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Honolulu Star Advertiser : Special Sunday Tabloid

By: Honolulu Star Advertiser

...derson Quinn & Stifel Grace Pacific Corporation Halekulani Corporation Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa The Kahala Hotel & Resort Marr...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...red Kidd to call another cab. After it arrived, Brand told the cabbie to take them to the Regency. When they arrived at the Regency, Brand said, “I...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...e rebellion of Zedekiah, uncle of the last king (whom he had entrusted with the regency of the kingdom, and honoured with the title of king), return... ...ciently explained it by simply insinuating that from Constantine to the present era, every thing has been fulfilled which the prophets declare conce... ...ess, with slight variations) in all the ages, years, and months of the Christian era? To this moral body, then, composed of wise and foolish virgins,...

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History of the Hawaiian Kingdom Vol. 1

By: Ralph S. Kuykendall

... 61 -- Kamehameha II. 71 -- Early Commercial Development. 82 -- New Religion and New Learning. 100 -- The Early Years of the Reign of Kamehameha III: Regency of Kaahumanu. 117 -- The Troubled Thirties. 133 -- The Birth of Constitutional Government. 153 -- Industry, Agriculture, Manufactures. 170 -- The Recognition of Hawaii's Independence. 185 -- The Paulet Episode. 206 --...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...rson Quinn & Stifel Grace Pacific Corporation Halekulani Corporation Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa Te Kahala Hotel & Resort Marriott Re...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...quamish Indians. A day that marks the beginning of a new relationship ... a new era between the Union and the Red Man. We are here to sign a memorab... ... ANGELES DOWNTOWN FINANCIAL DISTRICT ROBERT BRENT SETTLED into his room at the Regency Hotel. He usually hated Los Angeles, calling it "La La Land"... .... The Soul Bearer :{E 40 $ FRANKLIN PIERCE SAT in a plush suite at the Hyatt Regency in DC swirling ice cubes in a glass of Chivas Regal. His sch... ... think Pierce is planning?" "I talked to the Director earlier. Pierce is at the Regency. He had a meeting with Taranto. The Director didn't want to ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...civil war broke out in Byzantium. John Cantacuzenus, deprived of the much expected regency, confronted Alexius Apocaucus, the patriarch John Caleca... ... a blessing in disguise. Western aid and investment can help resuscitate the Soviet era mining (Copper, Zinc) operations and finally tap Afghanista... ...h administration whose hawks regard it as a superfluous leftover from the Cold War era. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) even introduced legislation to with... ...barrels. According to Stratfor, Iraq still owes Russia $10-12 billion for Soviet era materiel. But Iraq is open about its conditioning of future ... ....7 billion in 2002 and reached $153.5 billion, of which $55.3 billion is in Soviet- era debt, $48.4 billion were accrued in post-Soviet times and th...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...xpectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo, supremaquefun era debet. --OVID. Met. 1. iii. 135. We must expect of man the latest day ... ...ous action. Ma hor congiunto i giovinetta sposa, Lieto homai de' figli', era invilito Ne gli afetti di padre et di marito. But now conjoyn'd to a ... ...Stanza, gl'haveano mai messi da canto; Che facile a portar come la resta Era lor, perche in vso l'havean tanto. -- ARIOST. Orl. can. xii. stan. 30. ... ...e patrem nati perimunt, natosque parentes, Mutuaque armati coeunt in vuln era fratres, Non nostrum hoc bellum est; coquntur tanta movere, Inque sua... ... conto, Per che Orlando a far' opre virtuose Piu ch' a narrle poi sempre era pronto Ne mai fu alcun' de li suoi fatti espresso, Senon quando hebbe... ...ves unto it, chiefly when it commeth by the way of conference, and not of regency. At every opposition we consider not whether it be just, but be it... ... nothing at all. To determine and distribute belongeth to superiority and regency as accepting, to subjection and apprentise-shippe. Let us re-assum...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ic transmission, in any way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...y university. 3 Saint-Simon MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY BY THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTIO... ...rch,” Louis XIV: whom the author shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the French critic, Sainte-Beuve, is fairly typi- ca... ...98 Saint-Simon Destouches’s opera of Isse was very well performed. The op- era being finished, everybody went his way, and thus these marriage-fetes w... ...t it would be long and detailed; that he doubtless wished to go to the op- era; that it could be attended to next week; and at once, without waiting f...

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Emma (version 4)

By: Jane Austen

...ris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like. In the very first sentence she introduces the title ch...

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Girl with the Golden Eyes, The

By: Honoré de Balzac

... long for the first act of his operatic extravaganza. Our beautiful, androgynous hero, Henri de Marsay, is one of the bastard offspring of a depraved Regency milord and himself practises the cynical arts of the libertine. His quarry is the exotic Paquita Valdes, she of the golden eyes. But there is a mysterious third person in this liaison... The shocking truth of their in...

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Emma (Version 6)

By: Jane Austen

...ris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like. In the very first sentence she i...

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Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

...throne is subject to be possessed by a minor at any age; all which time the regency, acting under the cover a king, have every opportunity and induc...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...judices. Diderot undertook in this direction a book (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, critici... ... of your genius will be the death of your religion. If the Guises gain the regency, the blood of the Reformers will flow like water. Be a greater citi... ...f courtiers were flocking to the house of the king of Navarre, on whom the regency would devolve on the death of the king, according to the laws of th... ...hful to his secret agreement with Catherine, was bound not to renounce the regency in her fa- vor until the States-general had declared for it. The so... ...court to a heretic prince, believing that the States-general will give the regency to the heirs of a traitor who long detained in prison your illustri... ... open his head. I, as the king’s mother and a member of the council of the regency,—I protest against what appears to me a crime of lese-majeste. The ... ...a moral power; and, in this case, Calvin’s return was the beginning of his era as prophet. He then organized his religious Terror, and the executions ...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... scale this dreadful tissue of murder (which as a record be- longing to an era that is now left forty-two years behind us, not one person in four of t... ...end, that to have uttered the truths of astronomy, of geology, &c., at the era of new-born Chris- tianity, was not only below and beside the purposes ... ...f those prin- ciples which he had himself so scornfully applied to the op- era! In the very monsoon of his raving misery, from calami- ties as sudden ... ...no- tion (not authorized, I am satisfied, by the practice in the su- preme era of Pericles), that it exhibited a Janus face, the wind- ward side expre... ...hese: the family was origi- nally English; and in England, at the earliest era, there is no doubt at all that its name was De Welles leigh, which was ... ...hout the contests on the French Revo- lution; and a little earlier, on the Regency question. This came forward in 1788, on occasion of the first insan... ...this: Mr. Fox held that, upon any incapacity arising in the sovereign, the regency would then settle (ipso facto of that incapacity) upon the Prince o... ...a, accent on the first. 3 Which adopted neither view; for by offering the regency of Ireland to the Prince of Wales, they negatived Mr. Fox’s view, w...

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Maid Marian

By: Thomas Love Peacock

... The departure of King Richard from England was suc ceeded by the episcopal regency of the bishops of Ely and Durham. Longchamp, bishop of Ely, proce...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ast. It may have been the tre- mendous home-brewed beer of the prohibition-era and the cigars to which that beer enticed him; it may have been resentm... ...ld him with supple kindly strength. He was blind and deaf from prohibition-era alcohol; he could not see the tables, the faces. But he was overwhelmed... ...though personally I might prefer the sterner Presbyterianism of an earlier era—” Babbitt finally gathered that Eathorne was willing. Chum Frink sugges... ...den, but they had dinner in the brocade and crystal Versailles Room of the Regency Hotel. Babbitt ordered Blue Point oysters with cocktail sauce, a tr... ... do. He was bleakly lonely in the evening, when he dined by himself at the Regency Hotel. He sat in the lobby afterward, in a plush chair bedecked wit... ... got.” But that evening a thing happened which wrecked his pride. V At the Regency Hotel cigar-counter he fell to talking with a salesman of pianos, a... ...ner Ferment, as Mrs. Mudge calls it; he hasn’t any inspiration for the New Era. Women need inspiration now. So I want you to come, as you promised.” ... ...hich I represent. Our object is to unite all the manifestations of the New Era into one cohesive whole—New Thought, Christian Science, Theosophy, Veda...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...thousand francs in the funds.” “Well then, monsieur, the notions you term ‘Regency’ are quite out of date at a time when a man is taken at his per- so... ...gh of those reminiscences. We got to be like brothers. The scoundrel—quite Regency in his notions—tried indeed to deprave me altogether, preached Sain... ...med the position of his second manner, look- ing at the Baroness with his /Regency/ leer. “I could almost fancy,” she went on, “that you want to visit...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...e may guess. It is his second or even third trial at Paris, since this New Era began; but now it is in right earnest, for he has quitted all else. Wir... ...evolution—V olume Two rulers’ Heralds, though not respected as such, in an Era still incipient and raw. They made the walls of Paris didac- tic, suasi... ...l it to be. Freedom by Social Contract: such was verily the Gospel of that Era. And all men had believed in it, as in a Heaven’s Glad-tidings 39 Thom... ...ight say, arrived at Chaos! Gleams there are, at once of a Lieutenancy and Regency; debates in the Assembly itself, of succession to the Throne ‘in ca... ...t. For if such inexpressible whirlpool of Babylonish confusions (which our Era is) cannot be stilled by man, but only by Time and men, a man may moder... ...tion is accepted, hears voice of cheering. Bygone shall be bygone; the New Era shall begin! To and fro, amid those lamp-galaxies of the Elysian Fields... ... the lim- ited: And if next the little Prince Royal were crowned, and some Regency of Girondins and recalled Patriot Ministry set over him? Alas, poor...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...that he feared in any stranger, but the sheer might and unright that their Regency enabled the House of Albany to exercise over the orphans of the roy... ...t towards her was of forgiveness. She may wish to keep well with us of the Regency—and more like still, she will be pleased that one of so great a hou...

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