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...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have env...

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...L CHARLO O O O OT T T T TTE TE TE TE TE Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies May fare as well as t... ...ood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl ... ...’s a steep bank down to the water. Well, my young Lord was very keen about building a kind of steps there in the sum- mer, and he and I settled the st... ...d off, leaving Charlotte to restore her- self to the little handy piece of household mechanism which kind, patient, motherly training had rendered her... ...mates on a large scale. Mines were set on foot, companies established, and buildings commenced, and the results were only to be paralleled by those of... ...- fied! when he had become a leading man in Parliament, and by-and-by held office. There, a change came over the spirit of her dream; and though she s... ...strife of politics? These had ever since engaged him, whether in or out of office, leaving little time for society or for any domestic pursuit. Her re... ... wyverns on each side of the shield; but as to the individual holding that office, he regards him much as he would one of the wyverns with a fool’s-ca... ...- in-law’s shopman’s wife in Tottenham-court-road, whose name she knew was Ford, and who had been picked out of a gutter! The establishment of such a ...

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...................................................................... 79 THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO ............................................................. ..................................................164 WRESSLEY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE ....................................................................... ...ren and took classes in the Sun- day School, and read all the books in the house, and grew more and more beautiful, like the Princesses in fairy tales... ...e sea, being a Hill girl. There was an old puzzle- map of the World in the House. Lispeth had played with it when she was a child. She unearthed it ag... ...ream of it. Mrs. Bremmil listened quietly, and thanked them for their good offices. She was not as clever as Mrs. Hauksbee, but she was no fool. She k... ... the day’s work, and if you die another man takes over your place and your office in the eight hours between death and burial. Nothing matters except ... ...was made up in T own, where there is nothing but machinery and asphalt and building—all shut in by the fog. Naturally, a man grows to think that there... ...threw away the sword, But in the lonely watching In the darkness by the ford. The waters lapped, the night-wind blew, Full-armed the Fear was born ... ...rhaps she told him that she was this age. “Very Young” Gayerson would have forded the Gugger in flood to carry her lightest word, and had implicit fai...

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...terature and music, who, not being married, engaged Critheis to manage his household, and spin the flax he received as the price of his scholastic lab... ...s, who aimed at the reputa tion of poetical genius, kept Homer in his own house, and allowed him a pittance, on condition of the verses of the poet p... ...Eiresione at the New Moon festivals, he earned a subsistence, visiting the houses of the rich, with whose children he was very popular. In the spring ... ...stroy the vividness of first impressions by minute analysis, our editorial office compels us to give some attention to the doubts and difficulties wit... ...To pay whole honours to the shades of hell, We check’d our haste, by pious office bound, And laid our old companion in the ground. And now the rites d... ...d the shore, He dropp’d his sinewy arms: his knees no more Perform’d their office, or his weight upheld: His swoln heart heaved; his bloated body swel... ...e jelly bubbles, and the fibres crack. And as when armourers temper in the ford The keen edged pole axe, or the shining sword, The red hot metal hisse... ...ugged soil a plain, There stood his mansion of the rural sort, With useful buildings round the lowly court; Where the few servants that divide his car...

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...in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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... child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed.... ...ATER. Philip was sitting on the floor in the drawing-room at Miss Watkin’s house in Onslow gardens. He was an only child and used to amusing himself. ... ...d a hansom, and she told the driver where to go. III WHEN THEY reached the house Mrs. Carey had died in—it was in a dreary , respectable street betwee... ...urchwarden in a Christian parish. Josiah Graves thereupon resigned all his offices, and that very evening sent to the church for his cassock and surpl... ... ducks and drakes. Then they walked slowly back. They looked into the post office to get the right time, nodded to Mrs. Wigram the doctor’s wife, who ... ...iron railing through which you saw a vast lawn and beyond this some of the buildings of King’s School. One small boy was wandering disconsolately , ki... ...oys were gradually assembling. They were sons of the local clergy , of the officers at the Depot, and of such manu- facturers or men of business as th... ... sorry . The Bar seemed out of the question, since he was not going to Ox- ford, for the Careys were under the impression that a degree was still nece... ...ar that her money had been coming to an end, and at last she could not af- ford to come any more to the studio. The little room was almost bare of fur...

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... she shook her ears or her tail; and she looked so small under the bundle that my mind misgave me. We got across the ford without difficulty – there w... ...then proceeded to steer Modestine through the village. She tried, as was indeed her invariable habit, to enter every house and every courtyard in the ... ...r not in such or such a place; if there were forests; studies of manners; what, for example, I and the master of the house say to you; the beauties of... ... cess, the defects of the majority decide the type of beauty. ‘And where,’ said I, ‘is monsieur?’ ‘The master of the house is upstairs,’ she answered,... ...- wart father had made with his own two hands within the space of a year, came to a corner, and showed us some white buildings a little farther on bey... ...dy paths and beds of parti-coloured dahlias, and with a fountain and a black statue of the Virgin in the centre. The buildings stand around it four-sq... ...el, the chapter- room, or the refectory, all day long: every hour he has an 40 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne office to sing, a duty to perform... ...clusion. There were none of those circumstances which strike the Prot- estant as childish or as tawdry in the public offices of Rome. A stern simplici... ...ayer, and then the clear trenchant beating of the bell, breaking in to show 41 Robert Louis Stevenson that the last office was over and the hour of s...

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...g man whom, four years previous, I had frequently met in a sailor boarding-house in Liverpool. I remembered parting with him at Prince’s Dock Gates, i... ...parting with him at Prince’s Dock Gates, in the midst of a swarm of police-officers, trackmen, stevedores, beggars, and the like. And here we were aga... ...n. He was quite a young man, pale and slender, more like a sickly counting-house clerk than a bluff sea-captain. Bid- ding me be seated, he ordered th... ...mned, however, about two years previous, she was purchased at auction by a house in Sydney, who, after some slight repairs, dispatched her on the pres... ...ight one day find his anchor down, and no crew to weigh it. With judicious officers the most unruly seamen can at sea be kept in some sort of subjecti... ... galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and chains. Their officers go among them with dirk and pistol—concealed, but ready at a grasp... ...o the royal abode, both artists and sitters. It was a famous time; and the buildings of the palace being “taboo” to all but the tattooers and chiefs, ... ...ble that they cause no inconvenience. The Pritchard residence—a fine large building—occupies a site on one side of the bay: a green lawn slopes off to... ...toga critically, re- minded its proprietor that there were many streams to ford, and precipices to scale, between Martair and Tamai; and if he travell...

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... the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in... ...child, and that there appeared to be no other persons but ourselves in the house. I took advantage of a moment when she was absent to The Old Curiosit... ...w guarded by a shutter which I had heard the boy put up before he left the house) and with another fare well whose clear and tender note I have recal... ...treets and alleys by the waterside, advanced money to the seamen and petty officers of merchant vessels, had a share in the ven tures of divers mates... ...dancing and buoyant and bubbling up; while the old grey Tower and piles of building on the shore, with many a church spire shooting up between, looke... ...rt pot the apex; the structure being resolved into its component parts af forded all things requisite and necessary for a hearty meal, to which Mr Sw... ...ound of their voices, into the front parlour, which seemed to be a kind of office. The day being very warm and the street a quiet one, the windows wer... ..., some of the pleasantest hours I ever spent in my life were spent in this office—were spent, Sir, upon this very stool”; but there was never one amon... ... actionable, and if I was a man of low and mean standing, who couldn’t af ford to be slandered, I should proceed for damages. Hows’ever, sir, being w...

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...itality of the time and country, he was readily admitted. The owner of the house, a gentleman of good fortune, was much struck by the rever- end appea... ...dably ,attend his reception, and could not escape his eye. she lady of the house was, he said, confined to her apartment, and on the point of making h... .... If he be bred up as I advise, I think it will be best that he come to my house at the time when the fatal and decisive period approaches, that is, b... ...e places it rose into tall rocks, frequently crowned with the ruins of old buildings, towers, or beacons, which, ac- cording to tradition, were placed... ... was personified in the commissioners, surveyors, comptrollers, and riding officers, whom he happened to know—”the rev- enue-lads can look sharp eneug... ...hat catcht it, Saturday was three weeks, down at the stream below Hempseed ford,” etc., etc., etc. The Laird, whose indignation had for some time kept... ...mbition; not that he liked either the trouble or the responsibility of the office, but he thought it was a dignity to which he was well entitled, and ... ...ings, or verbal expressions, he gave full current to the new- born zeal of office, and endeavoured to express his sense of the honour conferred upon h... ...land and Scotland bear witness. Descending by. a path towards a well-known ford, Dumple crossed the small river, and then quickening his pace, trotted...

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...heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of... ...k to the black-hole?” said Rebecca, laughing. “No: but—” “I hate the whole house,” continued Miss Sharp in a fury. “I hope I may never set eyes on it ... ...ecca’s hard-heartedness and ill- humour; and, by a thousand kind words and offices, over- come, for once at least, her hostility to her kind. Miss Sha... ... year before the arrange- ment by which Rebecca had been admitted into her house, and when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically,... ...d dried her tears, and had blushed very much and been delighted at a young officer of the Life Guards, who spied her as he was riding by, and said, “A... .... “There’s not a finer fellow in the service,” Osborne said, “nor a better officer, though he is not an Adonis, certainly.” And he looked towards the ... ...ley when a boy, sent him to Cambridge (in opposition to his brother at Ox- ford), and, when the young man was requested by the authorities of the firs... ...ellers in Flanders must remember for the luxury and accommodation they af- forded. So prodigiously good was the eating and drinking on board these slu... ...rted with all the marriageable officers whom the depots of her country af- forded, and all the bachelor squires who seemed eligible. She had been enga...

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...ed age, and who for many years of his life, had a con- stant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before h... ...tion in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of t... ...er child and their attendants. No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband’ s from the moment of his father’s decease; but the i... ... was comfort- able and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not pain... ...ce was a sitting room, about sixteen feet square; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs. Four bed-rooms and two garrets formed the rest of t... ...ring, if I have plenty of money, as I dare say I shall, we may think about building. These parlors are both too small for such par- ties of our friend... ...fortune small, I can suppose that she might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife. I... ... fortnight from the receipt of Willoughby’s letter, Elinor had the painful office of inform- ing her sister that he was married. She had taken care to... ...em, however, he was equally at a loss with herself to make out; for at Ox- ford, where he had remained for choice ever since his quitting London, he h...

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... idle fellow into an industrious un. It’s the preacher as empties th’ ale- house; and if a man gets religion, he’ll do his work none the worse for tha... ...the workshop Adam locked the door, took the key out, and carried it to the house on the other side of the woodyard. It was a low house, with smooth gr... ...gnize Adam till he said, “Here’s the key, Dolly; lay it down for me in the house, will you?” “A ye, sure; but wunna ye come in, Adam? Miss Mary’s i’ t... ...ester Burge as owns the timber-yard over there, he underteks a good bit o’ building an’ repairs. An’ there’s the stone-pits not far off. There’s plent... ...e of those very narrow passes between two tall stones, which performed the office of a stile in Loamshire, and Dinah paused as she turned 31 George E... ...icking in the souls of men by receiving money for discharging the pastoral office in parishes where they did not so much as look on the faces of the p... ...e felt that, however ill he harmonized with sound theories of the clerical office, he somehow harmonized extremely well with that peace- ful landscape... ...fellow walk- ing by his side. “I could hit out better than most men at Ox- ford, and yet I believe you would knock me into next week if I were to have... ...phets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can’t af- ford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great dea...

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...the hands of the archdeacon. The then prime minister was all in all at Ox- ford, and had lately passed a night at the house of the master of Lazarus. ... ... minister was all in all at Ox- ford, and had lately passed a night at the house of the master of Lazarus. Now the master of Lazarus—which is, by the ... ...r fifty, and there was little chance that his friends who were now leaving office would soon return to it. No probable British prime minister but he w... ...Rev. Septimus Harding. ‘There, ’ said he. ‘Just take that to the telegraph office at 8 Barchester Towers the railway station, and give it as it is; t... ...s Hospital on its feet again. A learned bishop took occasion, in the Upper House, to allude to the matter, intimating that he had communicated on the ... ...the education of the agri- cultural poor of the country, and he amused the House by some anecdotes touching the superstition and habits of 14 Barches... ...ere doing? It is however to be hoped that the under secretary for the Home Office knew, for to him had the matter been confided. The bill, however, di... ...ew- ish professor—’ The insult was becoming too deep for the spirit of Ox- ford to endure, so the archdeacon walked off one way and the chancellor ano... ...ows. Lazarus, how- ever, the richest and the most comfortable abode of Ox- ford dons, opened its bosom to the young champion of a church militant. Mr ...

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... possession before Michaelmas, and some of his ser- vants are to be in the house by the end of next week.” “What is his name?” “Bingley.” “Is he marri... ..., therefore, as she will think it an act of kind- ness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.” The girls stared at their father. Mrs. B... ... already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. Mr. Bingley was... ...converse with them. Miss Bingley is to live with her brother, and keep his house; and I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbou... ...st of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room. Mr. Darcy stood... ...eresting intelligence. Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers’ names and connections. Their lodgings were not long a secret, and... ...claimed. Other books were produced, and after some delib- eration he chose Fordyce’s Sermons. Lydia gaped as he opened the volume, and before he had, ... ... the park nearly opposite the front of his house. It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground. 127 Jane Austen From his garden,... ...ry her. Wickham will never marry a woman without some money. He cannot af- ford it. And what claims has Lydia— what attraction has she beyond youth, h...

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... own. He became acquainted with Dryden’s works, and went to Wills’s coffee-house to see him. He says, “Virgilium tantum vidi.” Such transient meetings... ...eep interest in the success of this undertaking, recommending it in coffee-houses, and introducing the sub- ject and Pope’s name to the leading Tories... ...ge disgust at the conflicting parties of the period, he had retired to the house of a clergyman, and an intimacy commenced which was only terminated b... ...ms of Parnell, and prefixed a very beautiful dedication to the Earl of Ox- ford, commencing with— 15 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume O... ...oming a person who has hardly credit enough to answer for his own. In this office of collecting my pieces, I am altogether un- certain whether to look... ...y pieces, I am altogether un- certain whether to look upon myself as a man building a monument, or burying the dead. If time shall make it the former,... ...ever did askance like modest virgin look. 6 Such place hath Deptford, navy-building town, Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch; Such L... ...ed in breasts seraphic glow: 320 Thou, Abelard! the last sad office pay, And smooth my passage to the realms of day; See my lips tremble... ...our poet, and your host: 3 For three whole days you here may rest From office business, news, and strife; And (what most folks would think a jes...

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...ing a sequence of events backwards: forensic experts can go into a burned out building where an explosion happened, and determine not only what made ... ...tality of a Singularity. Why is this not happening? Put it this way: take a house and smash it with a wrecking ball into ten million pieces. Are y... ...atness of the galaxy it inhabits. The Totality of Infinite Energy is like a house. To be put back together exactly as it once was, every particle... ...f the Infinite Universe is much more exact than the structural integrity of a house. With a house: you can use new timbers, and new plaster to put ... ...nger feel any connection to the earth they live on. People working indoors in offices no longer feel any connection to the earth they live on. Peop... ...al combustion engines and jet engines. Modern architectural firms have their offices inside ancient stone buildings. Houses are built with an entir... ... accounts in the Caribbean. President Suharto of Indonesia being swept out of office amidst cries of scandal and corruption… but did anyone dare pro... ...eryone hates it. It crashes so regularly, that it is like the early model ‘T’ fords: where the drivers took along at least five or ten spare tires o... ...umers. Consumers can choose between Coke and Pepsi. They can choose between Ford and Chevrolet and Nissan. They cannot choose a car that is made ...

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...penly down to 18 The Second Jungle Book the village. He walks between the houses and thrusts his head into the doorway, and the men fall on their fac... ...ue-book on the “Moral and Material Progress of the State,” and the Foreign Office and the Government of India were delighted. Very few native States t... ...d medical missionaries, and common mis- sionaries, and hard-riding English officers who came to shoot in the State preserves, as well as of whole host... ...ough he had never carried a weapon in his life,—and twenty years head of a household. He had used his wealth and his power for what he knew both to be... ...l than a man bears to a colourless dream of the night. He was a Sunnyasi—a houseless, wandering mendicant, depending on his neighbours for his daily b... ...an in the village, who had given his name to the village; the demon of the ford before the railway bridge, came—murderer, man- eater, and local fetish... ...for others; that is all. But I have noticed, lying at my station below the ford, that the stairs of the new bridge are cruelly hard to climb, both for... ...y , we shall see my people”s bare brown legs bravely splashing through the ford as before. Then the old Mugger will be honoured again.” “But surely I ... ...s to them, but they are not looking for us—those two men.” “Men, is it? My office protects me. All India knows I am holy.” The Adjutant, being a first...

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...saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation. “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!” He made no motion of ste... ...d of a dead than a living man. Again he said. Chapter 2 21 “Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness yo... ...y was as he replied, “I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and res... ...he dining room, I was assured of it. For if he does himself all these menial offices, surely it is proof that there is Chapter 3 35 no one else in th... ...he new searchlight was ready for experiment, but had not yet been tried. The officers in charge of it got it into working order, and in the pauses of ... ...cap tain). On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus. Boarded by Turkish Customs officers. Backsheesh. All correct. Under way at 4 p. m. On 12 July throu... ... any movement whatever. Just then, the moonlight crept round an angle of the building, and the light fell on the window. There dis tinctly was Lucy ... ... boxes, fifty in number, which form the consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the house and marked ‘A’ on rough diagrams enclo... ...y argument with him to day and his resumption of fly catching, it might af ford us a valuable clue. He is now seemingly quiet for a spell… . Is he? ...

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...d and advanced all sorts of cheerfulness and innocent gayety in her little household): and by notes entered into a table-book of hers at this time, an... ...remained perfect good friends. All the frequenters of my Lady of Chelsey’s house were of the Tory and High Church party. Madame Beatrix was as frantic... ...ends, but never with Esmond, used to tell the Colonel that his kinswoman’s house was a rendezvous of Tory intrigues; that Gauthier was a spy; that Att... ...prancing aides-de-camp and gen- erals, stopping here and there to thank an officer with those eager smiles and bows of which his Grace was always lavi... ...heir pouches of tobacco. And one fine day of June, riding thither with the officer who visited the outposts, (Colonel Esmond was taking an airing on h... ...d he been on our side of the river. Whilst this parley was going on, three officers on horseback, on the French side, appeared at some little distance... ... honorable coat; and I am think- ing of retiring into the plantations, and building myself a wigwam in the woods, and perhaps, if I want company, suit... ... fawn on the Court favorite and creep up the back-stair as silently as Ox- ford, who supplanted Marlborough, and whom he himself sup- planted. The cra... ...gate (round which the Ministers’ coaches were stand- ing), and the barrack building. As we were looking out from this window in gloomy discourse, we h...

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...ois of which Henry IV could never rid himself, “this horse was born in the house of your father about thir- teen years ago, and has remained in it eve... ...he spotless name that accompanied it, M. de Treville was admitted into the household of the young prince where he made such good use of his sword, and... ...nse staircases, upon whose space modern civi- lization would build a whole house. Ascended and descended the office seekers of Paris, who ran after an... ...odern civi- lization would build a whole house. Ascended and descended the office seekers of Paris, who ran after any sort of favor— gentlemen from th... ...ed buzzing prevailed from morning till night, while M. de Treville, in his office contiguous to this antechamber, re- 23 Alexandre Dumas ceived visit... ... way amid these turbulent and conflicting waves, it was necessary to be an officer, a great noble, or a pretty woman. It was, then, into the midst of ... ...chausses, or rather Deschaux, as it was called at that pe- riod, a sort of building without a window, surrounded by barren fields—an accessory to the ... ..., and follow us.” “Monsieur,” said Aramis, parodying Jussac, “it would af- ford us great pleasure to obey your polite invitation if it de- pended upon... ...nd of five hundred paces, more or less, they came to a rivulet, which they forded. By the aid of the lightening they perceived the village of Erquinhe...

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...free; 7 The Iliad of Homer nay, ere that shall old age come on her in our house, in Argos, far from her native land, where she shall ply the loom and... ...sel Chryseis, seeing I am the rather fain to keep her own self within mine house. Yea, I prefer her before Klytaimnestra my wedded wife; in no wise is... .... Now when the bright light of the sun was set, these went each to his own house to sleep, where each one had his pal ace made with cunning device by... ...groans.”]. And of them that dwelt in Pylos and lovely Arene and Thryon the fording place of Alpheios, and in established Aipy, and were inhabitants of... ...le combat between Alas and hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about theAchaian ships. S O SPAKE GLORIOUS H ECTOR and... ...ve grown weary of beating the main with polished oars, and their limbs are fordone with toil, even so appeared these to the longing T rojans. Now when... ...d, he the Warden of the Achaians; neither he of purpose, but his horse was fordone, which noble Alexandros, beauteous haired Helen’s lord, had smitten... ...your way and tell my answer to the princes of the Achaians, even as is the office of elders, that they may devise in their hearts some other better co... ...chaians, as when a boy scatters the sand beside the sea, first making sand buildings for sport in his childish ness, and then again, in his sport, co...

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... with inverted glasses and old cruet-stands. The Frenchman had come to the house for shelter and food, and had been asked whether he was commercial. W... ...politics in our press, our parliament, our public meetings, or our private houses. 9 Trollope No man could be mad enough to preach such a doctrine. A... ...that, at the beginning of the war, Lord Russell, who was then in the lower house, declared, as Foreign Secretary of State, that England would regard t... ...s begs that I will interfere with her husband, and Jones entreats the good offices of my wife in moderating the hot temper of his own. But we know bet... ...lieve, built with that object. At any rate, it was pro- claimed during her building that such was her destiny, and the Portlanders believed it with a ... ...States, in this respect, are not all alike, the modes of election of their officers, and periods of service, being different. Even the franchise is di... ... the Houses of Parliament, and the two side buildings for the govern- ment offices. Of the first Messrs. Fuller and Jones are the architects, and of t... ... two factories for the manufacture of arms. Colt’s pistols come from Hart- ford, as also do Sharpe’s rifles. Wherever arms can be pre- pared, or gunpo... ...ber to be above six hundred thousand—and therefore in such places as Hart- ford trade was very brisk. I went over the rifle factory, and was shown eve...

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...ulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Ma... ...ot. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have ap peared to me to be doing pena... ...ee young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquire... ...of life with freedom and a prospect of success. Man has invented, not only houses, but clothes and cooked food; and possibly from the accidental disco... ...es in this fashion for two reasons: firstly, in order not to waste time in building, and not to want food the next sea son; secondly, in order not to... ... necessities even. There is some of the Walden 42 same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who... ...rosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice? Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is suff... ...is gos sip. There was such a rush, as I hear, the other day at one of the offices to learn the foreign news by the last arrival, that several large s... ...that was good. Could he dispense with tea and coffee? Did this country af ford any beverage beside water? He had soaked hem lock leaves in water and...

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.......363 NOTES..........................................369 EXECUTIVE OATH OF OFFICE.........370 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED ST... ...THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at ... ...New York and fellow Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York’s St. ... ...new President gave his inau gural address before a joint session of the two Houses of Congress assembled inside the Senate Chamber. FELLOW C ITIZENS ... ...bled inside the Senate Chamber. FELLOW C ITIZENS OF THE S ENATE and of the House of Rep resentatives: Among the vicissitudes incident to life no ev... ...observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Repre sentatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as ... ...r. By these fortifica tions, supported by our Navy, to which they would af ford like support, we should present to other powers an armed front from ... ...proper to make such discriminations within the revenue principle as will af ford incidental protection to our home interests. Within the revenue limi... ... people to administer them. The settled purpose, long ago proclaimed, to af ford the inhabitants of the islands self government as fast as they were ...

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...plain massive figure of the scholar amid the elegant comfort of Buckingham House. He is intent on his book before the fire. Then the approach of the K... ...cheerful,’ ‘a man whom everybody likes,’ ‘a man who I believe never left a house without leaving a wish for his return.’ His vivacity, his love of fun... ...which we travel in lumbering coach or speeding postchaise to venerable Ox- ford with its polite and leisurely dons, or to the staunch little cathedral... ...settled in Lichfield as a bookseller and stationer. His mother was Sa- rah Ford, descended of an ancient race of sub- stantial yeomanry in Warwickshir... ...hurch man and royal- ist, and retained his attachment to the unfor- tunate house of Stuart, though he reconciled himself, by casuistical arguments of ... ...6.—After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford, Johnson was, at the age of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbri... ...f the noble family of that name, who had been quartered at Lichfield as an officer of the army, and had at this time a house in Lon- don, where Johnso... ...e hardships of writing for bread; he was, therefore, willing to resume the office of a schoolmaster, so as to have a sure, though moderate income for ... ...ing and barbarous; mentioning many in- stances, particularly, that when an officer of high rank had been acquitted by a Court Mar- tial, George the Se...

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...ells the ditch diggers where to dig and gets to sit in the air conditioned office all day? Of course I would pick the supervisor s position over the ... ...reak to eat. After eating they must go back out to do repairs on tractors, buildings, and ma- chinery to keep the farm in the best possible running or... ...oc.xp?AN=122723920& CONTEXT=9130136374028497969&hitnum=49>. Warren, Larry. Ford Mustang, Mercury Capri: Automotive Repair Manual. California. Haynes P... ...benefit from and enjoy a facility for wrestling. In the physical education building, there is a small, barely used upper gym that is ideal for a wrest... ...le. Then finally the day comes when students can register. The Registrar s office opens at 7:45 a.m. That is when stu- dents start to call University ... ...ll of Saba s 1,200 inhab- itants live in these beautiful villages. All the houses on the island are white, with red roofs and green shutters. Saba is ... ...k as my friend and I approached the old, somewhat dilapi- dated bridge. No houses or signs of life for that matter could be seen in the distance. Aime... ...ink. The boy said okay and thought no more about it. Later that day at his house he started to become bored and remembered the girl always saying that... ...eagan Presidency the level of public discourse, delivered from the highest office, has become increasingly more colloquial as politicians have become ...

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...eric models. At the close of the Shield Heracles goes on to Trachis to the house of Ceyx, and this warning suggests that the “Mar- 18 Hesiod, The Hom... ...n ‘the Boneless One gnaws his foot by his fireless hearth in his cheerless house’; to cut one’s nails is ‘to sever the withered from the quick upon th... ...rence to seasons through what happens or is done in that season: ‘when the House-carrier, fleeing the Pleiades, climbs up the plants from the earth’, ... ...gatives, a share in divination, the lordship of herds and animals, and the office of messen- ger from the gods to Hades. The Hymn is hard to date. Her... ...and Theognis, by the Rev. J. Banks, M.A.; Hesiod, by Prof. James Mair, Ox- ford, 1908 (3). 38 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica ENDNOTES: (1) ... ...ay when he drove the wide- browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead ... ... tans, he would not cast him out from his rights, but each should have the office which he had before amongst the deathless gods. And he declared that... ...before amongst the deathless gods. And he declared that he who was without office and rights as is just. So deathless Styx came first to Olympus with ... ...ip ran on its course and came to Arena and lovely Argyphea and Thryon, the ford of Alpheus, and well-placed Aepy and sandy Pylos and the men of Pylos;...

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...orm of union which can promote their welfare by some welfare schemes like building houses, educating children, buying land etc. or do not know the a... ...ion which can promote their welfare by some welfare schemes like building houses, educating children, buying land etc. or do not know the art of sav... ...l furnished places and when the chance of them having a T.V even in their house is impossible it is still an impossibility to have a T.V. set so tha... ...rograms never reach them. So government has not even extended the help of building a good health center for these rural uneducated poor. Now we c... ...d the disease. He belongs to the lower middle class and lives in a rented house. He claims that 75% of people are aware of HIV/ AIDS. The major sym... ... 8. Religion : JOB-RELATED INFORMATION 9. Profession : 10. The office in which you worked/are working : 11. How many person are empl... ...ich you worked/are working : 11. How many person are employed in the office?: 12. Name of the profession : 13. At what age did you join the... ...Virus: A Sociological Study, Navin Prakash Kendra, New Delhi (2000). 28. Ford, N., Cultural and Development factors underlying the Global Patterns ... ...ing to Women Talk about their Health: Issues and Evidence from India, The Ford Foundation, Har Anand Publication, India (1994). 44. Johnson, K., “W...

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...xty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study... ...ge to be treated of in two volumes in such way as to do justice to all the officers and men engaged. There were thousands of instances, during the reb... ... the events at Harper’s Ferry. Brown was a boy when they lived in the same house, but he knew him after- wards, and regarded him as a man of great pur... .... He always took an active part in politics, but was never a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he was the first Mayor of Georgetown. He su... ...eat admirer of Henry Clay, and never voted for any other democrat for high office after Jackson. My mother’s family lived in Montgomery County, Pennsy... ...as seven or eight years of age, I began haul- ing all the wood used in the house and shops. I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at that time... ...tching the movements of the “invader.” A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. I do not... ...he sincerely regretted this turn in his fortunes, preferring the peace af- forded by a quiet life free from abuse to the honor of filling the highest ... ...to sympathizers with the rebellion or to hire those of Union men. This af- forded an opportunity of giving employment to such of the refugees within o...

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...his question, lay before us the sayings and doings of a few dozen men in a building in the city of Paris, calling these sayings and doings “the Revolu... ...d in, the supplies of ammuni- tion replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men... ...ocality comes in and gives a report quite contrary to what was said by the officer previously sent; and a spy, a prisoner, and a general who has been ... ...a field of battle they consid- ered it impossible to hold? The lower-grade officers and even the soldiers (who too reason) also considered the positio... ...ted this. Those who went away, taking what they could and abandoning their houses and half their belongings, did so from the latent patrio- tism which... ... and that if it could not succeed it would not do to take young ladies and house serfs to the Three Hills quarter of Moscow to fight Napoleon, and tha... ...wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was cer- tain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. The... ...inted that he would burn Moscow and related how he had set fire to his own house; now wrote a proclamation to the French solemnly upbraiding them for ... ... overcame them. They all rushed forward to the bridge, onto it, and to the fords and the boats. Kutuzov himself had driven round by side streets to th...

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...r reflection. I felt for the first time the perfect silence of the sea. The officer was walking the quarter deck, where I had no right to go, one or ... ...leaving. But all my dreams were soon put to flight by an order from the officer to trim the yards, as the wind was getting ahead; and I could pla... ...k we were not much better off, for we were continually ordered about by the officer, who said that it was good for us to be in motion. Yet anything w... ... of men, and the glancing of the first beams upon trees, hills, spires, and house tops, to give it life and spirit. But though the actual rise of the... ... the port of Pernambuco, and could see with the telescope the roofs of the houses, and one large church, and the town of Olinda. We ran along by the... ...t only Robinson Crusoe like—of posts and branches of trees. The governor’s house, as it is called, was the most conspicuous, being large, with grat... ...as a small chapel, distinguished by a cross; and a long, low brown looking building, surrounded by something like a palisade, from which an old and... ...easant ride of a couple of miles, we saw the white walls of the mission, and fording a small river, we came directly before it. The mission is built o... ...rced, by the little Spanish town of Hornitos, and Snelling’s Tavern, at the ford of the Merced, where so many fatal fights are had. Thence I went to ...

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... military, and of literary, political, and profes- sional eminence, as any house in Scotland, first rose into dis- tinction in the person of James Dal... ...w a vow unto the Lord, and bind her- self by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; “And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith sh... ...tal injury by a fall from his horse, as he rode between Leith and Holyrood House, of which he died the next day, 28th March 1682. Thus a few years rem... ...e great civil wars. He himself had been bred to the bar, and had held high offices in the state, maintaining through life the character of a skilful f... ...to the scale to weigh down the cause of the poor litigant. The subordinate officers of the law affected little scruple concerning bribery. Pieces of p... ... into effect; so that, when the clergy- man had opened his prayer-book, an officer of the law, sup- ported by some armed men, commanded him to be sile... ...o his assistance. The village which they now approached had frequently af- forded the distressed butler resources upon similar emergen- cies; but his ... ... satirical author he had quoted. It was many a long year,” he said, “since Fordun had quoted as an ancient proverb, ‘Neque dives, neque fortis, sed ne... ...d scythe for what I ken, and we horsemen were ordered down to cross at the ford,—I hate fords at a’ times, let abee when there’s thousands of armed me...

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...ghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, ... ...nocent airs,” continued the vicomte. “I pity the poor husband, that little officer who gives himself the airs of a monarch.” Hippolyte spluttered agai... ...to the French? One has to know how to deal with them.” Pierre reaching the house first went into Prince Andrew’s study like one quite at home, and fro... ...s feet from the sofa. The princess came in. She had changed her gown for a house dress as fresh and elegant as the other. Prince Andrew rose and polit... ..., cried from the window: “Come here; part the bets!” This was Dolokhov, an officer of the Semenov regiment, a notorious gambler and duelist, who was l... ... while explaining that Dolokhov was betting with Stevens, an English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of ... ... the bridge that could not be crossed, so that they had to go round by the ford, and he sent hunts- men to ride in front with lanterns. “Good-by , dea... ...ans when one of the aides-de-camp rode up to them. The order was to find a ford and to cross the river. The colonel of the Polish Uhlans, a handsome o... ...ould be permit- ted to swim the river with his Uhlans instead of seeking a ford. In evident fear of refusal, like a boy asking for per- mission to get...

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...S IN THE VILLAGE OF REYBUZH, just facing the church, stands a two-storeyed house with a stone foundation and an iron roof. In the lower storey the own... ...me young woman, smart and buxom. When officials or merchants put up at the house, they always insist on having V arvara to bring in the samovar and ma... ... from him that he was from the town, was of the tradesman class, and had a house of his own, that his name was Matvey Savitch, that he was on his way ... ...ortune. It never rains but it pours: V asya was summoned to the recruiting office to draw lots for the service. He was taken, poor chap, for a soldier... ...The postman signed the receipt and went out. At the en- trance of the post-office there was the dark outline of a cart and three hors es. The horses w... ... beg your pardon.” The pipe went out. The postmaster came out of the post- office just as he was, in his waistcoat and slippers; shrinking from the ni... ...d in the dis- tance repeated splashing of water. “Someone is coming by the ford,” said Savka. Three minutes later Kutka growled again and made a sound... ...ne?” I asked. “There she is,” said Savka, pointing in the direction of the ford. I glanced and saw Agafya. Dishevelled, with her kerchief dropping off... ... the end of the street and watched the two carts crossing the river by the ford and the gentlefolks walking across the meadow; a carriage was wait- in...

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...table family estate. Y oung women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturall... ... the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house- hold, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the hom- ag... ...ifying your land and that kind of thing, and mak- ing a parlor of your cow-house. It won’t do. I went into sci- ence a great deal myself at one time; ... ...s dan- gerous to insist on knowledge as a qualification for any sala- ried office. Fred Vincy had called Lydgate a prig, and now 144 Middlemarch Mr. ... ...t Bulstrode was prime minister, and that the Tyke affair was a question of office or no office; and he could not help an equally pronounced dislike to... ... could not help an equally pronounced dislike to giving up the prospect of office. For his observation was constantly confirming Mr. Farebrother’s ass... ...e being no definite promise in it, as of gratuitous grains to fatten Hiram Ford’s pig, or of a publican at the “Weights and Scales” who would brew bee... ...lly disbelieving them. One day, however, he got into a dialogue with Hiram Ford, a wagoner, in which he himself contributed information. He wished to ... ... gate-way into their hay-field, and Fred had checked his horse, when Hiram Ford, observing himself at a safe challenging distance, turned back and sho...

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...ction of Affairs. — Death of the Elector Palatine. — Revolt of the Swedish Officers. — Duke Bernhard takes Ratisbon. — Wallenstein enters Silesia. — F... ...s of its influence. Against the reformed doctrine and its adher- ents, the House of Austria directed, almost ex- 7 Friedrich Schiller clusively, the ... ...had a very different conclusion. These were, the increas- ing power of the House of Austria, which threat- ened the liberties of Europe, and its activ... ...ay be asked, did they not operate with equal force upon the princes of the House of Austria? What prevented this house, particularly in its German bra... ...s and Protestants, and a full and equal admissibility of the latter to all offices of state. In several places, they of themselves assumed these privi... ...ation had placed in his hands something far more important—itself—with the office of defender or protector of the faith. The aristoc- racy by which th... ... his impregnable position for lost; and the dis- covery by the Swedes of a ford, by which their cavalry were on the point of passing, acceler- ated hi... ...lector’s treasures had been transported to Werfen. The magnificence of the building astonished him; and he asked the guide who showed the apartments w... ...uccessful issue border upon romance. The whole army crossed the Oder, at a ford near Furstenberg; and the soldiers, wading up to the neck in water, dr...

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... a change, however, in the position of Muhammad when he openly assumes the office of “public warner,” the Suras begin to assume a more prosaic and did... ...od of mental depression and re-assurance previous to the assumption of the office of public teacher–the Fatrah or pause (see n. p. 20) during which he... ... frequent rep- etitions of the same histories and the same sentiments, af- ford much facility: and the peculiar manner in which the details of each hi... ..., and Taief, are recorded, who previous to his assumption of the Prophetic office, called themselves Hanyfs, i.e., converts, puritans, and were believ... ...quipping caravans winter and summer. And let them worship the Lord of this house, who hath provided them with food against hunger, And secured them ag... ...ve me, and my parents, and every one who, being a believer, shall enter my house, and believers men and women: and add to the wicked nought but perdit... ...m from “the seven dwellings of Hell;” in Midr. on Ps. xi. “There are seven houses of abode for the wicked in Hell;” and in Sohar ii. 150, “Hell hath s... ... among themselves concern- ing what had befallen them, some said, “Build a building over them; their Lord knoweth best about them.” Those who prevaile... ...or them? They who were before them did plot of old. But God attacked their building at its foundation the roof fell on them from above; and, whence th...

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... the fertil Banks Of ABBANA and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He also against the house of God was bold: A Leper once he lost and gain’d a King, AHAZ his s... ...iest Turns Atheist, as did ELY’S Sons, who fill’d With lust and violence the house of God. In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious Citie... ...ithstands, and to oppose th’ attempt MEDUSA with GORGONIAN terror guards The Ford, and of it self the water flies All taste of living wight, as once i... ...ght of, know I come no enemie, but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain, Both him and thee, and all the heav’nly Host Of Spirits th... ...ither thrust me down Into this gloom of TARTARUS profound, To sit in hateful Office here confin’d, Inhabitant of Heav’n, and heav’nlie born, Here in p... ...any lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fansie next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses repr... ... for Dayes, and circling Years, And let them be for Lights as I ordaine Thir Office in the Firmament of Heav’n To give Light on the Earth; and it was ... ...n And looking down, to see the hubbub strange And hear the din; thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion nam’d. Whereto thus AD... ...aves his Gods, his Friends, and native Soile UR of CHALDAEA, passing now the Ford Paradise Lost Milton 202 To HARAN, after him a cumbrous Train Of...

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... means of support until 1819, when he obtained an appointment in the India House. In this period of my father’s life there are two things which it is ... ...appointed one of the Assistants of the Ex aminer of India Correspondence; officers whose duty it was to prepare drafts of despatches to India, for co... ...y the Directors, in the principal departments of administra tion. In this office, and in that of Examiner, which he subse quently attained, the infl... ...ouragement induced Ricardo, a year or two later, to become a member of the House of Commons; where, during the remaining years of his life, unhappily ... ...yde Park where, in my four teenth year, on the eve of leaving my father’s house for a long absence, he told me that I should find, as I got acquainte... ...ns which do not merit dislike; but if he neither himself does them any ill office, nor connives at its being donc by others, he is not intolerant: and... ...stminster. From 1814 to 1817 Mr. Bentham lived during half of each year at Ford Abbey, in Somersetshire (or rather in a part of Devonshire surrounded ... ...ockyard at Portsmouth), and during a stay of a few days which they made at Ford Abbey shortly after the Peace, before going to live on the Continent. ... ...us for mechanical art. His wife, a daughter of the celebrated chemist, Dr. Fordyce, was a woman of strong will and decided character, much general kno...

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...rtain of the truth, two physicians and a surgeon were ordered to go to the house and make inspec- tion. This they did; and finding evident tokens of t... ...re, because in the last week in December 1664 another man died in the same house, and of the same distemper. And then we were easy again for about six... ...that, I think it was about the 12th of February, another died in an- other house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the peopl... ...ority was given to justices of the peace, mayors, bailiffs, and other head-officers to appoint within their several limits examiners, searchers, watch... ...ces infected, and to minister unto them oaths for the performance of their offices. And the same statute did also authorise the giving of other direct... ...g of infection of sickness (if it shall so please Almighty God) that these officers following be ap- pointed, and these orders hereafter duly observed... ...to a narrow way that turns out of the hither end of the town of Bow to Old Ford, avoided any inquiry there, and travelled to Old Ford. The constables ... ...rd this little fraud, they obtained so much favour of the constable at Old Ford as to give them a certificate of their passing from Essex through that... ...oiner, whose name was Richard, and one of their men, who said his name was Ford. Ford. And do you assure us that you are all sound men? Richard. Nay, ...

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...NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Cent...

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...tate Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White House 98 3.7 . . . and in the Congress 102 4. RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA’S I... ...r Warren Bass Professional Staff Member Ann M. Bennett Information Control Officer Mark S. Bittinger Professional Staff Member Madeleine Blot Counsel ... ...mber Susan Ginsburg Senior Counsel & Team Leader T. Graham Giusti Security Officer Nicole Marie Grandrimo Professional Staff Member Douglas N. Greenbu... ...Senior Counsel & Team Leader Dana J. Hyde Counsel John W . Ivicic Security Officer Michael N. Jacobson Counsel Hunter W . Jamerson Intern Bonnie D. Je... ... the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, people began to line up for a White House tour. In Sarasota, Florida, President George W . Bush went for an ear... ...ed for her location and she replied that the aircraft was then flying over houses. Another passenger told her they were traveling northeast.The Solici... ...member of Congress,White House chief of staff, and, under President Gerald Ford, already once secretary of defense. Bush decided fairly soon to keep T... ...n Dubai. Atta probably picked up the group at the airport, having rented a Ford Explorer for the day.Shehri and Nami gave the Sheraton in Miami as the... ...foreword to Roberta W ohlstetter, Pearl Harbor:Warning and Decision (Stan- ford Univ. Press, 1962), p. viii. 7. For the Goldwater-Nichols Act, see Pub...