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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...n on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convicted for the crimes members of the administration of the Yo... ...sis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convicted for the crimes members of the administration of the Young Turks, includi... ... In 1611, Countess Erszebet Bathory was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 young girls. The tru... ...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ..., and foreign law enforcement agencies investigating unusual or repetitive violent crimes. The NCAVC also provides support through expertise and co...
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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ...k they will be willing to give up their desires to have children? Or that politicians or business people will volunteer to reduce their populations.... ...ften become sin when they run counter to scriptural values or they become crimes when they run counter to society‘s values, the codified laws of the ... ...lar authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.‘... ...s overruled by another Ku Klux Klan case (63), in which the appellant was convicted under Ohio law of advocating violence and unlawful methods of te...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...o the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to let this sacred cow go un-milked. Consequently a large num... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ...yet arrived in China. They can‘t criticize their leaders or accuse them of crimes. They are still in a soviet style government in which keeping order... ...bad as many countries. ―Because of the diminishing workforce most politicians, as well as many religious groups and trade unions, want to a... ...d your Global Positioning System to track sex offenders. You remember that convicted sex offenders had to wear transmitters to satellites that showed... ... they were 24 hours a day. While your main concern was in preventing future crimes, our intention is two pronged—to prevent problems and to find inno...
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...nly about health care. Public pension funds have been insolvent for years. Politicians in democracies like to promise more benefits along with lower ... ...r—and we don‟t have near the money that Norway has. I don‟t know why your politicians think that people must be forced into retirement so that young... ...ning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.‟ “It is rather unfair that throughout the wor... ...verruled courts and administrators in the UK who had rejected a plea of a convicted murderer and his ex-prisoner wife to avail themselves of artifici... ... he had shown signs of a violent temper throughout his life, but was only convicted when he beat and kicked a man to death because the victim wouldn...
... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...o evidence. One thing about fire is that it destroys all evidence of its own crimes. The regenerative nature of the Veldt is so strong that it wip... ...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... ...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... ... to jail? What is the worst punishment we mete out to the worst, most corrupt Politicians? We just don’t let them have all that Power again. Some ... ...t is the same. Truth is a joke. Whoever the court decides is guilty will be convicted because a legal reason can be found for anything. The Law ... ...shed, the only way you cannot be held responsible, the only way you cannot be convicted and found guilty is by remaining silent. All a criminal has ...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...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 ... ... the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which... ...Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in front' in terms of damage and number of crimes ...". Lewis averred that " ... (t)here is nothing else g... ... country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions". MSNBC notes that "(t)he Animal L... ...resented in other, equally important, vocations (for instance, among company CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institution... ...acula of Bram Stoker fame. In 1611, she was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 young girls. The tru...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ny of the next one begins; which is an unspeak able comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country: that is to say, to ninety nin... ... been there six years, and was to remain, I think, three more. He had been convicted as a receiver of sto len goods, but even after his long imprison... ...thoroughly gratified! There were three young women in adjoining cells, all convicted at the same time of a conspiracy to rob their prosecutor. In the ... ...gh character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see... ...roperty by the most infamous and odious means, and notwithstanding all the crimes of which he has been guilty, should be tolerated and abetted by your...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. The...
...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics... ...The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...n Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni-... ...ty university. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane CHAPTER I THE COLD PASSED reluctantly f... ...hout severe condemnation of himself. He dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions... ...e dinned reproaches at times. He was convicted by himself of many shameful crimes against the gods of traditions. In his great anxiety his heart was c... ...d the youth, and he would not look at the other. The officers labored like politicians to beat the mass into a proper circle to face the men-aces. The...
Excerpt: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.
...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ............................................................ 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... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ... this there has undoubtedly been treachery as well as rebellion. Had these politicians been honest—though the political growth of Washington has hardl... ... also had been done in the way of raising money by selling the property of convicted se- cessionists; and while I was there eight men were con- demned... ...ious to know, not in what way they may be impeached and beheaded for great crimes, but by what method they may be kept constantly straight in small ma...
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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ... relate to his education or property, and to the fact that he has not been convicted of crime. Of all men he should be most directly amenable to publi... ...e democratic spirit in France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Belonging neither to the class ... ...nced in 1643 (p. 114, “New Haven Antiquities”), by which Margaret Bedford, convicted of loose conduct, was condemned to be whipped, and after- wards t... ...ible to say what bounds could then be set to tyranny. Some of our European politicians expect to see an aristoc- racy arise in America, and they alrea... ...one. The general affairs of a country only engage the attention of leading politicians, who assemble from time to time in the same places; and as they...
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...
...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ................................................... 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 ... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ... ...previous period of Pisistratus (about 555 B.C.) the Oracle had been almost convicted of Alcmœonidizing. The Oracle concerned was the same,— namely , t... ... disgrace no more recoiled on the god, than, in modern times, the vices or crimes of a priest can affect the pure religion at whose altars he officiat... ...rovidential retribution of oppression. The tyrant teaches to his slave the crimes and the cruelties which he inflicts; blood will have blood; and the ...
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...
...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...ritings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 ... ...ary servi- tude, except for crime, of which the party shall have been duly convicted, should exist in the State, they said that neither sla- very nor ... ...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 ... ... one as may be gotten up at any time by turbu- lent men aided by designing politicians, My advice to them, under such circumstances, is to keep cool. ... ...tate or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as amongst the gravest of crimes.” I now reiterate these sentiments; and, in doing so, I only press u... ...ed in the trade and one person in equipping a vessel as a slaver have been convicted and subjected to the penalty of fine and imprisonment, and one ca...
...Excerpt: Sydney Spring. My dear sir, your letter introducing Mr. Faree was duly received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legisl...
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 ... ...ised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, an... ...h is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. That has many crimes to answer for, but not this one, I think. One may not attribute to t... ...paper, with fresh and still more trying pictures of the accused. Hardy was convicted, and hanged—a mistake. People came from miles around to see the h... ...ished for it thirty years later; meantime he was committed a million other crimes: no matter, Henry can pick out the one that brought the worms. W orm... ...ege presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patriots, demagogues, clo...
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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...afternoon and then, I think, she was interested only in the more vio- lent crimes, and in railway and mine disasters and in the minutest domesticities... ... of battles in strange places, now of amazing discoveries, now of sinister crimes, abject squalor and poverty, imperial splendour and luxury, Buckingh... ...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... ... 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... ...itechapel, here a circle of journalists and writers, here a group of Irish politicians, here two East Indians, here a priest or so, here a clump of ol... ...the Expurgator, and it would be altogether disastrous to us if I should be convicted of any personal irregularity. It was just because of the manifest...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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. ... ... be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; that the General A... ... except in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; that the General Assembly may make such provisions for the freed... ...m Collins of Company B, of the Sixty-ninth New Y ork V olunteers, has been convicted of desertion, and execu- tion suspended as in numerous other case... ...ging against its authority, and in bringing to the punishment due to their crimes the rebels and traitors arrayed against it. 2. Resolved, That we ap... ...ancing the Union cause, but on the distinct issue of Union or no Union the politicians have shown their instinctive knowl- edge that there is no diver...
...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ty con- tained in this act. It is also provided that the slaves of persons convicted un- der these sections shall be free. I think there is an unfortu... ...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... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot... ... participation in battles. This class numbered forty, and included the two convicted of female vio- lation. One of the number is strongly recommended,... ...tizens to oppose and resist the aforementioned dangerous and treason- able crimes, and to aid in restoring to their regiments all sol- diers absent wi... ...treason, and on his being held to answer for capital or otherwise infamous crimes, and in criminal prosecutions his right to a speedy and public trial...
...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to det...
...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... .... Before this country editor, this paid speaker of the Railroad, he stood, convicted. The man had him at his mercy. The detected briber could not rese... ...er of government, ballot-box stuffer, descending to the level of back-room politicians, of bar-room heelers, he, Magnus Derrick, statesman of the old ... ...right- ened her. It was dark, gloomy, dirty, a place suggestive of obscure crimes and hidden terrors. For twenty minutes or half an hour, she hesitate... ...f information. “What news do you mean?” he asked. “About Dyke. He has been convicted. The judge sen- tenced him for life.” For life! Riding on by the ...
Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.
...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ...will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. It is a strange thing that most men of action have a tendency ... ...d towards the goal where the trum- pets and gifts of victory await patient politicians. Lucien had taken Beaudenord’s bachelor quarters on the Quai Ma... ...ere!” This was his thought. And, indeed, he would have committed far worse crimes than allying himself with a forger to preserve his right to mount th... ... selected. And the criminal police used to act in the same way to discover crimes with the famous Vidocq. Both branches of the police chose their men ... ...hich for twenty years the papers have never been tired, as to the death of convicted criminals: the im- pressive scene, the chaplain—who has always co... ...r examining judge, M. Popinot, for instance, would have identified the man convicted for sacrilege. In fact, ever since the “salad-basket” had turned ...
...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the death of the father, was the sole human tribunal before which domestic crimes could be arraigned; kings themselves, on special occasions, took par... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ... he will be condemned; but I say, may it please God his lawyer lets him be convicted. Go to Issoudun, secure the property for your children. If you do... ...which a single fact gives rise. The provinces insist—as in former days the politicians of the little Provence at the T uileries insisted—on full expla... ...bedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable. Between Flore Brazier and...
...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...siness that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunting-men, yet something more by... ...ankind is offended by heterodoxy in mean attire; for there we see the self-convicted villain—the crimi- nal caught in the act; we try it and convict i... ...herwise it comes to this wild preaching. These men are theory-tailors, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-... ... over this incident. The widow was rich, and it ranked among the unwritten crimes against blood for one offshoot of a great house wantonly to thwart a...
...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ...s, but on certain conditions. These were, absolution from the Pope for all crimes of his life, his murders and his apostasy in- cluded; security again... ...ueen of dupes. It would seem that there are, at certain times, fashions in crimes as in clothes. At the period of the Voysins and the Brinvilliers, th... ... by way of reparation for a public offence, agreed to this course. De Bar, convicted of having fabricated this document, by his own admission before t... ...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... ...d him: more especially as that same Abbe was just about this time publicly convicted of simony, of deliberate fraud, of right-down lying (proved by hi...
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.
...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...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... ...sts at the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, including some who were subsequently convicted in the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. The casing... ...s, the U.S.Attorney for the South- ern District of New York prosecuted and convicted multiple individuals, including Ajaj, Salameh, Ayyad, Abouhalima,... ...Ajaj, Salameh, Ayyad, Abouhalima, the Blind Sheikh, and Ramzi Y ousef, for crimes related to the W orld Trade Center bombing and other plots. An unfor... ...n of the threat.The government’s attorneys stressed the seriousness of the crimes, and put forward evidence of Y ousef’s technical ingenuity.Y et the ... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...
...Excerpt: We present 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 Democra...
...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...
...CATION Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...n, but every time a legislature meets, it changes penalties for exist- ing crimes and makes criminal certain acts that were not forbidden before. Judg... ...den does not mean that these things are necessarily evil; but rather, that politicians believe there is a demand for such legislation from the class o... ...that it does, or at least should. No Christian state makes it apply to men convicted of crime, or against killing in war, and yet a considerable minor... ...n that the individual pris- oner is prevented from another criminal act. A convicted man is kept in jail for as long a time as in the judgment of the ... ... law as sacred. T rue they have no more acquaintance with law-mak- ers and politicians in general than with the criminal class, which, of course, is o... ...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... ...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...
...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...
... SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...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... ...n the hands of every one of them come de- serted children, the children of convicted criminals, the chil- dren of pauper families, a miscellaneous pit... ...r. At present that is our hideous practice. So long as the parents are not convicted criminals, so long as they do not practise indictable cruelty upo... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...ion, might be drawn up. It might be found desirable in the case of certain crimes and misdemeanours, to add to existing penalties the transfer of all ...
...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development an...
...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...vitude for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall in no wise be prohibited by this act. Sec. 8. That for all... ...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, ... ... gathers strength, like a rolling snowball, by its own infamy. Mon- strous crimes are committed in its name by persons col- lectively which they would... ...n State, Shields and Richardson, politically speaking, successively tried, convicted, and executed for an offence not their own but his. And now he se...
...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...
...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable... ...lconduct by the House of Representatives, and tried by the Senate; and, if convicted, may be dismissed from office, and disqualified for holding any o... ...y office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, ...
...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...
...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...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... ...; but if any man were to sell such a bargain for such a price, he would be convicted of the most evident folly.” He certainly does not mean here to ex... ...es upon actions which, antecedent to the statutes that declared them to be crimes, had always been un- derstood to be innocent. But the cruellest of o... ...that is, about four or five times the value. Any merchant, or other person convicted of this offence, is disabled from requir- ing any debt or account... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...
Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...
... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...nfessing a de tested creed rather than affirm a falsehood. A rule thus self convicted of absurdity so far as regards its professed purpose, can be ke... ...e: peculiar ity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nat... ... that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non conformity—any... ...oper use of it without detection. The right inherent in society, to ward off crimes against itself by antecedent precautions, suggests the obvious lim... ...but I should deem it perfectly legitimate that a per son, who had once been convicted of any act of violence to others under the influence of drink, ... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...
...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...
...lication John Bull’s Other Island by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... an Englishman’s first duty is his duty to Ireland? Unfortunately, we have politicians here more unscrupulous than Bobrikoff, more bloodthirsty than A... ...teady. Come along: come. [He is led down to the road in the character of a convicted drunkard. To him there it something divine in the sympathetic ind... ...he Indian revealed to me—perhaps he was sent to reveal it to me to expiate crimes committed by us in a former existence. AUNT JUDY [awestruck]. Heaven... ... capital while you slave like bees for it and revenge yourselves by paying politicians and penny newspa- pers out of your small wages to write article... ...e-slot mutoscopes to make it inter- esting, then no doubt your English and American sharehold- ers will spend all the money we make for them very effi...
...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the ...
...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...roused to unrea- soning fury, and sometimes to the commission of atrocious crimes, by the slightest challenge to their authority. Thus a laborer may b... ...of the nation get cured of this dis- ability. University men, sailors, and politicians are compara- tively free from it, because the communal life of ... ...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-... ... as vice is forbidden. The Creator is explicitly prayed to, and implicitly convicted of indecency every day. An association of vice and sin with every... ... and statesmen are manifestly no more “captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a ...
...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...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 ... ...the tale that gives to future times The son’s misfortunes and the parent’s crimes; There shall his fame (if own’d to-night) survive, Fix’d by the hand... ...was mistaken. His noble pupil appeared against him, and he was capi- tally convicted. Johnson told me that Dr. Dodd was very little acquainted with hi... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s...
...Preface: In 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 gr...
...ries by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publi cation of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ove him inconsistent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind ha... ...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ...med him in his views. One man had been sentenced to hard labour for having convicted his superiors of a theft; another for having struck an official w... ...et, businesslike voice, try ing to recollect all the circumstances of his crimes. “He stepped out of the house,” said Stepan, telling the tale of his... ...n his questions. He was amazed that Stepan should narrate the story of his crimes as if they had been things of long ago, and committed not by him but...
...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems...
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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ceptive, silent as they, Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in t... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...with its devilish winnings and losings, The shape of the step ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pini... ...r features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true soul and body appear before me... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...
...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...
...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...st get rid of him; that’s all. You must be firm whether he be acquitted or convicted.’ ‘But if he’s acquitted, I cannot get rid of him, my dear.’ ‘Yes... ...and he must be got rid of. I feel sure of his guilt, and I hope he will be convicted. One is bound to hope that a guilty man should be convicted. But ... ... being himself a strong politician, constantly expressed a belief that all politicians opposed to him are thieves, child-murderers, parricides, lovers... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘... ...lf did not attribute to Mrs Van Siever’s favourite any of those ter- rible crimes and potentialities for crime with which Mrs Dobbs Broughton had inve...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...