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... MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that the proprietors have allowed me to republish so considerable an amount of copy....

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...a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of editors; and second, that th... ...ons of their countrymen; and to see them clearly in a nice relation to the society that brought them forth, an author would require a large habit of l... ...s mediaeval vagabond has the best of the comparison. There is now a Villon Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into Eng... ...it may be – for such awakenings are unpleasant – to the great cost of this society that we enjoy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who s... ...oulders as we read. A sort of mocking indignation grows upon us as we find Society re- jecting, again and again, the services of the most serviceable;... ...im to understand more in- telligently the responsibilities of his place in society. And in all this generalisation of interest, we never miss those sm... ...ir “cannie hour at e’en.” It was upon love and flirtation that this rustic society was built; gallantry was the essence of life among the Ayrshire hil... ... to pass on and refrain from explanation. He was not embar- rassed in this society, because he read and judged the men; he could spy snobbery in a tit... ...the other hand, surprised him; he was scarce commander of himself in their society; he was dis- qualified by his acquired nature as a Don Juan; and he...

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...ce. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement.In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their textbook: H...

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...tes in the late 1940s, Qutb returned with an enormous loathing of W estern society and history . He dismissed W est- ern achievements as entirely mate... ...smissed W est- ern achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses “nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify... ...ddle East, convert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ... ...stance and an embrace of unprecedented Islamist influence on education and society. These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990s: th... ...system.They are thus a ready audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society , reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia... ... at the T aliban or Pakistan before 9/11. At the same time, Saudi Arabia’s society was a place where al Qaeda raised money directly from indi- viduals... ...raised money directly from indi- viduals and through charities. It was the society that produced 15 of the 19 hijackers. WHAT TO DO? A GLOBAL STRATEGY... ...ow can a man in a cave outcommunicate the world’s leading com- munications society?” Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage worried to us that Ame... ...sportation Security The U.S. transportation system is vast and, in an open society, impossible to secure completely against terrorist attacks.There ar...

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...cenery and architecture that we count England foreign. The constitution of society, the very pillars of the empire, surprise and even pain us. The dul... ...n all things with less interest and conviction. The first shock of English society is like a cold plunge. It is possible that the Scot comes looking f... ...contemporaries, for I was practi- cally alone in the pleasure I had in his society. Poor soul, I remember how much he was cast down at times, and how ... ... was that great failure, that beacon to young men, over whose fall a whole society had hissed and pointed fingers. Often have we gone to him, red-hot ... ...mentally how far I stood from the favour of the public. II THE SPECULATIVE SOCIETY is a body of some antiquity, and has counted among its members Scot... ...these privileges; looks even with a somewhat vin- egar aspect on the whole society; which argues a lack of pro- portion in the learned mind, for the w... ... lived I know not how; always well dressed, always in good hotels and good society, always with empty pockets. The charm of his manner may have stood ... ...his last overthrow. He had set himself to found the strangest thing in our society: one of those periodical sheets from which men suppose themselves t... ...some humours in his work, in his lifelong study of natural science, in the society of those he loved, and in his daily walks, which now would carry hi...

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...founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society” for the purpose of enabling scientific men to communicate their ... ... for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French society; and with such success did he conduct the affairs of his country ... ...ggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my con sequence in the society. My constant attendance (I never making a St. Monday) recommended... ...esar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society. But these, sir, are small reasons, in my opinion, compared with ... ...he vir tues) as in the before mention’d model; that the existence of such a society should he kept a secret, till it was become considerable, to prev... ...ess, and advancement in life; that, for distinction, we should be call’d The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by the general practice and... ... better the next year, 1744, in proposing and estab lishing a Philosophical Society. The paper I wrote for that purpose will be found among my writin... ...ense as one to twenty one only; for these were all regular mem bers of that society, and in good reputation among them, and had due notice of what wa... ... but not agreed to, for this reason: “When we were first drawn together as a society,” says he, “it had pleased God to enlighten our minds so far as t...

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...ss, and in some degree, it must be owned, the gen eral opinion of English society. It is too true, that the feel ings which have been manifested sin...

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... by the teenagers who find joy in murder. This also puts blame on American society because we are the ones who promote these types of movies because w...