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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...ments, burnt alive or drowned forcibly. The massacres were carried out by military officers with dictatorial powers, aided by criminals especially ... ... oust the newly independent Venezuela, he advocated the creation of a professional army (in the Cartagena Manifesto). Far from being a revolutionar... ... its splendid isolation - ostensibly aloof and detached from the petty squabbles of continental countries across the channel. Yet, the record is hel... ...exclusively Nazi song, crooned in smoke-filled bars in occupied Europe by drunk SS officers. "Lili Marlene" was played, sung, and broadcast by a... ... data systems division. In 1989, Nokia emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. ... ...ten in the form 1.23 in the United States, 1·23 in the United Kingdom, and 1,23 in continental Europe. Thus $14,100 is 14 thousand US dollars in th... ...il 1958. The Former President's Act gave them $25,000 a year, an office and minimal staff. The pension today stands at c. $161,000 - the same as a c...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...epublican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, as in continental Europe, it is organized as a distinct parliamentary faction)... ...solar system: Sun, Moon, Earth, the Milky Way. 42. Divisions, departments, officers, and courses of study of the University of Chicago, in all offi... ...s, and Goethe, and Ibsen;" "Neither France for her art, nor Germany for her army, nor England for her democracy, etc." But do not use a comma where... ...ed;" "He was perhaps thinking of the future;" "This is likewise true of the army;" "He was a scholar and a sportsman too." 133. If among several ad... ... that it was by his genius that Alexander conquered the eastern world. His army, you know, was a small one. To carry a vast number of men . . . . ...

...ming and influencing every stage of the writing and publishing process. In creating the fifteenth edition of the Manual, Chicago's renowned editorial staff drew on direct experience of these changes, as well as on the recommendations of the Manual's first advisory board, composed of a distinguished group of scholars, authors, and professionals....

...ery”—the proofreaders who corrected typographical errors and edited for stylistic inconsistencies. To bring a common set of rules to the process, the staff of the composing room drew up a style sheet, which was then passed on to the rest of the university community. Even at such an early stage, “the University Press style book and style sheet” was considered important enou...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...sparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In January 2000, Staff Sergeant Frank J. Ronghi sexually molested, forcibly sodom... ...the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Ma... ... the anonymous author. The paper distinguishes four phases of distension: "First, continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; t... ...r constitutions and ordinances (and in international law). Only state organs - the army, the police - are permitted to kill, torture, and incarcera... ...nence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army in the Roman republic was enshrined in the centuriate assem... ...lticulturalism. Following the Great War (1914-8), the disintegration of most of the continental empires - notably the Habsburg and Ottoman - led to ... ...nd a rapid deployment force. Still, NATO's chances of replacing the EU as the main continental political alliance are much higher than the EU's cha... ...oduct. As James Paul, Executive Director of Global Policy Forum, observes: "All UN staff, including the specialized agencies and funds, are fewer t... ...encies and funds, are fewer than the civil service of the City of Stockholm or the staff of McDonalds. The core UN budget is one half of one percen...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...00 TV sets; 210,000 receiver sets Defense Forces Branches: Albanian People's Army, Fron- tier Troops, Interior Troops, Albanian Coastal Defense Comman... ...iver sets; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie Military manpower: males 15-4... ...es (0.5 per 100 popl.); 16 AM, 13 FM, 2 TV stations Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force/ Air Defense; paramilitary forces People's Defense ... ...ne-half the size of Washington, D.C. Coastline: about 61 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation Exclusive fishi... ...f Texas Land boundaries: 9,414 km total Coastline: 4,989 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation Territorial sea... ...conterminous US Coastline: 25,760 km Maritime claims: Contiguous zone: 12 nm Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation Exclusive fishi... ...ch Government leaders: Gen. Mohammed ZIA-UL-HAQ, President and Army Chief of Staff (since July 1977); confirmed as President through March 1990 in spe... ...adema in September 1969, Rally of the Togolese People (RPT); struc- ture and staffing of party closely controlled by government Communists: no Communi... ... consists solely of printing and production of a small amount of mosaics and staff uni- forms; worldwide banking and financial activities; the Institu...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their de... ...dition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- ... ... hence promising great spoil to successful invaders. The ships carried a large army prepared for any dangerous enterprise, and sailing out through Gib... ...reight, the second for soldiers and a dining saloon, and the upper used by the officers for quarters, and as a promenade-deck. All the floors of the r... ...ors by Henry VII., who appreciated to the fullest extent the importance of the continental discovery. His son Sebastian made two voyages thereafter, o... ... of the islands; but none of them matured, and owing to the rapid extension of continental settlements remembrance of the Solomon group faded away. Th... ... singly, here and there a lonely traveller, tattered and dusty, with scrip and staff, making his way over parching sands under a blazing tropical sun;... ... most splendid workmanship which decorated the persons of the governor and his staff, and incited them with a stronger desire to penetrate the territo... ...ication to the Emperor, an embassy, consisting of two nobles, accompanied by a staff of a hundred men laden with magnificent gifts from Montezuma, pre...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...on of under- graduate news; it is far more sat- isfactory to the editorial staff to receive ready information than to be forced to resort to dissectio... ... 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... ...Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the Army' I "Hottentot Lova Sone" "Dream of Heaven" "La M«tlchlche" "Rich Mr. H... ...Simmons of Providence, K. I. , has been elect ed a member of the editorial staff of the Providence Journal. '75—Prof. J. Sterling Kingsley, Sc. D., of... ...o- lis, Minn. 12 Hoxs'lo St. Lawrence R. Hills, Dayton, O. Zet« Psi house. Stafford F. Johnson, Colorado Springs, Colo. 27 B. H. Edwin J. Eah, Jr., Ch... ...n request FifthAvenue Newark Pierce Arrow Stevent-Dutyea Peerless Franklin Continental Tires Goodrich Tires THE Diamond Tires CENTRAL AUTO STATION Sto... ...rk Pierce Arrow Stevens-Durye.1 Peerless Franklin THE CENTRAL AUTO STATION Continental Tires Goodrich Tires Diamond Tires ' Storage, Repairs, Supplies... ... P] Pierce Arfow Stevens-Duryea Peerless Franklin THE CENTRAL AUTO STATION Continental Tites Goodrich Tires Diamond Tices Storage, Repairs, Supplies, ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...alley opened up like a gaping bleeding wound. We are children of that painful continental splitting of the tectonic Rift of Africa. We did to livin... ...f a judge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to p... ...ho ran out into the street with baskets of roast dogs for the latest invading army of conquerors to eat because they had nothing else left to offer t... ...eneration. The dynamic of war is based upon accumulation: you can only get an army by packing together as many men as possible into a solid mass of ... ... not enough hospitals, not enough intensive care units, and not enough trained staff. There is not enough money for it. Just as there is not enough... ...n the poorest parts of town, in the poorest ghettoes. Under funded and under-staffed. This is how much Americans value their own pets: whom they f... ...entire windows system. It is too complicated even for the entire programming staff of Microsoft to understand. The programmers cannot understand t... ...tems… an upper class North American culture, and a lower class South American continental culture. Upper Canada and Lower Canada. They also manag... ...s and towns. Segment valleys into farms and fields. Then accumulate as many continental states as possible to arrive at the magic number of 50… th...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...owing! A loud voice is no assurance that truth is being spoken. Nor is an army of parrots proclaiming their beliefs a guarantee of objective reality... ... Christian cause. Pope Leo IV guaranteed heaven to those in the Frankish army who might die ‗fighting for the truth of the faith, for the preservat... ... such as research, munitions manufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But thes... ...e have a considerable expense. Then we have the parole system with parole officers and their bureaucratic expenses.‖ —―We can all experienc... ... abuse of various sorts. ―Remember the UK started it all, then the continental Europeans and the Americans. It doesn‘t seem that you can shor... ...l who died in the hospitals. One of these attorneys said that ‗I think the staff thought they were being merciful, but ... no one can play God.‘ Here... ...e any legislators passing laws that require the president or the military officers to tell recruits or draftees that they might feel pain during thei... ...but didn‘t have money to pay her so he gave her his signet, bracelets and staff to keep until he could send her a lamb in payment for the sex. A few...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...n V olume Six of Seven Abraham Lincoln 1862-1863 RECOMMENDATION OF NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AN... ...ired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus... ...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... ...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... ...ht, his supplies must be drawn from West Point, and you will instruct your staff-officers to be prepared to supply him by that route. The President de... ...ANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PROCLAMATION REVOKING GENERAL HUNTER’... ... OF W AR. W ASHINGTON, January 15, 1863. SECRETARY OF W AR: Please see Mr. Stafford, who wants to assist in raising colored troops in Missouri. A. LIN... ...FIELD. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BUTTERFIELD, Chief of Staff: The President thanks you for your telegrams, and hopes you will keep... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 16, 1863. THOMAS W . SWEENEY, Continental, Philadelphia: Tad is teasing me to have you forward his pistol...

...ce 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 service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Con...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...ay in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upo... ...ading name to lead them against us, as the origin of his title had led the army of Gaul of old gloriously, scared sweet 4 Beauchamp’s Career sleep. W... ...wered them boldly, with the appalling statement that we had no navy and no army. At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental... ...ition challenged the allegations of Government, pointed to the trimness of army and navy during its term of office, and proclaimed itself watch-dog of... ...s in epi- thets and phrases of courtesy toward a formal people, and as the officers of the French Guard were gentlemen of birth, he 10 Beauchamp’s Ca... ...eye glance at him through the war. ‘Now,’ said Everard, ‘we shall see what staff there is in that fellow Nevil.’ He expected, as you may imagine, a tr... ...red. He would have deemed it as vain a subject to dis- course of India, or Continental affairs, at a period when his house was full for the opening da... ...ply to be regretted that Englishmen abroad— women the same, I fear—get the Continental tone in mor- als. But how Captain Beauchamp could expect to car... ... odorous air of sea and herb, exquisite as in the isles of Greece. And the Continental travelling ninnies leave England for health!— run off and forth...

... young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... Salem, travelling through the woods on foot, and leaning on his pilgrim’s staff. His heart yearned within him; for he was eager to tell his wife of t... ... them. However, the wilderness was wide enough; so Roger Williams took his staff and travelled into the forest and made treaties with the Indians, and... ...England. But soon afterwards, Sir Edmund Andros, an officer of the English army, arrived, with a commission to be governor general of New England and ... ...hair, was the arrival at Boston of an English fleet in 1698. It brought an army which was intended for the conquest of Canada. But a malignant disease... ...e government of Massachu setts was called upon to find provisions for the army and fleet, and to raise more men to assist in taking Canada. What with... ...ers would secure protection from on high. Meanwhile Cotton Mather took his staff and three cor nered hat and walked about the streets, calling at the... ...re close at hand.” “Did the people make ready to fight?” asked Charley. “A Continental Congress assembled at Philadelphia,’’ said Grandfather, “and pr... ...Grandfather found it necessary to say something about pub lic events. The Continental Congress, which was assembled at Phila delphia, was composed o... ...reverend appendage to a cleri cal skull. There, too, were officers of the Continental army, who required their hair to be pomatumed and plastered, so...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...ng, the Allies as contem- porary soldiers. They were going to fight a 1900 army with a 1914 army, and their whole opening scheme was based on the conv... ...that seem to form the chief reading of our military experts, said that the army that entrenches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and ... ...against science, discipline, and priggishly keeping fit enough to join the army, as very good fun indeed, good matter for some jolly reeling ballad ab... ...aring-house, did such a thing exist; and each system has its vast separate staff, unaccus- tomed to work with any other staff. Since the war began the... ...ing in 1914, exist to-day only as names, as shapes, as empty shells. Their staffs have been shattered, scattered, recon- structed; their buildings enl... ...le legal profession to be honest. The British judges and law 69 H G Wells officers are stupendously overpaid in order to make them incorruptible; it ... ... reading. English history from the be- ginning, with occasional glances at Continental affairs, Eu- ropean history for about a century, bits of econom... ...f lan- guages, mere schoolmasters’ gossip, but the consequences are on the continental scale. The want of these national text- books and readers is a ... ...he Italians, the British have to reckon with Islam and the Arab; where the continental deserts are, there the Arabs are and there is Islam; their cult...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...m it each man’s simple duty to face death unhesitatingly, so the ‘glorious army of martyrs’ had, for the most part, joined the Church with the expecta... ... to the valley called the Forum or Marketplace to give their votes for the officers of state who were elected ev- ery year; especially the two consuls... ..., bringing his helmet, breast plate, short sword, and heavy spear, and the officers called tribunes, chose out a sufficient number, who were formed in... ...ul soon had his doubt satisfied by a sharp blow on the head from the ivory staff. All reverence was dispelled by that stroke; it was at once returned ... ... a passport to the rude joys of V alhall. Nevertheless there is a pastoral staff across the doorway, barring the way of the king, and that staff is he... ...to strike the bishop away from the threshold, but he, without removing his staff, bent his head, and bade them strike, saying he was ready to die in t... ... served in the Low Countries, under Prince Maurice of Nassau; for the long Continental wars had throughout King James’ peaceful reign been treated by ...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...hed nation. They were regarded as barbarians—potent only by their standing army, not upon the larger basis of civic strength; and, even under this lim... ...d sacred: but as a question might still be raised, by means of a mercenary army, as to the claims of the particular individual who at any time filled ... ...le even for a merciful conqueror to show mercy; for, in the presence of an army so mercenary and factious, his own safety was but too deeply involved ... ...ntures, he encountered 14 The Cæsars and defeated several of the imperial officers commanding large detachments of troops; and at length grew of cons... ...neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of their functions to our ... ...n ladies paramount, and in situations of command, they are also women. The staff of authority does not annihilate their sex; and scruples of female de... ...ing out of personal am- *Vitis: and it deserves to be mentioned, that this staff, or cudgel, which was the official engine and cognizance of the Centu... ...lied in these stern and memorable words—Occidat, dum imperet. Upon which a continental writer comments thus: “Never before or since have three such wo... ... opening of the shows, a stranger, in the robe of a philosopher, bearing a staff in his hand, (which also was the professional ensign* of a philosophe...

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A Set of Six

By: Joseph Conrad

...ities, re- ferred for some reason or other to the “well-known fact” of two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army hav- ing fought a series of duels in the ... ...ason or other to the “well-known fact” of two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army hav- ing fought a series of duels in the midst of great wars and on so... ...d therefore to invent it; and I think that, given the character of the two officers which I had to invent, too, I have made it sufficiently con- vinci... ...fortunes. General Santierra began his service as lieutenant in the patriot army raised and commanded by the famous San Martin, afterwards conqueror of... ...y, the yell of disappointment was still more terrible. The soldiers of the army of Independence were not equipped with canteens. A small tin cup was f... ...ld. Having won my promotion in the Peru cam- paign, I was a captain on the staff. Gaspar Ruiz found himself hard pressed; at the same time we heard by... ...e them away with the flat of their swords. “It was General Robles with his staff. He wanted badly to make some prisoners. He, too, seemed disap- point... ...ry pamphlets? Their sudden swarmings used to overwhelm the powers of every Continental po- lice like a plague of crimson gadflies. But this ex- treme ... ... a post, but he has two eyes in his head. Come along! I will teach you, my staff officer, that the carrying about of a general’s orders is not always ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...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 ... ...50 and of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government... ... that Ordinance by put- ting power to carry it out in the hands of the new officers under the Constitution, in the place of the old ones, who had been... ...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; ... ...your true friend and sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN. EARLY INFORMATION ON ARMY DEFECTION IN SOUTH TO D. HUNTER. (Private and Confidential.) SPRINGFIE... ...arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, and when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the s... ...d send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European inter... ...oses that, although the State law requires him to appoint upon the general staff an adjutant-general, a commissary-gen- eral, an inspector-general, a ... ...a brigade of not less than four regi- ments, and that no greater number of staff officers shall be appointed for regimental, brigade, and division dut...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and enlighten you,... ...ght her away from Mrs. O’Dowd’s after a general handshaking from the young officers, who ac- companied her to the fly, and cheered that vehicle as it ... ...PTER XVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s governmen... ...on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a g... ... may be said as a rule, that every Englishman in the Duke of W ellington’s army paid his way. The remembrance of such a fact surely becomes a nation o... ...h two brilliant young gentlemen of fashion, who were, like himself, on the staff of a general officer. George was only half pleased to be asked to din... ...ct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally over- bearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-te... ...heard up the stair of the house where the Osbornes occupied a story in the continental fashion. A knock might have been heard at the kitchen door; and... ...were her sphere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There wa...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

...nnot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused? First, the tide,... ...t will not accept it for its loath- someness. There were Englishmen in the army of Austria. Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when ... ...ous Sardinian monarch with such assurances of devotion, that a Piedmontese army would be at the gates when the banner of Austria was in the dust. Amon... ... General of distinction, he had a sort of semi-attachment to the Marshal’s staff, and was hurried to and fro, for the purpose of keeping him out of du... ...friendlier com- rades surmised. The right to the distinction of exercising staff- duties is, of course, only to be gained by stout competitorship in t... ...bardy, prompted by the counsels of his sagacious adlatus, the chief of the staff, was engaged at that period in adding some of those ugly round walls ... ... a sturdy hind-foot, daring her foes as from a rock of defence. A group of officers, of the cavalry, with a few infantry uni- forms skirting them, wer... ...pping iced lemonade or coffee, and talking the common talk of the garrison officers, with per- haps that additional savour of a robust immorality whic... ...er. It was winter in Milan, turning to the new year—the year of flames for continental Europe. A young man with a mili- tary stride, but out of unifor...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...o be taken as a part of him, the likening of it, at an introduction, to an army on the opening march of a great campaign, should plead ex- cuses for t... ...or at him, I should say. He’s right: if we won’t learn that we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over. Laziness, coward- ice, he says.’ ‘O... ...’ ‘Not till you’ve got the drop of poison in your blood, in the form of an army landed. That will teach you to catch at the drug.’ ‘No, Fenellan! Besi... ...he drug.’ ‘No, Fenellan! Besides they’ve got to land. I guarantee a trusty army and navy under a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. We’ll st... ...tin. I must beg of you you write it down. It is orally incomprehensible to Continentals.’ ‘We are Islanders!’ Colney shrugged in languishment. ‘Oh, yo... ...strokes and 83 George Meredith counterstrokes were like a play of quarter-staff on the sconce, to knock all comprehension out of Skepsey. Otherwise h... ...words were knocking about his head to render the thought of the passport a staff of safety; and on the morning that fol- lowed he was at speed through... ...aratory fashion; because he is determined we shall have an army of trained officers instead of infant ama- teurs heading heroic louts. Not a thought o... ... Colney hasn’t said it. If we’re not plucked, as your regiments are of the officers who have learnt their work, we’re emasculated:—the nation’s half m...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e of expenditure prevalent, not only amongst the correspond- ing bodies of continental nations, but even amongst the poorer sections of our own nobili... ...ts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing in such a ghostly army. My brother, dying in his sixteenth year, was far enough from seeing o... ...umed to eyes that watched over the trembling interests of man. The English army, about that time in the great agony of its strife, was thrown into squ... ...cta- tors that knew about the amount of human interests con- fided to that army, and the hopes for Christendom that even then were trembling in the ba... ...ter the fashion of Louis Qua- torze, or our Charles II., and so many other continental princes. There were living witnesses (more than one) of his abe... ...ime in the episcopal palace; and there it was that General Humbert and his staff lived in fa- miliar intercourse with the bishop, who thus became well... ... The French army , so much dreaded, at length arrived. The general and his staff entered the palace; and the first act of one officer, on coming into ... ... chance of safety, un- avoidably we looked only to our nominal enemies—the staff of the French army.” One story was still current, and very frequently... ...r- eigner ever sees at home will at least be always within reach, from the continental practice of using the bed room for the sitting room. But in Eng...

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