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...reen as emeralds and skin like magnolia petals?’ ‘My fiancée owes her beautiful colouring to her Scottish descent, a country which has many redhead... ...ps as children in your beautiful country, because am I not correct in thinking that Forsythe is a Scottish name?’ ‘Yes,’ said Helen, ‘I have my Scot... ...nterest, smiled at her in his impudent, mischievous manner and said, ‘For that I am doubly in my Scottish friend’s debt. Do you not agree, Comtesse?... ...s palace, that he should be their guest and she could still hear her words spoken in that rolling Scottish accent, ‘Now Gavin, laddie, you must be o... ...t who loved the opportunity to dress up - the difference, I suppose, between the Anglo Saxon and Scottish temperaments.’ ‘Your husband is the hands... ... of heavy artillery being hauled by palace elephants and despite heavy fire from the fort, native engineers began constructing battery positions to ... ...hese forays were designed not only to impede the investment, but to lower the moral of the rebel engineers, as their throats were slit by Gurkha kuk...

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...t liability" approach also fits here. The owner (and his "long arms": manufacturer, engineers, builders, etc.) of the Titanic were deemed responsibl... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount...

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...pples and berries in the pie filling. We have just signed a contract with Scottish shrimp companies to hand peel their shrimp at fifty cents an hour.... ...to have the shrimp machine peeled in Scotland by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lost their jobs, but over 2000 of our people now have jobs... ...lore not too long ago. It is a bustling city with huge numbers of graduate engineers and high tech people. It is an example of what India has done. A... ...nvest in education for some and now has a huge store of very well trained engineers and doctors. The problem, as you said, seems to be that not enou... ...igher education, is necessary for advancement. We need doctors, teachers, engineers and a number of other academics to pull us into the 21 st Centu...

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...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski t... ...nd in the sixteenth century. He considers the pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 ...

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...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski tra... ...nd in the sixteenth century. He considers the pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 Th...

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...elprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream would run to Cyrus the Great’s engineers.) Jefferson’s point was that for the process of invention to wo... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ... When computer programs were first clearly covered by copyright law, software engineers wondered if this would cripple the industry. Why? Anyone who wi... ...created with the old, dominant word processing software. But to do this, the engineers at the upstart company would have to take apart their competito... ... patent law, the assumption is that technological development converges. Two engineers from two different countries tend to produce similar ways of ca... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

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...omputing. These, in turn, drive software companies, creators of content, financial engineers, scientists, and inventors to a heightened complexity ... ...without having to understand its inner workings. The more that happens, the more engineers closest to the technology become incapable of contribu... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ...70s, under the complete dominion of technology and its new race of techno-economic engineers and their financial computing. Its also necessary to... ... important technological advances, the Promethean breakthroughs - were achieved by ENGINEERS and technicians, not by scientists. Engineers manipula...

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... of the refectory, and have it transported to Paris. He discussed it with engineers and architects who said it was impossible. “What a study...the K... ...n who is asking for alms: skirl of bagpipes. 393 n the Scottish coast the sunset prowled the lowtide combers, roll- ing cloud into... ...f the first play I saw, as a boy, performed by gypsies who told a tale of Scottish intrigue and murder that ended with the beautiful heroine’s suici...

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...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...ls and services while paying more in taxes than they take out, like Indian engineers and doctors, or British or Chinese businessmen. The negative imm... ... are no longer needed because machines do the work. The needs now are for engineers, computer specialists, and venture capitalists.‖ —―A... ...mong the groups and among individuals in the groups. For example computer engineers from India are much more likely to contribute to the society tha... ... Or they may only want some highly skilled people like doctors or computer engineers. They may want only people of a certain religion or race, or the...

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...r Explosion. Not Energy. For thousands of years: Greek scientists and Roman Engineers used destructive explosions; and called it ‘Energy’. The onl... ...osive energy of steam by trapping it inside a metal cylinder. Then American Engineers used that same metal cylinder to trap the destructive explosi... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow... ... of tilling the soil for them, they built huge palaces and castles by letting engineers and slaves do all the dirty work of building these piles of ... ... were chosen to fly these missions in their mechanical sperm-rockets were all engineers. They were all dead souls. Their souls had died a long time...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ......................... 57 4 Robert Louis Stevenson RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS by Robert Louis Stevenson INTRODUCTION THE SURNAME OF STEVENSON F... ...an in Ayrshire, and several other lesser places. 5 Records of a Family of Engineers were members of Parliament for Peebles, Stirling, Pittenweem, Kil... ... on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by a continual pro- cess of translation... ...o his years in class which will have a meaning for all who have studied in Scottish Universities. He mentions a recommendation made by the professor o... ...please or vex your mother. It is there- fore proper that you do not roamp [Scottish indeed] too much about, and that you learn your lessons.’ ‘I went ... ... is in comparison a habitable, homely place, well supplied with towns; the Scottish presents hundreds of miles of savage islands and desolate moors. T... ...e of affairs, only sixty years ago, with the three largest clusters of the Scottish Archipelago; and forty-seven years earlier, when Thomas Smith bega...

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...worse than nonsense, the correct reading being “ my heat.” In vi. 396, the Scottish “ boune” (though it occurs twice in other parts of the poem) has b... ...s beyond the sea, Seeking the world’s cold charity Where ne’er was spoke a Scottish word, 29 Sir Walter Scott And ne’er the name of Douglas heard An ... ...clans did ride, Are now one sheep-walk, waste and wide. This tyrant of the Scottish throne, So faithless and so ruthless known, Now hither comes; his ... ... thrice, that lady bold; He rose beneath her hand The fairest knight on Scottish mould, Her brother, Ethert Brand! 69 Sir Walter Scott Merry it... ...d step I knew; Like form in Scotland is not seen, T reads not such step on Scottish green. ’Tis James of Douglas, by Saint Serle! The uncle of the ban... ...proof. The author of the Letters from the North of Scotland, an officer of engineers, quartered at Inverness about 1720, who certainly cannot be deeme... ...it supported, ‘art thou so effeminate as to need a pillow?’ The officer of engineers, whose curious Letters from the Highlands have been more than onc... ...the memory of his former expeditions for the like purpose. “Our officer of Engineers, so often quoted, has given us a distinct list of the domestic of...

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...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...most a cyni- cal expression. This worthy gentleman’s reputation for shrewd Scottish sense, knowledge of our national antiquities, and a racy humour pe... ...he was sure, could be more generous in his nature, or more ready to help a Scottish purpose. Sir Walter Scott,—There is one who ought to be remem- ber... ...ifference to height and hollow, steep or level, indicated by the old Roman engineers. Still, however, the substantial excellence of these great works—...

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...e space. The Parliament Close has been the scene of marking inci- dents in Scottish history. Thus, when the Bishops were ejected from the Convention i... ...it was here that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would hav... ...nth century, going to pass his trials (examinations as we now say) for the Scottish Bar, beheld the Parliament Close open and had a vision of the mout... ...truth, it is only some gear of the steam ventilator; and you will find the engineers at hand, and may step out of their door into the sunlight. For al... ...ve thought they would separate: but no; whether from lack of means, or the Scottish fear of scandal, they continued to keep house to- gether where the... ...wrote a comedy of ‘Much 23 Robert Louis Stevenson Ado about Nothing.’ The Scottish nation made a fantastic tragedy on the same subject. And it is for...

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...modest. I knew I liked Mr. Jones from the moment I saw him. I thought him by his face to be Scottish; nor could his accent undeceive me. For as there ... ...ile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the so... ...th generous applause. Once or twice, a recita- tion, very spiritedly rendered in a powerful Scottish accent, varied the proceedings; and once we sough... ...didna gae doon,’ as she saw some one pass her with a chess-board on the holy day. Some sang Scottish psalms. Many went to service, and in true Scottis... ...ll that he possessed in that same accursed, down-falling England, whence skilled mechanics, engineers, millwrights, and carpenters were fleeing as fro... ...n an officer; of the East Indies, where in former years he had lived lavishly; of the Royal Engineers, where he had served for a period; and of a doze... .... Yet freely and personally as he spoke, many points remained obscure in his narration. The Engineers, for instance, was a service which he praised hi... ... England and America, the stowaway will often make a good profit out of his adventure. Four engineers stowed away last summer on the same ship, the Ci... ...d unconscious of his insensibility. The Irish husband, who sang his wife to sleep, and this Scottish girl serving her Orson, were the two bits of huma...

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...father. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent... ...VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are al- most null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. A Scottish ... ...55 V ailima Letters CHAPTER XXVIII APRIL, 1893. 1. Slip 3. Davie would be attracted into a similar dialect, as he is later—e. g. , with Doig, chapter... ...useful of Boys. I could finish my grandfather very easy now; my father and Uncle Alan stop the way. I propose to call the book: North- ern Lights: Mem...

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...al!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk- bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay beyond the... ... thousand men, spade- men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura... ...Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in number; yet that having the soldiers ... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ...th great bitterness all specialists whatever, and particularly doctors and engineers. “Voluntary noblemen!” he said, “voluntary Gods I fancy they thin... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ... ...arated again by half-a-dozen lifted flagstones, a burning brazier, and two engineers concerned with some underground business or other—in the busiest ...

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...ven years old, as soon as our tutor had finished his long extract from the Scottish judge’s prelection, I could express my thankfulness for what I had... ...well as of critical sagacity, applied to the Greek idiomatic niceties by a Scottish lawyer, viz., that the same eccentric judge, first made known to u... ... between him and Dr. Johnson, noticed in Boswell’s account of the doctor’s Scottish tour. “Ah, doctor,” said Lord M., upon some casual suggestion of t... ... younger sister of my friend’s mother, had been engaged for some time to a Scottish nobleman, the Earl of Morton, much esteemed by the royal family. T... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo...

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...tter a probability so remote as scarcely to enter into the estimate of the engineers who had planned the defences. There were bastions of earth and lo... ...ant,” returned the supe- rior, a shade of melancholy passing over his hard Scottish fea- tures as he spoke; “and bonnie Scotland is a far-off country.... ...e, Mistress Dunham, is doubtless of a very pool quality, being nothing but Scottish courage; your father’s is 299 James Fenimore Cooper Y ankee, and ... ... of it, Corporal, but I’ve heard much more. The lady who brought me up had Scottish blood in her veins, and was fond of the subject.” “I’ll warrant ye... ...much of this manner in common, mingled with an apparent frankness that his Scottish intonation of voice, Scottish accent, and Scottish modes of expres...

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...flers and fur caps, running along the tops of ice-coated freight-cars; the engineers scratching frost from the cab windows and looking out, inscrutabl... ...alley of Massachu- setts Avenue, as she was rested by the integrity of the Scottish Rite Temple, she loved the city as she loved no one save Hugh. She...

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...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os... ...e had read it in one of her favourite novel-books—Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. “Suppose you were to run on and tell her,” the Major said....

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...f England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking ...

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...naged to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It w... ...t. At last, to settle matters, I explained to him that I was a member of a Scottish legal body, and had stood the brunt of an examination in the very ... ...ival cat- echisms, the English tritely inquiring, “What is your name?” the Scottish striking at the very roots of life with, “What is the chief end of... ...arates him further from the bulk of his compatriots. At an earlier age the Scottish lad begins his greatly different experience of crowded class-rooms... ...y gradually growing in the child’s mind from story and from observation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless br... ...n every part of the world, guiding the mari- ner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the 59 Memories and Portraits New Zealand, and th... ...hew, David Alan Stevenson, joined with him at the time of his death in the engineership, is the sixth of the family who has held, successively or conj...

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..., to the half-breed assistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language s... ... the unfolding record of behaviour it is the stewardesses and bandsmen and engineers—persons of the trade-union class—who shine as brightly as any. An... ...organise them, to secure the pick of our young chemists and physicists and engineers, and to get them to work systematically upon the anticipation and...

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...ench centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or... ...atmospherical conditions. Even metals contract and expand appreciably, for engineers have remarked somewhat considerable interstices between great blo...

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...gerness that belonged to authorship, “so that there could be any amount of Scottish songs. Prospero is an old Highland chief, who has been set adrift ... ...pped up.” “Very likely,” said Gerald coolly. “Those precious surveyors and engineers that Walsh brings down can give an account of them! As soon as yo...

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...the huge work- ing-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ... ...ral!’ As good had been the natural Presbyterian Kirk-bell, and six feet of Scottish earth, among the dust of thy loved ones.—Such world lay be- yond t... ...n thousand men, spade-men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura... ...Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in num- ber; yet that having the soldier... ...r the chained Hero; and even for the chained Scoundrel, or Semi-scoundrel! Scottish John Knox, such World-Hero, as we know, sat once nevertheless pull...

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...elf from pecuniary embarrassments were unavailing. At the king’s death his Scottish loyalty caused him to side with those who opposed the Parliament. ... ...d of the valiant cooks that went into it. Then, by Friar John’s order, the engineers and their work- men fitted up the great sow that was in the ship ... ... catapults, whose shapes were shown to us, not over-well understood by our engineers, architects, and other disciples of Vitruvius; as Master Philiber...