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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... recently rendered such im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing t... ... of naval officers who commanded ves- sels engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the squadron commanded by Flag-officer Farragut which led to ... ...cts that no force be sent here if you cannot do it without breaking up the operations against that point and East Tennessee. Infantry only are needed;... ...f this if, in your judgment, it could be without endangering positions and operations in the southwest; and I now repeat what I have more than once sa... ... repair to this capital so soon as he can with safety to the positions and operations within the de- partment now under his charge. A. LINCOLN ORDER C... ...f the forts below New Orleans, and for highly meritori- ous conduct in the management of the mortar flotilla during the bombardment of Forts Jackson a... ... no revolution, but we have left to every nation the exclusive conduct and management of its own affairs. Our struggle has been, of course, contemplat...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...stinguished himself by zealous and effective work in those “log-roll- ing” operations by which the young State received “a gen- eral system of interna... ...vernment from V andalia to Springfield; one of those triumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’s statesma... ...ons of superior authority, bears the highest testimony to his skill in the management of men. Stanton, who had entered the service with rather a mean ... ...om,” did not at once mark the turning of the tide on the field of military operations. There were more disasters, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.... ...ress of opinion among the plain people. They criticised Lincoln’s cautious management as irreso- lute, halting, lacking in definite purpose and in ene... ...interference with the ordinary course of law outside the field of military operations. No American President ever wielded such power as that which was... ...? What will their decision amount to? They cannot compel the Bank to cease operations, or to change the course of its operations. What good, then, can... ...ions were much more frequent and enormous before the commence- ment of its operations than they have ever been since. The next insinuation is, that th...

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Mrs. Lirrimers Legacy

By: Charles Dickens

...my is far out-done by the seri- ous and believing ways of the Major in the management of the United Grand Junction Lirriper and Jackman Great Norfolk ... ...running down the street straight to our door, and then the Major directing operations in the busiest way, and then some more people and then—carried i...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...earings in the several voyages, together with the minute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the a... ...ted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public af fairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few... ...cause nature, in that country, observing the same proportion through all her operations, a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in... ...he punishment of vice and protection of innocence. I mentioned the pru dent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by... ...ey were ever admitted as members in the lower senate?” He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, “he thought my memory had failed me... ... takes. And although they are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, the pen cil, and the divider, yet in the common ... ...eat physician resided, who was famous for curing that dis ease, by contrary operations from the same instrument. He had a large pair of bellows, with... ...a project for improving speculative knowl edge, by practical and mechanical operations. But the world would soon be sensible of its usefulness; and h... ...friendship and benevolence, on order and economy; sometimes upon the visible operations of na ture, or ancient traditions; upon the bounds and limits...

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Dead Souls

By: D. J. Hogarth

...meditation comprised! Nor can it be said that he took much interest in the management of his estate, for he never rode into the country, and the estat... ...loud that, having heard of Plushkin’s tal- ents for thrifty and systematic management, he had con- 130 Dead Souls sidered himself bound to make the a... ...stom of folk paying calls, and forthwith there will ensue such ruin to the management of estates that landowners will be forced to feed their horses o... ...ad some trouble with the building in question. Either the climate hindered operations or the materials used were of the kind which prevents official e... ...aracters I am yet ignorant! To think that I should have deemed true estate-management inferior to a documen- tary, fantastical management of provinces... ...ned the wheel. Chichikov would also walk afield to watch the early tillage operations of the season, and observe how the blackness of a new furrow wou... ...?” was Platon’s thought. “There is nothing for me to do at home, since the management of the estate is in my brother’s hands, and my going would cause... ... state of utter confusion, since in every direction building and repairing operations were in progress, and the alleys were choked with heaps of lime,...

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The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper

By: George Meredith

...o ac- companied him, and at the age of eighteen was about to undertake the management of his house. Fortune, under Elizabeth Ople’s guiding restraint,... ...Meredith husband upon the General, trembling as though she watched for the operations of a fish torpedo; and other ladies shared her excessive anxious...

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The Alkahest

By: Honoré de Balzac

... their known integrity was sufficient guarantee as to the honesty of their operations with Monsieur Claes, to whom, moreover, they frequently sent inf... ...nd looked at her daughter. The hour of confi- dence had come. Marguerite’s management of the household since her mother’s illness had amply fulfilled ... ...you wish.” “Do not marry, my darling, until Gabriel can succeed you in the management of the property and the household. If you married, your husband ... ...er Madame Claes’s death he took occasion to speak to Marguerite, and began operations with a cleverness which might have succeeded if love had not giv... ...nt by and brought no change to the House of Claes. Gabriel, under the wise management of his tutor, Monsieur de Solis, worked studiously, acquired for... ... turned secretly to his researches. It was difficult, however, to hide his operations from the inquisitive women in the kitchen; and one morning Marth... ...ded all her economies), and started herself for W aignies, where she began operations, which were judiciously overlooked and directed by Pierquin. Dev... ...wenty thousand francs of his own savings, pay off in the third year of her management a large slice of the debts. This life of courage, privation, and...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...ains favour either the offensive or the defensive. But they certainly make operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or rai... ...e rare infrequent open. Even the Zulu assegai would serve as well. The two operations of the infantry attack now are the rush and the “scrap.” These c... ...o revolutionise all our conceptions of French character. 2 2 2 2 2 Now the operations of this modern infantry, which unlike any preceding infantry in ... ...hing on from this first series of phases to undergo the long succession of operations, machine after machine, across the great width of the shed in wh... ...country. Every man that is needed or is likely to be needed for the actual operations of modern warfare can be got by combing out the cavalry, the bre... ... when it behoves the older generation to let in the younger to responsible management and to efface themselves. He was a man of five-and-forty. Incide...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...e chief affairs of national house-keeping to all time; the question of the management of financial affairs; the question of the disposi- tion of the p... ...eral McClellan. 6. [Let] General Fremont push forward his organization and operations in the West as rapidly as possible, giving rather special attent... ...t is to bind down a distant com- mander in the field to specific lines and operations, as so much always depends on a knowledge of localities and pass... ...co-operate with the troops in the service of the United States in military operations within the State or necessary to its de- fense, and when officer... ...ommercial advantages might be secured by favorable treaties with them. The operations of the treasury during the period which has elapsed since your a... ... regiments. The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents in detail the operations of that branch of the service, the activity and energy which hav...

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Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s. Such were the three girls who were now left to assist each other in the management of the household, and who looked forward to their new offices wi... ... and drew Claude into mischief; but he is quite altered since papa had the management of him—Oh! such talks as papa has had with Aunt Rotherwood—do yo... ...ll the way from church to the New Court, and stood in silence watching the operations upon her friend, till Mrs. Weston sent every one away. Adeline r... ...vest field, he could not help attempt- ing to reap. The Beechcroft farming operations had been his especial amusement from very early days, and his pl... ...e the fal- lacy of my principle, but then I do believe I was beyond my own management. I felt wrong, and could not mend, and went on recklessly. You k... ... years ago, and to whom I owe any good intentions which I may bring to the management of this property. I beg leave to propose the health of my uncle,... ...e found perfectly sufficient. And now, Emily, what have you to say for the management of my affairs? Can you offer any excuse for your utter failure?’...

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

...begin rank, but they don’t go on, bleth you! No.” There was a pause. “Itth management,” said Mr. Skinner modestly. Mr. Bensington turned his glasses o... ...deed a happy man that day. He was in no mood to find fault with details of management. The bright day certainly brought out the accumulating slovenlin... ...ir,” said Skinner, “I can athure you, Thir, we know far too much about the management of fowlth of all dethcriptionth to do anything of that thort.” “... ...e’s growing. Twenty-seven ounces last week…. You should hear Winkles. It’s management, he said.” “Dear me! That’s what Skinner says!” Redwood looked a... ...of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that evening ... ... shed door that served him as a spade, and, no one chancing to observe his operations just then, he devised an ingenious canal that incidentally flood...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...to business, many excellent opportunities have escaped me for want of good management; and yet my deliberations were sound enough, according to the oc... ...se, has made them fortunate in emulation of virtue; and most favours those operations the web of which is most purely her own; whence it is that the s... ...rock it asleep; into whose hands I might deposit, in full sovereignty, the management and use of all my goods, that he might dispose of them as I do, ... ...good husbandry in general, and how pleasant quiet and prosperous household management, carried regularly on, is to some natures; and not wishing to fa... ...to conclude from the discreet conduct of a private life a capacity for the management of public affairs is to conclude ill; a man may govern himself w... ...sordered by this inward agitation. If, sometimes, I have been put upon the management of other men’s affairs, I have promised to take them in hand, bu... ...an do as well as he; so were some surgeons of Greece wont to perform their operations upon scaffolds in the sight of the people, to draw more practice... ...mself to be so far persuaded with the report made to him of the marvellous operations of a certain priest who by words and gestures cured all sorts of... ... And physic itself professes always to have experience for the test of its operations: so Plato had reason to say that, to be a right physician, it wo...

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The Hated Son

By: Honoré de Balzac

... enough to the feasts and jovialities which usually followed his principal operations. The habit of being on such occasions the most important persona... ... well received in crucial moments when it often pleased him to perform his operations with a certain slow majesty. He was, in other respects, as inqui... ... illness kept at bay for a time by rem- edies. Her heart needed the wisest management, and those about her were cruelly inexpert in gentleness. What m...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ats at the expense of the town itself. It was diffi- cult to carry on such operations in open day, lest the perpe- trators should be recognized; for t... ...annical, and the doctor hesitated. Was it not practically giving the whole management of the prop- erty into the hands of a stranger, some unknown gir... ...nvestment of his revenues: and he spared him the chief difficulties of the management of a fortune, by leaving his estates all in good order, and leas... ... to the poor fellow. We now see how it was that Flore Brazier obtained the management of the Rouget household,—from father to son, as young Goddet 13... .... For six months she had studied, without seem- ing to do so, the culinary operations that made Fanchette a cordon-bleu worthy of cooking for a doctor... ...first, be- cause he did not wish his comrades to suspect the secret of his operations with Pere Rouget’s property; and secondly, to keep the Knights w... ...one of the leading painters of the day, a most excellent man, obtained the management of a lottery-office near the Markets, for the mother of Joseph B... ...later, the “Hospital Gazette” published an account of one of the bold- est operations of modern surgery, on a case designated by the initials “F. B.” ...

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A Personal Record

By: Joseph Conrad

...ents of the ninth are inextricably mixed up with the details of the proper management of a waterside ware- house owned by a certain city firm whose na... ...d intestate. The fortune thus acquired and augmented by a wise and careful management passed to some distant relatives whom he had never seen and who ... ...f heaven itself, blowing where it listeth, does so under the pro- phetical management of the meteorological office, but where the secret of human hear... ... face in gray, fluffy whiskers, and fresh, lo- quacious lips. He commenced operations with an easy going “Let’s see. H’m. Suppose you tell me all you ...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...ents of the ninth are inextricably mixed up with the details of the proper management of a waterside warehouse owned by a certain city firm whose name... ...d intestate. The fortune thus acquired and augmented by a wise and careful management passed to some distant relatives whom he had never seen and who ... ... of heaven itself, blowing where it listeth, does so under the prophetical management of the Meteorological Office, but where the secret of human hear... ...ft face in grey, fluffy whiskers, and fresh, loquacious lips. He commenced operations with an easy-going “Let’s see. H’m. Suppose you tell me all you ...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...vers and perverters of their counsel. It passed among the people, by their management, as being equally authentic with the rest of the Rhetra, as appe... ...pany where Agis was, much extolled the Eleans for their just and honorable management of the Olympic tames; “Indeed,” said Agis, “they are highly to b... ..., was made con- sul, and with him Postumius T ubertus. Marcus, through the management of affairs by the conduct and direct assistance of Poplicola, ob... ...ccom- plishment, but whatever was said to improve him in sagac- ity, or in management of affairs, he would give attention to, beyond one of his years,... ...f authority, because it was divided among a larger number; for to have the management of affairs entrusted in the hands of six persons rather than two... ... who could not choose but wonder too at the strange dexterity of fortune’s operations, the facility with which she makes one event the spring and moti... ... battle. The truth is, he indeed took an immoderate pleasure in mili- tary operations and in warfare, to which he devoted himself, as the special mean... ...ests with zeal and alacrity , and let him make their city the basis of his operations during the war. Thither, therefore, he made with all speed, when...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

... good an authority on horseflesh as any Englishman alive; the best for the management of cav- alry: there never was a better cavalry leader. The boys ... ... of women got no further, for the reason that he took small account of the operations of the feelings, to the sole exercise of which he by system cond... ... look back woefully on impediments and fret to fever over the tardiness of operations. A glance at the thing of wrinkles receiving orders to buckle at... ...he shattering bell of a city’s insurrection in her breast. ‘In time, under management; catching and grouping them young. A boy who sees a girl do what... ...d very succinctly, the drawer for labelled keys, whatever pertained to her management, in London or at Great Marlow. ‘She ‘s cool,’ Lady Charlotte sai... ... cloudy com- bination in his head when he put a question, referring to the management of the dormitories at the school. Whereupon 270 Lord Ormont and...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...t spirit among the crew; im- pressing upon them that a little patience and management would, in the end, accomplish all that their violence could; and... ...ide for these emergencies, Flash Jack generally re- paired to the scene of operations with a sheath-knife between his teeth, and a club in his hand. O... ...lothed and fed, we resolved, by extending and system- atizing our foraging operations, to provide for ourselves. We were greatly assisted by a parting... ...ciates beneath, never ventured to interfere—leav- ing everything to native management. With South Sea is- landers, assembled in any numbers, there is ... ...g for such land. Our work was now before us; but, previous to commenc- ing operations, I endeavoured to engage the Yankee in a little further friendly... ..., and deviling slices of meat, and subjecting them to all sorts of igneous operations. It was the first fresh beef that either of us had tasted in mor...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

... him deserving of it; and Elnathan had been present at one or two of these operations. But on the present occasion the man of practice was not to be o... ...page that keeps the reckoning of such things.” “Certainly , more important operations than that have been performed,” observed Richard; “the encyclopa... ... to the field, Elnathan, presuming on the reputation obtained by these two operations, followed in the rear of a brigade of militia as its surgeon! Wh... ...p him in fuel for a twelvemonth? Poh! poh! Marmaduke: you should leave the management of these things to me, who have a natural turn that way. It was ... ...after. He has a very dangerous pro- pensity for turkey .” “Leave him to my management, Dickon,” said the Judge, “and I will cure his appetite by indul... ... to hunting for coal! Poh! poh! my dear cousin, hear reason, and leave the management of the sugar-bush to me. Here is Mr. Le Quoi—he has been in the ... ...followed his daughter, giving her fre- quent and tender warnings as to the management of her horse. It was, possibly, the evident dependence that Loui... ...e air with discordant screams, as if venting their complaints at the tardy operations of Nature. For a week, the dark covering of the Otsego was left ... ... the bodies of the trees, leaving the tops and branches to decay under the operations of the weather. Much of the hill was, consequently , covered wit...

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