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...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...nocents in the process. More than 100,000 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London... ...lationships. This was also manifested during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. British intelligence and part of the Pakistani intelligence comm... ...these facts that Abdullah Gul, Turkey's prime minister, embarked on a tour of Arab capitals in January. Simultaneously, the Turkish Trade Minister,...

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...She walked proudly beside Jake at functions across Canada and in the great capitals of the world, beautifully coifed and attired, confident and secure... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...upplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the British; for wherever there is a sound of ... ... “newly-formed place” in Australia, where the AL- BATROSS was lying, and a British ship, which he knew to be a man-of-war “because the officers were n... ...e contrast, it is necessary that I should give some description of the two capitals, or the two camps, and the ways and means of the regular and irreg...

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...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ... and more than they had omitted. It was a strangely embarrassing thing for British journal- ism. Never was there a more obvious or uninteresting affai... ...ations were in progress for the acquisition of this precious secret by the British Gov- ernment were in danger of falling through. The London Daily Re... ...’s limitless. It’s the last confusion. They’re bombard- 155 H G Wells ing capitals, smashing up dockyards and factories, mines and fleets.” “Did they... ... pestilence had done nothing to damage these, and it was only to the great capitals and ganglionic centres, as it were, of this State, that positive d...

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...netrating and none too flattering portraits of church dignitaries upon the capitals, and when he strolled, with his hands behind his back, along the c... ... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout...

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... any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet c... ...h and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British 85 Little Dorrit – Book Two subject to be ingenious at his peril: ... ...spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded... ...es Dickens of Mr Dorrit almost constituted a run on the Torlonia Bank. The British Consul hadn’t had such a marriage in the whole of his Consularity. ... ...ompany too; and soon, with their coach load of luxuries from the two great capitals of Europe, they were (like the Goths reversed) beating at the gate...

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... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two si... ... the advance of Western Civilization. Most of us learned to write with capitals, spaces, ascenders, and descenders. We were never told that the a... ...m the North We now step back in time and then jump over in space to the British Isles to view the evolution of an Information Technology—a special... ...ved better than they would again until the twentieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central ...

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...al ideas in the last 100 years. As you know he said that we all have inferiority complexes. Not long ago Prince Charles, then the heir to the Britis... ...rms. Physical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime Britis... ...r on terrorism. Young Muslims were twice as likely to hold this view than older Muslims. Eighty percent saw themselves as Muslims first and Britis... ... saw themselves as Muslims first and British second. This is a higher percentage than is found in Muslim countries like Jordan and Egypt. The Britis... ... make that conservative religious government reactionary. Some Muslims in the UK want to initiate sharia law for the country—at least for the Britis... ...common in the upper classes. In every society there will be inequalities in the various kinds of capital a person possesses. He listed other capita...

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...e is at this very time (1854), and has been for twenty years, passing over British society. Multitudes of per- sons are becoming ashamed of saying, ‘m... ...dle out; put it out directly; we shall all be burned in our beds.’ Had the British party in the room been awake, Mr. Williams would have roused a muti... ...he seventeenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they ... ... his avenging dagger. These sort of people were not the sort to frighten a British Ministry. One laughs at the probable conversation between an old hu... ...phocles was judi- ciously chosen as the particular medium for conveying to British minds a first impression, and a representative im- 105 Thomas de Q... ... Quincey deur of England, the great deserts of Asia and America,— the vast capitals of Europe,—London with its eternal agita- tions, the ceaseless ebb...

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...l find excellently described in the letters published by Mr. Ellis, of the British Museum,) 17 of Gustavus Adolphus, and of Wallenstein. The King of ... ...lse it must go undone. The better men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy , every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? Or a lunatic hospital? Or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh, no; I’ll tell you what to do. ... ...riage that might pass. Accordingly he tossed it in so folded that the huge capitals expressing some such legend as—GLORI- OUS VICTORY, might catch the... ... the daily relief of dinner, the brain of all men who mix in the strife of capitals would be unhinged and thrown off its centre. If we should suppose ...

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...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...homestead, is our ample resource. Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. In... ...or your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 243 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol... ...till the ratification of peace should be regularly announced, or until the British should have left the southern coast. A day or two more elapsed, the... ...ront each other across a small river, substantially midway between the two capitals, each defending its own capital, and menacing the other. General M...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...“House;” he is offi- cially brought into connection with all orders of the British aristocracy—often with royal personages; and with the younger branc... ...aven prevent!—the German tenure of professorships were substituted for our British one: that is, if for independent and liberal teachers were substitu... ...der the first impulse of encouragement from the state; whilst in the great capitals of Rome and Alexandria, where the Jews were hated and neutralized ... ...se, those which were highest at the mo- ment, they sometimes doubled their capitals in two voyages; and seven or eight such trips in a year were not a... ...ostly marbles, and splendidly furnished—might pass for palaces even in the capitals of Italy. Before the revolu- tion, poverty was unknown; all classe...

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...e pangs which Nature calls upon mothers to endure. As was the necessity of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northe... ...ration gave violent offense to the North, and has been taken as indicating British sympathy with the cause of the seceders. I am not going to explain—... ...should be defined. Reticence in the matter was not within the power of the British government. It behooved the Foreign Secretary of State to declare o... ...Hall, but would, I should think, make a very good House of Commons for the British nation. Fancy the feelings of a lady when she walks into such a roo... ...r. The assigned reason is the centrical position of the selected political capitals; but I have generally found the real commercial capital to be easi... ...olonial House of Assembly may wish, but in accordance with the will of the British Commons. Both the houses in Canada—that, namely, of the Representa-... ...fore, is the commercial capital of the two Provinces. This question of the capitals is at the present moment a subject of great interest in Canada; bu... ...at an end. While the two provinces were divided there were, of course, two capitals, and two seats of government. These were at Quebec for Lower Canad... ...he State but commerce submits to no such Procrustean laws in selecting her capitals and consequently she has placed Detroit on the borders of Michigan...

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...d ven- eration at least as high as we accord to John the Baptist. But this British bulldog contempt is founded on a complete mis- conception of his re... ...ed (including by anticipation practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places)... ...who knows the figures of the distribu- tion defends them. The most bigoted British Conservative hesitates to say that his king should be much poorer t... ...t is forgotten as completely as the fear of wolves already is in civilized capitals, we shall never have a decent social life. Indeed the whole attrac... ...f Eden. It was as if a preacher of our own time had described as typically British Frankenstein’s monster, and called him Smith, and some- body, on de... ...d declared that the French State has no specific religion. Neither has the British State, though it does not say so. No doubt there are many innocent ...

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...ary schoolmasters to qualify themselves in the art of self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national estimate of them by allowing us... ...Wellington complained that it was impossible to get an order obeyed in the British army except in two or three crack regiments. Such frantic excesses ... ...ings of this are already percep- tible. There is a movement for making our British children into priggish little barefooted vagabonds, all talking lik... ...na. The cultivated Jewess no longer cuts off her hair at her marriage. The British matron has discarded her cap and her conscientious ugliness; and a ... ...e concert or opera gives them leave to go home; and you will have in great capitals hundreds of thousands of pounds spent every night in the season on...

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...s influenced public opinion; but those who imagine that it could influence British governments little know how remote from public opinion and how full... ...m public opinion and how full of their own little family and party affairs British governments, both Liberal and Unionist, still are. The censorship s... ... the Governor-General of India would hardly care to see performed in their capitals just now. It is an artistic treasure; but it glorifies a murder wh...

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...n July they found four or five urns of unbaked clay in one barrow—of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones... ... of the maniples; but alas! on being sent, in 1891, to be inspected at the British Museum, it was pronounced to be one of a cinquecento series of the ... ... side next the nave, but on the other side slender shafts with bell-shaped capitals, carved with bold round mouldings and deep hollows. Two corbels su... ...xt year, only the tower being left of the former edifice. In 1808 some few capitals of the old pillars remained in parts of the village, and were adju...

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...hen I got back I were laid hands on by these here bobbies, contrary to the British constitooshun, and if your ladyship will kindly go to where that co... ... it; or as if a master mariner, knowing that many ships are wrecked in the British channel, should venture there with- out a pilot, thinking that he k... ...Canadian government for nothing, thought it would be a good idea to settle British workmen on it and screw rent out of them. Plenty of British workmen... ...e side by four tall windows, between which square pillars, with Corinthian capitals supporting the cor- nice, were half sunk in the wall. There were s... ...of modern civilization in Germany, for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty,... ...bargee on the Lyvern Canal. The other is one of the senior noblemen of the British Peerage. They il- lustrate the fact that Nature, even when perverte...

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...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ...tural recognition of witchcraft as a Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated. She, by her eye, blighted the natural powers of gro... ... five millions of square miles, or forty-five times the surface of our two British islands—such was the bound- less domain which this extraordinary ac... ... Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One transmitting to foreign capitals all books in the readiest and the cheapest fashion, by means of it... ...d view this panic as irrational: and amongst ourselves it would be so; for British free-masonry conceals nothing worse than it professes. But, on the ...

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...ding what they see as they look at the plutocratic societies of our modern capitals. First Scene Here, then, is the subject of the first scene of The ... ... must none the less fight for your life. It seems hardly possible that the British army at the battle of Waterloo did not include at least one English... ...ngle orchestral rehearsal, than by ten years reading in the Library of the British Mu- seum. Wagner must have learnt between Das Rheingold and the Kai...

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...ventional intercourse. Nasty! they are going into the church, too. Oh, the Britisher abroad!” “We sat opposite them at dinner last night. They have gi... ...rs. And let me give you all fair warning: I intend to be unmerciful to the British tourist.” “Oh, you wicked woman,” cried Miss Bartlett. “I am sure y... ...iss Lavish frowned. It is hard when a person you have classed as typically British speaks out of his character. He was not driving us well,” she said.... ... Flack replied that all the columns had been ordered, adding, “and all the capitals different—one with dragons in the foliage, another approaching to ... .... It’s much pleasanter. How wet it is! Let’s turn in here.” “Here” was the British Museum. Mrs. Honeychurch refused. If they must take shelter, let it...

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...ver, both the Capitol and Execu tive Mansion would be burned by an invading British gar rison, and the city thrown into a panic. ABOUT TO ADD THE... ...d death on maimed and defenseless captives. And, what was never before seen, British commanders have extorted victory over the unconquerable valor of ... ...ar to an honorable issue. Our nation is in number more than half that of the British Isles. It is composed of a brave, a free, a virtuous, and an inte... ...ore rapid devel opment, and, draining or diverting the precious metals from British circulation and British vaults, have poured them into those of th... ...n coun try, which find a market through those streams. By a treaty with the British Government, bearing date on the 20th of October, 1818, the conven... ... and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the State capitals and the national capital, is yours. Your every voter, as surely ...

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...o. Bringing my telescope to bear upon it, I plainly dis- cerned it to be a British ninety four-gun ship, close-hauled, and pitching heavily in the sea... ...! The subjoined jeu d’esprit with the preceding heading in magnificent capitals, well interspersed with notes of admira- tion, was originally publ... ...question by a voyage of some extent—the original design being to cross the British Channel, as before, in the Nassau balloon. To carry out his views, ... ...e velocity; and the converse. “As the original design was to cross the British Channel, and alight as near Paris as possible, the voyagers had tak... ...adily, with a light breeze at North, which bore us in the direction of the British Channel. Found the ascending force greater than we had expected; an...

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...courts and kings and lords and ladies he had seen when Buffalo Bill toured the capitals of Europe. In a corner, two half breeds, ancient comrades in a... ... answered, beginning to unlace his moccasins; “and it ’s not hard to guess the British blood in his bed partner. As for the rest, they’re all children... ...er born. My father was white — as white as you. But you are Yankee, and he was British bred, and a gentleman’s son. And my mother was the daughter of ... ... the ten score fighting tribes of Malaita. Mauki 353 More than his fear of the British government was Mauki’s fear of the all powerful Moongleam Soap ...

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...aphy deep and sub- lime. As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so ... ...ng them, they cannot die.” The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, “Those Who are free through...

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... had likewise its share of this coarseness. Think of the sculptures on the capitals and the modillions of churches, and the crude frankness of certain... ... the jobbernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their dance of the British jig called the estrindore, to a perfect diapason, with one foot in ...

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... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ... Committee on Foreign Affairs, which position is as near akin to that of a British minister in Parliament as can be attained under the existing Consti... ...vo- lution is indisputable. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hamp... ... cotton fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the British islands. Under such circumstances and with such a lesson, could it ... ...formally adopted by the people in conventions held in their separate State capitals. It was agreed to by the people in 1788, and came into operation i...

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..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ... idea miscarried: for by the simple process of spelling his deities with capitals the Hindu confiscates the definition and restricts it to his own s...

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...H-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA BARBARA?HIDE-DROGHING?HARBOR -- DUTIES?DISCONTENT?SAN PEDRO, 46 -- CHAPTER XV ? A FLOGGING?A NIGHT ON SHORE?THE STATE OF THINGS ON -- BOARD?SAN DIEGO, 52 -- CHAPTER XVI ? LIBERTY-DAY ...

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... the enemy had done to him. Very probably the Navy is the exception to the British sys- tem; its officers are rescued from the dull homes and dull sch... ...rn to speak French. Heaven alone knows what they do with their brains! The British reading and thinking public probably does not number fifty thousand... ...nited States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prosperous which winters either in the high Alps or along the Rivie... ...oyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the most stately of all recorded British Coronations is past. What new phase in the life of our nation and o... ...nt King exhorted this island to “wake up” in one of the most remarkable of British royal utterances, and Mr. Owen Seaman assures him in verse of an al... ...and the fact that they are so used will be emphasised by the employment of capitals. It will be possible for anyone to argue that what is here defined... ...lf audible to the new world, and crack- ing into italics and breaking into capitals with the strain. The rest of that enormous bale of paper is eloque...

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...her mind was duty above every other feeling!— so strong may it be in every British maiden!) the lovely girl kept her promise. “My former engagements,”... ...ver his head, and putting his arms a-kimbo, “we have learned that from the British, to whom we are superior in everything: and I’d have your Majesty t... ...essons. If your reglars jine General Washington, ’tis to larn from him how Britishers are licked; for I’m blest if yu know the way yet.” Tatua said, “... ...tershire have still many a legend of fear to tell; and the children of the British fishermen tremble even now when they speak of the terrible “Repudia... ...of our country, the chance of the combat might have been in fa- vor of the British vessels. It was not until the “Elector” blew up, at a quarter past ... ...her. “Miss Belinda Bulcher (whose name I beg the printer to place in large capitals.) “Mrs. Colonel V andegobbleschroy. 162 Thackeray “Mrs. Major Mac... ...to Europe, once more trample over her; march in triumph into her prostrate capitals, and bring her kings with her treasures at our feet. This is the l...

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...ith half a form of blank paper and a column of double pica emphasized with capitals, and headed HORRID MURDER OF MR. HIGGINBOTHAM! Among other dreadfu... ...ene which has never yet been satisfactorily explained. The officers of the British army, and the loyal gentry of the prov- ince, most of whom were col... ...lfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn at the sieg... ...n in- terview in the mock heroic style, between the rebel warriors and the British commander-in-chief, was received with im- mense applause, which cam... ...ment with gay and lightsome melodies. The man was drum-major to one of the British regiments. “Dighton,” demanded the general, “what means this fool- ... ...our Excellency order out the guard?” whispered Lord Percy, who, with other British officers, had now as- sembled round the General. “There may be a pl...

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...to the exaggerated employment of mirrors. We line our dwellings with great British plates, and then imagine we have done a fine thing. Now the slighte... ...y that we must look (if at all, in Appallachia), for the spirituality of a British boudoir. But we have seen apartments in the tenure of Ameri- cans o... ...re can be no question whatever, since he who runs may read it in the large capitals which form the title of the tale. I should have credit for this ar... ...ile it has strict connection with poetry in the abstract, and with the old British poems themselves, should not be looked upon as a merit ap- pertaini...

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...ne, of general distress. 5 It is right to observe that the measures of the British Legis- lature which have been falsely characterised as measures of ... ...ich it is conveniently situated, and must resort to another to which other capitals lie nearer, and where it is consequently outbid, and gains less; o...

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...rtholomew’s, procured for the Prince of Or- ange, the Admiral Coligny, the British Queen Elizabeth, and the Protestant princes of Ger- many, supplies ... ...ation of the Edict of Restitution, the withdrawal of his troops from their capitals and fortresses, the suspension of all existing proceedings, and th...

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...n Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my gran... ... or when the war began; they were both between the Federal and Confederate capitals. It is true, footholds had been se- cured by us on the sea-coast, ... ...ination of the war, but also because foreign governments, particularly the British Government, were constantly threatening that unless ours could main...