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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...ics; and it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral. Au- rora forgot to ask youth for her lover, a... ...ors. He proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists, and he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to p... ... a more than average delight in accurate perception, which is shown by the currency of the byword, “No mistake.” But the discomfort of unpunctuality, ... ...the smallest box or case in which any needful utensil can be carried. Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind; as ... ...ords is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speake... ...we agreed so and so, but how feel ye this article to-day? Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait: it soon becomes unrecognizab... ...us and piety throw into the world, alters the world. The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force and simulation, the ...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...uld really seem to be born and bred for no other purpose than to pass into currency counterfeit and mischievous scraps of wisdom, as it is the sole pu... ...g the faces and touching the bands of the successful competi tors in your lists, I will not cast upon that anticipated meet ing the terrible foresha... ...been brilliantly won by the most successful competi tors in the society’s lists. I say the most successful, because to night we should particularly o... ...ed with the eloquence of genuine feeling. Since I first entered the public lists, a very young man indeed, it has been my constant fortune to number a...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...ich was profound among the biped equine, jockeys, turfmen, sharpers, pugi- lists, demireps. He fronted Woodseer with square shoulders and wide knees, ... ...tale of love. Would she? For credulous men she would be golden coin of the currency. She would not have a particular wild flavour: charm as of the run... ...taches importance also to verses of one of the ballads be- ginning to gain currency at the time (issuing ostensibly from London’s poetic centre, the S... ...If she were away we should hear of black doings. Twenty dozen of his pugi- lists wouldn’t stop the burning.’ They agreed that persuasions need not be ... ...from swallowing indigestible substance, or we consent to a debasing of the currency, which means her to-morrow’s bankruptcy; and the spectacle of Roma... ...d he was left to estimate the value of a dirited piece of metal not in the currency, stamped false coin. An odd sense of impoverishment chilled him. C...

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

By: H. G. Wells

...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v... ...press me as dangerous and incalculable. The first of these is the mod- ern currency and financial system, and the second is the chance we take of dest... ...asy developments of the latter. Now, there is nothing scientific about our currency and finance at all. It is a thing that has grown up and elaborated...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...ally focused on finding and deterring or disrupting the vast flows of U.S. currency generated by drug trafficking and high-level international fraud. ... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep... ...locate your base? Some of the same places come up again and again on their lists: • western Pakistan and the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region • sout... ...ernment has been established in Kabul, with a democratic constitution, new currency, and a new army. Most Afghans enjoy greater freedom, women WHAT TO... ...ndary screening procedures to others.The “no-fly” and “automatic selectee” lists include only those individuals who the U.S. government believes pose ... ...age 392 Recommendation: Improved use of “no-fly” and “automatic selectee” lists should not be delayed while the argument about a suc- cessor to CAPPS...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...serving carefully cracks on the wall and set him to memorizing meaningless lists of words in an unknown tongue—which is about what we do in fact when ... ...chool in Germany (followers of Herbart for the most part) , has had little currency. But the idea which underlies it is that education is essentially ... ...of present activities, we shall take up some of the larger ends which have currency in the educational theories of the day, and consider what light th... ...better balanced activity, it is a limit set to activity. In education, the currency of these externally imposed aims is responsible for the emphasis p...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ry moment ringing more clearly, until a knight in pink armor rode into the lists with his visor down, and riding a tremendous dun charger, which he ma... ...lephant’s teeth, twelve tons of palm-oil, or four healthy niggers, African currency)—the shares of this helegeble investment rose to 1, 2, 3, in the M... ...ht, as the locks of the Jew- ish maiden whom the knight had rescued in the lists of 282 Thackeray Templestowe. A bit of Rowena’s hair was in Sir Wilf... ...mingled with the mane of his charger, which backed to the other end of the lists; then galloping back to the place where Jemimarann was seated, he beg...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...iod: some, doubtless, were fraudulently fa- thered on him in order to gain currency; but it is probable that most came to be regarded as his partly be... ...ny are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvel...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...y the soldiers, commencing with the Libyans. As they had declared that the lists were untruthful, he made no use of them. They defiled before him acco... ...to remove every obstacle. The Greeks tried to quibble about differences in currency, but he furnished them with such explanations that they re- tired ...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...wo figures mingled Into one face, wherein the two were lost. Of the four lists were fashioned the two arms, The thighs and legs, the belly and the... ... the more my sighs in flight. There is Romena, where I counterfeited The currency imprinted with the Baptist, For which I left my body burned abov... ... had the semblance, So that it overhead remained distinct With sevenfold lists, all of them of the colours Whence the sun’s bow is made, and Delia...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...s. What more natural than that they should be disposed to exclude from the lists such dangerous competitors? This branch of trade ought not to be cons... ...into several confederacies, there will be as many different national civil lists to be provided for—and each of them, as to the principal de- partment... ...aken ground. If, in addition to the consideration of a plurality of civil lists, we take into view the number of persons who must necessarily be empl... ...t Papers of representation were to be calculated, and inserted them on the lists when the tariff of contributions was to be adjusted? Could it be reas... ...orporate bodies. The one can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation; the other is in several respects the arbiter of com...

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