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...itch laughed. “I think we all need more sleep.” CHAPTER 25 THE ASSASSINATION, CIRCA 10,000 B.C. AXIANA had been very ... ...nd use brute force to remove the device they were ordered to steal. After several arduous attempts, there was a loud snap and the heavy metallic obe...

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...ttended the lady afflicted with these somnambulic paroxysms: *** ―After several attempts to keep her in bed, it was determined to suffer her to take... ...red, near Tarrytown, fell, although there was no storm. On the eve of the assassination of Julius Cæsar, the temple of Jupiter Stabor trembled...

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...hter's girlfriends, his neighbours, new colleagues at work. He immediately attempts to "convert" them to his "creed" – to convince them how wonderf... ...im demands action, engagement, and remembering." But, more often, continued attempts to repress fearful memories result in psychosomatic illnesses ... ...imary love relationship. In a primary relationship, the Inverted Narcissist attempts to re-create the parent-child relationship. The Invert thrives ... ...n and glory. I, as a non-N… got tired of these people and their unremitting attempts to drain my psyche within a relatively short period of time and... ... seated on my chest, he then makes precise incisions around my eyelids and attempts to extract my eyeballs in one swift motion. I can see his round... ... dream that he is awake and that he is planning and executing the gruesome assassination of his spouse. Of course, throughout this time, he was sou...

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...stro-Hungary, they embarked on the faithful recreation of a Bosch-like hell. Feeble attempts at resistance (really, self defence) - such as the one ... ...an a million British pounds of that time in six years of "taxation". Robberies and assassinations were daily occurrences. So were street shoot-outs... ...ent their support. The Black Hand went along with the planning and execution of the assassination of Archduke, heir to the throne Franz (Francis) Fe... ...blings of counter-revolutionary Russia, the drang nach Osten of Austria - all were attempts at self re-definition and self- preservation. Perha... ...ihilation. Lt. Colonel Stevo Duitch "committed suicide" in Karlsbad and there were attempts - some successful, some less - on Pavelic in Munich, Pe... ...d, after all, arrest "Longin" (Kvaternik), Jelic and others in Torino following the assassination of the King. In the paranoid twilight zone of Euro... ...g", "following a rude awakening, they will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail - the narci... ...tern media and personal accounts of the Soviet Jewish emigration simply laughed off attempts to salvage remnants of regime's respectability. The fea...

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... be 10 The French Revolution - V olume Three denied. Complaints are made; attempts are made: but with- out effect. The attempts even recoil; and must... ...im prisoner, he is a secret centre for the Disaffected, for endless plots, attempts and hopes of theirs. Banish him, he is an open centre for them; hi... ...of man!’— One lamentable thing, however, is, that individuals will attempt assassination—of Representatives of the People. Representative Collot, Memb...

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...com- modation for them at the inns, though Mr. Talbot entirely baffled his attempts to make them his guests, and insisted on bearing a full share of t... ... Babington to Queen Mary, describing his plans both for her rescue and the assassination, saying, “he had appointed six noble gentle- men for the desp... ...e? Yet it was not exactly malice. Paulett would have guarded her life from assassination with his own, though chiefly for his own sake, and, as he sai...

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...ions. It usually involves unsavory practices such as torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typi... ... and North America and began to espouse their own brands of jingoistic patriotisms. Attempts to impose liberal-democratic, multi-cultural, tolerant,... ... legislators (e.g., nocturnal FBI searches of offices on Capitol Hill), the failed assassination attempt on the President's life (2006), the furthe... ... - are they a state with a state, or the long arm for covert operations (e.g., the assassination of Massoud) for the Taliban? Who is the dog and wh...

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...gn -- Disappointments destroy all his hopes -- Neglected and denied justice he attempts to return to Mexico -- The last hours of Cortez -- Reaction of... ...g the crews. -- A plot to abandon Magellan -- Mendoza's impertinent threat -- Assassination of Mendoza -- A perilous task -- Execution of the conspir... ...ed -- Cavendish is defeated by the Portuguese -- A mutiny among the crew -- He attempts the execution of one of his men with his own hands -- Landing ... ...9 The Patagonian shore.................................................... 250 Assassination of Mendoza.................................................. ...y in caves among the hills of the sea coast and subsisted by fishing; whatever attempts they made at erecting habitations were confined to the rudest ... ...ncountered in southern latitudes. But all the failures that had attended these attempts in no way discouraged King John, or in anywise disturbed the s... ...the same time they invited Magellan to a conference on board Cartagena's ship. ASSASSINATION OF MENDOZA. The stern Admiral did not for a moment hesita... ...n of defense with a professional skill and completeness that made all previous attempts at fortification trifles by comparison, and bid fair to set at...

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...lings, the cooked numbers he presented to willing bureaucrats, even setting up assassinations was no problem. He was immune to feelings of guilt an... ...illnesses surrounding Hanford and the Richland area. He also told him about the attempts on their lives in the forest, but al­ tered the story. Brent... ...rs. His hands shook as he poured himself a half glass of whiskey. After several attempts, he managed to guzzle it down. The whiskey and the horror h... ..." "Then you're a fool, Ryan," Taranto said. "Hawk has already thwarted several attempts we've made on key targets. Many of my best operatives have ...

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...ions. It usually involves unsavory practices such as torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typi... ...hould be respected only after he is given the chance to experience health. All the attempts to introduce "objective" yardsticks of health are plagu... ...g", "following a rude awakening, they will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail - the narci... ...shen remnants of the communist conflagration. Hence the recent politically-tainted attempts to curb the powers of central bankers in Poland and the... ... dormant in the waiting. The next anti-climatic dysphoric phase transpires when the attempts to secure (the consent of) a mate are met with success.... ...n. This dismembered organism, once a flourishing country, dazed and scorched, still attempts to blindly strike its former members, inebriated by its...

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...ions. It usually involves unsavory practices such as torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typi... ...hould be respected only after he is given the chance to experience health. All the attempts to introduce "objective" yardsticks of health are plagu... ...g", "following a rude awakening, they will revert to form", etc. When these flimsy attempts to patch a tattered personal mythology fail - the narci... ...shen remnants of the communist conflagration. Hence the recent politically-tainted attempts to curb the powers of central bankers in Poland and the... ... dormant in the waiting. The next anti-climatic dysphoric phase transpires when the attempts to secure (the consent of) a mate are met with success.... ...n. This dismembered organism, once a flourishing country, dazed and scorched, still attempts to blindly strike its former members, inebriated by its...

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...ing, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed in- dispensable to attempts of this nature. Mr. Williams has ex- alted the ideal of murder to ... ...emainder to the female line, and settled a pension on him for three lives. Assassination is a branch of the art which demands a sepa- rate notice; and... ...d hardly say, that I allude espe- cially to those five splendid works,—the assassinations of William I, of Orange, of Henry IV., of France, of the Duk... ...useum,) 17 of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein. The King of Sweden’s assassination, by the by, is doubted by many writ- ers, Harte amongst other... ...which occurs in no other work of art that I remember. Indeed, all of these assassinations may be studied with profit by the advanced connoisseur. They... ...say,— Nociurnâ versatâ manu, versate diurne; Especially nocturnâ. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our won...

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...nglish Opium-Eater upon the spot, from the shock attending some suspicious attempts at intrusion upon the part of vagrants, meditating probably nothin... ...me limitation of the shop denied to them upon the other. Vain would be all attempts to convey the horror which thrilled the gathering spectators of th... ...nd really the justifiable fury, that arises upon recalling such abominable attempts at bucolic sentiments in such abominable language, sometimes trans... ... name, is presumably skulking from his creditors. A Timoleon, who hints at assassination in a news- paper, one may take it for granted, is a manufactu... ...t, that young ladies, when saving their youthful husbands at midnight from assassination, could not be capable of waltzing or quadrilling, how wide is... ...elieves that the pestilence had been sent as a secret ven- geance for this assassination, which is thus invested with a mysterious character of horror... ... ancient cities. And yet, from a great mistake in our London and Edinburgh attempts to imitate the stage of the Greek theatres, little use was made of... ...ign in that century, prior to the revolution, furnishes fewer instances of attempts to tamper with the laws—to over- rule them—to twist them to privat...

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...onvince our governments that something must be done, even to the extent of attempts at a reconstruction of civiliza- tion on a thoroughly uncommercial... ...views of Bakounine, we clearly cannot, or at all events will not, tolerate assassination of rulers on the ground that it is “propaganda by deed” or so... ...opaganda by deed” or sociological ex- periment. A play inciting to such an assassination cannot claim the privileges of heresy or immorality, because ... ...this vindication and ennoblement might act as an incite- ment to an actual assassination as well as to Plutarchian republicanism; for it is one thing ... ...r to make a hero of Brutus or Ravaillac, or a heroine of Charlotte Corday. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justi... ... maimed or drowned and some young man infected with disease; and political assassinations have been appallingly frequent of late years. Railway travel...

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... sudden and unaccountable manner, and up to the date of this narrative all attempts had failed of obtaining any intelligence concerning them whatsoeve... ... concealed at all, and who, busying them- selves in vain, because unguided attempts, to regain it, had given first birth, and then universal currency,... ...ut experiment (directed by probabilities) of every tongue known to him who attempts the solution, until the true one be attained. But, with the cipher... ...nguage than the English. But for this consideration I should have begun my attempts with the Span- ish and French, as the tongues in which a secret of... ... and from the period of his death, until within eighteen months before the assassination which forms the subject of our narra- tive, the mother and da... ...t the murder was committed at any given period of the day? There have been assassinations at all hours. But, had the murder taken place at any moment ... ...circumstances, that the bearing it to the river became necessary. Now, the assassination might have taken place upon the river’s brink, or on the rive... ...eve? “Before proceeding farther, let us consider the supposed scene of the assassination, in the thicket at the Barrière du 180 Poe in Five V olumes ... ...most natural route, to a further contempla- tion of the doubt whether this assassination has, or has not been, the work of a gang. “W e will resume th...

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... Cesare Borgia; several of his embassies were quite barren of results; his attempts to fortify Florence failed, and the soldiery that he raised astoni... ...to Cesare Borgia (1478-1507) dur- ing the transactions which led up to the assassinations of the Orsini and Vitelli at Sinigalia, and along with his l... ...rvived but Messer Giovanni,* who was in childhood: immedi- ately after his assassination the people rose and mur- dered all the Canneschi. This sprung...

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...ver forgiven him for belittling Caesar and failing to see that side of his assassination which made Goethe denounce it as the most senseless of crimes... ...dealing with the problems raised by their own civilization, and that their attempts to carry out the codes of law and to practise the religions of- fe...

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...understood in England: hence the poverty of our drama in heroes. Our stage attempts at them are mere goody-good- ies. Goodness, in its popular British... ...o assume that he was deaf or blind. It is said that on the occasion of his assassination by a conspiracy of moralists (it is always your moralist who ... ...ination by a conspiracy of moralists (it is always your moralist who makes assassination a duty, on the scaffold or off it), he defended 109 Caesar a...

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...ble chair. “And what is the difficulty now?” I asked. “Nothing more in the assassination way, I hope?” “Oh no; nothing of that nature. The fact is, th... ...ances and at an infinity of points on the arm.There were a thousand futile attempts to answer the queryon the part of the most illustrious mathematici... ...tle as a feather the hurricane, and must disappear bodily and at once. The attempts to account for the phenomenon—some of which, I remember, seemed to... ...tness—but, oh God, what a scene it was to light up! “I now made one or two attempts to speak to my brother— but, in some manner which I could not unde... ...d some unknown substance, in nearly, but not quite, equal proportions. All attempts at ana- 59 V olume Two lyzing the unknown substance have, so far,... ...t no time amounted to conviction. With it my reason had nothing to do. All attempts at logical inquiry resulted, indeed, in leaving me more sceptical ... ...d. I looked upon my future felicity as secured. Upon the fourth day of the assassination, a party of the po- lice came, very unexpectedly, into the ho...

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...e felt in boyhood towards the moujiks became tinged with contempt when his attempts to im prove their condition – some of which are described in 7 T... ...iests require payment for the grace they bestow by the sacraments.” To all attempts which Missael made to oppose them by arguments founded on Holy Wri... ...pointed a commission to investigate the plot that had led to the attempted assassination. As a matter of fact there was no plot whatever, but the po ... ...tor expected Stepan to be violent, to talk to the other prisoners, to make attempts to escape from prison. But nothing of the kind ever happened. When...

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... to determine its principle, and that similar fail- ures have attended the attempts to describe the “religious” or the “spiritual” ideals of life, whi... ...and variety of this Ideal ceaselessly invite, but as ceaselessly defy, our attempts to imprison it in a definite formula or portray it in detailed ima... ...rtain relation to something good and excellent (and this is illustrated by attempts to praise the gods; for they are presented in a ludicrous aspect b... ...e has not means wherewith to spend largely and yet be- comingly; and if he attempts it he is a fool, inasmuch as it is out of proportion and contrary ... ...eep the weight on their minds: because, as it does not show itself, no one attempts to reason it away, and digesting anger within one’s self takes tim... ...ect secrecy; as theft, adultery, poisoning, pimping, kidnapping of slaves, assassination, false witness; or accompanied with open vio- lence; as insul...

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...d low demagogues, his suspected connec- tion with a secret society for the assassination of the royal family and blowing up of the army, his atheistic... ...arts in suc- cession, but was too discouraged by the weakness of her first attempts to persevere. She knew that as a general rule there are feeble and... ...eness in her tempera- ment was so little and languid that she made all his attempts at fondness ridiculous, and robbed the caresses for which he had l... ...sing the irony of the comment. “Here is a view—this is the first of my own attempts—of the apartment of one of the under servants. It is comfortable a...

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...e modes of honor able warfare, supplying the place of a conquering force by attempts to disorganize our political society, to dis member our confede... ...d of union and the principles it has made sacred. It will be ever thus. Such attempts at dangerous agitation may INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS... .... The sagacious mind of Mr. Jefferson early saw and lamented this error, and attempts have been made, hitherto without success, to apply the amendator... ...hat continuance by prudence and moderation in our councils, by well directed attempts to assuage INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED S... ...and rode to the Capitol with President Arthur, who had taken office upon the assassination of President Garfield. After the ceremony, a fireworks disp... ...he individual the ever rising prob lems of a complex civilization. Repeated attempts at their solution without the aid of government had left us baff...

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... the Republic had been seized in the temple of Moloch; others spoke of the assassination of a priest. It was thought, moreover, that the Barbarians ha... ...were placed upon the Pataec gods, and hair-cloths around the al- tars; and attempts were made to excite the pride and jealousy of the Baals by singing...

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...is hinted at; nay, Lafayette and others go so far as to speak it out, with attempts at proof. The blame of his Defi- cit our brave Calonne, as was nat... ...nd your Queen! With wishes; which will produce hopes; which will pro- duce attempts! For indeed self-preservation being such a law of Nature, what can... ... are ruthlessly plucked off: one individual picks his up again; kisses it, attempts to refix it; but a ‘hundred canes start into the air,’ and he desi... ...s! To Versailles!” Mayor Bailly, sent for through floods of Sansculottism, attempts academic oratory from his gilt state-coach; realizes nothing but i... ...r. Had they not so construed it, how different had their hopes been, their attempts, their results! But so and not otherwise did the Upper Powers will... ... man!’— One lamentable thing, however, is, that individuals will at- tempt assassination—of Representatives of the People. Rep- resentative Collot, Me...

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...O MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK ......................................................................................................... 95 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION............................................................................................................... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY.........................................................................

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.................................................. ......... 95 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION................................................................. ...o hold the house together. What Is Man and Other Essays 108 THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION Note.—The assassination of the Empress of Austria at Geneva, ... ... for withholding its publication now. A. B. P . The more one thinks of the assassination, the more im posing and tremendous the event becomes. The de... ...great changes since the Roman days. The murder of an empress then—even the assassination of Caesar himself—could not electrify the world as this mur ... ... old as history—the burning of the temple of Ephesus. Among the inadequate attempts to account for the assas sination we must concede high rank to th... ...he one royal func tion—laying eggs. As regards the ethics of the judicial assassination of the queen, that is a matter of politics, and will be discu... ...ng to light on one foot or the other with considerable certainty. Six more attempts and six more falls make you perfect. You land in the saddle comfor...

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...er and a sober English divine? However, to Mr. Adderley’s great relief, no attempts were made on Berenger’s faith, his kinsman even was disposed to pr... ...i- sans of Rome. They were further inflamed against the Hu- guenots by the assassination of the last Duke of Guise, and by the violences that had been... ...Chevalier, who supposed her ignorant of the circumstances of her husband’s assassination; and the Abbess, who was really ignorant, exclaimed—’fid donc... ...e Rayonette, and the wonder that was made of her signs of intelligence and attempts at talk- ing. Even when she toddled fearlessly up to the stately D... ...ween you! How could you make me send after and imprison him? It was a mere assassination!’ and the old man beat his head with grief and perplexity. ‘F... ...have far to ride that night, and even then he was constantly breaking into attempts at shouting and whistling as often repressed, and springing up in ... ...ed to strangle Narcisse; and she was on the point of saying, ‘Think of his attempts on that little one’s life—think of your wounds and captivity;’ but...

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...ont attack was kept up so vigorously that, to prevent the success of these attempts to get on our flanks, the National troops were compelled, several ... ...ley. But now the enemy opened fire upon their assailants, and made several attempts with their skirmishers to drive them away, but without avail. Late... ... upon the railroad to our right, where Schofield was in command, but these attempts failed utterly. General Palmer was charged with being the cause of... ... Phila- delphia, New Y ork, and the National Capital, and had made several attempts to do so, and once or twice had come fear- fully near making their... ...m the left of our main line to connect with his new one. Lee made repeated attempts to dislodge Warren’s corps, but without success, and with heavy lo... ...eople awaiting my arrival there; and also dispatches inform- ing me of the assassination of the President and Mr. Seward, and of the probable assassin... ...sible for me to describe the feeling that overcame me at the news of these assassinations, more espe- cially the assassination of the President. I kne... ...first few months of his ad- ministration. Be this as it may, Mr. Lincoln’s assassination was particularly unfortunate for the entire nation. Mr. Johns... ...i- ments of the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of the Northern ...

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... — Mill 33 tion until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it. It will be said, that we do not now put to death... ...ll continue. In this age the quiet surface of routine is as often ruffled by attempts to resuscitate past evils, as to On Liberty — Mill 35 introduc... ... and that, right or wrong, it is not On Liberty — Mill 63 of the nature of assassination but of civil war. As such, I hold that the instigation to i... ...n unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty , in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and tempo rarily with the opponents of... ...nt thing if all the rest could have been compelled to travel his road, their attempts to thwart each other’s development have rarely had any permanent... ...ld fully justify them. Though the feel ing which breaks out in the repeated attempts to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the ...

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... what would have to be done and where it would have to be done, and of any attempts to create an instrument for that novel unprecedented under- taking... ...ccasions and its rapid emotional reactions, comes into contact directly it attempts to adjust itself in the social body. It is one of the main factors... ...t of influences which is steadily turn- ing our Labour struggles from mere attempts to adjust hours and wages into movements that are gravely and deli... ...suspicious. The replacement has already gone so far that I am certain that attempts to baffle and coerce the workers back to their old conditions must... ...tries upon these lines there will have to be a vigorous development of the attempts that are already being made, in garden cities, garden suburbs, and... ...ndshaking reduced to a minimum. It was, one felt, an accidental phase. The assassination of McKinley was an interruption of the normal Washington proc...

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...ern them; a people who are revolted by an execution, but not shocked at an assassination—require that the public authorities should be armed with much... ...hensive spirit, have felt the importance of such a classification, but the attempts which have been made toward it are as yet limited, so far as I am ... ...asses to themselves. They once had that intention; witness the persevering attempts so long made to keep down wages by law. But in the present day, th... ...it ting to oppression. The king’s interest lay in encouraging all partial attempts on the part of the serfs to emancipate them selves from their mas... ...s its control over every thing will be more perfect the less it personally attempts to do. The commander of an army could not direct its move ments e... ...e difficulties are sure to be ignored by a repre sentative assembly which attempts to decide on special acts of administration. At its best, it is in...

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...away. I’m go- ing to have this out with you. Sit down: d’y’ hear? [Bentley attempts to go with dignity. Johnny slings him into a chair at the writing ... ... one of us makes an example of one of you. TARLETON. Despotism tempered by assassination, eh? THE MAN. Yes. Thats what they do in Russia. Well, a busi...

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...too, he was at last obliged to yield to superior force. After several vain attempts in Holland and England to ob- tain means for his restoration, he r... ...rty Y ears’ War threatened to assault the imperial commissar- ies, and all attempts at an amicable adjustment were frustrated by the fanaticism of the... ...e two professions, in order to facilitate a political union; but all these attempts failed, and generally ended in both parties adhering the more stro... ... the Span- ish Netherlands, was at the same time agreed upon. During these attempts to draw all the Roman Catholic powers into the League, every exer-... ... forth un- der his unfortunate son, and forced him, after some unimportant attempts, to renounce all further participation in the German war, in or- d... ...emory his biographer has to clear from the suspicion of being privy to the assassination of a king. It was scarcely to be expected, that the strong le...

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... not then anticipating that I could ever feel any curiosity about my first attempts at writing and reasoning. My father encour aged me in this useful... ...sposed than at any other period since the Peace, to let itself be moved by attempts to work up the Reform feeling into fresh activity in favour of new... .... They graduated from coarse jokes, verbal and pictorial, up to threats of assassination. Among other matters of importance in which I took an active ... ... by a foreign Govern ment with acts which are necessarily incident to all attempts at insurrection, would have been surrendered to be dealt with by t...

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...of his son to forsake its natu- ral bent. He fared like the school-boy who attempts to stop with his finger the spout of a water cistern, while the st... ...sition, in which my actors should do more, and say less, than in my former attempts of this kind. Dick gave me a patronising and approving nod, and ob... ...ht the fear of the Lord Keeper. The desperate and dark resource of private assassination, so familiar to a Scottish baron in former times, had even in... ...A.” This letter filled Ravenswood with the most lively alarm. He made many attempts, notwithstanding her prohibition, to convey letters to Miss Ashton... ...n, and when the circumstance was pointed out, seemed unable, after several attempts, to dip it in the massive silver ink-standish, which stood full be...

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..., and up- holder of a great cause, should have stooped to such baseness of assassination and treasons as are proved by the unfortunate King James’s ow... ...ld with difficulty keep a serene countenance; and having made some foolish attempts at trivial talk, he came to his point presently, and in as easy a ...