...of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a fac... ...of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith of Japan, and openly pr... ...good intelligence – a University man, as the phrase goes – a man, besides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we l... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ... as in the other case rough habits and fist-law were the rule. Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most of which offe... ...sity of his offence; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the la... ...nce; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the last rags of decen...

...e truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.‖ 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech... ...accuracy of any later transmission rested solely upon the memory of those who heard the original words. Mnemonics’ enormous possibilities Octog... ... had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mn... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...ills as bank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic ca... ...ank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to retu... ... and free public library‘s good reading.‖ Carnegie was convinced of—and committed to—the notion that education was life‘s key. Modern public libr...

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...e new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, goo... ...; and on the same day which announced the catastrophe of Williams, he also committed suicide in his cell. *Published in the “Note Book.” **Published i... ...he islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that case as a woman who had been charged with some act of infidelity to her husband. And the lo... ...n which our adult neighbors the French seem to value a battle. T o any man who, like myself, admires the high-toned, mar- tial gallantry of the French... ...ed at. But what we could not wink at was the systematic treason which they committed against our comfort, namely, by teaching our horses all imaginabl... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al... ...turn. During that interval of forty-eight hours, an atrocious mur- der was committed in the ancient city of Bristol. By whom? That question is to this...

...hed usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, according to the amplest extent of any powe...

...d been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the agitations and terrors of t... ...e- gan his studies of Democracy in America. It was a bold ef- fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political eco... ...e. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed by their wisdom and experience and were supported by th... ...n France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Belonging neither to the class which regarded the so... ...vol. ii. p. 13. This speech was made by Winthrop; he was accused of having committed arbitrary actions during his magistracy, but after having made th... ...the court to which they belong of all the misdemeanors which may have been committed in their county.* There are cer- tain great offences which are of... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...

... and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, appa... ...wn- ers in our district, the Miusovs. How it came to pass that an heiress, who was also a beauty, and moreover one of those vigorous intelligent girls... ...ttempt to explain. I knew a young lady of the last “roman- tic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she migh... ...ent on, seeming not to hear his brother’s words, “told me about the crimes committed by T urks and Circassians in all parts of Bulgaria through fear o... ...more than all? Robbers and murderers have done that, but what sin have you committed yet, that you hold yourself more guilty than all?” “Mother, l... ...en by the roof, at great risk of discovery. But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others. E... ...s right of multiplication of desires? In the rich, isolation and spiritual suicide; in the poor, envy and 292 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV murder; for the... ...which life, honour and human feeling are sacrificed, and men even com- mit suicide if they are unable to satisfy it. We see the same thing among those... ... Leo Tolstoy has never invented. Yet such dreams are sometimes seen not by writers, but by the most ordinary people, officials, journalists, priests…....

...e type, yet one pretty frequently to be met with, a type abject and vicious and at the same time senseless. But he was one of those senseless persons who are very well capable of looking after their worldly affairs, and, apparently, after nothing else. Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance....

...e, what eye can arrest its eter- nal increments? The hour-hand of a watch, who can detect the separate fluxions of its advance? Judging by the past, a... ...rama of this world. I will endeavor to ex- plain my views. And the reader, who takes any interest in the subject, will not need to fear that the expla... ...pose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and our intellectual differenc... ...ays and Other Papers – V olume One suppose, or buried under the altars, or committed to the secret keeping of rivers. Nothing of the sort: when a man ... ...nds of the centurion, was a perilous change; but, perilous or not, must be committed to the judgment of the particular imperator, or of his legatus. T... ...ism trans- planted from the filthy vocabulary of attorneys, locally called writers; secondly, because in England it is not even intelli- gible, and, w... ...; second, to the particular clause of the section) that Phil. has not here committed an inad- 48 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One ve... ...tion of the real spiritual inspiration), that a series of more than thirty writers, speaking in succession along a vast line of time, and absolutely w... ...doctrine; and in sect.31, p.66, he thus describes it:—‘ According to these writers’ (viz., the writ- ers ‘who advocate the theory of development’), ‘t...

...ervice. This explanation is neces- sary, as much to escape foolish critics who know nothing, as to record the customs of a world which, we are told, i... ...renchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes who exist in France, those of Napo- 5 Balzac leon excepted. This is why th... ... Maufrigneuse, a young man of eighteen, handsome as Antinous, poor as Job, who was expected to obtain great successes, and for whom his mother desired... ...men; but through all my many adven- tures, I have never found happiness. I committed great fol- lies, but they had an object, and that object retreate... ...ments bore witness to an elegant disgust, not reaching, however, as far as suicide; no, she would live out her days in these earthly galleys. She rece... ...houghts as if she were speaking to herself:— “But I will say no more. Y ou writers have ended by making ridiculous all women who think they are misund... ...les merely re- peated at night that which she read in the morning (as some writers do), regarded her as a most superior woman. These conversations, ho... ...,” she answered. “At this mo- ment I tremble, I am ashamed as though I had committed the greatest sins.” She was now entirely restored to the innocenc... ...ers of its elegance, the embroidery of its gossip, the wit of its lies. We writers invent no more than the truth. Poor Diane! Michel had penetrated th...

... possible, or if possible, profitless. The Ethics is addressed to students who are presumed both to have enough general education to appreciate these ... ...ical, but practical: it is the activity not of reason but still of a being who possesses reason and applies it, and it presupposes in that being the d... ... 15 The Ethics of Aristotle formed by discipline; it arises only in a man who has ac- quired moral virtue. For such action and feeling as forms bad c... ... the argument. The subject-matter of them was a favourite topic of ancient writers, and the treatment is smoother and more orderly than elsewhere in t... ... coward; because it is mere softness to fly from what is toilsome, and the suicide braves the terrors of death not because it is honourable but to get... ...1132a ] Because it makes no difference whether a robbery, for instance, is committed by a good man on a bad or by a bad man on a good, nor whether a g... ...an on a bad or by a bad man on a good, nor whether a good or a bad man has committed adultery: the law looks only to the dif- ference created by the i... ...ed an unjust character: that is, he may have stolen yet not be a thief; or committed an act of adultery but still not be an adulterer, and so on in ot... ... part of his Analogy. P . 32, l. 16. I have adopted this word from our old writers, because our word act is so commonly interchanged with ac- tion. [G...

...e man about whom the book is written. The most privi- leged is the reader, who is thus allowed to live familiarly with an eminent man. Least regarded ... ...f this process, not to mention the difficulty, can be measured only by one who attempts a similar feat. Let him try to report the best con- versation ... ...late with wonder.’ He was indefatigable in hunting up and con- sulting all who had known parts or aspects of Johnson’s life which to him were inaccess... ...ever exhibited. But although he at different times, in a desultory manner, committed to writing many particulars of the progress of his mind and fortu... ...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ...o approve of an execution for rebellion so long after the time when it was committed, as this had the appearance of put- ting a man to death in cold b... ...age-play- ers, after censuring some mistakes in emphasis which Garrick had committed in the course of that night’s acting, said, ‘The players, Sir, ha... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select...

...usual in order that they may converse with Socrates for the last time. Those who were present, and those who might have been expected to be present, a... ...ed from Thebes’ ( Mem.), Crito the aged friend, the attendant of the prison, who is as good as a friend—these take part in the conversation. There are... ...ion which had been asked by Evenus the poet (compare Apol.): ‘Why Socrates, who was not a poet, while in prison had been put ting Aesop into verse?’... ...will not take his own life, for that is held to be unlawful.’ Cebes asks why suicide is thought not to be right, if death is to be accounted a good? W... ...e ready to die of pity if we could see the least of the sufferings which the writers of In fernos and Purgatorios have attributed to the damned. Yet ... ... comparative silence on the whole subject which is often remarked in ancient writers, and particularly in Aristotle. For Plato and Aristotle are not f... ...uman beings. It is Cebes who at the commence ment of the Dialogue asks why ‘suicide is held to be unlaw ful,’ and who first supplies the doctrine of... ...o appear to be incurable by reason of the greatness of their crimes—who have committed many and terrible deeds of sacrilege, mur ders foul and violen... ...ich is their suitable destiny, and they never come out. Those again who have committed crimes, which, al though great, are not irremediable—who in a ...

...en he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his vol ume, or never take it up, but the few who ... ...t by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while their ventures go to sw... ...le browed, grizzly bearded, careworn merchant — we have the smart young clerk, who gets the taste of traffic as a wolf cub does of blood, and already s... ...hese heaped up papers had, and — saddest of all — without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom House... ...somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and although be yond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be ... ...t to impose a tender but strict con trol over the infant immortality that was committed to her charge. But the task PEARL 61 was beyond her skill. a... ...hich the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves. On the other s... ... lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own. And it seemed a fouler offence committed by Roger Chillingworth than any which had since been done him...

...ifetime have been at once so much admired and so much abused as Pope. Some writers, des- tined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurel... ... Pope’s ardent friends erred in classing him with or above these great old writers; and on the other, his enemies were thus provoked to thrust him too... ...poken, and that, too, a century after his death. And there are few critics who would refuse to subscribe, on the whole, Lord Carlisle’s enumera- tion ... ... brain, and no further, although he has bor- rowed the plots of his plays. Who lent Chaucer his pictures, fresh as dewdrops from the womb of the morni... ...en Lady Macbeth exclaims, in that terrible crisis, “Give me the daggers!”’ who feels not, that, although a dagger be only an artificial thing, no natu... ...notony of manner and versification, he is one of the most interest- ing of writers, and many find a greater luxury in reading his pages than those of ... ...borate and artificial for the theme. It is a tale of intrigue, murder, and suicide, set to a musical snuff-box! His “Rape of the Lock” we have already... ...obably referred to the Roman General of that name, who burned Corinth, and committed the curious statues to the captain of a ship, assur- ing him, ‘th...

...l, I think, regret that being so near we were not among the fortunate ones who saw that little flat shape skim land- ward out of the blue; surely they... ...his has been achieved. And now our insularity is breached by the foreigner who has got ahead with flying. It means, I take it, first and foremost for ... ...lated state, chiefly in the seas between Orkney and Norway—though I say it who should not. But these aeroplanes can fly all round the fastest navigabl... ... see what the Censor has left of our playwrights and Sir Jesse Boot of our writers, and to dine in restaurants and wear clothes. Mostly they call them... ...al process which is here given. Then first we must distinguish a series of writers and think- ers which one may call—the word conservative being alrea... ...esale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the permanent residence of the cultivator in close relation to... ...f it” for either husband or wife; they have taken a step as irrevocable as suicide. And some logical minds would even go further, and have no law as b... ... same spirit that it might prevent him from self-mutilation or at- tempted suicide, for the good of the State simply, and not to defend any supposed i... ...158 An Englishman Looks at the World whom no “matrimonial offence” is ever committed. Of course, if our divorce law exists mainly for the gratificatio...

...nearly every senior official from the current and previous administrations who had responsibility for topics covered in our mandate. We have sought to... ...ndent, impartial, thorough, and nonpartisan. From the outset, we have been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the Americ... ...urrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies br... ...uced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, past and present, who were generous with their time and provided us with insight. The PENTTBO... ... the hijacking would take the traditional form: that is, it would not be a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile. O... ...idels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom. It praised... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...l in this core swore fealty (or bayat) to Bin Ladin. Other operatives were committed to Bin Ladin or to his goals and would take assignments for him, ... ...conflicts.After years of war in the Balkans, the United States had finally committed itself to sig- nificant military intervention in 1995–1996.Alread...