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...seclusion he has mentally regressed to the age of 12. http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm http://www.archives.gov/ex... ... Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jos... ...n, New York, on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4300 inmates, including dozens o... ... a stockbroker and moved to live in a converted temple in Belgravia, a fashionable district of London, where he entertained the members of the Le C... ...ccumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz... ...Guillotine is about 580 kg • The guillotine blade with weight is over 40 kg • The heights of the guillotine posts average about 4 meters • The g... ... born in year zero. The very concept of zero was invented much later. Numerous historical minutia in the gospels indicate that Jesus must have ... ...finance, transportation, heavy industry, and foreign trade sectors (the "commanding heights", as they were called at the time). In 1921-2, Leni... ...ells with a nucleus. They helped these cells convert food into ATP - the cellular "battery" molecule. As time passed, these bacteria degenerated...
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... Type: Communist state Capital: Tirane Administrative divisions: 26 rrethet (districts) Legal system: based on constitution adopted in 1976; judicial ... ...divisions: 31 wilayas (departments or provinces); 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law,... ...icials called verguers Capital: Andorra la Vella Administrative divisions: 7 districts Legal system: based on French and Span- ish civil codes; Plan o... ...ed control of the Sinai to Egypt; statistics for the Israeli- occupied Golan Heights are included in the Syria entry Geography Total area: 20,770 km 2... ...Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli occupied with status to be determined; Golan Heights is Israeli occupied; Israeli troops in southern Leba- non since J... ...les, soap, flour mill, matches, three small shipyards, fertilizer plant, and battery factory Electric power: 480,000 kW capacity; 2,150 million kWh pr... ...ent: plain crossed by a few north-flowing, meandering streams Special notes: historic area on North European Plain for conflict because of flat terrai... ...35 nm Boundary disputes: separated from Israel by 1949 Armistice Line; Golan Heights is Israeli occupied; Hatay question with Turkey; periodic dispute...
... facility was ftted with 7,400 solar panels. It is being upgraded to use battery storage to control power fuctuations caused by cloud cover. On a... ...lar system to cool hotels and other buildings in the world-famous resort district. The owner of the Royal Hawaiian, Sheraton Waīkīki and Moana Su... ...elescope will rise on a northern plateau within the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated ledge below existing observatories was chosen for ... ...world stage experiments in space. The collaboration reached unparalleled heights in July of this year when the crew aboard the fnal U.S. space-shu... ... of opulence, innovation, and political intrigue.” Today a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the Italian Renaissance- inspired exterior and regal in... ...pon an extremely ordered and equitable system of land division in which district boundaries were most carefully planned and laid out. This guarant...
...RICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ... ...the bark of trees 118- 122 CHAPTER X. A Remarkably just Emperor. -- The famous district of Mangi -- The rich and mighty Fanfur -- How he surrendered h... .... And if so many cities and nations have perished within the brief period that historic annals measure, how many changes must have taken place in the ... ...n 1010. The most conclusive proof of this expedition is found, not only in the historical descriptions given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of wha... ...us hospitality, but after leaving the two cities last described he entered the district of Mangi, which he represents as being the richest and most fa... ...t was not until seven days after leaving Cholula that the Spaniards gained the heights of Ithualco, from which a majestic and splendid view of Mexico ... ...eiving as it passed the blessing of a monk hermit, who lifted his hands on the heights, of San Lucar and implored the favor of heaven for the expediti... ...he falling of round shot in their midst, for the Spaniards had moved forward a battery during the night and soon succeeded in getting the distance and... ...arture. While the ship remained in sight the natives kept fires burning on the heights as a farewell offering or sacrifice for the prosperity of the j...
...anliness Pg 1068 Movies Pg 1074 Farming Pg 1075 Education Pg 1078 The Historical Jesus Pg 1090 The Poisoning of Self-Love and Self-Sacrific... ...he human brain. It is much older than the Universe. This is the Primary Pre-Historic Dynamic which created the Universe. It pried the Totality of... ... story of this process is told, beginning from the start, can we gain a sane, historical perspective on our present situation and finally understand ... ...ees and get dirty might develop a phobia about germs, or insects, or a fear of heights, or hate camping, or grow to dislike all sports, because they ... ...t. Any kind of instability could topple the privileged elite from their lofty heights. They manage to hoodwink the unprivileged by fear tactics; in... ... Any kind of instability. could topple the privileged elite from their lofty heights. They manage to hoodwink the unprivileged by fear tactics; in... ...y do not happen. It would be like today; connecting wires to a brand new car battery that is perfectly good; and no electricity flowing from it. Su... ...ed to the energy-flow of life- energy and love-energy can be shown using a car battery. The mechanically dead energy source of a car battery has onl... ...he alternator. The gas you use to slightly restore the lost energy of the car battery is a process of 100% depletion. The oil taken out of the Eart...
...s to thrust itself in the way, with most benign compla cency, whenever an historical personage happens to be look ing round for a seat. There is cer... ... pride in anything, it was in being the possessor of such an honorable and historic elbow chair. “I know not precisely who next got possession of the ... ...nd golden magnificence of Sir William Phips. But all these, with the other historic personages, in the midst of whom the chair had so often stood, had... ...prisoners. One of them was Monsieur Bouladrie, who had been commander of a battery outside the walls of Louisburg. The other was the Marquis de la Mai... ...n the limits of King’s County, was as follows:— “To the inhabitants of the District of Grand Pre, Minas, River Canard, &c.; as well ancient, as young ... ...in, by these presents, all of the inhabitants, as well of the above named district as of all the other Districts, both old men and young men, as well... ...remptorily his Majesty’s orders that the whole French inhabitants of these Districts be removed; and I am, through his Majesty’s goodness, directed to... ...pply of powder, began a terrible cannonade and bombardment from Dorchester Heights. One of the cannon balls which he fired into the town struck the to... ...s prevented by a violent gale and storm. General Washington next erected a battery on Nook’s Hill, so near the enemy that it was impossible for them t...
...y oaken legs it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever an historical personage happens to be looking round for a seat....
...mountains of the headland to rest. Before the general background of waving heights which encom- passed the bay, rose a second semicircle of undulating... ...l, the remaining houserows being modestly called lanes, such as Bomb Lane, Battery Lane, Fusee Lane, and so on. In Main Street the Jews predominate, t... ...nd of them the tourist can speak with much more truth and vivacity than of historical recollections compiled out of histories, or filched out of handb... ...e the blue hills of Attica, the silver calm basin of Piraeus, the heathery heights of Pentelicus, and yonder rocks crowned by the Doric col- umns of t... ... in this little bay; dumpy little windmills whirling round on the sunburnt heights round about it; an improvised town of quays and marine taverns has ... ... the town spread beneath. Round this wide, yellow, barren plain,—a stunted district of olive-trees is almost the only vegetation visible— there rises,... ...d who ordered it. The death of the seventy thousand Janissaries ascends to historic dignity, and takes rank as war. But a great Prince and Light of th... ...ure of the country we had to traverse. Before we got to the real mountain district, we were in a manner prepared for it, by the mounting and descent ... ...am-tarts au poivre; but J. ’s cook did not furnish us with either of those historic dishes. And for drink, we had water freshened in the porous little...
...with sweat and dust, and less original than that of the other men, had the historic merit of serving as a transition between the goatskins and the bri... ...ely. This column was a contingent slowly and with difficulty raised in the district of Fougeres, from which it was due un- der the levy ordered by the... ...nnerie.” He hoped by this means to weaken its strength in these formidable districts. This devoted soldier made use of the illusory provisions of the ... ...r declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of which a m... ...e the word—rampant, is called “the country of the Gars.” When a canton (or district) is inhab- ited by a number of half-savages like the one who has j... ...of what you find—quick!” So saying he waved his hand towards the suspected heights along the road. The four men, by way of thanks raised the backs of ... ... the Nancon and across its narrow valley, high rock-formations, called the heights of Saint-Sulpice, follow the stream and descend in gentle slopes to... ...its fortifications and its old gray towers, if Hulot had not been alert. A battery, concealed on a height at the farther end of the basin formed by th... ... first orders admirably executed, 171 Balzac changed the direction of his battery so as to sweep, succes- sively, the valley of the Nancon, the Queen...
...Brunswick is here. With his King and sixty thou- sand, glittering over the heights, from beyond the winding Meuse River, he looks down on us, on our ‘... ...ose Death rather than yield to Despots. The Prussians, descending from the heights, are peaceable masters of Verdun. And so Brunswick advances, from s... ...f War at his lodg- ings there. He spreads out the map of this forlorn war- district: Prussians here, Austrians there; triumphant both, 24 The French ... ...k. There are depths in man that go the length of lowest Hell, as there are heights that reach highest Heaven;—for are not both Heaven and Hell made ou... ...of the business have we advanced since then! The numbers massacred are, in Historical fantasy, ‘between two and three thousand;’ or indeed they are ‘u... ... What we say of him is not dream, nor flourish of rhetoric; but scientific historic fact; as many men, now at this distance, see or begin to see. 54 ... ...l an hour after sunset, the few remaining 55 Thomas Carlyle Clocks of the District striking Seven; at this late time of day Brunswick tries again. Wi... ...is a Montgolfier, a Balloon, and they are making signals! Austrian cannon- battery barks at this Montgolfier; harmless as dog at the Moon: the Montgol... ... element, in sacred right of insurrection, this Gilt Youth was! Broils and battery; war without truce or mea- sure! Hateful is Sansculottism, as Death...
...intelligent appreciation of her place in the universe; not to speak of the historic dignity of London City. Colney had to be overcome afresh, and he f... ...he charioteer is bent on a goal; and Victor’s course was an ascension from heights to heights. He had ideas, he mastered Fortune. He conquered Nataly ... ...owledge for the being a man of the world:— as all do, that have not Alpine heights in the mind to mount for a look out over their own and the world’s ... ...had mapped for himself mentally the battles of conquerors in his favourite historic reading; and he understood the value of a plan, and the dan- ger o... ...umb off the table of knowledge, taken by the brain to shoot up to terrific heights of surveyal; and there she rocked; and only her youthful healthines... ...‘I deny that those two are absurd.’ ‘ And Catkin’s toothache is a galvanic battery upon Peridon.’ Nataly strongly denied it. Peridon and Catkin pertai... ...ted to con- vince Mr. Durance, by means of argument and happy in- stances, historical and immediate, that the English may justly consider themselves t... ...ured into him worked like venom to cause an encounter and a wrestling: his battery of jaws expressed it. They gaped. At the same time, his eyeballs ga... ... the family as well. You won’t listen. And for Society too! Off you go.’ A battery was opened on that wall of composite. ‘ Ah, well,’ said Victor. ‘Bu...
... so long as he brooded on the images of signal Englishmen whose names were historic for daring, and the strong arm, and artfulness, all given to the s... ... to read. Then there was the sailing and the landing, and the march up the heights, which Nevil was condemned to look at. To his joy he obtained an ap... ...hat went to bed with cold feet felt acutely for our soldiers on the frozen heights, and thoughts of heroes were as good as warm- ing-pans. Heroes we w... ... you home unless you learn to hold yourself in. I wish you were in another battery than Robert Hall’s. He forgets the force of example, however much o... ...have so badly on an occa- 37 George Meredith sion when the sailors of his battery caught him out of a fire of shell that raised jets of dust and smok... ...bediently to her tunes, Nevil could not hear injustice done to a people or historic poetic city without trying hard to right the mind guilty of it. A ... ...dour apparent in merely coquettish instincts was not more dangerous than a battery of the arts of the sex. She had heard Nevil’s frank confession, and... ...y mounds, white shelves, shining ledges, domes and peaks, all the towering heights were in illumination from Friuli into farthest T yrol; beyond earth... ...nce, lessens the stout circumferential view that should be taken, at least historically . Indeed, though we admit party to be the soundest method for ...
...ch of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story was soon after adopted as historically established, and was reported at length by journals of the hig... ...ew, of that most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had... ...in France, is reminded by his own distinguishing religious opinions of the historic struggles through which those opin- ions have travelled. The doctr... ...f it amounted to so much, arose with a lady from some part of Cheshire—the district of Knutsford, I believe;— but, wherever it was, in the same distri... ... what implicitly they propounded for homage, are silent. But, of late, the battery has been pointed against the Oxford discipline in its moral aspects... ... left the cycle of imperial powers incomplete, if he suffered the galvanic battery to remain imperfect in its circuit of links, pretty soon *“A bon mo... ...ension were extinct. It was questionable whether a good hearty assault and battery, or a respectable knock-down blow, had been dealt by any man in Lon... ...issaries drunk, cut the whole of them to pieces; and then encamping on the heights of Navarin, his lordship blockaded that fortress. The abruptness of... ...vals slowly agitated in the currents which now and then swept these aerial heights. In the centre of the lat- tice opened a single gate, on each side ...
...n early one Sunday morning, and a very young and foolish artilleryman (his battery had just moved to that part of the world) tried to steal them both.... ...isdom of our fathers—but every one knows the Quebec run. We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty min- utes ahead of time, and there hung at ... ...were casting out these light and unworthy lovers. Our signal came from the Heights. Tim turned and floated up, but surely then it was with passionate ... ...lis, there to commence his life’s work. M. Victor Lavalle tells us of that historic collision (en plane) on the flank of Hecla between Herrera, then a... ...ed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his ca- pacity of a devoted chef. It is almost unbelievable! And... ...uture is cotton. I grew fifty acres of it last year in my Dis- trict.” “My District!” said his father. “Hear him, Mummy!” “I did though! I wish I coul... ... he said. “We’re such awful paupers we can’t even pay for a mailcart in my District. We 118 Actions and Reactions use a biscuit-box on two bicycle wh... ... out. That’s why he agreed with me about devel- oping the resources of the district by cotton-growing, you know.” “You talked of that too?” said Stric...
... and dreadful aspect; and the effect is strik- ing when several such accent the milder ones, which form a city map on a man’s face; they suggest the “... ...leasanter place for such a meal than a raft that is gliding down the winding Neckar past green meadows and wooded hills, and slumbering villages, and ... ... the stones fell in the water. Another blast followed, and another and another. Some of the rub- bish fell in the water just astern of us. We ran that... ...ith vigorous hu- manity—how impossibly long ago that seems!—and here it stands yet, and possibly may still be standing here, sunning itself and dreami... ...t beds remained in the chambers, and their quilts and curtains and canopies were decorated with curious hand- work, and the walls and ceilings frescoe... ...uld walk in his sleep, or his child should fall out of the Mark Twain 144 front yard?—the friends would have a tedious long journey down out of those... ...ding the distance a tedious one. This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those “relief maps” which reproduce nature precisely, wi... ...ne about enough of this kind of talk, I threatened to make Harris tramp back to the summit and make a report on that scenery, and this suggestion spik... ..., I know; you go to cathedrals, and exclaim; and you drag through league-long picture-galleries and exclaim; and you stand here, and there, and yonder...
... nor executive man, have attained its majority. We can then be veraciously historical, honestly transcriptive. Rose-pink and dirty drab will alike hav... ...s, the roots, and the fat bedding of roses. In this fashion she grew, says historical fiction; thus does she flourish now, would say the modern transc... ... would meet them at the corner of the road in the valley leading up to the heights, at a stated hour. Lady Dunstane gave the listless baronet his dire... ...kept alive for the invalid Emma to partake of it, they rattled away to the heights, and climbed them, and Diana rushed to the arms of her friend, whis... ...under beeches that browned the ways, along beside a meadowbrook fed by the heights, through pines and across deep sand-ruts to full view of weald and ... ... woman like Diana 77 George Meredith Warwick having an attachment to this district, so hard of yield, mucky, featureless, fit but for the rails she s... ...r they were unaware of his religious obligation, following the hour of the district, to inform them of the tardy hour of Rome. They waited in suspense... ...ce with her, not a chance. She comes out in blazing armour if you unmask a battery. I don’t know how it might be if she were in love with a fellow. I ... ...se, it relapsed into a common organ, a possession of the multitude, merely historically curious. ‘You are not afraid of the streets at night?’ Diana s...
...Apparently he despises the farmers because they haven’t reached the social heights of selling thread and buttons.” “Parasites? Us? Where’d the farmers... ... Miss Sherwin confided her latest scheme—moral motion pictures for country districts, with light from a portable dynamo hitched to a Ford engine. Bea ... ...rry, 141 Sinclair Lewis the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis. She poured out h... ... say to my writing to the Lake Ojibawasha Club, telling them that if their district will support Mrs. Warren for sec- ond vice-president, we’ll suppor... ... Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand. I’m broken. It’s the historical Anglo- Saxon way of making life miserable… . Oh, my dear, I have... ... between two snow-drifts. They drove from the natural prairie to a cleared district which twenty years ago had been forest. The country seemed to stre... ... It was a wonderful trip. So many points of interest through Massachusetts—historical. There’s Lex- ington where we turned back the redcoats, and Long... ...ton!” VII It was in the Villa Margherita, by the palms of the Charles- ton Battery and the metallic harbor, that her aloofness melted. When they sat o...
...ight and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, w... ...f looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty- stricken sort of creak to... ....” I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his... ...right cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon th... ...ssion; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale’s vast t... ...s has been 189 Herman Melville denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxili... ...rant the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable historical instances where a particu- lar whale in the ocean has been at di... ...he world, that without some 202 Moby Dick hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as ... ...us countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passin...
... Honor and Glory of Whaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 83 Jonah Historically Regarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 84 Pitchp... ...ght and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme down town is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, w... ...f looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty stricken sort of creak to ... ....” I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his... ...right cones of congregated blossoms. So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the... ...many 114 Chapter 24 The Advocate a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery,would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale’s vast ta... ...t of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxili... ...le wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a... ... countries where the traveller is continually gir dled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passin...
...John. There was no moving on until he was filled. His process of receiving historical knowledge was to fight over again the personages who did injury ... ... had a laborious mind; it cost him beads on his forehead to mount to these heights of meditation. He told me once that he thought one’s country was li... ...Universities. Our ears were indifferent to the young man’s career from the heights of fortune to delirium tremens down the cataract of brandy, until t... ... they partly pervert it as well. Temple’s version is, I am sure, the truer historical pic- ture. He, however, could never repeat it twice exactly alik... ...ies, attended military spectacles, rode on omnibuses, dined on the country heights, went to the- atres, and had a most pleasurable time, gaining every... ...ousand pounds per annum on the day of your union with a young lady in this district, Miss Janet Ilchester. He undertakes likewise to provide her pin-m... ...come to nuptials. Good, you observe? I con- fine myself to the relation of historical circumstances; in other words, facts; and of good or bad I know ... ... had no head for reflections. My father diverted me by levelling the whole battery of his comic mind upon Peterborough, who had a heap of manu- script... ...tions. I said nothing about it. He told me aghast that I had spat blood. A battery of eight fists, having it in the end all its own way, leaves a deep...
...to allay the fears of prospective readers, I beg to point out that the few historical allusions are never dragged in for the sake of parading my uniqu... ...ted of a robbery with violence on a wealthy ran- chero in a remote country district, where he was ac- tually exercising the function of a judge. Now, ... ...here in Europe. A few months before he had made his acquaintance in an old historic German town, situated in a mining district. The American had his w... ...made his acquaintance in an old historic German town, situated in a mining district. The American had his womankind with him, but seemed lonely while ... ... extended to strangers the large hospitality of the cool, big rooms of its historic quar- ters in the front part of a house, once the residence of a h... ...lent, and gone cold all over with excitement at the instant when the first battery of only fifteen stamps was put in motion for the first time. On the... ...cracking of whips, with the reckless rush and pre- cise driving of a field battery hurrying into action, and the solitary English figure of the Señor ... ...d in an ancient and dismantled little fort at the harbour entrance. Half a battery of field guns had been hurried over there from the Sulaco barracks ... ...her dream, a vision of steep and tide- less shores, with dark pines on the heights and white houses low down near a very blue sea. He saw the quays of...
...f the ashen-faced peaks and the pas- tures of the green mountain, till the heights become islands over a forgotten earth. Bells of herds down the hidd... ...o be a serviceable instrument, must consent to act as one. Hannibal is the historic example of what a General can accomplish with tribes who are thus,... ... and there is no rising,’ said Medole. ‘She is detached from the patriotic battery, for the mo- 90 Vittoria ment: it will be better for her not to si... ...elding to the natural temptation to increase the shock of the antithetical battery, she would have betrayed herself: but it came at the right moment: ... ...myself.’ ‘At each elbow!’ she laughed. ‘You show the thumps of an electric battery at each elbow, and expect your Goddess of lightnings not to see tha... ...tese General, a T uscan duke, and one or two aristocratic notabilities and historic nobodies. They were hostile to the Chief whom Luciano and Carlo re... ...far as he had dared to stray from her. He had seen no habitation along the heights. The vale was too distant for strangers to reach it before nightfal... ..., no woman could have had a gentler companion. On the topmost ridge of the heights, looking over an in- terminable gulf of darkness they saw the light... ...urden herself. There came tidings of the bombardment of Brescia one of the historic deeds of infamy. Many officers of the Imperial army perceived the ...
... amica veritas; Teufelsdrockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the world... ...thout father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expressing hi... ...of this when he sees it, readers may wonder; we, safe in the stronghold of Historical Fidelity, are careless. The main point, doubtless, for us all, i... ... Laystall, especially with its Rags or Clothes-rubbish, the grand Electric Battery, and Fountain-of-motion, from which and to which the Social Activit... ...an Editor enough to do. Ever higher and 51 Thomas Carlyle dizzier are the heights he leads us to; more piercing, all- comprehending, all-confounding ... ...er reach the Entepfuhl Circulating Library, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explanation. Nay, since Books, like in... ... the Donau bring down his mould-cargoes from the Carinthian and Carpathian Heights, and spread them out here into the softest, richest level,—intend t... ...rinding in the mill of Industry; one hunter-like climbing the giddy Alpine heights of Science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife, in w...
...here was no other way of securing Lady Gosstre, who led the society of the district. The great lady gave her promise to attend: “though,” as she said ... ...had produced the usual effect on the ladies, who were now looking to other heights from that level. The ladies said: “We have only to press it with pa... ...as shaken with sobs— unmistakeable, hard, sorrowful convulsions. “Confound historical facts that make her cry!” he mur- mured to himself, in a fury at... ... her thinking was not originally the mere action of lively blood upon that battery of intelligence, she will by-and-by reflect that it is not well for... ...ut now Ed- ward Burley camp running with a message from the aristo- cratic heights, and thither Wilfrid walked captive—saying in Adela’s ear, “Don’t b... ... her hand, addressed to her sister Cornelia. Adela walked slowly up to the heights. She knew Mr. Barrett’s handwriting. “Good heavens!”—her thought ma... ... its heroic youth banded to rise, and sworn to liberate it or die; of good historic names borne by men, his comrades, in old campaigning adventures; a...
..., as he neared the metropolis, distantly dropped his eye. There were names historic and names mushroomic; names that the Conqueror might have called i... ...d enliven the conscious full heart within. The flaming West, the crim- son heights, shower their glories through voluminous leaf- age. But these are b... ...e compared to one to whom, in an electric circle, it is given to carry the battery. We caper and grimace at his will; yet not his the will, not his th... ...e- riod. Astonishment never shook the foundations, nor did envy of greater heights tempt him to relinquish the security of his stronghold, for he saw ... ...oppressive slumber hung about the forest-branches. In the dells and on the heights was the same dead heat. Here where the brook tinkled it was no cool... ... crying, “Hurry.” Brayder re- turned the nod, and those who promenaded the district soon beheld his body in elegant motion to the stepping of his well...
...have vanished leaving no trace, and nothing re- mains of that time but its historic results. Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain pe... ...that is, to doing the very thing that was bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying th... ...will. He is as right as other histo- rians who look for the explanation of historic events in the will of one man; he is as right as the Russian histo... ...th those who had been in the village and those who had been at work on the battery, threw down their spades and ran to meet the church procession. Fol... ...nnamed, which afterwards became known as the Raevski Redoubt, or the Knoll Battery, but Pierre paid no special attention to it. He did not know that i... ...ns, will move forward, open fire, and overwhelm with shellfire the enemy’s battery, against which will operate: 24 guns of the artillery of the Guard... ...l occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand’s and Gibrard’s divisions, which under his leadership wil... ...e village (Borodino) and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand’s and Gdrard’s divisions (for whose movements no directio... ...was rest, tranquillity, and freedom. But when he had been on the Semenovsk heights the artillery commander had proposed to him to bring several bat- t...
... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...er: forward, through low- est subterranean depths, and over highest sunlit heights, of Harlotdom and Rascaldom—to the guillotine-axe, which shears awa... ...and steady; now or 69 Thomas Carlyle never!—the World shall see one other Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Sta... ...and operates down even to the popu- lace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal con... ... Paris, on the world generally? From the dens of Stock-brokerage, from the heights of Political Economy, of Neckerism and Philosophism; from all artic... ...nify to fifty: all wend- ing towards Paris and Versailles! Already, on the heights of Montmartre, is a digging and delving; too like a scarping and tr... ...d for dear bad bread! Controversies, to the length, sometimes of blood and battery, must arise in these exasper- ated Queues. Or if no controversy, th... ... measuring. Nay heights, as was before hinted, have cannon; and a floating-battery of cannon is on the Seine. When eye fails, ear shall serve; and all... ...s fellow’s; and armed Federates clang their arms; above all, that floating battery speak! It has spoken,—to the four corners of France. From eminence ...
... a warm, rainy, autumnal day . The wide expanse that opened out before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge was at tim... ...the opposite side the enemy could be seen by the naked eye, and from their battery a milk-white cloud arose. Then came the distant report of a shot, a... ...een. Prince Andrew stopped and be- gan examining the position. “That’s our battery ,” said the staff officer indicating the highest point. “It’s in ch... ... whole line from right flank to left, Prince Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had told him the whole field could be ... ...y following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pic- tured to himself the cou... ...nfantry, cavalry, and artillery, which were to be the first to descend the heights to attack the French right flank and drive it into the Bohemian mou... ...he valley. The fourth column, with which Kutuzov was, stood on the Pratzen Heights. Below, where the fight was beginning, there was still thick fog; o... .... He noted this down that same evening, among other facts he felt to be of historic importance. As the Emperor’s suite was a very small one, it was a ... ...y for himself, but is an uncon- scious instrument in the attainment of the historic, univer- sal, aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and it...
...f Captain Kirby and Curtis Fakenham are alive to the present moment in the district. 22 The Amazing Marriage We lived a happy domestic life in those ... ...t raised the breast high to breathe it; an uplifting coolness pervaded the heights. What wonder that the mountain-bred girl should let fly her voice. ... ...y cloud-feather was edged with rose, and then suffused. It seemed that the heights fronted East to eye the interflooding of colours, and it was imagin... ...marching over woods and meads, black against the edge of golden; and great heights were cut with them, and bounding waters took the leap in a silvery ... .... Back to Baden, with means to procure the pleasant shocks of the galvanic battery there, was her thought; for she had a fear of the earl’s having aga... ...words, with four simple fists to compass a patent fact and stand it on the historic pedestal, with a little red writing underneath: you never can pate... ...at a word, a scent, a sound, to conjure up scenes, in spirit and in flame. Historically, they still march with Cadwallader, with Llewellyn, with Glend... ...uite shape an idea of annoyance, though he hung to it and faced at Gower a battery of the promise to pay him for this. Tattling observers were estimat... ...the Welshmen is declared to have not exceeded nine. So much pretends to be historic, in opposition to the poetic version. They would, we may be sure, ...
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 CHAPTER VII — MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES .... ... amica veritas; Teufelsdr¨ ockh is our friend, Truth is our divinity. In our historical and critical capacity, we hope we are strangers to all the wor... ...without father or mother of any kind; sometimes, with reference to his great historic and statistic knowledge, and the vivid way he had of expressing ... ...he Laystall, especially with its Rags or Clothes rubbish, the grand Electric Battery, and Fountain of motion, from which and to which the Social Activ... ...or inspired, gives an Ed itor enough to do. Ever higher and dizzier are the heights he leads us to; more piercing, all comprehending, all confounding... ...hl Circulating Li 60 SARTOR RESARTUS brary, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explana tion. Nay, since Books, lik... ...de the Donau bring down his mould cargoes from the Carinthian and Carpathian Heights, and spread them out here into the softest, richest level,—intend... ... grinding in the mill of Industry; one hunter like climbing the giddy Alpine heights of Science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife, 1...
... ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29 -- CHAPTER VII? MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL, 31 -- CHAPTER VIII? THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES, 34 -- CHAPTER IX? ADAMITISM, 39 -- CHAPTER X? PURE REASON, 43 -- CHAPTER XI? PROSPECTIVE, 47 -- BOOK II 55 -- CHAPTER I ?GENESIS, 55 -- CHAPTER II ?IDYLLIC, 61 -- CHAP...
... years before, I had lost my mother. In time past my father, the head of a historic family remem- bered even now in Auvergne, had come to Paris to fig... ...our fabliaux,—these things alone have power to carry me back to the divine heights of my first love. “Nothing expressed in human language, no thought ... ...helmed with work. I have all the necessary materials for some very curious historical memoirs in my hands, and I cannot find any one to whom I can asc... ...means as much to you as a thousand francs does to him. Come, you can write historical memoirs, a work of art such as never was, since Diderot once wro... ..., and all are alike difficult of access. But when man has once stormed the heights of these grand mysteries, does he not walk in an- other world? Are ... ...rful electric shock; next he sub- mitted it to the influence of a galvanic battery; but all the thunderbolts his science wotted of fell harmless on th... ... acids, so much clear water; red potash had been discredited; the galvanic battery and elec- tric shock had been a couple of playthings. “A hydraulic ... ...tuated. The view from this prom- ontory, as one may call it, comprises the heights of Bugey with the Rhone flowing at their foot, and the end of the l... ... peasant stamp. So was her dia- lect; she was a thorough embodiment of her district; its hardworking ways, its thrift, ignorance, and heartiness all m...
... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the marriage tie. On the contrary, having the amia... ...of the backwardness under which medical treatment labors in our provincial districts.” “Yes;—with our present medical rules and education, one must be... ...ternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits ... ... agree with me, Dr. Sprague?” “To a certain extent—with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis,” said the Doctor. “But I hope it will be ... ...rawers, “I fancy I have made an exhaustive study of the entomology of this district. I am going on both with the fauna and flora; but I have at least d... ...the quickening power of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the sup pressed transitions which unite al... ...rinking with the furniture and the white vapor walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to... ...arts, Or towered cities rise? I n watching effects, if only of an electric battery, it is often necessary to change our place and examine a particular...
... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the mar- riage-tie. On the contrary, having the am... ...of the backwardness under which medical treatment labors in our provincial districts.” “Y es;—with our present medical rules and education, one must b... ...ternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits ... ... agree with me, Dr. Sprague?” “To a certain extent—with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis,” said the Doctor. “But I hope it will be ... ...the quickening power of a knowledge which breathes a growing soul into all historic shapes, and traces out the suppressed transitions which unite all ... ...without handling capital, and was one of those precious men within his own district whom everybody would choose to work for them, because he did his w... ...rinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult t... ..., Or towered cities rise? IN WATCHING EFFECTS, if only of an electric battery, it is often necessary to change our place and examine a particular...
...ts, and the tickling of fish, and poaching joys with combative boys of the district, and how to wheedle a cook for a luncheon for a whole day in the r... ... of Patterne would offer plenty of time to inspect the empty houses of the district, and should be sufficient, considering the claims of friends, and ... ...struction as Sir Willoughby’s humour proclaimed of him. He had connected a battery with a train of gunpowder, shat- tering a window-frame and unsettli... ... like to be promoted to scale a giant.” They went up to some of the lesser heights of Switzerland and Styria, and settled in South Tyrol, the young la... ...d and Styria, and settled in South Tyrol, the young lady pre- ferring this district for the strenuous exercise of her climbing powers because she love... ...eredith tea-cup tempests, which you magnify to hurricanes, in the approved historic manner of the book of Cupid. And all the better; I repeat, it is t... ...angeing and peering all over the room. Willoughby went to his desk and the battery-table and the mantelpiece. He found no letter. Barclay had undoubte... ... it has to be noted that it was a phrase of assault; it was ostentatiously battery; and I would venture to remind you, friend, that among the elect, c... ...last and headlong advocate, who is quick as the flood to hurry us from the heights to our level, and lower, if there be acciden- tal gaps in the chann...
...nta Barbara and San Francisco; thus divid- ing the country into four large districts, each with its presidio, and governed by the commandant. The s... ...t in one line from their cradles to their graves. We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of l... ...w, like any other person. He is liable at common law for murder, assault and battery, and other offences; and in addition to this, there is a special... ...ollowing letter from the owner of the Alert, giving her later record and her historic end,—captured and burned by the rebel Alabama: NEW LONDON, ...