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...e Holy Spirit, and that the praise belongeth unto God. Which having been remarkably the case with respect to the great truths of the second advent c... ...umber seven be disposed to regard them as including in some larger sense the successive states of the whole Christian church up to the coming of the ... ...one another in the great object of our hopes, instead of being thereby concentrated and united from all places, and all times, and all conditions. N... ...the necessity of sacrificing our natural affections for Christ’s sake? then we shall be united to all Christ’s people, in closer union than husband ... ... its accomplishment must be looked for in visible objects, not in invisible or spiritual states, which so far from contravening, I shall have to make... ...t, growing worse and worse, until utterly wearied out, and casting away all hope of her amendment, her King shall come and judge her. Yet, all sunk ... ...he most learned and considerate men. The second passage which we have to examine is the fourteenth chapter of the gospel of St Matthew, in which the... ...f proper attention be given to all the context, taking up the thread at least front the fourteenth chapter, it will be perceived that he is speaking... ...ade by the Lord to the house of Judah, it is manifest that he desired her penitence and amendment, that he might not feel himself compelled to banish...

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...futuri anxius. 1 'A minde in suspense what is to come, is in a pittifull case.' This noble precept is often alleaged in Plato, 'Follow thy business... ...ade his heires to use those ceremonies about his interment, which in such cases were formerly accustomed. Is it temperance and frugalitie, to avoid ... ...ces where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile law, that what enemie soev... ...brio sibi habere videtur. -- 1 LUCRET. 1. v. 1243. A hidden power so mens states hath out-worne Faire swords, fierce scepters, signes of honours bor... ... nor more quickesighted; and a grose-headed and vulgar spirit may without amendment containe the discourse and judgement of the most excellent wits ... ...uld presently linde the spring and motion of it. Our mindes have jumped so unitedly together, they have with so fervent an affection consideredof eac... ... will they not doe? What feare they to doe? So they may but hope for some amendment of their beautie? Vellere queis cura est albos a stirpe capillos... ...have, that he will once more adventure to charge these re-enforced und re-united forces, and new armed wit h despite and vengeance, that durst not, ... ...an even: Thursday in respect of Friday, if I had rather make a twelfth or fourteenth at a table, then a thirteenth; if when I am travelling I would ...

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...y always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when people are survey... ...rish. But I understand there are more problems in the poorer areas of the States and in Latin America where people know that contraception and abort... ...ts had found through their complete review of the facts and values of the case. He did this in the 152 death cases that he affirmed as governor of T... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...d they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in thei... ...cally anti-Christian passage relative to the vote on the Constitution. An amendment was proposed to insert ‗Jesus Christ,‘ so that the Preamble shou... ...y to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to the street artists‘ First Amendment rights of free speech. ―The fact that the young man should ... ... The States, however, do not have any right to select their citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Constitution itself, was, as Justice Cardoz... ...hrase ‗natural born citizen‘ has never been defined. And the phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment ‗and subject to the jurisdiction thereof‘ has not bee...

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...to property, etc.). Yet, this hierarchical arrangement does not help us to resolve cases in which there is a clash of EQUAL rights (for instance, t... ...Abortion") that pregnancies that are the result of forced sex (rape being a special case) or which are life threatening should or could, morally, be... ...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...ion (state vector) in quantum mechanics – the represent millions of potential final states (=millions of potential embryos and lives). The fetus is ... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ...y. This viral hijacking of the host country's agenda is particularly evident in the United States where the interest of Jewry and of the only super... ... circumstances. It is better to shut up. Why didn't the President invoke the Fifth Amendment, the right not to incriminate himself by his own lips?... ...ight of privacy, implicit in the liberty guarantee of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. But if unrelated to autonomy - what is pri... ...vacy, implicit in the liberty guarantee of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. But if unrelated to autonomy - what is privacy all ab...

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...ugh children laboring to cause any alarm are plainly in the wrong when the case of recent Boston legislation is considered. There the estimate of the ... ...rd •08. Adelphic Debating Union—Manager, A. J. Allen '07; president, R. H. Case "07. Golf Association— Manager, A. F. Jaeckel id, '07; captain, A.W. M... ... 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.... ...rship Provision Adopted by Senior Society for Ensuing; Years The following amendment to the permanent constitution of Gar- goyle was passed at the ann... ...rn elevens by the New York Tri- bune, the Williams football team is placed fourteenth in the list. The entire ranking follows: Yale, Cornell, Princeto... ...RY 8. 1908 8.20 a. m.—Christmas recess ends. COLLEGE LEGISLATION Election, Amendment and Petition the Business of CoIleg:e Meeting At a college meetin...

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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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...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... ...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... ...rous to direct a subordinate not to obey the orders of his superior in any case, and that to give instructions to General McClellan to this same end a... ...e the slaves of any State or States free, and whether, at any time, in any case, it shall have become a necessity indispensable to the maintenance of ... ...and thirteenth sections are something better than unobjectionable; and the fourteenth is entirely proper, if all other parts of the act shall stand. T... ...happiness and prosperity of this country. Let us never forget them. On the fourteenth and seventeenth days of this present month there have been battl... ...e proposed to the Legislatures (or conventions) of the sev- eral States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which ar...

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...not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are de- serving of serious blame. No court-martia... ...of serious blame. No court-martial is deemed neces- sary or proper in the case. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL SCHOFIELD. Private and confidential EXECUTIVE ... ...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...hen drafted into the military service. I submit the expediency of such an amendment of the law as will make the fact of voting an estoppe against any... ...lation to loans has fully answered the expectations of its favorers. Some amendments may be required to perfect existing laws, but no change in their... ...omas M. Key of an interview between himself and General Howell Cobb on the fourteenth [15th] day of June, 1862, on the banks of the Chickahominy, on t...

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...art open. In truth, and I am not afraid to confess it, I should easily, in case of need, hold up one candle to St. Michael and another to his dragon, ... ...f the same person ruin you who set you on work. If treachery can be in any case excusable, it must be only so when it is practised to chastise and bet... ...hese make us believe that they have great grief and remorse within: but of amendment, cor- rection, or interruption, they make nothing appear. It can-... ...odd number; Thursday rather than Friday; if I had rather be the twelfth or fourteenth than the thirteenth at table; if I had rather, on a journey, see... ...modate myself to my accusers, very of- ten more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my fa... ...d, they still close and stick to- gether, both moving and in heaps; as ill united bodies, that, shuffled together without order, find of themselves a ... ...v. 7, 43.] we are not, peradventure, at our last gasp. The conservation of states is a thing that, in all likelihood, surpasses our un- derstanding;—a... ...t us everyway cast our eyes; everything about us totters; in all the great states, both of Christendom and elsewhere, that are known to us, if you wil... ...- ments of the world. May God drive our divisions far from her. Entire and united, I think her sufficiently defended from all other violences. I give ...

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...re a species of Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 5 animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of se... ...d, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole rac... ...o not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than ... ...ill give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially considered my case, and the distress I was in. From this time my constant practice was,... ...se we apprehended they might be dangerous engines. He took them out of their cases, and told us, that in his own country his practice was to shave his... ...r at least by a drurr than any of his court. ( Drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch.) The animosities between these two parties ru... .... For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, ou... ... discovering plots and conspiracies against the government. He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times ... ...itional. But there happening few events of any moment among a people so well united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by reason, an...

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...nger Marius made himself consul against Sertorius’s wishes and contrary to law, when Carbo, Norbanus, and Scipio fought unsuccessfully against Sylla, ... ...y cohorts. And when now all the cities on this side of the river Ebro also united their forces together under his command, his army grew great, for th... ...reconcile Craterus to Perdiccas, upon any just and equitable terms; but in case of any aggres- sion, he would resist the injustice to his last breath,... ...omes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune, as was now the case with Eumenes. For having by the treason of one of his own men lost the... ... had given a very sharp answer to the Macedonians, for admitting Eumenes’s amendment of the oath. While Eumenes was flying, he received letters from t... ...magogues and the orators in Thebes and Athens, and thus inciting those two States to hostility against Sparta. Having passed the Hellespont, he marche... ... ascendant which he had over Crassus; for he, the wealthiest among all the states- men of his time, and the most eloquent and greatest too, who had lo... ... now succeeded in making up, and by this means strengthened himself by the united power of both, and so under the cover of an action which carried all... ...nd tormented there, looked like a place of execution. Cato was then in his fourteenth year, and seeing the heads of men said to be of great distinctio...

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...verwork at forty!” At the close of autumn, just as Joseph was entering his fourteenth year, Agathe, contrary to Madame Descoings’s entreaties, went to... ...After this discussion, which was like all discussions, the widow’s friends united in giving her one and the same ad- vice; which advice did not in the... ..., Philippe took up the daz- zling idea of joining General Lallemand in the United States, and helping him to found what was called the Champ d’Asile, ... ...ppe took up the daz- zling idea of joining General Lallemand in the United States, and helping him to found what was called the Champ d’Asile, one of ... ...nest men, or they give themselves up to the demands of necessity; in which case they proceed to turn their slightest interests and each pass- ing impu... ...as and the Bour- bon body-guard, and trolled out, as he mounted the stair- case, “We watch to save the Empire!” His poor mother, hear- ing him, used t... ... eye clear and his mind prompt in the midst of tumult. He had reached that statesmanship of gambling which in Paris, let us say in passing, is the liv... ... made that the chambers should be asked to suppress the excise men. In the fourteenth century, Issoudun still had sixteen or sev- 93 Balzac enteen th... ... was now his debtor. The two young men accordingly gave solemn promises of amendment, prompted by their imperilled interests, and by the hope Madame H...

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...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ...er wrote. O poor sister! well for you to be far from here, and keep that as your last remembrance of him! The ladies of the clergyman’s family, his wi... ...ompassionate words, and encouraged to look, she would say, with a piercing cry, ‘This is my boy!’ and drop insensible on the insensible figure. He soo... ...e and seen his register; and, when recognised, these have been reburied in private graves, so that the mourners might erect separate headstones over t... ... the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always i... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ... something to drink,’ interposed the stranger. ‘I am agreeable.’ Mr. Testator had intended to say, ‘a little quiet conversa- tion,’ but with great rel... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ...tematically carries it over me with a high hand, and will tauntingly ask me, in his articles, whether it is possible that I am not aware that every sc...

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...certain vogue. On one side was the porter’s lodge; on the other the stair- case of the front building. Two wings, built against the ad- joining houses... ...oble free-stone blocks, dam- aged by time, have a certain air of Louis-the-Fourteenth gran- deur; the courses of the facade define the storeys; panels... ... we en- ter a square hall forming a closed vestibule, rises a stone stair- case with two windows looking on the garden. Beneath the staircase opens a ... ...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ... at last, a serene and peaceful autumn. The two women were still fur- ther united by the one sentiment that lay within them, namely, their adoration f... ...t as this.” “How can I help it, my dear fellow? I agreed with you, barring amendments on the other side; I wasn’t able to give another turn to the aff... ...tely demanded in the interests of commerce, which is certainly the life of States. In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been tha... ...ot occurred to the amphitryon. Thuillier, who gave a lip-approval to these amendments, was followed by la Peyrade; and then came a long delay in the a... ...o displayed more science and calculation in merely get- ting a living than statesmen had shown in governing Spain for a hundred years, he, la Peyrade,...

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...t you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him. In any case, I will take care of him until you return, and then we will remove him... ...erse but, it cleared off (as to this world) the trouble of each particular case, and left nothing else connected with it to be looked after. Thus, Tel... ...charming this black brooding from his mind. She was the golden thread that united him to a Past beyond his misery, and to a Present beyond his misery:... ...ociated from stature) was shortness. “Really, then?” said Mr. Lorry, as an amendment. “Really, is bad enough,” returned Miss Pross, “but better. Yes, ... ...” Monsieur Gabelle was the Postmaster, and some other tax ing functionary united; he had come out with great obse quiousness to assist at this exami... ...ashion of the last Louis but one, of the line that was never to break the fourteenth Louis was conspicuous in their rich furniture; but, it was diver... ...stored. On the three following days he remained perfectly well, and on the fourteenth day he went away to join Lucie and her husband. The precaution t... ... and patriots, asleep and awake, drunk and sober, and in vari ous neutral states between sleeping and waking, drunken ness and sobriety, were standi... ...n tried for his life by it, as the foe of England and friend of the United States as he brought these circumstances into view, with the greatest dis ...

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...d from the first felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the case with most things worth working at all; yet there are subjects and subj... ...o begin with, the placing in the strongest light a person infirm and ill—a case sure to prove difficult and to require much handling; though giving pe... ...t of the constitution of the book reduces itself to a just notation of the law they followed. There was the “fun,” to begin with, of establishing one’... ...fteen or twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been... ...r twenty weeks to America. The idea of a series of letters from the United States from the strictly social point of view had for some time been nursed... ...ect up—that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It wa... ...that was just what they wanted; and it would take more than all the United States together, visit them each as he might, to let him down. It was just ... ...nge countries, he for- gets her so far as to make up to other people.” The amendment, however, brought Susie in, as with gai- ety, for a comfortable e... ...t her departure—for the Tyrol and then for Venice— was quite fixed for the fourteenth, he took her up with alacrity. “For Venice? That’s perfect, for ...

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...aid to be tinctured sable. But the deep-ruling impulse is the same in both cases; and the proud peer who can now only ruin his neighbour according to ... ...at seventy- two. The prospect of succession, however remote, might in that case have led him to endure dragging through the greater part of his life a... ...nner. And here the in- structor had to combat another propensity too often united with brilliancy of fancy and vivacity of talent,—that indo- lence, n... ...ce of the rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, o... ...r would I utterly accede to the objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his Historia Naturalis. No, sir; I distinguish, I discri... ...l, sympathized little in the disappointment of this selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country under the comfortable reflection, ... ...cer, without any other warning than the hints we noticed at the end of the fourteenth chapter, so suddenly to assume a harsh, and, as Edward deemed it... ... were few, and never dwelt upon but in order to encour- age repentance and amendment; and where the love and re- 211 Sir Walter Scott spect of his pa... ...ench prisoners. May repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman, who, amongst his last services to Scot- land, interposed to prev...

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...ng this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of op...

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...ll’s criti- cisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson’s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matt... ... as purely creative forms they may rank superior to biography; but in each case it will be found that their authentic- ity, their right to our attenti... ... used to go and read in the fields on Sunday. This habit continued till my fourteenth year; and still I find a great reluctance to go to church. I the... ... went to Oxford, where it would not be suffered. When at Oxford, I took up Law’s Serious Call to a Holy Life, expecting to find it a dull book (as suc... ... 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... ...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?’—’... ...nded a visit to Lichfield. ‘It is, (says he,) with no great expectation of amendment that I make every year a journey into the country; but it is plea...

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...END WILLIAMS: The Supreme Court adjourned this morning for the term. Y our cases of Reinhardt vs. Schuyler, Bunce vs. Schuyler, Dickhut vs. Dunell, an... ...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... ...or the abovementioned purposes, in duplicate, at the port of Velasco, this fourteenth day of May, 1836. “DAVID G. BURNET, President, “JAS. COLLINGSWOR... ... wish to talk to you at once about is that because of my vote for Ashmun’s amendment you fear that you and I disagree about the war. I regret this, no... ...ation to the several subjects de- sired by the gentlemen to be embraced in amendments to the ninth section of the act of the last session of Congress.... ...raw, viz.: 2552 feet. The Afton was 35 feet wide and drew 5 feet, making a fourteenth of the sum. Now, one-fourteenth of five miles is five-four- teen...

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...less could be nothing else. Still if man’s actions are governed by natural law, the sooner it is recognized and understood, the sooner will sane treat... ...lty or even punishment for life, or for very long-term sentences. In these cases there is neither inducement to reform nor any object in the reformati... ...se stored impressions act as inhibitions or stimulations to action, as the case may be. These form the material for comparisons and judgments as to co... ...hrough this instinct, man builds his villages and cities and organizes his states and nations. With the gregarious instinct and the parental in- stinc... ...he herd instinct in animal species develops packs and clans and tribes and states. Man is the heir to all the past, and the instincts and emotions of ... ...nt qualities inherent in the tendencies and aspira- tions of a people. The United States of America, among the 60 nations, meets these conditions, an... ...he main reason for the seemingly abnormal number of property crimes in the United States. Man’s infinitely long past developed the hunger instinct, wh... ...enly violated and defied by the great mass of the people of the North. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, and the st... ...by the great mass of the people of the North. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, and the statutes passed to enforce ...

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... which this ordinary flux of the human race seems to have a vast duration. Cases there are, and those not rare, in which a single week, a day, an hour... ...ver had been a ves- sel to be wrecked, or a wreck to be obliterated. These cases, though here spoken of rhetorically , are of daily occurrence; and, t... ...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... ...art of the power attached to this dignity he had already wielded since his fourteenth year, in quality of Vice-Khan, by the express appointment, and w... ...as indispensable to his purpose, because it met beforehand ev- ery form of amendment to his proposal coming from the more moderate nobles, who would n... ...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... ...IV . I counsel the patient not to make the mistake of suppos- ing that his amendment will necessarily proceed continu- ously, or by equal increments; ...

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... should ever distinguish him who aspires to the title of historian. By the united aid of medals, manuscripts, and inscriptions, I am enabled to say, p... ...nce, the hours have been regularly struck by the big bell. And, indeed the case was just the same with all the other clocks and watches in the borough... ... Meantime the devil, to whom the copy was entrusted, ran up stairs to his ‘case,’ in an unutterable hurry, and forthwith made a commencement at ‘setti... ...dam Kirschenwasser. Thus re- venged himself the Angel of the Odd. [Mabbott states that Griswold “obviously had a revised form” for use in the 1856 vol... ...nturies ago, certainly—the North- ern and Southern Kanadaw continents were united; the Kanawdians, then, would have been driven, by necessity, to a gr... ... sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my state-room. I fou... ...ious to make her acquaintance. On the day in which I visited the ship (the fourteenth), Wyatt and party were also to visit it—so the captain informed ... ... the main clause, so as to sub- stitute the word “tails” for “heads.” This amendment was so obviously proper, that the House concurred in it nem. con.... ...r. Maelzel. Of late years it has visited the principal towns in the United States. Wherever seen, the most intense curiosity was excited by its appear...

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...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...been punished at home, either by scolding or by the rod. But at school the case was different. The rod was freely used there, and I was not exempt fro... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...t, and never a failure of any one appointed from Georgetown, except in the case of the one whose place I was to take. He was the son of Dr. Bailey, ou... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ...cation of the Constitution by all the colonies; it changed still more when amendments were added; and if the right of any one State to withdraw contin... ...positively prohibited. All such irregularities must be summarily punished. Fourteenth.—Brigadier-General J. C. Sullivan is appointed to the command of... ...ops manifested in the defence of Vicksburg, I have to submit the following amendments, which, if acceded to by you, will perfect the agreement between...

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...d manifold glance of the dia- mond to pebbles of no value. A man is in all cases simply the man, of the same intrinsic worth and weakness, whether his... ...ting his other merits, ought now- ise to be forgotten. Our own view of the case coincides, we confess, in some degree with that of the majority. We re... ..., but full of solemnity and loveliness? How has the belief of a Saint been united in this high and true mind with the clearness of a Sceptic; the devo... ...along with Opium and Scotch Whisky, the manufacture of which is allowed by law? In Heaven’s name, then, let Poetry be preserved. With Religion, howeve... ...found but scant acceptance at Berlin or Vienna. The princes of the smaller states surrounded them- selves with literature and art. The duke of Brunswi... ... rela- tions, may be presented by you in chronological order, and that the states of life and feeling which afforded the examples that influenced you,... ...erably wide court, sur- rounded by irregular buildings, which were now all united into one dwelling. We usually hastened at once into the gar- 57 Goe... ... a preacher in Passion Week, exhort you in general terms to repentance and amendment: I rather wish all amiable couples the longest and most endur- in... ...would by no means allow this, but sent about in the neighborhood to find a fourteenth. I suf- fered them to do so; yet when I saw the servant coming i...

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... But her husband to her had always been an outside power which had in many cases to be evaded. Lady Mary, though she did not express all this, evident... ...end quite determined not to go back to the family doctrine. Such being the case, the Duke’s ill- will and hardness and general severity would probably... ...ng beautiful as Apollo as he stood upright before his wished-for father-in-law—’Sir, I have come to ask you to give me the hand of your daughter. ’ T... ...speak of his own iniquity, and that the hero- ine and the demon are so far united that they have been in a garret together. But there is the drawback ... ...f all men it could not be refused. And then the very altitude of the great Statesman whom he was invited to befriend,—the posi- tion of this Duke who ... ...in as they are born,—unless they are very wise indeed. When men come to be statesmen, and all that kind of thing, of course they can change backwards ... ...uld call your horse by such a name. If my father had been President of the United States, I don’t think I’d call a horse President. ’ ‘I didn’t name t... ...to think of. ’ ‘Questions to be asked in Parliament? Notices of mo- tions, Amendments in Committee, and that kind of thing?’ ‘Go on, old fellow. ’ ‘Or... ...TER 43 What Happened at Doncaster The Leger this year was to be run on the fourteenth of September, and while Lord Silverbridge was amusing him- self ...

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.... A miserable-looking woman is called into the boardroom, and represents a case of extreme destitu- tion, affecting herself—a widow, with six small ch... ...that solemn functionary. As to taking out a summons, it’s quite a hopeless case if Simmons attends it, on behalf of the parish. He knows all the title... ... behalf of the parish. He knows all the titles of the Lord Mayor by heart; states the case without a single stammer: and it is even reported that on o... ... conclusion of the ceremony, until the sacred edifice resounded with their united wailings! As the four sisters and Mr. Robinson continued to occupy t... ...ed; on which the stout father calls very loudly for an officer, to whom he states the case, in the presence of another father of another family—a litt... ... more than sixteen, and the younger of whom had certainly not attained her fourteenth year. That they were sisters, was evident, from the resemblance ... ...ment of the unwary Tibbs. On the following morning, Mr. Septimus Hicks was united to Miss Matilda Maplesone. Mr. Simpson also en- tered into a ‘holy a... ...The Endeavour’ be hired for the occasion; Mr. Alexander Briggs moved as an amendment, that the word ‘Fly’ be substituted for the word ‘Endeavour’; but... ...ere, till about eleven o’clock, and, just as I was taking my leave for the fourteenth time, the girl came running down the stairs, without her shoes, ...

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...ave seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never moved but to measure, ... ... 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... ...ooking into the court facing westwards to the fountain; the other, a small casement strongly barred, and looking on to the green in front of the Hall.... ...ving room for Harry Esmond to stand on tiptoe and kiss his hand before the casement closed, the bars fixing as firmly as ever, seemingly, in the stone... ... came, no doubt, complaints and recriminations; then, perhaps, promises of amendment not fulfilled; then upbraidings not the more pleasant because the... ...lies to her mother, yet eager in her protestations of love and promises of amendment; and as ready to cry (after a little quarrel brought on by her ow... ...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!) 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 ...