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...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...anv TAILORS At Bemis' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Thm FInast Lino of Plmno» In ihm County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams iflMSiii**^ ' ' : . I \U ... ... Henry Root, A. M., one of the most widely known members of the Washington county medical profession, died of apoplexy when about to sit down to a ban...

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... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...f great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American statesman... ...out much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridic... ...and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly. Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man,... ...m a friend to buy a new suit of clothes—”store clothes” fit for a Sangamon County statesman; and thus adorned he set out for the state capital, Vandal... ...ment upon grave affairs of state with a story about “a man out in Sangamon County,”—a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lac...

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...lt Maitre Derville, attorney-at-law. “Come, Simonnin, don’t play tricks on people, or I will turn you out of doors. However poor a client may be, he i... ...ssed by the fourth clerk, of which copies were being made by two neophytes from the provinces. Then he went on improvising: “But, in his noble and ben... ...y! Monsieur Hure, you take ‘By Jingo’ for a law term, and you say you come from Mortagne!” exclaimed Simonnin. “Scratch it cleanly out,” said the head... ...he would say you were laughing at the whole boiling. Y ou would hear of it from the chief! Come, no more of this nonsense, Monsieur Hure! A Norman oug... ...nts, a passage; to the chief, a laboratory. The greasy furniture is handed down to succes- sive owners with such scrupulous care, that in some offices... ...e old order of things, represented the present Court of First Instance (or County Court). So in this dark office, thick with dust, there was, as in al... ...a thousand times, ‘Here is a poor man who thinks he is Colonel Chabert’ to people who would reply, ‘Poor fellow!’ I became convinced of the impossibil... ...s office the ten gold pieces which had so long been refused him by so many people, and in so many ways! The colonel was like the lady who, having been... ...ext day Comte Ferraud’s man of business, lately appointed President of the County Court in a town of some importance, wrote this distressing note to D...

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...liam Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone ha...

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...the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascer... ...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...ns. Thirdly, even apart from the political as- pects of Warwickshire, this county happens to be the central one of England, as regards the roads betwe... ...ngest daughter and the heiress of Robert Arden, of Wilmecote, Esq., in the county of Warwick. The family of Arden was even then of great antiquity. Ab... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen...

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...ility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant. Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. Their bristly fur was rimed with frost. Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapor that settled upon the hair of their bo...

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...zen hearted Northland Wild. But there was life, abroad in the land and defiant. Down the frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs. Their bristly ... ... end of the sled was turned up, 2 White Fang like a scroll, in order to force down and under the bore of soft snow that surged like a wave before it.... ...nned leather. Eye lashes and cheeks and lips were so coated with the crystals from their frozen breath that their faces were not discernible. This ga... ...to the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardors and exaltations and undue self val... ...and said: “Then you’re thinkin’ as it was — “ A long wailing cry, fiercely sad, from somewhere in the darkness, had inter rupted him. He stopped to li... ...enough stones over our carcases to keep the dogs off of us.” “But we ain’t got people an’ money an’ all the rest, like him,” Henry rejoined. “Long dis... ...lers of four and six. There was no way for anybody to tell him about all these people, and of blood ties and relationship he knew nothing whatever and... ...de and complex, yet it had its metes and bounds. The land itself ceased at the county road. Outside was the common domain of all gods — the roads and ... ...od. After this event he found a warmer place in the hearts of the Sierra Vista people, and even the groom whose arm he had slashed admitted that he wa...

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...nd ditch and wall? O that was a Legion’s camping-place, When Caesar sailed from Gaul! 5 Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like sh... ... Rudyard Kipling And see you marks that show and fade, Like shadows on the Downs? O they are the lines the Flint Men made, T o guard their wondrous to... ...re not, of course, allowed to act on Midsummer Night itself, but they went down after tea on Midsummer Eve, when the shadows were growing, and they to... ...nging his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of the meado... ...nd in ‘ies’. They were both so pleased that they acted it three times over from be- ginning to end before they sat down in the unthistly centre of the... ...hing. ‘If this had happened a few hundred years ago you’d have had all the People of the Hills out like bees in June!’ ‘We didn’t know it was wrong,’ ... ...at’s just why you did it. Unluck- ily the Hills are empty now, and all the People of the Hills are gone. I’m the only one left. I’m Puck, the oldest O... ...eard that sung, but there’s no good beating about the bush: it’s true. The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and I s... ...hout. I didn’t care! I was as good a Chris- tian as he any fair-day in the County, and about four o’clock in the morning a young novice came along fro...

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...ven at such an early stage, “the University Press style book and style sheet” was considered important enough to be preserved, along with other items from the Press’s early years, in the cornerstone of the new Press building in 1903. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and by 1906 the pamphlet had become a book: Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rul...

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...odd moments for the individual guidance of the first proofreader; added to from year to year, as opportunity would offer or new necessities arise; ... ... West (United States). But do wt, as a rule, capitalize adjectives derived from such names, even if used substantively; nor nouns simply designatin... ...es, a southerner (but: Northman = Scandinavian); an invasion of barbarians from the north, traveling through the south of Europe. A The Universitv... ...Republic (=Rt?pdliquce Frawaise), United Kingdom, Northwest Territory, Cook County, Evanston Township, Kansas City (New York City-exception); (2) D... ... gium, [kingdom of God, or of heaven], duchy of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisions : Elev... ...Trafalgar Square; Monadnock Block; Lakeside Building, Capitol, White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British M... ...ganiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, Associated Charities; Smith- so... ...n if applied to a specific institution, except to avoid ambiguity : young people's societies, the high school at Lemont, local typographical union... ...Street, "Lives of Well-known Authors," "World- Dominion of English-speaking Peoples." 40. In zoological, botanical, and similar technical matter, t...

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... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ... or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. ... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...er age 18 Elections: elections held for People's Congress representatives at county level Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... ...h about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) service... ...s (Bundes- strassen), 65,425 km state highways (Lan- desstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen); 296,737 km of unclassified communal roads (...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng... ...uman body. The town- 77 Tocqueville ship is the lowest in order, then the county, and lastly the State; and I propose to devote the following chapter...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ...parts so grotesque, wilder also by much in Connaught than in Lord Massey’s county of Limerick; whilst he (with- out affecting any delight in the hunti... ...s. Lord Carbery was a thorough fox-hunter. The fox-hunting of the adjacent county of Leicestershire was not then what it is now. The state of the land... ...rtance of this great house rested exclusively upon its connection with the county of Chester. In this connection it was that the young Vis- count Belg...

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... evidences of design, and con- cert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning. The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more t... ...lavery excluded from more than half the States by State Constitutions, and from most of the National territory by Congressional prohibition. Four days... ...nt gained. But, so far, Congress only had acted, and an indorsement by the people, real or apparent, was indispensable to save the point already gaine... ... legis- late slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there- from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate t... ...to any Territory or State, nor to exclude it there- from, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic instituti... ...tion members, “let us amend the bill so as to ex- pressly declare that the people of the Territory may exclude slavery.” “Not we,” said the friends of... ...rintendent of Public Instruction, Members of Congress, of the Legislature, County Officers, and so on, we allowed these things to happen by want of su... ... morning. The times and places designated are as follows: Ottawa, La Salle County August 21st, 1858. Freeport, Stephenson County August 27th, Jones... ...t 21st, 1858. Freeport, Stephenson County August 27th, Jonesboro, Union County September 15th, Charleston, Coles County September 18th, Galesburgh,...

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...ars ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her un...

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...s, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a barone... ...rdly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride, from a general wish of doing right, an... ... and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless 4 JANE AUSTEN remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her... ...s, and within a twelve month a more important advantage to Mrs. Price resulted from it. Mrs. Norris was often observing to the others, that she could ... ...oured smile, became immediately the less awful character of the two. The young people were all at home, and sustained their share in the introduc tio... ...er better spirits with every body else. The place became less strange, and the people less formidable; and if there were some amongst them whom she co... ...’s being stupid at learning, “she could only say it was very unlucky, but some people were stupid, and Fanny must take more pains; she did not know wh... ...good and agreeable. It was a connection exactly of the right sort; in the same county, and the same interest; and his most hearty concurrence was conv... ... since the Crawfords’ arrival. He had been visiting a friend in a neighbouring county, and that friend having recently had his grounds laid out by an ...

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...fortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. By a former marriage, Mr. Henry Dashwood had...

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...ntion of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of sol... ... as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father’s inheriting that property, could be but small. Their... ...leasure. He was neither so unjust, nor so un grateful, as to leave his estate from his nephew; — but he left it to him on such terms as destroyed hal... ...the present, of shewing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it. So acutely did Mrs. Das... ... life cannot be worth half that purchase.” “Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them; ... ... himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performance of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, t... ... inquiry. Her resolution was formed as she read. The situation of Barton, in a county so far distant from Sussex as Devonshire, which, but a few hours... ...night. “A fortnight!” she repeated, surprised at his being so long in the same county with Elinor without seeing her before. He looked rather distress... ...stop to her entreaties. She thought it probable that as they lived in the same county, Mrs. Palmer might be able to give some more particular account ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun...

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...anding government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to ex ecute their will, is equally liable to be abused ... ...cute their will, is equally liable to be abused and per verted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of co... ...iduals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have con sented to this measure. This American government... ...al, must do justice, cost what it may. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself. This, ... ...o them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with 8 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience their hands in their pockets... ...trade, and quietly read the prices current along with the lat est advices from Mexico, after dinner, and, it may be, fall asleep over them both. Wha... ...no: I find that the respect able man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his coun try has more... ...e of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico—see if I would go... ...ere actually to withdraw from this co partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the aboli tion of slavery in America. F...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...ly, and I do not watch myself, they will find me out to be of a particular county. In the same man- ner, Dunning may be found out to be a Devonshire m... ...great estate, I would drive all the rascals whom I did not like out of the county at an election.’ We then walked to the Pantheon. The first view of i... ...he was so exuberant a talker at publick meeting, that the gentlemen of his county were afraid of him. No business could be done for his declamation.’ ...

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... then almost gave up every brick of the jail for lost. Wandering, however, down a certain adjacent ‘Angel Court, leading to Bermondsey’, I came 5 Lit... ...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...to be fed, looking sideways through the bars that he might see the further down the stairs, with much of the expression of a wild beast in similar exp... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b...

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...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...bly heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... .... (1) 8 ―It seems that instincts are much stronger as we climb down t... ...h the id on the bottom with its little pleasure urges climbing upward. But on the top of the ladder the morality of the conscience is climbing down a... ...seeking their roots. In Norway, with a population of only 4 million, people‘s holiday and formal wear is often the costume of their ancestral county...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed downward.  A body streamlined for swimming.  Ability to swim even as b... ...where it makes it easier for us to choke to death if a chunk of meat goes down the wrong way. That‘s something that rarely happens to a dog or a cat... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...mptuous in its pretensions. There is a map of Washing- ton accurately laid down; and taking that map with him in his journeyings, a man may lose himse... ...s for accommodating its own increasing proportions? Was it not well to lay down fine avenues and broad streets, so that future citi- zens might find a... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one as a medic. The other two of the four friends, i...

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...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the roa...

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...fter Matt; they come upon Morris in uniform 9. Brandt rescues Morris in a fight with an antiwar demonstrator 10. Steward gets some heartfelt advice from Barbara Carpenter 11. Steward visits his draft board to ask about his status 12. Steward bores Mary’s sister, Ellen; she winds up with Morris 13. Matt and Mary discuss their relationship and make a commitment 14. VIS...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend ... ...alist Papers or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies tha... ...om the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies than from its union under one government. It is not, however, my design to dwell... ...les of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, wil... ...he same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particu- lar county or district, than an entire State. In the extent and proper structur... ...ed with the State of New Y ork will doubt that the active wealth of King’s County bears a much greater proportion to that of Montgomery than it would ... ...s, how is it acquired? No doubt from the information of the members of the county. Cannot the like knowledge be obtained in the national legislature f...

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...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, h...

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... previ ous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been ... ... to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Ref... ... o these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as... ..., and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the n... ...y this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and des... ... last, and, by successive aggrega tion, constitute a polity suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superinduce... ...e principles which are the foundation of represen tative government. In a County Board there is not the same justification as in Boards of Guardians ... ... admix ture of ex officio with elected members, since the business of a county being on a sufficiently large scale to be an object of interest and ... ...ves elected to the Board than they have in being returned to Parliament as county members. In regard to the proper circumscription of the constituen ...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...d gained the man- agement of a little political interest in a neighbouring county where the Douglas family originally held large possessions. It was o... ...om-hopes of Lady Ashton that her eldest son, Sholto, should represent this county in the British Par- liament, and she saw this alliance with Bucklaw ... ...ordinly. “There was little to prevent Bucklaw himself from sitting for the county; he must carry the heat—must walk the course. Two cousins-german, si...

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... Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world, as is pretended. Secondly, that if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it. Thirdly, that if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor positi...

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...am had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominion over the world... ...arth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that which is held to be the fountain of all power, “Adam’s private d... ...r hath taught us. 2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss to set down what I take to be political power. That the power of a magistrate ove... ...power. That the power of a magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his servant, a husba... ... that is common in England or any other country, where there are plenty of people under government who have money and commerce, no one can enclose or ... ...part of the world which was first inhabited, and therefore like to be best peopled, even as low down as Abraham’s time, they wandered with their flock... ...ch was first inhabited, and therefore like to be best peopled, even as low down as Abraham’s time, they wandered with their flocks and their herds, wh... ... comforts of life; whom Nature, having furnished as liberally as any other people with the materials of plenty i.e., a fruitful soil, apt to produce ... ...d as many representatives to the grand assembly of law mak ers as a whole county numerous in people and powerful in riches. This strangers stand amaz...

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...ore unfortunate sections of the population have been igno- rant, apathetic from excess of toil and weariness, timorous through the imminent danger of ... ... power, and morally unreliable owing to the loss of self-respect resulting from their degradation. T o create among such classes any conscious, delibe... ...ore advanced French T rade Unions. But the ideas are, in the main, derived from Anar- chism, and the men who gained acceptance for them were, for the ... ...lasses, and goes through life believing that he and his friends are kindly people, because they have no wish to injure those toward whom they enter- t... ...rve to explain the bitterness of many Socialists:— Mr. Broughton Charlton, county magistrate, declared, as chair- man of a meeting held at the Assembl... ...e executed. Justices of the peace, on information, are to hunt the rascals down. If it happens that a vagabond has been idling about for three days, h... ...e certain of him. The last part of this statute provides that certain poor people may be employed by a place or by persons, who are willing to give th... ...means of production of combined, socialized labor, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world-market, and with this, the international ch... ... rapidly. Ultimately a new International was formed (1889) which continued down to the outbreak of the present war. As to the future of International ...

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... it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...l bond. I do not observe that their unions prove less monogamic than other people’s: rather the contrary, in fact; consequently, I do not know whether... ...act; consequently, I do not know whether they make less fuss than ordinary people when either party claims the benefit of the treaty; but the existenc... ...ger than the strongest individual. Certainly the marriage law is. The only people who successfully evade it are those who actually avail themselves of... ...union is often found in practice to be as tyrannical and as hard to escape from as the worst legal one. We may take it then that when a joint domestic... ...ome means of dissolu- tion. The conditions of dissolution may vary widely, from those on which Henry VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arra... ... command- ment, which English women will one day succeed in obliter- ating from the walls of our churches by refusing to enter any building where they... ...ton, was idolized. Shelley might have had an illegiti- mate child in every county in England if he had done so frankly as a sinner. His unpardonable o... ...ent made this day of blank blank between blank blank of blank blank in the County of blank, Esquire, hereinafter called the Gentleman, of the one part... ...ter called the Gentleman, of the one part, and blank blank of blank in the County of blank, hereinafter called the Lady, of the other part, whereby it...

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... myself again shaking it off and disavowing the pretence of it while I get down into the arena and do my best to live and breathe and rub shoulders an... ... contribution. Their chronicle strikes me as quite of the stuff to keep us from forgetting that absolutely no refinement of ingenuity or of precaution ... ... upon himself; the rest of our impression, in either case, coming straight from the very motion with which that act is performed. We see Charlotte als... ... is, for the projector and creator of figures and scenes that are as nought from the moment they fail to become more or less visible appearances, charm... ...mple reason that no revisionist I can recall has ever been communicative. “People don’t do such things,” we remember to have heard it, in this connexi... ...sten to add, the situation remains simple and their responsibility may lie down beside their work even as the lion beside the lamb; or else they have ... ...y to bring a charge of waste against the other things that, with the other people known to the young man, had failed of such a result. “Why his ‘form’... ...ver brought any one out. Goodness, when it’s real, precisely, rather keeps people in.” He had been interested in his discrimination, which amused him.... ...ebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns House in the county of Kent, scarcely figured as a definite place at all; it showed someho...

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... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

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...LUME OF PAPERS, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of mea... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...cular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and off... ...ny different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black ... ...d, but at home we still preserve the racy idioms of our fathers, and every county, in some parts every dale, has its own quality of speech, vocal or v... ...re is one country, for instance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the Engli... ... pleasure I had in his society. Poor soul, I remember how much he was cast down at times, and how life (which had not yet begun) seemed to be already ... ...cattered into the remotest parts of the earth, and how many more have lain down beside their fathers in their “resting-graves”! And again, how many of...

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...Excerpt: We present 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 ca...

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...ganization, 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? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h... ...ncident required a major rescue, fire, and medical response from Arlington County at the U.S. military’s headquarters—a facility under the control of ... ...d the daily operations and emergency management requirements of Arlington County and all bordering and sur- rounding jurisdictions. 191 At 9:37, the ...

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...archwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer....

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...ed a little, and the shrinking that some- times came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made her draw back into the house and pretend to ... ...ime that she had blue eyes like Annabel Balch, the girl who sometimes came from Springfield to spend a week with old Miss Hatchard, straightened the s... ...r in a familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the... ...familiar place. What, she won- dered, did North Dormer look like to people from other parts of the world? She herself had lived there since the age of... ...mer church, had proposed, in a fit of mission- ary zeal, to take the young people down to Nettleton to hear an illustrated lecture on the Holy Land; a... ...he would have enjoyed looking at if his explanations had not prevented her from understanding them. This initiation had shown her that North Dormer wa... ... was such a work, she knew: “North Dormer and the Early Townships of Eagle County.” She had a special grudge against it because it was a limp weakly b... ...than to keep a hired girl. Everybody knows you’re the closest man in Eagle County; but I guess you’re not going to get your mending done for you that ... ...way from him: “Oh, I’ll wait.” V THERE HAD NEVER BEEN such a June in Eagle County. Usually it was a month of moods, with abrupt alternations of belate...

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...s working on the edge of the common, beyond the small brook that ran in the dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and bracken, leaving the grey, dryish soil bare. But he was worried because he could not get the path straight, there was a pleat between his brows. He had set...

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... dip at the bottom of the garden, carrying the garden path in continuation from the plank bridge on to the common. He had cut the rough turf and brack... ... pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall ... ...ce. But he worked on. What was there to do but submit! The sunlight blazed down upon the earth, there was a viv- idness of flamy vegetation, of fierce... ...ightness. And he was white-skinned with fine, silky hair that had darkened from fair, and a slightly arched nose of an old country family. They were a... ...fferent paste. The girls and the father were strong- limbed, thick-blooded people, true English, as holly-trees and hawthorn are English. Their cultur... ...ensity for so many generations. It seemed to cast a spell on the two young people. They be- came different. There was a curious secret glow about them... ...and he was gratified by the glow of physical passion between the two young people. To the man who in London still worked hard to keep steady his modes... ...RE IS IN THE MIDLANDS a single-line tramway system which boldly leaves the county town and plunges off into the black, industrial countryside, up hill... ...r. When he was thirteen years old the boy was sent to a High School in the County town. He did not like it. His Cousin Matilda had longed to make a li...

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...elf, ven he was practising his skating,’ re plied Mr. Weller. ‘I shall be down in a quarter of an hour, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, untying his nightcap... ...his nightcap. ‘Wery good, sir,’ replied Sam. ‘There’s a couple o’ sawbones downstairs.’ ‘A couple of what!’ exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, sitting up in bed.... ...es, gallantly escorted by Messrs. Snodgrass, Winkle, and T upman, returned from an early walk. ‘Why, Ben!’ said Arabella, in a tone which expressed mo... ...jamin Allen fell fast asleep; while Mr. Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from worldly matters, by the ingenious process of carving his name on the s... ...ingular and un swan like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank— ‘Sam!’ ‘Sir?’ ‘Here. I want you.’ ‘Let go, Sir,’ sa... ...a grinder.’ ‘No, no, Mr. Pickwick,’ said Jackson, in conclusion; ‘Perker’s people must guess what we’ve served these subpoenas for. If they can’t, the... ... thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ‘You haven’t made me out that little list of the fees that I’m in y... ...ad that dull looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and labori ... ...e nience, several hundred degrees inferior to the common in firmary of a county jail), it had at present the merit of being wholly deserted save by ...

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...remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwel- come sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed natu- rally into pity and contempt as he turn... ..., 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth,... ...born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer’s hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the... ...810, Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset,” and by inserting most accurately the day of the month ... ...oncluding with the arms and motto:— ”Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset,” and Sir Walter’s handwriting again in this finale:— “H... ... mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her ... ...her, (so totally differ- ent were her delicate features and mild dark eyes from his own), there could be nothing in them, now that she was faded and t... ... Sir W alter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What will he be doing, in fact, ... ...liberal notions, and are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one 15 Jane Austen should meet with. Therefore, Sir Walter, what I ...

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...land; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come i...

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... Rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought hom... ...which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but a... ... have lived to see practised since. But such things as these were gathered from the letters of merchants and others who corresponded abroad, and from ... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ...e of the city within the walls; and one- fourth part to the suburbs in the county of Middlesex, and the east and north parts of the city. But this lat... ...n at London; which, though false in the common acceptance of London in the county, yet was literally true, W apping or Ratcliff being no part either o... ...we shall take care to be strong enough for you. I have orders to raise the county upon you. John. It is you that threaten, not we. And since you are f...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ...uman nature, that the sun of that autumn evening shone upon any two men in county or city, at desk or harvest, at Court or at Newgate, drunk or sober,... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...in Warwickshire, Mr. Thomas Billings was inhabiting the same 91 Thackeray county, not cared for by either of them; but ordained by Fate to join them ... ...lent husband; Master Thomas Billings with his adoptive parents in the same county; and the two military gentlemen watching the progress and cultivatio...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ... ...d to have taken fare- well of the political stage. A feeble attempt on the county of Asti is scarce worth the name of exception. Thenceforward let Amb...

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...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all ov... ...ed himself for the business of scriv ener; became a considerable man in the county; was a chief mover of all public spirited undertakings for the cou... ...lin, is empowered to enter into like contracts with any person in Cumberland county. “B. FRANKLIN.” “To the inhabitants of the ... ... to him for the discharge of the servants of three poor farmers of Lancaster county that he had enlisted, reminding him of the late general’s orders o...