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...Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist and owner of a munitions plant, finds himself facing several problems: not only anarchism and German sabotage, but also the prospect of a dete...

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...at great warfare in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, when Antichrist shall fall, and his powers be broken in the battle of Armageddon. But the faithf... ...ugh all temptation and tribulation. “To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the m... ...substantiation, the sacrifice of the mass, the seven sacraments, the hierarchy, and the central unity of the church in Rome. But though no one more ... ... the whole operation of the Christian religion has been to support the authority of the powers that be? This I say, of Christianity truly so called,... ...n, about to come upon all the world; having also pointed their eye to t he great hopes; powers, possessions, and glories of his second coming, and o... ...y, or dissolving the bonds of Christ, and that it will bring about a confederacy of the powers now professing Christianity against the Lord and his a...

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...at from the moment they make a sign. Yes then, the case prescribed for its central figure a sick young woman, at the whole course of whose disintegra-... ...l cuts to the interesting state. Why should a figure be disqualified for a central position by the particular circumstance that might most quicken, th... ...lf be the opposition—to the catastrophe announced by the associated Fates, powers conspiring to a sinister end and, with their command of means, final... ...ere, as they would have left any other fine product, for a monument to her powers. But, Densher related further, he had had in other respects too the ... ...epths of the merely relative, so quickly, so strongly had she clutched her central clue. All her scruples and hesitations, all her anxious enthusiasms... ...ut thoroughly—as thoroughly as I can.” “And for cheating,” Kate asked, “my powers will con- tribute? Well, I’ll do my best for you.” In accordance wit...

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...ning phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the de... ...- gering fight against wind and wave. Steam was the first-comer in the new powers, it was the beginning of the Age of Energy that was to close the lon... ...diers and with but a small equipment of modern contrivances, and the great powers of the world were content for the most part to maintain armies that ... ...e soldiers upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese s... ...not arranged at all; that gov- ernment was a compromise of aggressions and powers and lassitudes, and law a convention between interests, and that the... ...reat mass of unskilled cheap labour which the now still cheaper mechanical powers had super- seded for evermore. They were being ‘scrapped’—as horses ... ...ave international situations in recent years. This time it was talk of the Central European powers sud- denly attacking the Slav Confederacy, with Fra... ...erywhere extraordinarily be- hind the collective intelligence. That is the central fact of that history. For two hundred years there had been no great... ...f Them. They are sending us up into Luxembourg. They are going to turn the Central Euro- pean right.’ Behind the veil of this vagueness the little gro...

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...rnment is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of... ...time so threatening, is disposed of by the people. The high reconstructive powers which he so confidently, osten- tatiously, and haughtily claimed, ha... ...lty of a bold and persistent attempt to possess himself of the legislative powers solemnly secured to Con- gress by the Constitution. No vindication c...

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... fight for it before that fate overtook me. In addition to my belief in my powers as a business man, I had always in those days had an idea that I was... ... him, wondering whether, after all, it would not be better to use him as a central figure in a good farce and let all this other stuff slide. And then... ... opened a window moonward, and we saw that we were dropping towards a huge central crater with a number of minor craters grouped in a sort of cross ab... ...s.” He stretched out his hand for his blanket, thrust his head through its central hole, and wrapped it about him. He sat down on the edge of the manh... ...ther all the things we had brought upon ourselves, seemed beyond my mental powers. “They’ve got us,” I said at last. “It was that fungus.” “Well—if I ... ...o not think we can judge the Selenites by what we have seen of them. Their central world, their civilised world will be far below in the profounder ca... ...and more popu- lous as one descends. Assuredly. Right down at the last the central sea that washes round the core of the moon. Think of its inky water... ...must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then … Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another, an... ...eous tentacles and muscles, as it were, to replace the abortive physi- cal powers of these hypertrophied minds. Porters almost in- variably accompany ...

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...ore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound; And all the reasoning powers divine, T o penetrate, resolve, combine; And feelings keen, and fanc... ...e in its trust Of two such wondrous men the dust. With more than mortal powers endowed, How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common ... ...live, within the tomb: But stopped, because that woful maid, Gathering her powers, to speak essayed. T wice she essayed, and twice in vain; Her accent... ...ronging, With praises not to me belonging, In task more meet for mightiest powers, Wouldst thou engage my thriftless hours. But say, my Erskine, hast ... ...has birth Soon as the infant wakes on earth, One with our feelings and our powers, And rather part of us than ours; Or whether fitlier termed the sway... ...s in time of strife: Thus have I ranged my power: Myself will rule this central host, Stout Stanley fronts their right, My sons command the vawa... ... of fire – With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland’s central host, 191 Sir Walter Scott Or victory and England’s lost. Mu...

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... we are told that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. If that is not popu- lar sovereign... ...ertainly none whom I trusted more. His po- sition as chairman of the State Central Committee led to my greater intercourse with him, and to my giving ... ...RINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, December 19, 1859. MESSRS. G . M. PARSONS AND OTHERS, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ETC. GENTLEMEN:—Y our letter of the 7th instan... ...r adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution” “are reserve... ...; when it is between the negro and the crocodile, I am for the negro.” Its central idea is indifference. It holds that it makes no more difference to... ... as to produce harmony only, and pre- vent renewed secession? Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anar- chy. A majority held in r... ...ly: “Will the Senate approve a treaty referring to either of the sovereign powers above named the dispute now existing be- tween the governments of th... ...h a line according to the treaty as nearly as possible? Which of the three powers named by Great Britain as an arbiter shall be chosen by the United S... ...ns from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on t...

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...anty,’ said Estelle gravely; ‘you cannot keep things from happening.’ ‘The Powers forbid that I should spake such blasphemy!’ said Lanty, taking off h... ...s so conducted as not to in- volve T urkey in dangerous wars with European powers. Cap- ture by the Moors had for several centuries been one of the or... ...us to repress outrage, and to be on good terms with the two great European powers; but he had died in the spring of the current year, 1718, and the te... ... waves, Arthur felt foothold on a sloping beach of white sand, even as his powers became exhausted. He struggled up out of reach of the sea, and then ... ...astern fashion; and then all, as before, sat on mats or cushions round the central bowl, each being furnished with a spoon and thin flat soft piece of... ...kelihood that Yusuf would encumber himself with a child who had shown such powers of wailing and screaming? He durst not stir nor speak for fear of wa...

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...score of thousands from the monkey, his forebear. A man’s body, his bodily powers, are just the body and powers of an ape, a little improved, a little... ...he room you are in is full of ancient and discarded but quite unsubjugated powers and purposes…. They thrust ambigu- ous limbs and claws suddenly out ... ...zed civilization,” the doctor tried. “She has retained her effect of being central, she still makes the social atmosphere, she raises men’s instinctiv... ...eople who apprehend that, and want to live in the spirit of that, is quite central. It is my funda- mental idea. We,—this small but growing minority—c... ... representatives from the be- ginning.” “Advisory—consultative?” “No. With powers. These things interlock now interna- tionally both through labour an... ...ssion of scientific men and economists—with pow- ers, just as considerable powers as I can give them—they’ll be feeble powers at the best—but still so... ...r utmost to whittle it down again. They will refuse it the most reasonable powers. They will alter the composition of the Committee so as to make it i... ...collapsed. The rest of the people in the circles crystallized out into the central space as two apparent sisters and an apparent aunt and the nurse, w...

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...o council, can seize and torture me; no Church, no nation silence me. Such powers of ruthless and complete suppres- sion have vanished. But that is no... ... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...just exactly what ought anyhow to happen when you did. He had considerable powers of vivid expression, so that in this way he could make us see all he... ...age of demonstrations, some of them very impressive demonstrations, of the powers that have come to mankind, but of permanent achievement, what will o... ...ntinual pleasure to me. But these things were certainly not the living and central interests of my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certai... ...imply that as yet we had gath- ered no experience at all of the limits and powers of legisla- tion and conscious collective intention… . I think this ... ...dnor, the “infernal punctilio,” and Dudley Sowerby’s limitations, were the central substance of that inalertness the book set itself to assail. So man... ...ch tamed to the ideas of collective action and mutual consider- ation as a Central African negro. There are hordes of such men as he throughout all th... ...ndy-bearded bishop with the expression of a man in a trance completed this central group. The room was one of those long apartments once divided by fo...

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...ted, my answer shall be threefold: First, Gandercleugh is, as it were, the central part—the navel (si fas sit dicere) of this our native realm of Scot... ...air;—for it is well known that the fiend, however liberal in imparting his powers of doing mischief, ungenerously leaves his allies un- der the necess... ...the difficulties he had already surmounted, he must have been of Herculean powers; for some of the stones he had succeeded in raising apparently requi... ...om increasing in bulk, while they harden and confirm by habit its muscular powers. His face, sharp-fea- tured, sun-burnt, and freckled, had a sinister... ...mmunication; but in any casual intercourse, or conversation, displayed the powers of an active and well-informed mind. For some time before taking up ... ... Ellieslaw, Mareschal, and Sir Frederick Langley were chosen leaders, with powers to direct their farther measures. A place of rendezvous was appointe...

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...ty prevail. In streets like Holborn and Tottenham Court Road, which form the central market of a large neighbourhood, inhab ited by a vast number of ... ...s, the constables are invested with arbitrary, vexatious, and most extensive powers; and all this in a bill which sets out with a hypocritical and can...

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...rs would seem to me like holy dew. But that would be sleep, and I feel the powers of life. Never have I felt them so mightily. If it were not for bein... ...orway, were flushed by the fire-beams, though no longer with their swarthy central rose, tropic flower of a pure and abounding blood, as it had seemed... ...she had determined to be tried. A strange fit of childishness overcame her powers of thinking, and was be- trayed in her manner of speaking, though—to... ...m of race, the shrink- ing of the skin from the burr. But when T remendous Powers are invoked, we should treat any simple revulsion of our blood as a ... ...vil, and winging to ethereal happiness, this was a revelation of our human powers. She attributed the change to the influences of nature’s beauty and ... ...mple newspaper report of the expedition of a Nileboat party could stir the Powers to take her up and turn her on their wheel in this manner. But other... ... to black tissue, with an edge or two of discoloured paper. A small frayed central heap still resisted, and in kindness to the ne- cessity for privacy... ...e depths of the waves of crimson, where bril- liancy of colour came out of central heaven preternaturally near on earth, till one shade less brilliant...

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...ophists having made large fortunes; this must surely be a criterion of their powers of teaching, for that no man could get a living by shoemaking who ... ...st. He is the sophisticated youth on whom Socrates tries his cross examining powers, just as in the Charmides, the Lysis, and the Euthydemus, ingenuou... ...the same names. A like remark applies to David Hume, of whose philosophy the central principle is the denial of 28 Meno the relation of cause and eff...

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...e has left few, if any, literary monuments to record what his intellectual powers were; and even in our common profession the ordinary course and prac... ... no more heinous fault than not having worked up to the full extent of his powers! He kept his promise of diligence, and never again incurred reproof,... ...on to have his way, and the game, though closely contested, was saved. His powers of defence were indeed remarkable. I saw the famous professional cri... ...ve him dearly, but the numbers were too small to afford full scope for his powers, and he would have experienced the trials of cramped and unemployed ... ... gave his services at the Maori village of Orakei, where there was to be a central native school man- aged by Pirimona (Philemon), a well-trained man,... ...ds in another, the Rarotongan teacher, Tutoo, and his wife in a third. The central room was parlour, school, and hall, and as it had four unglazed win... ...tives—supports the missionary in every way. New Caledonia is handy for the central school, everything almost that can be requisite. Never mind; work o... ... re- joice at seeing your dear old likenesses. When we build our permanent central school-house at Kohimarama, I shall try to get a little snuggery, a... ...e, if alive and well; and that the Banks Islands should be regarded as the central point of the Mission. ‘Such boys! Bright-eyed, merry fellows, many ...

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... a big wall paint- ing rather in the manner of Puvis de Chavannes. And the central figure had been the bishop of Princhester himself. He had been stan... ...ance besieged him. Chief of this was his distress for Eleanor. She was the central figure in this new sense of illusion in familiar and trusted things... ...he whole Church. It was—as some atheist or other put it the other day —the central heating of the soul. But never mind that point now. Consider the es... ...there at all, not in anything between west-end and suburb, but yourself as central as your mind, in a kind of clergy house that will be part of the bu... ...is to be this little simple chapel we proposed, then wasn’t our idea to be central?” “But if the’ isn’ t ‘oem! “she said—conclusively . “ And isn’ t t... ...nd clear?” Old Likeman’s argument came back to him with novel and enhanced powers. Wasn’t he af- ter all selfishly putting his own salvation in front ... ...ndividual lives. Only in phases of illumination do we realize the creative powers that lie ready to man’s hand. Per- sonal affections, immediate oblig...

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...unning beside her’—he made a small spot beside the mark that stood for the central star of what we call the Bear’s Tail. ‘I never saw that!’ ‘No, ’tis... ...in- sanity, the saddest of his ancestral inheritances, had shat- tered his powers of decision and action; but he was one who ‘saw far on holy ground,’... ...uired of him, and understood what was set before him, his memory and other powers seemed to have been much impaired, and it was held wiser not to call... ...ity the Prioress, though the life among devout nuns was clearly beyond her powers. The dreamy peaceful days of the Tower of London were stirred by the... ... this time (longer in narrative than in reality) led them, not through the central field of slaughter, but somewhat to the left, among the heath—where...

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... Mine, I feel bound to say something more. I did not hesitate to make that central figure an Ital- ian. First of all the thing is perfectly credible: ... ...ble fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for the time a... ...er came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends he made ... ...n Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first sod. He had... ...sat smiling urbanely between the rep- resentatives of two friendly foreign powers. They had come with him from Sta. Marta to countenance by their pres... ...m blackmail in cattle and horses; extraordinary sto- ries were told of his powers and of his wonderful escapes from capture. He used to ride, single- ... ...rovince, involved in one vast scheme with the construction of the National Central Railway. Good faith, order, honesty, peace, were badly wanted for t... ... which—he declared with energy—”we are a reproach and a byword amongst the powers of the world.” Don Jose Avellanos loved his country. He had served i... ...e) induced that scrupulous constitution- alist to accept the extraordinary powers conferred upon him for five years by an overwhelming vote of congres...

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... hand and Monte Diablo on the other; to the west and thirty miles away, the open ocean; eastward, across the corn-lands and thick tule swamps of Sacra... ...racy of his shape. He must have been built somewhat after the pattern of Jack Sheppard; but the famous housebreaker, we may be certain, was no lout. I... ...nge our eyes down into the other, as into some flowing stream from over the parapet of a bridge; thus we looked on upon a strange, impetuous, silent, ...