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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...s one of the institutions of the city, and, in fact, famous throughout the United States. He was one of the younger members, but was popular and well ... ...f the institutions of the city, and, in fact, famous throughout the United States. He was one of the younger members, but was popular and well liked, ... ...in Lafcadio Hearn and the Encyclopedia—on the “Indus- trial Renaissance in Japan.” But the idea of the diver’s story came back to him again and again,... ...ky. Without looking for it or even expecting it, Blix came across a little Japanese tea-house, or rather a tiny Japanese garden, set with almost toy J... ...rs for five cents. Blix and Snooky went in. There was nobody about but the Japanese serving woman. Snooky was in raptures, and Blix spent a de- lightf... ...ed K. D. B., forgetting that they dined there every Mon- day night. “Plain United States is good enough for me.” Suddenly Captain Jack turned abruptly... .... B., forgetting that they dined there every Mon- day night. “Plain United States is good enough for me.” Suddenly Captain Jack turned abruptly to Con... ...e gets fifty miles off his course and raises the land where the government forces are watching for him.” “And here’s another point, Cap.,” said Condy.... ...at a glance, and, with the force and precision of a ma- chine, marched his forces straight to the goal he had 131 Frank Norris set for himself so lon...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...ndurable wretchedness. He did not make the choice, it was made for him by forces which he could not control. Free Will has always existed in words, ... ...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. Then the shining crown in the square crumbl... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... Spain. America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, b... ... America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but it a... ... with some other countrys, but it about as industrious. The capital of the United States is Long Island. The five seaports of the U.S. are Newfunlan a...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...ur months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peru... ...hs, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian po... ...on agent of an American publisher, for its simultaneous publication in the United States. I understand that Murray did not then publish fiction. At an... ...t of an American publisher, for its simultaneous publication in the United States. I understand that Murray did not then publish fiction. At any rate,... ...in Porter refitted his ships during the late war be- tween England and the United States, and whence he sallied out upon the large whaling fleet then ... ...er refitted his ships during the late war be- tween England and the United States, and whence he sallied out upon the large whaling fleet then sailing... ...est of his squadron at the Marquesas,— which had then been occupied by his forces about five months—set sail for the doomed island in the Reine Blanch... ...hav- ing touched at the Sandwich Islands previous to going on the coast of Japan. But to return to my narrative. Placed in these circumstances then, w... ...y from a recollection of the warlike reception given by the T ypees to the forces of Captain Porter, about the year 1814, when that brave and accompli...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was ... ...ang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then left unaltered. It is a long novel, and I was long in... ... a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in the seed, these be... ...here—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve bee... ...u had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been there... ...or. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with h... .... Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it w... ...hich and the surface communi- cation was interrupted by a dozen capricious forces. She saw the young men who came in large numbers to see her 49 Henr... ...he flowers; whereupon she said to herself that decidedly there were deeper forces at play than she had recognised. Pansy had seen Rosier turn away, bu...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...He laughed, and sacrificed them. Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table. “... ...exton) was taking a preliminary survey of the scene before marshalling his forces. The door was softly shut again; then after another interval it swun... ...ding out when they were to pass through London on their way to or from the States. The intimacy be- came indissoluble, and Mrs. Archer and Janey, when... ...hanging calendar surmounted by the rugged features of the President of the United States. That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within ... ... calendar surmounted by the rugged features of the President of the United States. That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within the mil... ... from being as simple as that.” Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it.... ...eing as simple as that.” Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it. For a ... ...on, or as much farther as she was willing to go. His own fancy inclined to Japan. At any rate she would understand at once that, wher- ever she went, ... ...t, the episode was only a pathetic instance of vain frustration, of wasted forces. But was it really no more? For a long time Archer sat on a bench in...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

... there—you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve b... ...you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been the... ...erior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with... ...Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it... ...en which and the surface communication was interrupted by a dozen capricious forces. She saw the young men who came in large numbers to see her sister... ...ve brought over my native costume!” Lord Warburton had travelled through the United States and knew much more about them than Isabel; he was so good a... ...ght over my native costume!” Lord Warburton had travelled through the United States and knew much more about them than Isabel; he was so good as to sa... ...ossibly. But yours seem to me very clear and very good.” “If I were to go to Japan next winter you would laugh at me,” she went on. Osmond gave a smil... ...g the flowers; whereupon she said to herself that decidedly there were deeper forces at play than she had recognized. Pansy had seen Rosier turn away, ...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By: Charles Dickens

... for your, as I may say, sacrificing yourself to me in that way.’ Mr. Jasper, becoming a breathing man again without the smallest stage of transition ... ...e) a quarter has no pieces in her list of recitals bearing on such unprofitable questions. As, in some cases of drunkenness, and in others of animal m... ...ters’) revealed a homage of the heart, whereof Miss Twinkleton, in her scholastic state of existence, is as ignorant as a granite pillar. Miss Twinkle... ... of Chinese make, equally strangers to me personally: I put my finger on them, 35 Charles Dickens then and there, and I say “Pekin, Nankin, and Canto... ...under walked in the middle of the road, shouldering the natives out of his way, and loudly developing a scheme he had, for making a raid on all the un... ...a note, or a chord, or plays a passage, he himself is in the sounds, whispering that he pursues me as a lover, and commanding me to keep his secret. I... ...spberry, Gooseberry, Apricot, Plum, Damson, Apple, and Peach. The scene closing on these charmers, and the lower slide ascending, oranges were reveale... ...puty is not to be so easily brought across. With a diabolical insight into the strongest part of his position, he is no sooner taken by the throat tha...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e bump when she comes home. Oh! when will our poor remnants be once more a united family? and when shall I get into Cocksmoor school again?’ When Dr. ... ... dark for taking aim, he and the weapon were so thor- 111 Yo n g e oughly united, that no further difficulty remained but of getting out his thanks t... ... in bed long before his brother returned. But at breakfast Henry found the forces drawn up against him, and his first attempt to remonstrate was retor... ...tified at having the charge of him all to himself, and considered that the united influence of member and mayor must prevail. Dr. Spencer, on the cont... ...ton friend, who, while quartered in Canada, had made excur- sions into the States, and acquired such impressions as high- bred young officers were apt... ...matters before your brother that might dissuade him from making the United States his home. You have justly more influence than I. Will you object to ... ...on the eve of civil war? He laughed the idea to scorn. How could the rebel states make war, with a population of negroes sure to rise against their ma... ...pulation of negroes sure to rise against their masters? Where should their forces come from? Fac- tion would soon be put down, and the union be strong... ... yesterday for Harvey Anderson and Mrs. Pugh. There was a proposal to join forces, and have a double wed- ding—so interesting, the two school-fellows ...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...s something big coming,” said Jim. “Where from?” “Watch Ireland, and watch Japan—they’re the two poles of the world,” said Jim. “I thought Russia and ... ...said Lilly. “Eh? What? Russia and America! They’ll depend on Ire- land and Japan. I know it. I’ve had a vision of it. Ireland on this side and Japan o... ... sort of vision?” “Couldn’t describe it.” “But you don’t think much of the Japanese, do you?” asked Lilly. “Don’t I! Don’t I!” said Jim. “What, don’t ... ...he foot of the stairs, he let go again. He was in that rosy condition when united-we-stand. But unfortu- nately it is a complicated job to climb the s... ...ved or liked. He found all his affections snapping off, all the ties which united him with his own 180 Aaron’s Rod people coming asunder. And why? In... ...d” them. Mankind loves being impressed. It asks to be impressed. It almost forces those whom it can force to play a role and to make an im- pression. ... .... “But didn’t you put something in the seat to RESERVE it?” “Only that New Statesman—but he’s moved it.” The man still sat with the invisible sneer-gr... ...n the sofa sat the Marchesa del Torre, an American woman from the Southern States, who had lived most of her life in Europe. She was about forty years... ...ness, neither of the beloved nor of oneself. Happiness is only one of many states, and it is 299 D. H. Lawrence horrible to think of fixing us down t...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

... word,” said Caderousse, from whose mind the friendly treatment of Dantes, united with the effect of the excellent wine he had partaken of, had efface... ...per’s reign; officers who had de- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and ... ...e baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage ... ...ized the dream of Machiavelli and Caesar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom.” “Monsieur,” returned the inspector , “providence has chang... ... inter- ests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion. But these forces increase as we go higher, so that we have a spiral which in defiance... ...isted of a plan of his own cell and that of Dantes, with the passage which united them. In this pas- sage he proposed to drive a level as they do in m... ...e which are always accorded to wealth — that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man. On the sixth day, the smugglers returned. F... ...ve inspired not only the pontifical govern- ment, but also the neighboring states, with such extreme fear, that they are glad of all opportunity of ma... ...r- ences during the Carnival, knowing full well that among the differ- ent states and kingdoms in which this festivity is celebrated, Rome is the spot...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rged, because the abundance of the sea shall be con- verted unto thee, the forces also of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.’ (Is. lx. 5.) Many years ... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ... mind and enlarged his interests and sym- pathies. The moral and spiritual forces of the man were now vivified, refined, and strengthened by the awake... ...’ ‘Merton, Shrove T uesday. ‘My dearest Joan and Fan,—How we must all have united this morning in pouring out our thanks to God for His great mercy! Y... ... read about. What an age it is! America, how is that to end? India, China, Japan, Africa! I have Jowett’s books and “Essays and Reviews.” How much I s... ...hen of Melanesia. And so one’s thoughts float out to India, and China, and Japan, and Africa, and the islands of the sea, and the very vastness of the... ... one must think out each step, anticipate each probable result, before one states anything. It is of course full of the highest interest. Can’t you fa... ...reckless misdoings of unscrupulous sailors and colonists. The West Indies, Japan, America, all have the same shameful tale to tell—what wonder if the ...

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The Rescue a Romance of the Shallows

By: Joseph Conrad

...The Frankeleyn’s Tale To Frederic Courtland Penfield last ambassador ofthe United States of America to the late Austrian Empire, this old timetale is ... ...nkeleyn’s Tale To Frederic Courtland Penfield last ambassador ofthe United States of America to the late Austrian Empire, this old timetale is gratefu... ... of that hesitation that a big New York ship, loaded with oil in cases for Japan, and passing through the Billiton passage, sighted one morning a very... ...aid; “and I promise you not to fire off the old thing unless he jolly well forces me to.” He was youthfully wise in his resolution not to give way to ... ... calm as became a princess of Wajo accustomed to consort with warriors and statesmen in moments of danger and in the hours of deliberation. Her heart ... ...n some simple and tremendous drama. He extorted from her a response to the forces that seemed to tear at his single-minded brain, at his guileless bre... ...hout rights and without defence and that must end by surrendering to those forces which seemed to her but the expres- sion of the unconscious genius o...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered ... ...rs of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan. Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enor- mous fish,... ...Debray,” continued Danglars; “oh, no, not at all. An unexpected occurrence forces me to ask my wife to have a little conversation with me; it is so ra... ...ses un- der one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and proper... ...w I ex- isted when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the pun- ishment... ... I entreat you, do as I do, live in suffer- ing; perhaps we may one day be united.” “Adieu, Valentine,” repeated Morrel. “My God,” said Valentine, rai... ...s, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility an... ...n he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artis- tic bronzes by Feuch... ... eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France.” “Yes, yes, I know what y...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...ad gone rather deep into poli- tics, and that he was entitled to call many statesmen asses 15 Anthony Trollope because they did not see the things wh... ... lous of matrons are talked out of their virtue; the most expe- rienced of statesmen are talked out of their principles. And who can really calculate ... ...esperate knots from which even the wisdom and experience of septuagenarian statesmen can see no unravelment. The heads of parties were at a standstill... ...ernment, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling up of the gre... ... to the Prime Minister asking for a subsidized mail, via San Francisco, to Japan. And Lopez, though he had no interest in Japan, had contrived to be o... ...was not one there in the room who did not know that it was the wish of the united families that Arthur Fletcher should marry Emily Wharton, and also t... ...ently eager in his fears that the country would be invaded by the combined forces of Germany and France, that India would be sold by those powers to R... ...mer days been staunch friends, sitting night after night close to- gether, united in opposition, and sometimes a few halcyon months in the happier bon...

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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

... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ...5 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactic... ... of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table o... ...ort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table of Names... ...e response was an Afghan national resistance movement that defeated Soviet forces. 19 Y oung Muslims from around the world flocked to Afghanistan to j... ...t victory for the Afghan jihad. Moscow declared it would pull its military forces out of Afghanistan within the next nine months.As the Soviets began ... ... joined the U.S.-led coalition.After the Saudis agreed to allow U.S. armed forces to be based in the Kingdom, Bin Ladin and a num- ber of Islamic cler...

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

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

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ...in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred vary- i... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...n authoress with whom I profess myself in love, declares all the viands of Japan to be uneatable – a staggering pretension. So, when the Prince of Wal... ...ohn Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amoun... ...is used over the most of the great Union as a term of reproach. The Yankee States, of which he is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. ... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...each of fate; gout, rheumatism, stone and gravel might have combined their forces against that frail tabernacle, but when I came round on Sunday eveni... ...y, and change his sitters from the humorists of ordinary life to the brute forces and bare types of more emotional moments. In his recent Author of Be...

...have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Countr...

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By: The Manhattan Engineer District

...which can be released at this time without prejudicing the security of the United States. This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer Di... ...an be released at this time without prejudicing the security of the United States. This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District ... ... This report has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District of the United States Army under the direc- tion of Major General Leslie R. Groves.... ...eport has been compiled by the Manhattan Engi- neer District of the United States Army under the direc- tion of Major General Leslie R. Groves. Specia... ...made to: The Special Manhattan Engineer District Investigating Group, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The British Mission to Japan, and T... ...: The Special Manhattan Engineer District Investigating Group, The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The British Mission to Japan, and The Join... ...t cooperation from CINCPAC of the Navy and the United States Strategic Air Forces, he initiated promptly a cam- paign which included the preparation a... .... This was done in close cooperation with the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and his Headquarters. A number of experts in various fields assiste... ...full of fragments of glass. In a narrow passage at the edge of town, a car forces us to the edge of the road. The litter bearers on the left side fall...

...Forward: This report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. It summarizes all the authentic information that is available on damage to structures, injuries to personnel, morale effect, etc., which can be ...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...or safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereign- ties. However extraordinar... ...at Provi- dence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ances- tors, speaking the sa... ...ree governments (if they agreed at all) be able, with all their respective forces, to operate against the enemy so ef- fectually as the single governm... ... and Spain were formerly divided, combine in such alliance, or unite their forces against a foreign enemy? The proposed con- federacies will be distin... ...(says he) are naturally enemies of each other unless their common weakness forces them to league in a confederate republic, and their constitu- tion p...

...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

..............18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the S... .............................................244 France (the 18th Year of these States) ....................................................246 Year of M... ...Ballad (1854).....................278 Europe (The 72d and 73d Years of These States)...........................................280 A Hand Mirror......... ...My Chant...........534 True Conquerors...............................535 The United States to Old World Critics ......................................... ...rous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employ’d to complete and delight me, Now on thi... ...ates, each for itself—the moneymakers, Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties, The certainty of sp... ...an the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my ever united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made ou... ...nd diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made one identity; Nativities, climates, the grass of the gre... ... force advancing with irresistible power on the world’s stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them c...

...ead the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States..........19 To a Certain Cantatrice.......................20 Me Imperturbe....................................20 Savantism...........................

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Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...hole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the m... ...some of her defects, besides, she made him heir. Kind as was the bond that united her to her son, kind and even pretty, she was scarce a woman to ador... ...tch, or finish, delighted and inspired him. I remember him with a twopenny Japanese box of three drawers, so exactly fitted that, when one was driven ... ...was driven home, the others started from their places; the whole spirit of Japan, he told me, was pic- tured in that box; that plain piece of carpentr... ...8 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin him the struggle of the engineer against brute forces and with inert allies, was nobly poetic. Habit never dulled in him t... ...ctions were in some way connected with, or symbolical of, the antagonistic forces at work’; but his pupil and helper, with characteristic tren- chancy... ...ed by the arguments of the mas- ter.’ I do not know about the antagonistic forces in the Doric order; in Fleeming they were plain enough; and the Boba... ...RGH, for a considerable time, Fleeming’s family, to three generations, was united: Mr. and Mrs. Austin at Hailes, Captain and Mrs. Jenkin in the subur...

...apers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known m...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... .... Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the Britis... ... here that the prophet finds his chief opportunity. Obviously, these great forces of transport are already straining against the limits of existing po... ...n of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice what is going on in... ... current politics and legislation unorganised and ineffective. Most of the forces of international finance and interna- tional business enterprise wil... ...23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the ... ...urably scattered, various, and divided, and it is to quite other links and forces, it seems to me, than fiscal or military unification that we who des...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...l continues. But their tyranny will not last forever, for it generates the forces that must in the end overthrow it. 2. The Law of the Concentration o... ...nd injustices of the capitalist system, and to stimulate more and more the forces of opposition. 3. The Class War.—Marx conceives the wage-earner and ... ...ced into a class war which generates within the capitalist regime internal forces of disruption. The working men learn gradually to combine against th... ...he working-class, a class always in- creasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist produc... ...illed by Anarchist violence, many millions are killed by the vio- lence of States. We may, therefore, dismiss from our minds the whole question of vio... ...ions. It recognizes that all actually existing political and authoritarian States, reduc- ing themselves more and more to the mere administrative func... ...“Let us leave indiscriminate killing and injuring to the Government—to its Statesmen, its Stockbrokers, its Officers, and its Law.” (“An- 42 Proposed... ...iste Francais (Jaures), there have been only two groups of Socialists, the United Socialist Party and the Independents, who are intellectuals or not w... ... coun- tries, but their spirit is closely analogous. The I. W . W . is not united as to the ultimate form which it wishes society to take. There are S...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...limits to human power. It can only act by wielding some one or more of the forces of nature. Forces, therefore, that can be applied to the desired use... ...e met by another objection, or the same objection in a different form. The forces, it is contended, on which the greater political phenomena depend, a... ...the greatest active social 14 Considerations on Representative Government forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety nine who... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...unctions of a government are not a fixed thing, but different in different states of society; much more extensive in a backward than in an advanced st... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...ds the introductory chapter of the story which, as the author’s dedication states, has inspired an admirable draughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each... ...ct he seems to depart from his sceptical philosophy. But as an illustrious statesman, now no more, a great prince too, with an ironic mind and a liter... ... great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces can be seen almost in every page of the novels, of the short stories... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d... ...whelming; I mean the comparatively honest (because open) strength of armed forces. But, probably from innate inclination towards treachery, Frederick ... ...to the principle of autocracy was in the West, in France, and that all the forces of Central Europe would be needed for its suppression. But the move-... ...kind of beet. He exported this seed, not only with profit (and even to the United States), but with a certain amount of glory which seemed to have gon...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...sputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising n... ... Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number o... ... of the two forms being specifically distinct. On the other hand, they are united by many intermediate links, and it is very doubtful whether these li... ...e must ever be recurring with varying success; and yet in the long-run the forces are so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for ... ...that the trees now growing on the ancient In- dian mounds, in the Southern United States, display the same beautiful diversity and proportion of kinds... ...e trees now growing on the ancient In- dian mounds, in the Southern United States, display the same beautiful diversity and proportion of kinds as in ... ...tinct genera. We see this in the recent extension over parts of the United States of one species of swallow having caused the decrease of another spec... ...e inhabitants of each country are struggling together with nicely balanced forces, extremely slight modifications in the 81 Charles Darwin structure ... ...ome fish and other marine animals, in the Mediterranean and in the seas of Japan,—areas now separated by a continent and by nearly a hemisphere of equ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...k, offers a type of human industry in the midst of the vague “diffusion of forces into the illimitable,” and the visionary develop- ment of “wasted la... ...w we feel with Gilliat; we feel that he is opposed by a “dark coalition of forces,” that an “immense animosity” surrounds him; we are the witnesses of... ...we recognise, as implied by this indifferency of things, this direction of forces to some purpose outside our purposes, yet another character who may ... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...rose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges... ...of a duke in his verses than in his absurd and inconsequential career as a statesman; and how he shows himself a duke is precisely by the absence of a... .... More of her I do not find, save testimony to the profound affection that united her to the Reformer. So we find him writing to her from Geneva, in s...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...es of 1649 to see themselves, as it certainly helped gen- erations of Whig statesmen to see them, in a heroic light; and it unquestionably vindicates... ...popular feeling was excited as to the relations of Austria with the Balkan States. Now if a comedy so remote from political passion as Arms and The Ma... ...ties practically ex- cludes the possibility of its acceptance by a serious statesman or great lawyer, it will be seen that the playwrights are justifi... ...ptibilities of foreign courts. For instance, the notion that the Mikado of Japan should be as sacred to the English playwright as he is to the Japa- n... ...s that its position is really a very weak one. It has no direct co- ercive forces, no funds to institute prosecutions and recover the legal penalties ... ...have become a police des moeurs. Those who know the history of such police forces on the conti- nent will understand how impossible it would be to pro... ...ess and speech are those of pioneers of civilisation in a territory of the United States of America, are seated round the table and on the benches, sh... ...oly Bible if they touched it. I say thats the law; and if you are a proper United States Sheriff and not a low-down lyncher, youll hold up the law and... ...- lence. You cant come in here. Keep back. Strapper rushes to the door and forces his way out. SHERIFF [savagely] Whats this noise? Cant you keep quie...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...still would be to exchange congratulations with you, as the members of one united fam ily, on the thriving vigour of this strongest child of a strong... ...d with all conditions of men, and all periods of time. The scholar and the statesman, men of peace and men of war, have agreed in all ages to delight ... ...mbers themselves. I am truly sensible, gentlemen, that my friends who have united in this address are partial in their kindness, and regard what I hav... ...morrow—from that venality which, by a fine moral retribution, has degraded statesmen even to a greater extent than authors, because the statesman ente... ...have had experience in that way, but at home, and within the limits of the United Kingdom. I dare say most of us have Speeches: Literary and Social 5... ...giving a direct end and object to what might otherwise easily become waste forces; and sending among them not only oral teachers, but, better still, b... ...he wilds of Australia, or communicating Greenwich time to Coventry Street, Japan. Once again, and finally, I thank you; and from my heart of hearts, I... ...me to see the place where he lived and wrote. Setting aside the orator and statesman—for hap pily we know no party here but this agreeable party—set ...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

....” I shall not deny him the privi- lege he claims (p. 52), to state the question as he pleases, especially when he states it so as to leave nothing in... ... the man is not conscious of. For, I suppose nobody will make iden- tity of persons to consist in the soul’s being united to the very same numercial p... ...he cask, and manifestly derive their original from that union. If it always thinks, and so had ideas before it was united, or before it received any f... ...a confused notion, taken up to serve an hypothesis; and none of those clear truths, that either their own evidence forces us to admit, or common exper... ...for the teat, or some pain (the most importunate of all sensations), or some other violent impression on the body, forces the mind to perceive and att... ...of them are simple and some complex. Though the qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is n... ...l own to them their weakness of understanding in this point, and acknowledge that the notion they have of duration forces them to conceive, that whate... ... society. For, not- withstanding these learned disputants, these all-know- ing doctors, it was to the unscholastic statesman that the governments of t... ...n search and abil- ity, can come to know? Much less have we distinct ideas of their different natures, conditions, states, powers, and sev- eral const...

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

By: Adam Smith

...of men of learn- ing, but upon the public conduct of princes and sovereign states. I have endeavoured, in the fourth book, to explain as fully and dis... ...e sea. The navigation of the Danube is of very little use to the different states of Bavaria, Austria, and Hungary, in comparison of what it would be,... ...ivided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess,... ...f the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminishe... ...nerally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united king- dom. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, th... ...ouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. Oatmeal, indeed, su... ...tition, necessarily reduces the profit. The lowering of profit in the town forces out stock to the country, where, by creating a new demand for coun- ... ...tablished, but in consequence of that free and universal competition which forces every body to have re- course to it for the sake of self defence. It... ...o oppose, with the same zeal and unanimity, any reduction in the number of forces, with which master manufacturers set themselves against every law th...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... of imminent downfall. As victory is silent, so is defeat. Of the opposing forces the weaker has resigned itself; the stronger marches on, noiseless n... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...potism tempered by Epigrams fight at her side. So, however, it is. King’s forces and heroic volunteers; Rochambeaus, Bouilles, Lameths, Lafayettes, h... ...gth, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You de- mand States-General?” asked Monseigneur with an air of mi- natory surprise.—”Yes... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...the Uncontrollable be got, if not reimprisoned, yet harnessed, and its mad forces made to work towards their object as sane regulated ones. For as Hie... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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A Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V Baruch Spinoza a Theologico-Political Treatise Part 1 Chapters I to V

By: R. H. M. Elwes

... the same thing (Matt. xxiv:24). (20) Furthermore, Ezekiel (xiv:9) plainly states that God some- times deceives men with false revelations; and Micaia... ... laws, the occupation of a strip of territory and the concentration of all forces, as it were, into one body, that is the social body. (27) Now for fo... ...d the plan of life which this aim demands, how the foundations of the best states follow its lines, and how men’s life is conducted, are questions per... ...him, he perceived the method by which the Israelitish nation could best be united in a particular territory, and could form a body politic or state, a... ...wn words (Rom. iii:6, and vi:19), “merely humanly.” (74) This he expressly states when he calls God just, and it was doubtless in concession to human ... ...e less live in a state of blessedness. (62) W e have an example of this in Japan, where the Christian religion is forbidden, and the Dutch who live th...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...im!’ An’ yeh bet I dusted fer the barn.” “Any kids waiting for you back in the States?” asked the stranger. “Nope; Sal died ’fore any come. Thet ’s wh... ...t know I ’d been there? Never told you, eh? Well, I tried it once, down in the States. That ’s why I ’m here. Been raised together, too. I came away t... ...told me why you came to this country. Be kind to her, and send her back to the States as soon as you can. But fix it so as she can come back, — liable ... ... miles of pain. “Contrary minded?” “No!” For the first time the Incapables were united without some compromise of personal interests. “And what are you... ...nds of the earth, and had neither gods nor homes, sailing under the flag of the Japanese. And with them I went to the rich beaches of Copper Island, wh... ...ding with their superiors in the Order concerning the sending of El Soo to the United States to complete her education, when a man of her own tribe ar... ...weeping. Sister Alberta even revealed to her the project of sending her to the United States. El Soo stared wide eyed into the golden vista thus opene... ... no other outcome. For behind him, nerving him to this belief, were profounder forces than any the crowded house dreamed. Danny Ward fought for money,... ...ned the speech and wisdom of the stars. What engines and elements and mastered forces, what lore and mysteries and destiny controls, might be there! U...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves a... ...h, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that “those in New Netherland, and especially in N... ...same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanit... ...l the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, assi... ...st might not be, and elderly people prophesied a speedy decay of the vital forces. Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going wi... ...three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shift... ...leav ing the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which put... ...e at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, but leads on direct, a tangent to this sphere, summer and win Walde... ...s said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises a...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...t with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves... ...tch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly, that “those in New Netherland, and especially i... ...e same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is van... ...all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is vanity, as... ...east might not be, and elderly people prophesied a speedy decay of the vital forces. Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going w... ..., three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp. None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shi... ...eg, leaving the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction had been invented which p... ...use at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a worn out China or Japan, but leads on direct a tangent to this sphere, summer and winter, d... ... is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises ...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...examples and types under the broad Alpine survey of the spirit born of our united social intelli- gence, which is the Comic Spirit? Wise men say the l... ... Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic co... ... letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sketch of “our democratic cousins”,... ...n popular among them. I could not sing their national song—if a congery of states be a nation—and I must confess I listened with frigid politeness to ... ...nish sufficient?” “A poet or two could help us.” 92 The Egoist “Perhaps a statesman,” she suggested. “A pugilist, if wanted.” “For blowy days,” obser... ...illoughby Patterne, though ready in the pursuit of duty and policy (an oft-united couple) to cast Miss Dale away, had to consider that he was not simp... ...s the same to him, and a veil as well. He is preparing the catastrophe, he forces the issue. T ell him of her extreme desire to depart. T reat her as ... ... their own scent of the fact, and the only way to confound such inveterate forces was to be ahead of them, and seize and trans- form the expected fact... ...y, ever in pursuit of self; the busiest as it is the most single-aiming of forces on our earth. And we are directed to the sinuosities for posts of ob...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...generally with his regiment, and when visiting them was a good deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retir... ...nlow and her three boys. They had taken a week by the sea to recruit their forces, and then began their journey in earnest, since it was too late for ... ...Eton follies, she had given her eldest son a private hint to elude joining forces with the fam- ily, and he was the most docile and obedient of sons. ... ...ile,” said Janet, again ab- sorbing herself in her paper, while the public united in guess- ing the acrostic; and the only objection was raised by the... ...rincipal to a European college at Yokohama for the higher education of the Japanese. “Mother has not heard of it,” said Jock. “She need not till it is... ...ke her to London to see Janet in her lodgings before the departure for the States. He was at her service, and as they did not mean to sleep in town, t... ...icked and un- feeling to have been dancing, and cried so bitterly that the united efforts of her aunt and brother could not persuade her that what was... ...gnum Bonum wedding-dress that would figure in the papers, and, even in the States, be fabulously splendid. It must come from Paris, and it must be wai... ...ineyard, having been irresistibly drawn by Jock’s telegram to spend in the States an interval of leisure in his work, caused by his appointment as pri...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the Fren... ...nd that her chamber was the best place wherein to await them. So her black Japan casket, which Harry was to carry to the coach, was taken back to her ... ...f this illustrious prince, this invincible warrior, this wise and moderate statesman. Loyalty to the exiled king’s family was traditional, as has been... ...h was promoted to the Gar- ter, and to be Captain-General of her Majesty’s forces at home and abroad. This appointment only inflamed the Dowager’s rag... ...e packet which brought the Commander-in-Chief over, brought letters to the forces which preceded him, and one from his dear mistress to Esmond, which ... ...ous gentlemen following in his suite. His Grace reviewed the troops of the States-General between Liege and Maestricht, and afterwards the English 21... ...al between Liege and Maestricht, and afterwards the English 219 Thackeray forces, under the command of General Churchill, near Bois- le-Duc. Every pr... ...h!) Henry Esmond hath been Marquis of Esmond and Earl of Castlewood in the United Kingdom, and Baron and Viscount Castlewood of Shandon in Ireland, an... ...d lonely under its ruined old roof? We were all so, even when together and united, as it seemed, following our separate schemes, each as we sat round ...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

... had seen life in all its vari- eties, and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time, he could com- municate to Johnson an abunda... ...l known to many to be par- ticularly unsocial, as there is no Ordinary, or united company, but each person has his own mess, and is under no obligatio... ...did his punishment rest here; for upon subsequent occasions, whenever he, ‘statesman all over,’ assumed a strutting importance, I used to hail him—’th... ...Sir, in advising me to buy St. Kilda? for if you should advise me to go to Japan, I believe I should do it.’ Johnson. ‘Why yes, Sir, I am seri- ous.’ ... ...as not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of Madrid. ‘And who is the gentleman in lace?’—’... ...only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of Madrid. ‘And who is the gentleman in lace?’—’Mr. Wil... ....’ Johnson. ‘Nay, Sir, conversation is the key: wine is a pick-lock, which forces open the box and injures it. A man should cultivate his mind so as t... ... to fight better.’ Boswell. ‘When a man is the aggressor, and by ill-usage forces on a duel in which he is killed, have we not little ground to hope t... ... said with a good-humoured smile, ‘That there should be so much excellence united with so much depravity, is strange.’ Indeed, this lady’s good qualit...

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