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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...e had to count, in those days, great and powerful realities. Even to those who expressed these ideas there lay visibly upon them the shadow of impract... ...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...d a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League of Nati... ...here may be others whose angle of approach may be similar to the writer’s, who may have asked some or most of the questions he has had to ask, and who... ... forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding parts of ... ...t by the electors.” Now, I swear by Heaven that, lowly creature as I am, a lost vote, a nothing, voiceless and helpless in public affairs, I am not go...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. Gener...

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...OY’S DIVISION. October 27, 1863. In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Win- chester, V a. At the time, it was under General Milro... ...In particular, 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven no loyal man who has been disarmed is named, but the affida- vits show by name forty-two... ... is named, but the affida- vits show by name forty-two persons as disloyal who have been armed. They are as follows: [Names omitted.] A majority of t... ...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...o fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost.” The views then expressed remain unchanged, nor have I much to add. N...

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................................................................................................................ 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...................................................................................................................

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..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...is well that be should make provision for a coming family. But a Benedict, who early in his career shall have carried his friends with considerable se... ... nothing. The building, therefore, is wrong side foremost, and all mankind who enter it, Senators, Representatives, and judges included, go in at the ... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ... it stated that South Carolina, up to the time of the secession, had never lost a slave in this way—that is, by Northern opposition to the Fugitive Sl... ..., been the losing party as re- gards national power. But what they have so lost they have hitherto recovered by political address and individual state...

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... found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...eelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with... ... are men not only of far greater intellectual power and energy than I, but who have devoted their whole lives to the sustained analysis of this or tha... ...e for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, su... ...ty. And it is not only the claim of the specialist that I would repudiate. People are too apt to suppose that in order to dis- cuss morals a man must ... ...tly you go into the thing, the closelier you look, the more the picture is lost in reticula- tions. I submit, the world of reasoned inquiry has a very... ... knowledge. Imagine a large clear jelly, in which at all angles and in all states of simplicity or contor- tion his ideas are imbedded. They are all v... ...he number of units is so great, the individual differ- ence so drowned and lost. For purposes of enquiry and dis- cussion the incorrect one is infinit... ...ollows:— “I can see no reason why even to-day a number of persons avowedly united in the same ‘Belief’ and recognizing each other as the self-constitu... ...re the regis- trar?’ and the answer would be, ‘No, we are Samurai and were united before the Elders.’ In Catholic countries those who use only the civ...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisa...

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...2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...nearly every senior official from the current and previous administrations who had responsibility for topics covered in our mandate. We have sought to... ...mitted to share 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 ... ...urrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies br... ...ponder was turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.The Indianapolis Air Traffic Control Center repeat- edly tried and fai... ...Executive Vice President Gerard Arpey learned that communications had been lost with American 77.This was now the sec- ond American aircraft in troubl...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the l...

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...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...d been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the agitations and terrors of t... ...e- gan his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold ef- fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political eco... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ...h that the remembrance of their very names is effaced; their languages are lost; their glory is vanished like a sound without an echo; though per- hap... ...h that the remembrance of their very names is effaced; their languages are lost; their glory is vanished like a sound without an echo; though per- *Se...

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...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ...E AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I submit herewith a list of naval officers who commanded ves- sels engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the s... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... .... MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: I have just been waited on by a large committee who present a petition signed by twenty-three senators and eighty-four rep-... ...ds thus confided without authority of law to unofficial persons was either lost or wasted, although apprehensions of such mis- direction occurred to m... ... position is a strong one. In a skirmish which took place this afternoon I lost one horse, The enemy lost two men killed and seven wounded. “R. Saxton...

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...asons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions enjoined in another grave contingency....

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...ly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impression istically, in the manner of the passin... ...ng from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own people. A period of confusion must follow, in which he will waver between... ...e, they are used simply as a loose way of drawing a line between the peoples who drink spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose social po... ...rink wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the primæ val forest. This use ... ...hildren of the Roman forum and the Greek amphitheatre; and even if they have lost something of the sensation “felt in the blood and felt along the hea... ...ears before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for... ...fore the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for the do... ...ossible to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United States, and had held a tenth part of our most important territory ... ... and active of thought as the French, are so subject to traditions that have lost their meaning. The fundamental cause is probably geographical. We Am...

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...ph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...

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...ntain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciou... ...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...tories and verses, had stamped him for a genius. Fortunately for everybody who reads, London interested and stimulated Mr. Kipling, and he settled dow... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ...that the Yankee school-marm, the cider and the salt codfish of the Eastern States, are responsible for what he calls a nasal accent. I know better. Th... ...s really the little gray squirrel of India, and had come to call on me; we lost our way, and got the wagon so beautifully fixed on a khud-bound road t... ...shade of a clump of pines between whose trunks glimmered tents. A batch of United States troopers came down the road and flung themselves across the c... ...t chief, his horse’s tail tied up in red calico, swaggered in front of the United States cavalry, challenging all to single combat. But he was slain, ... ...winter to play poker at the military posts. We play poker—a few. When he’s lost his money we make him drunk and let him go. Sometimes we get the wrong...

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...of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road are in the habit of resting....

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...ember, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large num- ber of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up... ...ces, full of human intelligence, caused fear rather than pleasure to those who met them. Their heads were covered with a dirty head- gear of red flann... ...omparison of ideas. There are no villages. The rickety buildings which the people call homes are sparsely scattered through the wilder- 16 The Chouan... ...nders of the monarchy came to recruit men among these ignorant and violent people they vainly tried to give, for the honor of the white flag, some gra... ... affairs. Those pentarchs,—puppets, I call them,—those directors have just lost a good blade; Bernadotte has aban- doned them.” “Who will take his pla... ... at interminable length. Just as the bayonets of the four men were finally lost to sight, Captain Merle returned, having executed the commandant’s ord... ...ught out the transparent rose of the nos- trils and the double curve which united the nose with the upper lip; at other times a pale glint of sunshine... ... murmur through the open space, the praying men filled with conviction and united by one and the same sentiment, the bare cross, the wild and barren t... ... uniform with any of your tricks.” “Commandant, the order of the ministers states that you are to obey Mademoiselle de Verneuil.” “Let her come and gi...

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...forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacious critics who maintain that what of his own an author condemns must be doubly damnable, are, to say the least of it, as often likely to be right as wrong....

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...self had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacious critics w... ...t it may still be worth while to consider the methods and materials of one who also, in his own fashion, won and wore the laurel of those who know and... ...about the house which cornered upon it; it made the street gloomy, so that people did not alto gether like to pass along the high wooden fence that s... ...rtook of its dreari ness, because it seemed hardly possible that the dead people should not get up out of their graves and steal in to warm themselve... ... more than vague reveries—it was im possible to guess. They were of those states of mind, prob ably, which are beyond the sphere of human language, ... ...or send the town crier round, the Doctor ridiculed the idea unmercifully. “Lost, a lank Yankee schoolmaster,” quoth he, uplifting his voice after the ... ...d a life long thing with them,—a sense that he was something that had been lost out of their life too soon, and that was bound, sooner or later, to re... ...end. A large letter was delivered to him, bearing the official seal of the United States, and the indorsement of the State De partment; a very import... .... He drank the health of the Honorable Edward Redclyffe, Ambassador of the United States to the Court of Hohen Linden. Our English cousins received th...

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...quent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin cast upo...

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...unusual combina- tion,’ in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is... ... laugh is an excellent progenitorial founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is wi... ...he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the scandal, and politics in his day flushed ... ...and ei- ther she had the trick of putting him publicly in the wrong, or he lost all shame in playing the churlish domestic tyrant. The instances are i... ...lows there.’ But she would have us away with sentimentalism. Senti- mental people, in her phrase, ‘fiddle harmonics on the strings of sensualism,’ to ... ...selecting the position of dignity to suit her: an eminent military man, or statesman, or wealthy nobleman: she had but to choose. A war would offer he... ...n … her beauty … he deserved to be shot! … could not help admiring … quite lost his head . . on his honour! never again !’ Once in the roadway, and Co... ...Copsley raised an exclamation of, ‘Oh! that those two had been or could be united!’ She was conscious of a mystic symbolism in the prayer. She was not... ...at somehow you contrive to get the pick of us in the girls! If ever we ‘re united, ‘twill be by a trick of circumvention of that sort, pretty sure. Th...

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...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Va...

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...nd genius. De Balzac. MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sain... ...t the walls of Paris understand it? It is open to doubt. The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduc... ...n, which would delay the progress of the story to an extent that impatient people would not pardon. The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions... ...Vauquer been? The lady was never very ex- plicit on this head. How had she lost her money? “Through trouble,” was her answer. He had treated her badly... ...mers who 11 Balzac lived in the neighborhood. There were usually eighteen people at dinner, and there was room, if need be, for twenty at Mme. Vauque... ...marry again, sell her boarding-house, give her hand to this fine flower of citizenship, become a lady of con- sequence in the quarter, and ask for sub... ...o’clock in the morning. The persevering stu- dent meant to make up for the lost time by working until daylight. It was the first time that he had atte... ... on a vast estate, say a hundred thousand acres, somewhere in the Southern States of America. I mean to be a planter, to have slaves, to make a few sn... ...he heart,” he said in a loud voice. “And when I see you, my children, thus united by a like purity and by all human affections, I say to myself that i...

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...n its inten- tions, but in its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who ha... ...taken by surprise the tendency is not to say with the untrained man, “Now, who’d ha’ thought it?” but “Now, what was it we overlooked?” Everything tha... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...rren- der almost as much of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the F... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...here is no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this f... ...n and compensation of Belgium and Serbia, and at least the autonomy of the lost Rhine prov- inces of France. That is their very minimum. That, and the... ... English, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by thei...

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... and entertaining as its matter permits, because I want it read by as many people as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to... ...e as possible, but I do not promise anything but rage and confusion to him who proposes to glance through my pages just to see if I agree with him, or... ...ch appeals most readily to what is called the “serious” reader, the reader who is often no more than the solemnly impatient parasite of great question... ...ph entertainment is the one to grasp. There will be an effect of these two people going to and fro in front of the circle of a rather defective lanter... ...rwin quickened the thought of the world. Those were all perfect and static States, a balance of happi- ness won for ever against the forces of unrest ... ...Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- losophy long lost to men rises again into being, like some blind and almost formless emb... ...h when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant, may perhaps be coming to his own…. There is ... ...its of energy, the grand total of work upon which the social fabric of the United States or England rests, it would be found that a vastly preponderat... ... civilised State—even that compendium of old- fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the necessity of that pro...

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...f necessity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous o... ...sity the same must often recur, and in the same sequence. There are people who take a pleasure in mak- ing collections of all such fortuitous occurren... ..., the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger ... ... of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians... ...y , and being put to flight, he was wounded in many parts of his body, and lost his horse, yet, nevertheless, swam across the river Rhone in his armor... ...d never sparing himself, but exposing his body freely in all conflicts, he lost one of his eyes. This he always esteemed an honor to him; observing th... ...y cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army grew great, for th... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ... now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both, and so under the cover of an action which carried all...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...n with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years... ...war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have b... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...terprising about young Smallways before he was out of short frocks. He was lost for a whole day before he was five, and nearly drowned in the reservoi... ...ise him in the green-grocer’s shop when T om at twenty-one married Jessica—who was thirty, and had saved a little money in service. But it was not Ber... ... and all. So Tom took his goods out himself, and sought employers for Bert who did not know of this strain of poetry in his nature. And Bert touched t... ...at British war, the Boer war, was over and for- gotten, and the public had lost the fashion of expert military criticism. Our four young people picnic... ...ness of equipment and military efficiency. The great powers were first the United States, a nation ad- dicted to commerce, but roused to military nece...

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...t because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, ... ... land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), mee... ...excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), meeting obscurely amidst a world-wide disre- gard t... ...the greater part heeded them not at all. Yet they were of the blood of him who had first dreamt of attacking the mammoth; every one of them was of his... ...ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 SUCH A MAN was that Leonardo da Vinci, who went about the court of Sforza in Milan in a state of dignified abstrac... ... it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of vol... ...llows, come and scrap the mint!’ In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous record. There was an enor-... ...ations destroyed, over churches smashed or submerged, towns ruined, fields lost to mankind for ever, and a million weltering bodies. Was this lesson e... ...n a representative American, and he gives a long description of how he was lost for three days in the moun- tains in the company of the only Japanese ...

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...CY CY 1 1 1 1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession ... ...ast moment of his adventurous life. He belonged to that fortunate minority who are indepen- dent of daily necessities, so that he was free to go about... ...ife studying and experimenting in the noble possibilities of man. He never lost his absurd faith in that conceivable splendour. At first it was always... ...lexingly just isn’t… . 2 2 2 2 2 Benham did not go about the world telling people of this con- suming research. He was not the prophet or preacher of ... ...ome a smash in a minute!’ Far ahead I saw the grey sheds of Eastchurch and people strolling about apparently unaware of our disaster. There was a sudd... ...nforce this view, of the observed calm behaviour of men already hopelessly lost, men on sinking ships, men going to execution, men already maimed and ... ...sibilities, he did not say what he was going to be, proconsul, ambassador, statesman, for days. And he talked vaguely of wanting to do something fine,... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail... ...ries and creeds, and so on, that stand in the way. Just as Italy had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, j...

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...the soil itself, which was damp in places, and would have tripped up those who failed to observe the hollows and ridges of this singular floor- ing. T... ...tance, was subsequently bought by a man named Sauviat, a hawker or peddler who, from 1786 to 1793, travelled the country over a radius of a hundred an... ...d the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the shrewdest, of the apostles. His hands ... ...aught V eronique to read and write; she also taught her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very li... ...es of the face, especially that of the nose, the Grecian form of which was lost, and that of the chin, once as exquisitely rounded as a piece of white... ...nd francs or so!” replied the old-iron dealer. From the day when Veronique lost the soft beauty which made her girlish face the admiration of all who ... ...ntly at Veronique as she returned to her seat from the altar where she had united herself with God,—a moment when she appeared to all the parish in he... ...f all chance of the episcopate. 38 The Village Rector This eminent priest united in himself great Christian mod- esty and a noble character. Without ... ...magnificent phase of public works, which is destined to change the face of States and nations, to double human life, and modify the laws of space and ...

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...efore with myself Whom shall I set so great a man to face? Or whom oppose? who’s equal to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit ... ...to the place? (As Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition... ...rom the gods. Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed. Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor mind; and of the two most famou... ...aking her only privy to it, and commanding her, if she brought forth a son who, when he came to man’s estate, should be able to lift up the stone and ... ...ns, as some imagine, nor of the Mysians, but be- cause they were a warlike people, and used to close fighting, and above all other nations accustomed ... ...st and sacrifice, which he called Panathenaea, or the sacrifice of all the united Athenians. He instituted also another sacrifice, called Metoecia, or... ...e Pitthean maid, To your town the terms and fates, My father gives of many states. Be not anxious nor afraid; The bladder will not fail so swim On the... ...ated the place to Jupiter, at which time her bones were removed, and so it lost her name, except only that part of the Capitol which they still call t... ...observe the flights of birds. This of his, being kept in the Palatium, was lost when the city was taken by the Gauls; and afterwards, that barbarous p...

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... principal languages of Europe, by millions of intel- ligent human beings, who never heard of Perigord or the League, and who are in doubt, if they ar... ...6, and at length Mayor from 1553 to 1556. He was a man of austere probity, who had “a particular regard for honour and for propriety in his person and... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...by Padua, Milan, Mont Cenis, and Chambery; thence he went on to Lyons, and lost no time in repairing to his chateau, after an absence of seventeen mon... ... leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the meeting of the States-General. We do not know 22 Essays: Book the First what part he took... ... there being some sort of relationship be- tween them), “since I have been united to you by marriage, which is one of the most weighty and sacred ties... ...nce in his bed, so that all began again to entertain the hope which we had lost only upon witnessing his extreme prostration. At this stage he proceed... ... government is a structure composed of divers parts and members joined and united together, with so strict connection, that it is impos- 166 Essays: ...

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...l show him a startling exhibition of the dyer’s hand, if he is without it. People are ready to surrender themselves to witty thumps on the back, breas... ...d men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; that is to say, non-laughers; men who are in that respect as dead bodies, which if you prick them do not blee... ...ify his dislike as an objection in morality. We have another class of men, who are pleased to consider themselves antagonists of the foregoing, and wh... ... to the audience of a country booth and to some of our friends. If we have lost our youthful relish for the presentation of characters put together to... ...om it!’ as if it could be done: but in the peculiar Paradise of the wilful people who will not see, the exclamation assumes the saving grace. Yet shou... ...st. In what degree of faithfulness Terence copied Menander, whether, as he states of the pas- sage in the Adelphi taken from Diphilus, verbum de verbo... ...arsh prose, to express the sorrowful confidingness of a young girl who has lost her sister and dearest friend, and has but her lover left to her; ‘she... ...ming a concrete of dense cohesion, very desirable in the estimation of the statesman. A political Aristophanes, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchi... ...em is an Aventuriere. She is clever, and a certain diversion exists in the united scheme for confounding her. The object of this person is to reinstat...

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...rs, grown grey under the shade of the bread fruit trees, speaking of their lost country far away. See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driv... ... burst at one instant from every quarter of the ship. ‘Many of the seamen, who had been remarkably inattentive and remiss in their duty during great p... ...and other necessary labours to the officers of the ship, and the soldiers, who had made uncommon exertions. Roused by a sense of their danger, the sam... ...s on for a few days, lies down in the desert, and dies. But he shall be re united in his immortal spirit—who can doubt it!—with the child, when he and... ...T OF MONEY he annually diverts from wholesome and useful purposes in the United Kingdom, would be a set off against the Window T ax. He is one of t... ...into a little trouble by leaving parcels of mud done up in brown paper, at people’s houses, on pretence of being a Railway Porter, in which character ... ...ging Letter Writer, for it is a part of his specula tion) in the aversion people feel to exhibit themselves as having been imposed upon, or as having... ...iden daughter.’ And the man who had been the child saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a celestial creature among those three, and he said, ‘My daugh... ...omething else as I lie awake; or, like that sagacious animal in the United States who recognised the colonel who was such a dead shot, I am a gone ‘Co...

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...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...ances that I might produce, I will cite one. Ask of any person whatsoever, who is not previously prepared for the demand by a knowledge of perspective... ...which inflicts the fatal blow is not more deeply imbrued in blood that his who sits and looks on: neither can he be clear of blood who has countenance... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...nd, deadly pale, Groan’d out his soul with gushing blood effus’d. Par. Lost, B. XI. Upon this, Richardson, the painter, who had an eye for ef- fec... ... who had an eye for ef- fect, remarks as follows, in his Notes on Paradise Lost, p. 497: “It has been thought,” says he, “that Cain beat (as the commo... ...ersate diurne; Especially nocturnâ. In these assassinations of princes and statesmen, there is nothing to excite our wonder; important changes often d... ...ther, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and died. Such is the comm... ...ted together by cords of superstition. What else was it but her constancy, united with her angelic gentleness, that drove the fanatic English soldier—...

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...a given number of generations; thereby demonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in the blood of some beggar, or any beggar who doe... ..., then, I may be said to enjoy a precedency over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of Europe, and who have s... ... over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these thousand years. While o... ...bosom, and balmy airs fanning our cheeks. We loved change, too, like other people, and had probably seen enough of vegetation, whether figurative or r... ...k that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact should be concealed. Resp... ... that moment all traces of what was occurring in the streets of Paris were lost to us. After all, it is not so very disagreeable to be only a pocket-h... ...money with me, madame” she said, pale as death, for all sense of shame was lost in intense apprehension. Still her trembling hands did their duty, and... ...ompelled to suspend, in consequence of the late robbery of the Bank of the United States by the cold-blooded miscreant whose hoary head dis- graces th... ...his active, never dormant sympathy for her situation, on the other, which, united, had made such an inroad on the young governess’s affections. “It’s ...

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...heaviness; things were lumpish and gloomy that day of the week. The girls, who sped their peep of inquisition before the moment of transit, let it be ... ...ip and toughness. He loathed a skulker, and his face was known for any boy who would own to fatigue or confess himself beaten. “Go to bed,” was one of... ...and there was a question or two about names, which belonged to verses, for people caring to read poems. To the joy of the school he displayed a greate... ... liked the French because they could be splendidly enthusiastic. He almost lost his English flavour when he spoke in downright approval of a small Fre... ...s a poet, not being heated by a story to run. So the fore- gone excitement lost warmth, and went out like a winter sun 18 Lord Ormont and His Aminta ... ...judgement on him. According to Mr. Shalders, the opinion of all thoughtful people in England was with John Company and the better part of the Press to... ...ofessional landlady for the blessing of the par- son, and are legitimately united. Women have won round fools to give way in that way. And quite right... ...On that subject, Aminta said she did not know what to think. Now, if a man states the matter he thinks, and a woman does but listen, whether inclining... ...assing from the living to the dead, from the dead to the living, they were united in his heart. Her brevity of tone, and her speech, so practical upon...

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...t. Pudd nhead Wilson s Calendar A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when h... ...ry detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty five years a... ...or that reason, and not to be comforted. The women were good and commonplace people, and did their duty, and had their reward in clear consciences and... ...on you might prefer from bradawls to artillery. He was very popular with the people, and was the judge’s dearest friend. Then there was Colonel Cecil ... ... all over the town, and gravely discussed by everybody. Within a week he had lost his first name; Pudd’nhead took its place. In time he came to be lik... ... horror. If she The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 15 dozed and lost herself for a moment, the next moment she was on her feet flying to ... ...have lived long in the various countries of Europe, and several years in the United States. Our names are Luigi and Angelo Capello. You desire but on... ...ved long in the various countries of Europe, and several years in the United States. Our names are Luigi and Angelo Capello. You desire but one guest... ...t they gave the regulation thirty days’ notice, the required preparation for citizenship, and resolved to finish their days in this pleasant place. Th...

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...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ...med—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ...gs against the gold patina of sky, and fumbled for sleep as for a drug. He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested ... ...y-orders which had reached their destinations months ago, stamps which had lost their mucilage, clip- pings of verses by T. Cholmondeley Frink and of ... ...he Great God Motor, they hymned the patch on the spare inner-tube, and the lost jack-handle. Their truce dissolving, Ted observed that her friends wer... ...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at ... ...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top...

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...lat amid the shuffle of feet, peaceful for the moment as the uncomplaining who have gone to Sabrina beneath the tides. He was unhurt, quite sound, mer... ...at distinctive article of his attire. At the same time, for these friendly people about him to share the fun of the annoyance, he looked hastily brigh... ...n, on the little band of observant Samaritans; in the centre of whom a man who knew himself honourably unclean, per- haps consequently a bit of a poli... ... the roar of cries and stilled it, by capping the cries in turn, until the people cheered him; and the effect of the scene upon Victor Radnor disposed... ...e idea must have struck Inchling when he shrugged: the idea being … he had lost it again. Definition seemed to be an extirpation enemy of this idea, o... ...im; he has dismissed the army.’ ‘I much regret it, sir, much, that we have lost him. Captain Dartrey Fenellan was a beautiful fencer. He gave me some ... ...tence, haunted him, each swelling to possession of him in turn; until they united to head a plunge into retro- spects; which led to his reviewing the ... ...e slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United States is no bar to the patriotism urging him to pay his visit of ex... ...t American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United States is no bar to the patriotism urging him to pay his visit of expo- sit...

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...casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the au thor addresses, not the many who will fling aside his vol ume, or never take it up, but the few who wil... ...she overshadows with her wings. Neverthe less, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing... ... itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to swell,... ...ly—or, rather, I do not doubt at all—whether any public functionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such a pa... ...rather, I do not doubt at all—whether any public functionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such a patriarch... ...itude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contr... ...ut, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide waiters all over the United States— was a certain permanent Inspector. He might truly be termed ... ... Conscious of his own infirmity—that his tempered steel and elasticity are lost— he for ever afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of support ... ..., that the world was only the darker for this woman’s beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne. The scene was not without a mixture...

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... of tea?” She smiled assentingly, and then made a slight grimace. “So many people come up to town on a Monday—one is sure to meet a lot of bores. I’m ... ...t she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her. H... ...ment, feeling for his latchkey. “There’s no one here; but I have a servant who is supposed to come in the mornings, and it’s just possible he may have... ... not girls—not poor, mis- erable, marriageable girls!” “I even know a girl who lives in a flat.” 7 Edith Wharton She sat up in surprise. “Y ou do?” “... ...e figures again and again; but at last it became clear to her that she had lost three hundred dollars at cards. She took out her cheque-book to see if... ... caused her to play high in the hope of doubling it. But of course she had lost—she who needed every penny, while Bertha Dorset, whose husband showere... ...nd less clear than any natural affinities would warrant; and both appeared united in the effort to cultivate Freddy V an Osburgh’s growing taste for M... ...ous enquiry and much delib- eration, Mrs. Fisher and Gerty, for once oddly united in their effort to help their friend, decided on placing her in the ... ...best; but he was as incapable as herself of an uncritical return to former states of feeling. There remained to her, as she had told him, the upliftin...

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...ss the throat of Monte Boscero facing it, when a party of five footfarers, who had met from differ- ent points of ascent some way below, and were clim... ...t his remarks upon the objects in sight, and chuckled to himself, like one who has learnt the necessity to appreciate his own humour if he is disposed... ...brows; a fluent black mous- tache ran with the curve of the upper lip, and lost its line upon a smooth olive cheek. The upper lip was firmly sup- port... ...Spring of the great Italian uprising, when, though for a tragic issue, the people of Italy first felt and acted as a nation, and Charles Albert, calle... ...o. “If he marches out of his dominions, the king confers a blessing on his people perchance.” “Our king, signore!” The mountaineer waved his finger as... ... voice not to be disregarded. He showed plainly 19 George Meredith by the lost rigidity of his attitude that he was beaten and perplexed. Further exp... ...iguing disaffected nationalities. The same policy which played the various States against one another in order to re- duce all to subserviency to the ... ...ved intellects which admitted the possibility of a coming Kingdom of Italy united: the lunatics who preached of it he considered a sort of self-electe... ...pite of themselves by that combination of genius and beauty which is found united nowhere but in Irma, the spir- its of heaven determined to rob earth...

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...table tradition and sure faith. Would he not betray himself an alien cynic who should other- wise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by spe... ... wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, young men who sing, and one lady instructress who really likes Milton and Carlyle. So... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... lec- turing you!” “No! You’re just the one. You have ideas without having lost feminine charm. Say! Don’t you think there’s a lot of these women that... ...follow them. But Westlake was old, almost retired; Julius Flickerbaugh had lost much of his practice to livelier attorneys; Reverend (not The Reverend... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh...

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... spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension. The Highlanders, who formed the principal strength of Charles Edward’s army, were an ancient... ... seduce young and enthusiastic minds to the cause in which they were found united, although wisdom and reason frowned upon the en- terprise. The adven... ...adventurous prince, as is well known, proved to be one of those personages who distinguish themselves during some single and extraordinarily brilliant... ... be en- forced against a person taken in the act of breaking them. When he lost his hazardous game, Dr. Cameron only paid the forfeit which he must ha... ... to fail, even when he had ample means, in relieving the sufferers who had lost their fortune, and sac- rificed all in his ill-fated attempt. [The app... ...esistance. If the unhappy prince gave implicit faith to the professions of statesmen holding such notions, which is implied by his whole conduct. 11 ... ...you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stable were too seductive, I suppose—he denie... ...hich he wished to attain, by preserving me from the society of other young people, that, upon my word, I am always rather astonished how I should have... ... which the elder Mr. Fairford had expected and desired. The young men were united by the closest bonds of intimacy; and the more so, that neither of t...

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...CIAL PANACEAS...................................................................................................................... 61 SYNDICALISM OR CITIZENSHIP............................................................................................. 66 THE GREAT STATE ........................................................................................................

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.............................................................. 175 IS THERE A PEOPLE? ...................................................................... ...l, I think, regret that being so near we were not among the fortunate ones who saw that little flat shape skim land- ward out of the blue; surely they... ... an astonishing effect of ease, that was incredible not simply to ignorant people but to men well informed in these mat- ters. It cannot be fifteen ye... ...his has been achieved. And now our insularity is breached by the foreigner who has got ahead with flying. It means, I take it, first and foremost for ... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...al entanglements greatly strengthen the bonds of an empire in any case. We lost the American colonies because we interfered with their fiscal ar- rang... ...r—or, at least, how Euro- pean—the essentials of this quarrel are. We have lost our tempers, but Canada has not. There is nothing in Germany to make C...

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...PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE.......................................................................................................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .................................................................................

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...................................................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK... ...OT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT ............... ...and because he perceives many mischievous fellows among the crowd of noisy people, who ignore at plea- sure the real object of these volumes. In the f... ...f France and the oriflamme of the king and Monsieur St. Denis, who, having lost his head, said “Mount-my-Joy!” Do you mean to say, you quadrupeds, tha... ...rupeds, that the word is wrong? No. It was certainly heard by a great many people at the time; but in these days of deep wretchedness you believe noth... ...e man distinguishes himself from the beast, seeing that no animal ever yet lost his senses through blighted love, which proves abundantly that animals... ... should tell you that from the first I was much struck with the love which united you one to the other. The rights of the abbey once recognised, I was... ...ouched to the quick by the sincerity of his mistress. This love innocently united to repentance, this nobility in sin, this mixture of weakness and st... ...as in office the Venetian, who was a shrewd man, and well suited to govern states, which was the usual employment of Venetian gentlemen, worked wonder...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all... ...ally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employe... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ...of men of learn- ing, but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states. I have endeavoured, in the fourth book, to explain as fully and dis... ...articular workman; sec- ondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and, lastly, to the in... ...iring. Secondly, The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we s... ...ivided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess,... ...nerally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united king- dom. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, th...

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...sts may meet, a business for non- technical expression, and in which a man who knows a little of biology, a little of physical science, and a little i... ...sical science, and a little in a practi- cal way of social stratification, who has concerned himself with education and aspired to creative art, may c... ...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...qually available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion,... ...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...et from what they might be, and for the most part they never recover their lost start. Just what this handicap amounts to, so far as it works out in p... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the... ...s elaborated and taught by McNaught, because the faculty of so learning is lost—atrophied—by the age of twelve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as ea...

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...tand ing, I kept to my purpose, and I am happy to know that many of those who at first condemned me are now foremost in their approbation. If I have ... ...out a thrill of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets.... ...ieve he will be for many more—a most brilliant and distinguished ornament. Who can revert to the literature of the land of Scott and of Burns without ... ...—to ap peal as a stranger to your generosity and kindness as the fre est people on the earth—I could, putting some restraint upon myself, stand amon... ...hem now by dozens, not by units—has done the like, and has told me how she lost such a child at such a time, and where she lay buried, and how Charle... ...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...d with all conditions of men, and all periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight ... ...mbers themselves. I am truly sensible, gentlemen, that my friends who have united in this address are partial in their kindness, and regard what I hav... ...ircumstances, should be the dear child you love, the dearer child you have lost, the child you might have had, the child you certainly have been. Each...

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...r Aristotle did not separate, as we are inclined to do, the spheres of the statesman and the moralist. In the Ethics he has described the character ne... ...good in things that are imperfect, and the patience of the true politician who has learned that if he would make men what they ought to be, he must ta... ... rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one. Such was the p... ...re- scribe for an ailing constitution. So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensio... ... oracle told them to go to Mantinea, and the Mantineans lent them Demonax, who acted as a “setter straight” and drew up a new constitution for Cyrene.... ...nceptions of the good. In so far as men conceive the good rightly they are united. The state represents their common agreement, force their failure to... ...ts, the rivalry of parties, and the struggle of classes, instead of in the united seeking after a common good. Plato and Aristotle were familiar with ... ...ut this was observed the distinction between a master and a slave would be lost. But there is a government of another sort, in which men govern those ... ..., the other an oligarchical: and indeed the [1300a] power of the senate is lost in those de- mocracies, in which the people, meeting in one public as-...

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...nder- taken and what ought to be the expectation of the reader, and lastly states the necessary conditions of studying it with profit. The aim of it i... ... possible, or if possible, profitless. The Ethics is addressed to students who are presumed both to have enough general education to appreciate these ... ...ical, but practical: it is the activity not of reason but still of a being who possesses reason and applies it, and it presupposes in that being the d... ...er certain conditions, so that the will is often misled, hesitates, and is lost. Books VIII. and IX. (on Friendship) are almost an inter- ruption of t... ...s perhaps sup- posing him to have very bad children or friends, or to have lost good ones by death. As we have said already, the addi- tion of prosper... ...e fact is that good and bad fortune are constantly circling about the same people: for it is quite plain, that if we are to depend upon the fortunes o... ...imes, or in wrong manner, and so forth (for which reason, by the way, some people define the Virtues as certain states of im- passibility and utter qu... ...ome are useful to them and others pleasur- able, but the two are not often united: because they do not, in fact, seek such as shall combine pleasantne... ...ss put into their hands: and these quali- fications are not commonly found united in the same man. It has been already stated that the good man unites...

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...nd sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher has descended upon his successors, who have applied his method with the most various results. The value and ... ...iffi- culties, not seeing that what they have gained in generality they have lost in truth and distinctness. Metaphysical con- ceptions easily pass in... ...hest species. To flattery is opposed the true and noble art of life which he who possesses seeks always to impart to others, and which at last triumph... ...two leading ideas of the dialogue. The true and the false in individuals and states, in the treatment of the soul as well as of the body, are con- cei... ...ly rhetoricians, but poets, musicians, and other artists, the whole tribe of statesmen, past as well as present, are included in the class of flattere... ...re are two kinds of statesmanship, a higher and a lower that which makes the people better, and that which only flatters them, and he exhorts Callicle... ...g the manner in which the ambitious citizen has to identify himself with the people, he partially recognizes the truth of his words. The Socrates of t... ...ly, and therefore pleasure cannot be the same as good. Callicles has already lost his temper, and can only be per- suaded to go on by the interpositio... ...oetry and prose. But he has discovered a use of lan- guage in which they are united; which gives a fitting expres- sion to the highest truths; and in ...

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...en he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his vol ume, or never take it up, but the few who ... ...which she overshadows with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at this very moment to shelter themselves under the ... ...t by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to sw... ... — or, rather, I do not doubt at all — whether any public func tionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such ... ...rather, I do not doubt at all — whether any public func tionary of the United States, either in the civil or military line, has ever had such a patri... ...omptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy. Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to c... ...s, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide waiters all over the United States — was a certain permanent Inspector. He might truly be te... ...ay. Conscious of his own infirmity — that his tempered steel and elasticity are lost — he for ever afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of sup... ...fect, that the world was only the darker for this woman’s beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne. The scene was not without a mix...