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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered national aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at... ...the attrition war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Krem... ...endship was tilted more savagely than ever before by the paranoia and the whims of nationalism gone berserk. In this world of self reflecting look... ...d the Macedonian Scholarly-Literary Society in 1902 (in Russia). Their "Macedonian National Program" demanded a recognition of a Macedonian nation ... ... A third group (and Delcev was, for a time, among them) wanted a federation of all states Balkan with an equal standing for a Macedonian polity (au... ...hema. The Serbs and Hungarians aspired to ethnically and culturally homogenous states and were willing to apply violence towards the achievemen... ...hich the terrorism is taking place under their auspices, and even being financed by United Nations means" Milosevic, March 2000 "Getting history... ...in battle, took over from the LDK as the US favourite. At the behest of the United States, KLA representatives not only were present, but headed th...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's larges... ... into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest colle... ...y collecting information on the lives of modern Finns. In European welfare states, an individual's life and future must be secure, planned and control... ...dividuals, too, were determined outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, ... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...anna state, which was yet again invaded by Burma. The Lanna state was only united with the kingdom of Thailand in the Thonburin era in 1774, when the ... ...ce and City. Lampang, King Taksin is the liberator and founder of the new united state; his picture is still seen in villagers' houses. The earliest ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

.... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... .... Then there would be no black hole at all. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ... As far as we know, the only form of Energy which does not exist in all three states of Past-Present-Future is the animal-human awareness of Time in... ...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...hat the highest concentration is at the top, not at the bottom. Today in the United States: 1% of its population holds 40% of its wealth, 4% of its ... ...lation. This is basically, the only fucking difference between Haiti and the United States of America. Does anyone want to understand the significa... ...that the richest corporations can merge into even bigger, more powerful multi- national corporations; so more, and more money is sucked out of all the...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ...e, have pre- cisely this problem to solve. Under the name and nickname of ‘statesmen, hommes d’etat,’ of ‘moderate-men, moderantins, ’ of Brissotins, ... ... At home this Killing of a King has divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; At... ...x eclats,’ at the gentilities and superfine airs of these Girondin “men of statesmanship,” with their pedantries, plausibilities, pusillanimities: “th... ...od or Death did indeed stand printed on all Houses of the Living; also, on Cemeteries, or Houses of the Dead, stood printed, by order of Procureur Cha... ...ansculottism makes, as it were, free arena; one of the strangest temporary states Humanity was ever seen in. A nation of men, full of wants and void o... ...own side: and now there is no Election, or only the third of one. Black is united with white against this clause of the Two-thirds; all the Unruly of ...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...rren- der almost as much of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the F... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...d at present. It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tar- iffs, with ... ...here is no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this f... ... no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this further ... ... about a world settlement that does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? ... ... any part of “our Empire” under a world administration on the footing of a United States territory. Until they cease to be staggered by anything of th... ...y to a change under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hi... ... will be small or homogeneous enough to serve dynastic ambitions, embody a national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any group of financial ...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...er has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlantic seaboard, and f... ...e in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons ... ...te man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542, is a remark which states a fact without interpreting it: it is something like giv ing the ... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...of them that you are allowed to run at all down stream. There’s a law of the United States against it. The river may be rising by the time we get to 1... ..., he promptly resented even the merest sugges tions. Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly c... ...ould get a pilot’s license for him by signing an application directed to the United States Inspector. Noth ing further was needed; usually no questio... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...with the Natchez, is the best on record, and, inasmuch as the race created a national interest, we give below her time table from port to port. Left N...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...reality till the alarm-clock rang, at seven-twenty. III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all mo... ...d four hundred thousand inhabitants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its... ... afternoon. Keep forgetting it.” At the Simplex Office Furniture Shop, the National Cash Register Agency, he yearned for a dictaphone, for a typewrite... ...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at ... ...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ... is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town wh... ...t, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town which com...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...“Groenenland’s” abrupt demise with grins of satisfaction. It was a sort of national compliment, and cause of agreeable congratulation. “The lubbers!”... ... benighted people among whom they live an opportunity to admire the spirit national. There is the brave honest major, with his wooden leg—the kindest ... ...to represent them at Wapping or Portsmouth Point, with each, under its own national signboard and language, its ap- propriate house of call, and your ... ...greeable picture in my imagination; rather, perhaps, resembling the Junior United Service Club in Charles Street, by which every Londoner has passed e... ...board our ship had been battling, and which had charmed all—from our great statesman, our polished lawyer, our young Oxonian, who sighed over certain ... ...e of his subaltern, the hospi- table one-eyed Armenian, who represents the United States at Jaffa. The stars and stripes were flaunting over his terra... ...s subaltern, the hospi- table one-eyed Armenian, who represents the United States at Jaffa. The stars and stripes were flaunting over his terraces, to... ... his tattooage of the five crosses, the fellow had a picture of two hearts united, and the pathetic 112 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cai... ...mentioned our fellow-traveller, the Consul-General for Syria of the United States. He was a tradesman, who had made a considerable fortune, and lived ...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ... the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always i... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...ing small-sword exercise, broad-sword exercise, wres- tling, and other such feats. I went in, and some of the sword- play being very skilful, remained... ...ghbourhoods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and ... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ...th the young and ardent which it were more than heresy to doubt, can scarcely have failed to discover that I love your adorable daughter, deeply, devo...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...sibilities, he did not say what he was going to be, proconsul, ambassador, statesman, for days. And he talked vaguely of wanting to do something fine,... ... himself until he congests in cities that have no sense of citizenship and states that have no structure; the clumsy, inconsecutive lying and chatter ... ...don he had begun to dream of possibilities that went beyond the accidental states and empires of to-day. Prothero’s mind, replete with histori- cal de... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail... ...ries and creeds, and so on, that stand in the way. Just as Italy had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, j... ...e rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingdoms and duchies and liberties, so now... ...nds pointed out to him the value of working out some special aspect of our national political interests. A very useful speciality was the Balkans. Mr.... ...ere being overdone. Everybody went to the Balkans and came back with a pet nationality. She loathed pet nationali- ties. She believed most people loat... ...lves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swagger- ing, it was greed, it was Ger...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanist... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro lik... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficie... ...ow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle Ameri- can States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANIST... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. “BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN.” Th... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ... Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficien... ...snow? Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke... ...ppily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...t was not then, or, at least it ought not to have been, a trifling source of pride for the city of Blois, that Gaston of Orleans had chosen it as his ... ... next hawking-day. 5 Dumas So much for the ennui extra muros; of the ennui of the interior we will give the reader an idea if he will with us follow ... ...ight, perhaps not before the next morn- ing. Y et what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope? In the lower ... ...ay, he held in such esteem, we may say in such friend- ship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house. Pittrino, grateful, and fed with ... ...aps ensue if your marriage fails” (Mazarin stole a furtive glance at the king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fai... ...er crept through the heart of the Gascon, so brave and so strong against all the misfortunes of life; and during some moments the clouds appeared blac... ...f the Fronde, the reconciliation of M. de Conde with the king, and the probable marriage of the infanta of Spain; but he avoided, as Athos himself avo... ...t it must abdi- cate — be dissolved — and yield its place to a government which would not be a joke. Monk pronounced this decla- ration, supported by ... ... upon the duke’s superiority. Others, less brilliant, but more sensible, had reminded him of the king’s orders prohibiting dueling. Oth- ers, again, a...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...his pocket, as if unwilling to trust them even to the chances of being re- united and deciphered; and instead of ringing, as usual, for little Paul, h... ... claims of a perfect Dombey (perhaps on account of having the honour to be united to a Dombey himself, and being familiar with excellence), really lik... ...was impatience. Impatience for the time to come, when his visions of their united consequence and grandeur would be triumphantly re- alized. Some phil... ... dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more... ... laying their drooping heads together dolefully at stable doors; of little cemeteries with black crosses settled sideways in the graves, and withered ... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

.................. 14 James Koast English 15 – Fayette campus “The Gettysburg National Soldiers’ Cemetery”..... 17 Jessica Manning English 15 – DuBois ca... ...raska came into Happy Valley for what would be another night game, another national telecast, another attendance record with 110,962 spectators on han... ...Freshman Writing 17 James Koast English 15 – Fayette campus THE GETTYSBURG NATIONAL SOLDIERS’ CEMETERY SACRED PLACES are held dear by everyone; there-... ...POWER PLANT NEXT DOOR THERE ARE MANY different nuclear power plants in the United States. Out of all of the power plants in the United States, some of... ...LANT NEXT DOOR THERE ARE MANY different nuclear power plants in the United States. Out of all of the power plants in the United States, some of the on... ...d among the urban populations of major cities all over the country. In the states of Pennsylvania and New York, three power plants in particular stand... ...ttributed to Chernobyl (Visscher 1). To prevent a problem like this in the United States, power plants must either be closed or moved away from urban ... ...ed to Chernobyl (Visscher 1). To prevent a problem like this in the United States, power plants must either be closed or moved away from urban areas. ... .... All of these problems pose a large risk to the general population of the United States. When the power plant is near an urban area, the problem beco...

... Samuel G. Lepadatu English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?A Good Samaritan? ...................... 14 James Koast English 15 ? Fayette campus ?The Gettysburg National Soldiers? Cemetery?..... 17 Jessica Manning English 15 ? DuBois campus ?Nightmares? ......................................... 19 Matt Sandherr English 15 ? Worthington Scranton campus ?Graduation Day? ..................

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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 ......................................... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...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... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...

...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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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...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,... ...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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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 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... ...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... ...re. There are many common stories telling how he piques himself on crowded cemeteries. But I will rather tell of the old grave-digger of Monkton, to w... ...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ...E WORDS WILL BE familiar to all students of Skelt’s Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to R...

...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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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... ...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... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ... the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that become... ...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... ...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... ...r respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatant... ...on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that beco... ... 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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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...s that the sovereign power should be small. Great powers are slow to stir; national affronts, even with the aid of newspa- pers, filter slowly into po... ...en with the aid of newspa- pers, filter slowly into popular consciousness; national losses are so unequally shared, that one part of the population wi... ...constrained and unnatural attitude of our Society. At present we are not a united body, but a loose gathering of individu- als, whose inherent attract... ... or, if their fam- ily have none, identify themselves with some well-known statesman, use his opinions, and lend him their patronage on all occasions.... ... and clubs of every sort. Nor would it be a matter of much difficulty. The united societies would form a nucleus: one of the class- rooms at first, an... ...ym? He might have been a dentist, but he should never have aspired to be a statesman. I can only wonder that he succeeded as he did. Pym and Habakkuk ... ...aternal government will stamp 106 Robert Louis Stevenson out, as seeds of national weakness, all depressing patronym- ics, and when godfathers and go... ...s. And still more so is this the case with others. ‘The Horse and the Fly’ states one of the unanswerable problems of life in quite a realistic and st... ...many blackened and dusty sculptures was more pleasant than it is in modern cemeteries, where every second mound can boast a similar coronal; and here,...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...ach square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner ha... ...are yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner had we go... ...formed calculations of so vast an extent that they would have required the united labor of fifty thousand fleshy men for a year.** But a still more wo... ... failed to en- tertain clearly, or has sacrificed in its expression to his national love of point, is, doubtless, the very tenable one that the higher... ...the decora of what is technically called keeping, or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wan- dered from object to object, and rested upon none... ...ather was warm, and he was buried with indecent haste in one of the public cemeteries. His funeral took place on Thursday. On the Sunday following, th...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

... dead body was to be seen upon the floating fragments. Log of the Defiance states, that a breeze springing up in the night, the wreck was seen no more... ... her emotions of happiness, arising in the contemplation of her dear child united to the man of her heart, but who, there is reason to suppose, found ... ...ereft of Mr Dombey’ s countenance—for no deli- cate pair of wedding cards, united by a silver thread, graced the chimney-glass in Princess’s Place, or... ...they were on the board, and fell to with the assistance of Diogenes, whose united efforts quickly dispatched the banquet. The Captain’s delight and wo... ... laying their drooping heads together dolefully at stable doors; of little cemeteries with black crosses settled sideways in the graves, and withered ... ... ‘It must be done, Ma’am,’ he says. ‘W e must marry ‘em. W e must have our national schools to walk at the head of, and we must have our standing armi...

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