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...LI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...to Vettori, and it seems to me, now that I have released myself altogether from his literary precedent, that he still has his use for me. In spite of ... ...s unfair. The old sort of Prince, the old little principality has vanished from the world. The commonweal is one man’s absolute es- tate and responsib... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... ...riend of his father’s, admission for us both to the spectacle of volunteer officers fighting the war game in Caxton Hall. We developed a war game of o... ...self human, mor- tal and human in the sight of all the world, the pleasant officers we had imagined would change to wonderful heroes at the first crac... ...me those uneasinesses that had been aroused in me for the first time by my continental journey with Willersley and by Meredith’s “One of Our Conqueror...

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...ing the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.” Amelia could hardly walk alo... ... war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the old gentleman insisted upon helping the valet. He gave him a... ...py and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back to- wards the sad frien... ...was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and enlighten you,... ...ght her away from Mrs. O’Dowd’s after a general handshaking from the young officers, who ac- companied her to the fly, and cheered that vehicle as it ... ...PTER XVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s governmen... ...on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a g... ...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and...

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...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ... that Ordinance by put- ting power to carry it out in the hands of the new officers under the Constitution, in the place of the old ones, who had been... ...83 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five or who shall be any of their officers. These are vast national matters in his estimation; but the little... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...d send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European inter...

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...er nearing to pass, when the girl opened on him, as if lifting her eyelids from sleep to the window, a full side—look, like a throb, and no disguise—n... ...r heart came quietly out. The look was like the fall of light on the hills from the first of morning. It lasted half a minute, and left a ruffle for a... ...the younger fellows, without knowing what affected them, were moved by the new picture of a girl, as if it had been a frontispiece of a romantic story... ...rshy ground, where a couple of flat and shelving banks, formed for a broad new road, good for ten abreast—counting a step of the slopes—ran transverse... ...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ... the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him. Bad day for our cavalry.” “Our officers were young at their work then.” “They taught the Emperor’s troops ... ...men of my age or older for the 57 George Meredith cavalry—heavy losses of officers.” She spoke, as if urged by a sting to revert to the distasteful: ... ... abomi- nable woman, if aboard she was, had coolly provided herself with a continental passport—or had it done for two by her accomplice, that Weyburn...

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...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...t his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned. The author... ...heir passage. The Otsego is about nine miles in length, varying in breadth from half a mile to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid,... ...le to a mile and a half. The water is of great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty ... ... I think, although I am an ignorant man about the great move- ments of the army, that his excellency would have been able to march against Cornwallis ... ... as it pay I got? Sure did I, and in good solid crowns; the divil a bit of continental could they muster among them all, for love nor money. Och! the ... ...that the eye cannot see the end of. There is food enough in it to keep the army of Xerxes for a month, and feathers enough to make beds for the whole ... ...p gentlemen as agents among the different tribes of Indians, and sometimes officers in the army , who frequently passed half their lives on the edge o...

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... gave a bruised heart to the world. He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled dead bosoms,” he wrote; by which avowal it may b... ...,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a ha... ...hat lamentable history. The outline of the baronet’s story was by no means new. He had a wife, and he had a friend. His marriage was for love; his wif... ...e heart, and his friend all his confidence. When he selected Denzil Somers from among his college chums, it was not on account of any similarity of di... ...said Ralph. And under the trees Ralph unbosomed. His name was down for the army: Eton was quitted for ever. In a few months he would have to join his ... ...tainly,” said the doctor. “You will admit, Sir Austin, that, compared with continental nations—our neighbours, for instance—we shine to advantage, in ... ...e turned into some definitely useful channel. But you must not go into the Army.” “What else can I do?” “You are fit for so much that is better.” “I n... ... her love as her reflections warmed. A storm of wind came howling over the Hampshire hills, and sprang white foam on the water, and shook the bare tre... ... tain magisterial functions connected therewith. ‘It is decreed that these officers be all and every men of science,’ etc.” And Adrian cheerily drove ...

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..., and would not be behindhand when the noiseless bottle went round; Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing; Wilberfo... ...Levant House, then occupied by His Highness dur- ing the temporary absence from England of its noble propri- etor. She sang after dinner to a very lit... ...rs. Rawdon Crawley’s very narrow means) —to procure, we say, the prettiest new dresses and ornaments; to drive to fine dinner parties, where she was w... ... the —th Dragoons (and son of the firm of Tiler and Feltham, hat- ters and army accoutrement makers), and whom the Crawleys introduced into fashionabl... ... riders; indeed, he and Crawley had been rivals when the latter was in the Army. To be brief, Mr. Macmurdo was lying in bed, reading in Bell’s Life an... ...d gave a little gaiety to an otherwise very triste conversa- tion. The two officers laughed at Rawdon’s discomfiture. “I’m glad the little ‘un isn’t a... ...and put on a tight cravat and a trim buff waistcoat, so that all the young officers in the mess-room, whither Crawley had preceded his friend, complim... ...ume Three requested him to mind his book, and said she was going to take a Continental tour, during which she would have the plea- sure of writing to ... ... always have a lawsuit, and very simple English folks, who fancy they see “Continental society” at these houses, put down their money, or ate their me...

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...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ...st not rob thy last Captain, didst thou?—Dost not think of mur- dering the officers when thou gettest to sea?” I protested my innocence of these thing... ...p. And here Bildad, who, with Peleg, be it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed pilots of the port—he being suspected to ... ...Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed ... ...surface, must have been long enough and broad enough to shade half Xerxes’ army. Who can tell how appalling to the wounded whale must have been such h... ...s into tents, and crawled into them. Besides, it has been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Jop... ...ockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the 440 Moby Dick moot point is, whether Leviathan can...

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...him into animation, and ever and anon chasing her little dog to extract it from be- tween his teeth. Suddenly she became aware of the presence of a sp... ...said, not without hesitation—’You have not heard when to expect your party from Madeira?’ ‘You know we cannot hear again. They were to sail by the nex... ...d nothing for it but to go through with it. Anything for a quiet life.’ ‘A new mode of securing it,’ said John, indignant at his nonchalance. ‘There y... ...s if I was seventeen, at least. And then she told me grand gentle- men and officers didn’t care what nonsense they talked. You know she didn’t know hi... ...’ ‘No; he and Arthur are lingering at luncheon, talking about the Austrian army. When did you hear about this?’ 225 Yonge ‘ As soon as I came in. He ... ... of it.” I cannot make him out; he must be a relation, or one of the other officers. Violet did not know he was there, and came in with the baby in he... ...uld never dare to show himself. He went, as he told Emma, to seek for some continental convent, where perhaps be might be received as a boarder, and g... ...f his influence in a project of which Arthur began to talk, of leaving the army and estab- lishing himself at Boulogne. Though by rigid economy and se... ..., for it was difficult to keep up a correspondence between Barbuda and the continental towns whither he was journeying. His last letter had spoken of ...

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... young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...ay in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upo... ...ading name to lead them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, scared sweet 4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. W... ...wered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental... ...that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluc... ...eaves word for you, sir, on your peril to denounce him on another occasion from the magis- terial Bench, for that albeit he is a gentleman of the road... ...s in epi- thets and phrases of courtesy toward a formal people, and as the officers of the French Guard were gentlemen of birth, he 10 Beauchamp’s Ca... ...f our men get elanned, we shall see them refusing to come up to time. This new crossing and medalling is the devil’s own notion for upsetting a solid ... ...red. He would have deemed it as vain a subject to dis- course of India, or Continental affairs, at a period when his house was full for the opening da... ...ply to be regretted that Englishmen abroad— women the same, I fear—get the Continental tone in mor- als. But how Captain Beauchamp could expect to car...

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...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ... “But I assure you, Char ley, that neither Captain Church, nor any of the officers and soldiers who fought in King Philip’s War, did anything a thous... ...England. But soon afterwards, Sir Edmund Andros, an officer of the English army, arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and ... ...and the same was the case with the lieutenant governor and some other high officers. The people, however, were still allowed to choose representatives... ...hair, was the arrival at Boston of an English fleet in 1698. It brought an army which was intended for the conquest of Canada. But a malignant disease... ...re close at hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and pr... ...Grandfather found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed o...

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...rly twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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.... Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the ... ... was the last man on the little black railway- line climbing the hill home from work. He was late because he had attended a meeting of the men on the ... ...h.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the girls from the yard. “Com... ...pers: but now it was a clean white shirt, and his best black trousers, and new pink and white braces. He sat under the gas-jet of the back kitchen, lo... ...baltern. The look on Aaron’s face became slowly satirical. “Oh, dry up the army touch,” said Jim contemptuously, to Robert. “We’re all civvies here. W... ...ure stalking down the station path. Jim had been an officer in the regular army, and still spent hours with his tailor. But instead of being a soldier... ... gloves, and his cap. He was in uni- form. He was one of the few surviving officers of the Guards, a man of about forty-five, good-looking, getting ra... ...us—and it was just the nervous ones that did stand it. When nearly all our officers were gone, we had a man come out—a man called Margeritson, from In... ...ty—this big square with all the trams threading through, the little yellow Continental trams: and the spiny bulk of the great cathedral, like a grey-p...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...rdinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty’s army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero. “I ... ...k; and the colonel and alderman had been knighted. His son had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had... ... the room, good-naturedly tending his patient of the night before. The two officers, look- ing at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each othe... ...ounty town; or, worse still, in the East or West Indies, with a society of officers, and patronized by Mrs. Major O’Dowd! Amelia died with laughing at... ...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and...

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... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...assed from hand to hand, and hauled on board with breathless rapidity. The officers, smartly dressed, are at the gangway hand ing the passengers up t... ...pose. The captain appears on the paddle box with his speaking trumpet; the officers take their stations; all hands are on the alert; the flagging hope... ...ast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state r... ...e little Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly,... ...esent it entire. Her name is Laura Bridgman. ‘She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on the twenty first of December, 1829. She is described as havin... ... American Notes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, pl... ...who seem destined from their birth to serve as pioneers in the great human army: who gladly go on from year to year extending its outposts, and leavin...

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...or, pro- ceeded to a vacant room overlooking the front entrance, and spied from the window. Meanwhile Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire ... ...ne with me last night? By George, if it is I’ll souse him; I’ll drench him from head to heel as though the rascal ‘d been drawn through the duck-pond.... ...ocured food for me; I have an idea of feeling a damp forehead and drinking new milk, and by- and-by hearing a roar of voices or vehicles, and seeing a... ...hie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is a good one, but if you have got the winning tongue, the woolsack wi... ...im about once a year. We know one another, and I know he’s one of the best officers in the British army. It’s just the way with schoolmasters and trad... ... know one another, and I know he’s one of the best officers in the British army. It’s just the way with schoolmasters and tradesmen: they don’t care w... ...ith suppressed fury and jealousy at my way of talking of Venice, and other Continental cities, which he knew I must have visited in my father’s societ... ...or very little. You know, Papa has introductions ev- erywhere; we are like Continental people, and speak a vari- ety of languages, and I am almost a f... ...intances and entertained them; they were chiefly half-pay English military officers, dashing men. One, a Major Dykes, my father established in our hot...

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...resents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ... an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and political world as ... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ...opolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most part, printed from uncorrected proofs set up from an early version. This periodical publi... ...larger being, as a soldier marches, a mere unit in the larger being of his army, and serving his army, joyfully into battle. However, it is not to Sch... ...art, the galaxy of the episcopate, the crowning intellectuali- ties of the army, came to these rites, clad in robes and rai- ment that no sane person ... ...of the earnest preoccupation of our judges, bishops, and leaders and great officers of all sorts with re- moter and nobler aims. The kingdom happens t... ...formances in it, they seem to regard it as the culminating flower of their continental Republic—as though the Old World had never heard of shoddy. But... ...ch inefficiency as one finds it in contemporary British activity lies. The officers of the British Army instead of being sedulously picked from the wh...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...lly, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis, is a questi... ...senchant are alike portentous. The circumstances of the blasted heath, the army at a distance, the withered attire of the mysterious hags, and the cho... ...TE 22. Apartment is here used, as the reader will observe, in its true and continental acceptation, as a division or compartment of a house including ... ...he popery of his descendants) was a clergyman of the established church in Hampshire. This grandfather had two sons. Of the eldest nothing is recorded... ...ter it a line of golden associations.” Yes, and the burglar, who leaves an army-tailor’s after a midnight visit, trails after him perhaps a long roll ... ...n and for- bearance. He was indeed a favorable specimen of French military officers under the old system; well bred, not arro- gant, well informed, an...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...n V olume Six of Seven Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AN... ...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...ired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus... ...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 16, 1863. THOMAS W . SWEENEY, Continental, Philadelphia: Tad is teasing me to have you forward his pistol...

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...small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

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....................................................... 37 Chicago ..................................................................... 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America?s Defenceless Coasts ................................. 60...

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... Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothi... ... this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him. He had already gained fame i... ...ng stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then followed more verse, and so on through an unending seri... ... London and brought her to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a pro... ............................................................. 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America’s Defen... ...x-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introducer, who had served as a trooper in the Northern Horse, thr... ...never to forget that this people were a rich people, not like the pau- per Continentals, and that they enjoyed paying duties. To my weak intellect thi... ...er. Observe the beauty of this business. The third battalion will have its officers, but no men; the fourth will probably have a rendezvous and some e... ...ed passes away must be cut down fifty per cent, to the huge delight of the officers. The military needs of the States be three: (a) Frontier warfare, ...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ... that the lady selected for the post, with the fullest approbation of both officers, was one who began life as the daughter of a little Lincolnshire f... ...nished by our experience in 55 Thomas de Quincey Affghanistan, where some officers, wishing to impress Akhbar Khan with the beauty of Christianity, v... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ... you account for that? I answer, not so much by the general inferiority of continental Europe to Great Britain in diffusive wealth (though that ar- gu... ...oderate wealth, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estat...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ... just witnessed the spread of republican govern- ment through all the vast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colo... ...e and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient f... ...iged to bear arms; they formed a national militia, which appointed its own officers, and was to hold itself at all times in readiness to march for the... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ... heaviest tax upon the population of that coun- try; yet how could a great continental war be carried on with- out it? The Americans have not adopted ...

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...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ...er francs and shil- lings which disgrace, in Europe, many English and many continental inns. All this is, as must be admitted, great praise; and yet I... ...States, in this respect, are not all alike, the modes of election of their officers, and periods of service, being different. Even the franchise is di... ...perty is mov- able, and that an insolvent debtor will not always await the officers of justice. But with the poor Maid there was no need of such secre... ...eet I extend my custom on a different system; and when I make my start for continental life I have with him a matter of unsettled business to a consid...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and ...

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...en a black night and a win- try morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hamp- shire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of ... ... in which the passions roused of the breaking off of the American colonies from England, more by their own weight than their own will, boiled up to sh... ...ons to that end are in full swing, morally supported by confident requests from the clergy of both sides for the bless- ing of God on their arms. Unde... ...ws that he is opening a difficult subject.) Has Christy told you about the new will? MRS. DUDGEON (all her fears returning). The new will! Did Timothy... ...f to Richard’s good breeding). Well, no sir. At least, 35 GB Shaw only an army chaplain. (Showing the handcuffs.) I’m sorry, air; but duty— RICHARD. ... ... half an hour. Perfectly ready, sir. BURGOYNE (blandly). So am I. (Several officers come in and take their seats. One of them sits at the end of the t... ...e officer is a Major General of the Royal Artillery. There are also German officers of the Hessian Rifles, and of German dra- goon and Brunswicker reg... ... excuse my saying so. Have you any idea of the average marksmanship of the army of His Majesty King George the Third? If we make you up a firing party... ...s has spread that it is the devil’s disciple and not the minister that the Continentals (so they call Burgoyne’s forces) are about to hang: consequent...

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...ess matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matter; all will be harmony. In relation to the ?coming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have...

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...either Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble about the matte... ...ey and property. They live in Boonville, Missouri, and have not been heard from lately enough for 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two me to s... ... Two consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of t... ... Jany. 19, 1845. DEAR GENERAL: I do not wish to join in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I... ...n, and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army. Fourth. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and al... ...that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army, leav- ing unprotected their homes and their growing crops, be- fore t... ...as shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of t... ...ost splen- did successes, every department and every part, land and water, officers and privates, regulars and volunteers, do- ing all that men could ... ...posed law of 1817 was far less offensive than the present one. In 1774 the Continental Congress pledged itself, without a dissenting vote, to wholly d...

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...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...ving a poor beast to some meeting house horse sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a moun tain top on the Sabbat... ...the phalanxes, Shouting to their companions from rank to rank.” When the army of the T rojans passed the night under arms, keeping watch lest the en... ...not to have got their swaddling clothes off; they are slower than a Roman army in its march, the rear camping to night where the van camped last nigh... ...avid M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “distinguished and brave” officers.—”Major Andrew M’Clary, a native of this town [Epsom], fell at the... ... of pure melody, we easily come to reverence him. Passing over the earlier continental poets, since we are bound to the pleasant archipelago of Englis...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ...uld not reassemble until eight o’clock in the evening. Some clerks only or officers of the court remained, who were too much harassed by applications ... ...and unconditional. To argue the point was manifestly idle; the subordinate officers had no discretion in the mat- ter; nor, in fact, had any other off... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...Mine at least, weary nobody; which is more than can be always said for the continental versions. On a night in the year 1592, (but which night is a se... ...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith...

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...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ..., for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive. Several officers of great experience have assured me, that, so far from recruiting ... ...d in some particular sorts of work, and liberally paid by the piece, their officers have frequently been obliged to stipu- late with the undertaker, t... ...The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. The son of a creditable labourer or artificer may frequently go to se... ...the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the com- mon estimation. As the grea... ... alone. The persons who now govern the resolutions of what they call their continental congress, feel in themselves at this moment a degree of importa... ...fferent people, perhaps, who, in different ways, act immediately under the continental congress, and five hundred thousand, perhaps, who act under tho...

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...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...istrate, a first rate soldier, one of the best landlords, so they said, in Hampshire, England. To the poor and to hopeless drunkards, as I myself have... ... man in Philadelphia. They had never been to Philadelphia and they had the New England conscience. You see, the first thing they said to me when I cal... ...h Street, which was then still residential. I don’t know why I had gone to New York; I don’t know why I had gone to the tea. I don’t see why Florence ... ...d I sup- pose that Papists in England are even technically Nonconformists. Continental Papists are a dirty, jovial and unscrupulous crew. But that, at... ...erned during his years of active service, Colo- nel Powys retired from the army with the necessity of making a home for them. It happened that the Ash... ...at Edward was much too gen- erous to his tenants; the wives of his brother officers remonstrated with her in private; his large subscriptions made it ... ... influence, his ignorances, the crammings that he received at the hands of army coaches—I dare say that all these excellent influences upon his adoles...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance...

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...uction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sis... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...phlets and weekly papers against those very measures. Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but o... ... can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, a... ...ith one another. Notwithstand- ing their true interest with respect to the continental nations was really the same, yet by the arts and policy and pra... ...t the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country al- most as so... ...th the principles or propensities of the other state. The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; an... ...racies, we should be, in a short course of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Eu- rope —our liberties would be a prey to the means ...

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...at I want to know,’ said Barnes, the butcher, ‘is where he got his tenners from?’ Kilne shook a sagacious head: ‘No knowing!’ ‘I suppose we shall get ... ...dly. They instantly checked that unseemliness, and Kilne, as one who rises from the depths of a calculation with the sum in his head, spoke quite in a... ...’s house. ‘First, the young chap’s to be sent into the Navy; then it’s the Army; then he’s to be a judge, and sit on criminals; then he goes out to hi... ...g children, and wrote frequently; but of course they had to consider their new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the wor... ...ountry gentlemen of the neighbourhood, with light minds: and also by small officers: subalterns wishing to do tender execution upon man’s fair enemy, ... ...im. He courteously declined. They then attacked the married Marine—Navy or Army being quite indifferent to them as long as they could win for their br... ...riet—’ Mr. Andrew hesitated, and branched off: ‘You ‘ve heard we ‘ve got a new baby?’ Evan congratulated him; but another inquiry was in Mr. Andrew’s ... ...ly obsequious! I am not telling you to pass the line. The contrary. But we continentals have our grievous reputation because we dare to meet as intell... ...yet I doubt not you think the smallest of our landed gentry equal to great continental seigneurs. I do not say the contrary.’ ‘You will fill Evan’s he...

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...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...ey Air Force Base Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) NORAD Headquarters Continental Aerospace Command Region (CONR) Cleveland Center Indianapolis ... ...ld need time to arm the fighters and organize crews. NEADS reported to the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR) headquarters, in Panama City, Florida,... ...the operational personnel at NEADS or FAA facilities. NEADS commanders and officers actively sought out information, and made the best judgments they ... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ...m Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast. Meanwhile, al Qaeda finance officers and top oper- atives used their positions in Bin Ladin’s businesse...