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...Excerpt: A girl came out of lawyer Royall?s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved amon...

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...ER Royall’s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike t... ...afternoon. The springlike trans- parent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding... ...archwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoul- ders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields an... ...ny slope below the wood, and the crowding shoots of meadowsweet and yellow flags in the pasture beyond. All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheat... ...ed reddening on the edge of her desk. But another kind of shyness had been born in her: a terror of exposing to vulgar perils the sacred treasure of h... ...ng up on the Mountain. Then I suppose others joined them—and children were born. Now they say there are over a hundred people up there. They seem to b... ...only living beings in the great hollow of earth and sky. Charity’s spirits flagged and disquieting thoughts stole back on her. Y oung Harney had grown... ... bunting. The ramshackle wooden hotels about the square were all hung with flags and paper lanterns, and as Harney and Charity 62 Summer turned into ... ...or Liff Hyatt, and get him to take her to her mother. She herself had been born as her own baby was going to be born; and whatever her mother’s subse-...

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...ore. The moon is at the full, and the night is fair with light clouds. The day has been otherwise than fair, for slush and mud, thick- ened with the d... ...ed to) lies ill, and I help his mother and sister to watch him. Don’t take on so, don’t take on so!” “O good Sally, dear Sally,” moans the lady, catch... ...w you turn my own words back upon me. I tell you I am going to be married, on purpose to make it clearer to you that I am going to leave, and therefor... ...to which they have strayed—an empty street without a thorough- fare giving on the dark gardens of the Hospital—the lady would drop in her passionate e... ...kely he can be in any dis- tress. The, lady who adopted him was a bred and born lady— it was easy to see that. And she must have satisfied them at the... ...nd Swiss schools for week-days, are all to be found there. Even the native-born English taverns drive a sort of broken-English trade; announcing in th... ...r I 32 No Thoroughfare love your country. If I could be English! But I am born. And you? Though descended from so fine a family, you have had the con... ... she saved his life. The bells ring gaily in the little town of Brieg, and flags are stretched across the street, and rifle shots are heard, and sound... ...amidst the ringing of the bells, the firing of the guns, the waving of the flags, the playing of the music, the shouts, the smiles, and tears, of the ...

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...ear rubbed in the lady’s complexion in his sonnets mercilessly; for in his day black hair was as unpopular as red hair was in the early days of Queen ... ...heory. Its parent and I had become ac- quainted; and he used to consult me on obscure passages in the sonnets, on which, as far as I can remember, I n... ...hrowing the faintest light, at a time when nobody else thought my opinion, on that or any other subject, of the slightest importance. I thought it wou... ...wn to his collar bone, and was very inadequately balanced by a smaller one on his right eyelid. Nature’s malice was so overdone in his case that it so... ...hereas I am convinced that he was very like myself: in fact, if I had been born in 1556 instead of in 1856, I should have taken to blank verse and giv... ..., as Mr Har- ris asserts, I cannot believe: she is quite as likely to have borne her son a grudge for becoming “one of these harlotry play- ers” and d... ...urgeois. No other class is infatuated enough to believe that gentlemen are born and not made by a very elaborate process of culture. Even kings are ta... ...rgot him- self, and jumps at the proposal of a fencing match to finish the day with. As against this view Mr Harris pleads Romeo, Orsino, and even Ant... ...man, who is unlucky enough to receive a righthanded blow, sprawling an the flags]. T ake that, both of you! THE CLOAKED LADY. [in towering wrath, thro...

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... 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, and created a false sympathy for the vicious and criminal....

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...on of ill-will towards the 5 Thackeray eighth commandment; though it may, on the one hand, be as- serted that only vain coxcombs would dare to write ... ...rite on sub- jects already described by men really and deservedly eminent; on the other hand, that these subjects have been described so fully, that n... ...ts have been described so fully, that nothing more can be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three hands to one f... ...most as much soldiering and recruiting, parading, pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we... ... In truth, it was almost a pity that worthy Brock had not been a gentleman born; in which case, doubtless, he would have lived and died as became his ... ...e, “from taking hold of you, as a surety for him?” “You wouldn’t fire on a flag of truce, would ye, you dishonourable ould civilian?” replied Mr. Macs... ...ety, and soon let them know the con- tempt he felt for them. After a third flagon of ale, he discov- ered that the liquor was sour, and emptied, with ... ...anything else, however your lot was cast; and blessed it was that you were born among the prigs,—for had you been of any other profession, alas! alas!... ... said he. “No, nor nobody else’s,” said Tom. Mr. Hayes only muttered “Base-born brat!” “His father was a gentleman,—that’s more than you ever were!” s...

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...in the Publication. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of t... ...Life of Ease and Pleasure. He told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortunes on the other, who went abroa... ...d, that Kings have frequently lamented the miserable Consequences of being born to great things, and wish’d they had been placed in the Middle of the ... ...y or Mind, as those were who, by vicious Living, Luxury and Extravagancies on one Hand, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insuffici... ...nd, or by hard labour, Want of Nec essaries, and mean or insufficient Diet on the other hand, bring Distempers upon themselves by the natural Conseque... ...ecipitate my self into Miseries which Nature and the Station of Life I was born in, seem’d to have provided against; that I was under no Necessity of ... ...oles in the Form of Rafters lean ing against the Rock, and load them with Flaggs and large Leaves of Trees like a Thatch. December 10th, I began now ... ...USOE lay upon the Beach of the Sea, with his Hands and his Feet ty’d, with Flags, or Things like Rushes; and that he was an European, and had Cloaths ... ...dead. While my Man Friday fir’d at them, I pull’d out my Knife, and cut the Flags that bound the poor Victim, and loosing his Hands, and Feet, I lifted...

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...st-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been w...

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...n pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency i... ...erican side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purpos... ...ve own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that they thought an attempt... ...t for the evil’s sake, but because some body had offered an insult to her flag? Or even if unforgotten, who would then have felt that such a grievanc... ... over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years ... ...ration from Virginia brought the matter to a close. Yet the tariff of that day was rigidly protective. Compared with that, the one in force at the tim... ...now, as we may know if we please, that this amounts to the same thing. The day when slavery can no longer extend itself, is the day of its doom. The s...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he ...

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...LLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Fra... ... (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chan dle... ...delphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denman’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a p... ...his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money making and politics to the end of his life. ... ...er inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in t... ...f the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business long... ...en Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and character ... ...nary, from its similarity to what you knew of mine. “Had he died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.” John was bred... ...he subscriptions afterwards were more free and gener ous; but, beginning to flag, I saw they would be insufficient without some assistance from the A...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of th...

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.............................. 83 CHAPTER XIII: A PENNY PLAIN AND TWOPENCE COLOURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS?S ............................................................ 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................................. 106 CHAPTER XVI: A HUMBLE...

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...OURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S ........................................................ ..................................................... 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................... ...OUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may we... ...s is not the way to be original! It is not; nor is there any way but to be born so. Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this train... ..., having hearkened with lowered tails and raised faces, would run up their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circui... ...tants. Once – I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in Montibus, indeed, but alas! Inerudito saeculo – once, in ... ..., when they leave off to speak of parlours and shades of manner and still- born niceties of motive, and begin to deal with fighting, sailoring, advent... ...with humorous or grave intention, and all the while, never hur- rying, nor flagging, nor taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given mome... ...ss what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.” He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune a...

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...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ... Pepys, he must nearly break his sitter’s neck to get the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his... ...an book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction... ...his episode at once) behaved well to Burns from first to last. Were heaven-born genius to revisit us in similar guise, I am not venturing too far when... ... still uncer- tain whether it were a charge of cavalry or a slow and stub- born advance of foot. There could be no such ambiguity in Burns; his work i... ...Whitman. The whole of Whitman’s work is deliberate and preconceived. A man born into a society comparatively new, full of conflicting elements and int... ... highly of our sublunary tapers. The universe is so large that imagination flags in the effort to conceive it; but here, in the meantime, is the world... ...ap- pointed, and the whole book will be no more to you than a particularly flagrant production by the Poet Close. A writer of this uncertain quality w...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from the pangs of outcaste-ness and untouchab...

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... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.... ... can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning ... ...Relational Maps 97 Chapter Three PERIYAR E.V.R ’s BIOGRAPHY AND VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY 3.1 Life and struggle of Periyar E.V.R 103 3.... ...s long ago established that girls are generally biologically stronger as new-borns than boys. The birth of a male child is a time for celebration, ... ...highs became the 46 Vaishyas and his feet became the Shudras. The moon was born from his mind; the sun was born from his eye.” The pity is t... ...tical party into a mass socio-cultural organization. The Dravidar Kazhagam flag was adopted in 1946. It was a black rectangular flag in the ratio... ...hese can be seen while eating or at other times. The Hindu Tamil Ian who was born and brought up in Tamil Nadu, and who has made Tamil Nadu his own... ...he Dravidar Kazhagam. As a symbol of that, wear the black shirt. Fly a black flag in your homes. Work for the Dravidian people. [Viduthalai, 20-8-... ...e government accepts Buddha’s philosophy. They have embossed in the national flag the chakra of Emperor Ashoka, who walked the path of Buddha. Does...

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...arch J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the... ...Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity bet... ...he transparencies, the sharp, short struggle between the two lower classes on the old campus, the speeches and the final burial of the enormous tin ha... ...d in the progress of their development in the art of painting. Raphael wos born in Urbino, Italy, a distinctly rural land, rolling in hills. He was fo... ...ntings reveal more and more a tendency toward the orti- ficial. Rembrandt, born in Leyden, Holland, was surrounded by dis- tinctly Dutch scenery. At f... ... city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was born in Boston on May 27, 1836 and graduated from WillianiB in the class of... ...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...luipliia, Haverford being only a few miles from that city. 1910 Wins First Flag Rush Immediately after the M. A. C. game on Saturday, a flag rush Ije-... ...a flag rush Ije- tween the lower classes was held on Weston Field. A white flag, on which were the sophomore nu- merals, was nailed to the flag pole n...

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...RANDACHE (editor) FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM Editura ALMAROM Râmnicu-Vâlcea, 2... ...ibliotecii Na ţionale SMARANDACHE, FLORENTIN FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM/ Florentin Smarandache – Râmnicu-Vâlcea, ALMAROM, 2004, ... ... SMARANDACHE (editor) FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM Editura ALMAROM Râmnicu-Vâlcea,... ... in derision, in opposite sense, in a syncretic way. Thus the paradoxism was born. Through paradoxist experiments one brings new literary, artistic... ...om future to past, he came out of his grave married, played in a cave, was born, and aborted at last. RÜCKWÄRTS Staub, Gerippe, heraus aus de... ...s ă mute pe acel NU! în lumea mondenităţii şi modernit ăţii, dup ă al doilea flagel mondial. Şi, astfel, teatrul modern european a intrat în consona... ...s fat woman know that the whole Universe is vibration and incantation? “Mad flag!” “Waggish mower!” “Bonjourists like tourists!” “Patriots like d... ...IVIRE LA CULTURA POSTMODERN Ă (fragmente) (...) Nu reiau contradic ţiile flagrante cu afirma ţiile anterioare. Vreau doar s ă subliniez c ă, în ... ... Then each point is every point – One is All. Haiku: The first ever to be born Has yet to be born. Haiku: “SELF-ATTRIBUTION” The Eternal Se...

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...of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation t...

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...viding public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that su... ...ago had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide str... ...had been fashioned into a fishing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string ... ... the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the day the old man's thoughts were on tomorrow: a day he feared, but knew had to come. As he stared int... ...ist firmly and tell him that his bloodline had begun long before the forest was born and that the spirit of his ancestors had The Soul Bearer :I c... ...owd gathered in their respective places. Cavalry sol­ diers stood around a Union flag that waved in the morning breeze, while a Union band played soo... ...ure that went far beyond the confines of the teepee. "I saw you before you were born. I saw your face in the night visions. You are the one chosen t... ... was a hot summer evening, and the air conditioned lobby was a welcome relief. Born and raised in the cool grey ofPuget Sound with its lush green m... ...utomated video equip­ ment hidden behind one-way mirrors, and microphones camou­ flaged in stained-glass Tiffany lamps. When everyone was in their pl...

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...hanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO –... ... surveys published last year - by the German Marshall Fund and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - largely supported Pew's findings. The mo... ...round the world embrace things American and, at the same time, decry U.S. influence on their societies. Similarly, pluralities in most of the nation... ...emocracy vastly superior to Islam? Superior, no. Different - of course. Having been born and raised in the West, I naturally prefer its standards to... ...rn and raised in the West, I naturally prefer its standards to Islam's. Had I been born in a Muslim country, I would have probably found the West a... ...e moviemakers got the locations all wrong: nine of ten serial killers worldwide are born and bred in the United States. Born Killers is an American ... ...reatly disappointed Germany - the unwavering sponsor of EU enlargement. Any further flagrant siding with the United States against the inner core of... ...mendations to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability. Disgusted by the flagrant squandering of scarce resources, the United States - wh... ... the Israelis. They also decry the way Israel manhandles the Palestinian uprising. Flag-burning demonstrations are common occurrences in Ankara and...

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... the version he most considered full and complete. While it was a commercial and critical failure during Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES...

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...d daring;                     But O heart! heart! heart!                          O the bleeding drops of red,                               Where on the deck my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and r...

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... To Foriegn Lands To a Historian To Thee Old Cause Eidólons For Him I Sing When I Read the Book Beginning My Studies Beginners To the States On Journeys through the States To a Certain Cantatrice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Th...

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...tched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A singular focus began... ...ords, only the rhythmic pulsing. He saw what he thought to be a smile forming on the face of the unworldly presence, his being filled with a soothin... ...e way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that ... ...of young Jesuit Priests from Venice. After that...” As Alfredo read off the day’s business, the Pontiff’s mind drifted off into the strange event ... ...the prelates how long the group would be visiting the Vatican. “Most of the day, Your Holiness,” he responded. “We’re giving them a complete tour,... ...any trouble.” Antonio relaxed, but only slightly. “Well, Holy Father, I was born in a small town just outside of Palermo...” Ah, Angelo Gallucci... ... agree to become part of this mission, the Angel of Death will visit his first-born." The words struck Antonio like lightening, sending shock waves ... ...lling these drugs are going to die. Except, in some cases, worse. Their first-born is going to die first." "What are you talking about?" Gallucci'... ...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and m...

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... -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held ...

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...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ... of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift fro... ...lso begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of th... ...at aquatic ape babies‘ long umbilical cords might have allowed them to be born underwater, swim to the surface, and grab on to the mother‘s hair. (H... ...fore the advent of literacy, the distance a man could ride a horse in one day marked the physical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will ... ...ndaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and gain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s fi... ...ode ponies. Temüjin, who would become the legendary Genghis Khan, was born in 1162 and grew up in a violent tribal world of murder, kidnapping, ... ...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no... ... was no businessman Johann Gensfleisch Zur Laden Zum Gutenberg 15 was born about 1400 in the archbishopric of Mainz, Germany, where his patricia...

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...gainst bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I ... ...e to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms whic... .... He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vul- ture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attract... ...nd lock her in there.” Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. 11 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER II I RESISTED ALL THE WAY: a n... ...s chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker’s men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary conse... ...d at hearing the French language. “The nurse is a foreigner, and Adela was born on the Con- tinent; and, I believe, never left it till within six mont... ...ng and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on to the flag. If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a ... ... the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad’s head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; ... ...th untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white ...

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...uction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emerge...

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...f-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: “It has long been... ...ple can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our re- public to a severe tes... ...e twin gulfs of immorality and inefficiency—the gulfs which always lie one on each side of the careers alike of man and of nation. It helps nothing to... ...fe. His was indeed a marvellous growth. The statesman or the military hero born and reared in a log cabin is a famil- iar figure in American history; ... ... of April, 1861, the first gun was fired in Charleston harbor on the Union flag upon Fort Sumter, the call was sounded, and the Northern people rushed... ...p, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final con- summat... ...ly decided, but not yet ended. Sherman was irresistibly carrying the Union flag through the South. Grant had his iron hand upon the ramparts of Richmo... ... we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan; to do all which may ach... ...my pen To make me own this hind—of princes peer, This rail-splitter—a true born king of men.” Fiction can furnish no match for the romance of his life...

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...tain David G . Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six command of the... ...endered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occa... ...ls engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the squadron commanded by Flag-officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Phi... ...ebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 1862. For their services and gallantry on those occasions I cordially rec- ommend that they should, by name, recei... ... passing in review. It occurs too frequently for me to have speeches ready on all occasions. As you have paid such a mark of respect to the chief magi... ...bruary, 1861. On the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter... ...ice of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any w... ...ur population could not expand as stated. Instead of receiving the foreign born as now, we should be compelled to send part of the na- tive born away.... ...y courts of justice. But what comparison, in numbers have such bands ever borne to the insurgent sym- pathizers even in many of the loyal States? Aga...

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...he American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warran... ...raries, so that very many statements, references, and citations, were made on the au- thority of my unassisted memory. Under such circumstances were m... ...as to points that would otherwise be open to misconstruction. 1. The paper on “Murder as one of the Fine Arts”* seemed to exact from me some account ... ...lishments, it was interesting to read of the two successive ladies who had borne that title one hundred and sixty years before, and whom no reader of ... ...fled, and most indignant it made her, because the little thing chose to be born at half-past nine P . M.; so that, by the time its *If I remember righ... ...s old acquaintances of my mother’s, both had visited The Farm before I was born; and about General Smith, in particular, there had survived amongst th... ...ad of sixty, being in fact three-score years and none, suddenly struck his flag, and found himself, in his privileged character of Armiger, need- ing ... ...have driven me to an in- stant call for more money—a measure which, as too flagrantly in contradiction to the whole terms on which I had volun- teered... ...remem- ber. “Will they transact with God?” This is the passage; and a most flagrant instance it offers of pure Latinism. Transigere, in the language o...

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...ated, but it was neither speculative nor experimental as to the principles on which it 4 Democracy in America was based. If they were true principles... ... have slumbered in the minds of the people until they were suddenly forced on our attention by unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, M. De T... ...erica,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predil... ...ly dis- covered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opi... ...n describing made such rapid progress as in France; but it has always been borne on by chance. The heads of the State have never had any forethought f... ...nothing. This might ex- plain the destinies of certain nations, which seem borne on by an unknown force to ends of which they themselves are ignorant.... ...om the sovereign permis- sion to obtain redress, they refused to credit so flagrant an abuse, and were tempted to accuse me of falsehood or of ignoran... ...y the pres- ence of a common danger, witnessed the outrages offered to its flag by the great nations of Europe, whilst it was scarcely able to maintai... ...he com- merce of the world; and as it possesses the keys of the globe, its flags is respected in the most remote seas. The Union is as happy and as fr...

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...t such points, for example, as the reference to authorities in the chapter on the biological problem, and to books in the educational chapter, the lac... ...THE NEW REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC TOLERATION TO-DAY is becoming a different thing from the toleration of former times. The ... ...pment of his views may be typical of the sort of development that has gone on to a greater or lesser extent in the minds of many of the younger men du... ...constitutes sin. But upon a thousand questions of great public importance, on the question of forms of government, of social and edu- cational necessi... ...ntitative advance due to its influence made by each generation of citizens born under its influence towards a higher and ampler standard of life. Or p... ... TH SUPPL TH SUPPLY Y Y Y Y WITHIN THE LAST MINUTE seven new citizens were born into that great English-speaking community which is scattered under va... ...nto that great English-speaking community which is scattered under various flags and governments throughout the world. And according to the line of th... ...lls by its contribution to that result, by the improvement of the children born, or by the improve- ment in the quality of births attained under its i... ...training in simple unifying political conceptions; the salu- tation of the flag, for example, or of the idealized effigies of King and Queen. The qual...

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...ity of Washington was chosen with three special views: firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea... ...s we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its center.... ...e in speak- ing of the capital of the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great and thriving city. No man can so orda... ... the Northern volunteer army, and on entering Alexandria found a secession flag flying at the chief hotel. Instead of sending up a corporal’s guard to... ...t of favor as has been done before 44 North America V ol. 2 by many a new-born baby. If Congress could amuse itself with a few set speeches, and a fi... ... future inconvenience, would be an edict enfranchising all female children born after a certain date, and all their children. Under such an arrangemen... ...ndifference to ap- pearances is there a matter of pride. A foul shirt is a flag of triumph. A craving for soap and water is as the wail of the weak an... ...ll come there, and grow old before their time; and sickly children will be born, struggling up with wan faces to their sad life’s la- bor. But the wor... ...on their way to Washington; and in February, 1862, they were nailing Union flags on the door-posts of those who re- fused to display such banners as s...

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...nson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, ...

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... of the scholar amid the elegant comfort of Buckingham House. He is intent on his book before the fire. Then the approach of the King, lighted on his ... ... in its kind is the Life of Johnson. Here is the instance of a man who was born into a life stripped of all orna- ment and artificiality. His equipmen... ...anionship with a great and friendly man. The Life of Johnson is not a book on first ac- quaintance to be read through from the first page to the end. ... ...le. I am fully aware of the objections which may be made to the minuteness on some occasions of my detail of Johnson’s conversation, and how happily i... ...e more pleasure does there arise to a benevolent mind. SAMUEL J OHNSON WAS born at Lichfield, in Staffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. S., 1709;... ...ried, and never had more than two children, both sons; Samuel, their first born, who lived to be the illustrious character whose various excellence I ... ...al: 257 Boswell’s Life of Johnson “In Corum atque Eurum solitus saevire flagellis Barbarus, Aeolia nunquam hoc in carcere passos, Ipsum compedibus ... ...ver play on any musical instrument?’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I never made out a tune.’ Boswell. ‘A flagelet, Sir!—so small... ...tune, but it has not the same tone. Homer plays it on a bassoon; Pope on a flagelet.’ HARRIS. ‘I think Heroick poetry is best in blank verse; yet it a...

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...ming events? about which Butler wrote you, I had not heard one word before I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do ?events? of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and a...

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...I got your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. ... ...ch a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come ... ...day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses,... ...ocos (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Texas, and the Virginia elec- tors. They are growing sick of the Tariff ... ... opened in every precinct, and that the whole shall take place on the same day, I do not personally object. They seem to me to be not unfair; and I fo... ...ng done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected. We have another boy, born the 10th of March. He is very much such a child as Bob was at his age,... ...r now owned by any person or persons now resident within it, nor hereafter born within it, shall ever be held in slavery within said District. Sec. 2.... ... owned by any person or persons now resident within the same, or hereafter born within it, shall ever be held in sla- very without the limits of said ... ...de and boast shall endure—we will be loyal to the Constitution and to the “flag of our Union,” and no matter what our grievance—even though Kansas sha...

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...g many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreas...

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...ion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling...

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...ind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody’s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling... ... Merdle’s Complaint 34. A Shoal of Barnacles 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE... ... could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unrea- sonable to suppose t... ...it of himself. I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name o... ...on de V aud. My mother was French by blood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he st... ...don’t you? Y es. That’s right! And to think of a sweet little cherub being born inside the lock! Now ain’t it pretty, ain’t that something to carry yo... ... sticking to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British... ...llegians were brightened up as much as circumstances allowed. Two or three flags were even displayed, and the children put on odds and ends of ribbon.... ...d. When people who had nothing to do with the case were so sensible of its flagrancy, people who lost money by it could scarcely be expected to deal m...

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...g many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreas...

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...ion 24. Fortune-Telling 25. Conspirators and Others 26. Nobody?s State of Mind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody?s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling...

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...ind 27. Five-and-Twenty 28. Nobody’s Disappearance 29. Mrs Flintwinch goes on Dreaming 30. The Word of a Gentleman 31. Spirit 32. More Fortune-Telling... ... Merdle’s Complaint 34. A Shoal of Barnacles 35. What was behind Mr Pancks on Little Dorrit’s Hand 36. The Marshalsea becomes an Orphan PREFACE TO THE... ... could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unrea- sonable to suppose t... ...it of himself. I pointed to the window of the room where Little Dorrit was born, and where her father lived so long, and asked him what was the name o... ... 1 Sun and Shadow THIRTY YEARS AGO, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southe... ...on de V aud. My mother was French by blood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he st... ...don’t you? Y es. That’s right! And to think of a sweet little cherub being born inside the lock! Now ain’t it pretty, ain’t that something to carry yo... ... sticking to that post was a Barnacle. No intrepid navigator could plant a flag-staff upon any spot of earth, and take possession of it in the British... ...llegians were brightened up as much as circumstances allowed. Two or three flags were even displayed, and the children put on odds and ends of ribbon....

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...rs that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their after-fates described, but their mi... ...ve satisfaction in feeling and depicting the full pathos of a tragedy, and on the other hand they delight in their own mirth, and fully share it with ... ...esitating decision of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. The... ...ere what was once dis- tant has become near at hand, the earnest of many a day- dream has been gained, and more than one ideal has been tried, and mer... ...e million?” “And a horrid, nasty million it would be,” retorted Anna. “You born Yankee! Don’t worry Aunt Cherry about profan- ing the Ewe, just to spo... ...ld laughed, and sauntered away. He was not Yankee, except that he had been born at Boston. His father was En- glish, his mother a Hungarian singer, wh... ...ram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible Neme... .... “Yes,” said Lance; “these young things are apt to tear our old traps and flags to pieces. By the bye, who is this Captain Armytage, who happily will... ...hite sails of yachts and pleasure-boats, with brilliant festoons of little flags, and here and there the feather of steam from a launch. He could look...

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...r Dostoevsky T ranslated by Constance Garnett. PART I CHAPTER I LAST YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I ... ...YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one ... ... cough. Ever since the au- tumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In... ...d hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other p... ...very ill. Something like a fever set in. Moreover, I had been all day long on my legs and was tired. T owards evening, just before it got dark, I was ... ...at the beginning, though my autobiogra- phy won’t be a long one, I was not born here but far away in a remote province. It must be assumed that my par... ...eminded Natasha of the first lines: “ Alphonso, the hero of my story , was born in Portugal; Don Ramiro his father,” and so on, I almost shed tears. T... ...r. After the first year of marriage, he left his wife, who had mean- while borne him a son, at Moscow, in charge of her father, the contractor, and we... ...ly twinkling in the damp mist, to the dirty houses, to the wet and shining flags of the pavement, to the cross, sullen, drenched figures that passed b...

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...his life. That was, notwithstanding his gusty libido. Needless to say, it reveals a rare strength of character and a great ability for self-sacrifice born out of a strong personal conviction. And, for all that, it might have been for a purpose. But, whatever it was, that served him well in sustaining his creed in spite of odds. The very fact that in his otherwise well re...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and throbbings. Then in elfin tones the r...

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...ce that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in conne... ...ically driven road vehicle possible, the motor-car set an enormous premium on the development of very light, very efficient en- gines, and at last the... ... try, was going meticulously at four miles an hour behind a man with a red flag. Over there, where the prosperous classes have some regard for educati... ...make good by fussing and demanding eight, and saying we won’t wait, and so on, and then subsiding into indolence again. They are just the first-fruits... ...franchised Uitlanders. Every country finds a grow- ing section of its home-born people either living largely abroad, drawing the bulk of their income ... ...icial, and all the rest of it. As reasonable to complain that the children born last year were immature. A little army of teachers does not flash into... ...ing enemy or other. The burthen upon Bumble’s shoulders is too heavy to be borne, and we want the contemporary novel to give us a score of other figur... ... sort of radiation convivial. We drink limitless old October from handsome flagons, and we argue mightily about Pride (his weak point) and the nature ... ...s against association with any human being who sings any song but the “Red Flag” and doubts whether Marx had much experience of affairs. Well, there i...

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......................................................................... 125 ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.................................................... ......................................................................... 126 ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, ................................................. ...................................................... 133 EPIGRAM, ENGRA VED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 134 THE TRANSLAT... ..., more everything, 140 Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heaven’s influence scarce can penetrate: In life’s low vale, the... ...our days, 180 Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate’er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like hi... ...e loves; He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, And, harder still! flagitious, yet not great. Ask you why Wharton broke through every rule ’T ... ... the avarice Were means, not ends; ambition was the vice. That very Cæsar, born in Scipio’s days, Had aim’d, like him, by chastity at praise. Lucullus... ...ilst these exalt their sceptres o’er my urn: These sons, ye gods! who with flagitious pride Insult my darkness and my groans deride. Art thou a father... ...er confessors endure. Earless on high, stood unabash’d Defoe, And T utchin flagrant from the scourge below. 312 There Ridpath, Roper, 313 cudgell’d m...

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...y Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wor... ...Physi- cian; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM Containing PARTICULAR DIRECTIONS FO... ...Y DELIVERY. APPROVED DIRECTIONS FOR NURSES. PART I.—BOOK I THE MASTERPIECE On marriage and at what age young men and virgins are capable of it: and wh... ...the procreating matter in- creases till 45, 50, and 55, and then begins to flag; the seed, by degrees, becoming unfruitful, the natural spirits being ... ...ce of imagination, bring forth a child with a hairy lip. Some children are born with flat noses and wry 10 The Works of Aristotle mouths, great blubb... ...er child in the womb with the purest blood; then her love towards it newly born, and its likeness, do clearly show that the woman affords seed, and co... ...wenty-fourth day after conception; especially for males, who are generally born at the end of nine months; but in females, who are not so soon formed ... ...ke myrtle berries, which are full and plump in virgins, but hang loose and flag in women; and these are placed in the four angles of the sinus pudoris... ...tive Pill. coch. or Agaric; make nasalia of sage, or hyssop juice, betony, flagella, with one drop of oil of Elect. Dianth. Rosat. Diambrae, diamosci ...

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...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our religion. The ...

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...actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the big- oted successor of Charles the Voluptu... ...ded property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by restrictions on the press; and, finally, disaffection over- awed by the first band of me... ...fection over- awed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submissio... ..., and deeper ones, seemed to concur in suppos- ing that the lady must have borne no inactive part in arrang- ing the affair; there were considerations... ...l his parishioners, who were of ma- ture age when he was settled, had been borne away by many a funeral: he had one congregation in the church, and a ... ...prepared the little bed, from which her own children had successively been borne to another rest- ing-place. Before Ilbrahim would consent to occupy i... ...his sway . This conquerer had a symbol of his triumphs. It was a blood-red flag, that fluttered in the tainted air, over the door of every dwelling in... ...age and despair took the semblance of grinning mirth; and whenever the red flag of the pestilence was hoisted over another and yet another door, they ... ...mbing one of the pillars by means of the iron balustrade, he took down the flag and entered the mansion, waving it above his head. At the foot of the ...

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... their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in soci- ety, and they accept what each day bring... ...emselves born into a certain place in soci- ety, and they accept what each day brings forth, without any effort of thought beyond what the immediate p... ...ent years, and thence to the Syndicalist revolt against Socialist emphasis on the State and political action, and to certain movements outside France ... ... and would not survive more than a year or two at most if it were adopted. On the other hand, both Marxian Socialism and Syndicalism, in spite of many... ...zen: an attitude as true as his, perhaps also as untrue, but equally based on facts, facts concerning his relations to his enemies instead of to his f... ...ssary to know something of the influences which formed his outlook. He was born in 1818 at Treves in the Rhine Provinces, his father being a legal off... ...ury that ten or twelve years before, their labor only lasted eight hours a day. During the last five or six years it had been screwed up to 14, 18, an... ...ticism of these theories will be reserved for Part II.] Michel Bakunin was born in 1814 of a Russian aristocratic family. His father was a diplomatist... ...ught to believe that the General Strike is a mere myth, their energy would flag, and their whole outlook would become disillusioned. It is the actual,...

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...in the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...sity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university . ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER ON LIBER TY TY TY TY TY By JOHN STUAR... ...easure of the governed, and whose supremacy men did not venture, perhaps did On Liberty — Mill 3 not desire, to contest, whatever precautions might ... ...hough the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the T udors, there is little danger of its b... ...ay rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty at tainable by a fallible being, an... ...ties and public opinion of his time, there took place a memorable collision. Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness, this man ha... ...g, honestly found him guilty, and condemned the man who probably of all then born had deserved best of man kind, to be put to death as a criminal. To... ...those who now shudder at his conduct, if they had lived in his time and been born Jews, would have acted precisely as he did. Ortho dox Christians wh... ...When either of these results has become apparent, controversy on the subject flags, and gradually dies away . The doctrine has taken its place, if not...

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...n that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the elde... ...g in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James ... ...John Stuart Mill negligently; never undertook any task, literary or other, on which he did not conscientiously bestow all the labour nec essary for p... ...our nec essary for performing it adequately. But he, with these bur dens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India ; and this ... ...e added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of ... ... I was a more frequent visitor (from about 1817 or 1818) to Mr. Hume, who, born in the same part of Scotland as my father, and having been, I rather t... ...ntly in so insignificant and hopeless a minority everywhere in Europe, had borne all before them in France thirty years earlier, and had been the cree... ...pted by the supposed necessity of apologiz ing to foreigners for the most flagrant of all possible viola tions of the free principles of their Const... ...from the ballot I dissented entirely; and I could not consent to hoist the flag of manhood suffrage, even on the assurance that the exclusion of women...

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...r 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadap...

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... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...4 Management 353 12. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY 361 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organiza... ...d Salem al Hazmi. 11 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed were flagged by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny b... ... proved costly to Bin Ladin in other ways. Jamal Ahmed al Fadl, a Sudanese-born Arab, had spent time in the United States and had been recruited for t... ...ncern about sabotage and explo- sives on aircraft.The Gore Commission also flagged, as a new danger, the pos- sibility of attack by surface-to-air mis... ...could expect a very long wait for initial clearance.Anyone who was foreign-born or had numerous relatives abroad was well-advised not even to apply.Wi... ...Cohen that the station focus on this one individual. Cohen agreed.Thus was born the Bin Ladin unit. 2 In May 1996, Bin Ladin left Sudan for Afghanista... ...refinement of KSM’s old Manila air plot.The oper- atives would hijack U.S.-flagged commercial planes flying Pacific routes across East Asia and destro...