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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches,...

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...d state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards... ...tal character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfec... ...s perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even ... ...Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be bett... ...that, one 2 Gukguk is unhappily only an academical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt... ...creen yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To day, without a Yesterday or a To morrow; and had not rather its Ancestor ... ...! The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying there, men are being born; men are praying,—on the other side of a brick par tition, men are ... ... an unfledged booby and bustard, by his limbs; most Kings and Queens by being born under such and such a bed tester; Boileau De spr´ eaux (according t... ...abred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they called their Flag; which, had you sold it at any market cross, would not have brought ...

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...cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? ...

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...es under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the th... ...years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unf... ...seemed mere inconsistency 4 Middlemarch and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could... ...ing stream in fellowship with its own oary- footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and so... ... tion from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but ... ... cated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and aft... ...imes into impatience of her uncle’s talk or his way of “letting things be” on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would... ...ng subservience to Bulstrode. That Mr. Farebrother, whose name was a chief flag of the anti-Bulstrode party, always defended Lydgate and made a friend... ... as made this association of her body with the victims of Burke and Hare a flagrant insult to her memory. Affairs were in this stage when Lydgate open...

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... 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...on of ill-will towards the 5 Thackeray eighth commandment; though it may, on the one hand, be as- serted that only vain coxcombs would dare to write ... ...rite on sub- jects already described by men really and deservedly eminent; on the other hand, that these subjects have been described so fully, that n... ...ts have been described so fully, that nothing more can be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three hands to one f... ...most as much soldiering and recruiting, parading, pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we... ... In truth, it was almost a pity that worthy Brock had not been a gentleman born; in which case, doubtless, he would have lived and died as became his ... ...e, “from taking hold of you, as a surety for him?” “You wouldn’t fire on a flag of truce, would ye, you dishonourable ould civilian?” replied Mr. Macs... ...ety, and soon let them know the con- tempt he felt for them. After a third flagon of ale, he discov- ered that the liquor was sour, and emptied, with ... ...anything else, however your lot was cast; and blessed it was that you were born among the prigs,—for had you been of any other profession, alas! alas!... ... said he. “No, nor nobody else’s,” said Tom. Mr. Hayes only muttered “Base-born brat!” “His father was a gentleman,—that’s more than you ever were!” s...

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...r 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 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadap...

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... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...4 Management 353 12. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY 361 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organiza... ...d Salem al Hazmi. 11 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed were flagged by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny b... ... proved costly to Bin Ladin in other ways. Jamal Ahmed al Fadl, a Sudanese-born Arab, had spent time in the United States and had been recruited for t... ...ncern about sabotage and explo- sives on aircraft.The Gore Commission also flagged, as a new danger, the pos- sibility of attack by surface-to-air mis... ...could expect a very long wait for initial clearance.Anyone who was foreign-born or had numerous relatives abroad was well-advised not even to apply.Wi... ...Cohen that the station focus on this one individual. Cohen agreed.Thus was born the Bin Ladin unit. 2 In May 1996, Bin Ladin left Sudan for Afghanista... ...refinement of KSM’s old Manila air plot.The oper- atives would hijack U.S.-flagged commercial planes flying Pacific routes across East Asia and destro...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he ...

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...LLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Fra... ... (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chan dle... ...delphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denman’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a p... ...his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money making and politics to the end of his life. ... ...er inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in t... ...f the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business long... ...en Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and character ... ...nary, from its similarity to what you knew of mine. “Had he died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.” John was bred... ...he subscriptions afterwards were more free and gener ous; but, beginning to flag, I saw they would be insufficient without some assistance from the A...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of th...

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.............................. 83 CHAPTER XIII: A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS?S ............................................................ 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................................. 106 CHAPTER XVI: A HUMBLE...

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...OURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S ........................................................ ..................................................... 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................... ...OUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may we... ...s is not the way to be original! It is not; nor is there any way but to be born so. Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this train... ..., having hearkened with lowered tails and raised faces, would run up their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circui... ...tants. Once – I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in Montibus, indeed, but alas! Inerudito saeculo – once, in ... ..., when they leave off to speak of parlours and shades of manner and still- born niceties of motive, and begin to deal with fighting, sailoring, advent... ...with humorous or grave intention, and all the while, never hur- rying, nor flagging, nor taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given mome... ...ss what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.” He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune a...

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...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ... Pepys, he must nearly break his sitter’s neck to get the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his... ...an book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction... ...his episode at once) behaved well to Burns from first to last. Were heaven-born genius to revisit us in similar guise, I am not venturing too far when... ... still uncer- tain whether it were a charge of cavalry or a slow and stub- born advance of foot. There could be no such ambiguity in Burns; his work i... ...Whitman. The whole of Whitman’s work is deliberate and preconceived. A man born into a society comparatively new, full of conflicting elements and int... ... highly of our sublunary tapers. The universe is so large that imagination flags in the effort to conceive it; but here, in the meantime, is the world... ...ap- pointed, and the whole book will be no more to you than a particularly flagrant production by the Poet Close. A writer of this uncertain quality w...