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.... This is a tangible and olfactory phantasm masterfully created by the Matrix. Its computing power is mind boggling. It generates the minutest deta... ...liff in an unsuccessful bid to reach the peak? Should a robot refuse to obey human commands pertaining to the crossing of busy roads or to driving ... ...the Asimov Laws would give us the following "truth table": A robot must obey human commands except if: 1. Obeying them is likely to cause injury to... ...ne itself, though abstract, has many "real world" features. It is a blueprint for a computing device with one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memor... ...he "body" is the mind! Next follow the "functional instructions" ("How to" type of commands): how to see, how to place visuals in context, how to h... ...text, how to hear, how to collate and correlate sensory input and so on. Yet, these commands should not be confused with the "real thing", the "fina...

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...t on a chip doubles every 18 months. As a result of this miniaturization, computing power quadruples every 18 months and an exponential series ensue... ...mputers to a network - we get an increase of N to the second power in its computing processing power. And these N computers are more powerful every ... ...ers are more powerful every year, according to Moore's Law. The growth of computing powers in networks is a multiple of the effects of the two laws.... ...the effects of the two laws. More and more computers with ever increasing computing power get connected and create an exponential 16 times growth in ... ... get connected and create an exponential 16 times growth in the network's computing power every 18 months. 2. Content related Fees This was ... ... interfaces require specific knowledge and specific sequences of specific commands). Even the most "user-friendly" interface is way too complicated ... ...infantilism and amateurism of it all. Taming your computer by lashing DOS commands at it was still the thing to do. But, gradually, we were all conv... ...ccessful bid to reach the peak? Should a robot abstain from obeying human commands pertaining to crossing busy roads or driving sports cars? Which l...

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... - super-poems; 6 - graphic poems; - upset-poems.] 3. “Dictionary of Computing”, by Denis Howe. A well-documented and large dictionary, dealing... ...ing with terms needed in Computer Science, The Free Online Dictionary of Computing, is edited by Denis Howe from England <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>. With h... ...ics. References: [1] Howe, Denis, editor, “The Free Online Dictionary of Computing”, http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/. [2] Le, Charles, “pARadOXisM – th... ...ons (which bear truth-values) and practitions (which content imperatives, commands, requests). The deontic operators in this case are: Oi = it is ob... ...ry, Probability, and Logic. Some of them are listed in the Dictionary of Computing [2]. Further development of these definitions (including proper... ...ed Logic Journal, 2001 (to appear). 2. Denis Howe, On-Line Dictionary of Computing, http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/ 3. Charles Le, Preamble to ...

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...e this "downward stickiness" in present-day inflation measures. The methodology of computing inflation obscures many of the "quantum effects" in th... ...rise to all forms of advances - from math-rich derivatives contracts to distributed computing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of... ...ion technology has matured - but new S-curves are nascent: nanotechnology, quantum computing, proteomics, neuro- silicates, and machine intelligence... ...on of technology and its new race of techno-economic engineers and their financial computing. Its also necessary to delineate some aspects of this... ...he financial realm with its new instruments and techniques which include financial computing, special contracts "over the counter" of great complex... ...ng at the infantilism and amateurism of it all. Taming your computer by lashing DOS commands at it was still the thing to do. But, gradually, we wer... ...in an unsuccessful bid to reach the peak? Should a robot abstain from obeying human commands pertaining to crossing busy roads or driving sports car...

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... be further enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in mach... ...o insulated from data (i.e., from amino acids and other life substances). In early computing, databases were handled on a "listing" basis ("flat fi... ...plistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield the most complex results. Where does the ... ...lity increases, wireless access to data is made available anywhere and everywhere, computing becomes ubiquitous, the distinction between work and l... ...rise to all forms of advances - from math-rich derivatives contracts to distributed computing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of... ...liff in an unsuccessful bid to reach the peak? Should a robot refuse to obey human commands pertaining to the crossing of busy roads or to driving ... ...the Asimov Laws would give us the following "truth table": A robot must obey human commands except if: 1. Obeying them is likely to cause injury to... ...y) by such a compiler. Next follow the "functional instructions" ("How to" type of commands): how to see, how to place visuals in context, how to h... ...text, how to hear, how to collate and correlate sensory input and so on. Yet, these commands should not be confused with the "real thing", the "fina...

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... be further enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in mach... ...o insulated from data (i.e., from amino acids and other life substances). In early computing, databases were handled on a "listing" basis ("flat fi... ...plistic view, indeed. Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yield the most complex results. Where does the ... ...lity increases, wireless access to data is made available anywhere and everywhere, computing becomes ubiquitous, the distinction between work and l... ...rise to all forms of advances - from math-rich derivatives contracts to distributed computing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of... ...liff in an unsuccessful bid to reach the peak? Should a robot refuse to obey human commands pertaining to the crossing of busy roads or to driving ... ...the Asimov Laws would give us the following "truth table": A robot must obey human commands except if: 1. Obeying them is likely to cause injury to... ...y) by such a compiler. Next follow the "functional instructions" ("How to" type of commands): how to see, how to place visuals in context, how to h... ...text, how to hear, how to collate and correlate sensory input and so on. Yet, these commands should not be confused with the "real thing", the "fina...

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...hat the person selfishly thinks are good for him, what he thinks that God commands or what he thinks is best for the society he wants to live in. So... ...st what is good for the future. It also quite commonly goes against God‘s commands or what is good for society. Do I take the position that my life ... ... tact, instead of leaving centuries between the time that he revealed his commands and the time they were written. Such gaps of time in each script... ...ng so heavy that He cannot lift it? Can he do things that countermand his commands, can He kill or murder? Is He violating his own commands when he... ...a necessary Mosaic command to obey. Deuteronomy 13, the first ten verses, commands ‗That prophet or dreamer must be put to death...You must purge th... ...ast month of life, and 50 percent in the last two months of life. ―Computing the likely cost savings from legalizing physician-assisted suic...

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...f he wants to attain moksha, he should be a slave of a Brahmin and follow his commands, and if the Brahmin is satisfied, the Sudra may attain moksha... ...ss, Proceedings of the International Panel Conference on Soft and Intelligent Computing, Technical Univ. of Budapest, (1996) 43-50. http://www.ab...

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...y? Is it any wonder that their God became an invisible taskmaster that gives commands from on high? Is it any wonder that their God demanded unque... ... recreation of the body-brain dynamics of humans. The source from which its commands come from is the keyboard. The keyboard represents the geneti... ... represents the oldest instinctive power that controls what you do. Chemical commands. Molecular codes. The body of the computer represents the ... ...computer represents the human subconscious. This is where all of the chemical commands and instinctive drives are stored, processed and digested. T... ...e any leader personally responsible for any life lost because of their direct commands: you will have an end of the insane idea that millions of sold... ...e old ones are lasting 20-30-40 years and running just fine thank you. Try computing how much it costs to buy a new car every four years, and comp...

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...rk. In about a month, when all was prepared, I sent to receive his majesty’s commands, and to take my leave. The emperor and royal family came out of ... ...ed feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly. The king’s palace is ... ...oy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his ab solute commands.” This I humbly offered to his maj esty, as a small tribute of ... ...as a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly ... ...st has been destroyed by time or public distur bances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons... ...y countenance, that I was a Eu ropean, and therefore repeated his majesty’s commands in Low Dutch, which he spoke perfectly well. I an swered, as I... ...e meant; whereupon I turned back, and came near to him to expect his farther commands: but concealing my fear as much as I could, for I began to be in... ...ction. However, about ten days before their death, which they seldom fail in computing, they return the visits that have been made them by those who a...

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...OUR; WRIT TEN IN THE YEAR 1708. MY L ORD,—In obedience to your lordship’s commands, as well as to satisfy my own curiosity, I have for some days past... ...ter should be spoiled) Would use him like a younger child; And, after long computing, found ’Twould come to just five thousand pound. The Queen of Lov...

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...nd simple attire of Gurth the swine-herd, watched the looks and waited the commands of the Saxon dignitary. T wo or three servants of a superior order... ...The major-domo departed with several attendants, to ex- ecute his master’s commands. “The Prior Aymer!” repeated Cedric, looking to Oswald, “the broth... ...d be placed upon the board. While the attendants hastened to obey Cedric’s commands, his eye distinguished Gurth the swineherd, who, with his com- pan... ...ce which separated the gallery from the lists, and would have executed the commands of the Prince before Athelstane the Unready had recovered presence... ...s within a foot of the ground, remained motionless, as if expecting John’s commands; while all ad- mired the sudden dexterity with which he instantly ... ... with slumber, many with hearing and recounting the events of the day, and computing the heaps of plunder which their success had placed at the dispos...

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... minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty. He ha... ...mselves, they despised and slighted, nor were the least concerned at their commands and menaces. They used honest pastimes and liberal studies, not es... ... to our parents when we are dead and gone.” Numitor, upon these words, and computing the dates by the young man’s looks, slighted not the hope that fl... ...g city to Rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down the hinges of the gates, himself afterwards unexpected... ...her for fashion’s sake than advice, where they heard in silence the king’s commands, and so departed, exceeding the commonalty only in hearing first w... ...aced to his time. But Eratosthenes and Apollodorus and other chronologers, computing the time by the successions of the Spartan kings, pretend to demo... ...made a law, also, concerning hurts and inju- ries from beasts, in which he commands the master of any dog that bit a man to deliver him up with a log ... ...army, which was then about Egypt, they understood that Cimon was dead; and computing the time of the oracle, they found that his death had been signif...

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...s he might suppose it, degrading office, requested to know the gentleman’s commands. Being informed that he wished to pay his respects to his master, ... ...s, through a complexion well embrowned by sun and wind, Evan intimated his commands that the fish should be prepared for breakfast. A spark from the l... ...heather, Edward, though not unacquainted with the Scottish liberal- ity in computing distance, began to think that Evan’s five miles were nearly doubl... ...deil take them wha have the least pint stoup.’ [‘The Scotch are liberal in computing their land and liquor; the Scottish pint corresponds to two Engli... ...ed to justice, all such interlopers as dared to despise his admonitions or commands. On the other hand, if any officers of justice, military parties, ... ...ther hand, his own final conviction of the goodness of their cause, or the commands of his father or uncle, should recom- mend to him allegiance to th... ...irn; nor do I find it therein set down that I am to receive any charges or commands anent my doings from Major William Melville of Cairnvreckan.’ Majo...

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...might, being repulsed, yet not totally routed, become more obedient to his commands for the future. Which hap- pening as he had anticipated, he soon r... ... undergo as much hard labor, and forces us to be as subject to his haughty commands and insolences, as any Spaniards and Lusitanians.” With these muti... ...nd, recovering from the first disorder, proceeded to share out the several commands and provinces, they made Eumenes governor of Cappadocia and Paphla... ...e would do nothing on compulsion, upon ingenuous motives he would obey any commands, and was more hurt by the least rebuke or disgrace, than he was di... ... Po; where he was slain the next day by Geminius, in execution of Pompey’s commands. And for this Pompey was much censured; for, having at the beginni... ... his friends who were about him, (of which number Asinius Pollio was one,) computing how many calamities his passing that river would bring upon manki... ...what was at first intended, but even at this time the people had no way of computing the solar year; only the priests could say the time, and they, at...

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...l not think much the better of upon that account.”—“In obe- dience to your commands, then, madam,” continued he, “the doctor was so kind to say he had... ...ody of troops which very rarely goes abroad, unless where the king himself commands in person. I soon found an officer for my purpose, the terms were ... ... all my treasure was deposited. “Thus, madam, I have, in obedience to your commands, run through a scene which, if it hath been tiresome to you, you m... ... forth the praises of his rack-punch, and, without waiting for any farther commands, presently produced a large bowl of that liquor. The governor, hav... ...he captain know anything of the matter.” The governor promised to obey her commands in every particular; nay, he was so very industrious, that, though... ...-five pounds upon them when you was in your last distress. But why are you computing their value now?” “I was only considering,” answered he, “how muc...

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...n, enchaining hands, Bear the live head homeward. Lo! it speaks, and still commands: Gazing out far foamward. Fiery words of lightning sense Down the ... ...m their disgrace. Bother the couple! I feel superior to a chap whose place Commands him to be neat and supple. XII But if I go and say to my old hen: ... ...t hours smelling powder and gore. I entered it Serjeant-Major,”—and now he commands a salute, And carries the flag of old England! Heigh! see him lif... ...t little screwy fiddler from his booth, Whence flows one nut-brown stream, commands the joints Of all who caper here at various points. I have known r... ...l witch, Rendering Beauty yours, but gaze Under, and the soul is rich Past computing, past amaze. Then is courage that endures Even her awful tremble ... ...ng, seemed to fill. Behold the life at ease; it drifts. The sharpened life commands its course. She winnows, winnows roughly; sifts, T o dip her chose...

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...d thousand pounds. And at another, he was accustomed to amuse himself with computing how much money it would require to make him worth exactly nothing... ...ery of the universal lord.** Invitations (and the invitations of kings are commands) had been scattered on this occasion profusely; not, as heretofore...

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...to my eyes, appears to be straggling rather than massive. At a distance it commands attention; and to one journeying through the desert places of the ... ...ber. Nothing can be much uglier than the State House at Harrisburg, but it commands a magnificent view of one of the valleys into which the Alleghany ... ...istributed. The old West Point officers had generally been chosen for high commands, but beyond this everything was necessarily new. Young colonels an... ...l McClellan from the command of the whole army, that he has given separate commands to two other generals—to General Halleck, namely, and, alas! to Ge... ...g free mail matter. We have a similar 282 North America V ol. 2 system in computing the value of the service rendered by our post-office to the gover...

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... let the reader understand that, through- out the “Iliad,” all speeches or commands, questions or an- swers, are introduced by Homer under some peculi... ...d abso- lutely create rebellions, by first suggesting hopes to men in high commands. Even as it was, all treasonable assumptions of the purple, for ma... ... not malignant, and not evil in any sense, but simply obedient to superior commands: for none of us supposes, of course, that a “de- stroying angel” m... ...two roads was directly commanded by the eye from the city walls; and, upon computing the apparent proportions of speed between the two parties, it see... ...n Klosterheim, and could have no reason for anticipating resistance to his commands. “The Lady Paulina, then, distinguishes between the power and the ... ...tyrant retired with so much 369 Thomas de Quincey prompt obedience to her commands. Experience, however, had taught the princess that, not unfrequent...

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...repeated the names at first with incredulity, then with despair. A while she seemed stunned, next fell to disembowelling the box, piling the goods on ... ...r to dispose of what was left. ‘I have swallowed all I can, I cannot swallow more, it is a physical impossibility,’ he seemed to say; and his stern of...

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...ent 124 Sons of the Soil audacity with which the keeper had fulfilled his commands. There is a method of obeying which makes the obedience of the ser... ... for a distance of over thirty miles. The work of taking out of the water, computing the lost logs, and making 252 Sons of the Soil the rafts which t...

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...ecting the external actions of men to a certain uniformity, which at least commands our regard, independently of the objects to which it is applied, l... ...in-chief of the army, but of an army composed of only six thousand men; he commands the fleet, but the fleet reckons but few sail; he conducts the for... ... homage to the majority, and instead of checking its passions, as his duty commands him to do, he frequently courts its worst caprices. As the electio... ...operty of the former is not accu- rately determined, and no means exist of computing that of the latter. I consent, therefore, for the sake of the dis... ...follows the real desires of a people, and not of a government which simply commands in its name. Nothing is so irresistible as a tyrannical power comm... ... federal law of the tariff, forbade the levy of the imposts which that law commands, and refused to recognize the ap- peal which might be made to the ...

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...room, ‘with commissions for home. I shall always be happy to ex- ecute any commands you may have in that direction.’ ‘Pray what may you mean, Mr Rokes... ...aith—and said, rather more emphatically and sharply: ‘What commissions and commands are you speaking of?’ ‘Only little words of remembrance as I assum... ...f the French gentleman under the influence of the firelight, as if he were computing how many thousand slanderers and traitors array themselves agains...

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...m, our Justiciary shall not have redressed it within the term of forty days, computing from the time when it shall have been made known to us, or to o... ...e before. And whoever of our land pleaseth, may swear, that he will obey the commands of the aforesaid twenty five Bar ons, in accomplishing all the...

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... hall th’ undaunted monarch stands, And shakes his scepter, and their rage commands; Which did he not, their unresisted sway Would sweep the world bef... ...erns is confin’d: There let him reign, the jailer of the wind, With hoarse commands his breathing subjects call, And boast and bluster in his empty ha... ...But tell a stranger, long in tempests toss’d, What earth we tread, and who commands the coast? Then on your name shall wretched mortals call, And offe... ...” Against the goddess these complaints he made, But took the path, and her commands obey’d. They march, obscure; for V enus kindly shrouds With mists ... ...jans, from an injur’d wretch avert.’ “False tears true pity move; the king commands T o loose his fetters, and unbind his hands: Then adds these frien... ...us duty which you pay Have pass’d the perils of so hard a way. ‘T is true, computing times, I now believ’d The happy day approach’d; nor are my hopes ...

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...spiritually and not materially stated. And in truth, four out of these ten commands, from the sixth to the ninth, are rather legal than ethical. The p... ...uch a way of teaching; we rarely find him meddling with any of these plump commands but it was to open them out, and lift his hearers from the letter ... ...a consent of all his powers and facul- ties, which supersedes, adopts, and commands the other. The desire survives, strengthened, perhaps, but taught ... ...nclined to condemn– I mean the law of obliged speeches. Your senior member commands; and you must take the affirmative or the negative, just as suits ... ...d now wondering to himself on the injustice and partiality of the law, now computing again and again the nature of his loss. So he was still sitting w...

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...is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or ... ...for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them... ...hought, instantly rights himself, 50 Essays stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is... ...re is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands. All the devils respect virtue. The high, the generous, the self-d... ...lity, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts, speech and poetry, action and grace. For wh... ...grandeur of their thought is proved by its scope and applicability, for it commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration. ... ...ecting 228 Essays these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these sub- ject-lenses have a...

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... set up their rest, upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the sea, is at great liberty, and may take as much, and as littl... ... and they call it the Prime. It is a thing I do the rather mention, because, computing backwards, I have found some concurrence. But to leave these...

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... forty-second. The south- ern shore of Lake Erie lies below that latitude. Computing the distance between the thirty-first and forty-fifth degrees, it... ...-fifth degrees, it amounts to nine hundred and seventy-three common miles; computing it from thirty-one to forty-two degrees, to seven hundred and six... ...dience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more tha... ... for his particular affairs at foreign courts. In his military capacity he commands the federal troops, provides for garrisons, and in general regulat... ...ome, amounts to three hundred thousand florins. The standing army which he commands consists of about forty thousand men. Such is the nature of the ce... ...an internal evidence which, anteced- ent to all reflection or combination, commands the assent of the mind. Where it produces not this effect, it must... ... , and principles. In requiring more than a majority , and particularly in computing the proportion by states, not by citizens, it departs from the na... ...the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights...

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... enforced ready compliance with her requests and implicit obedience to her commands, but detrimental, because it cannot exist with affection or regard... ... as lightning move. When I rush on, sure none will dare to stay: ’Tis love commands, and glory leads the way.” As with a voice of thunder, and his han... ...d ruinous den, greatly delighted with the departure of their visitors, and computing how long, with good management, the provisions which had been une... ...man rested on his spade as the Master approached him, as if to receive his commands; and as he did not immediately speak, the sexton opened the dis- c...

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.... 89. Within one hour and half of noon.] The poet uses the Hebrew manner of computing the day, according to which the third hour answers to our twelv... ... And in the saddle let thy Caesar sit, If well thou marked’st that which God commands Look how that beast to felness hath relaps’d From having lo... ...r under the control of his successors in the empire?” v. 94. That which God commands.] He alludes to the precept ”Render unto Caesar the things which... ...Milton, P. L. b. iv. 263. v. 118. My view with ease.] Far and wide his eye commands For sight no obstacle found here, nor shade, But all sunshine. M...

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...ce in the Talmud. Maimonides, Yad Hach. i. 3, makes it one of the positive commands of the Rabbins to believe “that there exists a first Being … and t... ...appear, and hath ordained the night for rest, and the sun and the moon for computing time! The ordinance of the Mighty, the Wise! And it is He who hat... ...vail, and they shall not be helped. When his Lord made trial of Abraham by commands which he fulfilled, He said, “I am about to make thee an Imâm to m...

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...ere are some very agreeable and beautiful talents, of which the possession commands a certain sort of admiration, but of which the exercise, for the s... ...here there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people, in some one o... ... altogether in those goods, and not in the wheel which circulates them. In computing either the gross or the neat revenue of any society, we must alwa... ...t sort of authority which naturally overawes the people, and without force commands their willing obedience. Such a council can command obedience only... ...m to pay even the usual rent. In those moments of public dis- tress, their commands cannot be disputed. The revenue laws, there- fore, become graduall...

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...from life, not strained through books. He amused himself, I remem- ber, by computing how much more expence was absolutely necessary to live upon the s... ...tland early in the following week, so that if his Lordship should have any commands for me as to this pious negociation, he would be pleased to send t...