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... evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. On this point, the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test, and the Presidential election, occurring in regular course during the reb...

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... question whether any govern- ment not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergen- cie... ...Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. Now that the election is ov... ...to Lincoln as the vicious and unpatriotic themselves. His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because other- wise adherence to rig... ...eive 5 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One of a man farther removed from baseness, farther removed from corruption, from mere self-seeking; but... ...f great origi- nal genius or of an heroic type of character.” The American people should feel profoundly grateful that the greatest American statesman... ...out much malice, and have received a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridic... ...and some of his pieces were even deemed good enough for publication in the county weekly. Thus he won a neighborhood reputation as a clever young man,... ...m a friend to buy a new suit of clothes—”store clothes” fit for a Sangamon County statesman; and thus adorned he set out for the state capital, Vandal... ...ment upon grave affairs of state with a story about “a man out in Sangamon County,”—a story, to be sure, strikingly clinching his point, but sadly lac...

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... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ... or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. ... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...er age 18 Elections: elections held for People's Congress representatives at county level Political parties and leaders: Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... ...h about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) service... ...s (Bundes- strassen), 65,425 km state highways (Lan- desstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen); 296,737 km of unclassified communal roads (...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...ly, and I do not watch myself, they will find me out to be of a particular county. In the same man- ner, Dunning may be found out to be a Devonshire m... ...great estate, I would drive all the rascals whom I did not like out of the county at an election.’ We then walked to the Pantheon. The first view of i... ...he was so exuberant a talker at publick meeting, that the gentlemen of his county were afraid of him. No business could be done for his declamation.’ ...

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...e walls, staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. The only things to be seen not fixedly s... ... Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the sha... ...e at Marseilles, sought the shade alike— taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set wit... ...ilight of pillars and arches— dreamily dotted with winking lamps, dreamily peopled with ugly old shadows piously dozing, spitting, and begging—was to ... ...o a fiery river, and swim for life to the nearest strip of shade. So, with people lounging and lying wherever shade was, with but little hum of tongue... ...a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position,... ...aturday night, would be corrupt on Sunday morn- ing; albeit my lord, their county member, was amazed that they failed to sleep in company with their b... ...e duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General. At length a county- widower, with a daughter of fourteen, opened negotiations with the ... ...and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ Pursuing the light so fortun...

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...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...ilections and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not been abl... ... laden his pockets with champagne and brandy; the other with glasses and a corkscrew; and as the bottle went round, I began to feel something of the s... ...le were not too grand to call it Cove, and were contented to run down from Cork in river steamers, before the Passage railway was built. I spent a ple... ... kinsman than I do in your Englishman. I never ask an Englishman from what county he comes, or what was his town. To Irishmen I usually put such quest...

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... contribution. Their chronicle strikes me as quite of the stuff to keep us from forgetting that absolutely no refinement of ingenuity or of precaution ... ... upon himself; the rest of our impression, in either case, coming straight from the very motion with which that act is performed. We see Charlotte als... ... is, for the projector and creator of figures and scenes that are as nought from the moment they fail to become more or less visible appearances, charm... ...mple reason that no revisionist I can recall has ever been communicative. “People don’t do such things,” we remember to have heard it, in this connexi... ...y to bring a charge of waste against the other things that, with the other people known to the young man, had failed of such a result. “Why his ‘form’... ...ver brought any one out. Goodness, when it’s real, precisely, rather keeps people in.” He had been interested in his discrimination, which amused him.... ...ebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns House in the county of Kent, scarcely figured as a definite place at all; it showed someho... ...ostalgic, was distinguished as struggling against the perpetual popping of corks. Much of this would decidedly have disconcerted our friends if it had...

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...es, gallantly escorted by Messrs. Snodgrass, Winkle, and T upman, returned from an early walk. ‘Why, Ben!’ said Arabella, in a tone which expressed mo... ...jamin Allen fell fast asleep; while Mr. Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from worldly matters, by the ingenious process of carving his name on the s... ...ingular and un swan like manner, when Mr. Pickwick most innocently shouted from the opposite bank— ‘Sam!’ ‘Sir?’ ‘Here. I want you.’ ‘Let go, Sir,’ sa... ...a grinder.’ ‘No, no, Mr. Pickwick,’ said Jackson, in conclusion; ‘Perker’s people must guess what we’ve served these subpoenas for. If they can’t, the... ... thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. ‘You haven’t made me out that little list of the fees that I’m in y... ...ad that dull looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and labori ... ...said Sam. ‘Clean!’ replied Mr. Weller; ‘never leaves nothin’ in it but the cork and the smell; trust him for that, Sammy. Now, these here fellows, my ... ... preliminary tap on the head, and began dancing round him in a buoyant and cork like manner, which in a gentleman at his time of life was a perfect ma... ...e nience, several hundred degrees inferior to the common in firmary of a county jail), it had at present the merit of being wholly deserted save by ...

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...remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwel- come sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed natu- rally into pity and contempt as he turn... ..., 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth,... ...born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer’s hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the... ...810, Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset,” and by inserting most accurately the day of the month ... ...oncluding with the arms and motto:— ”Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset,” and Sir Walter’s handwriting again in this finale:— “H... ... mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her ... ...her, (so totally differ- ent were her delicate features and mild dark eyes from his own), there could be nothing in them, now that she was faded and t... ... Sir W alter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What will he be doing, in fact, ... ...liberal notions, and are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one 15 Jane Austen should meet with. Therefore, Sir Walter, what I ...