... of bottles she had ordered to be brought up, and which all bore honorable labels; after care- fully verifying the names written on little bits of pap... ...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ... excused them, kept the din- ner waiting. One was Monsieur du Coudrai, the recorder of mortgages; the other Monsieur Choisnel, former bailiff to the h... ... rived; it was first necessary that all present should put them- selves on record. So the whispers went round from ear to ear:— “You have heard?” “Yes... ...anted before me as mum as a post—” “Which doesn’t think at all!” cried the recorder of mort- gages. “I caught your words on the fly. I present my comp...

...e labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the talk of Johnson and his associates partly by a rough shorthand... ...ars; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, and was very assiduous in recording, his conversation, of which the ex- traordinary vigour and vivaci... ...be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record, and Nathanael, who died in his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Michael Johns... ... Simpson, Mr. Levett, Captain Garrick, father of the great ornament of the British stage; but above all, Mr. Gilbert Walmsley, Register of the Preroga... ... who had practised his own precepts of oeconomy for sev- eral years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to... ... and disputed very warmly with Johnson against the well-known maxim of the British constitution, ‘the King can do no wrong;’ affirming, that ‘what was... ... art. He had all the articles accu- rately arranged, with their names upon labels, printed at his own little press; and on the stair- case leading to ...

...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ... the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervad... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ... ...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ...

...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ... the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervad... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ...

...nk the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies have searched records and produced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, pa... ...bright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they were screened. At... ...n keep remaining sitting.We have a bomb on board. So, sit.”The flight data recorder (also recovered) indicates that Jarrah then instructed the plane’s... ...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...ng with ‘catastrophic, ’‘grand, ’ or ‘super’ terrorism, when in fact these labels do not represent most of the terrorism that the United States is lik... ...ing,” or of “con- necting the dots.” In chapter 11 we explained that these labels are too narrow. They describe the symptoms, not the disease. In each...