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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ... I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. ... ...Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of immorality and spiritual decay. To many European liberals, the United states is a throwback to darker ages of rel... ...ek an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal t... ... success to its political stability, neglecting to mention its pluralism and multi- party system, the sources of said endurance. But then, in an int... ... forces and the "mob" (the masses) as political players spelt doom for Senatorial, republican Rome. Some are comparing the relentlessly increasing ... ...ing weight of the Pentagon since 1941 to the rise to prominence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army i...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ...he World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet thei... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ...nstitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad CHAMKANI, Acting Cha... ...al from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parchami faction has bee... ... and leaders: govern- ment Australian Labor Party (Robert Hawke); opposition Liberal Party (John Howard), National Party (Ian Sinclair), Australian De... ...(1984 parliamentary election) House of Representatives Labor Party 82 seats, Liberal-National coalition 66 seats; Senate Labor Party 34 seats, Liberal... ...Party (PSD), Rene Abeliuk; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Gabriel Valdes; Republican Right, Hugo Zepeda; Socialist Party, Ri- cardo Nunez; the PR, ... ...ian Unity Party (PUSC) comprises the four Unity Coalition (UNIDAD) par- ties Republican Calderonista Party (PRC), Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier; Demo...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...y always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when people are survey... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...d they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in thei... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ...e deists, moral value judgments tend to move from the conservative to the liberal in nearly every question from abortion to the death penalty. Yes C... ...the USA because of the evil wrought here by feminists, gays and political liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an En... ...or an atheist. He would have about a zero chance of getting elected. Your Republicans seem to really play the God card. Yet it seems that they are th... ...s that have the most arrests for prostitution and corruption. I wonder if Republicans, Papists and terrorists all have their direct lines to the sam...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...n Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Libr... ... Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of ... ...ion processors, meaning they could be repurposed with new software, no third-party software industry existed. All software was bundled with the machin... ...are, beginning a slow evolution toward in-house programming talent and third-party software makers. Nevertheless, for years after the unbundling annou... ...4 By one credible estimate, there will be over 290 million PCs in use in the United States by 2010 and 2 bil- lion PCs in use worldwide by 2011. 75 In... ...ization of cultural participation offered by the Internet through the lens of liberal political theory: The networked information economy makes it poss... ...regulators acting with a light touch, as they traditionally have done within liberal societies. THE LONG ARM OF MARSHALL, TEXAS TiVo introduced the fir... ... R N, T Q  C (1953); Cass R. Sunstein, Beyond the Republican Revival, 97 Y L.J. 1539 (1988); Robert J. Condlin, Bargaini... ..., P 2, at 10 (2003). 64. This was a lesson learned by George Allen, a Republican candidate in the 2006 U.S. Sen- ate campaign who was caught on...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

.... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...hat the highest concentration is at the top, not at the bottom. Today in the United States: 1% of its population holds 40% of its wealth, 4% of its ... ...n England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe religious Republicanism. As a result of this: England became a land of cottage-i... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or... ...the chemical industry, and is a regular contributor to both the democratic and republican parties. They are an honored member of the entire system o... ...own class of filthy rich scum. Now, she is a part of the establishment token liberals: and censored Jesse Ventura’s article about 9-11 either becaus... ...nce expanded so that the American Media’s censorship in peacetime censors all liberal issues and viewpoints out of the airwaves. He let the America...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 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: ... ... America V ol. 2 facts, was not the case. I had gone down the river with a party of ladies, and we were opposite to Mount Vernon; but on that occasion... ...re all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trollope ern party. Through the lines, into Virginia, they could not go at all. Up to Wa... ...f the States had, in the first instance, been thought desirable. The young republicans hankered after the separate power and separate name which each ... ... Democrat, that is, to hold South- ern politics, and unfashionable to be a Republican, or to hold anti-Southern politics. In that way the South has li... ...er mile. As far as I could learn, the servants of the post-office are less liberally paid in the States than with us, except- ing as regards two class... ...beer. The attendance is good, pro- vided always that the payment for it is liberal. The cost is generally too high, and unfortunately grows larger and...

................................................................................................................ 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...................................................................................................................

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...vy,” 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 ... ...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... ...nd such 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 ser... ...ur writings, and much loved for your generosity to us and your devotion to liberal principles generally. Y ou are quite right as to the importance to ... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ... ol Six reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left, Republicans or others not even yourself. For be assured, my dear sir, there... ...argely seeds, cereals, plants, and cuttings, and has already published and liberally diffused much valuable information in anticipation. of a more ela... ... nec- essary to ascertain the amount of indemnification due to the injured party. The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instruct... ...as directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentia...

...: The third 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 ...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...een written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the earth has its prerogative ci... ...headless Ciceros (truncosque Cicerones), and unburied Pompeys;—to whom the party madness of thy own children had wrought in every age heavier woe than... ... a ferocity in his character, and a touch of the devil in him, very rarely united with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplis... ...ed with the same tranquil intrepidity. But for Cæsar, the all-accomplished statesman, the splendid orator, the man of elegant habits and polished tast... ...f evading the ne- cessity (else perhaps not avoidable), of drawing out the party sentiments of the magistrates in the circumstances of honor or neglec... ...ntegrity, that happened not by any lingering vir- tue that remained in her republican forms, but entirely through the equilibrium and mechanical count... .... T o the same result, it will be found, tended the vast stream of Cæsar’s liberalities. From the sena- tor downwards to the lowest fæx Romuli, he had... ...ractice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious mas- t... ... as it were, rose in a body with one voice, and apparently with one heart, united by mere force of in- dignant sympathy, to put him down, and “abate” ...

...at the very least, as we resolutely maintain after reviewing all that has been written on that much vexed theme, and very probably half as many more. Republican Rome had her prerogative tribe; the earth has its prerogative city; and that city was Rome....

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics ... ...hat as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which o... ... since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of gov ernment are justly considered, perhaps, as deepl... ...tated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good... ...AL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 13 principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a d... ...ly comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals. We have there fore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household u... ... a pretext for them has been given by the United States, and of the fair and liberal attempt to induce a revoca tion of them, can not be anticipated....

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...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... ...ce, and barren of any good to mankind. He had just witnessed the spread of republican govern- ment through all the vast continental possessions of Spa... ... blood, and he was filled with anxiety to learn the causes that had placed republican government, in France, in 5 Tocqueville such contrast with Demo... ...on, all 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... ...ghts of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but it will, ul... ...ture to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise is not subo... ...services whatsoever are remunerated, and the most subordi- nate agents are liberally paid. If this kind of government ap- pears to me to be useful and... ... it for their own descendants. The English aristocracy is perhaps the most liberal which ever existed, and no body of men has ever, uninterruptedly, f...

...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 l...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...you have the receipt. I do not wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than tha... ...en of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Bu... ...sisting that there is a plan on foot in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they... ...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 Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a short time s... ...question 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... ...s that in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republ... ... we commend that policy of national exchanges which secures to working-men liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and manufac... ..., Consul-General of the United States at Alexandria, a full account of the liberal, enlightened, and energetic proceed- ings which, on his complaint, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... 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 ... ...oughout his entire life, and especially after he rose to leadership in his party, Lincoln was stirred to his depths by the sense of fealty to a lofty ... ...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 ... ...s; he read Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgrim’s Progress, a short history of the United States, and Weems’s Life of Washington. To the town constable’s he w... ...n their claims seemed to him unfair. Presenting his very first case in the United States Circuit Court, the only question being one of authority, he d... ...ple, broke forth in an utterance louder than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt... ...ering senti- ment, and soon they began to rally in a new organization. The Republican party sprang into being to meet the over- ruling call of the hou... ...was then elected. Two years later, in the first national convention of the Republican party, the delegation from Illinois brought him forward as a can... ...f the State had all the lands, the policy of the Legislature would be more liberal to all sections. He referred to the policy of the General Governmen...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...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 ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...res that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasi... ...osition of the hereditary aristocracy of the Empire to the enlightened and liberal policy of the Tycoon, designed to bring the country into the societ... ...ble body of troops, it is believed, were ever more amply provided and more liberally and punctually paid, and it may be added that by no people were t... ...obligation of the United States to guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government and to protect the State in the cases stated ... ... nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; that the General Assembly may make su... ...to do the work over accord- ing to the law, in presence of the complaining party, and thereby to correct anything which might be found amiss. The com...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always ... ... objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a s... ...they will. You remember when you didn’t dress for the Littlefields’ supper-party, and all the rest did, and how embarrassed you were.” “Embarrassed, h... ...pite his strange learnings he was as strict a Presbyte- rian and as firm a Republican as George F. Babbitt. He confirmed the business men in the faith... ...ade tree, swell neighborhood, handy car line. $3700, $780 down and balance liberal, Babbitt- Thompson terms, cheaper than rent. DORCHESTER.—A corker! ... ..., I guess I can get Lyte here to loosen up for a building-mortgage on good liberal terms. Heavens, man, we’d be glad to oblige you! We don’t like thes... ...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—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 ... ...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...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...troke of a paving-stone hurled through the coach-window.’ Killed as a once Liberal now Aristocrat; Protector of Priests, Suspender of virtuous Petions... ...m the far valley D’Aure in the folds of the Pyrenees, is coming; an ardent Republican; doomed to fame, at least in death. All manner of Patriot men ar... ...e, have pre- cisely this problem to solve. Under the name and nickname of ‘statesmen, hommes d’etat,’ of ‘moderate-men, moderantins, ’ of Brissotins, ... ...: the figure of Danton has too much of the ‘Sardanapalus character, ’ at a Republican Rolandin Dinner-table: Clootz, Speaker of Man- kind, proses sad ... ...fties on the President’s List. Nay these Gironde Presidents give their own party preference: we suspect they play foul with the List; men of the Moun-... ... At home this Killing of a King has divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; At... ... usual number at one time: let these two fight it out, all minor shades of party rallying under the shade likest them; when the one has fought down t... ...e scene. One other circumstance we will note: that a careful Municipality, liberal of camp-fur- naces, has not forgotten provision-carts. No member of... ...own side: and now there is no Election, or only the third of one. Black is united with white against this clause of the Two-thirds; all the Unruly of ...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...umulating, not from the ranks of the half-freed colored people of the free states, but from the very depths of slavery itself; the indestructible equa... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely again... ...came the trial hour. Without cordial support from any large body of men or party on this side the Atlantic, and too far distant in space and immediate... ...arduous labor and heavy ex- penditure of editor and lecturer. The Garrison party, to which he still adhered, did not want a colored newspaper—there wa... ... in the United States, by free colored men, born free, and some of them of liberal education and fair talents for this work; but, one after an- other,... ...he spring of 1845, endangered my liberty, and led me to seek a refuge from republican sla- very in monarchical England. A rude, uncultivated fugitive ... ...cabin passenger. American preju- dice against color triumphed over British liberality and civi- lization, and erected a color test and condition for c... ...f so large a sum for the privilege of living securely under our glori- ous republican form of government. I could have remained in England, or have go...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...interpreted by the spirit in which I offer it, may express my sense of the liberality manifested throughout this transaction by your honorable house. ... ... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...uarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers ... ...s, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I maintain, a most selfish and un- patriotic party. He was go... ... myself at all with a reforming journal. And far more, who would have been liberal enough to disregard that objection, naturally lost sight of me when... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...tributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom;... ...nt generosity of his temper, he had powerfully sympathized with the French republicans at an early stage of their revolution; and having, with great i... ...ole pastoral charge, became, on this occasion, prisoners to the enemy. The republican head 228 Thomas de Quincey quarters were fixed for a time in th...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...age and inaction. For the Progress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in tr... ...inaction. For the Progress had intended to do great things for the Liberal Party,—or rather for political liberality in general,—and had in truth done... ... men were pretentious puppies. It was, however, not to be doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the... ...ot to be doubted that the party of Progress had become slack, and that the Liberal politicians of the country, although a special new club had been op... ...ad gone rather deep into poli- tics, and that he was entitled to call many statesmen asses 15 Anthony Trollope because they did not see the things wh... ... lous of matrons are talked out of their virtue; the most expe- rienced of statesmen are talked out of their principles. And who can really calculate ... ...ernment, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling up of the gre... ...was not one there in the room who did not know that it was the wish of the united families that Arthur Fletcher should marry Emily Wharton, and also t... ...tion of his intention to live out the remainder of his period of office in republican simplicity. ‘We have tried it and it has failed, and let there b...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...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... ...the town. And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, whe... ...ast concerned at their commands and menaces. They used honest pastimes and liberal studies, not esteeming sloth and idleness honest and liberal, but r... ...nd confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down ... ...e from his eloquence as from his riches, charitably em- ploying the one in liberal aid to the poor, the other with integrity and freedom in the servic... ...mbly, lowered these also to the people, to show, in the strongest way, the republican foundation of the govern- ment; and this the consuls observe to ... ...y his choice of 179 Plutarch’s Lives him as his model in the formation of republican institutions; in reducing, for example, the excessive powers and...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...nifested with rustic freedom their contempt for such paltry sport, and, after a dissertation among themselves upon the disadvan- tages of hawking, the... ...t was not then, or, at least it ought not to have been, a trifling source of pride for the city of Blois, that Gaston of Orleans had chosen it as his ... ... accession of Mazarin to power, no heads had been cut off, Monsieur’s occupation was gone, and his morale suffered from it. The life of the poor princ... ...nniversary of the battles of Dunbar and Worcester.” “His son has succeeded him.” “But certain men have a family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of... ...aps ensue if your marriage fails” (Mazarin stole a furtive glance at the king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fai... ...as able to 167 Dumas go out, and only one, Peter Wentworth, had been able to get in. Lambert and Monk — everything was summed up in these two men; th... ...f the Fronde, the reconciliation of M. de Conde with the king, and the probable marriage of the infanta of Spain; but he avoided, as Athos himself avo... ...let to an officer whose duties oblige him to be absent eight or nine months in the year, — so I am in that house as in my own home, without the expens... ...he cardinal as- sumed the airs of a father with the sons of France, and the two young princes had grown up under his wing. No one then imputed to prid...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ...n anarchist, too. Everybody who doesn’t love the bankers and the Grand Old Republican Party is an anarchist.” Carol had unconsciously slipped from her... ...overing something of her buoyancy, for- get her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teac... ...ay over Carol had decided to use the Thanatopsis as the tool with which to liberalize the town. She had immediately conceived enormous enthusiasm; she... ... good sound be- lief in hell, like we used to have it preached to us.” The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent ... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...erceived a group advancing towards them, composed of the betrothed pair, a party of young girls in atten- dance on the bride, by whose side walked Dan... ...ousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding-party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantes, father and son, a... ... word,” said Caderousse, from whose mind the friendly treatment of Dantes, united with the effect of the excellent wine he had partaken of, had efface... ...e baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage ... ...ized the dream of Machiavelli and Caesar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom.” “Monsieur,” returned the inspector , “providence has chang... ...ceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of a... ..., and I will en- deavor to repay you, as far as lies in my power, for your liberal hospitality displayed to me at Monte Cristo.” “I should avail mysel... ...ve inspired not only the pontifical govern- ment, but also the neighboring states, with such extreme fear, that they are glad of all opportunity of ma... ... accompany each other, and who are yet leagued against me, a sort of Carlo-republican alliance. I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, ...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e gossip brought to him by his unsuspecting friends; for neither courtier, statesman, minister, nor friend ever looked upon those notes which this “li... ...owed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind, therefore, to escape from my leading-strings;... ...alting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united in friendship with Comte de Coetquen, who was in the same company wi... ...ho were already playing at ‘lansquenet’; Madame, who scarcely looked at a, party of ‘hombre’ at which she had seated herself; the Duc de Chartres, who... ...s- ter of the horse. On the Monday before Shrove Tuesday, all the marriage party and the bride and bridegroom, superbly dressed, re- paired, a little ... ...e occasion for the Prince of Orange to say, that the King recompensed more liberally the loss of a place than he could the conquest of one. The army r... ...ition cost the King. M. le Duc presided this year over the Assembly of the States of Burgundy, in place of his father M. le Prince, who did not wish t... ...knew no end. Everybody who visited him, even the humblest, was served with liberality and attention. All the villages and farms for four leagues round... ...ll England and the United Provinces mourned the loss of William. Some good republicans alone breathed again with joy in secret, at having recovered th...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanist... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro lik... ...ildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to... ...e business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any mis- cellaneous... ...Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally pro- vides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supply... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the d... ...s the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANIST... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.” Th... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like... ...ildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to... ...e business of whaling is not accounted on a level with what are called the liberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous m... ...Railroads. The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplyin... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the d... ...s the whole of the law. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

... any man, he can un- derstand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign age... ... infusions. Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind, and every thing is in turn intelli- gible to him, as his on... ...tain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible- society, vote with a great party either for the govern- ment or against it, spread your table like bas... .... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has s... ... consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind. They shed an united light on the advancing actor. He is attended as by a visible escort ... ... eyes. If the labor is mean, let him by his thinking and character make it liberal. Whatever he knows and thinks, whatever in his apprehension is wort... ... the windows, and the gnomes and vices also. By all the vir- tues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess a... ...s of persons called high and worthy. Rich, noble and great they are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad. O blessed Spirit, whom I forsak... ...h, When the state-house is the hearth, Then the perfect State is come, The republican at home. XIX. POLITICS I n dealing with the State we ought to re...

... may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent....

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...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 ... ... principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other mo- tives not more laudable than these, ar... ...ct The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true prin- ciples of republican government Its analogy to your own state constitution and lastly... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...se the prospect of present loss or advantage may often tempt the governing party in one or two States to swerve from good faith and justice; but those... ...advocates of despotism have drawn arguments, not only against the forms of republican government, but against the very principles of civil liberty. Th... ...iple, and were accord- ingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exc... ...ngage- ments to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or ex- ecute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good? Let us attend to what would be th...

...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...qually available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion,... ... cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, that ha... ...d my book Anticipations this doctrine will be spoken of throughout as “New Republicanism,” the doc- trine of the New Republic. The central conception ... ...m,” the doc- trine of the New Republic. The central conception of this New Republicanism as it has shaped itself in my mind, lies in attaching pre-emi... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as it conduces m... ...ny rate do not believe that it does. I do not believe that he or any other Liberal leader or any Conservative minister has any comprehensive aim at al... ...rn to a simple acceptance again. We are no more disposed to call ourselves Liberals or Conservatives and to be stirred to party passion at the clash o... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ... see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. On the other hand, I never could very c... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...ced by the President. I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no... ... be in ac- 44 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two cordance with our republican institutions, which can be best sustained by the diffusion of kn... ... would never do more in this respect than what would be dictated by a just liberality. The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in dang... ...outh as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension that 176 The W...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ION It 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 obj... ...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... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...y of State to declare openly that England intended to side either with one party or with the other, or else to remain neutral between them. I had hear... ...er of the cause and ground for revolu- tion, it is so very easy for either party to put in a plea that shall be satisfactory to itself! Mr. and Mrs. J... ...nies will not admit of a divided accommodation; and the second is that the republican nature of the people will not brook a superior or aristo- cratic... ...the other. The ways of the people seemed to be quiet, smooth, orderly, and republican. There is nothing to drink in Port- land, of course; for, thanks... ...f America. What was the North to do; this foolish North, which has been so liberally told by us that she has taken up arms for nothing, that she is fi... ...heir arrangements. And this has been achieved in a great degree by private liberality. Men in America are not as a rule anxious to leave large fortune...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...an the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) h... ...h, in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing any thing which he really feels ... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...utive officers by popular suffrage, ought the chief of the executive, in a republican government, to be an exception? Is it a good rule which, in the ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... .... Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the Britis... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ..., unhampered thought through every department of the national life, a King liberal without laxity and patriotic without pettiness or vul- garity. Such... ... over- values the commonplace virtues of mediocre men. One of the greatest Liberal statesmen in the time of Queen Victoria never held office because h... ...comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probably far smaller even...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...k domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical wind... ...) It is true, as King Louis objects, “They say he never goes to mass;” but liberal France likes him little worse for that; liberal France answers, “Th... ...wherefrom loyal courtiers may draw,—to the just support of the throne. Let Liberalism and a New Era, if such is the wish, be intro- duced; only no cur... ...n! Finally he descends; welcomed by the universe. Duchess Polignac, with a party, is in the Bois de Boulogne, waiting; though it is drizzly winter; th... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ... him, will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist satires, in Republican didactic Almanacks. (Actes des Apotres (by Peltier and others); ... ...ng, then shall it be a battle-banner (say, an Italian Gonfalon, in its old Republican Carroccio); and shall tower up, car-borne, shining in the wind: ...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...the country ruined 8 Personal Memoirs beyond recovery when the Democratic party lost control in 1860. Her family, which was large, inherited her view... ... war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June, 1821, my father, Jesse R. Grant, m... ...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... ...d brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. His oldest brother was a Republican and brave soldier during th... ...ation my 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 ... ...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... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ...; the Know-Nothing party had taken its place, but was on the wane; and the Republican party was in a chaotic state and had not yet received a name. It... ...listed men are not included. In the North- ern armies the estimate is most liberal, taking in all con- nected with the army and drawing pay. Estimated...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...k domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical wind... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...) It is true, as King Louis objects, “They say he never goes to mass;” but liberal France likes him little worse for that; liberal France answers, “Th... ...wherefrom loyal courtiers may draw,—to the just support of the throne. Let Liberalism and a New Era, if such is the wish, be introduced; only no curta... ...n! Finally he descends; welcomed by the universe. Duchess Polignac, with a party, is in the Bois de Boulogne, waiting; though it is drizzly winter; th... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ... him, will fly far; borne about in endless banter; in Royalist satires, in Republican didactic Almanacks. (Actes des Apotres (by Peltier and others); ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...s to the future as a good prince should be in his public ac- tion. It is a Republican dignity. And M. Anatole France, with his sceptical insight into ... ... France, with his sceptical insight into an forms of government, is a good Republican. He is indulgent to the weaknesses of the people, and perceives ... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d... ...sible and carrying the taint of anti-social guilt. As to Russia, the third party to the crime, and the originator of the scheme, she had no national c... ...ers In the second half of the eighteenth century there were two centres of liberal ideas on the continent of Europe: France and Poland. On an impartia... ... to a certain extent a convenient rallying-point for all manifestations of liberalism. Since that time we have come to be regarded simply as a nuisanc... ...ke matters. The legislature will ratify, thus making Poland, as it were, a party in the establishment of the protectorate. A point of importance. 120...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...thousand—three whole thousand! how much of it can we spend, Aleck? Make it liberal!—do, dear, that’s a good fellow.” Aleck was pleased; so pleased tha... ...hey were rich, they had decided that they must celebrate. They must give a party—that was the idea. But how to explain it—to the daughters and the nei... ...rest. He worked his reli gions hard, and changed them with his shirt. The liberal spendings of the Fosters upon their fancies began early in their pr... ...onfess it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little dis... ...it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little distinctio... ... to know it, but Helen spent the night at the Sloanes’. There was a little party there, and, although she did not want to go, and you so sick, we pers... ...t they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operation... ...hat he was there because he had once had his opportunity to go home to the States rich, and had not done it; had rather lost his wealth, and had then ... ...e orator of the day, and in November of 1840 he died again. The St. Louis Republican of the 25th of that month spoke as follows: “Another Relic of th...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the Fren... ... under company of Monsieur Blaise. Presently, of an early morning, all the party set forth for the country, namely, my Lord Viscount and the other gen... ..., Doctor,” says my lord; at which the Doctor made another low bow, and the party moved on to- wards a grand house that was before them, with many gray... ...l windows, but the village people turned out, and even old Sieveright, the republican blacksmith, along with them: for my lady, though she was a Papis... ...h was always perfectly good-humored, obliging, and servile. Harry had very liberal allowances, for his dear mistress of Castlewood not only regularly ... ...n other matters to think of. His new patroness treated him very kindly and liberally; she promised to make interest and pay money, too, to get him a c... ...nk of such an insult to their house. ’Tis true Mr. Esmond often boasted of republican prin- ciples, and could remember many fine speeches he had made ... ...h!) Henry Esmond hath been Marquis of Esmond and Earl of Castlewood in the United Kingdom, and Baron and Viscount Castlewood of Shandon in Ireland, an... ...d lonely under its ruined old roof? We were all so, even when together and united, as it seemed, following our separate schemes, each as we sat round ...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...His father was a man of some property, and intended to have given his son a liberal education; but he, being idle and worthless, was sent off to se... ...a small schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at a... ... schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at anchor, ... ...alled who speak the English language) who have married Californians, become united to the Catholic church, and acquired considerable property. Havi... ...ure was chiefly turned against a large, heavy moulded fellow from the Middle States, who was called Sam. This man hesitated in his speech, and was ra... ...er of the horse, we made a settlement with him, and found him surprisingly liberal. All parts of the saddle were brought back, and, being capable of... ...oot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in our own country. The only object, of cour... ...l, it was not ten o’clock, and the night was long before us, when one of the party produced an old pack of Spanish cards from his monkey jacket pocket... ...morality, and good government, by that peculiar invention of Anglo Saxon Republican America, the solemn, awe inspir ing Vigilance Committee of ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... and obliges me to interrupt you. I am very sorry to leave your enchanting party ,” said he, turning to Anna Pavlovna. His daughter, Princess Helene, ... ...answer you all at once?” said Prince Andrew. “Besides, in the actions of a states- man one has to distinguish between his acts as a private person, as... ...childhood; that same Julie Karagina who had been at the Rostovs’ name- day party. Julie wrote in French: Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and fr... ... up in you, and that in spite of the distance separating us our hearts are united by indissoluble bonds, my heart rebels against fate and in spite of ... ... snaffle bridle over the horse’s head. It was evident that the ca- det was liberal with his tips and that it paid to serve him. Rostov patted the hors... ... his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of the brotherhood of men united in the aim of supporting one another in the path of virtue, and that... ... from the Council of State down to the district tribunals. Now those vague liberal dreams with which the Emperor Alexander had ascended the throne, an... ...verity to his wife was wrong and that *The Illuminati sought to substitute republican for mo- narchical institutions. 246 War & Peace he was neglecti... ...he has committed so successfully, he reaches Paris, the dissolution of the republican government, which a year earlier might have ruined him, has reac...

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