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...t Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstruct... ...d him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especially when he was in the States. He was discontent and was seeing himself falling further and furt... ...s in their gross gluttony to have everything before death that the marvel of air rushing into one's lungs or the feel of a spring breeze brushing agai... ... mother and father from the window. He feels the plane move and rise in the air. He shuts his eyes briefly. Then he opens them widely in amazement.... ...ted on the energy emanated by the sun and this link of themselves to natural forces prompted them to be more than ordinary men. The sun god liked thos... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...over him like smelling a fragrant flower or putting coins into the Salvation Army tin cans. If you were to hear someone preaching at you for two hour... ...ding herself with a bit of judo and karate, that she could never ward off an army of rapists. That being the case, she backed away to belong only to t... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l...

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... many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in ... ...uarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far profounder interest in papers ... ...ever dis- lodge. It is because a man cannot see and measure these mystical forces which palsy him, that he cannot deal with them effectually . If he w... ...suspecting any subtle, fraudulent purpose, simply recoil from the romantic air of such a statement—which builds up, as with an enchanter’s wand, an im... ... And perhaps this natural prece- dency in authority of years and judgment, united to the ten- der humility with which she declined to assert it, had b... ...his church does not forsake her dead so long as they continue in the upper air, but waits for her last “sweet and solemn 11 farewell” at the side of t... ...ts! Perhaps the Pre-Adamites would con- stitute one wing in such a ghostly army. My brother, dying in his sixteenth year, was far enough from seeing o... ...umed to eyes that watched over the trembling interests of man. The English army, about that time in the great agony of its strife, was thrown into squ... ...vil grandeur, as exemplified in three differ- ent modes by three different states. Availing himself of the brief scriptural notice,—“The devil taketh ...

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... leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the meeting of the States-General. We do not know 22 Essays: Book the First what part he took... ...em with hopes. I then went to call them. They came, wearing as composed an air as possible; and when we four were together, he addressed us, with an u... ... there being some sort of relationship be- tween them), “since I have been united to you by marriage, which is one of the most weighty and sacred ties... ... persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw as near to you on Wednesday as I can... ...d. I could have desired much that the private gain of the soldiers of your army, and the necessity for satisfying them, had not deprived you, especial... ... report goes also that M. du Maine is about to take the command of all the forces they have collected in Auvergne, and that he will cross Le Foret to ... ...—who with incredible bravery alone sus- tained the power of his victorious army. Then it was that 58 Essays: Book the First consideration and respect... ...t of the world where the Portu- guese subdued the Indians, they found some states where it was a universal and inviolable law amongst them that every ... ... government is a structure composed of divers parts and members joined and united together, with so strict connection, that it is impos- 166 Essays: ...

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...d as a Devonshire lane, here and there crossed by fallen trees; huge trees overhead in the sun, dripping lianas and tufted with orchids, tree ferns, f... ...in moustaches and side-whiskers of some sort of blacking—I suppose wood-ash. It was a sight of joy to see them return at night, axe on shoulder, feign... ...ings from nettles, stabs from citron thorns, fiery bites from ants, sickening resistances of mud and slime, evasions of slimy roots, dead weight of he... ...ently believed a rescue would be attempted; the gaol was laid about with armed men day and night; but there was some question of their loyalty, and th... ...is last chapter is equally delicate and necessary. The prayers of the congregation are requested. Eheu! and it will be ended before this letter leaves... ...name and titles heralded at the bowl, and five times he refused it (after examination) as too small. It is said this commemorates a time when Malietoa... .... It has there- fore only been seen by enemies; and this combination of mystery and evil report has been greatly envenomed by some ill-judged newspape... ... the last, where my weak point was attempted. On every other, I am strong. Only force can dislodge me, for public opinion is wholly on my side. All ra...

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...ed with blue silk, tied the tassels in a know, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual co... ... board began. “If they knew,” he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he lis tened to the report, “what a guilty little boy their presi... ...clever, of aristocratic family, on the highroad to a brilliant career in the army and at court, and a fasci nating man. Nothing better could be wishe... ...was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces,—she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious 46... ...a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men. Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his lo... ...emarkable man,” said the am bassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, bu... ...iving, feigning, and continu ally thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything el... ... friends would never allow me to fight a duel—would never allow the life of a statesman, needed by Russia, to be exposed to danger? Knowing per fectly... ...women and girls he thought of whom he knew, he could not think of a girl who united to such a degree all, positively all, the qualities he would wish ...

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...rom the law. There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a ... ...ately pays the steward for extra rations, the difference in price becomes almost nomi- nal. Air comparatively fit to breathe, food comparatively varie... ...nature of emigration. Day by day throughout the passage, and thence- forward across all the States, and on to the shores of the Pacific, this knowledg... ...ith horror. I had myself suffered, even in my decent-sec- ond-cabin berth, from the lack of air; and as the night prom- ised to be fine and quiet, I d... ...nd un- founded; times were bad at home; they were said to have a turn for the better in the States; a man could get on any- where, he thought. That wa... ...said he; ‘and you can’t get hazed to death by a damned non-com- missioned—as you can in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came F... ... outside of a sudden and complete political subver- sion. Down must go Lords and Church and Army; and capi- tal, by some happy direction, must change ... ... after, he kissed the eagle of the Old Guard, and spoke words of passionate farewell to his soldiers. And here, after Waterloo, rather than yield its ... ...loveliness. The constant recurrence of similar combinations of colour and outline gradually forces upon us a sense of how the harmony has been built u...

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...ara, when the winds waken, and lift and winnow the immensity of sand! The air itself (Travellers say) is a dim sand-air; and dim looming through it, ... ...es the other movement slacken; the rushing against foreign Despots. Strong forces shall meet in death-grip; drilled Europe against mad undrilled Franc... ... to Sedan, on Tuesday last, the 28th of the month; reviewed that so-called Army left forlorn there by Lafayette: the forlorn soldiers gloomed on him; ... ...a, that made War be declared.” (Dumouriez, Memoires, ii. 383.) Unpromising Army! Recruits flow in, filtering through Depot after De- pot; but recruits... ...is; terror and rage, tears and frenzy: tocsin-miserere pealing through the air; fierce desperation rushing to battle; mothers, with streaming eyes and... ...e, have pre- cisely this problem to solve. Under the name and nickname of ‘statesmen, hommes d’etat,’ of ‘moderate-men, moderantins, ’ of Brissotins, ... ... At home this Killing of a King has divided all friends; and abroad it has united all enemies. Fraternity of Peoples, Revo- lutionary Propagandism; At... ...x eclats,’ at the gentilities and superfine airs of these Girondin “men of statesmanship,” with their pedantries, plausibilities, pusillanimities: “th... ...own side: and now there is no Election, or only the third of one. Black is united with white against this clause of the Two-thirds; all the Unruly of ...

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... Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their de... ...dition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military stores secured - - A plague of smallpox -- ... ...ave driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, isl... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...ved him with signs of hostility, which they manifested by cries and groans. He states that the island had three volcanoes which continually belched fo... ...ver sleeping, and for food requiring only a mouthful of sea water, a breath of air laden with the smell of salty spray. It brings him wealth, good for... ...ts of positions and with all kinds of distortion. Sometimes the ship is in the air; sometimes a double reflection is presented in the water; occasiona... ...ed of extreme cold. On the 26th of May following, the three vessels were again united and entered the South Sea, but were almost immediately dispersed... ...id giving offence before he had been able to ascertain what were the defensive forces of the city, Cortez ordered his Tlascalan allies to camp outside...

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...d intersect. Mere accident, therefore, of local posi- tion, much more when united with that avowed inveteracy of malignant feeling, which was bitter e... ...probrium was heaviest. In reality, there was at this period a collision of forces acting in opposite directions upon the estimation of the stage and s... ...sev- eral in his own person. Accordingly, John Shakspeare is known to have united with his town calling the rural and miscella- neous occupations of a... ...im, Like empty purses pick’d; and his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air, With his disease of all-shunn’d poverty, Walk’d, like contempt, alone.... ... of the silk stockings. But to this the Irishman replies, with a know- ing air, that he is not so green as to have overlooked that; and that, to keep ... ...senchant are alike portentous. The circumstances of the blasted heath, the army at a distance, the withered attire of the mysterious hags, and the cho... ...ling of sixteen, who could so far transcend in good sense the accomplished statesmen or men of the world with whom he afterwards corresponded, might c... ...t boyhood amongst the most accomplished men of the world. Wits, courtiers, statesmen, grandees the most dignified, and men of fashion the most brillia... ...ter it a line of golden associations.” Yes, and the burglar, who leaves an army-tailor’s after a midnight visit, trails after him perhaps a long roll ...

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...ave called forth the actions that delight us. And this enthusiasm is often united with the utmost tenderness of heart, the very appreciation of suffer... ...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...pus was killed by lightning, and the two sisters re- turned to Thebes. The united armies of the seven chiefs against Thebes came on, led by Polynices.... ...the banished T arquinius Superbus and his son Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old ... ...Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. ... ...mpire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of states, the whole of which together would hardly equal one prov- ince of th... ...rough the thick forests that clothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crack... ...n the distance, had not then become almost uninhabitable from pestilential air, but was rich and fertile, full of highly cultivated small farms, where...

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... 4 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 ture which said as clear as day: “In that case I would rather be plain Jack than a prince.” And all resumed their labors... ...t was not then, or, at least it ought not to have been, a trifling source of pride for the city of Blois, that Gaston of Orleans had chosen it as his ... ...at prince to excite the attention and admiration of the public in a very modified degree wherever he might be. Monsieur had fallen into this situation... ... next hawking-day. 5 Dumas So much for the ennui extra muros; of the ennui of the interior we will give the reader an idea if he will with us follow ... ...upon the people of his suite, so that all, pages, offic- ers, and equerries, quitted the service, knives and goblets, and made towards the second cham... ...bord to seek for game, to the fisheries of Beuvion for fish, and to the gardens of Chaverny for fruits and flowers. Precious tapestries, and lusters w... ...aps ensue if your marriage fails” (Mazarin stole a furtive glance at the king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fai... ...f the Fronde, the reconciliation of M. de Conde with the king, and the probable marriage of the infanta of Spain; but he avoided, as Athos himself avo... ...e was pressing round the general, who received all this homage without losing his impassibility for an instant, D’Artagnan said to Athos: “When one th...

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...ears before the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for... ...fore the war, a French journalist produced a “thoughtful book” on the United States. Of course he laid great stress on our universal hustle for the do... ...ossible to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United States, and had held a tenth part of our most important territory ... ... to ask Americans to picture our situation if Germany had invaded the United States, and had held a tenth part of our most important territory for fou... ...enforced by inexorable officials. As it turned out, I found myself as free as air, and as obsequiously treated as royalty, and I might have gone home t... ...ven us the fever.” Or more enlightened might ascribe it to the climate: “The air may be different in England. Blackberries may not be unwholesome ther... ...relation to our neighbours. To keep them off we did not even have to have an army! France, on the contrary, has had to fight for her existence ever sin... ...hey are likely to be struck first of all by” such and such things. In our new Army all the arts and professions are represented, and if the soldier in ... ...ll pruriency; and that they have too great a faith in the fundamen tal life forces, and too much tenderness for the young mother suckling her baby, f...

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..., for he went down head foremost; and in all respects, the descent had the air of a voluntary act. What followed? From every one of the bridges over t... ... way down to Warrington, eighteen miles distant to the eastward, the whole air was illuminated by flakes of cotton, often satu- rated with rum, and by... ...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ...f sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may ev... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ...vo. Even Sir Walter Scott is not impartial; and for the same reason as now forces me to blink it, viz., the difficulty of presenting the details in a ... ...are thor- oughly educated, excepting those who go at an early age into the army; of the commercial body, none receive an elabo- rate, and what is mean... ...particular fact so well as Sir William Waller’s) that as early as 1647 the army had too effectually subverted the just relations between itself and pa...

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...k it was as though he had walked out of an oppressive cellar into the open air.” He felt perhaps inward need to redeem Chichikov; in Merejkovsky’s opi... ..., he omitted no single official of note, while asking also (though with an air of detachment) the most exact particulars concerning the landowners of ... ...smok- ing his pipe—a habit which he had acquired during his service in the army, where he had been looked upon as an officer of modesty, delicacy, and... ...w. Yet he need not have flown into such a passion. More than one respected statesman reveals himself, when confronted with a business matter, to be ju... ...ce, I have a kinsman who is constantly plaguing me. He is a captain in the army, damn him, and all day he does nothing but call me ‘dear uncle, ’ and ... ...come even more difficult problems than the foregoing, and by what colossal forces the levers of his far-flung tale are moved, and how eventually the h... ...and, divides into runlets (all flashing in the sun like fire), plunges, re-united, into the midst of a thicket of elder, birth, and pine, and, lastly,... ...ithout that accomplishment, no one could ever hope to become a Minister or Statesman. Thus, with great difficulty, and also with the help of his uncle... ...- shevelment and despair as he poured out upon the hostile 350 Dead Souls forces by which human ingenuity so often finds itself out- witted a flood o...

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...maturity in some dark distance, and was brought on a sudden into the upper air to see the sun rise. What would his wonder be, his rapt astonishment at... ...th and strength of a man. Nature had as yet no name to him; he had not yet united under a name the infinite variety of sights, sounds, shapes and mo- ... ... what can we yet know? That it is a Force, and thousand-fold Complexity of Forces; a Force which is not we. That is all; it is not we, it is altogethe... ...rs among his people, he might work magic enough! Writing by Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a Phoenician Alphabet, but a ... .... Are not all true men that live, or that ever lived, soldiers of the same army, en- listed, under Heaven’s captaincy, to do battle against the same e... ... to discern even practical truth. Cromwell’s advice about the Parliament’s Army, early in the contest, How they were to dismiss their city-tapsters, f... ...it not, in its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man? For a Knox to take it up was something; but for a Cromwel... ...hypocrites,” seems to me a rather sorry business. We have had but one such States- man in England; one man, that I can get sight of, who ever had in t... ...hopeless problem, “Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action;”— how cumbrous a problem, you may see in Chancery Law- Court...

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... 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... ...s Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation; but, in the end, he couldn... ... I know there have been rumors flying around,” Alex said waving an arm in the air. “But I want you to know the truth, the whole truth.” Alex turned ... ...ources, Marian,” Alex said, trying to calm her fears. “I’ve got access to the Army, Navy, Air Force, hell, I’ve got a whole damn Marine Corp.” “You... ...an,” Alex said, trying to calm her fears. “I’ve got access to the Army, Navy, Air Force, hell, I’ve got a whole damn Marine Corp.” “You’re going to... ...ot together. You have been ripping into Democrats for years, and now you join forces with them. It will bring a lot of media attention, and many que...

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.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...mpiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a magnificent phaeton, doing homage the— Dubarry. ’ (L... ...rom the day when rough Clovis, in the Champ de Mars, in sight of his whole army, had to cleave retributively the head of that rough Frank, with sudden... ... of imminent downfall. As victory is silent, so is defeat. Of the opposing forces the weaker has resigned itself; the stronger marches on, noiseless n... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...our tall lackeys,’ says Mercier, as if he had seen it, ‘hold him up in the air, that he may fall into the garment without ves- tige of wrinkle; from w... ...kei. Little elf, or imp; though young, already withered; with its withered air of premature vice, of knowingness, of completed elf-hood: useful in var... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,...

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... a couple of pale mounted figures beneath no happy light. For this was the air once breathed by Adiante Adister, his elder brother Philip’s love and l... ...brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit from the air and let fly his own in pursuit of her. It has to be stated that the obj... ...fle intermixed; I fancy it’s we with him and with me when we’re talking of army or navy,’ said Patrick. ‘But Captain Con’s a bit of a politician: a po... ...nd we’re mixed up, ’tis true, well or ill; and we’re stronger, both of us, united than tearing to strips: and so, there, for the past! so long as we c... ...so has Philip: though the worst is, they’re likely to drive him out of the army into politics and Parliament; and an Irishman there is a barrow trolli... ...ending English lady contrasted with her husband so signally that the oddly united couple appeared yoked in a common harness for a perpetual display of... ...is own colonel; he pretended to think inde- pendently, and tried to be the statesman of a leading article, and showed his intention to stem the curren... ...it was no more than the spark shot out from the clash of those two meeting forces; and penitently will he gaze back on that misleading spark-the spect... ...the Cambrian Celt: names of Welshmen are numerous in the small army of the States of the Union; and where men take soldier-service they are usually fi...

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...with her usual frankness, held out her hand. The Hungarian took it with an air of sad solemnity, pressed it fervently, and said:—‘Lady, it is my part ... ...f the morn- ing sun illuminated the room; incense was floating through the air from the gorgeous flowers within and without the house; there in youthf... ...ld have wrecked a wilderness of simple truth trusting to its own un- aided forces. What followed? Did this judgment of the court settle the opinion of... ...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum...

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...ness and sink from us as we rise to the cloud regions above. And now, what forces are there in the world to resist Alberic, our dwarf, in his new char... ...n and law, seized on the Jew and drained him as a Christian duty. When the forces of love- lessness and greed had built up our own sordid capitalist s... ...urk is riven in all directions by darting ribbons of lightning; and as the air clears, 27 Shaw the castle is seen in its fullest splendor, accessible... ... who have no general ideas, no touch of the concern of the philosopher and statesman for the race, can- not enjoy The Rhine Gold as a drama. They may ... ...; and the intellectual, moral, talented people who devise and adminis- ter States and Churches. History shows us only one order higher than the highes... ...e waiting for the rest. The absent ones soon arrive, galloping through the air with slain heroes, gathered from the battle-field, hanging over 39 Sha... ...ne the less fight for your life. It seems hardly possible that the British army at the battle of Waterloo did not include at least one Englishman inte... ...tory of the pitilessness with which capable prac- tical administrators and soldiers are forced by the pressure of facts to destroy romantic amateurs a... ...ve. Now a human being is both man and woman: it is only when these two are united that the real human being exists; and thus it is only by love that m...

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...o a still grander home—and so on and so on. Mansion after mansion, made of air, rose, higher, broader, finer, and each in its turn vanished away; unti... ...onfess it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little dis... ...it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little distinctio... ...at farm, I’ve been there. It’s got a rope walk and a candle factory and an army. Standing army. Infantry and cavalry. Three soldier and a horse. Aleck... ...portation to them. CHAPTER VIII DURING THREE DAYS the couple walked upon air, with their heads in the clouds. They were but vaguely conscious of the... ... wind! Turn thy force 77 Mark Twain loose like a tempest, and roll on thy army like a whirlwind, over this mountain of trouble and confusion. Oh frie... ...t they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operation... ... steady in all her pursuits and aims. There is re quired a combination of forces and extreme opposition to drive her from her position; she takes her... ...hat he was there because he had once had his opportunity to go home to the States rich, and had not done it; had rather lost his wealth, and had then ...

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............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ...mpiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a mag- nificent phaeton, doing homage the— Dubarry. ’ ... ...rom the day when rough Clovis, in the Champ de Mars, in sight of his whole army, had to cleave retributively the head of that rough Frank, with sudden... ... of imminent downfall. As victory is silent, so is defeat. Of the opposing forces the weaker has resigned itself; the stronger marches on, noiseless n... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...ur tall lackeys, ’ says Mercier, as if he had seen it, ‘hold him up in the air, that he may fall into the garment without vestige of wrinkle; from whi... ...kei. Little elf, or imp; though young, already withered; with its withered air of prema- ture vice, of knowingness, of completed elf-hood: useful in v... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,...

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... They seem to like the bath attendants, with their cheer- ful faces, their air of authority, their white linen. But, for myself, to be at Nauheim gave... ...nsive elegance; the mien of the diners as they came in every evening—their air of earnestness as if they must go through a meal prescribed by the Kur ... ...astians; or she would give him a short lecture on the early history of the United States. And it was done in a way well calculated to arrest a young a... ...; or she would give him a short lecture on the early history of the United States. And it was done in a way well calculated to arrest a young attentio... ... occupation, my career, my ambition. It is not often that these things are united in one body. Leonora was a good actress too. By Jove she was good! I... ...d. No, it was just submissiveness—to the importunities, to the tempestuous forces that pushed that miser- able fellow on to ruin. And I do not suppose... ... window, talked to Captain Ashburnham about the Constitution of the United States… . Yes, it would have left a better taste in the mouth if Florence h... ...erned during his years of active service, Colo- nel Powys retired from the army with the necessity of making a home for them. It happened that the Ash... ... influence, his ignorances, the crammings that he received at the hands of army coaches—I dare say that all these excellent influences upon his adoles...

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...ily of that name, who had been quartered at Lichfield as an officer of the army, and had at this time a house in Lon- don, where Johnson was frequentl... ... 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... ...eve, composed it the preceding year. Mrs. Johnson, for the sake of country air, had lodgings at Hampstead, to which he resorted occasionally, and ther... ...ime with Mrs. Johnson at Hampstead, that she in- dulged herself in country air and nice living, at an unsuitable expense, while her husband was drudgi... ...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... ...new gown at a dancing school ball, a gen- eral at the head of a victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assemb... ...did his punishment rest here; for upon subsequent occasions, whenever he, ‘statesman all over,’ assumed a strutting importance, I used to hail him—’th... ...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?’—’... ....’ Johnson. ‘Nay, Sir, conversation is the key: wine is a pick-lock, which forces open the box and injures it. A man should cultivate his mind so as t...

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...ndrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king bri...

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...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...omplex process:  We contract muscles to squeeze the rib cage and push air out from our lungs through the windpipe (trachea).  Then the air en... ... box (larynx) that lies well below the back of the tongue.  There, the air flows up between the vocal cords to produce a buzzing sound that becom... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over... ...ses to true greatness mostly because it gives us an eye for an ear. It forces us to match each letter with a sound and vice versa. Meaningless alp... ...icles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ...orces ended China‘s Central Asia adventure by routing the T‘ang Dynasty‘s Army in the historic five-day Battle of Talas. Arabs capture Chinese paper... ...d for Charles Martel, Charlemagne’s grandfather, who halted the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illit...

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...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o-day the project has an air not only of being so practicable, but of being so urgent and necessary ... ...d a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League of Nati... ... forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the concluding parts of ... ...G. Wells projected parliament of mankind. This has a pleasant demo- cratic air; one sovereign state, one vote. Now let us run over a list of sovereign... ...ntry in the world. This means some- thing more than a restriction of state forces. It must have power and freedom to investigate the military and nava... ...gesting here that the League of Free Nations shall practically control the army, navy, air forces, and armament industry of every nation in the world.... ...- rine for submarine and cast gun for gun, to sweep all her youth into her army, to subdue her trade, her literature, her education, her whole life to...

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...s beating. After that he will be as se curely brave as any veteran in the army—and there will not be a shade nor suggestion of personal merit in it... ... better things than that, and it did not enthuse over that crude Salvation Army eloquence. It was courteous to Holme— but cool. It did not pet him, di... ... man’s size. No savage race has produced architects who could approach the air in genius or culture. No civilized race has produced architects who cou... ...ndurable wretchedness. He did not make the choice, it was made for him by forces which he could not control. Free Will has always existed in words, ... ...es, but I hoped a way could be found which would let them romp in the open air while they learned the kings. I found it, and they mastered all the mon... ... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... Spain. America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, b...

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...treet indicates possibili- ties in the Oriental imagination of the eminent statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction. Thackeray’s attitude... ...e to appease her cravings earlier than she would have had as much from the United Liberal Cabinet, but at a cost both to her and to England. Meanwhile... ...d faith in the active intellect, and that is the thing to be prayed for by statesmen who would register permanent successes. The Irish, it is true, do... ... is a nation, natu- rally dependent though she must be. We have to do with forces in politics, and the great majority of the Irish Nation- alists in I... ...e of the nation, has so much confidence, has concentrated the whole of his forces within a comparatively narrow compass, and is ready for action. I be... ... good posi- 16 Miscellaneous Prose tions for contesting the advance of an army crossing the Po at Lago Scuro, or at any other point not far from it, ... ...known in London fashionable society, entered as a volunteer in the Italian army, and was appointed orderly officer to General Lamarmora. The choice of... ...re a short list of the names of those of them who have enlisted as private soldiers in the cavalry regiments of the regular army: The Duke of Policast... ...main body of their army during the course of last night. Y ou see that the air around me smells enough of powder to justify the expectation of events ...

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...Mansfeld. — Christian, Duke of Brunswick. — Wallenstein raises an Imperial Army at his own expense. — The King of Denmark defeated. — Death of Mansfel... ...ons. — Wallenstein deprived of the Command. — Gustavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Inv... ...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...s under Bucquoi, and without loss of time the united Imperial and Bavarian forces, amounting to 50,000 men, entered Bohemia. All the Bohe- mian troops... ...ed peasantry lay faint and dying on the highways; foul odours infected the air, and bad food, the exhalations from so dense a population, and so many ... ...took fire, and, with a tremendous explosion, grenades and bombs filled the air. The enemy, now in confusion, thought they were attacked in the rear, w...

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...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...es on Life and Letters battlefield among its own dead, in the manner of an army having won a barren victory. It will not know when it is beaten. And p... ... around him with extreme clear- ness, and he felt it as it is—thinner than air and more elusive than a flash of lightning. He hastened to of- fer it h... ...tering cortege of deadly sins before the austere an- chorite in the desert air of Thebaide. This is not to say that Maupassant’s austerity has never f... ...ds the introductory chapter of the story which, as the author’s dedication states, has inspired an admirable draughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each... ... great national writer. The first stirrings, the first gleams of the great forces can be seen almost in every page of the novels, of the short stories... ...tradesmen? I suppose that there are some very perfect people who allow the Army and Navy Stores to censor their diet. So much merit, however, I imagin... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d...

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...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...,—the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebra... ...ard of the prison; but I dussay Hemmy will git you a little hoil for your ‘air.” The Prisoned One laughed loud and merrily. “My guardian understands m... ...nch envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was save... ...ey say in the ring. Cambaceres was known to be the best shot in the French army; but I, who am a pretty good hand at a snipe, thought a man was bigger... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of h... ... get 196 Thackeray rid. Y ou shall be second in command of his Highness’s forces. Look, here is his commission signed with the celestial seal, and at...

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... stooping his body; but there appeared more politeness in the open, humane air of his countenance, than in the custom of drawing one leg behind the ot... ...ed; when the sky is in a blaze with fireworks, and a noise is heard in the air, of thanksgivings, of bells, of organs, and of the cannon, we groan in ... ...re Fox had stood. Fox was bold enough to convert some of Oliver Cromwell’s soldiers, who thereupon quitted the service and refused to take the oaths. ... ...raves a sup- ply. Employments are here bestowed both in the Church and the army, as a reward for long services; and we never see young- sters made bis... ...pe, brought with them the form 30 Letters on England of government called States or Parliaments, about which so much noise is made, and which are so ... ...unded an alarm. The superstitious are the same in society as cowards in an army; they themselves are seized with a panic fear, and communicate it to o... ... one another in proportion to their quantity of matter; that these central forces alone keep the planets and comets in their orbits, and cause them to... ...es fall on the earth according to the propor- tion demonstrated of central forces; and the planets finishing their course according to these same prop... ...e of the prism, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single ray is by him divided into seven, which...

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...at he asked leave to serve as a vol- unteer, and join the Duke of Argyle’s army in Scotland, which the Pretender never had the courage to face; and th... ... a story (whereof I myself was the au- thor) was got to be believed in the army, that he was eldest son of the hereditary Grand Bootjack of the Empire... ... and with the Dutch, when King Charles was compelled to lend troops to the States; and against them, when his Maj- esty made an alliance with the Fren... ...’s collar in an instant, and the next moment the brute’s heels were in the air, and he fell on the stones with a thump. “Y ou hulking coward!” says he... ...ake way there,” says he (he spoke in a high shrill voice, but with a great air of authority). “Make way, and let her 41 Thackeray ladyship’s carriage... ...f this illustrious prince, this invincible warrior, this wise and moderate statesman. Loyalty to the exiled king’s family was traditional, as has been... ...h was promoted to the Gar- ter, and to be Captain-General of her Majesty’s forces at home and abroad. This appointment only inflamed the Dowager’s rag... ...h!) Henry Esmond hath been Marquis of Esmond and Earl of Castlewood in the United Kingdom, and Baron and Viscount Castlewood of Shandon in Ireland, an... ...d lonely under its ruined old roof? We were all so, even when together and united, as it seemed, following our separate schemes, each as we sat round ...

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...Sea), and thus Julius Caesar returned home without victory, having had his soldiers Slain, and his ships shattered. 20. But after three years he again... ... ships shattered. 20. But after three years he again appeared with a large army, and three hundred ships, at the mouth of the Thames, where he renewed... ...h of the Thames, where he renewed hostilities. In this attempt many of his soldiers and horses were killed; for the same consul had placed iron pikes ... ... severity it might be imposed. The Romans, therefore, came with a powerful army to the assistance of the Britons; and having appointed over them a rul... ...in this hour thou shalt die: the angels of God are waiting for thee in the air; with them thou shalt ascent to that God in whom thou has believed.: He... ... devise means of breaking the peace between them. 37. But Hengist, in whom united craft and penetration, per- ceiving he had to act with an ignorant k... ...le Royal and the upper part of Powys. 20 History of the Britons number of forces, with whom we will fight for you and your subjects.” V ortigern asse... ...d side of Britain, i.e. of the Humbrian sea, and reigned twelve years, and united* Dynguayth Guarth-Berneich. 62. Then Dutgirn at that time fought bra... ...t has been in- ferred that he actaully baptized him; but Nennius experssly states, that the holy sacrament was administered by Rhun, the son of Urien....

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... ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face w... ...avy artillery with which it bat ters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitu... ... one hun dred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Natur... ...apitalist. Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the co... ...into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers... ... the whole superincumbent strata of of ficial society being sprung into the air. Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the proletaria... ...ial status in production. Capital is a col lective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the unite... ...to. The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the... ...sides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc. that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes a...

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... 5 to. For not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. How often have we seen some such advent... ...fer of Heuschrecke’s. Form rose out of void solution and discontinuity; like united itself with like in definite arrangement: and soon ei ther in actu... ... rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? Their solid Pavement is a Picture of the Sense; they walk on the bos... ...’s,—tears streaming down his cheeks, pipe held aloft, foot clutched into the air,—loud, long continuing, uncontrollable; a laugh not of the face and d... ...h perpetual metamorphoses. The withered leaf is not dead and lost, there are Forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how cou... ... your military chest insolvent, forage all but exhausted; and that the whole army is about to mutiny, disband, and cut your and each other’s throat,—t... ...ure (Zeitbild), occupying some cubic feet of Space, and containing within it Forces both physical and spiritual; hopes, passions, thoughts; the whole ... ...mstances, might be, followed Teufelsdr¨ ockh, through the various successive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, and almost Reprobati... ... it. Have them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere...

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...rough a sickly childhood by constant watchfulness, comforts, and change of air; for all of which he was indebted to his father’s wealth. At college he... ...r proportion in looking at the sky, or the clock, or try- ing to recall an air, or in meditation on his own past adven- tures, and only the remainder ... ... Lanark to Bathgate, where, on the evening of Monday the 26th, the wearied army stopped. But at twelve o’clock the cry, which served them for a trumpe... ... scaffold at Edinburgh. It was calculated that they lost one half of their army on that disastrous night-march. Next night they reached the village of... ...ace for his men, and proving that it was not till after this time that his forces were finally arranged.* First of all the battle was commenced by fif... ...constrained and unnatural attitude of our Society. At present we are not a united body, but a loose gathering of individu- als, whose inherent attract... ... or, if their fam- ily have none, identify themselves with some well-known statesman, use his opinions, and lend him their patronage on all occasions.... ... and clubs of every sort. Nor would it be a matter of much difficulty. The united societies would form a nucleus: one of the class- rooms at first, an... ...ym? He might have been a dentist, but he should never have aspired to be a statesman. I can only wonder that he succeeded as he did. Pym and Habakkuk ...

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.... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ...s, and then go out into general practice to spread the doctrine that fresh air is a fad, and sanitation an imposture set up to make profits for plumbe... ...ulation. Madness in Court The demoralization did not spare the Law Courts. Soldiers were acquitted, even on fully proved indictments for wilful murder... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ... England, with the guns in France making themselves felt by a throb in the air as unmistakeable as an audible sound, or with tight- ening hearts study... ... knew no bounds. They de- clared that this would put a new spirit into the army; and had no suspicion that the soldiers in the trenches roared with la... ...er that it would do the blighters at home good to have a taste of what the army was up against. Sometimes the smallness of view was pathetic. A man wo... ...iscussed by men. HECTOR. Be reasonable, Ariadne. Your fatal gift of beauty forces men to discuss you. LADY UTTERWORD. Oh indeed! what about your fatal...