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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...er all, a blessing that, in these revolutionary times, there should be one country where abstract Thought can still take shelter; that while the din a... ...hes of leather: there, top-laden, and with four swift horses, rolls in the country Baron and his household; here, on timber-leg, the lamed Soldier hop... ...lace’s Mecanique Celeste, down to Robinson Crusoe and the Belfast Town and Country Almanack, are familiar to him,—we shall say nothing: for unexampled... ...and sequence there is too little. Apart from its multifarious sections and subdivisions, the Work naturally falls into two Parts; a Historical-Descrip... ...s of Concealment, and connected with still greater things, is the wondrous agency of Symbols. In a Symbol there is concealment and yet revelation; her... ...ing which has some time ago ceased to be doubtful. “Do we not see a little subdivision of the grand Utilitar- ian Armament come to light even in insul... ...d serviceable for the progress of this same Individual, wilt thou find his subdivision into Generations. Generations are as the Days of toilsome Man- ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...field. My wish, then, is compounded of what I believe will be best for the country; and it is that he will come here, put his military commission in m... ... him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him fr... ...judge as General Sherman, proves this. In that line he can serve both the country and himself more profitably than he could as a member of Congress u... ...yal State government in any State the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general 27 The Writings of Abraham... ... Lincoln: V ol Seven This, it will be perceived, transferred General Ord’s agency in the matter to General Grant. I resolved, however, to send Major ... ...ever, it comes to my knowl- edge that I am much censured for some supposed agency in setting up and seeking to sustain the new State government of Lou... ...to try it. They tried it, and the result is known. Such has been my only agency in getting up the Louisiana government. As to sustaining it my promi...

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The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...operly speaking, among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now composes the United States. They ascribe the known difficu... ... and the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which is the scene of this story, and that the Indians not only gav... ...Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree. The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first oc- cupied by the Europeans in this portion of the continent.... ...r’s edge, where the scout had collected the rest of the party, more by the agency of ex- 44 The Last of the Mohicans pressive gestures than by any us... ...rock had been rudely fitted to answer the purposes of many apartments. The subdivisions were simple but ingenious, being composed of stone, sticks, an... ...e of ancient miracles, he eschewed the belief of any direct su- pernatural agency in the management of modern morality. In other words, while he had i... ... visage of Magua. He saw, at once, that this wily savage had some se- cret agency in their present arraignment before the nation, and determined to th...

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Louis Lambert

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d possession of their buildings; certain Oratorians, scat- tered about the country, came back to the college and re- opened it under the old rules, wi... ...ed a suffocatingly pestilent muck-heap. The loss of the fresh and fragrant country air in which he had hitherto lived, the change of habits and strict... ...s boy, at once so powerful and so weak, transplanted by “Corinne” from the country he loved, to be squeezed in the mould of a collegiate routine to wh... ...Louis Lambert and intellectual world; but it has been ruined lately by its subdivision into separate academies. So human science marches on, without ... ... greatest achievement, is the most Draconian work I know of. Terri- torial subdivision carried out to the uttermost, and its prin- ciple confirmed by ... ...pted to the imaginations of various races in the lands they reached by the agency of certain sages whom men elevated to be demi-gods—Mithra, Bacchus, ...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...or’s birth the family removed to The Farm, and later to Greenhay, a larger country place near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey’s mother, now for some ye... ...so primarily.” These essays would include, according to Professor Masson’s subdivision, (a) Biographies, such as Shakespeare or Pope—Joan of Arc falls... ...d so large a share in developing the anarchies of my subsequent dreams: an agency which they accomplished, 1st, through velocity at that time unpreced... ...ct of China. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to that country was a state- coach. It had been specially selected as a personal gi... ...e had and lodging; whereas such is the noble desolation of our magnificent country that in many a direction for a thousand miles I will engage that a ...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...e him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse- whales, which had bones of very... ...h he brought some to the king. ... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said tha... ...ses of all those ships attract them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and t... ...erminate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction. It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some depart... ...un- dant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab’s precise agency in the matter from the beginning. For me, I silently recalled the my... ... eyes; like vices my hands grasped the shrouds; some invisible, gra- cious agency preserved me; with a shock I came back to life. And lo! close under ... ...by arms invisible as irre- sistible; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which 528 Moby Dick so enslaved them to the race. They were one man...

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The American

By: Henry James

...get there. There you have to go; you can’t do anything else. It’s an awful country; you can’t get a decent cigar. I don’t know why I went in there, to... ... and to cross over. When we were over, I told him to drive me out into the country. As I had told him originally to drive for dear life down town, I s... ...bish. He irritated our friend by the tone of his allusions to their native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were ... ...cle of fortunes made by the aggregation of copper coins, and in the minute subdivision of labor and profit. He questioned M. Nioche about his own mann... ...ased a bag of hominy at an establish- ment which called itself an American Agency, and at which the New York illustrated papers were also to be procur...

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The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

...d, the mistress of a hundred cases or categories, receptacles of the mind, subdivisions for convenience, in which, from a full experience, she pi- geo... ...together while she answered, as they went, that the most “hopeless” of her countryfolk were in general precisely those she liked best. All sorts of ot... ...al tower and waterside fields, of huddled English town and ordered English country. Too deep al- most for words was the delight of these things to Str... ...ly waited; I’ve told it to people I’ve met in the cars—the fact is, such a country as this ain’t my kind of country anyway. There ain’t a country I’ve... ...y grew too fast, and the Atlantic cable now alone could race with it. That agency would each day have testified for him to something that was not what...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

... it was a mere formality, a curious survival of mediævalism cherished by a country that makes no breaks with its past. The spirit and idea of the whol... ...nd invincible kingdom of Kent in which I write and that extremely inferior country, England, which was con- quered by the Normans and brought under th... ...istent, more intellectualized and less intense physical de- sires than the countryside. Moral qualities that were a disad- vantage in the dispersed st... ...ty, and fully capable of offspring. Civilization is based on the organized subdivision of labour, and, as the able lady who writes as “L’amie Inconnue... ...he frantic politics of Mr. Gladstone effected what probably no other human agency could have contrived, and restored the prestige of the House of Lord...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...re fully equal to his task. He began with the physical ge- ography of this country, and examined the characteristics of 6 Democracy in America the pe... ...y to a peculiar people, or that it would be impracticable in any different country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the Amer... ...eat majority of cases, it will be decided honestly and for the good of the country. In such meetings, there is always a spirit of loyalty to the State... ...istics of the continent is not surpassed in litera- ture: nor is there any subdivision of the work in which the severest philosophy is not invested wi... ...vate individuals, and they cannot be advantageously maintained without the agency of a single head of a Govern- ment. The exclusive right of making pe... ...214 Democracy in America number of others are formed and maintained by the agency of private individuals. The citizen of the United States is taught f... ...y on? And if a time at length arrives, when, in consequence of the extreme subdivision of landed property, the soil is split into an infinite number o... ...is hourly felt, the more profusely do newspapers abound. The extraordinary subdivision of administrative power has much more to do with the enormous n... ... central power which they represent may and ought to administer by its own agency, and on a uniform plan, all the concerns of the whole community. Thi...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...c by this proof that the mur- derer had not condescended to sneak into the country, or to abandon for a moment, under any motive of caution or fear, t... ... have felt, as a case of lu- dicrous disproportion, the contrast between a country town or village, on the one hand, and, on the other, a work more la... ...Secondly, Because it would have ruined his mission, by disturbing its free agency, and misdirecting its energies, in two separate modes: first, by des... ...let it be remembered, of which all the steps are inevitable under the same agency: that is, in the case of any primitive Christian teacher having atte... ...gth of understanding by the Mosaical day, the mysterious day of that awful agency which moulded the heavens and the heav- enly host, no more than the ... ...disturb a judgment, but only to re-affirm it. And he returns to his native country, quartering in his armorial bearings these new trophies, as though ... ...h- ing exaction of ‘room for every citizen,’ put an end to that process of subdivision. Drury Lane, as I read (or think that I read) thirty years ago,... ...forbearance. There is not a page of the national history even in its local subdivisions which they have not stained with the atrabilious hue of their ... ...in sci- ence, no less than in other applications of industry, to ex- treme subdivision. In all the employments which are depen- dent in any degree upo...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rease of public interest in matters touching the various industries in the country; in fact, the whole social tendency of the epoch following the esta... ...thousand francs, besides a stock of clothing and linen, neat and clean, as country linen can be. Marion herself, a big, stout woman of thirty-six, fel... ... cleaned out, and set in order. Then one evening when David came in from a country excursion, followed by an old woman with a huge bundle tied up in a... ...aid he to himself, “I must contrive to do by ma- chinery and some chemical agency the thing that I myself have done unconsciously.” When his wife saw ... ...dern society is so infinitely more complex than in ancient times, that the subdivision of human faculty is the result. The great men of the days of ol... ...mprisoned with the accused, convicted, and condemned—the three gradu- ated subdivisions of the class generically styled criminal. David was put for th...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ny powers for acting on the heart of man, does, by possibility, this great agency include? According to my own view, four.* I will state them, and num... ... said, ‘you have, some god of your own, who will be quite as good for your countrymen as Jupiter for mine. But, if you have not, really I am sorry for... ...ant na- tions, when the same belief was so deeply recorded amongst his own countrymen in the sublime story of Prometheus. Much* of the sufferings endu... ...hemselves more often in a man’s termi- nology, and his antithesis, and his subdivisions, than any- where else. Phil. goes on to make this distinction,... ...rist, the Gothic Bishop Ulphilas set about translating the Gospels for his countrymen. He had no words for expressing spiritual rela- tions or spiritu... ...r reality, and through trembling faith in their efficacy. But by that very agency they are all-sufficient for the ruin of the poor credulous negro; he... ...d and duration of all acts whatever, the time of their emergence, of their agency, or their reagency, fall into harmony with the secret proportions of... ...miracles— viz., the external, first of all, we may remark a very important subdivision: miracles, in this sense, subdivide into two most different ord... ...e, (all arising out of cases supervening upon cases,) sup- pose that great subdivision of jurisprudence called the Bank- rupt Laws to have been gradua...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...APTER IV HOW THE COMMERCE OF TOWNS CONTRIBUTED TO THE IM- PROVEMENT OF THE COUNTRY ...................................................................... ...EITHER THE SOLE OR THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF THE REVENUE AND WEALTH OF EVERY COUNTRY ...................................................................... ...ome nations has given extraordinary encouragement to the in- dustry of the country; that of others to the industry of towns. Scarce any nation has dea... ...of the cloth! The nature of agriculture, indeed, does not admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of so complete a separation of one business fro... ...lth of Nations tion to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as in every other business... ...mber, the more they naturally divide themselves into different classes and subdivisions of employments. More heads are occupied in inventing the most ... ...r offices at London, and all other expenses of management, commission, and agency, in England. What remains of this sum, after defraying these differe... ...s curiosity, by referring all those wonderful appearances to the immediate agency of the gods. Philosophy afterwards endeavoured to account for them f... ...liar causes, or from such as mankind were better acquainted with, than the agency of the gods. As those great phenomena are the first objects of human...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from ... ...her hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being suf ficient to awaken in the wisest and most ex... ...liated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such ... ...dent nation seems to have been distinguished by some to ken of providential agency; and in the important revo lution just accomplished in the system... ...n, State, INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 91 and subdivision of the Union, must consider himself bound by the most solemn ... ...ects in the District of Colum bia? Such dreams can never be realized by any agency of mine. The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjec... ...pt, energetic, and intelligent action of Congress than upon any other single agency affecting the situation. It is inspiring, too, to remember that no...

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St Statesman

By: Plato

...esman may be briefly sketched as follows: (1) By a process of divi- sion and subdivision we discover the true herdsman or king of men. But before we c... ...class of beasts. An error of this kind can only be avoided by a more regular subdivision. Just now we divided the whole class of animals into gregari-... ... trainer, having left directions for his patients or pupils, goes into a far country , and comes back sooner than he intended; owing to some un- expec... ...idiculous? And if the legislator, or another like him, comes back from a far country , is he to be prohibited from altering his own laws? The common p... ...r hand the leaven of the mob can hardly affect the representation of a great country. There is reason for the argument in favour of a property qualifi... .... STRANGER: And by the help of this distinction we may make, if we please, a subdivision of the section of knowledge which commands. YOUNG SOCRATES: A... ...no animal was any longer allowed to come into being in the earth through the agency of other creative beings, but as the world was ordained to be the ...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...s at an agricultural stage of industry, in which there is a con- siderable subdivision of industry, and whose laws and cus- toms secure to these class... ...orporations prescribe as the distinctive dress of their employees. In this country the aversion even goes the length of discrediting — in a mild and u... ...becomes a larger element in the standard of living in the city than in the country. Among the country population its place is to some extent taken by ... ...r respects, as well as in the accepted ideals of pleasure grounds. In this country as in most others, until the last half century but a very small pro... ... which is a more or less articulate belief in an inscrutable preternatural agency. The preternatural agency works through the visible objects with whi... ...se objects in point of individu- ality. The use of the term “preternatural agency” here carries no further implication as to the nature of the agency ... ... This is only a farther development of animistic belief. The preternatural agency is not necessarily conceived to be a personal agent in the full sens...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

.... ARTICLE 8c Every citizen of the Union shall, in the territory of a third country in which the Member State of which he is a national is not represen... ...easons and on grounds of urgency, take unilateral measures against a third country with regard to capital movements and payments. The Commission and t... ...mber States. 2. However, in the event of an emergency situation in a third country posing a threat of a sudden inflow of na- tionals from that country... ...cle 78h, transfer appropriations from one chapter to an- other or from one subdivision to another.” 16) Articles 78e and 78f shall be repealed. 17) Ar... ...rticle 183, transfer appropriations from one chapter to another or from on subdivision to another.” 22) Articles 180 and 180a shall be repealed. 23) A... ...on in the field of armaments with the aim of creating a European armaments agency; —development of the WEU Institute into a European Security and Defe...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...cute some trifling commissions which she had received from a friend in the country, and would be at home again between one and two for a stroll which ... ...ght- ful power to lacerate and to sting—the shadowy outline of a spiritual agency, such as that which could at all predict the events, combining in on... ... evening, after having caroused through the day with some friends from the country, had retired at an early hour to sleep away his intoxication. I on ... ... an- other of the great roads from the capital; and by thus cross- ing the country, we came back upon the city at a point far distant from that at whi... ...ages of the general misery, exactly as it unfolded itself under the double agency of weakness still increasing from within, and hostile pressure from ... ...e it would have ruined his mission; would utterly have prostrated the free agency and the proper agency of that mission. He that, in those days, shoul... ...orld. But perhaps, in strict logic, they ought to have been classed as one subdivision or variety under a much larger head, viz. words generally, no m... ...g of ornithoscopy in relation to Jews, we remember an- other story in that subdivision of the subject which it may be worth while repeating; not merel...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...in the language of Sinbad. “‘Passing beyond this last island, we reached a country where there was a cave that ran to the distance of thirty or forty ... ...the legs of the cow, and, after some hours, found ourselves in a wonderful country indeed, which, I was informed by the man-animal, was his own native... ... Having been long possessed of this idea, and bolsters being cheap in that country, the days have long gone by since it was possible to distinguish a ... ...count of a nearly fatal illness that occurred to Madame Pilau, through the agency of a candle accidentally poisoned. The idea struck my fancy at once.... ...chantment! There was really no end to its windings—to its incomprehensible subdivisions. It was difficult, at any given time, to say with certainty up... ...ere held with my singular namesake. The huge old house, with its countless subdivisions, had sev- eral large chambers communicating with each other, w... ...uthority so imperiously assumed! Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied! I had also been forced to ...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

.... I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his country’s capital by George Wash- 5 Trollope ington has not been fortunate... ...- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. The pride of the nation h... ...e has been no rival, soliciting favor on the strength of other charms. The country has all been agreed on the point since the father of the country fi... ...owners who sold, and not by the government which bought. But in so vast an agency the ordinary rate of profit on such business be- came an enormous su... ...o have been the fact in the report before me. One result of such a mode of agency is given; one other result, I mean, besides the £20,000 put into the... ... State, a clause was inserted into the act giving authority for the future subdivision of that State into four different States as its population shou...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...quently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, wh... ..., who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, 7 The Federalist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer pr... ...ers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies than from it... ...they proceed from a source not unfriendly to the new Constitution. Yes, my countrymen, I own to you that, after having given it an attentive considera... ...ften descanted upon not to be generally known. To multiply examples of the agency of personal consider- ations in the production of great national eve... ... such lights to form their opinion either of the reality or extent of that agency. Perhaps, however, a reference, tending to illustrate the general pr... ...ch is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwi...

... empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to d...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...he least of evil, what further remains is to obtain the concurrence of our countrymen, or those for whom the institutions are intended, in the opinion... ...ry stage of their existence they are made what they are by human voluntary agency. Like all things, there fore, which are made by men, they may be ei... ...o any coun try the best institutions which, in the existing state of that country, are capable of, in any tolerable degree, fulfilling the conditions... ...nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, is, in all substantial respects, fixed and determi... ...ical institutions affects the welfare of the community—its operation as an agency of national edu cation, and its arrangements for conducting the col... ..., and, jointly with them, have been the starting point and main propelling agency of modern cultivation. It is, then, impossible to understand the que... ...d inconvenience, be different for different quarters of the same town. The subdivision of London into six or seven indepen dent districts, each with ... ...ided attention of a specially qualified func tionary. But the reasons for subdivision which apply to the execution do not apply to the control. The b...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... hope it may continue to do so. As the years go by, I hope that many of my countrymen may be asked to lecture in the Scottish universities, changing p... ...nary religious believer, who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has... ...e obscurest the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso—that I know it is His agency. I will love Him though He shed frost and darkness on ev- ery way of... ...s easy and felicitous what in any case is necessary; and if it be the only agency that can accomplish this result, its vital importance as a human fac... ...any experiences which appeared providential? A. None whatever. There is no agency of the super- intending kind. A little judicious observation as well... ...y fine weather, and until within a few years used to walk Sundays into the country, twelve miles often, with no fatigue, and bicycle forty or fifty. I... ...ciety,” then business, then family duties, until at last seclusion, with a subdivision of the day into hours for stated religious acts, is the only th... ...ur time would not suffice, for one thing; and moreover, I confess that the subdivisions and names which we find in the Catholic books seem to me to re...

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