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... might upset him. She knew all too well what it felt like to be on the receiving end of bullying. Sam’s best friend, Nina Palmer, had tired of the ... ...u know that you are attractive. But by acting like you believe you are not, you end up gathering more attention.” “Shut your face!” came another vo... ...the comment from the doctor about her being underweight hadn’t made her feel as defensive as it normally did. She knew her eating habits were a sou... ... said facts were scarce. Turns out they really were. Harden seemed to be on the defensive regarding the success of his investigation. But then came... ... You? Mum must have left you something.” 65 “She did,” said Sam, hearing a defensive tone in her own voice. “But I ate it. Anyway, your greedi... ...er she was ok or not. “What’s it all about Emma?” he asked, trying to add some Bruce Willis bravado to his voice. “Whatcha doing, eh? Scaring my s... ...escue mission up 36 flights of stairs. Special Firearms Officers Shelley, Patel, Smith, Loach and Bailey followed her. They had been unable to summo... ...like the lumbering gait of an Egyptian mummy from a cheap horror film. “Officer Smith will escort you downstairs,” said Stannard, pointing at the S... ...’t look at her, didn’t speak. She walked past Stannard and stood next to Officer Smith. Stannard exhaled. She hadn’t realised she’d been holding her...

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into ... ...ON An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ay. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...ey pound contained, from the time of Alexander the First to that of Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English p... ...of the appropriation of land and the accumula- tion of stock. It was at an end, therefore, long before the most considerable improvements were made in... ... people. Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the 61 Adam Smith workmen, who sometimes, too, wi... ...n are under of submitting for the sake of present subsis- tence, generally end in nothing but the punishment or ruin of the ringleaders. But though, i... ...se pleasures so great a part of his revenue as to debilitate very much the defensive power of the state, it cannot well be expected that he should not... ...t part of it which is over and above what is necessary for supporting that defensive power. His ordinary expense becomes equal to his ordinary revenue...

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...eing our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had... ...kle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider’s defensive armour. In his girdle he wore a long and double-edged dagger, whi... ...sleep, or lying dead at the foot of this cross—Hugo, stir him with the but-end of thy lance.” This was no sooner done than the figure arose, exclaimin... ...ky excepting the planking and thatch; there was a huge fireplace at either end of the hall, but as the chimneys were constructed in a very clumsy mann... ...nd with restless feet, And snorting foam’d and champ’d the golden bit. The smiths and armourers on palfreys ride, Files in their hands, and hammers at... ...eran soldiers of the Norman knights, who were well provided with arms both defensive and offensive; and who, to match the zeal and high spirit of the ... ...of proof. “Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!” said Locksley, “had En- glish smith forged it, these arrows had gone through, an as if it had been silk o... ...feet, and twice bounded aloft to almost his own height from the ground. “A smith and a file,” he cried, “to do away the collar from the neck of a free... ...ts of England deserve no less their renown in our modern circles, than the Bruces and W allaces of Caledonia. If the scen- ery of the south be less ro...

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...one more than answer, ‘Nay, nay, Malcolm, these are no words for the oe of Bruce; you are born to dare as well as to suffer,’ there was an approach of... ... can make no figure in describing my own descent.’ And as though to put an end to the inquiry, he walked to the window, where Malcolm so soon as they ... ...ay’s journey, Malcolm was amazed to see Sir James mount without any of his defensive armour, which was piled on the spare horse; his head was covered ... ...as given him to serve God’s ends, not his own sullen fancy. I will have an end of such things!—And you, gentlemen, since the heriard is dead, or too o... ...and told him that no English 50 The Caged Lion sword should set me on the Bruce’s throne; but there is some- thing in Harry of Monmouth that one must... ...o her compan- ion, a slender, dark, thoughtful representative of the Gold- smiths’ Company, to whom she talked with courtesy such as Malcolm had scorn... ...you do with him?’ asked King Henry of James, as they stood together at one end of the tilt-yard at Westminster, watching Malcolm Stewart and Ralf Perc... ...e me!’ ‘What are you here then for, Sir?’ said Esclairmonde, with the same defensive dignity. ‘My king sent me, against my will, on a mission to the Q... ...e walls that pleasantly recalled Coldingham, though with- out Coldingham’s defensive aspect, and with ample food for the mind, which had again returne...

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...e horses, and then assembled with his neighbours, in a little group at the smithy, to discuss the probabilities of whence the stranger came, and where... ...he Deliciæ Poetarum Scotorum, and Sir David Lindsay’s Works, and Barbour’s Bruce, and Blind Harry’s Wallace, and the Gentle Shepherd, and the Cherry a... ... they entered the village of Cairnvreckan, they speedily distinguished the smith’s house. Being also a public, it was two stories high, and proudly re... ...ate, above the thatched hovels by which it was sur- rounded. The adjoining smithy betokened none of the Sab- batical silence and repose which Ebenezer... ...ch- bishop Sharp. This last topic, again, led him into the lawful- ness of defensive arms, on which subject he uttered much more sense than could have... ... He damps the spirits of the poor lads he commands, by keeping them on the defensive, whilk of itself implies inferiority or fear. Now will they lie o... ...is father, the service used and wont, for which, under a charter of Robert Bruce (of which the original was produced and inspected by the Masters of h... ...veteran, protested that nothing but compliance with an ordinance of Robert Bruce could have induced him to receive even the symbolical per- formance o... ...he scene of action. The Highlanders did not remain long undisturbed in the defensive position they had adopted. Favoured by the night, one large body ...

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... clamor and surprise behind. The fisherman forsook the strand, The swarthy smith took dirk and brand; With changed cheer, the mower blithe Left in the... ...h. All backward came with news of truce; Still lay each martial Graeme and Bruce, In Rednock courts no horsemen wait, No banner waved on Cardross gate... ...Heart. The bleeding heart was the cognizance of the Douglas family. Robert Bruce, on his death-bed, bequeathed his heart to his friend, the good Lord ... ...sket, and in the end Douglas was laid with his ancestors, and the heart of Bruce deposited in the church of Melrose Abbey” (Burton’s Hist. of Scotland... ...well his glozing speeches frame T o such vaine uses that him best became;” Smith, Sermons (A. D. 1609): “Every smooth tale is not to be believed; and ... ... lightning.” 253. Glaive. See on iv. 274 above. The jack was “a horseman’s defensive upper garment, quilted and covered with strong leather” (Nares). ... ...oad. That is, in France. See on i. 163 above. Scott says here: “The use of defensive armor, and particularly of the buckler, or target, was general in... ... of the swash-bucklers, or bullies, of Queen Elizabeth’s time, says, ‘West Smithfield was formerly called Ruffian’s Hall, where such men usually met, ... ... ones into “barbed.” Scott doubt- less wrote barded (= armored, or wearing defensive armor; but applied only to horses), a word found in many old writ...

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...e, Essenism could make good its pretensions, there at one blow would be an end of Christianity, which in that case is not only superseded as an idle r... ...n the crucifixion and the siege of Jerusa- lem, arose probably that secret defensive society of Chris- tians which suggested to Josephus his knavish f... ...ions of solitude, which, when acting as a co-agency with unresisted grief, end in the paradoxical result of making out of grief itself a luxury; such ... ...menced business, that scarcely any of the characters remained alive at the end of act the first. Sultan Amurath found himself in an awkward situation.... ...th, and indeed with the school itself, was the sudden escape of Sir Sidney Smith from the prison of the Temple in Paris. The mode of his escape was as... ...ld have followed from that event is a far more obscure problem. Sir Sidney Smith, I must explain to readers of this genera- tion, and Sir Edward Pelle... ... hero. Why, I know not, unless as alumni of the school at which Sir Sidney Smith had received his own education, we were admitted without question or ... ...hy establishment; far other are the echoes heard amid the ancient halls of Bruce. 3 There it is possible for the timid child to be happy—for the child...

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...bble in soda water. An armada of navigables sent against this island would end in a dispersed, deflated state, chiefly in the seas between Orkney and ... ... of thought going in my mind. The age of natural democracy is surely at an end through these machines. There comes a time when men will be sorted out ... ...try of Chance it fell to the lot of that tragic and unhappy gentleman, Mr. Bruce Ismay, to be aboard and to be caught by the urgent vacancy in the boa... ...e agriculture there are usually a few imperfectly specialised tradesmen, a smith, a garment-maker perhaps, a basket-maker or potter, who group about t... ...undred years may be regarded and rephrased as an attempt to apprehend this defensive struggle of the Normal Social Life against waxing novelty and inn... ...fe, but about books. No type or kind of woman is capable of that lounging, defensive stupid- ity which is the basis of the tired giant attitude, and a... ...the hopeful and the curious, against the established, the dig- nified, and defensive. Before we have done, we will have all life within the scope of t... ... Age for August 15th, 1908, a description by Mr. Jerome K. Jerome of “John Smith,” the average British voter. John Smith might serve in some re- spect... ...e common man of all the modern civilisations. Among other things that John Smith thinks and wants, he wants: 235 H. G . Wells That, however, is by th...

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...e, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon. “I remember when we were all reading Adam Smith. There is a book, now. I took in all the new ideas at one time—human ... ...don’t know whether you have given much study to the topography. I spent no end of time in making out these things—Helicon, now. Here, now!—`W e starte... ...s trust ought to be. Miss Pippin adoring young Pumpkin, and dreaming along end- less vistas of unwearying companionship, was a little drama which neve... ...about life and its best objects. Nevertheless before the evening was at an end she was very happy. In an hour’s tete-a-tete with Mr. Casaubon she talk... ...pleasantly conscious that this attack of Mrs. Cadwallader’s had opened the defensive campaign to which certain rash steps had exposed him. “Y our sex ... ...ith admiration. “He has a thirst for travelling; perhaps he may turn out a Bruce or a Mungo Park,” said Mr. Brooke. “I had a notion of that myself at ... ...iot tures, commerce, interchange of staples—that kind of thing— since Adam Smith, that must go on. We must look all over the globe:—`Observation with ... ...e about a debt amounting to less than four hundred pounds; and the silver- smith, Mr. Dover, was willing to reduce it by taking back a portion of the ... ... inquire further,” she said, with a care- ful calmness which was evidently defensive. Lydgate stared at her in mute amazement. Only half an hour befor...

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...as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony from 160 witness... ...11. United’s first decisive action to notify its airborne aircraft to take defensive action did not come until 9:19, when a United flight dispatcher, ... ...alls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation of pote... ...or investigation more because of their beliefs than because of their acts. Smith’s guidelines also took account of the reality that potential terroris... ....4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 96 deployed abroad.They involved a number of defensive measures, including cau- tion not only about strange cars and tru... ...h Pakistan was wearing thin, inside both the State Department and the NSC. Bruce Riedel, the NSC staff member responsible for Pakistan, wrote Berger t... ...e, old wily Usama will likely boogie to Baghdad. ” 135 Though told also by Bruce Riedel of the NSC staff that Saddam Hussein wanted Bin Ladin in Baghd... ...ecretary of Homeland Security, 2003–; Homeland Security Advisor, 2001–2003 Bruce Riedel Senior Director for Near East and South Asia, NSC, 1997–2001 C... ...The Honorable Rudolph W . Giuliani, former Mayor, City of New Y ork Dennis Smith,Author, Report from Ground Zero Jerome M. Hauer, former Commissioner,...

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...t not be put under ground, but that her coffin should stand upright on one end of it, promising that while she remained in that situa- tion the Dalrym... ... ominous to a descen- dant of that house as for a Grahame to wear green, a Bruce to kill a spider, or a St. Clair to cross the Ord on a Monday. It was... ... and such-like as 66 Bride of Lammermoor you, that have led me to the far end of a fair estate? And now I shall be obliged, I suppose, to shelter and... ...voys?” “Starving is honester, Craigengelt, and hang- ing is like to be the end on’t. But what you mean to make of this poor fellow Ravenswood, I know ... ...ter, with equal skill, and much greater composure, remained chiefly on the defensive, and even declined to avail himself of one or two advantages affo... ...stle, his horse should lose a shoe, and that, while it was replaced by the smith of the place, he should express the utmost regret for the necessary l... ...’s fitter for the dead than the quick, and killed wi’ rheumatise, and John Smith in my dainty bit mailing, and his window glazen, and a’ because Raven...