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...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ... Love’s, and Night’s, and Ocean’s solitude, O’erflow’d her soul with their united power; Amidst the barren sand and rocks so rude She and her ... ... their witness, and the cave their bed, By their own feelings hallow’d and united, Their priest was Solitude, and they were wed: And they were... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ...of that; and if we don’t, ‘T will be because our notion is not high Of politicians and their double front, Who live by lies, yet dare not bold... ... wrong, To aid the damsel and destroy the caitiff; Opposing singly the united strong, From foreign yoke to free the helpless native: Alas... ...fought their fox hunt o’er again, And then retreated soberly—at ten. The politicians, in a nook apart, Discuss’d the world, and settled all th...

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...dici. On the subject of power they held the same doctrine now professed by Russia, namely: to which- ever head the crown goes, he is the true, the leg... ...ciated in corporations which limited their number, they were still further united into guilds by the Church. In this way prices were maintained. Also,... ...ation; they desired to es- tablish throughout Europe the government of the United Provinces, which ended by triumphing over the greatest Power of thos... ...o Balafres were four ambitious minds, superior in talents to all the other politicians who surrounded them. This family was never really brought low e... ... while he was plotting a diabolical conspiracy against us! That rascal has united the Protestants of Germany with the heretics of France by reconcilin... ... esteemed them much, and I knew them little. If I felt any aversion to the politicians of my time, it was to that base Cardinal de Lorraine, and to hi...

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...arry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost given you up.” She had ... ...ainted from designs by Boucher. Bath, table and love are therefore closely united. After the salon, which, I should tell you, my dear fellow, exhibits... ...ainst physical pain almost as powerful as that of the 26 Sons of the Soil Russians or the Arabs. “Here’s one of Cooper’s Red-skins,” thought Blondet;... ...usly and by lucky chances. If some soldiers are wily and astute and clever politicians, they are exceptions; a soldier is, usually, especially an acco... ...Tall and strong, he belonged to the class of soldiers accustomed, like the Russians, to obey, passively and absolutely. Nothing hin- dered him in the ... ...uture of her husband’s son by marrying him to Rigou’s only daugh- ter. The united fortunes of the Soudrys and the ex-monk, which would come eventually... ...tin through his wife, a Gaubertin-Vallat. Eighteen months pre- viously the united efforts of the two deputies, Monsieur de Soulanges and Gaubertin, ha... ...ith the difficulties and necessities of administration, but whom pu- ritan politicians, doing infinitely worse things, call corrupt. The interior of G...

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...ise. Nothing but an accident now was needed to sever finally the bond that united them; nor was that blow, so terrible for Lucien, very long delayed. ... ...s, and the watch; and the same odd mixture appeared in the man himself. He united the magis- terial, dogmatic air, and the hollow countenance of the p... ...se to his friend’s side as a soldier might keep by a comrade on the frozen Russian plains. During those early days of his acquaintance, he noticed, no... ...little group of young men who met almost every evening in d’Arthez’s room, united by the keenest sympathies and by the earnestness of their intellec- ... ...ious scholar, he became the acknowledged head of a school of moralists and politicians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but ... ...despairingly, and went out saying, “I will come back again.” T wo or three politicians were chatting over the convocation of the Chambers and public b... ...little Florville, are you cured already of your fancy? They told me that a Russian prince had carried you off.” “Who carries off women in these days” ... ...he management. The manager will go down on his knees to pray for some more Russian princes,” Florville continued, laugh- ing; “the forfeit money was s...

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... and watch Japan—they’re the two poles of the world,” said Jim. “I thought Russia and America,” said Lilly. “Eh? What? Russia and America! They’ll dep... ....” “Do you though? Now that’s funny. Why?” “Looking at them even. I knew a Russian doctor who’d 74 Aaron’s Rod been through the Russo-Japanese war, a... ...rush a trench. They threw everything away and flung themselves through the Russian fire and simply dropped in masses. But those that reached the trenc... ...he foot of the stairs, he let go again. He was in that rosy condition when united-we-stand. But unfortu- nately it is a complicated job to climb the s... ...ved or liked. He found all his affections snapping off, all the ties which united him with his own 180 Aaron’s Rod people coming asunder. And why? In... ...bred gentlemen, and then perhaps, your profiteers and Rothschilds, and ALL politicians, and ending up with the proletariat,” said Argyle. “Then who wo...

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...Copsley raised an exclamation of, ‘Oh! that those two had been or could be united!’ She was conscious of a mystic symbolism in the prayer. She was not... ...der brother, Lord Creedmore, is a common Nimrod, always absent in Hungary, Russia, America, hunting somewhere. Mr. Dacier will be in the Cabi- net wit... ...lan- guage. Otherwise we have it coarse—anything but a repro- duction. You politicians despise the little distinctions “twixt tweedledum and tweedlede... ...at somehow you contrive to get the pick of us in the girls! If ever we ‘re united, ‘twill be by a trick of circumvention of that sort, pretty sure. Th... ...because of the known failure of her other adorers. He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her... ...dwelling on the fond reciprocal affection of the two devoted lovers, to be united within three days’ time, Lady Wathin said at last: ‘And is it not sh...

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...ers, and wandered into the oak- panelled dining-room. No fibre of sympathy united me to any living thing in this house; I looked for and found my moth... ...rance, than the Italians are to priestcraft, the French to vain-glory, the Russians to their Czar, or the Germans to black beer. I have seen a degree ... ...ken out the words which, repressed, kept fretting my heart with fever; our united income would, as we should have managed it, have sufficed well for o... ...one thought, whose talk is of free trade. The foreign visi- tors, too, are politicians; they take a wider theme—European progress—the spread of libera... ...ral sentiments over the Conti- nent; on their mental tablets, the names of Russia, Austria, and the Pope, are inscribed in red ink. I have heard some ...

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...will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. It is a strange thing that most men of action have a tendency ... ...d towards the goal where the trum- pets and gifts of victory await patient politicians. Lucien had taken Beaudenord’s bachelor quarters on the Quai Ma... ...tility of Prince de Talleyrand and the Duke of Otranto, the only two great politicians formed by the Revolution, who might perhaps have been able to s... ...to have a descrip- tion of this formidable machine. Who knows? A police of Russia, Germany, or Austria, the legal body of countries to whom the “Salad... ...by Louise de Savoie to Semblancay; a War Office clerk sold the plan of the Russian campaign to Czernitchef; and these traitors were more or less rich.... ...o us, on seeing two 324 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life handsome creatures united and happy, always did honor to Madame de Stael, in spite of her ‘rom... ...chasseur with his plumes and an uniform of green and gold as dazzling as a Russian General’s, proclaiming a lady of aristocratic rank and almost royal... ...ip, was perhaps the unknown bond on which a strong intimacy was based that united the Comtes de Bauvan, de Granville, and de Serizy; for a common misf... ... who loved each other, and who were happy!” said Jacques Collin. “They are united.—It is some comfort to rot together. I will be buried here.” When Lu...

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...n achieving an enterprise like that?” “No, my lord, he had three colleagues, three brave men, men such as you were wishing for just now.” “And were th... ... a crisis at hand. Well! let’s fly the feather before the wind; let us join with that side to which the wind will carry it and resume our adventurous ... ... to Porthos, whilst Athos approached D’Artagnan. All four once more together. “Friends!” said Athos, “do you regret you have not shed our blood?” “No,... ...Down with Mazarin,” and pleased with Gondy’s suppres- sion of this fact, he said with his sweetest voice and his 385 Dumas most gracious expression: ... ... unlike the mantle worn by kings.” This was one of the humiliations which Mazarin made Anne undergo more frequently than any other, and one that bowed...

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... Historical Mystery.”] The Marions, Grevins, and Giguets were all the more united be- cause the triumph of their political opinions, called “consti- t... ...d sphere only,—inciting a people to rebel, tracking the secrets of austere politicians, and triumphing nowhere but in boudoirs and on the back- stairs... ...nd that neither the boasted strata of Bohemia and Saxony nor even those of Russia and Hungary can be compared to those hidden in the Pyrenees, in the ... ...thful to any secret that concerned you per- sonally.” “ Ah! you are such a united pair,” said Madame de l’Estorade, with a heavy sigh. “I don’t regret...

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...owed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind, therefore, to escape from my leading-strings;... ...alting-places was Marienburgh, where we camped for the night. I had become united in friendship with Comte de Coetquen, who was in the same company wi... ...une, whom the consciousness of wit—of the insinuating and captivating kind—united with much ability, gracefulness of intellect, and learning, inspired... ...the reconciliation which took place. The Czar, Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, had at this time already commenced his voyages; he was in Holland, ... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r...

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...and spend the afternoon with white of egg and a glue- pot, patching up the Russia leather of some bat- tered quarto. He had many volumes of old trav- ... ...ool at T ercanbury . The neighbouring clergy sent their sons there. It was united by long tradition to the Cathedral: its headmaster was an honorary C... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...ettled itself she looked round and gave the name of her piece. “A Drive in Russia.” There was a round of clapping during which she deftly fixed bells ...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisa...

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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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... 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–... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ... of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table o... ... reason they were scrambled.As the lead pilot explained,“I reverted to the Russian threat....I’m thinking cruise missile threat from the sea.Y ou know... ...lims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and... ...l agencies.With an annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire. The Defense Department is part civilian, part mili... ...n, dominated by a wealthy and indolent elite. Saudi contacts with American politicians are frequently invoked as accusations in partisan polit- ical a...

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...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

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...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ...at Provi- dence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ances- tors, speaking the sa... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... moral and physical necessity. We might defy the little arts of the little politicians to control or vary the irresistible and unchange- able course o... ...ntative. If we compare the wealth of the United Nether- lands with that of Russia or Germany, or even of France, and if we at the same time compare th...

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...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly with social details; and though i... ...ial measures without a public avowal of such mea- sures. France can do so. Russia can do so. The government of the United States can do so, and could ... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...g been educated at the military college at West Point. During our war with Russia he was sent to the Crimea by his own government, in conjunction with... ...e dignity of the States government. I heard much of the tender sympathy of Russia. Russia sent a flourishing general message, saying that she wished t...

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...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ...f a large portion of the population whose in- terests go beyond the State. Politicians and statesmen, being the last people in the world to notice wha... ... We have come to see more and more clearly how little we can hope for from politicians, societies and organised movements in these es- sential things.... ...sophy from the foolish cerebrations of university “characters” and eminent politicians at leisure, and our starved science find scope and resources ad... ...23 H. G . Wells a contented acquiescence in the rivalry of Germany and the United States for the moral, intellectual and material leader- ship of the ... ...in the ballot box. Our liberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The h... ... Germans, then Central Europeans of various types, then Poland and Western Russia began to pour out their teeming peoples, and more particu- larly the...

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...all countries, unite!” In all the great countries of the Continent, except Russia, a revolution followed quickly on the publication of the Com- munist... ...influencing Governments more and 21 Bertrand Russell more, dominating the Russian Revolution, and perhaps ca- pable of achieving at no very distant d... ...he working-class, a class always in- creasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist produc... ...eories will be reserved for Part II.] Michel Bakunin was born in 1814 of a Russian aristocratic family. His father was a diplomatist, who at the time ... ...iste Francais (Jaures), there have been only two groups of Socialists, the United Socialist Party and the Independents, who are intellectuals or not w... ... development as showing the vanity of political triumphs. Very many French politicians who have risen to power have begun their political career as So... ...mentary majority. But Syndicalists have too little faith in the honesty of politicians to place any reliance on such a 50 Proposed Roads to Freedom m... ... coun- tries, but their spirit is closely analogous. The I. W . W . is not united as to the ultimate form which it wishes society to take. There are S... ...han the official Guildsman would wholly approve. It is in the matters that politicians usually ignore—science and art, human relations, and the joy of...

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...ove him inconsistent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind ha... ...cross or a new order. I see only one thing. To morrow one hundred thousand Russians and one hundred thousand Frenchmen will meet to fight; they who fi... ... struck by the steadfastness under fire which has always distinguished the Russian soldier. The fall of each man acted as an increasing stimu lus. Th... ...toy does full justice to the cour age and patriotism of all grades in the Russian army, but it is constantly evident that his sympathies are most hea... ...rds the light. There we shall find ourselves, gathered from many quarters, united with men we did not expect to see; therein is joy. The humility whic... ...oking at the admiring observers with pride and happiness. “He and she were united in my mind in one rush of pathetic tenderness. “I was living then wi...

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...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...has been put an end to in the British Empire and else where. The serfs in Russia owe their emancipation, if not to a sentiment of duty, at least to t... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...le or a general massacre could effect the emancipation of the serfs in the Russian Empire. The same passages of history forcibly illustrate another mo... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ... ...urper) through the mental qualifi cations of a permanent bureaucracy. The Russian and Aus trian governments, and even the French government in its n... ...t in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? Politicians are fond of treating it as the dream of en thusiasts that the ... ...one in whose case absolute impartiality , and freedom from connection with politicians or sections of politicians, are of any thing like equal importa...

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... 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... ...the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the United States], or to listen to his propositions, but, after a long-continu... ...owed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. In all the great ques- tions which have agitated the country, ... ...rating to some country where they make no pre- tense of loving liberty,—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the ba...

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...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 ... ...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 ... ...afforded, it would not have voted for Jefferson Davis for President of the United 15 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representativ... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ...; and T exas, with a domain greater than that of any European state except Russia, was permitted to retain as state property all the public lands with... ...ection of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer ye... ...st Richmond and Lee, the credit would be given to them for the capture, by politicians and non-combatants from the section of country which those troo...

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...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... ...y exertions against the ambition of Austria, or the States themselves have united so closely against the common enemy. The power of Austria never stoo... ...ars; but he never shrunk from a just one. His arms were successful against Russia, and Sweden was augmented by several important provinces on the east... ...im troops. He had great reason to rejoice at the friendly disposi- tion of Russia, as it was indispensable to his interests that Sweden itself should ... ...he timid mind of Louis with the most alarming fears. Not merely chimerical politicians, but many of the best informed Roman Catholics, fully believed ...

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... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ...ili ties under which they labour. France, and Italy, and Switzerland, and Russia now afford examples of the same thing. How many more women there are... ...shows that the natural motives which lead to a voluntary adjustment of the united life of two persons in a manner acceptable to both, do on the whole,... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t...

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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ...repositories of culture who had social opportunities of con- tact with our politicians, administrators, and newspaper pro- prietors, or any chance of ... ... 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...

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...ivided into any number of parts, as by fusion those parts can easily be re-united again; a quality which no other equally durable commodities possess,... ...nerally the same, or very nearly the same, through the greater part of the united king- dom. These, and most other things which are sold by retail, th... ...ouring poor, therefore, can maintain their families in the one part of the united kingdom, they must be in affluence in the other. Oatmeal, indeed, su... ... France, and 172 The Wealth of Nations Germany; even Sweden, Denmark, and Russia, have all advanced considerably, both in agriculture and in manufact... ...market, with the manufactures of Great Britain; thirdly, the peace between Russia and Turkey has occasioned an extraordinary demand from the 492 The ... ...ns T urkey market, which, during the distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplie... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...My Chant...........534 True Conquerors...............................535 The United States to Old World Critics ......................................... ...old them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or talking other dialects, And it seems to me if I could know thos... ... or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d African, large, fine head... ...an the whole of the Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my ever united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made ou... ...nd diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made one identity; Nativities, climates, the grass of the gre... ...the good old cause in it? Has it not dangled long at the heels of the poets, politicians, literats, of enemies’ lands? Does it not assume that what is...

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...a small schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at a... ...alled who speak the English language) who have married Californians, become united to the Catholic church, and acquired considerable property. Havi... ... when they sailed, were living on the beach, keeping up a grand carnival. A Russian discovery ship which had been in this port a few years before, h... ...acquitted, yet he was so frightened that he never would show himself in the United States again; and I could not persuade him that he could never be ... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio... ... which promises well. Here, at anchor, and the only vessel, was a brig under Russian colors, from Asitka, in Russian America, which had come down to w... ...k it, slept in the midst of it, and their clothes were covered with it. To a Russian, grease is the greatest luxury. They looked with greedy eyes upo...

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...ere nothing is respected, he cannot know that city. When Schmucke and Pons united their riches and pov- erty, they hit upon the economical expedient o... ...ne covered with delicate carving, the like of which had never been seen. A Russian lady (Russian ladies are apt to forget that they are not in Russia)... ...nd bridegroom. The offices of the bank had been fitted into the wing which united a handsome business house with the hotel at the back, be- tween cour... ...ve been taken in by an artist’s hoax like that.” In a few weeks’ time, the united forces of the Camusot and Popinot families gained an easy victory in... ...culture, and President of the Board of T rade, one of the most influential politicians of the day. President de Marville is even more formidable throu... ...f my life, may be sold by public auction, and go, some to England, some to Russia, till they are all scattered abroad again as if they had never been ... ...rough you, madame?—So young! and yet have you such vices as this?” asked a Russian prince. Russians are by nature imitative; imitative indeed to such ...

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...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... ...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?’—’... ... to a gentleman from that country, on the subject of an union which artful Politicians have often had in view—’Do not make an union with us, Sir. We s... ...is mind, ‘O! Gentlemen, I must tell you a very great thing. The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be trans- lated into the Russian language... ... said with a good-humoured smile, ‘That there should be so much excellence united with so much depravity, is strange.’ Indeed, this lady’s good qualit...