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...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ... The coffee house was situated on the Thames bank in Tower Street, close to all the maritime and shipping activities. It was a well known establish...

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... all things to accomplish his many ends, had brought him over to England, in one of the maritime towns of which he was residing for the recovery of ... ...at it is useful, yea, and of the utmost usefulness. Wherefore all venerable divines and writers of the best times, are ever wont to place the USES o... ...les, and so carried the question into the arcana of Christian antiquities, of classical writers, and the authority of the fathers, whither the great ... ... William Huntingdon, two most able preachers, and, as it seems to me, two of the purest writers after the scriptural type; nor do I mean to say that ... ...s the following, which in substance are to be met with in every class of ecclesiastical writers who have written upon this side of the question duri... ...- allegorical interpreter,’ and in other places ‘our allegorist’), but by ecclesiastical writers of every name, both ancient and modern; which interp...

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...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...ted by a recovery from ancient history of the fact that there was a profitable maritime commerce carried on between ports of the Mediterranean and Ind... ...ith her white sails mirrored in almost every wave of the sea, and retained her maritime importance until the second Punic war, or about 200 B.C. when ... ...la had driven the people, not only a magnificent city sprang into being, but a maritime power of unrivalled proportions grew into existence and which ... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...They discovered Iceland in about the year 860, though it is maintained by some writers that the Greek philosopher, Pytheas, first set foot in Iceland,... ...perstitions not only appropriate, but a necessary introduction to a history of maritime discovery, to the end that my readers may be, acquainted with ... ...empted that difficult enterprise. AN ISLAND WHENCE SOLOMON DERIVED HIS RICHES. Maritime science and discovery were now advancing surely, and individua...

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...nders had many times beene cloyed with them. Secondly (as said an ancient Writers that I doe not so much remember injuries received. I had need have... ...ng of histories (which is the subject of most men) to consider who are the writers: If they be such as professe nothing but bare learning, the chiefe... ...fford, I commonly make use of that which is most rare and memorable. Some writers there are whose end is but to relate the events. Mine, if I could ... ...reated one Aracus Admirall, but instituted Lysander superintendent of all maritime causes. And with the same sutteltie, one of their Ambassadors bei... ...to undertake to march foot to foot with these kind of men. The indiscreet writers of our age, amidst their triviall compositions, intermingle and wr... ...asest was to be carried or drawne by one horse alone. Some of our moderne writers report to have seene some countries in that climate where the peopl... ...culously that he consumed his enemy, diverted him from his sea-fleete and maritime places he held along the coast of Affricke, even untill the last ...

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...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ... Written scripts that have been worked on and crafted and polished by the best writers in the world… who try to make their fictitious lies, these fic... ...for most of these British sailors to die before ever being released from their maritime slavery. 70% of all the sailors in the Royal navy were kille... ...The English God-given right to get drunk any time they pleased came from their maritime history of imported wealth. Sailors arriving home filthy ric... ...ish Colonialism come from? It came from watching the Dutch, and other smaller maritime Nations of Europe; becoming filthy rich from their Colonial E... ...shed where the most ambitious and the outcasts of society could escape to, as maritime trade exploded and the lure of becoming a sailor on a ship pro... ...nd disgust at what they were doing to their own children. Why were the Greeks Maritime raiders? Why did they go yo sea? For the lust of gold, weal...

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...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ... must condone scapegoats, assassins, rapists, thieves...but you know our maritime history. I have been accused of bad voy- ages...who has not made b...

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...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ... rules. The Utopia came closest to extinction when a group of stray survivors of a maritime accident were imprisoned in it against their expressed ...

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...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c... ... rules. The Utopia came closest to extinction when a group of stray survivors of a maritime accident were imprisoned in it against their expressed ...

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...N MENT IN GENERAL. WITH CONCISE RE MARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION SOME WRITERS HAVE so confounded society with gov ernment, as to leave little... ...e character to be absurd and useless. “Common Sense” Thomas Paine 10 Some writers have explained the English constitu tion thus: The king, say the... ...e common work of a ship. Wherefore, we never can be more capable to begin on maritime matters than now, while our tim ber is standing, our fisheries ... ...should the present Proud Imitator of him, come to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony, are bound, by the doctrine it co...

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...ly prescribes the rule of competency. Thus all the questions which concern maritime commerce evidently fall under the cognizance of the Federal tribun... ... jurisdiction, the national courts can only hear causes which originate in maritime affairs. The Constitution comprises under one head almost all the ... ...y the executive and legislative authorities, to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdic- tion, and in general to all points which affect the law ... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...of seamen, and they have nothing which corresponds to the French system of maritime conscription; the navy, as well as the merchant service, is suppli... ...y service. But it is not easy to conceive how a people can sustain a great maritime war without having recourse to one or the other of these two syste... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl... ...al- though new laws are perpetually enacted in the United States, no great writers have hitherto inquired into the general prin- ciples of their legis...

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...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... an unclassical tipple; but perhaps not. Xenophon, the most Attic of prose writers, mentions pointedly in his Anabasis, that the T en Thousand, when r... ...t? Neither in the Decemviral Tables, nor in the Code of Justinian, nor the maritime Code of Oleron, nor in the Canon Law, nor the Code Napoleon, nor o... ...ooked by those who either write En- glish history or comment upon it. Most writers of or upon English history proceed either upon servile principles, ... ...s pretensions are at stake. Pretty much under the same feeling have modern writers written with a rancorous party spirit of the political struggles in...

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...able, or by sea where none but tiny boats can thread their way through the maritime defiles that guard the entrance to the bay, hinder these people fr... ...greatest disciple, ‘Flesh is but an external propagation.’ To poets and to writers his presentation of the marvellous is amazing; to Seers it is simpl... ...ed spiral letters (‘True Christian Religion,’ 278). Even in the North some writers have laughed at the gates of pearl, and the dia- monds which stud t... ...ys are spent in the state of mystical contemplation which was, so Catholic writers tell us, habitual with the early Christian solitaries, in whom the ... ...ht by smell. I can give you a thousand such cases from Jean Wier and other writers.” “I admit all that, dear pastor; but to my thinking, Seraphita wou...

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...n whose service you command (and whose fleet alone makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I ho... ...moke had darkened the whole city with soot, and when, according to the old writers, there really was bright weather. The fleets of caiques bustling al... ...mo- rial accorded to the Christians of the Latin rite in Syria. All French writers and travellers speak of this protection with de- lightful complacen... ...where we were welcomed by the very best captain that ever sailed upon this maritime globe, namely, Captain Samuel Lewis, of the Peninsular and Orienta... ...I would urge, humbly, however, is this—Do not let us be led away by German writers and aes- thetics, Semilassoisms, Hahnhahnisms, and the like. The l...

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...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...ot by the laws of any individual State. All questions of admiralty law and maritime jurisdiction, and cases affecting ambassadors or consuls, are ther... ... ef- fect that decisions given by American judges as to inter- national or maritime affairs affecting English interests could not be trusted, because ... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char... ...f literature in America without thinking of the readers rather than of the writers. In this matter their position is different from that of any other ... ... ever-widening circle of readers to whom he writes. I should have said the writers of English literature, seeing that the privilege is of course share...

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...ver to meet again in this world. V IN THE CAREER of the most unliterary of writers, in the sense that literary ambition had never entered the world of... ... else. It is M. Anatole France, the most eloquent and just of French prose-writers, who says that we must recognize at last that, “failing the resolut... ...tion, or simply 77 Joseph Conrad from weariness, induces, I suspect, some writers of criticism to conceal the adventurous side of their calling, and ... ...rdens of V ersailles, and Mon- sieur de Colbert busy with the direction of maritime affairs. Y ou must admit that in a banker of the nineteenth centur...

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...idence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I find likewise that the writers of those bundles are not agreed among themselves; for some of the... ...re are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I foun... ...; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised... ...as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey. For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resem... ...ditions. He received my proposition with more compliance than is usual among writers, especially those of the project ing species, professing “he woul... ...or a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wis es...

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...resolute sound, ought to be good enough for the newspapers of the greatest maritime country in the world. “The fleet anchored at Spithead”: can anyone... ...ny homes ashore, and opens the door of speculation in the market of risks. Maritime risks, be it understood. There is a class of optimists ready to re... ... Indeed, I suspect that, leaving aside the pro- testations and tributes of writers who, one is safe in saying, care for little else in the world than ...

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... mat- 22 Billy Budd ter of what era—history, biography and unconventional writers, who, free from cant and convention, like Montaigne, honestly and i... ...riotism abruptly advanced him to the position of Mas- ter-at-arms. Of this maritime Chief of Police the ship’s-corporals, so called, were the immediat...

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...cide with the opportunities for ob- taining accurate information; when the writers were so few, 85 Thomas de Quincey and the audience so limited and ... ...nxiously prepared the means. And it is certain, that, although some German writers have attempted to fasten upon Charlemagne a charge of vexatious inq... ...crown; Dalmatia, Croatia, Liburnia, and Istria, (with the exception of the maritime cities,) were joined to the territories, which he had himself conq... ...succession for the travel- ler, were arranged skilfully, we believe that a maritime circuit of Greece, with a few landings and short excursions, would...

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...iarisms in the “Paradise Lost” from Latin passages fathered upon imaginary writers, when these passages had previously been forged by Lauder himself f... ...rocken.”—This very striking phenom- enon has been continually described by writers, both Ger- man and English, for the last fifty years. Many readers,... ...refore, to consider that point; but at last replied, that my people, being maritime, supported themselves mainly by a herring fishery, from which I de... ...ers; which, however, so far from reconciling her to the letters, or to the writers of the letters, had the unhappy effect of riveting her dislike (pre... ...ints of domestic morals, se- vere and high toned, (I say it in defiance of writers, such as Lord Byron, Mr. Hazlitt, &c., who hated alike the just and... ...great quar- ter in London, Mary-le-bone, as ludicrously ungrammatical. The writers had learned (or were learning) French; and they had thus become awa... ...(French and English) that made irregular war upon the Spanish shipping and maritime towns was that which I have here retained. 6 “Seamanship and ship...