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...per trade should keep pace with the require- ments of the French system of civil government, a system by which the right of discussion was to be exten... ...a journalist, your name is well known enough. If they summons you before a civil court, come to me about it, that will be my affair; I engage to send ... ...alie about his business.” On the 28th of May, Lucien’s case came on in the civil court, and judgment was given before Desroches expected it. Lucien’s ... ...d; through their manner of conducting their case, a suit becomes a kind of war waged on the lines laid down by the first Marshal Biron, who, at the si... ...c Council; let them avoid all decisive measures, and they shall carry on a war for ever. Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the ... ... kind hearts will give Marion and Kolb a tear of sympathy? All through the war Kolb sat on a chair in the doorway, acting as watch-dog, when David had... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth, an... ...ldier—good anything you will—but, Diacho! to be married to that! He is not civilized. None of you English are. Y ou have no place in the drawing-room.... ...—I mean our ladies—not your English. They wanted to know how I could be so civil to that intolerable man. I gained a deal of credit, my dears. I laid ... ...ON BOARD THE JOCASTA FROM THE TAGUS to the Thames the Government sloop-of- war, Jocasta, had made a prosperous voyage, bearing that pre- cious freight... ...y just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grimaced civilly, and turned away. The girl’s observant brows were moved to a faintl... ...g manifestations of stiff-backedness, could not forbear add- ing: ‘I am at war with my sympathies, which should be with the poor brute flying from his...

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...g diseases, to perish with hunger, or to be devoured by wild beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of p... ...Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or daylabourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will per- ceive that the number of ... ...ssistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very fa... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. xxxiii. cap. 3), when they first began to coin silver. Cop... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... affect the demand in the countries where they are consumed; upon peace or war, upon the prosperity or declension of other rival manufactures and upon... ...eems to have been rather above than below the market rate. Before the late war, the government bor- rowed at three per cent.; and people of good credi... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in...

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...And again, in his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even th... ...ally, under wholly unjustifi- able pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invad- ing the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first ... ...ettlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. Eighth. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not... ..., or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas or of the United States, and that the same is true... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...JUNE 20, 1848. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Civil and Diplomatic Ap- propriation Bill: MR. CHAIRMAN:—I wish at all time... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...ushed for ever! Who can realize that freedom’s champion, the champion of a civilized world and of all tongues and kindreds of people, has indeed falle...

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...in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though the...

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...only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the noti... ...ffences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity,... ...age to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and... ... market; to keep yourself informed of the state of the markets, prospects of war and peace every where, and anticipate the tendencies of trade and civ... ...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ..., to make this frequent meeting tolerable, and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post office, and at the sociable, and about the firesid... ...o in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day. They lay mi...

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...fe. When first Chaldicotes, a very old country seat, had by the chances of war fallen into their hands and been newly furnished, and newly decorated, ... ...d his prisoner’s wife. He had been specially asked by Mr Walker to be very civil. Only one could sit on the box with the driver, and if the request wa... ...ar to the Dowager Lady Lufton, because he carried on worthily the clerical war against the bishop which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie ... ...p which had raged in Barchester ever since Dr Proudie had come there—which war old Lady Lufton, good and pious and charitable as she was, considered t... ...understood generally through the establishment—and I may almost say by the civil service at large, so wide was his fame—that Mr Eames was very averse ... ...ition, wrote papers about it, which he read aloud to various bodies of the civil service—not at all to their delight—which he got to be printed here a... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘...

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...1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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..........................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14 4 Miscella... ...ed. The one point for him is the statutory Parliament, so that Ireland may civilly govern herself; and standing be- fore the world as representative o... ...ge the issue. For the sole alternative is distinct antago- nism, a form of war. Mr. Gladstone’s Bill has brought us to that definite line. Ireland hav... ...herself as greatest among the giants that do not go to pieces, she had, as Americans forgivingly remem- ber, without mentioning, a series of flicks of... ...em he will live despite the word farewell. CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY Letters Written to the Morning Post from the Seat of War from ... ...th an interminable line of cars and the like, forming the military and the civil train of the moving army. Then it was that it needed as much patience... ... seven in the morning on the 10th, but the troops and the military and the civil train that remained followed the Po without crossing to Stellata, in ...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...te—a beautiful personal presence, that of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense o... ... once felt in noting on her lips that rarest, among the Barbarians, of all civil graces, a perfect felicity in the use of Italian. He had known strang... ...a ground, but they had n’t prevented him from insisting that some strictly civil ancestor—generations back, and from the Tuscan hills if she would—mad... ...ly—I went one day with Maggie. We looked him up, so to say. They were most civil.” And she fell again into the current her husband had slightly ruffled...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...se States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war a period of great trial to his soul. The new virtue, Unionism, of which... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa...

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...ent 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 partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 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...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin 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 Afghani... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... was as if they had strayed across the limits of Arcadia; and come under a civil polity where young men might avow their passion with as little restra... ..., within which a convent of nuns is now estab- lished,—a dove-cote, in the war-god’s mansion. At only a little distance, they passed the portico of a ... ...ge of chivalry and romance, the feudal system, and the infancy of a better civilization than that of Rome. Or, if we remember these mediaeval times, t...

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...d; he accepted no refreshment except “eau sucree,” and consequently had no civilities to return. This apparent devotion to the Mignon family allowed i... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ...y — taking it, like many another youth, for a vocation—on the red cloth of war. On his way to the base of the army at Nice he met the Breton. The pair... ...made sergeants at the peace which followed the battle of Marengo. When the war recommenced, Charles Mignon was pro- moted into the cavalry and lost si... ...seful as well as a faithful retainer, pro- posed to take him with him in a civil capacity. Dumay was only too happy to be adopted into the family, to ... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ... his liberality by getting a good price out of him. Society wished to show civilities to Madame and Mademoiselle Mignon; but they had already obeyed t... ...he man talks about com- parisons that howl, rocks that faint, and waves of war! How- ever, he is only a travelling Englishman, and we must expect absu... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...

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...Ada, taking her sister’s information for granted. ‘Oh no, it is nothing. A civil service man, second cousin’s brother-in-law’s stepson. That’s quite e... ...down the cross road to Bellevue, barring her way, and executing a derisive war-dance around her, and when she, almost crying, made an attempt to dash ... ...her of a grown-up son, engaged in his father’s business. She was extremely civil and polite, and everything went well except for a certain stiffness. ... ...ltation upon the marriages, only regretting that one gentleman should be a civilian; he had always augured that all his young ladies would be in the S... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...en and then burst out, ‘Cousin David! Hurrah! Scrumptious!’ com- mencing a war-dance at the same moment. ‘What is it? Has David asked you?’ demanded b...

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...om, with the gloomy and dreadful resolve of accepting the challenge of the war like Doctor Slammer, and abiding by the worst consequences that might ... ...s 30 the approaching struggle, and Mr. Snodgrass to arrange the weapons of war, and put them into proper order for imme diate use. it was a dull and ... ...peaceful citizens; their faces beaming—not with warlike ferocity, but with civilised gentleness; their eyes flashing —not with the rude fire of rapine... ...for the soft light of intelligence burned rather feebly in the eyes of the war riors, inasmuch as the command ‘eyes front’ had been given, and all th... ... quired the benevolent Mr. Pickwick. ‘No, I doan’t, Sir,’ replied the man civilly. ‘It was here long afore I was born, or any on us.’ Mr. Pickwick gl... ...electors of Eatanswill that the eyes not only of England, but of the whole civilised world, were upon them; and the Independent im peratively demand... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...course, the spirit of the age, and the equalizing sentiment that marks the civilization of the epoch, will greatly hasten everything in the shape of i... ...ch that, in this country, is by no means affluent. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any com- mendable d... ...wn local authorities. But representation forms no part of the machinery of American policy . It is supposed that man is too intellectual and philosoph... ...k, we ventured to predict the great fortunes that were in reserve for this American mart, giving some of the reasons that then occurred to us that had... ...owers of sovereignty are directly conceded to the Union. The right to make war and peace, to coin money , main- tain armies and navies, &c., &c., in t... ...ipal law, but by the law of nations. Thus, for instance, the right to make war, which is inherent in every state of for- eign relations, infers the ri... ...Cooper quests; and that clause of the Constitution which declares that the war-making power shall abide in Congress, says, at the same time, by an una... ... of policy and justice, sub- ject only to the great principles that modern civili- zation has introduced into public concerns. One can understand why ... ...tion- ably place the United States of America promi- nently at the head of civilized nations, unless their people throw away their advantages by their...

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... savage plun- derer of a besieged town up to the reckless monarch mak- ing war to feed his own ambition. There is a courage that breaks out in bravado... ...ely devoted to the holy work of softening the after sufferings that render war so hideous; whose very step and shadow car- ried gladness and healing t... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...eek peace and ensue it.’ With such strains as these, sung to his harp, the war- 17 Yo n g e rior gained the hearts of his men to enthusiastic love, a... ...g his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learn... ...tory has spoken clearly, and had become, in Gaul especially, slightly more civilized from intercourse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles... ...on condition of keeping the natives in check. A growing taste for arts and civilization was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves ...

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...t page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressionable senses; no...

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...ns upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer worl... ...edith the recognition of our individual countenances: a perilous thing for civilization. And these wise men are strong in their opinion that we should... ...ousness has enfolded us as with the arms of Amphitrite! We hear a shout of war for a diversion.—Comedy he pronounces to be our means of read- ing swif... ...estiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. If, he says, she watches over sentim... ...ong for transcription. I feel, pen in hand, like the mythological Titan at war with Jove, strong enough to hurl mountains, and finding nothing but peb... ...early as bad as an education in a thieves’ den; he will be just as much at war with society, if not game for the police.” “V ernon, have you seen Cros... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...n in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third ... ...ountry knee deep into the mud, wading through snipe grounds, look- ing for civilization where none exists. All these avenues have a slanting direction... ... in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13. It was then finished according to the original plan, with a... ...se instructions, were carefully followed. Indeed, nothing could exceed the civility of the officials within; but so also nothing can exceed the barbar... ...aise at Washington a vast obelisk to the memory of Washington—the first in war and first in peace, as the country is proud to call him. This obelisk i... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...f ambition and ostentation, and that he had the good sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theori... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ...

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...and drained it with a health to the donors. How strange are the chances of war! But half an hour be- fore he and I were engaged in mortal combat, and ... ...w, and none more so than Philip Fogarty, the humble writer of this tale of war. Our embrasure was luckily bomb-proof, and the detach- ment of the Onet... ... gallantry from my conduct in various actions and forlorn hopes during the war, the Emperor was most anxious to attach me to his service. The Grand Cr... ... to see how the French gents will swagger—how they will be the scenters of civilization—how they will be the Igsamples of Europ, and nothink shall pre... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...as it surpasses all now in dignity, in valor, in honesty, in strength, and civilization,) the Doctor nodded to the Queen of France, but kept his hat o... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...t have come off in his second duel as well as in his first; as it was, the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac’s gold repeater in his stomach. A ...

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...PTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS...

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........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...use, and his dogs my quest- ing dragoons. Little by little we dropped into civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ... all our veins there run some minims of his old, wild, tree-top blood; our civilised nerves still tingle with his rude terrors and plea- sures; and to... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ... got to Philadelphia before me. He introduc’d me to his son, who receiv’d me civilly, gave me a breakfast, but told me he did not at present want a ha... ...the impropriety of it, and at last gave a flat denial to it. Then he wrote a civil letter to Sir William, thanking him for the patronage he had so kin... ...ollins with me but that he was not so ber. The gov’r. treated me with great civility, show’d me his library, which was a very large one, and we had a... ...d pounds, and in 1739 to eighty thousand pounds, since which it arose during war to upwards of three hundred and fifty thousand pounds, trade, buildin... ...an not have the help expected from my papers, many of them being lost in the war. I have, however, found the following. ]* HAVING mentioned a great an... ... when collected. With respect to defense, Spain having been several years at war against Great Britain, and being at length join’d by France, which br...