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...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ...pet ownership? Does the employment agency sell workers or productivity? Does the politician sell self-image or security for the voter? In terms o... ...duals too lazy to think for themselves. It is also sought after, or should be, by politicians vitally concerned with the opinions of their constitu... ...ase In fact, politics is a special but important case of idea marketing, with the politician marketing the idea, "Vote for me!" Perhaps one of the ... ... 14-15. Bryson, L., ed. 1948. The Communication of Ideas. New York: Harper & Row. Campbell, D. T . and D. W. Fiske. 1959. "Convergent and Discrimina... ...eshiva University. In 1997 he was appointed by the US Fulbright Commission to the Alexander Hamilton Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship in Hun...

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...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...ver been properly punished? When is the last time you ever heard of a corrupt politician actually going to jail? What is the worst punishment we me... ...geously as possible. There is no such thing as one-sided happiness. Joseph Campbell of PBS fame: very neatly left that out of his over-simplified ... ...as a normal way of living. Read: ‘One Day in the Life Of Ivan Denisov’ by Alexander Solhjzenitsen. It is a watered-down account, a more humane... ...ver the Mediterranean, and becoming filthy rich from its trading monopolies. Alexander the Great went a-conquering eastward; not westward. Because ... ... Six B: Civilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 1171 Alexander the Great was a crazed, bloodthirsty, egomaniac: who killed p...

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...urs fail - in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ... thus in "The Econometrics of Financial Markets", a 1997 textbook authored by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay: "An approach to invest... ... to price options correctly. From "The Econometrics of Financial Markets" by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University P... ...e volatility of shorted stocks. Studies of the German DAX, conducted in 1996-8 by Alexander Kempf, Chairman of the Departments of Finance in the U... ...my of an entire major city, Bitola. After much wrangling and recriminations - many politicians seem to have benefited from the scam - the governmen... ...all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-ev... ...ten end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently used these cheap funds to prop... ... as Paul Warburg, the influential banker, Roger Babson, the "Prophet of Loss" and Alexander Noyes, the eternal Cassandra from the New York Times -... ...se and Anaconda Copper were still substantially higher than on March 3, 1928. John Campbell and Robert Shiller, author of "Irrational Exuberance", ...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...ourse, is by far the most damaging. (5) Reallocation Fees Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th... ...which impinges on the outer world as a shell and bursts it into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World- historical men - the Heroe... ...same bundle of assets and, therefore, the same profile of risk and return. As John Campbell and Luis Viceira point in their "Strategic Asset Alloca... ... to price options correctly. From "The Econometrics of Financial Markets" by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University P...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...ourse, is by far the most damaging. (5) Reallocation Fees Benefits paid (mainly to politicians and political decision makers) in order to affect th... ...which impinges on the outer world as a shell and bursts it into pieces - such were Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon ... World- historical men - the Heroe... ...same bundle of assets and, therefore, the same profile of risk and return. As John Campbell and Luis Viceira point in their "Strategic Asset Alloca... ... to price options correctly. From "The Econometrics of Financial Markets" by John Campbell, Andrew Lo, and Craig MacKinlay, Princeton University P...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...vailable at http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/ haseltine0900.asp; cf. Alexander K. Haas, “The Wellcome Trust’s Disclosures of Gene Sequence Dat... ...dt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968), 217–42. 24. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 583 (1994). CHAPTER : ... ..., 244, 295n14; WIPO Develop- ment Agenda, 244, 294, 295n14. Acuff-Rose case (Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994)), 151–152, 283n23... ... 298 “by means of a computer,” effect of con- cept on patent law, 169, 176. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994). See Acuff-Rose c... ...ut, Donald Jay, 277, 278. Gulati, Mitu, viii. Guthrie, Woody, 152–153. Haas, Alexander K., 45, 266n11. hacker: different definitions of, 93–94; hackers... ...rent definitions of, 93–94; hackers and Reimerdes case, 92–94, 231. Hamilton, Alexander, and the role of in- tellectual property, 35. Hardin, Garrett, ...

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...stances; it is, moreover, a noble vindica- tion of the highest aims of the American anti-slavery move- ment. The real object of that movement is not o... ...these remarkable men, and is still rising toward highest rank among living Americans, are abundantly laid bare in the book before us. Like the autobio... ...nly would his own history have had another termina- tion, but the drama of American slavery would have been essentially varied; for I cannot resist th... ...that manner.” Mr. Raymond is a first class graduate of Dartmouth, a rising politician, ranking fore- most in the legislature; of course, his ideal of ... ... slaves, 42 My Bondage and My Freedom having no money, get no gospel. The politician keeps away, because the people have no votes, and the preacher k... ...y tour, hungry and tired, I went into an eating-house, near my friend, Mr. Campbell’s to get some refreshments. I was met by a lad in a white apron, “... ...the society of Friends—presided, and addressed the meeting. George William Alexander, an- other Friend, who has spent more than an Ameriacn{sic} fortu... ...se in different sec- tions of the world, was on the platform; and also Dr. Campbell (now of the British Banner) who combines all the humane tenderness... ...nd restore them to their long-lost rights. Dr Dr Dr Dr Dr. C . C . C . C . Campbell ampbell ampbell ampbell ampbell ’’ ’’’s R s R s R s R s Reply eply...

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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...were two vigorous paragraphs upon the utter damnableness of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a conta- gious damnableness I gathered, one wasn’t safe within a ... ... I followed my own curi- osities. I was already a very keen theologian and politician before I was fifteen. I was also intensely interested in mod- er... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...eems a little incredible that that should be so. She has destroyed me as a politician, brought me to this belated rebeginning of life. When I sit down... ...ived in the lurid light of Britten’s suggestions that so it was Mr. George Alexander would have mounted a statesman’s private room… . 3 3 3 3 3 I was ... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a...

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... or her any good, let him have it. He’ll soon learn better.” “You’re not a politician, I see,” she smiled. “Goodness, no,” said Ridley. “I’m afraid yo... ... its more serious side, of all careers, for a man, I am bound to say, ‘The Politician’s.’” “The Bar or politics, I agree,” said Willoughby. “You get m... ...hard; “but, I think a man of the world. That’s where my point comes in. We politicians doubtless seem to you” (he grasped somehow that Helen was the r... ... looked at her watch. “Half-past one,” she stated. “And I have to despatch Alexander Pope to-morrow.” “Pope!” snorted Mr. Elliot. “Who reads Pope, I s... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the... ...hnsons, the Parkers, the Baileys, the Simmons’, the Lees, the Morleys, the Campbells, the Gardiners. Some were dressed in white flannels and were carr...

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...incoln: V ol Five ligible reason for. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TO A. CAMPBELL. SPRINGFIELD, June 28, 1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 185... ...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...urs as ever, A. LINCOLN. 10 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO ALEXANDER SYMPSON. SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 11, 1858. ALEXANDER SYMPSON, Esq. DEAR... ... Respectfully yours, A. LINCOLN. TO A. SYMPSON. SPRINGFIELD, Dec.12, 1858. ALEXANDER SYMPSON, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—I expect the result of the election we... ...several of the most noted anti-slavery men of those times—as Dr. Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Gouverneur Morris while there was not one now known... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ... ...ecease of Justices Daniel and McLean and one by the resignation of Justice Campbell. I have so far forborne making nominations to fill these vacancies...

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...n duly ratified and carried into execution. It is believed that, so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned, that inhuman and odious... ...Y AND NICHOLS. GENTLEMEN : The number for this month and year of the North American Review was duly received, and for which please accept my thanks. ... .... The world has never had a good definition of the word lib- erty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for lib... ...e force under Rosecrans is, or what it is doing? A. LINCOLN. TO WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL AND OTHERS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Oc- tober 22, 1... ...ECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Oc- tober 22, 1864. MESSRS WILLIAM B. CAMPBELL, THOMAS A. R. NELSON, JAMES T. P . CARTER, JOHN WILLIAMS, A. BLIZ... ... Ord’s assistance procure an interview with Messrs. Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, or any of them, deliver to him or them the paper on which your ow... ...Cos, 29th. ‘MAJOR-GENERAL JNO. G . P ARKE, ‘Headquarters Army of Potomac: ‘Alexander H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter, and J. A. Campbell desire to cross ... ...f Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven CITY POINT, V A.. February 1, 1865. MESSRS. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, J. A. CAMPBELL AND R. M. T. HUNTER. GENTLEMEN :—I am... ...ent, and to confer with you upon the subject. ‘V ery respectfully, yours, ‘ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. ‘J. A. CAMPBELL. ‘R. M. T. HUNTER.’ “I have sent dir...

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...orce a kind man to do a cruel thing? O.M. Yes. Y.M. Give an instance. O.M. Alexander Hamilton was a conspicuously high prin cipled man. He regarded d... ...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... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ... to discuss legal doctrines. “There is nothing so dan gerous,” wrote Lord Campbell, “as for one not of the craft to tamper with our freemasonry.” A ... ...his incompetence. “Let a non professional man, however acute,” writes Lord Campbell again, “presume to talk law, or to draw illustrations from legal s... ...n an attorney’s office before he came to London. Mr. Collier wrote to Lord Campbell to ask his opinion as to the probability of this being true. His a... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...

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...of St. Athanasius which were observed and inquired upon by the good bishop Alexander. (For though still a tender infant, St. Athanasius with perfect c... ...h the bishop of the past, so with the bishop of the future; the Rev. H. J. Campbell, in his story of his soul’s pilgrimage, has given us a pleasant pi... ...s, and some—some “—he seemed to be rejecting unsuitable words—” confounded politician put in. Much good it would do them. But before that happens I’m ... ... reply. What was there for a bishop to object to? There was that admirable American widow, Lady Sunderbund. She was enor- mously rich, she was enthusi... ...The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Bur... ...ere going through our priestly mummer- ies, abasing ourselves to kings and politicians, when we ought to have been crying out: ‘No! No! There is no ri...

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...e words: “Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War by investing Alexander Cummings with the control of large sums of the public money and a... ...ssouri. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. David T odd, Governor of Ohio. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne- sota. Richard Y ates, Governor of Illi... ...r- thy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. In the American Revolutionary war sacrifices were made by men engaged in it, but t... ...r newer States, and less than in some of our larger ones. They are not all American colonists or their descendants. Something less than 12,000 have be... ... A. HENRY . W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C, Septem- ber 12, 1862. HON. ALEXANDER HENRY, Philadelphia: Y ours of to-day received. General Halleck h... ... so radically changed, for the mo- ment, the occupations and habits of the American people, has necessarily disturbed the social condition, and affect... ...May 26, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Cincinnati, O.: Y our despatch about Campbell, Lyle, and others received and postponement ordered by you approve... ...M F. ELKIN, FRANCIS SPRINGER, B. A. W ATSON, ELIPHALET HA WLEY , AND JAMES CAMPBELL. GENTLEMEN:—Agree among yourselves upon any two of your own number... ...ne, to your other brother, the governor. Thanks to both you and our friend Campbell for your kind words and intentions. A second term would be a great...

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...uspicious lover were not more easy to offend than a meeting of indifferent politicians! Nay, and the orator treads in a beaten round; the matters he d... ...y) takes his determination, votes for the six- pences, and in the emphatic Americanism, it “goes for” them. And while such an one is ploughing distres... ...ide, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. Alexander is touched in a very delicate place by the disregard of Diogenes.... ... yet, when one comes to think upon it calmly, the situation of these South American citizens forms only a very pale figure for the state of ordinary m... ...yle? Am I left to the daily papers?” A more celebrated instance is that of Alexander, who wept bitterly because he had no more worlds to sub- due. And... ...o so? Many will tell you it was the desire of fame. “To what do Caesar and Alexander owe the infinite gran- deur of their renown, but to fortune? How ... ...f course, could be insensible to the presence of Miss Janet Suttie or Mrs. Campbell of Possil. When things are as pretty as that, criti- cism is out o... ...s to me, in books written by men. And Raeburn has some, such as Mrs. Colin Campbell, of Park, or the anonymous “Old lady with a large cap,” which are ...

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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, ... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a... ...g during the 2004 calendar year testified under oath. FIRST PUBLIC HEARING Alexander Hamilton Customs House, New York, N.Y. March 31–April 1, 2003 The... ...udio Manno interview (Oct. 1, 2003); Mike Canavan interview (Nov. 4, 2003);Alexander T. Wells, Commercial Aviation Safety (McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 308.... ...g, see NSC memo, Biegun to executive secretaries, July 31, 2001; CIA memo, Campbell to McLaughlin, Pavitt, and others,Aug. 2, 2001.The White House tol...

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...dd was married something more than a year since to a fellow by the name of Campbell, and who, Mary says, is pretty much of a “dunce,” though he has a ... ...t which has got wrong with one of our best friends. It is old Uncle Thomas Campbell of Spring Creek—(Berlin P .O.). He has received several documents ... .... Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of those are Ford, T. Campbell, Ewing, Calhoun and others. They don’t exactly say they won’t vote... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ...vered a Fourth of July oration, or a eulogy on an occasion like this. As a politician or statesman, no one was so habitually careful to avoid all sect... ...have been a deed. He says, if there is a deed, it is most probable General Alexander, of Paris, has it. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. 142 The Writings of ...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ... made me 12 Autobiography read, but I never cared for any of them except Alexander’s Feast, which, as well as many of the songs in Walter Scott, I u... ...ike the prose account of his three hares. In my thirteenth year I met with Campbell’s poems, among which Lochiel, Hohenlinden, The Exile of Erin , ... ...London for free trade, drawn up in 1820 by Mr. T ooke and presented by Mr. Alexander Baring; and by the noble exer tions of Ricardo during the few ye... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ... been purchased. I did not feel that there was any other radical writer or politician to whom I was bound to defer, further than consisted with my own... ...own on one side or on the other. All hopes connected with Lord Durham as a politician soon vanished; but with regard to Canadian, and generally to co ... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ... ...ch gave an opportunity to the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, Sir Alexander Cockburn, for deliver ing his celebrated charge, which settled t...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...estroyed till March 13, 1786; yet all was settled be- tween Burns and Mary Campbell by Sunday, May 14, when they met for the last time, and said farew... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...e rolls of fame. CHAPTER VII – CHARLES OF ORLEANS FOR ONE WHO WAS no great politician, nor (as men go) espe- cially wise, capable or virtuous, Charles... ...over of Queen Isabel, and the leading patron of art and one of the leading politicians in France. And the poet might have inherited yet higher vir- tu... ...his career; and as, to himself, he was more interesting than Moses or than Alexander, so all should be faithfully set down. I have called his Diary a ...

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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... ...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... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ...ection of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer ye... ...t re- mained on the field. One of Birney’s most gallant brigade commanders—Alexander Hays—was killed. I had been at West Point with Hays for three yea... ... immediately conducted to my headquarters at City Point. They proved to be Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, Judge Campbell, A... ...oved to be Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, Judge Campbell, Assistant-Secretary of War, and R. M. T. Hunt, formerly United St... ... First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. H. H. Ward. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Alexander Hays. Fourth Divisin, Brig.-Gen. Gershom Mott. First Brig...

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...Beauclerk not seeming to rel- ish the compliment, Johnson said, ‘Nay, Sir, Alexander the Great, marching in triumph into Babylon, could not have desir... ...and, his praising ‘Gordon’s palates,’ (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon’s) with a warmth of expression which might have done honou... ...talk.’ Boswell. ‘Yes, Sir; you tossed and gored several persons.’ The late Alexander, Earl of Eglintoune, who loved wit more than wine, and men of gen... ... to give me some assistance for the defence of Hastie, the schoolmaster of Campbelltown, for whom I was to appear in the house of Lords. When I came, ... ...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... ... fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769, I was told by Dr. John Campbell, that he had said of them, ‘Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ... ...mwell, the Quaker, Mr. Langton, Mr. Miller, (now Sir John,) and Dr. Thomas Campbell, an Irish clergyman, whom I took the liberty of in- viting to Mr. ...