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...et recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day— as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitud... ...848 6 Jane Eyre CHAPTER I THERE WA S NO POSSIBILITY of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in th... ... panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the ... ... punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every mor- sel of f... ...state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker’s men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.... ...the shore of a darker stream!” Strange words of a strange love! An austere patriot’s passion for his fatherland! He sat down; for half-an-hour we neve...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the gover...

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...sity. 3 A House of Gentlefolk By Ivan T urgenev Chapter I A BRIGHT SPRING DAY was fading into evening. High over- head in the clear heavens small ro... ...or ten years. He had been a provincial public prosecutor, noted in his own day as a suc- cessful man of business. He had received a fair education and... ...consideration, I 9 mean...the dust in the town is really extraordinary to-day,” he wound up. “Maman, maman,” cried a pretty little girl of eleven run... ..., and pushed his chair back with a laugh. “No!” he cried, “I can’t play to-day; it’s a good thing Lemm did not hear us; he would have had a fit.” Lisa... ...new arrival through the town. At eleven o’clock on the evening of the same day, this is what was happening in Madame Kalitin’s house. Downstairs, Vlad... ...sformed into an Anglomaniac, Ivan Petrovitch had at the same time become a patriot, at least he called himself a patriot, though he knew Russia little... ...t, and the peasants were forbidden to apply direct to Ivan Petrovitch. The patriot had already a great con- tempt for his fellow-countrymen. Ivan Petr... ...tempt for Russia wounded her. It had never occurred to Lisa that she was a patriot; but her heart was with the Russian people; the Russian turn of min...

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...better service in the present. In their essentials, the men of the present day are much like the men of the past, and the live issues of the present c... ...d as to be in reality profoundly immoral) which makes a man in this work-a-day world refuse to do what is possible because he cannot accomplish the im... ...ceived a great deal of kindness not quite free from ridi- cule.” On Easter Day, 1865, the world knew how little this ridicule, how much this kindness,... ...incoln the man became Lincoln the hero, year by year more heroic, until to-day, with the swift pass- ing of those who knew him, his figure grows ever ... ... His loud and persistent advocacy of territorial expansion, in the name of patriotism and “manifest destiny,” had given him an enthusiastic following ... ...n a Senate filled with able men. He could be as forceful in his appeals to patriotic feelings as he was fierce in denuncia- tion and thoroughly skille... ...y of the Treasury, a man of superb presence, of eminent ability and ardent patriotism, of great natural dignity and a certain outward coldness of mann... ...pulses, fierce positiveness, ruthless energy, immense working power, lofty patriotism, and severest devotion to duty. He accepted the war office not a... ...at emancipation on a larger scale as a thing to be considered seriously by patriotic citizens; and soon Lincoln thought that the time was ripe, and th...

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...THE NEW REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC TOLERATION TO-DAY is becoming a different thing from the toleration of former times. The ... ...is great and complex, beyond the utmost power of such minds as ours. Every day of life drives that conviction further home. And it is possible to main... ...e private judgment has play. No doubt upon certain defined issues of every-day life some religions are absolutely explicit; the Mahomedan religion, fo... ... remains that they must go about doing all sorts of things in common every day. They may derive their ulti- mate motives and sanctions from the most v... ...ightened or enlightened only by the indi- rect moralizing influence of the patriotic instinct and reli- gion) into a clear consciousness of our co-ope... ...f nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for patriotism is no more than a general- ized jealousy rather gorgeously clad.... ... shelters, and many men have been forced to take refuge under this echoing patriotism—for want of a better gathering place. It is like an incident dur... ...rgency, can be content to accept such an ar- tificial convention as modern patriotism for one moment. On the one hand there are the patriots of nation... ...vaal are one nation and those in Cape Colony another, and on the other the patriots of Empire who would have me, for example, hail as my fellow-subjec...

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...papers (Fielding was always a strong Whig and Hanoverian), called the True Patriot and the Jacobite’s Journal in 1745 and the following years; some in... ...l. It deceives, indeed, I am told, some excel- lent persons at the present day, who think Fielding’s micro- cosm a “toylike world,” and imagine that R... ...xisted in all Fielding’s Spanish and French models, that the public of the day expected them, and so forth. This defence is enough, but it is easy to ... ...ath this pew Lies fast asleep that merry man Andrew: When the last day’s great sun shall gild the skies, 30 Joseph Andrews Then he shall ... ...to the notice of Mr Abraham Adams, the curate, who took an opportunity one day, as he was drinking a cup of ale in Sir Thomas’s kitchen, to ask the yo... ... puzzled by an Arabian manuscript. Adams therefore took an opportunity one day, after a pretty long discourse with her on the essence (or, as she plea...

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... a study of one hundred and fifty-eight constitutions of the states of his day, and the fruits of that study are seen in the continual reference to co... ...seated membership of the state which finds its ex- pression in loyalty and patriotism. His definition of citizen includes only a small part of the pop... ...o alter the mode of cure which the law prescribed to him, after the fourth day; but if he did it sooner it was at his own peril: from whence it is evi... ...cease to be at the same time; so that, if anything came into beginning the day before the solstice, it must alter at the same time. Besides, why shoul... ...pply, while the giving it is like pouring water into a sieve: but the true patriot in a democracy ought to take care that the majority of the communit... ...iers should be kept separate from each other; which custom is even to this day preserved in Egypt and in Crete; also Sesostris having founded it in Eg... ...e and the Lametic on the other, the distance between which is about half a day’s journey. This Italus, they relate, made the AEnotrians, who were form...

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...ore. The moon is at the full, and the night is fair with light clouds. The day has been otherwise than fair, for slush and mud, thick- ened with the d... ...th arms, murmurs a blessing and the words, “Kiss him for me!” and is gone. DAY OF THE MONTH AND YEAR, the first Sunday in October, one thousand eight ... ...ck of the Hospital for Foundling Children is well up with the Cathedral to-day. Service in the chapel is over, and the Foundling children are at dinne... ...ng the name of the House again, Joey.” “Glad to hear it, and wish you good-day, Young Master Wilding. But you had better by half,” muttered Joey Ladle... ...est as housekeeper in Cripple Corner. THE HOUSEKEEPER SPEAKS O n the next day Mrs. Goldstraw arrived, to enter on her domestic duties. Having settled... ...d Wilkie Collins one, besides himself, whom Obenreizer presented as a com- patriot and friend. The friend’s face was mouldy, and the friend’s figure w...

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...ompel them to admit. “The moon has no atmosphere,” said our astronomer one day, “and if inhabited at all, it must be by beings constructed altogether ... ...same period without it,” he continued. “That which feels the sun must be a day, of a heat so intense as to render it insupportable to us, while the op... ...ment as inevitable as it is important. I remember that our astronomer, one day, spoke of the na- ture and magnitude of the sun. The manner that he cho... ...om the earth and that in which I was “pulled.” The latter was a melancholy day for me, however, arriving prematurely as regarded my vegetable state, s... ...ery well qualified to be judges, was owing to a circumstance of such every-day occurrence as al- most to supersede the necessity of telling it, though... ...might be in high party times; or, in the case of editors, and such extreme patriots. I have sev- eral relatives that belong to the corps, and they all... ...ghtful country of ours has some confounded hard winters. I wonder if it be patriotic to say, our winters?” “It’s all common property, Monson—but, what...

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... necessity to de- clare martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogethe... ...tions from those of police regu- lations in armies and camps. On the sixth day of March last, by special message, I rec- ommended to Congress the adop... ...ted States to be affixed. Done at the city of W ashington, this nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tw... ...ble that Ewell, Jackson, and Johnson are pouring through the gap they made day before yesterday at Front Royal, making a dash northward. It will be a ... ...of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six vorably known for their ability, loyalty, and patriotism. The several orders issued upon these occurrences were trans- mi... ...NTLEMEN:—Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me in so patriotic a manner by you, in the com- munication of the twenty-eighth day ... ...re leaving the Capital, consider and discuss it among yourselves. Y ou are patriots and statesmen, and as such I pray you consider this proposi- tion;... ...ince been and still is doing valuable service to the gov- ernment. For the patriotic act of making this magnificent and valuable present to the countr... ...Mr. Durant, or that he is conscious of any purpose other than national and patriotic ones. Still, if there were a class of men who, having no choice o...

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...nson?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 opening the book of random, and reading wherever the eye falls upon a passage of especial interest. All such passages, I hope, ...

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...rsation 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, ... ... notes both mental and stenographic, and sat up many a night followed by a day of headache, to write them in final form, that none of the freshness an... ... was ever hungry for knowledge of them. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I look upon every day lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.’ And again: ‘Why, Sir, ... ...h whose opinion one must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness... ...al excellence of this poem, candour obliges us to allow, that the flame of patriotism and zeal for popular resis- tance with which it is fraught, had ... ...ot at all depressed by their situation; but in high spirits and brimful of patriotism, tra- versed the square for several hours, inveighed against the... ...cial observers; because he was at all times in- dignant against that false patriotism, that pre- tended love of freedom, that unruly restless- ness, w... ...santry was a prudent resolution, if applied to a competition of abilities. Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a... ..., in a strong deter- mined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’ But let it be considered, th...

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... your letter; but I have so much confidence in the judgment of Butler on such a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do ?events? of the same sort come on in your family? Are you possessing houses and lands, and oxen and asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and begetting sons and daughters? We a...

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...ch a subject that I incline to think there may be some reality in it. What day does Butler appoint? By the way, how do “events” of the same sort come ... ... opened in every precinct, and that the whole shall take place on the same day, I do not personally object. They seem to me to be not unfair; and I fo... ... to mind again The lost and absent brings. The friends I left that parting day, How changed, as time has sped! Young childhood grown, strong manhood g... ... January 8, 1848. DEAR WILLIAM:—Y our letter of December 27 was received a day or two ago. I am much obliged to you for the trouble you have taken, an... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two should nevertheless, as good citizens and patriots, remain silent on that point, at least till the war should be ende... ...e look up for that counsel and advice which only wisdom and experience and patriotism can give, and which only the undoubting confidence of a na- tion... ...e few, the immortal names That were not born to die!’ “To the ardent patriot and profound statesman he added a quality possessed by few of the g... ...urse upon which there is little or no disagreement amongst intelligent and patriotic Americans. Of these last are the War of 1812, the Mis- souri ques... ...lay to prove that he was not entitled to the exclusive merit of that great patriotic measure, and that the honor was equally due to others, as well as...

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...ly to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few—as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men—serve the state wi... ...all asleep over them both. What is the price current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition... ...rested virtue to sustain it. The slight re proach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those w... ...as let out to work at haying in a neighboring field, whither he went every day, and would not be back till noon; so he bade me good day, saying that h... ...ke all my work of this sort out of my hands, and then I shall be no better patriot than my fellow countrymen. Seen from a lower point of view, the Co... ...outh to speak who is capable of settling the much vexed ques tions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which t may ...

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... 1 Sun and Shadow THIRTY YEARS AGO, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southe... ...stered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Engli... ...illes, a fact to be strongly smelt and tasted, lay broiling in the sun one day. In Marseilles that day there was a villainous prison. In one of its ch... ...e to the grating. ‘Say what the hour is,’ grumbled the first man. ‘The mid-day bells will ring—in forty minutes.’ When he 9 Little Dorrit made the li... ...e through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing... ...sources of the nation; and Treasury felt—he gave Mr Merdle to un- derstand—patriotic on the subject. ‘Thank you, my lord,’ said Mr Merdle; ‘thank you.... ...e’ll impose upon you. They all do it.’ ‘All painters?’ ‘Painters, writers, patriots, all the rest who have stands in the market. Give almost any man I... ...ff until late in the night and late in the session, and then with virtuous patriotism cried out that it was too late; and they went down into the coun... ...rs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking A...

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... 1 Sun and Shadow THIRTY YEARS AGO, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southe... ...stered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Engli... ...illes, a fact to be strongly smelt and tasted, lay broiling in the sun one day. In Marseilles that day there was a villainous prison. In one of its ch... ...e to the grating. ‘Say what the hour is,’ grumbled the first man. ‘The mid-day bells will ring—in forty minutes.’ When he 9 Little Dorrit – Book One ... ... President will look for the pleasure of your society at an hour after mid-day, to-day.’ ‘To try me, eh?’ said Rigaud, pausing, knife in hand and mors... ...e through several laborious months been considering with great loyalty and patriotism, How not to do it, and you have found out; and with the blessing... ...sources of the nation; and Treasury felt—he gave Mr Merdle to un- derstand—patriotic on the subject. ‘Thank you, my lord,’ said Mr Merdle; ‘thank you.... ...e’ll impose upon you. They all do it.’ ‘All painters?’ ‘Painters, writers, patriots, all the rest who have stands in the market. Give almost any man I... ...ff until late in the night and late in the session, and then with virtuous patriotism cried out that it was too late; and they went down into the coun...

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...ay be seen in the Iliad: it was not said, ‘Agamemnon has a dinner party to-day,’ but ‘ Agamemnon sacrifices to Apollo.’ Even in Rome, to the last days... ...to insist upon: not as though it could be worth any man’s trouble, at this day, to expose (on its own account) the frailty of the Pantheon, but with a... ...not as upon any opinion that they maintained the contest, (such as at this day divides ourselves from the French upon the question of opinion with reg... ... through its authorship, so as to be the most remarkable phenomenon of the day; and why? Because the most remark- able expression of a movement, accom... ...spying-glass, which (with the iron hand of Hercules forcing Cerberus up to day- 55 Thomas de Quincey light) the stern man of Koenigsberg resolutely d... ...very beautiful and animated scarlet blaze; upon which hint, Mr. Bald, when patriotically distressed at not being able to deny the double power of the ... ...egarded as a common movement on behalf of a deep and heart-fretting Hebrew patriotism, which was not the less sin- cere, because it ran headlong into ... ...as, under a German construction of it, as a spasmodic effort of vindictive patriotism and of rebellious ambition, noble by possibility, though erring ... ...for sheriff next year; and, in one generation more, of passing for a great patriot. Charles Lamb complained that, by gradual changes, not on his part,...

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...ate of mind and opinion which they are intended to meet. The sophisms of the day were undermining philosophy; the denial of the existence of Not being... ...attempts to deny . ddddd ddddd ddddd TRUE TO THE APPOINTMENT of the previous day, Theodorus and Theaetetus meet Socrates at the same spot, bringing wi... ...es them either with spears by night or with barbed spears or barbed hooks by day; the barbed spears are impelled from above, the barbed hooks are jerk... ...bstances have attributes was implied in common language; that heat and cold, day and night, pass into one an other was a matter of experience ‘on a l... ...element affects the known, whether, for example, new discoveries may not one day supersede our most elemen tary notions about nature. To a certain ex... ...conservatism, and will at any rate be made an excuse for it. The mind of the patriot rebels when he is told that the worst tyranny and oppression has ...

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...ad come to the final resting-place of a great and good man,—of a man whose patriotism was, I believe, an honest feeling, untinged by any personal am- ... ...lief in McClellan seemed to be slipping away. One felt that it was so from day to day, though it was impossible to define how or whence the feeling ca... ...served in this hall at the Capitol. It is strange that even self-laudatory patriotism should desire the perpetuation of such rub- bish. When I was the... ...velous after all that had so lately occurred. Then came Mr. Sumner’s field day. Mr. Charles Sumner is a Senator from Massachusetts, known as a very ho... ...on to be brought to an end. It is quite within rule that the Senator of to-day should be the Representative of to- morrow. Mr. Crittenden, who was Sen... ...he embarrassment of the original question; but it was be- coming manifest, day by day, that Congress was losing its ground, and that the army was beco... ...e and must be elected, it is impossible to deny them praise for intellect, patriotism, good sense, and diligence. They began but sixty years ago, and ... ...e that Congress on the whole has been conducted with prudence, wisdom, and patriotism. The question now to be asked is this— Have the powers of Congre... ...the pay offered. It is not often that men are able to devote themselves to patriotism without any reference to their personal circumstances. A man has...

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...YEAR, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one ... ...d hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other p... ...this really is not from laziness. Why is it? I had been feeling unwell all day, and towards sunset I felt really very ill. Something like a fever set ... ...t really very ill. Something like a fever set in. Moreover, I had been all day long on my legs and was tired. T owards evening, just before it got dar... ...ed for the time. One might imag- ine that these two creatures lay dead all day somewhere, and only at sunset came to life again, simply to visit Mulle... ...erent matter. A prose writer may be instructive—he can say something about patriotism, for in- stance, or about virtue in general…. Yes! I don’t know ... ...ve the Russian temperament, you know, a genuine Russian temperament, I’m a patriot, I love to throw off everything; besides one must snatch the mo- me...

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... loaded with laurels in their own time; while others, on whom Fame was one day to “wait like a menial,” have gone to the grave neglected, if not decri... ...h he can at times soar, whenever he has manly indignation, or warm-hearted patriotism, or high-minded scorn to express. If Lord Carlisle’s object, the... ...ear the fault, Her head’s untouch’d, that noble seat of thought: Such this day’s doctrine—in another fit She sins with poets through pure love of wit.... ...bless’d with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She, who can love a sister’s charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with... ...ut bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d. In vain may heroes fight, and patriots rave; If secret gold sap on from knave to knave. Once, we confess,... ...; If secret gold sap on from knave to knave. Once, we confess, beneath the patriot’s cloak, 23 From the crack’d bag the dropping guinea spoke, And jin... ... creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun, Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike the box, ... ...city gain: No, ’twas thy righteous end, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, T o buy both side... ...h; His word would pass for more than he was worth. One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemnised the Lord’s: Constant at churc...

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...r there, who seem to get busier and keener every hour. I could imagine the day of reckoning coming like a swarm of birds. Here the air is full of the ... ... basis for confidence in the future of the Empire. We have still our Derby Day, of course.... Apart from these patriotic solicitudes, M. Blériot has s... ...of the Empire. We have still our Derby Day, of course.... Apart from these patriotic solicitudes, M. Blériot has set quite another train of thought go... ... tance between our floats and the waves. It wasn’t by any means a windless day; there was a brisk, fluctuating breeze blowing out of the north over th... ...ok to the very bottom. I should want to lie down to do that. And the other day I was on that Belvedere place at the top of the Rotterdam sky- scraper,... ...I write as one of that great ill-informed multitude, sincerely and gravely patriotic, outside the echoes of Court gossip and the easy knowledge of exa... ...h every department of the national life, a King liberal without laxity and patriotic without pettiness or vul- garity. Such, it seems to us who wait a... ...nt alarum clock in a fit of nerves, and cuts his throat while shaving. All patriotic vehemence does not serve one’s country. Exertion is a more critic... ...ify my assurance in the future of our race. I have watched a great deal of patriotic effort during the last decade, I have seen enormous expenditures ...

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... for the old spirit to be extinct; since there were men in the street that day who had worshipped there beneath the trees, before a house was reared t... ...- lic notice, it had been his fatality so often to become the topic of the day, by some wild eccentricity of conduct, that people searched his lineage... ...e at once so prudent and so laughable. But while people talked the wedding-day arrived. The ceremony was to be solemnized according to the Episcopalia... ...he broad aisle. It had been arranged, or possibly it was the custom of the day, that the parties should proceed separately to church. By some accident... ...art unused to it, that now wrought upon the bride. The stern lesson of the day had done its work; her worldliness was gone. She seized the bridegroom’... ...s it, therefore, that yourself should deserve honorable mention, as a true patriot and upright ruler, when your own doings shall be written down in hi...

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...or claiming, but also for working, the institution. What means had Italian patriots, during the last and present generation, of preparing the Italian ... ...ssi bly be taken toward ranging the powers of society on its side. On the day when the protomartyr was stoned to death at Jerusalem, while he who was... ...ry district of the country, and must be able, in the twenty four hours per day, which are all that is granted to a king as to the hum blest laborer, ... ...r it. It has been said of old that in a despotism there is at most but one patriot, the des pot himself; and the saying rests on a just appreciation ... ...like Greece or Rome, it had realized any thing higher, through the energy, patriotism, and enlargement of mind, which, as national qualities, are the ... ...vering attempts so long made to keep down wages by law. But in the present day, their ordinary disposition is the very opposite: they willingly make c... ...avelers are struck by the fact that every American is in some sense both a patriot and a person of cultivated intelligence; and M. de Tocqueville has ... ...rvert, not to elevate his mind. Instead of opening his heart to an exalted patriotism and the obliga tion of public duty, it awakens and nourishes in... ...as they affect this question, have greatly changed, and are changing every day. The higher classes are not now masters of the country. A person must b...

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...e added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of ... ...rs, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. T o the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather tha... ...in Frederic of Prussia during his difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child ... ...e, Miss Edgeworth’s Popular T ales , and a book of some reputation in its day, Brooke’s Fool of Quality . 8 Autobiography In my eighth year I comme... ...and brothers being successively added as pupils, a considerable part of my day’s work con sisted of this preparatory teaching. It was a part which I ... ...rts of several of the Latin treatises on the scholastic logic; giving each day to him, in our walks, a minute account of what I had read, and an swer...

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...ual attitude of defence against his beak and claws. The aim, there fore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffer... ...hough the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the T udors, there is little danger of its b... ...ay rely on having attained such approach to truth, as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty at tainable by a fallible being, an... ...in a full, or some what more than a full measure, the religious, moral, and patriotic feelings of their time and people: the very kind of men who, in... ...hese times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force. In the year 1857, at the summer assizes of ... ...allible wisdom as rules for his government; and on the other, a set of every day judgments and practices, which go a certain length with some of those... ... his last important work, remarks how much more the Frenchmen of the present day resemble one another, than did those even of the last generation. The...

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...of mankind. This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men m... ...e of the people, and many of whom had become highly distinguished by their patriotism, virtue and wisdom, in times which tried the minds and hearts of... ...gable in their efforts to pursuade the people to reject the advice of that patriotic Congress. Many, indeed, were deceived and deluded, but the great ... ...embers of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for patriotism and abili- ties, and who have grown old in acquiring political i... ...iven to this question. The industrious habits of the people of the present day, ab- sorbed in the pursuits of gain, and devoted to the improve- ments ... ...eat degree, contributed to preserve the liberty which that country to this day enjoys, in spite of the prevalent venality and corruption. If, on the c... ...eat powers of Europe, she, like them, would in all probability be, at this day, a victim to the absolute power of a single man. ‘T is possible, though... ...he constitutional requisitions of the Union. This language, at the present day, would appear as wild as a great part of what we now hear from the same... ...s which keep the republic in some de- gree always at their mercy. The true patriots have long bewailed the fatal tendency of these vices, and have mad...

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... unity of purpose because our nation demands it. September 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United Sta... ...ing positive—an America that is safer, stronger, and wiser. That September day, we came together as a nation.The test before us is to sustain that uni... ...he phrase,“We have some planes.” 65 No one at the FAA or the airlines that day had ever dealt with multiple hijackings. Such a plot had not been carri... ...k remnant as part of a Ryder rental van reported stolen in Jersey City the day before the bombing. 4 Mohammed Salameh, who had rented the truck and re... ...an one week after September 11, an early version of what was to become the Patriot Act (officially, the USA PATRIOT Act) began to take shape. 21 A cen... ...er the now far-flung entities constituting the intelligence community .The Patriot Act vests substantial powers in our federal government.We have seen... .... Second, Congress responded, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, with the Patriot Act, which vested substantial new powers in the investigative agenc... ...encies of the government. Some of the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are to “sunset” at the end of 2005. Many of the act’s provision... ...age. Some executive actions that have been criticized are unrelated to the Patriot Act.The provisions in the act that facil- itate the sharing of info...

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...us and have had time to settle and ar- range themselves in our minds, some day there will be found the man of science to stand up and give the explana... ...d pass on. And lastly, how does it happen that the sea was quite calm next day? Is this great hurricane a piece of scene-painting after all? And when ... ...how history continues through century after century; how this king or that patriot disappears from its pages with his whole generation, and yet we do ... ...ing could be more delightful than the humours of the three children on the day before the assault. The passage on La Vendee is really great, and the s... ...nted for something in the result. For the lads of Ayrshire, as soon as the day’s work was over and the beasts were stabled, would take the road, it mi... ... he was a poet from his boyhood. He was born to a lively and intelli- gent patriotism; the condition of Japan was his great con- cern; and while he pr... ... visit of big barbarian war ships: she was a country beleaguered. Thus the patriotism of Yoshida took a form which may be said to have defeated itself... ...d Choshu that Commodore Perry was lying near to Yeddo. Here, then, was the patriot’s oppor- tunity. Among the Samurai of Choshu, and in particular amo... ...s old. A military engineer, a bold traveller (at least in wish), a poet, a patriot, a schoolmaster, a friend to learning, a martyr to reform, – there ...