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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ... This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall cause to be republished, as an appendix to... ...s in a conspiracy against me. I’m the most literary man alive. I’m full of scholarship. I’m full of genius; I’m full of information; I’m full of novel... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...good. Was there nothing else that could be done to him? Had he incurred no legal pains and penalties? Could it be that the statutes of the land were s... .... There are some truths, cold bitter taunting truths, wherein your worldly scholars are very apt and punctual, which bind men down to earth with leade...

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...ool, but a semi- 208 Barchester Towers nary intended for their tuition as scholars, whose thoughts have been mostly of boating, cricketing, and wine ... ...len, and the school of protection would at this day have been crowded with scholars. Who can fight strenu- ously in any combat in which there is no da... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains... ...ng that way. She sent a hand- some subscription towards certain very heavy legal ex- penses which have lately been incurred in Bath, her name of cours...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ... of the existing charitable institutions.* *“I wonder whether there is any legal flaw in the second section of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children A... ...h a real and present practice, as in the case of the musical, medical, and legal faculties of our uni- versities; it may be correlated with obsolete n... ...h die as fall asleep. It was all right, Liberalism told us—the Crown was a legal fiction, the House of Lords was an interesting anachronism, and in th... ...essed comfortably in day Colleges. There should be opportunity by means of scholarship openings for such cases of a late awakening to struggle back in... ...tter of learning. T o endow chairs and teach- ers, and to enable promising scholars to come and hear the latter was the complete organization of the h... ...e to do it better. We know only too well how that we are out of touch with scholarship and contemplation. We must drive our pens to live and push and ...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...elieved that the public will endow a foundation, say, for forty foundation scholars— say, twenty girls and twenty boys—who shall always receive their ... ...adly, ladies and gentlemen, this is the whole design. There are foundation scholars at Eton, foundation scholars at nearly all our old schools, and if... ...ying to know the shipping news, the commercial news, the foreign news, the legal news, the criminal news, the dramatic news. Imagine the paralysis Sp... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... This testimony, so long as I live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall cause to be re published, as an appendix t... ...ervants of the people, to whose wishes they are bound to give a public and legal sanction.” SPEECH: LONDON, APRIL 6, 1846 . The first anniversary fest... ...e have a notable example in Kent, which was established ages ago by worthy scholars and good men long deceased, whose munificent endowments have been ...

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...etfulness of true dignity, plead with the intemperance and partiality of a legal advocate for the pretensions of Shakspeare to the hereditary rank of ... ...th regard to such an event, no fiction of village scandal, but involved in legal documents, a story so significant and so eloquent to the intelligent,... ...elder Shakspeare. But, apart from that accident, it is notorious that mere legal necessity and usage would compel all companies of actors, upon coming... ...y malignant, but otherwise equally below his in- tellect, no less than his scholarship; we mean the inscription on his grave-stone. This, as a sort of... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ...hese risks he would allow the more weight from his own conscious defect of scholarship and inability to guide or even to accompany his son’s studies. ... ... friends; amongst whom it is probable that Sir William, as one of the best scholars of the whole, might assist him most. He cer- tainly offered him th...

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...r, and a friend since dead, as guardians. Haste, and the conscious want of legal knowledge, had led to its being made as simple as pos- sible, and as ... ... they are running away! Conrade, Zack, have done!” Zack was one of her own scholars, and held her in respect. He desisted at once, and with a touch of... ...sing it with better will than taste. The staple of his choir were Rachel’s scholars. Her turn had al- ways been for boys, and her class on Sunday morn... ... morning, that, in the midst of her lesson, car- ried off the chief of her scholars to practise their chants. Moreover, the blame of all imperfect les... ...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili... ...ed upon sleeping at St. Norbert’s and going on by an early train to obtain legal advice in London, and then to see Harry Beauchamp. Meantime, Ermine m... ...ld get nothing satisfactory from him. He said he had taken the papers to a legal friend, but was not autho- rized to give his name. Perhaps his views ...

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...ience 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 any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER 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. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...hout solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...c- cession of incidents, I am of opinion that the person best qualified by legal experience to judge of evidence would fi- nally have pronounced a fav... ... not both, of the young ladies having been a ward in Chancery) had all his legal jealousies awakened on their behalf. The worshipful order of adventur... ...d. And now, nearly a hundred years after Warburton, what is the opinion of scholars upon this point? T wo of the latest and profoundest I will cite:—1... ..., and in a better sense able than if they had been philologically profound scholars, which at that time, from the imperfect culture of philology, they... ...siderable town, were that orator a subject of study amongst even classical scholars. I doubt whether, at this day, there exist twenty men in Europe wh...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...nd their Influence,” was published in 1835. It was received at once by the scholars and thinkers 10 Democracy in America of Europe as a profound, imp... ...d more civilized. Thence the want of civil laws was felt; and the order of legal functionaries soon rose from the ob- scurity of the tribunals and the... ...irty or forty years afterwards, under Charles II. that their existence was legally recognized by a royal charter. This frequently renders its it diffi... ...o change is its civil legislation. Civil laws are only familiarly known to legal men, whose direct interest it is to maintain them as they are, whethe... ...h should be superior to man, and to embellish beauty’s self. David and his scholars were, on the contrary, as good anatomists as they were good painte...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... other members of the dormitory. All of them, how- ever, were aware of the legal danger attaching, under English law, to insinuations against a man, e... ...ook do really go to Paris and Naples, some to Calcutta, there is a sort of legal fiction that such an assump- tion is steadily taking root. Yet, unhap... ... to gain, did this Junius not come forward in his own person, when all the legal danger had long passed away, to claim a distinction that for him (amo... ..., out of every five readers, at least four were, in some degree, classical scholars: or, if that would be saying too much, if two of the four had ‘sma... ...a factious league amongst universities, and learned bodies, and individual scholars, for exalting as something superterrestrial, and quite unapproacha... ...leau, for instance, and Addison, though neither 2 of them accomplished in scholarship, nor either of them extensively read in any department of the c... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...e delay. By the connivance of the under-sheriff he was cut down within the legal time, and instantly put into a chaise and four; so that, when he reac... ..., touch a hair of your head he cannot whilst you keep house, and have your legal domicile on the box of the mail. It’s felony to stop the mail; even t... ...ut perhaps these terrors were not the less impressive, because their exact legal limits were imperfectly ascertained. Look at those turnpike gates; wi... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ... bed, viz., at nightfall, but at midnight. For, says one of the three best scholars of this earth, de die, de nocte, mean from that hour which was mos...

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... francs’ worth of bills to meet; he will not meet them; you will stave off legal proceedings in such a way as to increase the expenses enormously. Don... ...all make apparent manifold atrocities lurking beneath the formidable word “legal.” Master Doublon registered the protest and went himself with it to M... ...aft upon his colleague in Paris. The fifth is a charge for postage and the legal interest due upon the amount for the time that it may happen to be ab... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ... to rule the world, do you not? You must begin by obeying and studying it. Scholars study books; poli- ticians study men, and their interests and the ...

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Excerpt: Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas.

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...FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGL FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ASS, ASS, ASS, ASS, AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SL AN AMERICAN SLA A ... ...assics Series Publication Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...c transmission, in any way. Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...s states that in neither of these in- stances was any thing done by way of legal arrest or judicial 10 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in... ...though they were in- deed a part of the brute creation. Hence, there is no legal protection in fact, whatever there may be in form, for the slave popu... ...ssing. 69 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ar- dently desiring to learn. They w...

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...n making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees,...

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... Boswell’s criti- cisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson’s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wit... ...f them men of eminence; that Holbrook, one of the most ingenious men, best scholars, and best preachers of his age, was usher during the greatest part... ...rence to the vast portion of study which is pos- sible, and to which a few scholars in the whole history of literature have attained; for when I once ... ...our and knowl- edge of life than we had; but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...law would give no reparation. This led us to agitate the question, whether legal redress could be obtained, even when a man’s deceased relation was ca... ...did, deserves to be hanged; not that I could, as a juryman, have found him legally guilty of mur- der; but I am glad they found means to convict him.’...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...yed. With us the purchase of valuable land for railways, together with the legal expenses which those compulsory purchases entailed, have been so grea... ...ath. But this is not so often. Rebellion knows that it must fight, and the legalized power against which rebels rise must of necessity fight also. I c... ...erica—it would have cut New England off from the rest of the Union. Was it legally within the power of New York to place the six States of New England... ...a great portion of that by teaching in the vacations. There are thirty-six scholarships attached to the university, vary- ing in value from £20 to £60... ... to £60 per annum; and there is also a beneficiary fund for supplying poor scholars with assis- tance during their collegiate education. Many are thus... ...ocean. President Felton’s* name is very familiar to us; and wherever Greek scholarship is held in repute, that is known. So also is the name of Profes...

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...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...istory, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defe... ...ons in league with false facts, the press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint; the public judg ment will correct false reasoning and o... ...intain ing on all occasions the inviolability of those constitu tional and legal provisions which they themselves have made. In a supposed unfitness... ... of the principles of international law would be helpful, and the efforts of scholars to pre pare such a work for adoption by the various nations sho... ...eighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write. For the more tha...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ... suppose would be given for it. Originally, in all countries, I believe, a legal tender of payment could be made only in the coin of that metal which ... ...the standard or measure of value. In England, gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was 39 Adam Smith coined into money.... ...the gold as he and his debtor could agree upon. Copper is not at present a legal ten- der, except in the change of the smaller silver coins. In this s... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ..., or doctor (words anciently synonymous), in the liberal arts, and to have scholars or apprentices (words likewise originally synonymous) to study und... ...ety of pri- 113 Adam Smith vate founders, have established many pensions, scholarships, ex- hibitions, bursaries, etc. for this purpose, which draw m... ...ersities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. In ancient times, before any charities of this kind had be...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...re and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men. I have been told that in some public discourses of ... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...ubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a k... ...ach man’s peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery. They are nature’s victims of expres... ...th the demo- crat, for free-trade, for wide suffrage, for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code, and for facilitating in every manner the...

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...yours this would be only a preparatory school. They are sure to fly off to scholarships.” “I don’t know,” said Carey. “I want them to be where physi- ... ...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...w’s abortive attempt to say “Am I not a man and a brother?” that his three scholars burst out into a second edi- tion of shouts of laughter at the sig... ...in this evening? Bobus has horrified his uncle by declining to go up for a scholarship at Eton or Winches- ter, and I should be very glad to talk it o... ...to have drawn up and executed a will without my assistance, or that of any legal gentleman.” “It is too hard and unjust,” cried Caroline; “it cannot b... ...ade. But no doubt he had never carried out his purpose so far as to get it legally drawn out and attested. As Mr. Richards had said, he had never been... ...ht have misgiv- ings, as to this unhappy document being morally though not legally, binding. Suppose she were seized with a fit of generosity, and gav... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ...

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...elty, cannot harm a child as this sort of pious fraud harms it. There is a legal limit to physical cruelty; and there are also human lim- its to it. T... ...own-ups. No doubt the pedagogue would promptly turn demagogue, and woo his scholars by all the arts of dema- gogy; but none of these arts can easily b... ...the effect of compulsion; for the average schoolmaster does not compel his scholars to learn: he only scolds and punishes them if they do not, which i... ...two or three. The eight children do not belong to the woman in any real or legal sense. When she has reared them they pass away from her into the comm... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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...egorius Turonensis, Histor. lib. iv. cap. 21.) The amende honorable, what ‘legal apology’ you will, to God:—but not, if D’Aiguillon can help it, to ma... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...e Lomenie, and the Abbe Morellet were once a trio of young friends; fellow-scholars in the Sorbonne. Forty new years have carried them severally thus ... ...t. Far from that, it begins questioning Lettres-de-Cachet generally, their legality, endurability; emits dolorous objurgation, petition on petition to... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...uerulous-indignant discor- dance, and the sound of so many thousand livres legally due. The moment is trying; there are some ten thousand soldiers now...

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... there twelve prebendaries, an equal number of invalid soldiers, and forty scholars; who at a proper time are elected into the uni- versities, and are... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...of stain, or taint, all her deprivations, either of life or liberty, being legal and necessitated. She was learned, her sex and time considered, beyon... ...wars of France, whither she sent five several armies. They were the French scholars that inured the youth and gentry of the kingdom, and it was a mili...

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...recently established by law with regard to the kind of money that could be legally ten- dered. This, however, was a suggestion that did not tend to al... ...s better nature. However, he recurred to his cautions about the peril in a legal sense of 43 Thomas de Quincey tampering with the windows, bolts, and... ...trange, that Barratt did not revive the case in the public mind by seeking legal reparation for his injuries. It was, however, still matter of regret ... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...as a scholar. We are not going to enter on so large a field as that of his scholarship in con- nection with his philosophic labors, scholarship in the... ...on with his philosophic labors, scholarship in the re- sult; not this, but scholarship in the means and machinery, range of verbal scholarship, is wha... ...ge ever be- come an accurate Grecian in later times, when better models of scholarship, and better aids to scholarship, had begun to multiply. But sti...

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...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...ted code of morals. In modern communities, where the dominant economic and legal fea- ture of the community’s life is the institution of private prop-... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...with some stipulated ground of decision, such as the equity 187 Veblen or legality of the respective contestants’ claims. The like sense of an inscru... ...hly improbable, to say the least. With the lower and practical schools and scholars, the adoption and cultiva- tion of these usages is a case of mimic... ... the life process and other points of view are forcing themselves upon the scholars. The true- bred gentleman of leisure should, and does, see the wor... ...icality that is equally obnoxious to the conven- tional standards of sound scholarship and intellectual force. The case is analogous to what happens i...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ... down, he always arranged the list of cases for the next day, and read the legal papers. In the morning he proceeded to the city-hall, dined after his... ...tive of Frankfort, but an able jurist and man of business, and managed the legal affairs of many small princes, counts, and lords. I never saw him oth... ...ther. His price was moder- ate, and he was indifferent as to the number of scholars at one lesson. My father instantly determined to make the attempt,... ...the generally has “die Götter,” or “the Gods.”— Trans. 139 Goethe and the legal form which he observes on the occasion shows how important this posse... ...over, the instruction seemed contrived only for cheating and degrading the scholars. If one forgot to hook or loosen the curb-chain, or let his switch... ...he other wealth of all ages in translations, and the works of the greatest scholars. I consequently read much in this language, with great ease, and w... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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...n deity, unless in the character of a Ro- man; and a Roman you may become, legally and politically. Being such, you will participate in all advantages... ...ly elevated; for, being now freed from all anxiety, being sacred as merely legal rights, they suddenly rise into a new mode of responsibility as intel... ...rthodox Christianity is possible for those who are not behind their age in scholarship and science; this is a solemn fact, which may be ignored by the... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...to show how scandalous an error has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian eth... ... and the question is raised—Whether the calling of a school- master can be legally considered a trade? This also is settled: it is solemnly determined... ...ed by Mahomet in the Koran. And this has been the opinion of many European scholars. They fancy that Mahomet, however worldly and sensual as the found...

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..., you know. CUSINS. Let me advise you to study Greek, Mr Undershaft. Greek scholars are privileged men. Few of them know Greek; and none of them know ... ...hows the least ability, he is fastened on by schoolmasters; trained to win scholarships like a race- horse; crammed with secondhand ideas; drilled and... ... So they are in Australia; but here they are out- casts. Their marriage is legal in Australia, but not in En- gland. My mother is my father’s deceased... ...is children will be pounds heavier and bigger. That will be better than an American cloth mattress in a shelter, chopping firewood, eating bread and t...

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...E BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both... ...time of some of his hearers is to date the gos- pel without the aid of any scholarship. It must have been written during the lifetime of Jesus’s conte... ...much of what we call law and order as machinery for robbing the poor under legal forms; that he thought domestic ties a snare for the soul; that he ag... ...n practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places) are condemned in the words,... ...ersons who live on rent of land and capital are eco- nomically, though not legally, in the category of robbers, and have grotesquely different incomes... ...nd doctrines. But these disintegrations, though technically interesting to scholars, and gratifying or exasperating, as the case may be, to people who...

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.... Till the nineteenth century the grammar-school was still composed of day scholars from the neighbourhood. Then two things happened. Firstly, the sch... ...punishments up. Yet out of this chaos two facts emerged. Half the boys got scholarships at the University, and some of them—including sev- eral of the... ...hat Mrs. Failing has been imposed upon by the Wonham man, a person with no legal claim on her, and any one who exposes him performs a public duty—” “—... ...the papers. “Half-brother I ought to have said.” “Yes?” “I’m illegitimate. Legally speaking, that is, I’ve been turned out of Cadover. I haven’t a pen... ...e is the paper we suggest you shall sign.” She pushed towards him a pseudo-legal document, just composed by Herbert. “In consideration of the sum of…,... ...e of criticism is quite a thing of the past. Have you seen the illustrated American edition?” “I don’t remember.” “Might I send you a copy? I think yo...

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...egorius Turonensis, Histor. lib. iv. cap. 21.) The amende honorable, what ‘legal apology’ you will, to God:—but not, if D’Aiguillon can help it, to ma... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...e Lomenie, and the Abbe Morellet were once a trio of young friends; fellow-scholars in the Sorbonne. Forty new years have carried them severally thus ... ...t. Far from that, it begins questioning Lettres-de-Cachet generally, their legality, endurability; emits dolorous objurgation, petition on petition to... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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...scends towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield be fore her breast, and... ...of the anticipated execution of some rioted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, i... ...erence of rank and office, it was safely to be inferred that the infliction of a legal sentence would have an earnest and effectual meaning. Accordingly... ...eputations of his fellow clergymen, eminent as several of them were. There are scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lor...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...e restitution of the men. I had never attempted to argue the matter on the legal points, but I felt, as though by instinct, that it would be so. First... ... by the former in proving that under the latter no State could possess the legal power of seceding. But they who created the Constitution, who framed ... ...ut one in twelve of the whole population. This number gives the average of scholars throughout the year ended 30th of June, 1861. But there are other ... ...eral, who gives him orders for large purchases, which could only have been legally made through the quartermaster’s de- partment.” After that, who wil...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...s are found in theological gardens. Under the head of “Grammar” the little scholars furnish the following information: Gender is the distinguishing no... ...This line of hieroglyphics was for fourteen years the de spair of all the scholars who labored over the mysteries of the Rosetta stone: [ Image not ... ... death. That was the twenty forth translation that had been fur nished by scholars. For a time it stood. But only for a time. Then doubts began to as... ...t; and whether his law court procedure is correct or not, and whether his legal shop talk is the shop talk of a veteran practitioner or only a machin... ...nted with the manners and customs of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making... ...to the law to avoid dis playing their ignorance if they venture to employ legal terms and to discuss legal doctrines. “There is nothing so dan gerou...

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...ving been contracted when the parties were of too tender age to give their legal consent, and its having been unsatisfied since they had reached eccle... ...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri... ...Mr. Adderley thought, reach such a standard as to gain one of the very few scholarships open to foreign- ers; and his noble blood revolted at becoming... ... you are a long way off from that yet! Why, our T emplars be mostly Oxford scholars.’ ‘So it was explained to me,’ said Mericour, ‘but for some weeks ...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...ing thing that has arisen, not a dead thing put together. Beneath the thin legal and administrative ties that hold it together lies the far more vital... ...ent. This is a psychological question, a matter of mental states. Feats of legal subtlety are inopportune, arithmetical exploits still more so. To eme... ...ation, but the lawyer is the law’s consequence, and, with us at least, the legal profession is the 40 An Englishman Looks at the World political prof... ...eteenth-century modernism with the hatred natural to a man of considerable scholarship and in- tense aesthetic sensibilities. His mind turned, exactly... ...re laboratories, more scholar- ships out of the general mass of elementary scholars, a quasi- military discipline in our colleges and a great array of... ... with these a big proportion—a proportion we may increase steadily—of keen scholarship men from the elementary schools. Such a braced-up class as we s...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ve interests. All is decided for them by a will not their own, which it is legally a crime for them to disobey. What sort of human beings can be forme... ...g constitution of the state might at any moment be resumed; that they were legally slaves, though of a prudent or indulgent master. It is not much to ... ...ntry in a state of chronic revolution and civil war. A despotism, not even legal, but of illegal violence, would be alternately exercised by a succes ... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...pacity and general intelligence. But a school supposes teachers as well as scholars: the utility of the in struction greatly depends on its bringing ...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ...ssels, belonging to sundry Americans at Oahu, she carried on a great trade—legal and illegal—in otter skins, silks, teas, specie, etc. - 108 - Two ... ...nd no one could have had a more attentive audience. Some laughed at the ‘‘scholars,’’ and went over the other side of the forecastle, to work, and...

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...is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time ... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...nes. His desk at Mr. Bluebag’s was filled full of prospectisises, and that legal gent wrote to Fred’s uncle, to say he feared he was neglectin his bis...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...were very indif- ferent. There were no free schools, and none in which the scholars were classified. They were all supported by subscrip- tion, and a ... ...ching much, even if they imparted all they knew—would have thirty or forty scholars, male and female, from the infant learning the A B C’s up to the y... ...S. Grant reflections upon my old teacher, Richardson. He turned out bright scholars from his school, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in th... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ... calm expression of opinion, unbiased by threats, and if the ballot of one legal voter had counted for as much as that of any other. But there was no ... ...y, too, cried out for a separation from such people. The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were ge...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ce. Pres- ently she remarked: ‘But, Mrs. Harrington, he is surely under no legal obligation?’ ‘He is only under the obligation not to cast disrespect ... ...ndsman who has paid the bill, but stands out against excess of interest on legal grounds, the postillion regarded Evan, of whom he was now abreast, ea... ...uples of an inveterate borrower, begged hard to be allowed to bind himself legally to repay the money. ‘’Pon my soul, Harrington, you make me remember... ...ledge I had rea- son to.’ ‘Mais, cela va sans dire.’ ‘Cobblers’ sons ain’t scholars, my lady.’ ‘ And are not all in the habit of throwing their father...

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

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...r Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God... ...6 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with W estern history and ... ...dividuals were just the first symptoms. 8 Third, the successful use of the legal system to address the first World Trade Center bombing had the side e... ...deposit. 3.2 ADAPTATION—AND NONADAPTATION—IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY Legal processes were the primary method for responding to these early mani-... ...nce within the United States from the CIA and from Army Intel- ligence.The legal basis for some of this assistance was dubious. Decades of encourageme... ...the establishment of a Research and Analysis Branch.There large numbers of scholars from U.S. universities pored over accounts from spies, com- munica...