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...ion of every place was made, although by the ca- pitulation all the mines, magazines, &c., had to be shown. At a visit paid to the Jesuits, they prete... ...eur the Duc de Bourgogne, the King had offered to augment considerably his monthly income. The young Prince, who found it sufficient, replied with tha... ... hands of Madame des Ursins), and was assured by the minister that all the magazines along the line of route to the frontiers of Portugal were abundan... ... to the King and Madame de Maintenon themselves, the wretched state of our magazines and our garrisons; the utter absence of all provision for the cam... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under ...

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...tevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan’s, and t... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...S the name of Walt Whitman has been a good deal bandied about in books and magazines. It has become familiar both in good and ill repute. His works ha...

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...ent 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 partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...pants in the planes operation. For instance, he collected Western aviation magazines; tele- phone directories for American cities such as San Diego an... ...t in finding a bride, and KSM reportedly went so far as to promise Hazmi a monthly stipend of $700 in the event he succeeded in marrying. Intelligence...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...ipline and details of the battle and each other’s little weaknesses in the monthly maga- zines. This is a desirable but improbable anticipation. No ho... ...f supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines. He would consider that all that was needed for his library was, ... ...se may seem wanton charges to some, but I am not speaking without my book. Monthly I am brought into close contact with the pedagogic intelligence thr... ...ct with the pedagogic intelligence through the medium of three educational magazines. A certain morbid habit against which I struggle in vain makes me... ...criticism in those new and curious organs of public thought, the ten- cent magazines; and on the other it is making a constantly more solid basis of c...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...be true will never want self-sacrificing workers. The Humanitarian was her monthly organ of propaganda. Within its cover, which presented a luminifero... ...ce and heredity it is probably mat- ter picked up in a casual way from the magazines. Art is a sealed book to him. Still, the inapplicability of his h... ...sion presented a casual reader seated in a library, turning over books and magazines and casting much excellent wisdom aside, and then suddenly, as it... ...The suggestion is the establishment of a well-planned and reasonably cheap monthly or weekly critical magazine, writ- ten on a level at present unatta... ...ubsidized writers, at least, would not be clamorously competing to fill up magazines and li- braries; they might set a higher and more difficult stand...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,... ...as an organ for which the people told me they were paying sixty dollars in monthly instalments. One fork, and a sixty-dol- lar organ! In most cases th... ...n receiving all kinds of propositions from lecture bureaus, and editors of magazines and pa- pers, to take the lecture platform, and to write articles...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...s in the least breath of time one of those 25 Memories and Portraits rich magazines of life on which we drew for our supply – when he who had first d... ...should be able, upon my compact income of twelve pounds per annum, payable monthly, to meet my share in the expense. It was a comfort- able thought to...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...te of seamen’s wages. As they are continually going from port to port, the monthly pay of those who sail from all the different ports of Great Britain... ...nce would not have wherewithal either to pay his troops, or to furnish his magazines; and the state of the country would be much more irretrievable th... ...f a famine. It is the interest of the people that their daily, weekly, and monthly con- sumption should be proportioned as exactly as possible to the ... ... and his knowledge of the state of the crop, and of his daily, weekly, and monthly sales, enables him to judge, with more or less accuracy, how far th... ...herefore, he is often in danger of being utterly ruined, and of having his magazines plundered and de- stroyed by their violence. It is in years of sc...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...tures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings. ‘’The indispen... ...nd expedient, as in some instances it actually has been, daily, weekly, or monthly, as well as annual; and if circum- stances may require a deviation ...

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...e were any other literary journals published in this king- dom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews; and on being answered there were no other, hi... ..., his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the Monthly Review was done with most care, the Critical upon the best principl... ...re, the Critical upon the best principles; adding that the authours of the Monthly Review were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry ... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...other.’ All the miserable cavillings against his Jour- ney, in newspapers, magazines, and other fu- gitive publications, I can speak from certain know... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...8 Boswell’s Life of Johnson I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and news-papers, in which his Jour- ney to the Western Islands wa...

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...st work in that line I ever did in my 1 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Jan., 1899. First book publi cation in The Son... ...l in prospect, with a scant six days’ 2 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, Feb., 1899. First book pub lication in The Son... ...y to shape his mind’s attitude toward 3 First magazine publication in Overland Monthly, San Francisco, June., 1899. First book publication in The Son ... ...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...nce, while Fred die Drummond condemned shirking as vicious, criminal, and un American, and devoted whole chapters to condemnation of the vice. Fredd... ...r, buzzing and humming like some incredible insect. The shots died down as the magazines were emptied, until, quickly, there was no more shooting. The... ... fusillade he had come unscathed. He glanced back. Yes, they had emptied their magazines. He could see several reload ing. Others were running back b... ...oved it in scores of battles. His photographs were in all the physical culture magazines. A groan went up as Spider Hagerty peeled Rivera’s sweater ov...

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...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...s Dickens, although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and me... ...n years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punct... ...n years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was faithful, punct... ...because a magazine to which he was to contribute had agreed to pay him $20 monthly for two pages of criticism. Those were discouraging times in Americ...

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...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ld fly cheerfully with lighted matches, and fire cannon; fire whole powder-magazines? To sit and die of deficit is no part of Lomenie’s plan. The evil... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... ‘canvass shirt’ (sarreau de toile) about him; Chateau-Vieux bursts up the magazines; distributes ‘three thousand fusils’ to a Patriot people: Austria... ...renewed and changed from period to period; a fourth part of them going out monthly. The Convention will no more lie un- der bondage of Committees, und...

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...scends towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield be fore her breast, and... ...here, or go to dig gold in California, when he is so soon to be made happy, at monthly intervals, with a little pile of glittering coin out of his Unc... ...ils and honours of public life, and the remainder are gleaned from annuals and magazines, of such antique date, that they have gone round the circle, ...

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...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili... ...packet of prospectuses of a “Journal of Fe- male Industry,” an illustrated monthly magazine, destined to contain essays, correspondence, reviews, hist... ... entrapped the poor children, and my poor Rachel here, with his stories of magazines and illustrations, and I don’t know what all!” “Very true, Mrs. C... .... Rossitur, and Rachel found the statement being extracted from her of the monthly production of the bills, with the entries in the book, and of her h... ...at the prisoner should provide for the asylum at St. Herbert’s, and on her monthly payment to him of the sums entered in the account- book. In some ca...

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ... himself. And he turned to what seemed to him the very source of culture—the magazines. In old times, you see, a man who wanted to educate himself—a F... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...ng to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother, and most of all Levin, who could... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu... ... his pay those costly months of idleness. But it was impossible not to allow monthly ra tions to the old servants who were of no use for anything. Le...