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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...llied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the army as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals ... ...s. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turkish Russian Army of the Caucasus, in April 1915, the elite of the Armenian c... ... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...e "core" - seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and... ...Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after the a... ...s were marked by the moderating influence of Burrus, the prefect of the Praetorian Guards, and the philosopher Seneca, his tutor. Nero abolished...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...pictorial scene is painted. Perhaps the greatest of these is the "Military Guard," which is not only re- markable for clearness of expres- sion in the... ...ege meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 of South Beth- lehem, Pa., was elected assistant football manager on the first... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ...ING CO. North Adams, flass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'07&VANDECARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEG* All laundry left where the collector can get it on Monday mor... ...e of Will- iams' better all-round playing in the first half and the clo.se guard- ing in the second, after a disagree- able incident described and dis... ... profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a banquet of Grand Army men at Saratoga, N. Y.. on March 20. Mr. Root was born at North Granvi... ...ellorsville. For several years he was vice-president of the Society of the Army of the Poto- mac and in 1892 was president of the Y, M. C. A. of White... ...es Bryoe, British ambassador to the United States, Governor Glenn of North Carolina and Rev. Charles Parkhurst of Now York oity. Since 1900 the member...

...ountry. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the Record. The ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...83-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...nment may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ... Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Liberia 142 Libya 1... ...eychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Africa 223 Soviet Union 224 Spain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230... ...tation Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Air and Defense Forces, border guard forces, Defense of the Revolution Force, National Police Force oper... ...00 TV sets; 210,000 receiver sets Defense Forces Branches: Albanian People's Army, Fron- tier Troops, Interior Troops, Albanian Coastal Defense Comman... ...iver sets; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie Military manpower: males 15-4... ...sists of about 360 small coral islands Special notes: 1,050 km east of North Carolina; some reclaimed land leased by US Government Population: 58,033 ... ...800 km 2 ; land area: 136,800 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of North Carolina Land boundaries: 2,800 km total Climate: varies from cool summer...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...traordinary stories -- How a storm resulted in the discovery and settlement of South America 123- 134 CHAPTER XI. The false Hopes Of Columbus. -- How ... ...- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with t... ... Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their de... ...dition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- ... ...his arrest -- Condemned to death -- A hair-breadth escape -- Striking down his guard he leaps into the sea - - Four days hunted with bloodhounds -- Es... ... -- A fine row between two official rogues -- The citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French ... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ...ancient map) leads to the belief that Drogio was either Massachusetts or North Carolina. The voyage, however, terminated most disastrously, for experi... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...oid of the ability to communicate the existence of pain - would perish. Pain is our guardian against the perils of our surroundings. To summarize: ... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ... are left to the competition. The more lucrative parts of the markets are zealously guarded by the company. Through legislation, policy measures, w... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...major and significant the resources are. Still, if a person volunteered to join the army and a contract has been signed between the parties, then th... ... this not the very quiddity of the oppressive state, its laws, police, prisons, and army? Are the origins of the coercive state and its justificati... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...oid of the ability to communicate the existence of pain - would perish. Pain is our guardian against the perils of our surroundings. To summarize: ... ...claims were made with regards to the 12th century advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the Minoans in Crete (today's Gre... ...s among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fore tribe in New Guinea (and many other... ... are left to the competition. The more lucrative parts of the markets are zealously guarded by the company. Through legislation, policy measures, w... ...and probability in the studies conducted at the Parapsychology Laboratory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph B...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...d over his plan to turn all his stores into such places and to give them a national brand name. Three months ago, he had submitted his loan request to... ...here until the next morning. WINTER arrived. Jake talked about a trip to a southern, warm place. He was weak and in a lot of pain, but smiled wanly an... ...e car in the still morning air. The pine trees stood like giant sentinels, guard- ing the pristine landscape. Oh, how I love this place! I’ve always ... ...vel?” “Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azale... ...“Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azaleas and... ...erts for Mexico. Travel at night, or alone, was not rec- ommended, but the army was patrolling border cities and travel was common. Yes, I can do it! ... ... a sandwich and then de- cided to have one more scotch before watching the national news.. CHAPTER 46 264 SUSAN BRACKEN With happy anticipation, he s... ...ty- seven passengers from San Diego on a shopping and lunch tour. When the army closed in, the gang members shot out the tire on the bus and took some...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ ...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ...public in general were supposed to approach was, during my sojourn, always guarded by vast mountains of flour barrels. Looking up at the windows of th... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ...inia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Florida return only 1 ea... ...returned 8, and New York only 6; whereas Virginia re- turned 10, and South Carolina 5, From which may be gath- ered the relative rate of increase in p... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ...

...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...llinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills. Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford c... ...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...-shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army recruiting-posters. The damp, yellow-brick schoolbuilding in its cinde... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...oth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose her army? Dur- ing the gossip after the meeting Mrs. George Edwin Mott remarked... ... appropriation from the state and combined a new city hall with a national guard ar- mory. Dave had given verdict, “What these mouthy young- sters tha... ...tie, in long strides. At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers. She walked the rails, balancing with arms exten...

... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...Y AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having delib- er... ...ncompatible. The persons in these three States: Georgia Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared forever free. “By... ...a rebel force of 7000 to 10,000 fell upon one regiment and two com- panies guarding the bridge at Front Royal, destroying it en- tirely; crossed the S... ...ially attained. During the ex- isting war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. Thi... ...shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from dan- ger or insult, it shall in the speediest manner ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...ome of the voting places on election day un- less prevented by his provost-guards. He says that at some of those places Union voters will not attend ... ...dis- lodged from that important position; and esteeming this to be of high national consequence, I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of t... ...ial homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMA TION OF AMNESTY AND RECON- STRUCTION D... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth ... ...ilar to the dispatch received by you, but nothing very definite from North Carolina. Knowing Mr. Stanley to be an able man, and not doubting that he i... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...nglish Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of North America – P... ...and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches towards the south, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the gr... ...w England.*** *This was the case in the State of New York. **Maryland, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were in this situation. See “Pitkin... ... the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. The safe- guard of morality is religion, and morality is the best secu- rity of law a... ... minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.* The State usually employs the officers of the town... ...ited States it must be added that, with the cessation of the contest, this army disappeared as rapidly as it had been raised. – T ranslator’s Note. 1... ...them had earned a considerable degree of celebrity. South 217 Tocqueville Carolina alone, which afterwards took up arms in the same cause, sent sixty...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...erlook the consti- 18 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five tutional guards which our fathers placed around it; they will do nothing that can gi... ...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ...it at their own pleasure; and that all others—individuals, free States and national Government—are constitutionally bound to leave them alone about it... ...ch make me believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting... ...y. No great while after the adoption of the original Constitu- tion, North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the S... ...now known to have been otherwise, unless it may be John Rutledge, of South Carolina. The sum of the whole is, that of our thirty-nine fathers who fram... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving and con vertin... ...he foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.’ He continues: ‘T urning southward, they paddled down the stream, through a solitude unrelieved by... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ... to scrub while his boat tarried at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and scrub it, where we could all see him and envy him and loathe hi... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...more labor to steer her than it is to count the Republi can vote in a South Carolina election. One morning, just at daybreak, the last trip she ever ... ...otect him, he protected himself. About the same time, two young men in North Carolina quarreled about a girl, and ‘hostile messages’ were exchanged. F... ...nd sometimes marched in procession around the stage?” “Do you mean the Roman army?—those six sandaled roustabouts in nightshirts, with tin shields and... ... T wain 285 place. This seemed odd to me, for when I retired from the rebel army in ’61 I retired upon Louisiana in good order; at least in good enou...

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The Light That Failed

By: Rudyard Kipling

...s did not lie in the scheme of their daily life as decreed for them by the guardian who was incorrectly supposed to stand in the place of a mother to ... ...y, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty pounds a year of my own. My guardians tell me I’m to have it when I come of age. That will be enough to... ...thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one... ...he flannel shirt, the black-browed Torpenhow. He rep- resented the Central Southern Syndicate in the cam- paign, as he had represented it in the Egypt... ... the evening Torpenhow was able to announce to his friend that the Central Southern Agency was will- ing to take him on trial, paying expenses for thr... ...ndents, skip- pers of the contract troop-ships employed in the cam- paign, army officers by the score, and others of less 25 Rudyard Kipling reputabl... .... John’s Wood, the big studio, then I pepper-potted,— I mean I went to the National,—and now I’m work- ing under Kami.’ ‘But Kami is in Paris surely?’... ...rtable pause. Then Torpenhow said blandly, ‘What did the Governor of North Carolina say to the Governor of South Carolina?’ ‘Excellent notion. It is a... ... officers of fellaheen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents of no nationality whatever. In the early morning, being then appropriately dresse...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing t... ...oclivity or bent, to active toil and visible progress, are in the strictly national direction, delighting to outstrip “all creation.” Nor have the nat... ... give that hate telling effect. Women—white women, I mean—are IDOLS at the south, not WIVES, for the slave women are preferred in many instances; and ... ...rrible peculiarities, which mark and characterize the slave system, in the southern and south-west- ern states of the American union. The argument in ... ...41 Frederick Douglas within its secluded precincts. Whether with a view of guard- ing against the escape of its secrets, I know not, but it is a fact,... ... muttering to himself; and he occasionally stormed about, as if defying an army of in- visible foes. “He would do this, that, and the other; he’d be d... ...ry gate through which we had to pass, we saw a watchman; at every ferry, a guard; on every bridge, a sentinel; and in every wood, a patrol or slave- h... ...ound. Whether on the coast of Africa, among the savage tribes, or in South Carolina, among the refined and civilized, slavery is the same, and its acc...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...rasting with the darkness of so many youthful lives within! * * * * * * At South Boston, as it is called, in a situation excel lently adapted for the... ...f respect. Some thing of the same spirit pervades all the Institutions at South Boston. There is the House of Industry. In that branch of it, which i... ...er within is at all times exposed to the observation and inspection of any guard who may pass along that tier at any hour or minute of the night. Ever... ...s there, I sincerely believe, any insolence of office of any kind. Nothing national is exhibited for money; and no public officer is a showman. We hav... ... and consid erate treatment everywhere. The conductor or check taker, or guard, or whatever he may be, wears no uni form. He walks up and down the ... ...of obtaining it, I suppose?’ ‘Well, I don’t know:’ which, by the bye, is a national answer. ‘Her friends mistrust her.’ ‘What have they to do with it... ...who seem destined from their birth to serve as pioneers in the great human army: who gladly go on from year to year extending its outposts, and leavin... ...tatives at Washington. ‘I have a great respect for the chair,’ quoth North Carolina, ‘I have a great re spect for the chair as an officer of the hous... ...district of Columbia, to pieces. ’—’I warn the abolitionists, ’ says South Carolina, ‘ignorant, infuriated barbarians as they are, that if chance shal...

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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...shrilled his tinselled shaft. —Tennyson. IF TIMES DIFFER, human nature and national character vary but little; and thus, in looking back on former tim... ...wenty years of age, in a laced scarlet uniform, as I think, of the Dragoon Guards, and with a little powder, but not enough to disguise that his hair ... ...ugh’s 14 Love and Life campaigns, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled before Belg... ...ho had al- ways been a favourite at the great house, was sent for from the army, and given to understand that he was to conduct his courtship, with th... ... It was the more unfortunate, since he had made Mr. Belamour sole personal guardian to his only surviving son, and ap- pointed him, together with my f... ...girl, saying, “You will excuse the having supper here to-night, madam; the south parlour will be ready for you to-morrow.” “Is not Mrs. Dove coming?” ... ...f salutation. “If you are ready, madam,” she said, “I will show you to the south parlour, where the children will eat with you.” Aurelia ventured to a... ...rs where the Red Cloud was lying. “The Red Cloud, Karen, weighs anchor for Carolina at flood tide to-night. Shipper just going aboard,” they were told...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Lo... ... Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped af... ...re.” Presley wondered at the heedlessness of leaving the sheep so slightly guarded, but made no comment, and the two started off across the field in t... ...s a young man it had been his ambition to represent his native State—North Carolina—in the United States Senate. Calhoun was his “great man,” but in t... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ...or of the United States Sen- ate. He has the whole thing organised like an army corps. What ARE you going to do? He sits in his office in San Francis... ... of his ranch house, in the white-painted iron bedstead with its blue-grey army blankets and red counterpane, Annixter was still asleep, his face red,... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...every citizen of every State from Maine to Mexico, from the Dakotas to the Carolinas, have you not the monster in your boundaries? If it is not a Trus...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ome alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts,... ...rom more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition. Four days later, commenced... ...ich ended in repealing that Congressional prohibition. This opened all the National terri- tory to slavery, and was the first point gained. But, so fa... ...on of unscrupulous Federal office-hold- ers. I intend to fight that allied army wherever I meet them. I know they deny the alliance; but yet these men... ...ools of the supporters of Mr. Lincoln. Hence I shall deal with this allied army just as the Russians dealt with the Allies at Sebastopol,—that is, the... ...as brought forward at a time when nobody asked him; it was tendered to the South when the South had not asked for it, but when they could not well ref... ...cy to the nationalization of slavery in these States. Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, in one of his speeches, when they were presenting him canes, silv... ...e blacks are more numerous. We have no doubt of the right of the whites to guard against such an evil, if it is one. Our opinion is that it would be b...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...with Hume and the English Government to sur- round him—as he supposed—with guards and spies; he re- volved in his troubled mind all the reports and ru... ...t wrong the good opinion they were disposed to entertain for the son of my guardian. Our studies, amusements, and tasks, were the same; we were alone;... ...hardly would he consent to give me a uniform, thinking the clothing of the army might serve. Madam de Merveilleux, provoked at his proposals, persuade... ...lared war, the King of Sardinia had entered into the quarrel, and a French army had filed off into Piedmont to awe the Milanese. Our divi- sion passed... ... proper place, but which ought not to be omitted. My uncle Bernard died at Carolina, where he had been employed some years in the building of Charles ... ...ed on was a valley between two toler- ably high hills, which ran north and south; at the bottom, among the trees and pebbles, ran a rivulet, and above... ...for no other reason than because, not being a Frenchman, I had no right to national protection, and that it was a private affair between him and mysel... ...es, and of whom she produces too few for her glory. He had not the violent national passions common in his own country. The idea of vengeance could no... ... by which it is sheltered from the winds. Five or six hundred paces to the south of the island of St. Peter is another island, considerably less than ...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; there are few po- ems with a nobler music for the ear: a songf... ...idious offers of correspondence in the future; but I was per- petually on my guard, and parried their assaults with inward laughter. I am sure Dubuque... ...and listen to hear the voice of the Pacific. You pass out of the town to the south-west, and mount the hill among pine- woods. Glade, thicket, and gro... ...gher, in clouds of a gigantic size and often of a wild configuration; to the south, where they have struck the seaward shoulder of the mountains of Sa... ...will say, “Why do you not write a great book? paint a great picture?” If his guardian angel fail him, they may even persuade him to the attempt, and, ... ...: a road conceived for pageantry and for triumphal marches, an avenue for an army; but, its days of glory over, it now lies grilling in the sun betwee... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc... ...eath and decency that, for long months together, bedevil’ d and inspired the army; was hurled to and fro in the battle-smoke of the assault; was there...

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The Bostonians

By: Henry James

...ng man. ‘I pretend not to prevaricate.’ ‘Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?’ the lady asked. ‘Olive told me to tell you she hoped you wil... ...sman; or, on the other hand, they might simply have proved that he came from Carolina or Alabama. He came, in fact, from Mississippi, and he spoke ver... ...n’t know she existed; but he remembered that this was not the way in which a South ern gentleman spoke to ladies, and he contented himself with sayin... ...ut conscious of the narrow range, as yet, of his ex perience. He was on his guard against generalisations which might be hasty; but he had arrived at... ...nger years one of the biggest failures that history commemorates, an immense national fiasco, and it had implanted in his mind a deep aversion to the i... ...try, when I see injustice, when I see conservatism, massed before me like an army. Then I feel—I feel as I imagine Napoleon Bonaparte to have felt on ... ...ther stultification of the suffrage, the prospect of conscript mothers in the national Senate. It made no difference; she didn’t mean it, she didn’t kn... ...nge adventures; she found herself completely enrolled in the great irregular army of nostrum mongers, domi ciled in humanitary Bohemia. It absorbed h... ... to Verena, more than once, that he wished he might have met the old lady in Carolina or Georgia before the war—shown her round among the negroes and ...

...revaricating city.? ?That has an unflattering sound for me,? said the young man. ?I pretend not to prevaricate.? ?Dear me, what?s the good of being a Southerner?? the lady asked. ?Olive told me to tell you she hoped you will stay to dinner. And if she said it, she does really hope it. She is willing to risk that.? ?Just as I am?? the visitor inquired, presenting himself wi...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle

...d men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse girl, and several well dressed... ...secreting. Why should she hand it over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but she could not tell what indirect or political influenc... ...ment. “I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in his hair had ... ... well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket.” He waved his hand, turned on his heel, a... ...may rest here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the south west, I see.” “Yes, from Horsham.” “That clay and chalk mixture w... ...reported to have done very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson’s army, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Le... ...anches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Geor gia, and Florida. Its power was used for political pur... ...nsibility which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any misfortune s... ...be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property. I was determined that the law should have its way in...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

....1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ...gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburb... ...nutes after the hijacking began, Betty Ong contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airph... ...cted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flight.Thi... ...n two alert sites, each with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampto... ...nted document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebra... ...d States rushed out of Somalia in shame and dis- grace.” Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated... ...to enroll at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina.After a semester at Chowan, KSM transferred to North Carolina Agri...

...s ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 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 Organiza...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...tions for thirty five thou sand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects... ...at farm, I’ve been there. It’s got a rope walk and a candle factory and an army. Standing army. Infantry and cavalry. Three soldier and a horse. Aleck... ...ever see her again in life. It is hard, so hard. She does not suspect? You guard her from that?” “She thinks you will soon be well.” “How good you are... ...ce between—yes.” “That is so good. Others one could not trust; but you two guardian angels—steel is not so true as you. Others would be unfaithful; an... ...cClintock,* author of ‘An Address,’ etc., deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by ... ...ock,* author of ‘An Address,’ etc., deliv ered at Sunflower Hill, South Carolina, and member of the Yale Law School. New Haven: published by T . H.... ... wind! Turn thy force 77 Mark Twain loose like a tempest, and roll on thy army like a whirlwind, over this mountain of trouble and confusion. Oh frie... ...e of style. That thing on his hat is an eagle. The Prussian eagle— it is a national emblem. When I saw hat I mean helmet; but it seems impossible to m... ...ning? Have you seen it? Have you seen him show off? It is the sight of the national capital. Except one; a pathetic one. That is the ex Congressman: t...

... rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside--unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew everybody and his dog, and a sociable fr...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed ... ...nd Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fal... .... It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. My father s... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...rginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bourbon County, Kentucky, besides having driven or rid- den pretty... ...down until it rested on the deck. After I had gone ashore, and had been on guard several days at Shell Island, quite six miles from the ship, I had oc... ...membered by middle-aged people of to-day as one of great excitement. South Carolina promptly seceded after the result of the Presidential election was... ...h of April Fort Sumter, a National fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, was fired upon by the Southerners and a few days after was captur...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...nt indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let ... ...ervations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your deci- ... ...ead of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government. It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted... ...the north- ern hive would excite the same ideas and sensations in the more southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Eu... ...e it might and probably would happen that the foreign nation with whom the southern confederacy might be at war would be the one with whom the norther... ...ministration of government, let the revolt of a part of the State of North Carolina, the late menacing disturbances in Pennsylvania, and the actual in... ...t the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country al- most as so... ...th the principles or propensities of the other state. The smallness of the army renders the natural strength of the community an over-match for it; an... ...tes, it would furnish a like result. Let Virginia be contrasted with North Carolina, Pennsylvania with Connecticut, or Mary- land with New Jersey, and...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......... ......................480 To a Locomotive in Winter................484 O Magnet South................................485 All Is Truth....................... ... through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 19 We confer on equal terms w... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...occult convolutions! Root of wash’d sweet flag! timorous pond snipe! nest of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mix’d tussled hay of head, beard... ...ar waters, the great trout swimming, In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree to... ...rling and rising; Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina’s coast, the shad fishery and the herring fishery, the large... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...reak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! TO Y OU Wh...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

... faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object wh... ...om. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the North and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feelings were;... ...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ...ar as I could see, there was no analogy between the two cases. In India an army had mutinied, and that an army com- posed of a subdued, if not a servi... ... any sympathy shown by us to insurgent negroes. But, nevertheless, had the army which mutinied in India been in possession of ports and sea-board; had... ... is not exposed and bleak. The harbor, again, is surrounded by land, or so guarded and locked by islands as to form a series of salt-water lakes runni... ...exas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky... ... slave population is barely more than a tenth of the whole, while in South Carolina and Mississippi it is more than half. And, therefore, I venture to...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...ombinations, partial conven tions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. In this dangerous crisis the people of America were IN... ...f all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinio... ...e best placed, next to that which we have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates th... ...circumstances. Of the virtue of the people and of the heroic exploits of the Army, the Navy, and the militia I need not speak. Such, then, is the happ... ...e the dangers which menace us? If any exist they ought to be ascertained and guarded against. In explaining my sentiments on this subject it may be as... ...inst these dangers our coast and in land frontiers should be fortified, our Army and Navy, regulated upon just principles as to the force of each, be... ...engaged had also been concluded. The war be tween Spain and the colonies in South America, which had commenced many years before, was then the only c... ...is Country made “the” then “recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the Constitution of the United States” one of the subjects of...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...n, and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army. Fourth. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and al... ...d from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west, and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east. Fift... ...that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army, leav- ing unprotected their homes and their growing crops, be- fore t... ...one on to ask whether so great a grievance as the present detention of the Southern mail ought not to be remedied. Mr. Lincoln would assure the gentle... ...pport the war by levying con- tributions on Mexico. At one time urging the national honor, the security of the future, the prevention of foreign inter... ...ng all its expenses, without a purpose or defi- nite object.” So then this national honor, security of the future, and everything but territorial inde... ...blic press. The committee, however, has not been insensible to its duty of guarding the Post-office Depart- ment against injurious sacrifices for the ... ...it seems to me, the difficulty is cleared. One of the gentlemen from South Carolina [Mr. Rhett] very much deprecates these statistics. He particularly... ...lieve, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. As to the Northwestern Territory, provision had been made even be...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...e a supply by sea of arms and ammunition to the Carlist detachments in the South. It was precisely to confer on that matter with Dona Rita that Captai... ... that it had not occurred in the Mediter- ranean, but on the other side of Southern France—in the Bay of Biscay. “But this is hardly the place to ente... ...struck me as not so perfectly French as he ought to have been, as if one’s nationality were an accomplishment with varying degrees of excellence. As t... ...obably Lord X, I thought), to carry arms and other supplies to the Carlist army. And it was not a shipwreck in the ordinary sense. Everything went per... ...aboard was doubtless in good condi- tion. The French custom-house men were guarding the wreck. If their vigilance could be—h’m—removed by some means, ... ...houghts, waved his pipe slightly and explained: “The Captain is from South Carolina.” “Oh,” I murmured, and then after the slightest of pauses I heard... ...oor silenced him and immediately Mr. John Blunt, Captain of Cavalry in the Army of Legitimity, first-rate cook (as to one dish at least), and generous... ... with the Convention sitting and a Committee of Public Safety attending to national business, you would all get your heads cut off. Ha, ha … I am joki... ... manner of the spoilt beauty of at least three counties at the back of the Carolinas. That again got overlaid by the sans-facon of a grande dame of th...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ...The lottery of the sea is not altogether so disadvantageous as that of the army. The son of a creditable labourer or artificer may frequently go to se... ...the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the com- mon estimation. As the grea... ... bakers, who claim exclusive privileges, though they are not very strictly guarded. The proportion between the different rates, both of wages and prof... ...s greater surplus should belong to the landlord than in corn countries. In Carolina, where the planters, as in other British colonies, are generally b... ...ow one of Great Britain. The value of the greater part of the lands in the southern counties of Scotland, which are chiefly a sheep country, would hav... ...7 10d. In pursu- ance of the 8th George I. c.21, the bank purchased of the South- sea company, stock to the amount of £4,000,000: and in 1722, in cons... ...ylvania, £4500 each; that of New Jersey, £1200; that of Virginia and South Carolina, £8000 each. The civil establishments of Nova Scotia and Georgia a...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...es of the moment, which con trivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggrega ... .... He depended mainly upon voluntary fidelity for the obedience even of his army, nor did there exist the means of making the people pay an amount of t... ...al basis for institutions, of their being in harmony 11 J S Mill with the national usages and character, and the like, means either this, or nothing ... ...what others do for them. The former proposition—that each is the only safe guard ian of his own rights and interests—is one of those elemen tary max... ...f the evil eye. Next to Orientals in envy, as in activity, are some of the Southern Europeans. The Spaniards pursued all their great men with it, embi... ...n early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des potism and Catholicism has, i... ... to render some of their improvements permanent, by leaving them under the guardianship of a generation which had grown up under their influence. Char... ...other. Each one of their number is willing, like the private soldier in an army, to abdicate his personal freedom of action into the hands of his gene... ..., which has been printed and widely circulated by the Legislature of South Carolina, vindicated this preten sion on the general principle of limiting...

...cal Representative Bodies ........................................................................................................ 181 Chapter XVI Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government ................................................... 196 Chapter XVII Of Federal Representative Governments ................................................................

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...y bad women; I can see it in all their actions; and if thee art not upon thy guard, they will draw thee into some danger; they are strangers to thee, ... ...s considered. And this persuasion, with the kind hand of Providence, or some guard ian angel, or accidental favorable circumstances and situa tions,... ...ople are going to settle in North The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 60 Carolina, where land is cheap. I am inclin’d to go with them, and follow ... ...seal’d immedi ately. I gave him what he demanded, and he went soon after to Carolina, from whence he sent me next year two long letters, containing t... ...lvania, there was not a good bookseller’s shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. In New York and Philad’a the print ers were indeed ... ... the government of neighbor ing states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious con sequ... ...rious to their interests. In 1733 I sent one of my journeymen to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanting. I furnish’d him with a press... ...and the remainder to be paid by General Braddock, or by the paymaster of the army, at the time of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall b... ...s sary for the subsistence of the horses, is to be taken for the use of the army, and a reasonable price paid for the same. “Note.—My son, William Fr...

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Getting Married and Preface to Getting Married

By: George Bernard Shaw

...rced persons, Scotch marriage, Irish marriage, French, German, Turkish, or South Dakotan marriage. In Sweden, one of the most highly civilized countri... ...eory of the inviolable better-for- worse marriage breaks down in practice. South Carolina has indeed passed what is called a freak law declaring that ... ...f the inviolable better-for- worse marriage breaks down in practice. South Carolina has indeed passed what is called a freak law declaring that a mar-... ... why it is so difficult to find an authentic living member of this dreaded army of convention outside the ranks of the people who never think about pu... ...f the conference did not seem to mind. They were content to have the whole national housing problem treated on a basis of one room for two people. Tha... ...stitutions by their powers of social persecution, they were a black-coated army of calamity. They were incapable of comprehending the industries they ... ...love; and this definition should be suffi- cient to put any sane person on guard against it. The people who talk and write as if the highest attainabl... ...onscious mus- cular effort, may be of use in emergencies; but for everyday national use it is negligible; and its effect on the character of the indiv... ...never get on with one another, Mrs George. I live like a fencer, always on guard. I like to be confronted with people who are always on guard. I hate ...

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