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... personal con- versation with me. A. LINCOLN. TO VICE-PRESIDENT HAMLIN. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE DUTIES OF THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ... ...N, D.C., Oc- tober 29, 1863. HON. JAMES W. GRIMES. MY DEAR SIR :—The above act of Congress was passed, as I suppose, for the purpose of shutting out i... ... C., October 30, 1863. HON. F . F . LOWE, San Francisco, Cal.: Below is an act of Congress, passed last session, intended to exclude applicants not en... ... drafted again, or that towns that have just raised the money to pay their quotas will have again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the oper... ...o perform. In order that the country should not be deprived of the proper quota of educated officers, for which legal provision has been made at the ... ...f the War Department, dated December 5, 1863, “to revise the enrolment and quotas of the City and State of New Y ork, and report whether there be any,... ... by way of cen- tral Kentucky would be of great consequence in the present emergency. It may be remembered that in the annual message of December, 18... ... the Presidential office; that we approve and indorse as de- manded by the emergency and essential to the preservation of the nation, and as within th... ... dispatch to General Halleck, referring to what I may think in the present emergency, is shown me. General Halleck says we have absolutely no force ...

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...d seized upon that narrow, steep, and winding thoroughfare, and was in the act of making it com- modious and interesting, according to the remarkable ... ...his tongue out, and seemed to think a Greek sentence a charm when it was a quotation and an impropriety when it wasn’t.’) Barnet saw the last days of ... ...e, the key to his career. And this discovery was that nobody knew, that to act therefore was to blunder, that to talk was to confess; and that the man... ...ing paper. A second followed. Something tapped the machine. It was time to act. The broad avenues, the park, the pal- aces below rushed widening out n... ...on architecture; the cultivations of foodstuffs that were to have supplied emergency rations, were presently, with synthesisers, fertilisers, actinic ... ...y and continues to expand. For, as agricultural method intensifies and the quota is raised, one farm association after another, availing itself of the... ...s that he wished to recall. A ruler was recallable by as many votes as the quota by which he had been elected, and the original members by as many vot...

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...over that she had an unusual voice, a talent for the piano, the ability to act, to write, to manage organiza- tions. Always she was disappointed, but ... ...hts and a knowledge of Galsworthy. She was doing things! As she served the emergency dessert of cocoanut and sliced oranges, she cried to Pollock, “Do... ...ur be- ing so chummy with your Bea. All right to be kind, but they say you act as though she were your cousin. (Wait now! There’s plenty more.) And th... ...r you could return and take up the poets more in detail. Especially actual quota- tions—even though their lives are so interesting and, as Mrs. Warren... ...after my walk.” “Go walking?” “I went up to see the Perrys.” By a definite act of will she added the truth: “They weren’t in. And I saw Guy Pollock. D... ...ed that in the care of babies as in politics, intelligence was superior to quotations about pansies. She liked best to talk about Hugh to Kennicott, V...

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... began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quota tions, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from... ...ant the “Amen” was out the fly was a prisoner of war. His aunt detected the act and made him let it go. The minister gave out his text and droned alo... ...ealth of a crack in the sit ting room floor with it. One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt’s yellow cat came along, purring, e... ...aunt,” gasped the boy. “Why, I never see anything like it. What did make him act so?” “Deed I don’t know, Aunt Polly; cats always act so when The Adve... ... something must be done! done in a flash, too! But the very imminence of the emergency para lyzed his invention. Good! — he had an inspiration! He w... ... at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a Scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he...

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...me give you a little advice. Think of a woman who’s been through hell and act accordingly.” “Sounds like she took up residency.” Rick teased and Sand... ... She hates my guts and has no problem expressing it. She tries so hard to act the boss she only ends up…” “Embarrassed and humiliated,” Sandy stipula... ...e couldn’t bring himself to hit her, even with the thought of it being an emergency and for her own good. Chris’s shoe flew through the air and hit ... ... it to be a surprise, well, more payback…” “Stop putting on the hard woman act.” Sandy grinned. “You two are definitely an item and once you come to ... ...nner, she assumed he’d like a coffee before a relaxing evening. “Met your quota for the day?” Chris’s eyes followed Rick, as he plonked himself down ...

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...nd. We was thus greatly perplexed, and unde- 42 The Talisman cided how to act; and it was in a tone of hasty displeasure that, at length breaking sil... ...ed the scruples of Thomas de Vaux, who was particularly moved by the Latin quota- tion, as he did not understand a word of it. But the bishop proceede... ...ng the lion’s paw. Hark ye—to become enamoured of the moon would be but an act of folly; but to leap from the battlements of a lofty tower, in the wil... .... T wo were silenced with difficulty by the Spruch-Sprecher, who seemed to act as master of the revels, and a hearing was at length procured for the p... ... more of it,” said the Marquis; “I see thy policy— it is dreadful, but the emergency is imminent.” “I only told thee of it,” said the T emplar, “that ... ...intermixed with feats of warlike achievement, and ornamented with abundant quotations from the Persian poets, with whose compositions the orator seeme...

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...Rhodes by the Turks; and the placarding of the Ninety Five Propositions,—the act which began the Reformation. When De Soto took his glimpse of the riv... ...right, now,’ says I. He give a kind of a groan, and says— “‘I’ve seed a raft act so before, along here,’ he says, ‘“pears to me the current has most ... ... of his mouth between his fingers, as if it were a cigar—we were just in the act of climbing an overhanging big tree, and the passengers were Life on ... ...Thomp son; but he answered to either of these that a body found handy in an emergency; or to any other name, in fact, if he perceived that you meant ... ...popula tion numbered twent y three years ago. She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has tel... ...ake off families. There is a lack of steam transpor tation here to meet the emergency. The General has three boats chartered, with flats in tow, but ...

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...e guest and the novelty. His gentle kindliness, and his impressive Chinese quotations, that sounded like spells, delighted them hugely; and in this sy... ...m hesitated for a moment. The lama backed his order by some droned Chinese quotation which Kim took for a charm. He obeyed and bounded across the rivu... ... ‘But he is a holy man,’ said Kim earnestly. ‘In truth, and in talk and in act, holy. He is not like the others. I have never seen such an one. We be ... ...fore answering. Now and again he heard the sing song cadence of a Chinese quotation. It was a strange pic ture that Kim watched between drooped eyel... ...offended thee I have done wrong.’ ‘It is more, chela. Thou hast loosed an Act upon the world, and as a stone thrown into a pool so spread the consequ... ...but I like to provide for possible contingency with European assistance in emergency.’ He coughed and spat out the cardamoms. ‘It is purely unoffeecia... ...han a strayed yak, that my place is not here. Who can read the Cause of an act is halfway to Freedom! “Back to the path,” says the Blow. “The Hills ar...

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...king at him, could see that he, too, like that other one, was beginning to act dumb and animal-like. His thoughts seemed to be floundering about in hi... ... that the thing with which men could charge him was in truth a symmetrical act. There was an amount of pleas-ure to him in watching the wild march of ... ...? I’d rather you’d stand off an’ throw guns at it. Now, go slow, an’ don’t act as if you was nailing down carpet.” He glared with insolent command at ... ...mpos- sible to make a sen-tence heard. The youth wished to launch a joke—a quota-tion from news- papers. He desired to say, “All quiet on the Rappahan... ...m a hidden receptacle of his mind new and porten- tous oaths suited to the emergency. Strings of expletives he swung lashlike over the backs of his me...

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...r-ship short of hands whose speedy sailing was imperative, the defi- cient quota in lack of any other way of making it good, would be eked out by drau... ... schemes of this French upstart from the revolutionary chaos who seemed in act of fulfilling judgement prefigured in the Apocalypse. But the less cred... ...e avail; and where such innocence as man is capable of does yet in a moral emergency not al- ways sharpen the faculties or enlighten the will. However... ...n itself and like the scorpion for which the Creator alone is responsible, act out to the end the part allotted it. 38 Billy Budd Chapter 13 P assion... ...aster-at-arms, with so foggy a 54 Billy Budd tale? As to Budd, cite me an act or spoken word of his confirmatory of what you in general charge agains...

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...all the Universe (de l’Univers) is eligible; for in these very days we, by act of Assembly, ‘naturalise’ the chief Foreign Friends of humanity: Priest... ...urety of letting whosoever wills perform. From the purpose of crime to the act of crime there is an abyss; wonderful to think of. The finger lies on t... ...rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes, he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest. Young Saint- Just is coming, deputed by... ... pealing and piping, these men, left to their own guidance, will speak and act? Readers know well that this French National Convention (quite contrary... ...Jacques alone; there is not a Village Schoolmaster but has contributed his quota: do we not ‘thou’ one an- other, according to the Free Peoples of Ant...

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...ish, he thoroughly felt his legs and could walk unaided. And he was in the act of doing it, questioning his familiar behind the waistcoat amazedly, to... ...sian; they want but form and fire to get them scored on the tablets of the quotable at festive boards. This he can promise to his poets. As for otherw... ...e Impossible was wings to imagination, and heroic sculp- ture the simplest act of the chisel. It does not advance, ’tis true; it drives the whirligig ... ...use him; and so quick was he, through this fine animation, to feel, think, act, that the three successive tributaries of conduct appeared as an irrefl... ...ne has only to say, that it does not add to the national force, in case of emergency. I look to that. And I am particu- lar in proposing an exercise i... ....” They are Bull. Quaat true.’ He bellowed on a laugh the last half of the quotation. Colney marked him. His encounters with Fenellan were enlivening ... ... speak by their pay and decorations; and these are but one at a time-and a quotation may remind us of a parody, to convulse the sacred dome! Establish...

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.................................. 230 Chapter 2.6.I. Executive that does not act. ......................................................................... .... So, with dimmer or clearer consciousness, must the Right Side reason and act. An inevitable position perhaps; but a most false one for them. Evil, b... ...stitutionalism in sorrow and anger demands ‘Loi Martiale, ’ a kind of Riot Act;—and in- deed gets it, most readily, almost before the sun goes down. T... ... France. Likewise from all Naval and Military King’s Forces, shall Deputed quotas come; such Federation of National with Royal Soldier has, taking pla... ...e see. Over night, an Aide-de-Camp of Lafayette’s, stationed here for such emergency, sends swift emissaries far and wide, to summon National Guards. ...

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... inclined to think that a doctor should not laugh at all when called in to act doctorially. When he was known, indeed, when the core of the fruit had ... ...ke up permanent abode as mistress of the establishment—or, at any rate, to act as the only mistress which the establishment pos- sessed. This advent g... ...ow com- pletely the doctor’s niece took upon herself to talk, and sit, and act at Greshamsbury as though she was on a par with the young ladies of the... ...r the other! This difficulty had now come to the uncle. Should he, in this emergency, take upon himself to fling away the golden chance which might ac... ...kilful can be found to accept the office, I shall be happy to subscribe my quota; it would be but a modest tribute towards the cost. But as the sugges...

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...ceded to her own weakness; and Rachel generally did concede. She could not act; but she could talk uncontradicted, and she hated herself for the enfor... ... more thrown upon her by her mother’s death. The notion of training her to act alone never even occurred to him, and when he was thrown from his horse... ...ht artillery fled at her aspect, and she had to catch Francis’s arm in the act of discharging after them a cuttlefish’s white spine, with a sharp “For... ...rned Rachel, an announcement that electrified her auditors, for the family quota of books being quite insufficient for her insatiable appetite, she wa... ...g to confute them, for I fully believe in her sense and spirit in any real emergency that she had not ridden out to encounter. “And I have written so ...

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...4, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The third section of the “Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,” approved 21st of Decemb... ...AR DEPARTMENT, May 25, 1862. Ordered: By virtue of the authority vested by act of Congress, the President takes military possession of all the railroa... ...861. On the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter, Which c... ...g- gest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infan- try. The quota of your State would be ______ . I trust that they may be enrolled wit... ...s civil war to a speedy and satisfactory con- clusion. An order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War Department to-mor... ...AL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN: It is impossible to reinforce you for your present emergency. If we had a million of men, W e could not get them to you in tim... ...ed out for the national armies, so that arms can only be furnished for the quota of militia furnished by the draft of nine months’ men, heretofore ord... ...the counsels of the Government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency, and to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the len... ...vised I do not consider that Washington is in danger, or that there is any emergency requiring 60 or 90 days men. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. WILLIAMS ...

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.................................. 333 Chapter 2.6.I. Executive that does not act. ......................................................................... ...om your left, be this always an assured place in your remembrance: for the act was good and loving! To us also it is a little sunny spot, in that dism... ...were all doomed. For Nature is true and not a lie. No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a Bill draw... ...rance. Likewise from all Na- val and Military King’s Forces, shall Deputed quotas come; such Federation of National with Royal Soldier has, taking pla... ...e see. Over night, an Aide-de-Camp of Lafayette’s, stationed here for such emergency, sends swift emissaries far and wide, to summon National Guards. ... ...rest, peering out of his clear cautious eyes, he will cower low in many an emergency, and find silence safest. Young Saint-Just is coming, deputed by ... ...cques alone; there is not a Village School- master but has contributed his quota: do we not ‘thou’ one another, according to the Free Peoples of Antiq...

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...etreat, and plunged again into a sea of subtle distinctions, reservations, quota- tions, allusions, and appeals to authorities, and it was with diffic... ... hands out of the little muff that hung on a cord, she held them ready for emergency, and looking towards Levin, whom she had recognized, she smiled a... ...rything for you and asks for noth- ing. What are you to do? How are you to act? There’s a fearful tragedy in it.” “If you care for my profession of fa... ...be done, what’s to be done? 82 Anna Karenina – Part One How is it best to act in this awful position—that’s what you must think of.” “All’s over, and... ...hat you are back again,” he went on. “Come, what do they say about the new act I have got passed in the council?” Anna had heard nothing of this act, ...

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... that would allow the ownership of facts. 5 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fe... ...... ...untries it is sometimes done, in a great case, and by a special and personal act, but, generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monop... ...ual property. The public domain would include the privilege to excerpt short quotations in a review. This vision is messier, but more instructive. If ... ...citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The stories from New Or- leans became more a... ...lack folks gotta hope, gotta wait and see If FEMA really comes through in an emergency But nobody seem to have a sense of urgency Now the mayor’s been... ...quoting a fragment of another tune during a solo. In both cases, the use of “quotation” is a defining part of the genre, a harmless or even complimenta... ...ply utilitarian, antimonopolist tinge. So, I would argue, was Madison’s. The quotations from Madison which I give later show clearly, to me at least, ...

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...to be some- thing more than an ethical court, they want a League that will act, but on the other hand they shrink from any loss of “our independence.”... ... indi- cate by our own practice how we on our side, professing as we do to act for democracies, to make democracy safe on the earth, and so on, intend... ... can- not bind yourself to do this and not to do that and to con- sult and act with your associates in certain eventualities with- out a loss of your ... ...ng, that in scarcely any part of the world do we regard it as more than an emergency arrange- ment, as a necessary association that must give place ul... ... most of us are denied access to German papers, it is difficult to produce quotations; and even when one does, there are plenty 48 In the Fourth Year... ...enough to elect a candidate. This sufficient number of votes is called the quota, and any one who has more than that number of votes has obviously got... ...ccording to their first votes, and any candidates who have got more than a quota of first votes are forthwith de- clared elected. But most of these el...

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...s of del- egates or ambassadors, two or three from each State, who were to act in accordance with the policy of their own individual States. It is wel... ...ate, was tried, and was found to fail. South Carolina took upon herself to act as she might have acted had that confederation remained in force; but t... ...ion ordinance of South Carolina should have been ac- cepted as a political act by the Government of the United States. It seems to me that no governme... ...ms, were not absolutely useless even as weapons of war. “Consider- ing the emergency of the times?” a competent witness considered them to be worth “1... ... any serviceable resort can be had to direct taxation. And yet, at such an emergency as that now existing, direct taxation would probably give more re... ...f under such an arrangement the Western States were to decline to vote the quota of income tax or property tax to which the Eastern States had agreed—...

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...ich that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune o... ...ol, and in that respect, as well as in others, will be more in capacity to act advisedly than the offending State. The pride of states, as well as of ... ...that foreign nations will know and view it exactly as it is; and they will act toward us accordingly. If they see that our national government is effi... ...or the empire; of making war and peace; contracting alliances; as- sessing quotas of troops and money; constructing fortresses; regulating coin; admit... ...ndamental part of the Germanic constitution. If the nation happens, on any emergency, to be more united by the necessity of self-defense, its situatio... ...ces; to make war and peace; to raise armies and equip fleets; to ascertain quotas and demand contributions. In all these cases, however, unanimity and... ...ause the inland prov- inces, who have little commerce, cannot pay an equal quota. In matters of contribution, it is the practice to waive the articles... ...xecutive magis- trates, tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter. But in a represen- tative repub...

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...her hand, it is also to be borne in mind that political machinery does not act of itself. As it is first made, so it has to be worked, by men, and eve... ...ns. In all things there are very strict limits to human power. It can only act by wielding some one or more of the forces of nature. Forces, therefore... ...herefore, that can be applied to the desired use must exist; and will only act ac cording to their own laws. We can not make the river run backwards;... ... lest they should any time be found to be still needed in an extraordinary emergency. By such arrangements as these, legislation would assume its prop... ...ferior importance. According to this plan, the unit of representation, the quota of electors who would be entitled to have a member to them selves, w... ... the num ber of seats in the House; and every candidate who obtained that quota would be returned, from however great a number of local constituencie... ...ct of his first choice failed to be returned, from not having obtained the quota, his sec ond perhaps might be more fortunate. He may extend his list...

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...ly reflect its mission. The second is that we now need representatives, to act as associate editors on all twelve Commonwealth Campuses. Coordinating ... ...cell phone allows people to reach me if I am not at my house in case of an emergency or just to talk. Also, it can be helpful if I am driving, and I n... ...quately explain where the words, ideas and statistics have come from is an act of plagiarism. Serious academic consequences can result from such behav... ...if they change some of another writer’s words that they do not need to use quota- tion marks. This is also not true. One of the principal reasons for ... ... it is fully accommodated to its audience(s) and is likely to move them to act as the writer desires. 2. The evidence is detailed; the sources of info...

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...all their pow- ers and rights, and vested him with sovereign authority, to act at his discretion for the com- mon good. Matthias immediately opened a ... ...ect a reconciliation with his brother by more peaceable means. By a formal act of abdication he resigned to Matthias, what in- deed he had no chance o... ...is own death. To complete his deg- radation, he was obliged, by a personal act of renunciation, to release his subjects in Bohemia, Silesia, and Lusat... ...rotestant powers was to be looked for. They seized, therefore, the present emergency of the troubles in Bohemia to demand from the Roman Catholics the... ...ecessity of postponing his favourite scheme for a time, to a more pressing emergency. While he was driving the Saxons from Bohemia, Gustavus Adolphus ... ...rticle of the treaty, concerning the means of prosecuting the war, and the quota which the several states ought to furnish for the support of the army... ...the Rhine with less ceremony.” But reproaches were now use- less; what the emergency demanded was en- ergy and resolution. In the hope of drawing the ... ...e foreign merchants, who had warehouses in the city, were to furnish their quota. In the middle of winter, Torstensohn advanced against Freyberg, and ...

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...rt of the income still retained, and for which I am indebted to the kindly act of friends. At this juncture the editor of the Century Magazine asked m... ...but a fanatic and extremist in whatever he advocated. It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthro... ...so much interested in the subject that he got his nephew to empower him to act in the matter, and in 1832 or 1833, when I was a boy ten or eleven year... ...y expressed in orders. Taylor saw for himself, and gave orders to meet the emergency without reference to how they would read in his- tory. 73 U. S. ... ...er the speaking was over volunteers were called for to form a company. The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that... ...upon Corinth. One division was brought from Memphis to Bolivar to meet any emergency that might arise from this move of the enemy. I was much concerne... ...itors, they pronounced me idle, incompetent and unfit to command men in an emergency, and clamored for my re- moval. They were not to be satisfied, ma... ...; and in making my subsequent report I used that expression without adding quotation marks, never thinking that anything had been said that would attr...

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... that Mr. Asquith or some other politician by some trick of a Conciliation Act or some claptrap of Compulsory Arbitration, or that any belated suppres... ... army of teachers does not flash into being at the passing of an Education Act. Not even an organisation for training those teachers comes to anything... ...si-public organisation which shall stand between the man and the employer, act as his banker and guarantor, and exact his proper price. Then, with his... ... to meet the failure of imperfect institutions. So- 151 H. G . Wells cial emergency work of all sorts comes under this head. What to do with the pari... ...ted them, and make themselves master of any subject set before them.” This quotation is conclusive. S S S S Sec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 I am haunte... ... one candidate, but which, in the event of his already having a sufficient quota of votes to return him, may be transferred to another. The voter mark... ...ttom of the list. At last a point is reached when twelve candidates have a quota. In this way the “wasting” of a vote, or the rejection of a candidate...