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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...ion (state vector) in quantum mechanics – the represent millions of potential final states (=millions of potential embryos and lives). The fetus is ... ...e, would have not qualified as an achievement in the USA – but it would have in the ranks of the SS. Perhaps to find a definition of achievement whi... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ...y. This viral hijacking of the host country's agenda is particularly evident in the United States where the interest of Jewry and of the only super... ...: I. Non-consensual consumption of human flesh post- mortem For example, when the corpses of prisoners of war are devoured by their captors. This ... ... as his dead body, does he "own" it, does the state have any rights in it? Does the corpse stll retain its previous occupant's "personhood"? Are cad... ... place to women and children? Should not he have obeyed the captain's orders (=the marine law)? Should we succumb to laws that put our lives at ris... ... and incarcerate. They seek to break the death cartel of governments by joining its ranks. Thus, when a soldier kills terrorists and ("inadvertently...

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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 ... ...ransmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series ... ...n. I need not call into view the unlawful ness of the practice by which our mariners are forced at the will of every cruising officer from their own ... ... the parade and the inaugural ball later that day, John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band. The ball was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s new... ...rade and the inaugural ball later that day, John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band. The ball was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s new Nation... ...ld an umbrella over his head as he took the oath. John Philip Sousa’s Marine Corps band played for a large crowd at the inaugural ball in the Pen sio... ...at nations to a limitation of our sea power. As one result of this, our Navy ranks larger, in comparison, than it ever did before. Removing the burden...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...IN; HE WAS LOST; AND IS FOUND.” He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He wa... ...merican Ambassador at Paris, Richard Norton of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps to which the boys belonged, was completely discouraged, and advised m... ...by a blundering cable from Paris saying that he had been drowned by a sub- marine. (An error which Mr. Norton subsequently cabled that he had discover... ... would appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so... ...appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so that a... ...his broom and was assisting. Nearer and nearer they came; converging, they united their separate heaps of filth in a loudly stinking single mound at t... ...uddenly the roar ceased. The mêlée integrated. We were marching in orderly ranks. B. said: “The Surveillant!” At the end of the corridor, opposite the... ...ment”—he contemplated me with attention. “South American are you?” “United States” I explained. “Vraiment”— he looked curiously at me, not disagreeabl... ...e four nouveaux of a decidedly interesting appearance. They entered in two ranks of two each. The front rank was made up of an immensely broad shoulde...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...hich bore an emerald vine on each of their six golden faces, belonged to a corps composed exclusively of young patricians of the tallest stature. They... ...ill rest later, will you not? When they pull off your cuirass to cast your corpse to the vultures! or perhaps blind, lame, and weak you will go, leani... ...coes all round the basin. On an island in the centre stood a house for the marine Suffet. The water was so limpid that the bottom was visible with its... ...gain, “’Tis we! ’tis we! and you too are vanquished!” No one excepting the marine Suffet might enter the admiral’ s house. So long as there was no pro... ...he temple. These columns were arranged in such a way that their circu- lar ranks, which were contained one within another, showed the Saturnian period... ...nd ran after his troops, who were hastening towards those from Utica. They united so rapidly that the Suffet had not time to draw up his men in battle... ...pire. Strengthened by Punic money , the adventurer had raised the Numidian States with promises of freedom. But Narr’ Havas, warned by his nurse’ s so... ...ed at almost the same time there existed differences between their various states of corruption. The men of the North were puffed up with livid swelli... ...barians would find themselves driven to the edge of the sea, and all those united forces would crush them. This would infallibly happen. Thus no means...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... first or last’—‘How so?’ I interrupted him; ‘surely they don’t detain the corpses of prisoners?’ ‘Ay, but mind you — put case that he or that she sho... ...,) petitions, very numerously signed, and various petitions from different ranks, different ages, different sexes, were carried up to the throne, pray... ...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...ch of water utterly ruins it, taking its life, and leaving a caput mortuum corpse! Upon this caput Kate breakfasted, though her case was worse than mi... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated enumerations, lengthiness, and ... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...lling men as Diomedes did the Thracians, or as Ulysses did in throwing the corpses of his enemies at his horse’s feet, as Homer saith, but by putting ... ...eld them, apprehending that in their pursuit the pursuers might lose their ranks, and so give occasion to the besieged to sally out of the town upon t... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...ecious free minutes. “Hep, hep, hep,” cried the sergeant, glaring down the ranks, with his aggressive bulldog expression, to where someone had fallen ... ...d come from such various worlds, all these men sleep- ing about him, to be united in this. And what did they think of it, all these sleepers? Had they... ...to Fuselli. “He’s got brains in his head, that boy has.” “All right, break ranks,” said the sergeant, “but if anybody moves away from this barracks, I... ... sonny, I nearly cried when I found I was going to be in this damn medical corps? I enlisted for the tanks. This is the first time in my life I haven’... ... in a hell of a hurry.” “Have you heard anything about this army students’ corps to send men to universities here in France? Something the Y. M. C. A.... ...ut just think of it,” said Aubrey, “that means world revo- lution with the United States at the head of it. What do you think of that?” “Moki doesn’t ... ... think of it,” said Aubrey, “that means world revo- lution with the United States at the head of it. What do you think of that?” “Moki doesn’t think s... ...irty life that. I’ll never be a soldier. I’m going into the navy. Merchant marine, and then if I have to do service I’ll do it on the sea.” “I suppose... ...t on in the world, Skinny.” “But, Kid, you won’t be able to go back to the States.” “I don’t care. New Rochelle’s not the whole world. They got the mo...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arc... ...till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arched the... ... where the sun had lodged, was reflected still a dull yellow beam from the ranks of tansy, now past its prime. In short, Nature seemed to have adorned... ...ontain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by ship wrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of... ...ature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, a... ... more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. Unlike the mariner, they have the constantly vary ing panorama of the shore to reliev... ...o contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen. Our uninquiring corpses lie more low Than our life’s curiosity doth go. Y et these men h... ...eum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in the United States” was to be seen, and I also read in its directory of a “Manch...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and candles. I felt myself the focal... ...e Arno roared throughout that night, as we mourned his death. Many of us. Corpses lodged against supports of the Puente Vecchio. Plagues. Madness. W... ...res of rivers and their permanency. These studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is s... ... no doubt the swiftest. The jig maker’s safest. The priest’s dullest. The mariner’s loneliest. The lover’s saddest. VOICES FROM THE PAST 404 ... ...r a man to work with other men and achieve. September 2, 1863 A drum corps passes the White House. I listen. I must ask myself some questions ... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...enerals, Tad. I salute the officers but take off my hat to the men in the ranks. They are the great men. There are no victors—not if there is heart ...

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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 ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...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... ...ation to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby ren- der them more efficient than if divided into thirte... ...falls within the first descrip- tion. An insular situation, and a powerful marine, guarding it in a great measure against the possibility of foreign i... ..., and would possess all the means, requisite to the creation of a powerful marine. Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fost... ...ivate and public con- fidence, which are so alarmingly prevalent among all ranks, and which have a direct tendency to depreciate property of every kin... ...ined an appointment to enforce it. He soon appeared before the city with a corps of ten thousand troops, and finding it a fit occasion, as he had secr...

...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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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...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... ...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 ... ... one week at West Point. Persons acquainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military ... ...y lieutenants were appointed to captaincies to fill vacancies in the staff corps. If they should reach a captaincy in the line before they arrived at ... ... continued. As we got nearer, the cannon balls commenced going through the ranks. They hurt no one, however, during this advance, because they would s... ...osition was reached. One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps. I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infan-... ... three days’ bombardment by the navy an assault was made by the troops and marines, resulting in the capture of the place, and in taking 5,000 prisone...

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...treet indicates possibili- ties in the Oriental imagination of the eminent statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction. Thackeray’s attitude... ...e to appease her cravings earlier than she would have had as much from the United Liberal Cabinet, but at a cost both to her and to England. Meanwhile... ...d faith in the active intellect, and that is the thing to be prayed for by statesmen who would register permanent successes. The Irish, it is true, do... ...redith since Wednesday morning, and the famous general, in whom the fourth corps he commands, and the whole of the nation, has so much confidence, has... ...d of the Polesine by several pontoon bridges, which will enable Cialdini’s corps d’armee to cross the river, and, as everybody here hopes, to cross it... ...a plan proposed beforehand it might become really imposing, more so as the ranks of those Italian patriots are daily swollen by numerous deserters and... ... under the command of General Angioletti, only a month ago Minister of the Marine in Lamarmora’s Cabinet. Angioletti’s division of the second corps wa...

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