of the family.” “I wo... ...ewman. “Make yourself comfortable. Your coming to see me, I take it, is an act of friendship. You were not obliged to. Therefore, if 86 The American ... ...wever, breaking silence,—”Certainly,” he said, “my coming to see you is an act of friendship. Neverthe- less I was in a measure obliged to do so. My s... ...f these things to Bellegarde. One reason was that before proceeding to any act he was always circumspect, conjec- tural, contemplative; he had little ... ...ng ladies’ hands with at least his habitual air of self-abandonment to the act. Madame de Bellegarde gave a glance at her eldest 153 Henry James son,...

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...two customs of laughing and crying, Miss Sedley was greatly puzzled how to act. She was glad to go home, and yet most woefully sad at leaving school. ... ...ey Prepare to Open the Campaign WHEN MISS SHARP had performed the heroical act mentioned in the last chapter, and had seen the Dixonary, flying over t... ...thank God, I’m out of Chiswick.” Miss Sedley was almost as flurried at the act of defiance as Miss Jemima had been; for, consider, it was but one minu... ... down your pant—”? Well, well, Miss Sedley was exceedingly alarmed at this act of insubordination. “How could you do so, Rebecca?” at last she said, a... ...e to get free from the prison in which she found herself, and now began to act for herself, and for the first time to make connected plans for the fut... ...allest drummer in the regiment, all were filled with hope and ambition and patriotic fury; and thanked the French Emperor as for a personal kindness i... ...ate comes from,” said the Major’s lady; proceeding, as is not unusual with patriots of her nation, to make comparisons greatly in favour of her own co... ...d when he heard that she was half a Frenchwoman by birth. “None but a com- patriot,” his Excellency declared, “could have performed that 530 V anity ... ...ety one of its most brilliant ornaments, and En- gland one of her loftiest patriots and statesmen,” &c., &c. His will was a good deal disputed, and an...

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... be done, not in mere love and thankfulness, but because I regard it as an act of plain justice and honour.” I said these words with the greatest earn... ...but there was appropriate matter in it too; for Mr Pecksniff, being in the act of extinguishing the candles before men- tioned pretty rapidly, and of ... ...t front room, with one or other of the Miss Pecksniffs at the altar in the act of marry- ing the architect, could only be made available by the parlia... ...and the heavy heap of bed-clothes, were all designed to hold in sleep, and act as nonconductors to the day and getting up. Even the old stuffed fox up... ...yellow in the service, if you mean that, my friend,’ said Mr Tigg; ‘in the patriotic service of an ungrateful country . You are making it two-and-six,... ... Journal! Here’s all the New York pa- pers! Here’s full particulars of the patriotic locofoco movement yesterday, in which the whigs was so chawed up;... ... a moist pen slick through every- thing, and start fresh.’ This made him a patriot. In commercial affairs he was a bold speculator. In plainer words h... ...self. But as a man’s private prosperity does not always keep pace with his patriotic devotion to public affairs; and as fraudulent transactions have t... ...klessly at most times. So it was with these gentlemen. He was the greatest patriot, in their eyes, who brawled the loudest, and who cared the least fo...

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...e were,’ said Elizabeth, smiling, ‘I do not think that we ever intended to act on that maxim. But really, Anne, I do believe that if you had been a pr... .... In the mean time, Elizabeth, quite unconscious that Dora was intended to act as a clog round her neck, to keep her from straying too far, was mounti... ...quelein; I wish I knew where to find their pictures, and I want a Prussian patriot. I think the Baron de la Motte Fouque, who was a Knight of St. John... ...ram. I am afraid there was no leader good enough for you among the Spanish patriots in the Peninsular war.’ ‘I do not know,’ said Anne; ‘I admire Don ... ...pressed full consciousness of the distinguished part which he was about to act. Poor Elizabeth! little reliance as she usually placed in Katherine’s d... ...frame, which is disposed to be offended with the first person who does not act up to its expecta- tions. Katherine’s study, through the whole morning,... ...e Adolphus, as a pledge of the tenderest friendship, and that you and Kate act as con- fidants.’ ‘Nonsense, Rupert,’ said Anne, trying to check him by...

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... of a Lady together, I see them placed, I see them engaged in this or that act and in this or that difficulty. How they look and move and speak and be... ... can come to him, from the reader, as a result on the latter’s part of any act of reflexion or dis- crimination. He may enjoy this finer tribute—that ... ...quired for consciousness of a “spell.” The occasional charming “tip” is an act of his intelligence over and beyond this, a golden apple, for the write... ...essly seeing, and an attempt withal to make the mere still lucidity of her act as “interesting” as the surprise of a caravan or the identification of ... ... America, under circumstances in which it might have seemed that her first act would have been to exchange greetings with her husband and son. Mrs. To... ...r cousin amused himself with calling her “Columbia “ and accusing her of a patriotism so heated that it scorched. He drew a caricature of her in which... ... means he’s a little of everything and not much of any. I must say I think patriotism is like charity—it be- gins at home.” “Ah, but where does home b... ... her. But she suggests it; she vividly figures it.” “You like her then for patriotic reasons. I’m afraid it is on those very grounds I object to her.”... ...an, a gentleman. I could do nothing in Italy—I couldn’t even be an Italian patriot. To do that I should have had to get out of the country; and I was ...

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...e State; or (in the event of their not needing its helping hand) that they act in concert with it, and are emphatically the people’s. I cannot but thi... ...destitute and afflicted. But the government of the country, having neither act nor part in them, is not in the receipt of any portion of the gratitude... ...is hands;’ which gave it greater interest for them, and accustomed them to act together, in an orderly manner. They appeared exceedingly well taught, ... ...ame of mingled chance and skill, invented when the legisla ture passed an act forbidding Nine Pins. At other down ward flights of steps, are other l... ...otes – Dickens 104 of Don Guzman could alone have any business to trans act within its gloomy walls. I hastened to inquire its name and purpose, an... ...Did I see among them, the intelligence and refine ment: the true, honest, patriotic heart of America? Here and there, were drops of its blood and lif... ... three years. She acted as bearer of secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dres...

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...d the present moment is the least happiest of our existence!’ ‘You needn’t act the chairman here,’ said his friend, half aside. ‘Fred!’ cried Mr Swive... ... quite right,’ said Mr Swiveller, ‘caution is the word, and caution is the act. ’ with that, he winked as if in preservation of some deep secret, and ... ... and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves. CHAPTER 4 MR AND M RS Q UILP RESIDED ON T OWER H ILL... ... a men acing look, she met his eye in the glass, catching her in the very act. The same glance at the mirror conveyed to her the reflection of a horr... ... thoughts are bound up in her, that he would no more disinherit her for an act of disobedience than he would take me into his favour again for any act... .... In love of home, the love of country has its rise; and who are the truer patriots or the better in time of need—those who venerate the land, owning ...

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...with the great Marquis of Montrose, and other truly zealous and honourable patriots, and sustained great losses in that behalf. He had the honour of k... ...I, anent the coming in of the Highland host in 1678.” For undertaking this patriotic task he under- went a fine, to pay which he was obliged to mortga... ...ggle eyes, the huge un- der-jaw, which appeared not to open and shut by an act of volition, but to be dropped and hoisted up again by some complicated... ...ngly, expected to conduct himself as if he knew of no such preparation, to act as if desirous to press the female guests to refreshments, and to seem ... ...uced desperate skir- mishes, in which there was often much blood shed. The patriotic Fletcher of Saltoun drew a picture of these banditti about a cent... ...tacle for smuggled goods? Frank Kennedy will show you the penalties in the Act, and ye ken yourself they used to put their run goods into the Auld Pla... ...rampled, as if stamped by the heels of men in a mortal struggle, or in the act of some violent exertion. T races of the same kind, less visibly marked... ...d to perish with the vessel. What gave some coun- tenance to this supposed act of desperation was, that neither Dirk Hatteraick nor any of his sailors...

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...haps everything for the pretence of a foolish sentiment. But how was he to act while his father-in-law stood there holding his hand? How, without appe... ...s,—how his fine eye was lit up with an- ger, and his forehead gleamed with patriotism,—how he stamped his foot as he thought of his heavy associates,—... ...consecrated Bishop of Barchester. CHAPTER II HIRAM’S HOSPITAL ACCORDING TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT It is hardly necessary that I should here give to the pub... ... immediately have to reappoint to the wardenship of the hospital under the act of Parliament to which allusion has been made; but no one imagined that... ...‘I shall be greatly shorn of my ancient glory. ’ ‘Why so, papa?’ ‘This new act of parliament, that is to put us all on our feet again, ’ continued he,... ...nt, now that the affair of the hospital had been settled on a new basis by act of parliament. Such was the archdeacon’s opinion, and his father-in-law... ...s, censured free trade in November 1852, as the only 195 Anthony Trollope patriots left among the public men of England. When that terrible crisis of...

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..., promised to restore the patient. In another case, a lady was in the very act of being run over, immedi ately outside the city walls, by a sort of p... ...l make the exact balance. Their eyes and hands become so used to this, and act with such astonishing rapid ity, that an uninitiated bystander would f... ... the Madonna’s favourite colour. Women who have devoted themselves to this act of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are thre... ... a composed countenance again. I went, another night, to see these Puppets act a play called ‘St. Helena, or the Death of Napoleon.’ It began by the d... ... followed, it would appear that he never recovered the shock; for the next act showed him, in a clean shirt, in his bed (curtains crimson and white), ... ...led with the old days of the city: with its beau ties, tyrants, captains, patriots, merchants, counters, priests: nay, with its very stones, and bric...

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...papers (Fielding was always a strong Whig and Hanoverian), called the True Patriot and the Jacobite’s Journal in 1745 and the following years; some in... ...ure you,” cried the bookseller, “though I don’t know whether the licensing act may not shortly bring them to the same footing; but I have formerly kno... ...e taken in admitting any to the sacred office; though I hope he will never act so as to be a disgrace to any order, but will serve his God and his cou... ...the managers to return me the play again, for that they could not possibly act it that season; but, if I would take it and revise it against the next,... ... would rather forgive him riding through my house than such an ill-natured act as this.” The cheerfulness of their conversation being interrupted by t... ...mbition to be re- spected more than other people? Now, would not one great act of charity, one instance of redeeming a poor family from all the miseri...

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...ding. Sud denly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the court yard of a vast ruined castle, ... ...t of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders. In the old days there were stirring times, when the... ...irring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them, men and women, the aged and the children ... ...o have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as only one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to militate against hi... ..., but the door is fastened from the inside. I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise. 19 May.—I am surely in the toils. Last night the Co... ...ht is coming on. If He can look me in the face again, I may not have time to act… . If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who ... ...ld friend, but it is for her sake, and I must not hesitate to ask, or you to act. You are to come to lunch at Hillingham tomorrow, two o’clock, so as ...

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...her relations, And then he tried to muster all his patience. He stood in act to speak, or rather stammer, But sage Antonia cut him short befor... ... to say) Were masculine; to see them, and to seize, Was but a moment’s act.—Ah! well a day! My teeth begin to chatter, my veins freeze Al... ...sequence was awful in the extreme; For they, who were most ravenous in the act, Went raging mad—Lord! how they did blaspheme! And foam and rol... ... tame, Or eats from out the palm, or playful lowers His brow, as if in act to butt, and then Yielding to their small hands, draws back again. ... ...e, Though link’d among a fetter’d race, To feel at least a patriot’s shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face; For w... ...Then there were Frenchmen, gallant, young, and gay: But I ‘m too great a patriot to record Their Gallic names upon a glorious day; I ‘d rath... ...y’s glory. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Eight” 204 But still there is unto a patriot nation, Which loves so well its country and its king, A sub... ...as no peril of temptation; He loved the infant orphan he had saved, As patriots (now and then) may love a nation; His pride, too, felt that ... ... change dissolves the glittering mass. Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, And dandies, all are gone on the wind’s wings. Where...

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.... Wilks, the Faithful Fool,) who per- sisted in admiring her. In the fifth act, Teraminta was made to discover the merits of Eugenio (the F. F .), and... ... and his seat in the Scottish parliament in 1700: was famous there for his patriotism and eloquence, es- pecially in the debates about the Union Bill,... ...glish freedom and independence submitted their religious consciences to an Act of Parliament; could not consolidate their liberty without sending to Z... ...ge, and understanding their laws, to govern them. The Tory and High Church patriots were ready to die in defence of a Papist family that had sold us t... ...to death for rape, absolutely prevented the Secretary from exercising this act of good-nature, and boasted that he had had the man hanged; and great a... ...y Lord Castlewood’s conversion, and was much edified by that 89 Thackeray act of heaven in his favor. She knew that others of that family had been of... ...r him was greatly increased, since she knew what capability he had both to act and bear; to do and to forego. CHAPTER IX THE ORIGINAL OF THE PORTRAIT ... ...opponents than if he had been at Lisbon and Grand In- quisitor. This lofty patriot was on his knees at Hanover and St. Germains too; notoriously of no...

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...hich calls for correc- tion. For these reasons I beg of you, my reader, to act 11 Gogol also as my corrector. Do not despise the task, for, how- ever... ...f- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piece, even though, with arms sharply crooked and legs slightly be... ...at also. Not the words which he read, but the mere solace derived from the act of reading, was what especially pleased his mind; even though at any mo... ...lly which, as you may remember, I swopped from Khvostirev.” As a matter of act, Chichikov had never in his life seen either Khvostirev or the roan fil... ... Porphyri deposited the animal upon the floor; where- upon it proceeded to act after the manner of dogs. “There’s a puppy for you!” cried Nozdrev, cat... ...ossibly the author may also incur censure at the hands of those so-called “patriots” who sit quietly in corners, and become capitalists through making... ...ad foreigners to suppose that all is not well with us, and that we are not patriotic?” Well, to these sage remarks no an- swer can really be returned,... ...t they were acting scandalously. Yes, the feeling animating our so-called “patriots” is not true patriotism at all. Some- thing else lies beneath it. ... ...ho, if not an author, is to speak aloud the truth? Men like you, my pseudo-patriots, stand in dread of the eye which is able to discern, yet shrink fr...

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...ed the situ- ation. “Pardon me,” said he, smiling, “pardon me my dear com- patriot, but I had wholly forgotten you. But what help is there for it! A c... ...a reason. What the devil! Paris is not paved with cambric!” “Monsieur, you act wrongly in endeavoring to mortify me,” said D’Artagnan, in whom the nat... ... to me. It is you who have told me that you had a secret to confide in me. Act, then, as you think proper; there is still time to withdraw.” “No, mons... ...nd yet,” cried Porthos, “we will not leave—” “You will leave D’Artagnan to act as he thinks proper,” said Athos. “He has, I repeat, the longest head o... ...isted thread of this intrigue; that at the moment of arresting in the very act, with all the proofs about her, the queen’s emissary to the exiled duch... ...esty not myself who can charge himself with such a mission.” “How did they act with regard to the Marechale d’Ancre?” cried the king, in the highest s...

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...hollow humbug in the world as the French alliance. Men get a character for patriotism in France merely by hat- ing England. Directly they go into stro... ...ly they go into strong opposition (where, you know, people are always more patriotic than on the ministerial side), they appeal to the people, and hav... ...ves- sel, and was very nearly flung into the Seine, as report goes, by the patriots assembled there. It is now lying on the river, near the Invalides,... ...ectly I showed my face in the Champs Elysees, and torn in pieces by French Patriotism to the frantic chorus of the “Marseillaise?” Depend on it, Madam... ... heraldic bearings. We know that though the greatest pleasure of all is to ACT like a gentleman, it is a pleasure, nay a merit, to BE one—to come of a...

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...sent station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Al mighty Being who rules over the ... ...r measures, the trib ute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to de vise and adopt them... ...e by the people of united America. Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oa... ...ng a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to independence and peace, to in creasing... ...t be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a gov ernmen... ...sts and intercourse on fair and equal terms. We are firmly convinced, and we act on that convic tion, that with nations as with individuals our inter... ...emains for others, and it is due to the able and faithful auxiliaries, whose patriotism has associated them with me in the executive func tions. Duri... ...f in the true spirit of its constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be wr... ...ngement should be such as to put at the command of the Government the ardent patriotism and youthful vigor of the country. If formed on equal and just...

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...come the period for separation; and if the people would only see this, and act in accordance with the circumstances which Providence and the inevitabl... ...d that the revolt was a good thing; that those who were then rebels became patriots by success, and that they deserved well of all coming ages of mank... ...t such abstinence from luxury has been begotten altogether by a feeling of patriotism. The direct taxes which all Americans will now be called on to p... ... in providing for her operatives. “Ah! that’s what we fear,” a very stanch patriot said to me, if words may be taken as a proof of stauchness. “If Eng... ...h would induce them to avoid such evils; or, at any rate, such fears would act slowly. Laborers, however, will go where work is cer- tain, where work ... ...therwhere than in London. It was therefore well done to ask Her Majesty to act as arbiter in the matter. But there are not wanting those in Canada who... ...rent country. There is no virtue of which more has been said and sung than patriotism, and none which, when pure and true, has led to finer results. D... ... also is a very beautiful and proper thing. But if we examine closely much patriotism, that is so called, we shall find it going hand in hand with a g... ...would know that it is not his fault. No one could blame Captain Wilkes for act- ing policeman on the seas. But who ever before heard of giving a man g...

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...al excellence of this poem, candour obliges us to allow, that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resis- tance with which it is fraught, had ... ...ot at all depressed by their situation; but in high spirits and brimful of patriotism, tra- versed the square for several hours, inveighed against the... ...s; and that she may, in her present state, look with plea- sure upon every act of virtue to which her in- structions or example have contributed. 74 ... ...in, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encourage- ment, or one smile of favour. Suc... ...cial observers; because he was at all times in- dignant against that false patriotism, that pre- tended love of freedom, that unruly restless- ness, w... ...which was so fierce, and indulged with such intenseness, that while in the act of eating, the veins of his forehead swelled, and generally a strong pe... ... gained before. He made two speeches in the House for repealing the Stamp- act, which were publickly commended by Mr. Pitt, and have filled the town w... ...santry was a prudent resolution, if applied to a competition of abilities. Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a... ..., in a strong deter- mined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, th...

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...im! Edgar’s father, a son of General David Poe, the American revolutionary patriot and friend of Lafayette, had married Mrs. Hopkins, an English actre... ...in parchment. It was quite dirty, you remember. Well, as I was in the very act of crumpling it up, my glance fell upon the sketch at which you had bee... ...imney. Just as I placed the parchment in your hand, and as you were in the act of in. inspecting it, Wolf, the Newfoundland, entered, and leaped upon ... ...rians have already been devoured; but the general voice of the four-footed patriots seems to be for eating up the cameleopard. ‘The Prince of Poets,’ ... ...d the precaution of sup- plying himself with it before pushing off. In the act of consign- ing the corpse to the water, he would unquestionably have n... ...it must generate in its passage, to any side upon which he might desire to act; thus determining the 197 V olume One balloon in the opposite directi...

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...lavor our intercourse. His good ness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is... ...ore fathers got through a cold winter once on a bleak rock with these. To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions; and I am c... ...y by any power to get off its track. There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case. We have constructed... ...with this, whether for the numbers en Walden 209 gaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed. For numbers and for carnage it was an Aus... ... carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight! Two killed on the patriots’ side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why here every ant was a Butt... ... stone under the sod, when the last of the race departed. What a sorrowful act must that benthe covering up of wells! coincident with the opening of w... ... the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self respect, and sacrifice the W alden 289 greater ... ..., but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. What was the meaning of that South S...

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...he property of Madame Rigaud was settled upon herself. Such was the insane act of her late husband. More unfortunately still, she had relations. When ... ...oked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly dis- figured with great scarlet blots. ‘I... ... land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the p... ...er; but she resisted all persuasions, and sent them down again—placing the act to her credit, no doubt, in her Eternal Day-Book. This refection of oys... ...e through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing... ...sources of the nation; and Treasury felt—he gave Mr Merdle to un- derstand—patriotic on the subject. ‘Thank you, my lord,’ said Mr Merdle; ‘thank you.... ...e’ll impose upon you. They all do it.’ ‘All painters?’ ‘Painters, writers, patriots, all the rest who have stands in the market. Give almost any man I... ...ff until late in the night and late in the session, and then with virtuous patriotism cried out that it was too late; and they went down into the coun... ...rs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking A...

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...ered sword. In other places Tolstoy does full justice to the cour age and patriotism of all grades in the Russian army, but it is constantly evident ... ...relation to their native landscape than our own migratory populations, and patriotism with them has a deep and vital meaning, which is expressed uncon... ...l meaning, which is expressed unconsciously in their lives. This spirit of patriotism which Tolstoy repudiated is none the less the animating power of... ...en’s minds. The national conscience awoke and echoed the cry of the exiled patriot Herzen, “Now or never!” Educational enterprise was aroused, and so... ...en entreaties, discussions: I should have wa vered, and perhaps failed to act on my decision, whereas it must be so. I pray of you to forgive me if m... ...he cumulative misery Leo Tolstoy 30 resulting from one apparently trivial act of wrongdo ing. Of the three plays included in these volumes, “The Lig... ...dn’t know where to look. It was as if I had been detected in a disgraceful act. I dropped my eyes, and quickly hurried home. All the way I had the dru...

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...her hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is first made, so it has to be worked, by men, and eve... ...or claiming, but also for working, the institution. What means had Italian patriots, during the last and present generation, of preparing the Italian ... ...ns. In all things there are very strict limits to human power. It can only act by wielding some one or more of the forces of nature. Forces, therefore... ...herefore, that can be applied to the desired use must exist; and will only act ac cording to their own laws. We can not make the river run backwards;... ... true interest of the state. It is what men think that determines how they act; and though the persuasions and convictions of average men are in a muc... ...r it. It has been said of old that in a despotism there is at most but one patriot, the des pot himself; and the saying rests on a just appreciation ... ...like Greece or Rome, it had realized any thing higher, through the energy, patriotism, and enlargement of mind, which, as national qualities, are the ... ...avelers are struck by the fact that every American is in some sense both a patriot and a person of cultivated intelligence; and M. de Tocqueville has ... ...rvert, not to elevate his mind. Instead of opening his heart to an exalted patriotism and the obliga tion of public duty, it awakens and nourishes in...

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... on his power-crazed wife Best of Freshman Writing 15 murder of Duncan in Act Two, her position begins to weaken in correlation with Macbeth’s mounti... ...d he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done’t” (2.2. 15-17). This act relates to the notion that Lady Macbeth may not be as committed in her ... ...d even directly following the killing of Duncan she remains unmoved by the act. This is established through the manner in which she handles Macbeth wh... ...has already taken a stand on this issue by passing the Defense of Marriage Act, signed in 1996 by President Clinton. That statute defines marriage und... ...rica. People have been getting married long before the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, , , , , a bill signed by President Clinton, , , , , who obviou... ...ans. Joe told George that a man named Billy Sullivan, from the New England patriots, had of- fered him a long-term contract for big money. Joe then as... .... Throughout his career Joe has been offered NFL jobs with the New England Patriots, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Cleveland Browns, and the New York G...

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...utely unique—will not for the future lack a hear- ing. M. ARMS AND THE MAN ACT I Night. A lady’s bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small town near the ... ...deas real! What do you mean? RAINA. Our ideas of what Sergius would do—our patriotism —our heroic ideals. Oh, what faithless little creatures girls ar... ...is really a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can act its romance! What happiness! what unspeak- able fulfilment! Ah! (She th... ...d and brings it to him.) RAINA. That is a photograph of the gentleman— the patriot and hero—to whom I am betrothed. 20 Arms and the Man MAN (looking ... ...antly, turning again at the door, and almost catching him in the act of yawning. She goes out.) 25 Shaw MAN (drowsily). Sleep, sleep, sleep... ... sternly at her daughter. The man sleeps profoundly.) 26 Arms and the Man ACT II The sixth of March, 1886. In the garden of major Petkoff’s house. It... ...st on him as a man of consequence in his town. The fever of plucky patriotism which the Servian attack roused in all the Bulgarians has pu... ...ir attentions, he had the good taste to take refuge in the chamber of some patriotic young Bulgarian lady. The young lady was enchanted by his persuas... ...INA. How horrible! SERGIUS. And how ridiculous! Oh, war! war! the dream of patriots and heroes! A fraud, Bluntschli, a hollow sham, like love. RAINA (...

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...in Frederic of Prussia during his difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child ... ...d, either to good or to bad actions: conscience itself, the very desire to act right, often leading people to act wrong. Consistently carrying out the... ...r any other deficiency, provided he thought it equally likely to make them act ill. He disliked, for in stance, a fanatic in any bad cause, as much a... ...apours in a state of suspension; and I am just as likely to allow for, and act on, these physical laws whenever there is occasion to do so, as if I ha... ... principle of the Composition of Forces, I found that it performs a simple act of addition. It adds the separate effect of the one force to the separa... ...o the American cause; and, more over, I agreed with those who thought the act unjustifiable, 154 Autobiography and such as to require that England s...

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...ture it begets a certain sense of apology being due for so presumptuous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American... ...d of religious object, and no one specific and essential kind of religious act. The field of religion being as wide as this, it is mani- 36 The V ari... ...rality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cos- mic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. Even a sick man, unable to be m... ...ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihila- tion, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion’... ...Yet strangely enough they have a definite meaning for our practice. We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; con- sider Nature as i... ...ome new stimulus or passion, such as love, ambition, cupidity, revenge, or patriotic devotion. In all these instances we have precisely the same psych... ...is power is always personified as God; but abstract moral ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner ver- sions of holiness or right may also be fel... ...rier between men and animals also. We read of Towianski, an eminent Polish patriot and mystic, that “one day one of his friends met him in the rain, c... ... this field of di- vinity exactly as it has always operated in love, or in patriotism, or in politics, or in any other of the wider affairs of life, i...

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... with heads, vignettes, and culs de lampe, all to be de- signed by his own patriotic and friendly pencil. He prevailed 21 Sir Walter Scott upon an ol... ...ers in this talking world, speak now what then a great deal more than they act. 26 Bride of Lammermoor CHAPTER II. Well, lord, we have not got that w... ...antagonist, could not but appear odious and invidious. While he was in the act of composi- tion, labouring to find words which might indicate Edgar Ra... ...er that I said nothing to the Master which could imply my accession to any act of vio- lence which he may take it into his head to commit.” “No, no, n... ... loophole in slow succession, gave intima- tion that the bearer was in the act of descending, with great deliberation, a winding staircase occupying o... ...rles, and of the last James, truly I see little reason that, as a man or a patriot, I should draw my sword for their descendants.” “Humph!” replied Bu... ...myself. But to think justly will certainly go some length in helping me to act so. But hark! I hear Caleb tolling the dinner-bell.” “Which he always d... ...their mem- bers, shall be stripped of their possessions, the reward of the patriotism of generations, as the pawn of a wretched mechanic becomes forfe... ...ready mentioned, who was labouring hard underhand to consolidate a band of patriots, at the head of whom stood Sir William’s greatest terror, the acti...

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...difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as ... ... would be nonsensical to expect that I could convince Brooke, and make him act accordingly. Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into ... ... all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts en- tangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. And now he was in danger of being sadd... ...on, it’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance.” “I don’t wish to act otherwise than as your best friend, Vincy, when I say that what you hav... ...tle fortune, eh?” he said, looking above his spectacles and pausing in the act of opening the lid. “Not at all, sir. Y ou were good enough to speak of... ...husband! Do you know much about them?” “No; only that my grandfather was a patriot—a bright fel- low—could speak many languages—musical—got his bread ... ...law has a queer genealogy! A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should nev...

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...way to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now committed a reverse act of im- politeness. First he had left a lady before she had fin- ished s... ...as a stout, tall, plethoric German, evi- dently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian. He resented Shinshin’s remark. “It is for the reasso... ..., and that in order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up en- tirely to the w... ...ce in its allies, suffering from shortness of supplies, and com- pelled to act under conditions of war unlike anything that had been foreseen, the Rus... ... had been before it had been evident that it was impossible for cavalry to act among the bushes and broken ground, as well as that the French were out... ... time enthu- siasm for the Emperor Alexander’s regime had weak- ened and a patriotic and anti-French tendency prevailed there, and this, together with... ...e saw the great mass of Muscovites who had donned uniform and were talking patriotism, he somehow felt ashamed to take the step. But the chief reason ... ...re Shinshin had time to utter the joke he was ready to make on the count’s patriotism, Natasha jumped up from her place and ran to her father. “What a... ... quetry that had returned to her with her better spirits. “There! Here’s a patriot for you!” said Shinshin. “Not a patriot at all, but simply...” Nata...

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...e hope our report will encourage our fellow citizens to study, reflect—and act. xviii PREFACE Thomas H. Kean chair Lee H. Hamilton vice chair Final FM... ...orld Trade Center. Crisis managers at the FAA and the airlines did not yet act to warn other aircraft. 64 At the same time, Boston Center realized tha... ... against rushing to judgment in attributing responsibility for a terrorist act. It also showed again how—given a case to solve—the FBI remained capabl... ... review, but in 1978 Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 29 This law reg- ulated intelligence collection directed at foreign po... ...an one week after September 11, an early version of what was to become the Patriot Act (officially, the USA PATRIOT Act) began to take shape. 21 A cen... ...er the now far-flung entities constituting the intelligence community .The Patriot Act vests substantial powers in our federal government.We have seen... .... Second, Congress responded, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, with the Patriot Act, which vested substantial new powers in the investigative agenc... ...encies of the government. Some of the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are to “sunset” at the end of 2005. Many of the act’s provision... ...age. Some executive actions that have been criticized are unrelated to the Patriot Act.The provisions in the act that facil- itate the sharing of info...

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...tressing than the better sort of vice, to whom you must never represent an act that was vir- tuous in itself, as attended by any other consequences th... ...is tied down, not indeed to a moment, but to the duration of each scene or act; he is confined to the stage, almost as the painter is confined within ... ...how history continues through century after century; how this king or that patriot disappears from its pages with his whole generation, and yet we do ... ...eath and birth and sudden fame all play a part as interposing deities, the act-drop fell upon a scene of transformation. Jean was brought to bed of tw... ... some more or less unjust compromise as in older nations, but still in the act of settlement. And he could not but wonder what it would turn out; whet... ... he was a poet from his boyhood. He was born to a lively and intelli- gent patriotism; the condition of Japan was his great con- cern; and while he pr... ... visit of big barbarian war ships: she was a country beleaguered. Thus the patriotism of Yoshida took a form which may be said to have defeated itself... ...d Choshu that Commodore Perry was lying near to Yeddo. Here, then, was the patriot’s oppor- tunity. Among the Samurai of Choshu, and in particular amo... ...s old. A military engineer, a bold traveller (at least in wish), a poet, a patriot, a schoolmaster, a friend to learning, a martyr to reform, – there ...