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...habitants must all have felt like brethren. They were fitted to become one united People at a future period. Perhaps their feelings of brother hood w... ... good old gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his ... ...ld gentleman really seemed to suppose that the whole surface of the United States was not too broad a foundation to place the four legs of his chair u... ...es, for mutual defence against their enemies. They called them selves the United Colonies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of... ...ies of New England.” “Were they under a government like that of the United States?” inquired Laurence. “No,” replied Grandfather; “the different colon... ...event,” observed Grandfather, “was a thousand times greater than that of a Presidential election in our own days. If the people dislike their Presiden... ...in of peaceful and humble hopes had been wrought by the cold policy of the statesman and the iron band of the war rior, might have drawn a deep moral... ... Adams. He made minute researches into its history, and ascertained what a succession of excellent and famous people had occupied it.” “How did he fin...

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...ed glow of embers. “I shall see Holroyd himself on my way back through the States,” said Sir John. “I’ve ascertained that he, too, wants the railway.”... ...siness of living. Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had rep- resented his country at s... ...ed backwards and forwards in a rocking-chair of the sort exported from the United States. The ceiling of the largest drawing-room of the Casa Gould ex... ...wards and forwards in a rocking-chair of the sort exported from the United States. The ceiling of the largest drawing-room of the Casa Gould extended ... ... might fall of their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffl... ..., with my dear mother, for a whole year, while poor father was away in the United States on business. You shall be the new mis- tress of the Casa Goul... ...romo twenty-dollar pieces was a secret between himself, a great man in the United States (who condescended to answer the Sulaco mail with his own hand... ...) had 107 Joseph Conrad certainly helped so greatly in bringing about the presidential tour that he began to think that there was something in the fa... ...t quite safe for anybody of mark to stay away from these manifestations of presidential piety. Having thus acknowledged the only power he was at all d...

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... with him, and with two cups of coffee and a chicken patty, upon a pile of presidential overshoes in the coat-closet under the stairs, and as the thin... ...es the permanent Mother Chautauqua, in New York, there are, all over these States, commercial Chautauqua companies which send out to every smallest to... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...l derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-known r... ... known to be honest and courteous. London is a large city. A distinguished statesman once 246 Main Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” w... ...c situation.” Oscarina went back home to help on the farm, and Carol had a succession of maids, with gaps between. The lack of servants was becoming o... ...d to the street fair which added mundane gaiety to the annual rites of the United and Fraternal Order of Beavers. Beavers, human Beavers, were everywh... ...wers and poetry and music and everything; he spieled like he was a regular United States Senator; and Myrtle—she’s a devil, that girl, ha! ha!—she kid... ...ollars a quart, recipes for home-made beer, the “high cost of living,” the presidential election, Clark’s new car, and not very novel foibles of Cy Bo...

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...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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... 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... ...1, the scrambling of jets was not discussed. 182 In Sarasota, Florida, the presidential motorcade was arriving at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School... ...s deadlier than hijacking and therefore of greater consequence. In 1996, a presidential commission on aviation safety and security chaired by Vice Pre... ...IA leaders who counseled prudence and making sure that the legal basis and presidential authorization for their actions were unde- niably clear. The C...

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...ned. Again, if we take the Whig votes of the counties as shown by the late Presidential election as a basis, the thing is still worse. It seems to me ... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...berty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that ... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ...N. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President o... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...ing a sort of cau- cus of the Whig members, held in relation to the coming Presidential election. The whole field of the nation was scanned, and all i... ...t. He thought it altogether novel and un- precedented for a President or a Presidential candidate to 74 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two thi...

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...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...afforded, it would not have voted for Jefferson Davis for President of the United 15 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representativ... ...hile a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for cast- ing a vote at a Presidential election occurred. I had been in the army from before attainin... ...exation of Texas, “the inevitable conflict” commenced. As the time for the Presidential election of 1856—the first at which I had the opportunity of v... ...opes that the four years which had elapsed since the first nomination of a Presidential candidate by a party distinctly opposed to slavery extension, ...

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...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 ... ... 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 ... ...icity and liberty of dis cussion, whereby not merely a few individuals in succession, but the whole public, are made, to a certain extent, partici p... ...ided with less reference to its merits than to its expected bearing on the presidential election. If a system had been devised to make party spirit th... ...ountry ought to be able to do for its subjects all that could be done by a succession of absolute monarchs, guaranteed by irresistible force against t...

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.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush suffusing our hor... ...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,... ...earn the shadow of a name. Experienced Mounier, experienced Malouet; whose Presidential Parlementary experience the stream of things shall soon leave ... ...owever, in defect of such transcendent supreme man, Time with its infinite succession of merely superior men, each yielding his little contribution, d... ...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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............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...in for his share. (August, 1784.) Chapter 1.2.VII. Contrat Social. In such succession of singular prismatic tints, flush after flush suffusing our hor... ...imi- nary shadows, poor M. Fourqueux, poor M. Villedeuil, do hold in quick succession some simulacrum of it, (Besenval, iii. 225.)—as the new Moon wil... ...ength, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You demand States-Gen- eral?” asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.— ”Ye... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...earn the shadow of a name. Experienced Mounier, experienced Malouet; whose Presidential Parlementary experience the stream of things shall soon leave ... ...ever, in defect of such transcendent su- preme man, Time with its infinite succession of merely superior men, each yielding his little contribution, d...

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...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... ...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 ... ...ge, and which is not without its moral as applied to myself, in my present presidential position. In a certain theatrical company was included a man, ... ...excellence supremely asserts itself, and from which promise of a brilliant succession in time to come is not wanting. They naturally see with especial...

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...gion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All states of mind are neurally conditioned— Their significance must be tested ... ...h. LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYSTICISM Mysticism defined— Four marks of mystic states— They form a distinct region of consciousness— Examples of their low... ...ism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation— Tonic effects of mystic states— They describe by nega- tives— Sense of union with the Absolute— Mys... ... the Scottish universities, changing places with Scotsmen lecturing in the United States; I hope that our people may become in all these higher mat- t... ...g that it cometh from the Lord.” And again: “Consider the little infants, united and joined to the breasts of their nursing moth- ers you will see th... ... plea- sure of sucking prompts them. Even so, during its orison, the heart united to its God oftentimes makes attempts at closer union by movements du... ... thing that might chance; and went, with indefatigable industry, through a succession of servile employments in dif- ferent places, of longer and shor... ...ness for a vacation, changes his system of ideas from top to bot- tom. The presidential anxieties have lapsed into the background entirely; the offici... ...4 The V arieties of Religious Experience ites. For them the soul is only a succession of fields of consciousness: yet there is found in each field a p...

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...ke plain, through having them returned upon his hands by a dozen agents in succession who could make neither be- ginning, middle, nor end of them or h... ...n the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tri- bune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, to... ...into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...as always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority. Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this natu... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ut self-commendation, a fitness in it. Say things prospered, and they were united. She, the child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. There was a ...

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...ke plain, through having them returned upon his hands by a dozen agents in succession who could make neither be- ginning, middle, nor end of them or h... ...n the ground-floor in which it was held, was the Snuggery in question; the presidential tri- bune of the chairman, the pewter-pots, glasses, pipes, to... ...into a very fair bed; and the stranger was left to the Windsor chairs, the presidential tribune, the beery atmosphere, sawdust, pipe-lights, spittoons... ...the difficult art of governing a country, was first distinctly revealed to statesmen. It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carr... ...n mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of states- manship, How not to do it, in motion. Because the Circumlo- cution ... ...as always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority. Such a nursery of statesmen had the Department become in virtue of a long career of this natu... ...overty; and so dragged at by poverty and the children together, that their united forces had already dragged her face into wrinkles. ‘All such things ... ...t was a leading and a constant subject: for the circumstances of his life, united to those of her own story, presented the little creature to him as t... ...ut self-commendation, a fitness in it. Say things prospered, and they were united. She, the child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. There was a ...

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...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ... herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages (in their several kinds or sorts, at least, although the... ...s who in the chamber of lots are said to rule, sit in judgment, and bear a presidential sway? Neither him nor them, answered Pantagruel; only open up ... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...aging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricio... ...make it sound several times upon the stall of the cook’s shop. Then with a presidential majesty holding his bauble sceptre-like in his hand, muffling ... ... upon the manner of obviat- ing a so dreadful danger, Jove, sitting in his presidential throne, asked the votes of all the other gods, which, after a ...

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...emarkable man,” said the am bassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, bu... ...iving, feigning, and continu ally thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything el... ... friends would never allow me to fight a duel—would never allow the life of a statesman, needed by Russia, to be exposed to danger? Knowing per fectly... ...words did not check his imagination for long. Again in extraordinarily rapid succession his best moments rose before his mind, and then his recent hum... ...tch, with the same somewhat solemn expression with which he used to take his presidential chair at his board, walked into Alexey Alexan drovitch’s ro... ...women and girls he thought of whom he knew, he could not think of a girl who united to such a degree all, positively all, the qualities he would wish ... ...hat he had always desired too for his future family life. And this girl, who united all these qualities, loved him. He was a modest man, but he could ... ...were, with perplexity or reproach in her eyes. Shots followed shots in rapid succession. The smoke of the powder hung about the sportsmen, while in th... .... . ” The conversation passed to the misuse of political power in the United States, but Anna quickly brought it round to another topic, so as to draw...