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...emen, this is your captain speaking once more. We have a request from the American authorities for Mr Amir and Prakash Vishal to come to the front o... ... been recovered in New York, the showcase for Freedom, De- mocracy and the American Way. He hoped that voters would remember that when it came to his... ...ned to Camilla with a shrug and asked, ‘I don’t suppose you know any good lawyers?’ Things moved quickly after that. Camilla did indeed know the be...

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...t tell or act a lie in the face of the sea, or mis-lead a tempest; but, as lawyers have discovered, he makes up for chances withheld when he returns t... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...r. That time she was very nearly sunk, and her riddled hull gave emi- nent lawyers of two countries great profit. After a season she reappeared as the... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei... ...t till he begins to paint,’ I said. “‘That’s just what he’s done—and South American freights higher than we’ll live to see them again. He’s laid her u... ...egal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It was sinfu’! “Syne Bell got orders to ta...

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...necessarily operative. Whether she were so or not would at any rate be for lawyers to decide. But now the case was very different. This rich man had c... ... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...s Christmas at Greshamsbury. That eternal election petition, those eternal lawyers, the eternal care of his well-managed wealth, forbade him the enjoy... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and... ...roperly settled between my lawyer and your own. ’ ‘Oh—ah—yes; no doubt the lawyers will settle it; settle it with a fine bill of costs. But, as Finnie... ...himself would by degrees be expended in this manner. And then the squire’s lawyers had to take up the matter; and they did so greatly to the detriment... ...ered himself up, and turned away his head, looking out of the window. ‘You lawyers never like to give an opinion without money, ha! ha! ha! Do they, M... ...ave been very kind. ’ ‘And who is he, doctor? Won’t it go to some of those Americans? I am sure I never did anything kind to them; though, indeed, I d...

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...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...w them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam blers and great ladi... ...y thrill you, they’re so queer, and a lovely actress, and an awfully jolly American girl.’ ‘I should love to come,’ said Susie, with an appealing look... ...never see him again. If you’re afraid, you shall be hid den from him, and lawyers shall arrange everything between you.’ 133 Maugham ‘I daren’t.’ ‘B... ...g to do any harm to Margaret. As soon at I get back to London, I’ll see my lawyers, and I daresay something can be done. If he’s really mad, we’ll hav...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...elt. After all, we all expect the clergy to be saintly, but in business we expect some crooks, and of course in Lee‘s profession we expect all lawyer... ...ng it into a lake. Her defense was that she had been repeatedly raped as a child by her stepfather. The effects of these rapes was held by the lawyer... ...in school.‖ —―Like we say, when you find yourself in a deep hole, stop digging. But back to your Supreme Court. I thought that your lawyer... ... politically correct and afraid to hurt anyone‘s feelings. Maybe you‘re afraid to be sued for defamation of character. I don‘t know. But your lawyer...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...s they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am be... ...on attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers. He had found time, nevertheless, to call often in Park Lane, and t... ...es and ev- erybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any fe...

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...days for me,’ said Maisie. ‘I’m going away.’ ‘Where to?’ ‘I don’t know. My lawyers have written to Mrs. Jennett, and I’ve got to be educated somewhere... ...ssly and cannot understand that inclination does not im- ply power; of the Americans, whose rasping voices in the hush of a hot afternoon strain tense...

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...eatest embarrassment, when it fortunately came into the head of one of our lawyers to remind us of a privilege we possessed, by which, without much di... ... given up to iniquity, whom money and obscure mistresses alone influenced. Lawyers complained of his caprices, and pleaders of his injustice. At last,... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...ed, with delight utterly impossible to express, the sight of these haughty lawyers (who had dared to refuse us the salutation), prostrated upon their ...

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... know she was dead, till I heard from Mr. Bell, who had learnt it from his lawyers!” “It was quite right of her. Dear Magdalen, I am so glad,” said Mr... ...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ... to the Derby.” And Angela had her own bitter trial in the decision of the lawyers. Not only was the signature of the will unsatisfactory, from the co... ... Modern Broods exposition of the wicked injustice and hardness of heart of lawyers, and the inexpedience of taking the poor child from her earliest mo... ...d her to the kindergarten. After Angela’s period of raging against law and lawyers and all the Stokesley family, and being on the verge of imperti- ne... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am... ...th the resolute fortitude and unselfishness generally shown by English and Americans in the like circumstances. The sea was not in a dangerous state, ...

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...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... as the Executive Committee of the League had received a despatch from the lawyers it had retained to fight the Railroad, that the judge of the court ... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ... hearers, he unburdened himself. “If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick,” he continued, “it would be the indifference of... ...hips—has been an ambition of mine,—for this purpose, Mr. Derrick, to carry American wheat. For years, I have studied this question of Ameri- can wheat... ... Yosemite House, on Main Street . The conference of the committee with the lawyers took place in a front room of the Yosemite, one of the latter bring... ...e press of business and involved in the final conference with the League’s lawyers on the eve of the latter’s departure for Washington, Annixter had m...

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...the wit of the sharp sighted men of sound mind? Where the dexterity of the lawyers, eager to discover a flaw? The madman’s cunning had overreached the... ...d shuttlecock’s a wery good game, vhen you ain’t the shuttle cock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too excitin’ to be pleasant.... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa... ...s. Bardell; ‘but I see now, that it’s the only thing I ought to do, and my lawyers, Mr. Dodson and Fogg, tell me that, with the evidence as we shall c...

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...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... ...t was not a cheese at all, only a wooden block that the fox ran away with. Lawyers don’t put people’s title-deeds into such dan- gerous keeping, the t...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ... of the lips. “But a deed of such a kind will entail certain expenses, and lawyers are so devoid of conscience! In fact, so extortionate is their avar... ...having to cut the very tail from his coat before he would get clear of the lawyers. “Nevertheless,” added Chichikov, “seeing that you are so hard pres...

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...they were at the time understood, he was tried by a court of clergymen and lawyers before the bishop, and, if convicted, was—according to the cruel cu... ...s will, and then the fifty who were left appointed a court of officers and lawyers to try the king. Charles was brought before them; but, as they had ... ...is death; and fresh peerages are given as rewards to great generals, great lawyers, or people who have deserved well of their country. When a law has ... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu... ..., homely dressing man; and when he was sent to Paris on the affairs of the Americans, all the great ladies and gentlemen went into raptures about his ... ...ime, the war went on between America and England, year after year; and the Americans became trained soldiers and got the better, so that George III. w... ...s looks in those days, they had left off wigs— except bishops, judges, and lawyers, in their robes. Men had their hair short and curly, and wore coats...

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...to some honor and glory, and to most of them wealth. Imagine the number of lawyers, doctors and business men who could stick to a narrow path if they ... ...sons can fail to observe the close relation between poverty and crime. All lawyers know that the practice of criminal law is a poor business. Most law... ... the most intelligent ones never know or feel the whole code, and in fact, lawyers are forever debating and judges doubting as to whether many ways of... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...aking these judgments. All it furnishes is a tribunal where the contending lawyers can fight, not for justice, but to win. It is little better than th... ...only question settled in court is the relative strength and cunning of the lawyers. The tribu- nal whose duty it is to fix the future place and status... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus...

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...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre... ...ences in England, and the more private records of the methods by which the American War Loans were raised, were so amazing that they put the guns and ... ...ent stave it off at home. Perhaps the most tragic figure of the day is the American President who was once a historian. In those days it became his ta... ...as they, poor devils, live among the disease germs and the doctors and the lawyers and the parsons and the restaurant chefs and the tradesmen and the ...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...avored to get employment as a hackney writer, to copy for the stationers and lawyers about the Temple, but could find no vacancy. I immediately got in... ...hands. They wondered to see, from this and several instances, that the Water American, as they called me, was stronger than them selves, who drank st... ...company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great ... ...hey petition’d the king in Council, and a hearing was appointed in which two lawyers were employ’d by them against the act, and two by me in support o... ...e counsel rose, and beckoning me took me into the clerk’s chamber, while the lawyers were pleading, and asked me if I was really of opin ion that no ...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ...moral or theological discussion. These are to all the world what law is to lawyers; they are everybody’s technicalities; the medium through which all ...

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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... ...nd him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit enough to appreciate the value... ...ds. His satires began to go the round in manuscript; Mr. Aiken, one of the lawyers, “read him into fame;” he himself was soon welcome in many houses o... ...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 ... ...calls “Feudal Literature” could have little living action on the tumult of American democracy; what he calls the “Lit- erature of Wo,” meaning the who... ...nhere in the life of the present; which was to be, first, human, and next, American; which was to be brave and cheerful as per con- tract; to give cul... ...I, that could make Daniel, a sucking babe, to judge better than the wisest lawyers; a brute beast to reprehend the folly of a prophet; and poor fisher...