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...dles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the senior orators, Hin-... ... to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH... ...e Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH si'lep... ...- similarities between the constitu- tioiis of Germany and of the L'liited States. It must be re raeinl)i!red, however, that the origi- nal sources an... ...; among them his costly three-volume edi- tion of " Butterflies of Eastern United States and Canada," and his largest work •• Nomenclatura Zoologicus.... ...gus. Corning (N.Y.) Leader,Minneapo- lis .Tournal and Times, Denver (Col.) Republican, Bfaltimore American. The Bureau has now been taken in charge by... ...d, he might have had to avoid the stool.—tor all that, we stand np for the party of Theocritus. What it the sheep of Provence are not lily-white, and ... ...t at Keeler's hotel, Albany. An early start was made Saturday morning, the party going via the Delaware and Hudson railroad to Vorheesville, N. Y., an... ...n, a member of the New York Bar as- sociation, has been renominated by the Republican party of Troy, N. Y., for president of the com- mon council. Sin...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial... ...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ... War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is mad... ...ek an analysis titled "American Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal t... ... success to its political stability, neglecting to mention its pluralism and multi- party system, the sources of said endurance. But then, in an int... ... forces and the "mob" (the masses) as political players spelt doom for Senatorial, republican Rome. Some are comparing the relentlessly increasing ... ...ing weight of the Pentagon since 1941 to the rise to prominence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army i...

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...red balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle exp...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the 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 e...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwin...

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... THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY by Jonathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis ... ... THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross 3 J.Cross/Art... ... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...w about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over the fro... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ...at I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knees. “I a... ...raduation,” Alex began, “Alicia and some of her classmates had arranged for a party that night – you know – the kind of party when you’re not sure i... ...hat I’ve pieced together from police reports, other teenagers who attended the party, and from their parents.” Alex paused and shifted behind the c... ...f somehow it would erase away his thoughts. "He's right," Nolan said. "The Republican's will have a field day. The opposition in Congress will be...

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...ll be equally available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of r... ...qually available for applica- tion in the British Empire and in the United States. T o that we must come, unless our talk of co-operation, of reunion,... ... cannot do while over here and over there men hold themselves bound by old party formulae, by loyal- ties and institutions, that are becoming, that ha... ...d my book Anticipations this doctrine will be spoken of throughout as “New Republicanism,” the doc- trine of the New Republic. The central conception ... ...m,” the doc- trine of the New Republic. The central conception of this New Republicanism as it has shaped itself in my mind, lies in attaching pre-emi... ...d devel- opment. Any collective human enterprise, institution, move- ment, party or state, is to be judged as a whole and completely, as it conduces m... ...e that the real and ultimate business, so far as this world goes, of every statesman, every social orga- nizer, every philanthropist, every business m... ...at any rate, London and the Gold Coast and, I suspect, some regions in the United States of America, receive to consume. But it will be urged that the...

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...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority ... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...I under- stand you now to be willing to accept the help of men who are not Republicans, provided they have “heart in it.” Agreed. I want no others. Bu... ... ol Six reject all I should be advised to reject, I should have none left, Republicans or others not even yourself. For be assured, my dear sir, there... ... nec- essary to ascertain the amount of indemnification due to the injured party. The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instruct... ...as directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentia...

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...nic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...ce, and barren of any good to mankind. He had just witnessed the spread of republican govern- ment through all the vast continental possessions of Spa... ... blood, and he was filled with anxiety to learn the causes that had placed republican government, in France, in 5 Tocqueville such contrast with Demo... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...ghts of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but it will, ul... ...ture to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise is not subo...

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... 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblin...

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...e following speech was delivered at Springfield, Ill., at the close of the Republican State Convention held at that time and place, and by which Conve... ... close of the Republican State Convention held at that time and place, and by which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for Unite... ... and by which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Sena- tor. Mr. DOUGLAS was not present.] Mr. PRESIDENT AND GE... ... which Convention Mr. LINCOLN had been named as their candidate for United States Sena- tor. Mr. DOUGLAS was not present.] Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN... ...ocates will push it forward till it shall become alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to ... ...c institutions in their own way, sub- ject only to the Constitution of the United States.” Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of “squa... ...he right of a people to make their own constitution— upon which he and the Republicans have never differed. The several points of the Dred Scott decis... ...g 13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three to divide the Democratic party for the purpose of electing a Republican Senator in my place are just... ...what may be a right definition of the term alliance. If for the Republican party to see the other great party to which they are opposed divided among ...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ... of Christendom as to the impossibility of ever suppressing the antagonist party by mere force of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinio... .... But the Dream knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pur... ...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ... a sentiment as pity, in the fact of both from so early an age having been united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young wom... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...iest application of their vast in- fluence, that they have the power to be republican, as re- spects their internal condition. Literature, by substitu... ...dition. Literature, by substituting a different standard of rank, tends to republican equality; and, as one instance of this, properly belonging to th...

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...so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do ?events? of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and begetting sons and daughters? We are not keeping house, but...

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...ne to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come on in your family? Are yo... ...save only that of slavery. So far as I can perceive, by such union neither party need yield any- thing on the point in difference between them. If the... ... see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model. On the other hand, I never could very c... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...berty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that ... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The President of the United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mex... ...ced by the President. I admit that such a vote should not be given in mere party wantonness, and that the one given is justly censurable if it have no... ... be in ac- 44 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two cordance with our republican institutions, which can be best sustained by the diffusion of kn...

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Excerpt: Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume One by Thomas de Quincey.

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF ... ...any separate choice of your own, on becoming a Roman citizen, you become a party to the Roman worship.’ For an idolatrous religion to proselytize, wou... ...ning was, that he gave a dinner. And not only was every sacrifice a dinner party, but every dinner party was a sacrifice. This was strictly so in the ... ... dogs. Hypocrisy, the cringing of sycophants, and the credulities of fear, united to conceal this misotheism; but we may be sure that it was widely di... ...ly, is found the outermost expansion, the centrifugal, of the TO catholic, united with the innermost centripetal of the personal con- sciousness. Had,... ...r strike the reader, that the Greeks and Romans, although so franti- cally republican, and, in some of their institutions, so demo- cratic, yet, on th... ...ontemplated in general rules. The tendency of such varia- tions is, in all states of complex civilization, to absolute in- finity.* It is our present ... ...—The Emperor Charles V., at different periods, twice invaded the piratical states in the north of Africa. The last of these invasions, directed agains... ...could Piso have complained? It would have been said—‘Oh, there’s an end of republican simplicity, if plain speaking is to be put down.’ And then it wo...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...ith contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and ... ... had seen life in all its vari- eties, and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time, he could com- municate to Johnson an abunda... ...l known to many to be par- ticularly unsocial, as there is no Ordinary, or united company, but each person has his own mess, and is under no obligatio... ...nd he Sam. Johnson. Sir, there is one Mrs. Macaulay* in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave counte- ... ...did his punishment rest here; for upon subsequent occasions, whenever he, ‘statesman all over,’ assumed a strutting importance, I used to hail him—’th... ...d affluence of conversation; but I would not talk to him of the Rockingham party.’ Goldsmith. ‘But, Sir, when people live together who have something ... ...as not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of Madrid. ‘And who is the gentleman in lace?’—’...

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...2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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...THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of ... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... .... Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the Britis... ...national and imperial development. That greater public life which is above party and above creed and sect has, we are told, taken hold of his imaginat... ...nce then the national spirit, hampered though it is by the tradi- tions of party government and a legacy of intellectual and social heaviness, has bee... ...comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probably far smaller even...

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...Considerations on Representative Government By JOHN STUART MILL A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATI... ...LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...utive officers by popular suffrage, ought the chief of the executive, in a republican government, to be an exception? Is it a good rule which, in the ...

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...me T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR ... ...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...d, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, T o buy both sides, and give thy country peace. ... ... abused all, even to women, and whose prostituted papers (for one or other party, in the unhappy divisions of their country) have in- sulted the falle... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ...RYDEN is a mere renegado from monarchy, poetry, and good sense 453 —a true republican son of monarchical Church 454 —a republican atheist. 455 Dryden... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin... ...viz. Achilles, Alexander, Nero; though despised by Themistocles, who was a republican. ‘Make senates dance:’ either after their prince, or to Pontoise...

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...ECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...nce of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts, I destroye... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...eriod of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, one of those who had never bent 36 Autobiography the knee to B... ...blic and private. He was acquainted with many of the chiefs of the Liberal party, and I saw various noteworthy persons while staying at this house; am... ...spondence with India in one of the leading departments, that of the Native States. This contin ued to be my official duty until I was appointed Exami... ...he deemed essentials; he was com paratively indifferent to monarchical or republican forms— far more so than Bentham, to whom a king, in the characte... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w...

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...S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ar would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had begun their crusad... ...t up, not even against both parties equally, but almost solely against the party in the right, and the ungenerous refusal of all those just allowances... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...etation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de nying tha... ...s and in the plains of Kansas; on the slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was... ...slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was rejected, on slavery Lincoln was elec... ... not change suddenly, and at once, all its principles and professions. The Republican party have taken their stand on law, and the existing constituti... ...very into the territories which were not yet States. T o prevent this, the Republican party was formed, 10 The Contest inAmerica and to prevent it, t...

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...Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper Originally published in Graham’ s Magazine (Jan.-A... ... over the Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these thousand years. While o... ...wn person. This wish of mine was treated as groveling, and even worse than republican, by the cote droit of our piece, while the cote gauche sneered a... ...of a confidential commissionaire. Great was the satisfaction of our little party as we first drove down through the streets of this capital of Europe—... ...ctions of good society, and the general exhilaration that prevailed in our party, I was far from being perfectly happy. To own the truth, I had left m... ... The police foresaw this, and it ceased to agitate, in order to bring the republicans into discredit; men must eat, and trade was permitted to revive... ...ompelled to suspend, in consequence of the late robbery of the Bank of the United States by the cold-blooded miscreant whose hoary head dis- graces th... ...d to suspend, in consequence of the late robbery of the Bank of the United States by the cold-blooded miscreant whose hoary head dis- graces the White... ...his active, never dormant sympathy for her situation, on the other, which, united, had made such an inroad on the young governess’s affections. “It’s ...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...eeded to possess and to display the rare qualities and precious gifts of a states- man under the mocking fire of the Calvinist press. Those facts are ... ...chy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party, Catherine employed the... ...ce been answered by Lafayette’s best of all possible republics against the republican insurrection at Saint-Merri and the rue T ransnonnain. All power... ...e liberty of thought; and no sovereign can interfere with money. The great statesmen who were vanquished in the long struggle (it lasted five centurie... ...e crown, seeing how dearly the Duc de Mayenne and the remains of the Guise party sold it to him. The means employed by Catherine, who certainly had to... ...f Florence, undertaken by the Medici to force their return there, that the Republican party, not content with having shut Catherine, then nine years o... ...ciated in corporations which limited their number, they were still further united into guilds by the Church. In this way prices were maintained. Also,... ...ation; they desired to es- tablish throughout Europe the government of the United Provinces, which ended by triumphing over the greatest Power of thos...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...antenac meets the royal- ists, under the idea that he is going to meet the republicans, it seems as if there were a hitch in the stage mechanism. I ha... ...irulent skirmish; and Burns found him- self identified with the opposition party, – a clique of roar- ing lawyers and half-heretical divines, with wit... ...emony can do aught to fix the wandering affec- tions, here were two people united for life. Mary came of a superstitious family, so that she perhaps i... ...period opens in the story of the poet’s random affections. He met at a tea party one Mrs. Agnes M’Lehose, a married woman of about his own age, who, w... ...Whitman’s intense Americanism, his unlimited belief in the future of These States (as, with reverential capitals, he loves to call them), made the war... ...rose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land states, and for T exas, and California, and Oregon;” – a statement which is... ...ons they held through the prison wall, and dear was the sympathy that soon united them. It fell first to the lot of Kusakabe to pass before the judges... ...s. And such servility was, of all things, what would touch most nearly the republican spirit of Knox. It was not difficult for him to set aside this w...