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...rs that some seem as if they could not be parted with, and must be carried on in the mind, and not only have their after-fates described, but their mi... ...ve satisfaction in feeling and depicting the full pathos of a tragedy, and on the other hand they delight in their own mirth, and fully share it with ... ...esitating decision of their youth. But those who write in elder years look on at their young people, not with inner sympathy but from the outside. The... ...ere what was once dis- tant has become near at hand, the earnest of many a day- dream has been gained, and more than one ideal has been tried, and mer... ...e million?” “And a horrid, nasty million it would be,” retorted Anna. “You born Yankee! Don’t worry Aunt Cherry about profan- ing the Ewe, just to spo... ...ld laughed, and sauntered away. He was not Yankee, except that he had been born at Boston. His father was En- glish, his mother a Hungarian singer, wh... ...ram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her side, and her husband in the paroxysms of the terrible Neme... .... “Yes,” said Lance; “these young things are apt to tear our old traps and flags to pieces. By the bye, who is this Captain Armytage, who happily will... ...hite sails of yachts and pleasure-boats, with brilliant festoons of little flags, and here and there the feather of steam from a launch. He could look...

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...on’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Gene... ...w Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York’s St. John’s Masonic Lod... ...that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and re ceived on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by ... ...held subordinate to the civil power. The gradual increase of our Navy, whose flag has dis played in distant climes our skill in navigation and our fa... ... deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace; the mass of our people borne down and impoverished by taxes to support armies and navies, and mi... ...d alacrity. No one is now left to doubt that every burden will be cheerfully borne that may be necessary to sustain our civil institutions or guard ou... ...my own can know the personal regret and bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myse... ...on every soil where our enterprise may rightfully seek the protection of our flag American citi zenship is an inviolable panoply for the security of ... ... of the past as a pledge for the future, and may confidently expect that the flag which has waved its untarnished folds over every sea will still floa...

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...NSED PRINTING TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND This is true liberty, when free born men, Having to advise the public, may speak free, Which he who can, ... ...covenant of his fidelity; and that his loyalest affection and his hope waits on your proceedings. His highest praising is not flattery, and his plaine... ...reopagitica Milton 6 after to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do ... ...th; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed me n. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as ... ...se condition than a peccant soul, should be to stand before a jury ere it be born to the world, and undergo yet in darkness the judgment of Radamanth ... ...nders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study, and love learn ing for itself, not for lucre or any other... ...y deceased author, though never so famous in his life time and even to this day, come to their hands for li cence to be printed, or reprinted, if th... ...lks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion. Another sort there be who, when they hear that ... ... let him be girt 74 With all the griesly legions that troop Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras, or all the monstrous forms ‘Twixt Af...

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...as three years and a half ago, and since then this “war of ideas” has gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russi... ...t English-speaking nation across the At- lantic that has carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” ... ... expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, and so on. For the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of... ...ine, and Mesopotamia, as yet incapable of self-government, helpless as new-born infants. But our case, our only justifiable case, is that we are trust... ...on of European sovereignty. Under that international Commission the French flag may still wave in Senegal and the British over the protected State of ... ...State of Uganda. Given a new spirit in Germany I do not see why the German flag should not presently be restored in German East Africa. But over all, ... ...air play for the black, and the common welfare of mankind would wave a new flag, the Sun of Africa representing the Central African Commis- sion of th... ...lions should die now, we declare, than that hundreds of millions still un- born should go on living, generation after generation, under the black tyra... ...ting, etc., etc.; (2) persons of a special class, as, for example, persons born and educated to rule (e.g. Aristocracy), or rich busi- ness adventurer...

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...itz is right. I’m dead; only I don’t see why he left out the ‘In Memoriam’ on the ribbons!” “Nonsense!” his wife answered, and poured him his tinc- tu... ...away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn’t it s... ...because the next steamer headed that way, or because some one had set them on the road. The doctors had warned Sophie that Chapin was not to take inte... ...and buried her face on Scottie’s neck. At last a horse’s feet clinked upon flags, rustled in the old grey straw of the rickyard, and she found herself... ...that poor shiny stick of his between his poor, thin knees! I couldn’t have borne it if Scottie had howled. I didn’t know the vicar was so—so sensitive... ... them she was looking at her mother’s maiden name, fairly carved on a blue flagstone on the pew floor: Ellen Lashmar. ob. 1796. aetat 27. She nudged G... ...Friars Pardon stood faithful to its tradition. At the ap- pointed time was born, not that third in their party to whom Sophie meant to be so kind, but... ...y Lashmar gives in doles (that’s nicer than tips) every time a Lashmite is born. I’ve done my duty thus far, but there’s much expected of me.” Entered... ...ded for beginners. Also, by private treaty, racing B.B. Tarpon (76 winning flags) 120 knt., 60 ft.; Long-Davidson double under-rake rudder, new this s...

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...rd his mandate, gave him gifts: a good king he! To him an heir was afterward born, a son in his halls, whom heaven sent to favor the folk, feeling the... ...flecked, outbound, atheling’s barge: there laid they down their darling lord on the breast of the boat, the breaker of rings, 2 Beowulf 3 by the mast... ...y dight with weapons of war and weeds of battle, with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay a heaped hoard that hence should go far o’er the flood w... ...uge treasure, than those had done who in former time forth had sent him sole on the seas, a suckling child. High o’er his head they hoist the standard... ...gh, gabled wide, the hot surge waiting of furious flame. 2 Nor far was that day when father and son in law stood in feud for warfare and hatred that ... ... anger an evil spirit endured the dole in his dark abode, that he heard each day the din of revel high in the hall: there harps rang out, clear song o... ... heedful of courtesy, gold decked, greeting the guests in hall; and the high born lady handed the cup first to the East Danes’ heir and warden, bade h... ...is vaunt made good, all their sorrow and ills assuaged, their bale of battle borne so long, and all the dole they erst endured pain a plenty. — ’Twas ... ... bairn of Healfdene a gold wove banner, guerdon of triumph, broidered battle flag, breastplate and helmet; and a splendid sword was seen of many borne...

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... CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE??...

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...ot write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are f...

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... of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan with his angels lying on the burning lake, thunderstruck and astonished, after a certain space ... ...eater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who ... ...irst Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove like sat’st brooding on the vast abyss And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark Paradise Lo... ...e, Who durst defy th’ Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, roll... ...n bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or EARTH BORN, that warr’d on JOVE, BRIARIOS or TYPHON, whom the Den By ancient TA... ...oon obeyd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of AMRAMS Son in EGYPTS evill day Wav’d round the Coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud Of LOCUSTS, warping o... ...t when he pass’d From EGYPT marching, equal’d with one stroke Both her first born and all her bleating Gods. BELIAL came last, then whom a Spirit more... ...onfest later then Heav’n and Earth Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav’ns first born With his enormous brood, and birthright seis’d By younger SATURN, he... ...e here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms; they around the flag Of each his faction, in thir several Clanns, Light arm’d or heavy, s...

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...his life. That was, notwithstanding his gusty libido. Needless to say, it reveals a rare strength of character and a great ability for self-sacrifice born out of a strong personal conviction. And, for all that, it might have been for a purpose. But, whatever it was, that served him well in sustaining his creed in spite of odds. The very fact that in his otherwise well re...

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... task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice o... ...was a married man when he arrived at Dorchester, but his children were all born in this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side o... ...children were all born in this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have bee... ...her first husband, had been fellow-passengers with him and his first wife, on the ship Mary 5 U. S. Grant and John, from Dorchester, England, in 1630... ...n. In June, 1821, my father, Jesse R. Grant, married Hannah Simpson. I was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. ... ...ad run away without any fault of the quartermaster on whose returns he was borne, and also the purchase of another to take his place. I am a competent... ... said to have donned his uniform, was in order to receive a visit from the Flag Officer of the naval squadron off the mouth of the Rio Grande. While t... ...dron off the mouth of the Rio Grande. While the army was on that river the Flag Of- ficer sent word that he would call on the General to pay his respe... ... there- fore got out, brushed up, and put on, in advance of the visit. The Flag Officer, knowing General Taylor’s aversion to the wearing of the unifo...

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...d state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards... ...tal character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfec... ...s perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even ... ...Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be bett... ...that, one 2 Gukguk is unhappily only an academical beer. 12 SARTOR RESARTUS day, he would probably be hanged for his democratic sentiments. Wo steckt... ...creen yonder, with spurs on its heels and feather in its crown, is but of To day, without a Yesterday or a To morrow; and had not rather its Ancestor ... ...! The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying there, men are being born; men are praying,—on the other side of a brick par tition, men are ... ... an unfledged booby and bustard, by his limbs; most Kings and Queens by being born under such and such a bed tester; Boileau De spr´ eaux (according t... ...abred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they called their Flag; which, had you sold it at any market cross, would not have brought ...

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...cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? ...

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...n that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the elde... ...g in mind that for him these pages were not written. I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was 4 Autobiography the eldest son of James ... ...John Stuart Mill negligently; never undertook any task, literary or other, on which he did not conscientiously bestow all the labour nec essary for p... ...our nec essary for performing it adequately. But he, with these bur dens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India ; and this ... ...e added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of ... ... I was a more frequent visitor (from about 1817 or 1818) to Mr. Hume, who, born in the same part of Scotland as my father, and having been, I rather t... ...ntly in so insignificant and hopeless a minority everywhere in Europe, had borne all before them in France thirty years earlier, and had been the cree... ...pted by the supposed necessity of apologiz ing to foreigners for the most flagrant of all possible viola tions of the free principles of their Const... ...from the ballot I dissented entirely; and I could not consent to hoist the flag of manhood suffrage, even on the assurance that the exclusion of women...

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...r 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadap...

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... and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan... ...isis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administrat... ...4 Management 353 12. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY 361 12.1 Reflecting on a Generational Challenge 361 12.2 Attack Terrorists and Their Organiza... ...d Salem al Hazmi. 11 Hani Hanjour, Khalid al Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed were flagged by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny b... ... proved costly to Bin Ladin in other ways. Jamal Ahmed al Fadl, a Sudanese-born Arab, had spent time in the United States and had been recruited for t... ...ncern about sabotage and explo- sives on aircraft.The Gore Commission also flagged, as a new danger, the pos- sibility of attack by surface-to-air mis... ...could expect a very long wait for initial clearance.Anyone who was foreign-born or had numerous relatives abroad was well-advised not even to apply.Wi... ...Cohen that the station focus on this one individual. Cohen agreed.Thus was born the Bin Ladin unit. 2 In May 1996, Bin Ladin left Sudan for Afghanista... ...refinement of KSM’s old Manila air plot.The oper- atives would hijack U.S.-flagged commercial planes flying Pacific routes across East Asia and destro...

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...Introduction: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he ...

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...LLIER & SON COMPANY, NEW YORK (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Fra... ... (1909) INTRODUCTORY NOTE Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on Janu ary 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chan dle... ...delphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in his business. On Denman’s death he returned to his former trade, and shortly set up a p... ...his electrical researches, which, with other scientific inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money making and politics to the end of his life. ... ...er inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in t... ...f the youngest son for five generations back. My grandfather Thomas, who was born in 1598, lived at Ecton till he grew too old to follow business long... ...en Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and character ... ...nary, from its similarity to what you knew of mine. “Had he died on the same day,” you said, “one might have supposed a transmigration.” John was bred... ...he subscriptions afterwards were more free and gener ous; but, beginning to flag, I saw they would be insufficient without some assistance from the A...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of th...

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...OURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S ........................................................ ..................................................... 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ................................................................... ...OUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may we... ...s is not the way to be original! It is not; nor is there any way but to be born so. Nor yet, if you are born original, is there anything in this train... ..., having hearkened with lowered tails and raised faces, would run up their flags again to the masthead and spread themselves upon the indicated circui... ...tants. Once – I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in Montibus, indeed, but alas! Inerudito saeculo – once, in ... ..., when they leave off to speak of parlours and shades of manner and still- born niceties of motive, and begin to deal with fighting, sailoring, advent... ...with humorous or grave intention, and all the while, never hur- rying, nor flagging, nor taking an unfair advantage of the facts. Jack at a given mome... ...ss what should at present so strongly recall it to my memory.” He took his flageolet from his pocket and played a simple melody. Apparently the tune a...

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...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ... Pepys, he must nearly break his sitter’s neck to get the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his... ...an book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction... ...his episode at once) behaved well to Burns from first to last. Were heaven-born genius to revisit us in similar guise, I am not venturing too far when... ... still uncer- tain whether it were a charge of cavalry or a slow and stub- born advance of foot. There could be no such ambiguity in Burns; his work i... ...Whitman. The whole of Whitman’s work is deliberate and preconceived. A man born into a society comparatively new, full of conflicting elements and int... ... highly of our sublunary tapers. The universe is so large that imagination flags in the effort to conceive it; but here, in the meantime, is the world... ...ap- pointed, and the whole book will be no more to you than a particularly flagrant production by the Poet Close. A writer of this uncertain quality w...

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...st-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been w...

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...n pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency i... ...erican side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purpos... ...ve own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that they thought an attempt... ...t for the evil’s sake, but because some body had offered an insult to her flag? Or even if unforgotten, who would then have felt that such a grievanc... ... over others; which has no moral repugnance to the thought of human beings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years ... ...ration from Virginia brought the matter to a close. Yet the tariff of that day was rigidly protective. Compared with that, the one in force at the tim... ...now, as we may know if we please, that this amounts to the same thing. The day when slavery can no longer extend itself, is the day of its doom. The s...