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... amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink Printers become ―carriers of a spirit of capitali... ...nters become ―carriers of a spirit of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxt... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...of his mirrors. Rumors hinted that to settle the debt from that luckless venture, Gutenberg promised to share a ―secret,‖ presumably his typography... ... his typography invention. Similar secrecy surrounded most early printing ventures. That‘s probably why historians have found so few records of any ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...ters became ―carriers of a spirit of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. The very act of printing Bibles intruded capitalist...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...ilding had produced nothing beyond the caravel, a craft in which only the most venturesome would trust themselves. But if surprise and doubt has been ... ... who had made frequent passages from Peru to the new settlements in Chili, now ventured far out upon the high sea, and in the progress of his voyage d... ...that in dealing with the Oriental he must appear indifferent; and in nowise to venture on shore or put himself in the power of an eastern potentate wi... ... sum, quite enough to fit out the necessary naval force, was raised by leading capitalists, bankers and noblemen. On their part the matter was a specu... ...ually went to Cartagena, but planters who sent able-bodied slaves as soldiers, capitalists who supplied money for arms, uniforms, ammunition and provi... ...resentation perished the last hope of the colonists getting anything from, the capitalists who had helped De Pointis to sail. AMBITIONS OF A DYING MON...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ... proposition, “the state is only for the Capitalist. This war is got up by Capitalists. Whatever has to be done—we are rebels.” Such a typical paper a... ...ns to policemen or navy for these punctual payments. Probably he has never ventured even to reinvest his little legacy. He is acutely aware of possess... ...p- tible in the press of the Latin allies. A great movement on the part of capitalists and business organisers is manifest to assure the worker of a c... ...out of the bloody and hope- less squalor of the present conflict. It is, I venture to assert, the peace of the reasonable man in any country whatever....

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...’s hearts are desperate; now it shall end. Vergniaud, spite of the baying, ventures to say Yes, Delay; though he had voted Death. Philippe Egalite say... ...e also, with such jarrings, there is work to be sick of. Lyons, a place of Capitalists and Aristocrats, is in still worse state; almost in revolt. Cha... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th... ...anner, divide the Republican Year. Then as to minuter subdivisions, let us venture at once on a bold stroke: adopt your decimal subdivision; and inste... ...d criticisms and plans are very various; when that young Artillery Officer ventures to speak; the same whom we saw snatching sleep among the guns, who...

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...ather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printers become ?carriers of a spirit of capitalism? simply because they were capitalists themselves. -- 16. Shaping the English Language-William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasure of ...

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... amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink Printers become ―carriers of a spirit of capitali... ...nters become ―carriers of a spirit of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxt... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ... his mirrors. Rumors hinted that to settle the debt from that luckless venture, Gutenberg promised to share a ―secret,‖ presumably his typography... ... his typography invention. Similar secrecy surrounded most early printing ventures. That‘s probably why historians have found so few records of any ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...ters became ―carriers of a spirit of capitalism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. The very act of printing Bibles intruded capitalist...

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...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ...hat are needed for the development of a world peace. 13 H G Wells I would venture to suggest that the present war is doing so now: that it is produci... ... so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will develop some Pan- American equivalent. Probably the hundred millions of Latin America may ach... ...s that only the greediest and dullest people among the Pledged Allies will venture to disregard it. The Allied nations, too, will have to rescue their... ...uctions of our national methods is that vaguer body, the body of investing capitalists, the savers, the usurers, who live on dividends. It is a vast c... ... Against the comparatively little and mutually jealous British or American capitalists and millionaires Germany pits itself as a single great capitali... ...ive, against the unteachable, the suspicious, the “old fool.” But I do not venture to prophesy that this will come about as if it were a slick and eas...

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... .... So much for English opinion about America in August last. And now I will venture to say a word or two as to 13 Trollope American feeling respecting... ...onarchy in which the Crown is divested of di- rect political power. I will venture then to suggest a king for this new na- tion; and, seeing that we a... ...ially about Niagara, to give some account of this strange position, I will venture to repeat my own words. 112 North America V ol. 1 In the spot to w... ...ork. In the first place, Lowell is not open as a manufacturing town to the capitalists even of New England at large. Stock may, I presume, be bought i... ... I am of course speaking of Lowell as it was previous to the war. American capitalists are not, as a rule, contented with so low a rate of interest as...

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...p! But I know well enough whom I have to thank for this. It is that damned American boat. Those fellows ex- pect to get work done here the way they ar... ... And for an example of it, we need look no farther than at the crew of the American ship that is lying here just now. Rorlund: Oh, I would rather not ... ...up again, and that Mr. Bernick was in consultation with three of our local capitalists. Mrs.Rummel: Ah, I was right in thinking I heard my husband’s v... ...out to the right.) Bernick (who has read the telegram): This is thoroughly American! Absolutely shocking! Mrs.Bernick: Good gracious, Karsten, what is... ...ver, that the community has its duties too. Why should science and capital venture to introduce these new discoveries into labour, before the communit... ... with home-sickness; but she never would admit it. (Smiles.) How could she venture to risk leaving such a flighty fellow as me alone, who before I was... ...k: Poor! Why? You surely do not suppose I let her want for anything? No, I venture to say I am a good brother. Of course she has a home here with us; ...

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...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ... and as I seem, so far, to be the only publicly articulate result of it, I venture to add my commentary to what has already been written by musicians ... ...nt. Loki gratifies him by pretending to be frightened out of his wits, but ventures to remark that it would be better still if the helmet could transf... ...hat only the hero, when in the fulness of time he appears upon earth, will venture through it; and the problem is solved. Wotan, with a break- ing hea... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ... liberty, to the upshot of competition for personal gain be- tween private capitalists, is a disastrous failure, and is, by the mere necessities of th... ...ld become common property, and all Monarchs, Millionaires, Land- lords and Capitalists become common citizens, the trium- phant proletarians would hav...

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...at it will bequeath to future generations a mass of legislation to prevent capitalists from “using up nine generations of men in one generation,” as t... ... a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have de... ...es of social ostracism on people, however harmless their actions maybe who venture to laugh at their monstrous conceit or to pay their assumptions the... ...e, always ready to fight, ruthless in taking the conceit out of anyone who ventures to give himself airs of superior knowledge or taste, and generally... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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...oth are men to quit their old ways; and, conquering indolence and inertia, venture on new. Great truly is the Actual; is the Thing that has rescued it... ...s in the minds of men. Thus has Beaumarchais, like a lean French Hercules, ventured down, driven by destiny, into the Nether Kingdoms; and vic- torio... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...nia, confused unlimited opposition in their heads. Questionable: not to be ventured upon, if we had a Fortunatus’ Purse! But Lomenie has waited all Ju... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...e also, with such jarrings, there is work to be sick of. Lyons, a place of Capitalists and Aristocrats, is in still worse state; almost in revolt. Cha...

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...ing godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ... himself.— What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.— Nothing venture, nothing have.—Thou shalt be paid ex- actly for what thou hast done... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...le; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial; the party of capitalists and that of operatives; parties which are identical in their mo...

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... Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a... ...nd after that education, all the surplus values are taken from them by the capitalists. And society’s so consti- tuted that the harder they work, the ... ...t.) “She has been continually asking after you. And, do you know, if I may venture to advise you, you should go and see her today. You know how she ta...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ... rate the wits and ability of their leisure moments, against the embattled capitalists of England and the world, in this complicated and delicate ente... ... but they will certainly not own them. Only doctrine- driven men have ever ventured to think they would. Nor will the state control writers and artist... ...se of conformity and orthodoxy was manifest enough, but in his “Utopia” he ventures to con- template, and that not merely wistfully, but with some con... ...ld THE HUMAN AD THE HUMAN AD THE HUMAN AD THE HUMAN AD THE HUMAN ADVENTURE VENTURE VENTURE VENTURE VENTURE ALONE AMONG all the living things this glob...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...of the home pro ducer against foreign industry—are very natural (I do not venture to say whether probable) results of a feeling of class interest in ... ...ther; including, however, along with em ployers of labor not only retired capitalists and the possess ors of inherited wealth, but all that highly p... ...ts practical advantages. The more these works are studied, the stronger, I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of th... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...ed myself in terms which, as I do not feel that I can improve upon, I will venture here to transcribe. “Thirty years ago it was still true that in the...

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...f certain historical facts, that this ferocity has often been shown by the capitalists and by the State toward the wage-earning classes, particularly ... ... by the State toward the wage-earning classes, particularly when they have ventured to protest against the unspeakable suffering to which industrialis... ... his exposition of the evils of the capi- talist system. He does not blame capitalists for the cruelties of which he shows them to have been guilty; h... ...iminution, not only in the number of businesses, but also in the number of capitalists. Indeed, he usually spoke as though each business were owned by... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ...e may note the general conclusion:— There are now practical Maraichers who venture to maintain that if all the food, animal and vegetable, necessary f...

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...o, from the Euthyphron to the Theoctetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to think, would have been better omitted, as it was totally impossi... ...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ...tion of them: but I even 16 Autobiography then remarked (though I did not venture to make the re mark to him) that though he reproached me when I re... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...at sort of persons com pose the bulk of those who have bought, I will not venture to say read, it, I have never thoroughly understood. But taken in c... ...rmine the shares which fall, in the division of the produce, to labourers, capitalists, and landlords. The Principles of Political Economy yielded t... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ...

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.... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... now abov droring a pint of Small Bier. As for my wife—that Angel—I’ve not ventured to depigt HER. Fansy her a sittn in the Bar, smiling like a sunflo... ... disgraceful trade—who, borrowing from distance a despicable courage, have ventured to assail me. The infamous editors of the Kelso Champion, the Bung... ...y. It is, I presume, a fact which even these scribbling assassins will not venture to deny, that before the commencement of the campaign against Scind... ...get a loan or a benevolence from the Jews, would roast a few of the Hebrew capitalists, or extract some of the principal rabbis’ teeth, Rowena would e...