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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ...2 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niue IS I Norfolk Island ... ...I Norfolk Island 1 S5 Norway 186 jO Oman 188 P Pakistan 189 Panama 191 Papua New Guinea 193 Paraguay 194 Peru 195 Philippines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198... ...umer goods Major trade partners: (1983-84) exports 26% Japan, 11% US, 6% New Zealand, 4% North Korea, 4% Singapore, 3% USSR; imports 22% US, 22% Japan... ...embership; has consultative status in the EC; under several post-World War I treaties Switzerland handles Liechtenstein's customs and repre- sents the...
...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, ter...
...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...ti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal... ...In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair... ...e official party line, it praises US "scientific and technological innovations and new achievements in economic development". Somewhat tautological... ...works. The GCC has recently established a customs union as well. A similar set of treaties may soon be inked with Iran with which the EU has a bal... ...debatable while customary law is only partially subsumed in the tradition (i.e., in treaties, conventions and other instruments, as well in the actu... ... ("peacekeeping operations") and enforce compliance with international or bilateral treaties between the aggressor and the attacked state or the a...
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ...pod.com/internet.html http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Table of Contents I. Battling Unemployment II. The Labour Divide - I. Emp... ...ter, but his “unemployment tenure” will re-commence from month 1 with the new registration. I recommend instituting a households’ survey in addit... ...its can be flat (as is the case in Bulgaria and Italy). In Australia and New Zealand, both sickness benefits and unemployment benefits are means te... ...can be flat (as is the case in Bulgaria and Italy). In Australia and New Zealand, both sickness benefits and unemployment benefits are means tested... ...ent. Thus, the employer would have an incentive to continue to employ the new worker. Employers will receive benefits for a new worker only if h... ...hip and coverage by collective agreements were both reduced (USA, UK, New Zealand, Australia) that employment reacted favourably. Thus, at the one e... ...ent - and expensive - labor and environmental provisions in international treaties may well be a ploy to fend off imports based on cheap labor and t...
... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ...els based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to be replaced by new models with new, hopefully improved, assumptions. One way ... ...out there", in the real world. e. Insightfulness – It must cast the familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("dat... ...c abilities to self organize, reorganize, give room to emerging order, accommodate new data comfortably, and avoid rigid reactions to attacks from ... ...t clients of the state, its resources, offerings, laws, regulations, international treaties, and economic opportunities (e.g., state companies to b... ...ces, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation treaties and free trade agreements with other countries, etc.) ... ...icts (political risk), the country's laws, regulations, and favorable international treaties, its credit history, insurance available to investors a...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ...debatable while customary law is only partially subsumed in the tradition (i.e., in treaties, conventions and other instruments, as well in the actu... ...("peacekeeping operations") and enforce compliance with international or bilateral treaties between the aggressor and the attacked state or the att... ...ded and abetted by the attacked state; 9. Honor one's obligations to frameworks and treaties of collective self-defense; 10. Protect one's citizens...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ive happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ---―That adds some new evidence. I still couldn‘t go for it because of my traditional beliefs... ...does Australia. Brazil gives four and a half weeks, but Columbia and New Zealand only give three. The U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list ... ...ies by their absence of corruption. Finland is number one, Denmark and New Zealand are tied for second with the UK at number 10 and the U.S. at 16. L... ...batants‖ who are not protected by the Geneva Conventions or international treaties on the rights of prisoners of war. Utilitarianism would a...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ssion; and a curious accident put me for a time in the very nucleus of the new order. My memory takes me back across the interval of fifty years to a ... ...ad its carpet and was taken in prayer. And in Sydney, in Melbourne, in New Zealand, the thing was a fog in the afternoon, that scattered the crowd on ... ...on, nay, even if it wanted to go to and fro, it had to do so by exorbitant treaties with each of the monarchs whose territory was involved. No man cou... ...hem then—the United States of America, the Cape Colony, Australia, and New Zealand—spent much of the nineteenth century in the frantic giving away of ...
...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze an...
...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... In addition to the old conundrum, “Who is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alte... ...11 Robert Louis Stevenson came to him upon a visit and took a fancy to his new posses- sion. “We have long been wanting a boat,” said they. “Give us t... ... can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have been enlivened ... ... he is in the Eleele Sa, the “Forbidden Soil,” or Neutral Territory of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he has just seen trying native criminals... ...undred warriors at Mulinuu, as Becker himself owns, they had infringed the treaties, and Sewall entered protest twice. There were two ways of escap- i... ...e than once is- sued orders forbidding Samoans to take money from “the New Zealand firm.” These, when they were brought to his notice, Brandeis disown...
...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...
...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ied against Germany were busily spinning a disastrous web of greedy secret treaties, were answering aggression by schemes 4 In the Fourth Year of agg... ...se opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed to all the imperialist plans of the Allies; in the end ... ...to end war,” and we still did not know clearly how. We thought in terms of treaties and alliances. It is largely the detachment and practi- cal genius... ...his phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phr... ...ssible to retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independen... ...em also in America. Or else we have to call them Virginians, Californians, New Englanders, and so forth. Their legal and nominal separateness weighs n...
...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...
...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n with the progress of the old stone age, but slow in comparison with this new age of systematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very great... ...iled and failed and was still to be tested again and rejected again in the New World; Christianity and Mohammedanism swept away a thousand more specia... ...hem. For a time they could not make instruments sound enough to stand this new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first gun... ... from Brazil, devour an egg from France with some Danish ham, or eat a New Zealand chop, wind up his breakfast with a West Indian banana, glance at th... ...re and neglect the vast insane literature of this obsession, the intricate treaties, the secret agreements, the infinite knowingness of the political ...
...ic Classics Series Publication Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...l it would be to be a governess! To go out into the world; to enter upon a new life; to act for myself; to exercise my unused faculties; to try my unk... ...t expectations. With what peculiar pleasure I assisted at the making of my new clothes, and, subsequently, the pack- ing of my trunks! But there was a... ...ts revived again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the contemplation of the new life upon which I was entering. But though it was not far past the midd... ...hat it is to awake some morn- ing, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him. I sh... ...nd they would do all they could to make her happy. But no arguments or en- treaties could prevail: my mother was determined not to go. Not that she qu... ...e you might meet again: he might have said so if you had been going to New Zealand; but that did not imply any intention of seeing you—and then, as to...
...n some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded b...
...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University... ...hard went; and the sisters took up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of... ... went; and the sisters took up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a N... ... Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat... ...land sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter for her brother, the lieutenant in command of a gun-boat on ... ...father had over-lived the first pangs of change and separation, had formed new and con- genial habits, saw the future hope before him; and since poor ... ..., and this time in company with Aubrey. Most urgent had been the boy’s en- treaties to be taken to see his friend, and Dr. May had only hesitated beca...
Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.
... Henrietta ’s Wish; or, Domineering by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... nominal sovereignty,” said Mrs. Langford. “Besides,” said Henrietta, “the new Clergyman approves of all that sort of thing; he likes her to teach, an... ...is holidays to be so wasted. She had no merely personal apprehensions, and new as railroads were to her, declared herself perfectly willing and able t... ...though returning her greeting with equal cor- diality, looked shyly at the new aunt and cousin, and as Henrietta suspected, wished them elsewhere. She... ...ri- ous lameness, the managing of an emigration of a whole fam- ily to New Zealand, the guessing a riddle supposed “to have no answer,” and the mendin... ...cceeded in tran- quillizing him, but almost immediately he renewed his en- treaties that his mother would return, and had it been any other than his u...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts ...
...es Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e or censure, failure or success. Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude. Y outh has turned to gods we of an ear- lier day knew not, an... ...-bearers will presently yield their place also. There is no last word. The new evan- gel was old when Nineveh reared her greatness to the sky. These g... ...n came the French Revolution and the Napo- leonic Wars, and the poets sang new songs. Mr. Crabbe continued to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. ... ...t he was really too ill to offer any effective resistance to Stroeve’s en- treaties and to my determination. We dressed him, while he feebly cursed us... ... Strickland’s idea was to ship on some vessel bound for Aus- tralia or New Zealand, and from there make his way to Samoa or Tahiti. I do not know how ...
...ics Series Publication Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...needna be feared—I never saw ony mysell, and we’re just at the door o’ the New Place.” Accordingly, leaving the ruins on the right, a few steps brough... ...r and with- drawing room, full of all manner of cross lights. This was the New Place of Ellangowan, in which we left our hero, better amused perhaps t... ...positions of these luminaries their probable effects on the destiny of the new-born infant, as if the courses or emanations of the stars superseded, o... ... which my youthful mind experienced in gazing on the levels of the isle of Zealand, than on any- thing which preceded that feeling; but I am confident... ...ht murder, with- out weapons or the slightest means of defence, except en- treaties, which would be only their sport, and cries for help, which could ... ...ue, as you say,” replied Glossin. “And yet if she could be carried over to Zealand, or Hamburg, or—or— anywhere else, you know, it were as well.” Hatt...
...Excerpt: Introduction To Guy Mannering. The novel or romance of Waverley made its way to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in ...
...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others wh... ...t that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frank- ness, what its wr... ... was about men and things, and threw what must have been a strange kind of new light on many matters but darkly understood. Above all, the es- sayist ... ...rst put on, into another of fear and amazement, filling his voice with en- treaties and his eyes with tears, and, endeavouring so to with- draw and se... ...r counsels and correct them? Isabel, Queen of England, having to sail from Zealand into her own kingdom,—[in 1326]—with an army, in favour of her son ...
Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.
............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................
...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ... said that the Danube has in fact been closed against Austria, in spite of treaties to the contrary. But the faults of bad and weak govern- ments are ... ... two nations is an affair for treaty; and it has not yet come to that that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politic... ...world, must of course guarantee her security. Such guarantees are given by treaties; and, in the wording of them, it is presumed that such treaties wi...
...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................
...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...uction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sis... ...he sub- sisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its o... ...e discovery of truth. Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be dis- tinguished the ... ...quished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and en- tered into various compacts and conventions with foreign ... ... The just causes of war, for the most part, arise either from violation of treaties or from direct violence. America has al- ready formed treaties wit... ...l as more safe with respect to us. Because, under the national government, treaties and ar- ticles of treaties, as well as the laws of nations, will a...
...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After 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 it...
...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................... ...e experimen- talists in gliding one strong enough and light enough for the new purpose. And here we are! Or, rather, M. Blériot is! What does it mean ... ...g; there is no intellectual guide or stir in them; and to that we owe this new generation of nicely behaved, unenterprising sons, who play golf and do... ...of a man with the heart and arteries of a mouse. Then here, again, are New Zealand and Australia, facing South America and the teeming countries of Ea... ...On the other hand, all these states have other special preoccupations. New Zealand, for example, having spent half a century and more in sheep- farmin... ...groups each pledged to specific measures and making the most extraordinary treaties and sacrifices of the public inter- est in order to secure the pas...
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................
.... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ct which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transfor... ... assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems. With regard t... ...ically a case in which originality consists not so much in the creation of new materials of thought as in the manner in which existing traditions of v... ...12 The Koran TO SIR WILLIAM MARTIN, K.T., D.C.L. LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW ZEALAND, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, WITH SINCERE FEELINGS OF ESTEEM FOR HIS ... ... from Mecca to the cave of Thaur–the flight to Medina in June 20, A.D. 622–treaties made with Christian tribes–increasing, but still very imperfect ac... ...xpedition against the Jews of Koreidha, for their treason and violation of treaties. 14 Muhammad’s wives having caused him much annoyance by demands ...
...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...
...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...
...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...s the Swedes. — The Weimerian Cavalry go over to the Swedes. — Conquest of New Prague by Koenigsmark, and Termination of the Thirty Years’ War. Histor... ... Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relations sprang... ...e- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange course of events, religious disp... ... subterfuge to limit a newly spreading religion by the terms of obso- lete treaties? The Bohemian Protestants ap- pealed to the verbal guarantee of Ma... ... this territory, the indivisibility of which had been guaranteed by solemn treaties; and the Emperor, who seemed disposed to enter upon it as a vacant... ...n Bavaria threatened Aus- tria itself, that he yielded to the pressing en- treaties of the Elector and the Emperor, and determined to effect the long-...
...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...
... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d has at the moment of restoration literally the force and liveliness of a new birth—the very same pang, and no whit feebler, as that which belonged t... ...o sudden life on our first awaking, and is to all in- tents and purposes a new and not an old affliction—one which brings with it the old original sho... ...hich I had ever been solaced. On the other hand, it will be obvious that a new hope at the same time arose to take its place, viz., the reasonable one... ...ious savages. The natives of the Society and the Friendly Isles, or of New Zealand, and other favored spots, had, and still have, an art of cookery, t... ...lligerents wait? That concession might be secured by gen- eral exchange of treaties, in the same way that the coopera- tion of so many nations has bee... ...aborate forms of intercourse with enemies through conferences, armistices, treaties of peace, &c., having tamed the savagery of war into connection wi...
........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...
...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ........................................................... 405 CHAPTER VI OF TREATIES OF COMMERCE ......................................................... ... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ...sometimes by drawbacks, some- times by bounties, sometimes by advantageous treaties of com- merce with foreign states, and sometimes by the establishm... ...other kinds as were supposed to deserve particular favour. By advantageous treaties of commerce, particular privileges were procured in some foreign s...
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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...
...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...nsibility below the highest, 191 J S Mill there is nothing except war and treaties which requires a gen eral government at all. Whatever are the bes... ...ial, therefore, that in all wars, save those which, like the Caffre or New Zealand wars, are incurred for the sake of the particular colony, the colon...
...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...
....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................