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...llied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals ... ...s. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turkish Russian Army of the Caucasus, in April 1915, the elite of the Armenian c... ...ented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 Armenians in Turk... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...ugh self-aggrandizing - political figure, had little to do with it. After his first major military defeat, in defending the coastal town of Puerto C... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...one by one, following secession conventions and state-wide votes. The Confederacy (Confederate States of America) was born only later. Not all the ... ...buying slaves from Africa), though it allowed interstate trade in slaves. The first Confederate capital was in Montgomery, Alabama - not in Richmond... ... Native-American to Creole, and to everything from telegraphic signaling to German generals - but they have all been convincingly debunked. http:...

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...rue and faithful servants and witnesses of the Lord, and both kings and people shall be confederates against the Lord and his anointed, to break the... ... serpent’s egg of superstition and will speedily lay violent hands upon its mother; and confederate all nations against the Lord and his anointed, pe... ...umber seven be disposed to regard them as including in some larger sense the successive states of the whole Christian church up to the coming of the ... ... the church of the living God, the patriarchs, the prophets, the apostles, the glorious army of the martyrs, the whole host of the redeemed, whom he... ... its accomplishment must be looked for in visible objects, not in invisible or spiritual states, which so far from contravening, I shall have to make... ...es of Israel, leaving Babylon, his native country, he will set out with that formidable army to the conquest of Palestine; which shall instantly sur... ...of the Holy Scripture, lay down upon this point a sure canon or general rule, which the majority of them follow in practice, and which in substance i... ...is not therefore the less just. The only doubt which can remain is, with respect to the major proposition, and this is what it concerneth us to prove... ...pter; to wit, that in the time of Jehoshaphat, that king had, under one hundred captain generals, one million one hundred and seventy thousand soldi...

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...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ernoon warm, a lazy hunting dog at his feet. “I don’t understand how your army crossed the Alps in six or seven days.” “Five days,” he corrected me.... ...d there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cannons, horses, mules..... ...nder: in his salons, his superb col- lection of Mazzoni marbles—twenty-one major pieces. I study and admire the King’s Bataille tapestries. My privat... ... FIFTY YEARS OF WORK: Hours of work 12,000 Sketches 20,000 400 Major Drawings 10,000 20 Easel Paintings 20,000 125 Treatises (still incomp... ...e terrible summer of ’82, when wheat fields were swept by gunfire, 20,000 Confederates died, the Union lost 16,000. Boys, mostly boys. Which General... ...d to show that the negro ought to be a slave—if he shall now fight in the Confederate Army to keep himself a slave, it will be a far better argument... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...tention is victory, I am begin- ning to see that war is a form of slavery. Generals Grant and Sherman, Generals Johnson and Lee confirm this. So, we,...

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...t the death of their Kings was ever devised and brought in use. All their confederates and n eighbours, all the slave-Helotes, men and women pell- me... ...orie of Verona, which was then enemie unto them, the greatest part of the army thought it expedient to demand a safe conduct for their passage of tho... ...ething else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane army in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were brethren. ... ...m as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing all feare of hostile-action from them. But to the en... ...ces where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile law, that what enemie soev... ...brio sibi habere videtur. -- 1 LUCRET. 1. v. 1243. A hidden power so mens states hath out-worne Faire swords, fierce scepters, signes of honours bor... ...s; whereas in Lacedemon, they sought for Law-givers, for Magistrates, and Generals of armies: In Athens men learn'd to say well, but here, to doe we... ...uce the hony, which is peculiarly their owne, then is it no more Thyme or Majoram. So of peeces borrowed of others, he may lawfully alter, transforme... ...de. Scilicet et fluvius qui non est maximum, ei est Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit, ei ingens Arbor homoque videtur, et omnia de qenere omni M...

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... profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North Granvi... ...ellorsville. For several years he was vice-president of the Society of the Army of the Poto- mac and in 1892 was president of the Y, M. C. A. of White... ...e Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH si'lep... ...- similarities between the constitu- tioiis of Germany and of the L'liited States. It must be re raeinl)i!red, however, that the origi- nal sources an... ...tee. and afh'r eonsiderable diseussiou, the mo- tion was passed by a large major ity. On the college side of the argnmeut Professors Mortem, Wild and ... ... irregular game was played, in which batting and base running received the major part of the coaching. Ford was in the box for both sides, and toward ... ...etreat to a well fortified base. Caesar was the most cautious of the three generals. For this rea- son he often failed to take advan- tage of good opp... ...nty Williams men took part on the Union sideand twenty men fonght with the confederates in the Civil War. Collegfe Sing A college sing was held in Jes... ...ends, who repeatedly broke up the freshmen's plays. The latter showed poor generalship in the first half in not resorting to old style football tactic...

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...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...ho is or would be the present owner, bears high command in the army of the Confederates, and knows well by what tenure he holds or is likely to hold h... ... to the slave question most offensive to a part of the cabinet, and to the majority of Mr. Lincoln’s party. This, by order of the President, was omitt... ...ther, rising indignantly on the floor, “that the military authority of our generals is above that of this House.” And then one gentleman relieved the ... ...in England; when we think how recent has been the elevation in life of the majority of 46 North America V ol. 2 those who are and must be elected, it... ... near Somerset, toward the south of the State. General Zollicoffer, with a Confederate army numbering, it was supposed, some eight thousand men, had a...

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...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...

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...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...1862 TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G . B. McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yeste... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...coln: V ol Six TELEGRAM TO GENERAL I. McDOWELL. W ASHINGTON, May 16, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McDOWELL: What is the strength of your force now actually wit... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...nchester represent Jackson’s force variously at 30,000 to 60,000. With him Generals Ewell and Longstreet.” The high figures erroneous, of course. Do y... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., August 14, 1862. OFFICER in charge of Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Ohio: It is believed that a Dr. J. J. ... ... slavery—the bone we are fighting over—and the full reinstatement of every Confederate citizen in all the rights of citizenship in our common country....

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the libertie...

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...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...wn government, having a small area of jurisdiction, where the voice of the majority of qualified vot- ers is conclusive, the fitness of the person who... ...ge can be determined by his neighbors and acquaintances, and, in the great majority of cases, it will be decided honestly and for the good of the coun... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...frages of a great people; and this difficulty is enhanced in a republic of confederate States, where local influences are apt to preponderate. The mea... ...that of the justiciable parties is augmented. The aim of the legislator in confederate States ought therefore to be to render the position of the cour... ...ious career: the Senate is composed of eloquent ad- vocates, distinguished generals, wise magistrates, and states- men of note, whose language would a...

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... disaster, when it came, was a surprise to all. It was very well known to Generals Shenck and Milroy for some time before, that General Halleck thoug... ... as disloyal who have been armed. They are as follows: [Names omitted.] A majority of these are shown to have been in the rebel service. I believe i... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...TO GENERAL MEADE. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information abou... ...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...or shall have been civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Government; all who have left judicial stations under the Unite... ...ll who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of colonel in the army or of lieutena...

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...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...actions of his former life. Theseus was now fifty years old, as Hellanicus states, when he carried off Helen, who was yet too young to be married. Som... ...e of Academus. But Dicaearchus writes that there were two Arcadians in the army of Castor and Pollux, the one called Echedemus and the other Marathus;... ...they took that none should suffer any injury, though there was so great an army within the walls; for the phrase anakos ekhein is used of those who lo... ...nterprise; but Sphaerus assures us that there were but twenty-eight of the confederates at first; perhaps there is some mystery in the number, which c... ...ed from Juno; some, however, derive them from the two ages, old and young, majores being their name for older, and juniores for younger 122 V olume O... ...emy to any that moved against the present settlement. Thus he deceived the majority of people; but Solon quickly discovered his character, and found o... ... Athenians the glory of alike surpassing their enemies in valor, and their confederates in wisdom. As soon as the Persian armada arrived at Aphetae, E... ... been of Seriphus; nor you, had you been of Athens.” When an- other of the generals, who thought he had performed con- siderable service for the Athen...

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... since then, any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, ... ...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...e constitution which was submitted to the people was voted down by a large majority. So Kansas is still out of the Union, and there is a probability t... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...to pursue in regard to the 218 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five Confederate States. “Adopted by the Convention of the State of Virginia, Ri... ...rto recognition has been moved only on the assump- tion that the so-called Confederate States are de facto a self- sustaining power. Now, after long f... ...nd what is to be done in regard to this. The coast and Gap movements made, Generals McClellan and Fremont, in their respective departments, will avail...

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...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...n the Mississippi Mark T wain 85 to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the cap tains. He could throw a sort of splendor around a bi... ... Mark T wain 139 and Beck Jolly , and Squire Bell, and Horace Bixby, and Major Downing, and John Stevenson, and Billy Gordon, and Jim Brady, and G... ...d his first war experience in the Belmont fight, as a pilot on a boat in the Confederate ser vice. I had often had a curiosity to know how a green ha... ...hat they forgot to look after their horses, which were car ried away by his confederates while he was preaching. But the stealing of horses in one St... ...th a pocket knife, soon forced us to feel that we were not surrounded by the generals, colo nels, and majors of the old world; and that the dinner ho... ...nd sometimes marched in procession around the stage?” “Do you mean the Roman army?—those six sandaled roustabouts in nightshirts, with tin shields and... ... T wain 285 place. This seemed odd to me, for when I retired from the rebel army in ’61 I retired upon Louisiana in good order; at least in good enou...

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...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. ... ...mpire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of states, the whole of which together would hardly equal one prov- ince of th... ...aves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rite... ... the nineteenth century by Ivan Simonoff, a soldier ser- vant belonging to Major Kascambo, an officer in the Rus- sian army, who was made prisoner by ... ...yed, and if his were a golden deed at all, it was mixed with much of iron. Major Kascambo, with a guard of fifty Cossacks, was go- ing to take the com... ...xes. They drew themselves up in the form of a wedge and ‘The gallant Swiss confederates then They prayed to God aloud, And He displayed His rainbow f... ...f Arnold von Winkelried, and the other dis- tinguished achievements of the confederates, and masses are sung for the souls of those who were slain. No...

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...e slaughter of Lord Kilpont, confirmed by Parliament in 1634, and was made Major of Argyle’s regiment in 1648. Such are the facts of the tale here giv... ...d since under the Director-General, the Rex-Chancellor Oxensterne, and his Generals: collected and gathered together, at spare hours, by Colonel Rober... ... Scott “ A few days after the battle of Tippermuir, when Montrose with his army was encamped at Collace, an entertainment was given by him to his offi... ...s by no means his original intention. He had risen to the rank of sergeant-major of artillery, by hard service in various quarters of the world, and w... ...f the bold measure which they had adopted, by sending into England a large army to the assistance of the Parliament, were determined on their part to ... ...e other powers, I even took on for a time with their High Mightinesses the States of Holland.” “ And how did their service jump with your humour?” aga... ...befit any other tongue than mine own.” CHAPTER III. For pleas of right let statesmen vex their head, Battle’s my business, and my guerdon bread; And, ... ...with, and drawing the sword against, their neighbours, allies, and ancient confederates.” “It is to my brother,” said Allan, “it is to the eldest son ... ...er Scott and scarce were they again united, ere Argyle and his associ- ate generals were informed, that the royalists, having sud- denly disappeared f...

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... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ...n the preparation of this work, to Mr. Gilbert A. Tracy, of Putnam, Conn., Major William H. Lambert, of Philadelphia, and Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chi- c... ... Association and person- ally to its capable Secretary, Miss McIlvaine, to Major Henry S. Burrage, of Portland, Me., and to General Tho- mas J. Hender... ...supplied with arms, if not emp- tied by treacherous practices; the regular army of insig- nificant strength, dispersed over an immense surface, and de... ...olition war.” But when he went so far as to counter- mand the acts of some generals in the field, looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the dis... ...ed, the second at Bull Run. But when, after that battle, the Con- federate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Li... ... the slaves free as they went on; he dealt too leniently with unsuccessful generals; he should have put down all factious opposition with a strong han... ...t he was shot.” He was shot heading a gallant charge of his regiment…. The Confederates replied to a request of his friends for his body that they had...

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...ing play of instinctive passion and desire against too abstract a dream of statesmanship. But things that seemed to lie very far apart in Machiavelli’... ... a condition of affairs infinitely more complex, in which every prince and statesman is something of a servant and every intelligent human being somet... ...ilities, achieved it in spite of the disregard and aimlessness of the huge majority, and the passionate resistance of the active dull, my imagination ... ...ot (for- merly Mrs. Noah) who, if I remember rightly , converted them into Army sausage by means of a portion of the inside of an old alarum clock. My... ...gured muslin. T o me in these habiliments they seemed not so much books as confederated old ladies. My mother was also very punctual with her religiou... ...eyes, now the hoardings flamed with election plac- ards, now the Salvation Army and now the unemployed came trailing in procession through the winter-... ...ghting an imaginary battle about us as we walked. As we went along we were generals, and our attacks pushed along on either side, crouching and gather... ...nor writing, but a magazine. I remember the inaugural meeting in Shoesmith major’s study—we had had great trouble in get- ting it together—and how eff... ... not that I had cleaned up my life but that she had. We called each other “confederate” I remember, and made during our brief engagement a series of v...

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...ent acts. But, recently, five con federated Kings, who had no business to confederate, had been informed by a kindly Northern Power that there was a ... ...man. Now it is men. Better. The tall man said that they will loose a great army to punish someone somewhere–the news goes to Pindi and Peshawur. Ther... ... Gods’, who sent it for a plague, alone know. A mad ness ate into all the Army, and they turned against their of ficers. That was the first evil, bu... ...al and four clasps and the medal of an Order, for my captains, who are now generals, remembered me when the Kaisar i Hind had accomplished fifty year... ...he shade, and wait to welcome my sons: I have no less than three Rissaldar majors all–in the regiments.’ ‘ And they likewise, bound upon the Wheel, go... ...‘hot, uneasy, snatching.’ ‘Ay,’ the old soldier chuckled. ‘Three Rissaldar majors in three regiments. Gamblers a little, but so am I. They must be wel... ...urban, stalked past, returning from a visit to one of the independent Sikh States, where he had been singing the ancient glories of the Khalsa to Coll... ... what concern this fakir has with the boy, who is probably his dupe or his confederate,’ Bennett began. ‘We can not allow an English boy–Assuming tha... ...e India Council; and here gather all the sub sub agents of half the Native States. Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely locked than...

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... made a sub-lieutenant in 1802, but it was not until 1829 that he became a major, in spite of the grayness of his moustaches. 6 The Country Doctor Hi... ...s. 6 The Country Doctor His life had been so blameless that no man in the army, not even the general himself, could approach him without an involunta... ...his pay, and his pension was all that he had to look to in the future, the major always kept two years’ pay untouched, and never spent his allowances,... ...the child of his company; he was alone in the world, so he had adopted the army for his fatherland, and the regiment for his family. V ery rarely, the... ... dwindled away as mine increased. I determined to make him my deputy and a confederate in my schemes of benevolence. Yes, in the first place, I endeav... ...eep a balance on the right side of the balance-sheet. This thought has let states with a limited territorial basis like T yre, Carthage, Venice, Holla... ...ion of scientific formu- lae. No one need fear, however, to call himself a statesman, for his actions and motives cannot be justly estimated; his real... ...and went into it. I looked round and saw a score of 88 The Country Doctor generals and officers of high rank, all of them men who, without flattery, ... ...animal satisfaction expressed in his face; and thunderous snores came from generals who lay muffled up in ragged cloaks. The whole barn was lighted by...

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...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ...h was running on night shift to fill an order of trac- tors for the Polish army. It hummed like a million bees, glared through its wide windows like a... ...ttle of Gettysburg and doesn’t know it’s over yet—thought I was one of the Confederates, I guess, from the way he looked at me— and Rip van Winkle too... ... there’d been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box! At seven per each and every diem! Gosh!” “Yuh, I’ve he... ...at the real-estate men were here now. The venerable Minnemagantic realtor, Major Carlton Tuke, read a paper in which he denounced cooperative stores. ... ...was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and gold-and-crimson coat of a drum-major. Behind him, as a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy a... ... bring in any, they remain privates. The pastor and superintendent rank as generals. And ev- erybody has got to give salutes and all the rest of that ...

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...have withdrawn from my audience in high displeasure, there remains a large majority who are loud in acknowledging the amusement which they have derive... ...ortion (or nucleus) of each ship’s company consists of such men: the large majority being mere untutored landsmen. John Williams, however, who had bee... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ...are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the commercial body, none receive an elabo- rate, and what is mean... ...particular fact so well as Sir William Waller’s) that as early as 1647 the army had too effectually subverted the just relations between itself and pa... ... them to private interpretations—or to dispense with them. As to his major-generals of counties, who figure in most histories of England as so many Al... ...tinately haunted his mind that all the kings and rulers of the earth would confederate in every age against his works, and would hunt them out for ext...

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...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ...ing tendencies of their several characters. Being En- glish, naturally the majority were energetic, and beyond all things despised dreaming fainéans (... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...int, let not the reader derive his notions from the German books: the vast majority of German authors are not “noble;” and, of those who are, nine ten... ...had often heard it described; she saw, in apprehension, the savage band of confederate butchers, issuing from the profound solitudes of the forest, in... ...nner which now floated in Europe. Beyond him ran the long line of imperial generals,—from 272 Memorials, and Other Papers Wallenstein, the magnificen... ...he expulsion of Polynices, the younger son, from Thebes; his return with a confederate band of princes for the recovery of his rights; the death of th...

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...esolution, at Montcornet’s command, to turn and resist the entire Austrian army, which carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasse... ...the courage of a daring man; he lacks mind and breadth of view. Like other generals to whom mili- tary common-sense, the natural boldness of those who... ...be three times: “Die or retake the village; it is a question of saving the army; the bridges are destroyed.” The Author. Now, I must tell you that the... ... her your better half, that woman! What brings you here at this hour, drum-major?” “Politics, always politics,” replied Vermichel, who seemed accustom... ...outline, in which the nose bore part,—a regularity which is lacking in the major- ity of French faces. Though the features were correct in draw- ing, ... ...yielded his “corps d’armee” to the Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of 89 Balzac the Loire) cou... ...e not arrest them,” said Sibilet. “They think they frighten you! They have confederates at Ville-aux-Fayes; for even the prosecuting attorney seems to... ...ion which to-day threat- 143 Balzac ens every man, the man of genius, the statesman, the mod- ern agriculturalist,—in short, all innovators. This las... ...officials.” Rated in the community as an able man, Sarcus was the accepted statesman of Madame Soudry’s salon; you can readily imagine that he was the...

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...year following he was present at Rouen to witness the decla- ration of the majority of Charles IX. We do not know in what manner he was engaged on the... ... leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the meeting of the States-General. We do not know 22 Essays: Book the First what part he took... ...d. I could have desired much that the private gain of the soldiers of your army, and the necessity for satisfying them, had not deprived you, especial... ...—who with incredible bravery alone sus- tained the power of his victorious army. Then it was that 58 Essays: Book the First consideration and respect... ... a like effect: witness the people of Thebes, who, having put two of their generals upon trial for their lives for having continued in arms beyond the... ...ve them as friends to the people of Rome, and to enter the town, as into a confederate city, without any manner of hostility, of which he gave them al... ...t of the world where the Portu- guese subdued the Indians, they found some states where it was a universal and inviolable law amongst them that every ... ...h the ranks, and that in- stead of sparing fire (which the counsels of the major part tended to) they should entreat the captains to command the 181 ... ...inters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, and generals of armies; at Athens they learned to speak well: here to do well; ...

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...s to make his son a government clerk. At the beginning of this century the army presented too many posts not to leave various vacancies in the governm... ...stood its mission. We can see, any day, the great law of- ficers, attorney-generals, peers of France in omnibuses, judges who live on their salaries, ... ...and the great respect in which he was held in his own quarter had kept him major of the battalion for eight years. He was now nearly sixty, and seeing... ... her hair plainly, a la Berthe. 84 The Lesser Bourgeoisie CHAPTER VIII AD MAJOREM THEODOSIS GLORIAM AT HALF-PAST FOUR O’CLOCK Theodose was at his pos... ...more useless to relate the conversation which took place between the three confederates at the “Cheval Rouge,” because the arrangements there conclude... ...ve water until the close of 1840. Up to the present time none of the three confederates had flinched or groaned. Each felt his strength and knew his d... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha... ...o displayed more science and calculation in merely get- ting a living than statesmen had shown in governing Spain for a hundred years, he, la Peyrade,... ...nged like this, and command the light; to have at your orders an invisible army, always ready, always devoted, always submissive; to know the other si...

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...adin?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 Nonadaptation? . . . ...

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...ere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mentio... ...Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed ... ...nd Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fal... ...ilities for the most opulent of the youth to acquire an education, and the majority were dependent, almost ex- clusively, upon their own exertions for... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...army four general officers and one colonel, West Point graduates, and nine generals and field officers of Vol- unteers, that I can think of. Of the gr... ...her seven, General McGroierty, Colonels White, Fyffe, Loudon and Marshall, Majors King and Bailey, were all residents of Georgetown when the war broke... ...anted. This was the same Ewell who acquired considerable reputa- tion as a Confederate general during the rebellion. He was a man much esteemed, and d...

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...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...patriotic Congress. Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great majority of the people reasoned and decided judiciously; and happy they are... ...mies of each other unless their common weakness forces them to league in a confederate republic, and their constitu- tion prevents the differences tha... ...t the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country al- most as so... ...th the principles or propensities of the other state. The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; an... ... Union, but would not militate against their being all comprehended in one confederate government. And this is the true question, in the discussion of... ... minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbear- ing majority . However anxiously we may wish that these com- plaints had no fou... ... a people who would not suffer an army to be com- manded by fewer than ten generals, and who required no other proof of danger to their liberties than...

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...Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denmark defeated. — Death of Mansfel... ...ons. — Wallenstein deprived of the Command. — Gustavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Inv... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...tter of domestic policy, and that aid was readily granted to the religious confederate which would have been denied to the mere neighbour, and still m... ...med subjects of Austria met, or expected to meet with from their religious confederates in the rest of Germany, was no small cause of their confidence... ...closely united, were entirely without consideration. The advantage of this majority the Roman Catho- lics were now called on to relinquish; hencefor- ... ...n territories, which they treated as a hos- tile country. But the imperial generals found the march to Prague more difficult than they had expected. E... ...ony was favourable to him, Brandenburg made no opposition, and a de- cided majority declared him Emperor in 1619. Thus he saw the most doubtful of his...

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...has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object bef... ...the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division among th... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ...eipt of his veto, any bill so stopped by the Gov- ernor can be passed by a majority of two-thirds in each house. The General Court usually sits for ab... ...es, as they seem to divide themselves, into these three parties. As to the majority of them, there is no difficulty in locat- 117 Trollope ing them; ... ...rns are to choose the field officers; and the field officers the brigadier-generals and inspectors of brigade. The Governor, however, with the consent... ...here was no blame to England for that. But the Nashville, belonging to the Confederates, should not have been allowed into English waters. It was usel... ...divided. When the Federal troops pre- vailed, Kentucky was loyal; when the Confederate troops prevailed, Kentucky was rebellious. The condition in Mis...

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...ecrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments? Surely this is to bring down the Holy Ghost, inst... ...all have a servant, five times worse than a wife. For sol diers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and... ...th wise men at weak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders, in popular states; but with senates, and princes less; and more ever upon the first ... ...es rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deit... ...mmutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced ... ...master’s. And yet that is the case of bad officers, treasurers, ambassadors, generals, and other false and corrupt servants; which set a bias upon the... ... it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but ... ...; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be. The army of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was such a vast sea of peo... ...way with the wheels of his fortune. For so Livy (after he had described Cato Major in these words, In illo viro tantum robur corporis et animi fuit, ...

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...property and the modes of property are much developed, constitute the vast majority of all that come under the review of public justice. Any of these ... ...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith... ...dition, had no vote, and if he had the votes would have stood three to one—majority, two against him. He was cut into quarters; which surprises me; 1... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...mbled in congress, except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals, and secondary diplomatists, when their date is past, awake no mor... ... combinations are found eminently successful. Having ob- tained from every confederate a pledge, in some shape or other, that he will give them his su...

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...gustin:—” Cum fiet resurrectio carnis, et bonorum gaudia et malorum tormenta majora erunt . “—At the resurrection of the flesh, both the happiness of ... ...ghter.] “By means of Farinata degli Uberti, the Guelfi were conquered by the army of King Manfredi, near the river Arbia, with so great a slaughter, t... ...ontefeltro, who then governed it, to defeat with great slaughter the French army by which it had been besieged. See G. Villani, l. vii. c. 81. The ... ...mong the inhabitants of that city, and among the leaders of the neighbouring states. v. 70. The pleasant land.] Lombardy. v. 72. The twain.] Guido d... ...of Marseilles, and hastened on to the attack of Afranius and Petreius, the generals of Pompey, at Ilerda (Lerida) in Spain. v. 118. abbot.] Albe... ...ne of the wisest and most valorous knights the best speaker, the most expert statesman, the most renowned and enterprising, man of his age in Italy, ... ...ch he led to; and resum’d: “All grappling bonds, that knit the heart to God, Confederate to make fast our clarity. The being of the world, and mine ow... ...een of the brightest stars in heaven, together with seven stars of Arcturus Major and two of Arcturus Minor, ranged in two circles, one within the...