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...try. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...r a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of... ...ke his farms. He dragged none by the collar. He gave them liberty to go to Australia, Canada, the Americas, if they liked. He asked in return to have ... ...ry, drawing their strategy from maga- 23 George Meredith zine articles by military pens, reverberations of the extinct voices of the daily and weekly... ...rly poised again; the Muscovite was battered; fresh guilt was added to the military glory of the Gaul. English grum- blers might well be asked what th... ...by the sex, allegiance to one beloved respected woman, and also a basis of operations against the world. For she was evidently conquerable, and once m... ... shots at the detested one, and certain boys were maltreated for an ardour involving clumsiness. A 234 Beauchamp’s Career young genius of this horde ... ...te to the baron to-night, and we can cross the water to-morrow in time for operations.’ The letter to Mr. Romfrey was composed before midnight. It was... ...s politics, he disdained prudence. A monstrous crime had been commit- ted, involving the honour of the family. No subtlety of in- sinuation, no sugges... ...say Yes would be to plunge a dagger in her bosom; but No was a vain deceit involving a double wreck. Assuredly a man standing against the world in a g...

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...ived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, tand in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous. Vicissitude was in the very soil h... ...ing for the stimulation of mankind. He came, it was vari- ously said, from Australia and America and the South of France. He was also described quite ... ...ur young people attach any great importance to the flitting suggestions of military activity they glimpsed ever and again. Near Maidstone they came on... ...r, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of expert military criticism. Our four young people picnicked cheerfully, and were ha... ...e. Once or twice he saw guns and soldiers, and was reminded of the stir of military preparations he had wit- nessed on the Bank Holiday in England; bu... ...six. By that time the weather had changed very much for the worse, and the operations of the airships were embarrassed by the ne- cessity they were un... ...of A. The war became perforce a universal guerilla war, a war inextricably involving civilians and homes and all the apparatus of social life. These a... ...rbour. From there they got canned food and material for repairs, but their operations were greatly impeded by the hostility of a band of men amidst th...

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...th such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocquevil... ...political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the military foundation of these lib- erties, and of W ashington, Jefferson, Ma... ...; and the criminal courts of England originally supplied the population of Australia. The settlers who established themselves on the shores of New Eng... ...o guard the State against violent shocks and unforeseen dangers. The whole military power of the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the c... ...e laws; and the President may frequently change his line of policy without involving the State in difficulty or destruction. Whatever the prerogatives... ...everal Southern States. Almost all the individuals who carry on commercial operations, or who endeavor to turn slave labor to account in the most Sout... ...01 Tocqueville No great change takes place in human institutions with- out involving amongst its causes the law of inheritance. When the law of primog... ...esert for the same value as at Philadelphia, where the bank con- ducts its operations.* The Bank of the United States is nevertheless the object of gr... ...s. But the existence of the provincial banks is thus threatened, and their operations are restricted, since they are only able to issue a quantity of ...

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...scribe my life these last few days?I have been wholly swallowed up in politics, a wretched business, with fine elements of farce in it too, which repa... ...ike a dark genteel guest in a Highland shoot- ing-box. Seumanu (opposite Fanny, next G. ) is chief of Apia, a rather big gun in this place, looking li... ...ous. By the time the expedi- tion reached the fork, it was felt exceedingly questionable whether the moral of the force were sufficiently good to unde... ..., but I must do this Samoan journalism—that’s a cursed duty. The first part of Sophia, bar the first twenty or thirty pages, writes itself; the second... ...refused it (after examination) as too small. It is said this commemorates a time when Malietoa at the head of his army suffered much for want of suppl... ...an M. P. But Sedan was really great, and I will pick no holes. The batteries under fire, the red-cross folk, the county charge—perhaps, above all, Maj... ...emony is finished. Down to the post of- fice, where I find Vitrolles and (Heaven reward you!) the White Book, just arrived per upolu, having gone the ...

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... glove fingers tied up with thread and sent off by waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the... ...on Society; but happily he stopped in time. He hardly completed any of the operations he began; something else became more urgent or simply he tired; ... ...ad hitherto been unattainable. With- out warning or preparation, increment involving countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the st... ... one boy, Britten, my especial chum, the son of the Agent-General for East Australia. We two discovered in a chance conversation a propos of a map in ... ... in life that it isn’t really virile to reek of tobacco. I should have had military manoeuvres, training ships, aeroplane work, mountaineering and so ... ...d, the equally reasonable socialisation of individuals which is implied by military service is steadily and quite naturally and quite illogically oppo... ...d. Thank God! I’ll soon be out of it! The shame of it! The very savages in Australia initiate their children bet- ter than the English do to-day. Neit...

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...and seeing him now exhibiting strong symp- toms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now o... ...ocracy in those parts. That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its fi... ... is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the co... ...per parading his quarter-deck with an elated grandeur not surpassed in any military navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore t... ...arrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which directed his operations; he made two several at- tacks upon the ship, at a short interva... ...hese wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war (at l... ...many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly stu... ...as duly brought to the Pequod’s side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the ba... ... foundations for cathedrals. Y et was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;—yet was it ...

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...ll knowing the need—since that unser- viceable right arm always made these operations troublesome to her father. ‘Have you been here all night, Dr. Ma... ...e the paddle of a saurian; Aubrey, climbing as high as he durst, directing operations and making discoveries; I, upon a ledge half-way up, guarding Ma... ...ncible Dorsets,’ said Dr. May. ‘There you see our great authority with his military instructions in his hand.’ ‘No, sir,’ replied Hector, ‘it’s not mi... ...e, ran down, and boldly captured him as he was setting out to see Hector’s operations. He came with a ready smile, and the child was happy throughout ... ...nd Ethel’s heart throbbed and her eye glistened at their regular tread and military bearing. Quickly Margaret made out papa; but he was too real a sol... ...ed something about Tom and mathematics. ‘Ay, ay,’ said Charles; ‘and these military ex- aminations are in nothing but foreign languages and trash;’ an... ...might hope for exportation 323 Yo n g e with a ticket of leave to Western Australia. The halo of approaching death no longer lighted him up, and afte... ...e felt that in her ignorance she had assisted her father in unscrupulously involving them in a haz- ardous and unsuccessful speculation, and that she ... ...orne much of ill. Can you bear to hear good news?’ ‘Am I to be sent out to Australia already?’ said Leonard— for a shortening of the eight years befor...

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... flat part of his scythe, as a prepara- tion of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombey , exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jin... ...whom Miss Tox recognised, as she herself expressed it, ‘something so truly military;’ and between whom and her- self, an occasional interchange of new... ...mbey was in a difficulty. He would have liked to give him some explanation involving the terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currenc... ...Mr Dombey observed of the Major, to his sister, that besides being quite a military man he was really something more, as he had a very admirable idea ... ...eed I may say I know,’ returned Miss Tox, ‘that he is wealthy. He is truly military, and full of anecdote. I have been informed that his valour, when ... ...d rarely, at any time, over- stepped the enchanted circle within which the operations of Dombey and Son were conducted, began to think this an improve... ...dded pain of thinking that she had been, perhaps, the innocent occasion of involving W alter in peril, and all to whom he was dear, herself included, ... ...r—it would seem that she had not much leisure on the road for intellectual operations, Arriving in good time abreast of the wooden Midshipman on the o... ...tain, ‘that you’d read in the paper that a Cap’en of that name was gone to Australia, emigrating, along with a whole ship’s comple- ment of people as ...

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... flat part of his scythe, as a prepara- tion of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombey , exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jin... ...whom Miss Tox recognised, as she herself expressed it, ‘something so truly military;’ and between whom and her- self, an occasional interchange of new... ...mbey was in a difficulty. He would have liked to give him some explanation involving the terms circulating- medium, currency , depreciation of currenc... ...Mr Dombey observed of the Major, to his sister, that besides being quite a military man he was really something more, as he had a very admirable idea ... ...eed I may say I know,’ returned Miss Tox, ‘that he is wealthy. He is truly military, and full of anecdote. I have been informed that his valour, when ... ...d rarely, at any time, over- stepped the enchanted circle within which the operations of Dombey and Son were conducted, began to think this an improve... ...dded pain of thinking that she had been, perhaps, the innocent occasion of involving W alter in peril, and all to whom he was dear, herself included, ... ...r—it would seem that she had not much leisure on the road for intellectual operations, Arriving in good time abreast of the wooden Midshipman on the o... ... had known how to frame an entreaty to be suffered to return home, without involving her father in her explanation, she would have hurried back on foo...

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...esday his chicks all had the staggers, on Friday his cousin came home from Australia, and on Saturday he broke his ankle. What a whirl of excitement!—... ...inutes on the other side of the world, or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate wit- n... ...ce in the dear, dead days beyond recall—before he married her, that is—was military. But now she called him— it seems a dreadful thing to tell of betw... ...lked a larger sunburnt parody of himself, his brother T om, just back from Australia. They were recapitulating their early struggles, and Mr. Coombes ... ...our books. So far their action has been a steady pro- gressive settlement, involving the flight or slaughter of every human being in the new areas the...

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...ssistant Daniel Byman Professional Staff Member Dianna Campagna Manager of Operations Samuel M.W . Caspersen Counsel Melissa A. Coffey Staff Assistant... ... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...viation Admin- istration (FAA) later investigated these security screening operations, the screeners recalled nothing out of the ordinary.They could n... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...’s call in North Car- olina, Nydia Gonzalez, alerted the American Airlines operations center in Fort W orth,T exas, reaching Craig Marquis, the manage... ...mately 530 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 A... ...y that America had attacked Islam;America is responsible for all conflicts involving Muslims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palest... ...ons, and convictions. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, often involving lengthy intelligence investigations that might never have positiv... ...pply for and use traditional criminal warrants. For intel- ligence matters involving international terrorism, however, the rules were different. For m...

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...at. The second is that, in spite of our fleet, this is no longer, from the military point of view, an inaccessible island. So long as one had to consi... ... to our happy-go-lucky Army that it was possible to 9 H. G . Wells make a military use of barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel. Suppose... ...d torpedoes and destroyers and airships and submarines. And when I come to military matters my persuasion that things are not all right, that our curr... ...e freer initiatives of private en- terprise. Most of these are occupations involving a greater element of interest, less direction and more co-operati... ...fore methods upon a much larger scale, employing wholesale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the perma... ... there will remain, more particularly in the summer, a vast amount of hand operations, invigorat- ing and even attractive to the urban population Give... ...d as regards the residue, a residue of rough, disagreeable, and monotonous operations, by some form of conscription, which will demand a year or so, l... ...under an unavoidable urgency to work, the greater proportion of productive operations could be made sufficiently attractive to make them desirable occ... ...served so useful a purpose in the middle group of subjects, the sub- jects involving numerous but a finite number of units, has also to be abandoned h...

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...hey exist in the people, that all possibility of goodness in the practical operations of the government depends. We may consider, then, as one criteri... ... the work of an absolute ruler, deriving his power either from religion or military prowess—very of ten from foreign arms. Again, uncivilized races, ... ...nian form of Socialism; maintaining a general superintendence over all the operations of society, so as to keep before each the sense of a present for... ...tions on Representative Government try in some special direction (commonly military) to pro mote the grandeur of the despot. But the public at large ... ...in the same work minds more familiarized than his own with these ideas and operations, whose study it will be to supply reasons to his understanding, ... ...gh the necessities of warfare, and the despotic authority indispensable to military command. A military leader is the only superior to whom they will ... ...the law lords would leave the business of legislation, except on questions involving politi cal principles and interests, to the professional legisla... ...isites are not fulfilled by the expedient of a limitation of the suffrage, involving the compulsory ex clusion of any portion of the citizens from a ... ...e justified in dismissing him at the first moment when a ques tion arises involving these, and on which there is not so as sured a majority for what...

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...ed to inspire in him the horror of despotism.” This led him to give up the military career after two years’ trial. In 1834 he resigned his commission ... ...o ordinary citizens. In its general doctrines there is nothing essentially involving violent methods or a virulent hatred of the rich, and many who ad... ...on among its members, it preserved its formal unity with that instinct for military discipline which characterizes the Ger- man nation. In the Reichst... ... agitations, the judiciary has uniformly upheld the power exercised by the military, and in no case has there been any protest against the use of such... ...oint Committee of Parliament and the Guild Congress for decid- ing matters involving the interests of consumers and produc- ers alike. The view of the... ...ltimately increase also as the sources of supply in Canada, the Argentine, Australia and elsewhere are more and more used up. There must come a time, ... ...ollverein under the suzerainty of the United States, the financial area of operations receives a notable ac- cession. China as a field of railway ente... ... from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, etc., into South African or Australian mines, into Egyptian bonds, or the precarious securities of Sout... ..., neat, 111 Bertrand Russell giving a stimulus to industrious habits, and involving no waste of a sort that could be tabulated in statistics or accou...

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...om- pel our intellectual admiration. In this volume the trifle called “The Military Manoeuvres at Montil,” apart from its far-reaching irony, embodies... ...res will neither strain at a camel nor swallow a gnat. Not publicly. These operations, without which the world they have such a large share in could n... ...ts lurid blaze the in- sufficiency of Europe, the inferiority of minds, of military and administrative systems, stood exposed with pitiless vividness.... ...surpasses all the wars 75 Joseph Conrad of history. It has a base for its operations; a base of a nature beyond the concern of the many books writ- t... ...and meditation had little or nothing to do; by the weary platitudes on the military situation which (apart from geographi- cal conditions) is the same... ...t would have been a pre- posterous proceeding. And indeed I was to make an Australian voyage and encircle the globe before ever entering a London hans... ...ioned the crews of British merchant ships engaged in deep water voyages to Australia, to the East Indies and round the Horn were essen- tially British... ...ll possible accidents of the sea. But suppose a collision out on the ocean involving damage as extensive as this one was, and suppose then a gale of w... ... speeds, and it ought to be remembered that in case of a big liner’s loss, involving many lives, she is gen- erally sunk by a ship much smaller than h...

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...t folio volume, in which were entered all the charges, of whatever nature, involving any serious ten- dency—in fact, all that exceeded a misdemeanor—i... ...ich is to this day a name rooted in Biscay. Her father, the hidalgo, was a military officer in the Spanish service, and had little care whether his ki... ...erest which arose in her history subsequently amongst all the men of rank, military or ecclesiastical, whether in Italy or Spain. The date of these wo... ...ng port, the very first person who came off from shore was a dashing young military officer, whom at once by his name and rank, (though she had never ... ... the numerous artillery which had been judged nec- essary to support their operations. New motives were thus daily arising for quickening the motions ... ...itional submission as the preliminary price of any cessation from military operations. The personal character of T raubenberg, which was anything but ... ...n now, from considerations connected with China, with New Zealand, Borneo, Australia, we may say, that already the fields are white for harvest. But a... ... trade in slaves. And one thing is clear, that when all the causes of war, involving manifest injustice, are banished by the force of European opinion... ...en ac- counted paradoxical anticipations, especially in regard to military operations, which were as punctually fulfilled as his own memorable conject...

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...imsical dislike of motor cars in his immediate neighbourhood, may veil the operations of a stupendous intelligence bent upon the regeneration of the w... ...berest, but that, after all, may be only one aspect of much more extensive operations. The nations that have had fermented drinks the longest are also... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ... the more favoured classes at the same ages. Public school-boys, naval and military cadets, medical and university students, were taken to represent t... ...ment of a Minimum Wage will be found in W.P . Reeves’ State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, vol. ii., p. 47 et seq. 69 H G Wells rents, by ... ...h, and trained month after month and year after year to perform the oddest operations, a non-analytical analysis, and a ritual called pars- ing that m... ...ith- out distinction, he regards these games as much more im- portant than military training and things of that sort, spends days watching his school ... ...n- tervention. And it would be the cheapest and easiest way of raising the military efficiency of a country, and an excellent thing for the moral tone... ... may indeed be thrown out that the principle of Many Channels (a principle involving the repudiation both of the monarchical and the democratic idea) ...

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...l hurry to the drawing-room, and tear open the black-edged letter with the Australian stamp. “All is right, mamma. She has been very ill, but is fast ... ...jor will come and see us; run on with Coombe.” This last was a respectable military-looking ser- vant, who picked up a small child in one hand and a d... ... with your movements?” “Sir Stephen wished—” murmured Fanny. “The Major is military secretary, and always settles our head- quarters, and no one inter... ...come to him. All he could do for her was to leave her in the charge of his military secre- tary, who had long been as a son to him. Fanny told her aun... ...r. “Nests are made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have... ...ith commenced a discussion of military friends— who had been heard of from Australia, who had been met in England, who was promoted, who married, who ... ...f hemmed in, and pinned down by the investigation pushed on by her mother, involving answers and explanations that she alone could make. Mr. Grey rubb... ...st amusing way. He knew perfectly well how to manage, laid out the plan of operations, gave orders to the driver, went into all the shops, and was an ...

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...te for a soldier’s life. Y oung Sir Willoughby was fond of talking of his “military namesake and distant cousin, young Patterne—the Marine”. It was fu... ...le princes abound in a land of heaped riches. Where they have not to yield military service to an Imperial master, they are necessarily here and there... ...ith the young relict of an earl was mystifying. Sir Willoughby unbent. His military letter I took a careless glance at itself lounging idly and proudl... ...en, or a word unsaid, offered the picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his M... ...nted by the figure 4. Four happy instead of two miserable. He had said it, involving her among the four; and so it must be, she con- sidered, and she ... ...” to attach importance even to the public discovery of midnight interviews involving her- self as one, and feeling also that she was being treated as ... ...wn it, plucked it from me: that you request me to con- sent to a sacrifice involving my reputation, my life. And what have I done? I am the same, unch... ...ng creature, having lost acquaintance with his ha- bitual personality, the operations of an impish host had un- doubtedly smitten his consciousness. H...