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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...int of view as to the Force of Lies and against all the power of falsified evidence, truth often turns out to be stronger than calumny. With the cours... ...t those with whom I touched upon that vision were pleased to see in it the evidence of my alarmist cynicism. As to alarm, I pointed out that fear is n... ...egations of the Trade- guilds, might have obtained (if they cared) de visu evidence of the callousness of the little wretch. There was nothing in my a... ... know how the strength of materi- als can be calculated away, and also the evidence of one’s senses. For it is by some sort of calculation in- volving...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...n by your side in battle, and the mangled body remains an object, and a real evidence; but at sea, the man is near you—at your side—you hear his voice... ...al to steam. Soon after eight o’clock, the appearance of the ship gave evidence that this was the first Sunday we had yet had in fine weather. A... ... are the considerations most commonly brought up on the subject of seamen’s evidence; and I think it cannot but be obvious to every one that here, p... .... There can be no rule of law regulating the weight to be given to seamen’s evidence. It must rest in the mind of the judge and jury; and no enactme... ...twithstanding every advan- tage the captain has over the seaman in point of evidence, friends, money, and able counsel, it becomes apparent that he ... ...w in him any signs of a cruel or tyrannical disposition. I have even known evidence admitted to show the character he bore when a boy at school. T... ...uct to justify a suspicion of his being capable of cruelty or tyranny. This evidence is then put together, and great stress is laid upon the extreme ... ...ew considerations which seem to me to be conclusive. First, as to the evidence of the good character the captain sustains on shore. It is to b... ...ld allow the practice of hearing appeals to its lenity, supported solely by evidence of the captain’s good conduct when on shore, (especially where ...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...gh of Paudeen’s pence By Biddy’s halfpennies have lain To be ‘some sort of evidence’, Before you’ll put your guineas down, That things it were a pride...

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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

...t lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate when the hijackers passed through the checkpoint, what... ... attempts to contact the flight were not acknowledged. From this and other evidence, we believe the hijacking began at 8:14 or shortly thereafter. 24 ... ...believe the tactics were similar on both flights. 43 The first operational evidence that something was abnormal on United 175 came at 8:47, when the a... ...ges to airborne aircraft to increase security for the cockpit.”There is no evidence that Hern- don took such action. Boston Center immediately began s... ...k of vital information from the FAA about the hijacked flights.We found no evidence, however, that American Airlines sent any cock- pit warnings to it... ...w the norm for Tuesday mornings during the summer of 2001. But there is no evidence that the hijackers manip- ulated passenger levels or purchased add... ...pproved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel.We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijack- ers, or anyone else, sat there ... ...r the hijackers had guns.The passenger replied that he did not see one. No evidence of firearms or of their identifiable remains was found at the airc... ...ho mentioned a bomb expressed his belief that it was not real. Lacking any evidence that the hijackers attempted to smuggle such illegal items past th...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...d The Battle of Waterloo. In this roll-call of stirring names you read the evidences of a happy childhood; and though not half of them are still to be...

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