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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...men who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely accused of the crime of manslaughter; and in Korea the handicapped, he had seen, were le... ...to a video pang later and let drama absorb him in a personal intimacy with a fictional entity of depth and substance. He had no misgivings. His life w... ...cards the body in abhorrence and disbelief over being the perpetrator of the crime, and in a half hour finds himself to be a pedophile and a murderer.... ...curred, the reason for the timing of the occurrence, the exact nature of the crime, if beheadings were permitted in America, and the final resting pla... ...ething deeper sensed in the rhythms of the falling rain and the movements of fictional others in plotless lives plodding along as his was. As another... ...ow anything. It was speculation. It was discerning a mood and then devising fiction around it. But then, how did she know that she didnﾁOt know what ...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...ly be said, however, to 8 The House of the Seven Gables commit a literary crime even if he disregard this caution. In the present work, the author ha... ...and, at the same time, to render it the more difficult of attainment. Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which th... ...brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work of fiction, may add an artistic glory, but is never any truer, and seldom any ... ... memory from among men. Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft. He was one of the martyrs to that terrible de- lusion,... ... of the Pyncheon blood were to be born. The terror and ugliness of Maule’s crime, and the wretchedness of his punishment, would darken the freshly pla... ...iful, yet magnanimous, they were! Remembering his early love of poetry and fiction, she un- locked a bookcase, and took down several books that had be... ...tist, who appeared to have a literary turn, had supplied her with works of fiction, in pamphlet form,—and a few volumes of poetry, in altogether a dif...

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...arried the coffin over the stone floor. “There are poets and romancers and writers that say many fine things abut Parisian manners,” continued Bixiou,... ...ny political conviction whatsoever, you take five hundred lives, political crimes are respected. You take five thousand francs out of my desk; to the ... ...ngen had purposely and with his eyes open invested his five millions in an American investment, foreseeing that the profits would not come in until it... ...ard Lenoir is one of those blunders which Fouche condemned as worse than a crime.” “Suppose that there is a tinge of charlatanism in the way in which ... ...air dancing saloons at the barriers; him he engaged to play the part of an American captain staying at Meurice’s and buying for export trade. He was t... ...to the woolen weaver and rushed upon the stock. After that, no more of the American captain, you understand, and great plenty of caps. If you interfer... ...de has its drawbacks, you might as well tie the hands of justice because a crime sometimes goes unpun- ished, or blame the bad organization of society...

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... stained the earth and was excommunicated; there could be no pardon of the crime, barely any for repentance. He con- ceived it in the feminine; for me... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...he old country, bearing a letter from Patrick. He means to be one of their writers on the newspapers. He studies ev- erything; he has written books. H... ...fe. She’ll know it when it’s history. She’s fond of history. Ay, she hates fiction, and so I’m proud to tell her I offer her none. She likes a triflin...

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...ay not be resold or uploaded for distribution to others. This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people and horses, ... ...in awards like that without a shitload of talent.” “So he and Otto are both Americans?” Kurt leaned closer to Adam. “Do they travel together?” “N... ...blanket was folded on a chair and littered with pocket castoffs: a mixture of American and Canadian coins, a clump of wrinkled betting tickets and a... ...e luminous with gratitude, and the last thing he wanted to do was return to a crime scene. “Come on,” he said. “I've got stuff to do. And button up ... ...or their insights and suggestions. They made this book much better. Romance Writers of Atlantic Canada, Pixie Chicks and the Ruby Slippered Sister... ...Bev Pettersen is an award-winning writer and two-time finalist in the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart® Contest. She competed for five years...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...ime, how- ever poor its quality, than this fact. Here I can only thank the writers collectively, and call their attention to the more practical gratit... ...g principle laid down in these papers it might well be put at the nadir of crime, and I doubt if any step the State might take to deter and punish the... ...carcely at all, and all they read is the weak and shallow prose of popular fiction and the daily press. That is knowing a language within the meaning ... ... exists a considerable amount of well-written literature, true stories and fiction, in which, without any clumsy insistence upon moral points, fine ac... ...as fall asleep. It was all right, Liberalism told us—the Crown was a legal fiction, the House of Lords was an interesting anachronism, and in that fai... ...ion, might be drawn up. It might be found desirable in the case of certain crimes and misdemeanours, to add to existing penalties the transfer of all ...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ittle known in the West. By and large the tendency among Western religious writers was to divide the world’s religions into two camps: Christians and ... ...ns. We are body-mind units. How could there be anything more? Yet Buddhist writers often speak of our “buddha nature.” There is something about us tha... ...at this means, but even he is seldom understood, because, as with Buddhist writers, what he wanted to say is beyond expression. That writer is Plato w... ...power for the sake of his child, regardless of what the child has done; no crime is too great, no misdeed too serious to be beyond repair by a simple ... ...ural and supernatural, sacred and secular, real and imaginary, factual and fictional, ordinary and extraordinary. How can entities of such incommensur...

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... hobbling along the High Street with the most brilliant eye—but that is no fiction—and the greyest hair in all the world—who wrote not because he care... ...be glad to know which they consider the most prolific parent of misery and crime. Descending a little lower in the social scale, I should be glad to a... ...hing men for not engaging in the pursuit of virtue and for the practice of crime, without showing them what virtue is, and where it best can be found—... ... persons who are in the constant habit of declaiming against the vices and crimes of society, and at the same time are the first and foremost to asser... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...“Anglo Saxon Literature,” and alluded to Mr. Dickens as having em ployed fiction as a means of awakening attention to the condi tion of the oppress... ... many travellers have been going up Mont Blanc lately, both in fact and in fiction, that I have heard recently of a proposal for the establishment of ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st...

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...ried, astonished. “Y ou can’t bribe the French Customs. This isn’t a South-American republic.” 13 Joseph Conrad “Is it a republic?” he murmured, very... ...r any remark. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering... ..., Madame Leonore,” I said, amused by her expression of disgust. “That’s an American.” “Ah! Un Americano! Well, never mind him. It was her that I went ... ...strate, handless, without its head, pathetic, like the mangled victim of a crime. “John is fastidious, too,” began Mrs. Blunt again. “Of course you wo... ... unemotional conviction that the house was particu- larly convenient for a crime. One could never get to the bot- tom of her wild notions which she he... ...,” he said, making a wry mouth. “I detest all those artists, and all those writers, and all politicos who are thieves; and I would go even farther and... ...within a hair’s breadth of what to all the world would have been a squalid crime. Note that you and I are persons of honour. And there might have been...

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...4879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagina... ... summer job at The Toronto Star. It is amazing there – I get to see famous writers all the time. When the presses are going it’s like thunder rumbling... ...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ...ll those months of agony and embarrassment. If she could write a good non- fiction book it would honor Jake. I’m not viewing it objectively now! I’m t... ..., Madam, you will pray for strength and help. God will come to you. It’s a crime to take your life, or to help someone to die. I will not listen to an... ...th an eclectic assortment, in- cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publ... ... is it? It is your right, as a juror, to refuse to convict an accused of a crime, if you think the accusation is unjust, whether or not the accused is...

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...products in this book. Under the rubric "characteristics of innovations," several writers have isolated and discussed attributes possessed by ideas... ...Capital punishment Carpooling Child abuse Child adoption Consumer cooperatives Crime prevention Direct deposit Draft registration Drilling, of... ...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ... marketing seems to have earned for itself two different definitions (Luck 1974). Writers have applied the expression in one sense to mean the socia... ...sing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). However, most writers agree with Takas (1974) who applies the expression societa... ...y one sees those ideas and issues pertaining to such ever-present needs as health, crime prevention, world peace and ecology. But concepts arising f... ...sed people'' (Ferguson and McHenry 1973, p. 237), as well as ideas related to sex, crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the ...

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...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ...nd as little as possible of the dark; his was the nature that sticks at no crime if there is anything to be gained by it, and laughs at the vice which... ...f a man of the Imperial school, who scarcely could make out what the young writers meant. Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the ren... ... fain have it otherwise, but intrusive fact too often gives the lie to the fiction which we should like to believe, making it impossible to paint the ... ...culture by wholesale plunder of newspaper articles and pillage of previous writers. It was believed all over the department that 75 Balzac M. Saintot... ...ser- vants came and went, there was nothing mysterious to betray the sweet crime of love, and so forth and so forth. Stanislas, who did not lack a cer...

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...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...r Colvin. I did all I could to help; but all seems little, to the point of crime, when one of these poor innocents lies in such mis- ery. – Ever yours... ...s at the beginning. Miss Havisham is, prob- ably, the worst thing in human fiction. But Wemmick I like; 209 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 a... ... look at it, and you will say you owe me one. Second, Gilder asking me for fiction, I suddenly took a great resolve, and have packed off to him my new... ...s ever, R. L. S. P.S. – I see I have led you to conceive the Squatters are fiction. They are not, alas! 212 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 L... ...ness to the eyes. Yet the other day, in the Century, I saw it imputed as a crime to Vedder that he had not thus travestied Omar Khayyam. We live in a ... ...e steadily around him? In my view, one dank, dispirited word is harmful, a crime of lese-humanite, a piece of acquired evil; every gay, every bright w...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphletee... ...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... ...res);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Pa- triot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready- writer, now in the... ...ly does justice to the people: till behold, one day, a culprit comes whose crime merits hanging; and the strict- minded Max must abdicate, for his con... ...o- lable: ‘infamous, traitorous, towards the Nation, and guilty of capital crime, is any person, body-corporate, tribunal, court or commission that no... ...s, that finding one military victim to have been imprisoned for real civil crime, they returned him to his cell, with protest. Why new military force ... ...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... ...ch guidance of uncertain reports, and many a traveller answering with mere fictions to please them, and get off.’ (De Bello Gallico, iv. 5.) Nineteen ...

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... might be doubled for the asking: and all the books he requires: and these writers and scholars no sooner think of a book than they must have it. And ... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ign of illness. His laughter and his talk sung about her and dispersed the fiction; he was the very sea-wind for bracing unstrung nerves. Her ideas re... ...ws, and then she could depart, bearing away a memory of the best here! Her fiction of the headache pained her no longer. She changed her muslin dress ... ...- self in the idea of her jealousy of Laetitia Dale, and deemed the wish a fiction. But she had expressed it. That was the wound he sought to comfort;... ...nced in favour of the hanging of the culprit, yet would fain attenuate the crime of a palpable villain by a recommendation to mercy, such foreman, sta... ...of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye. And further, suspicion fixed on Horace (he knew n...

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...s, Philosophie, and who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...hures);’ flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge,—from so many Patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer, now in the ... ...ly does justice to the people: till behold, one day, a culprit comes whose crime merits hanging; and the strict-minded Max must abdicate, for his cons... ...violable: ‘infamous, traitorous, towards the Nation, and guilty of capital crime, is any person, body- corporate, tribunal, court or commission that n... ... that finding one military victim to have been im- prisoned for real civil crime, they returned him to his cell, with protest. Why new military force ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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... laws. One was that, if a priest or monk was thought to have committed any crime, he should be tried by the king’s judge, instead of the bishop. The A... ...had to do with Henry Stuart’s death, but she could not bear to make such a crime known in a cousin and queen; and what made it all more difficult to j... ... was a time when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of... ...e are getting wiser now, and think it better not to keep up the memory old crimes and hatreds. Henry, Prince of Wales, was a fine lad, fond of all tha... ... victories abroad. It was a time, too, when there were almost as many able writers as in Queen Elizabeth’s time. The two books written at that day, wh... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu... ...e were a great many newspapers, and every- body was more alive. Some great writers there were, too: the Scottish poet Walter Scott, who wrote some of ...

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...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...uch proclamation. Sec. 7. That involuntary servitude for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall in no wise b... ...Perhaps the papers on file will enable you to judge better than I can. The writers of the within are good men, resid- ing within the land district. Yo... ... often inscrutable by short-sighted mortals, thus to transform an original crime into a signal blessing to that most unfortunate portion of the globe?... ... a negro in Kansas is free; yet the bogus Legislature makes it an infamous crime to tell him that he is free! Statutes of Kansas, 1555, chapter 151, S...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ... is not against using a lengthened copyright term to give an extra reward to writers, even if this would dramatically raise the price of books. What h... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...t in itself but harmful in its consequences: a cause of economic inequality, crime, and social dislocation. In a wonderfully bizarre passage he argues... ...closure. Enclosure disrupts the life of the poor farmer. Disruption leads to crime and violence. Writing 400 years later, Karl Polanyi echoes More pre... ...e rights, increase the penalties, and make noncommer- cial illicit copying a crime. We must move outside the traditional realm of copyright altogether...

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... THE BUDGET—TAXES FOR YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 138 ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE 146 REAL WEALTH PER PERSON 147 BORROWING 147 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS 148 CRIMEANDITSCOSTS 150 FOREIGN AID AND GLOBILIZATION 152 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC IN...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...e have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romantic notion developed from an exposure to the fantasies of fictio... ...minated. It is essential that they recognize that developing loving citizens will reduce the negative outgrowths of the power drive, such as crime ... ...that the unloved child is a primary candidate for juvenile delinquency, and criminologists tell us that a lack of love is at the root of many crimes... ...ing, gang fights, kidnapping, robbery, spousal beatings, and murder. During the last ten years in your country the rate of arrests for violent crimes... ... inabilities to move successfully up Maslow‘s mountain. There are harmless ways of forgetting our world. Reading mysteries, romance or science fictio... ...orgetting our world. Reading mysteries, romance or science fiction will probably take your mind off what‘s bothering you, but reading good non-fictio...

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... 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 ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to return to the bank. He... ...8 Nobel Prize for discovering a new form of quantum fluid. His book The Crime of Reason, And the Closing of the Scientific Mind, addresses in cons... ...ged the World. New York: Walker and Co., 1997. Laughlin, Robert B. The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind. New York: Basic Bo... ... York: Random House, 1999. Roede, Machteld. The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction? London: Souvenir Press, 1991. Ryan, William and Walter C. Pi...

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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... ...round the World in Eighty Days” was still a brilliant piece of imaginative fiction. Now that is almost an invalid’s pace. It will not be very long bef... ... hope of that, then sabotage and a sullen general sympathy for anarchistic crime. S S S S Sec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 ec. 3 IN THE PRECEDING PAGES I have... ...ush that down—then sabotage and that black revolt of the human spirit into crime which we speak of nowadays as anarchism, unless we can discover a bro... ...ll; per- haps something else may happen to prevent its ever doing so. Both fiction and criticism to-day are in revolt against that tired giant, the pr... ...rgely by women, which gave the lie to the pre- vailing trivial estimate of fiction. Among readers, women and girls and young men at least will insist ... ...g thoroughly “broken-in” is in itself extremely satisfac- tory. A few more crimes of desperation perhaps might occur, to balance against an almost uni...

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... tale— not of Kings—but of Men—not of Thrones, but of Love, and Grief, and Crime. Listen, and but once more. ’Tis for the last time (probably) these f... ...f judgment,” he said to the V enerable Chaplain of the gaol, “but it is no crime. Were it Crime, I should feel Re- morse. Where there is no remorse, C... .... 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.... ...nd which you swallow down unsuspiciously, as children do calomel in jelly. Fiction advocates all sorts of truth and causes—doesn’t the delightful bard... ...ADVEN- TURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN. CHAPTER I. “TRUTH IS STRANGE, STRANGER THAN FICTION.” I THINK IT BUT RIGHT that in making my appearance before the publ... ...royer of the faithful—he goes to bear the punishment 198 Thackeray of his crimes.” We came to the fatal plain: it was the very spot whence I had born... ...ife; and I have often wished that additions should be made to all works of fiction which have been brought to abrupt terminations in the manner descri...

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... said the lawyer. And Harry began to translate:— “Hath not one of your own writers said, ‘The children of Adam are now laboring as much as he himself ... ...er orthodox father would never 94 Henry Esmond have allowed; his favorite writers appealing more to reason and antiquity than to the passions or imag... ...his wife disap- peared; with his selfishness and faithlessness her foolish fiction of love and reverence was rent away. Love!—who is to love what is b... ...in life, that mask which the world bids them wear. But there is no greater crime than for a woman who is ill used and unhappy to show that she is so. ... ...d lay waste the Elector’s country; and with fire and murder, slaughter and crime, a great part of his dominions was overrun; when Dick came to the lin... ...hey had met on that fatal night in Leices- ter Field. It was degraded with crime and passion now; it wore the anxious look of a man who has three deat... ...ather had pushed his instructions with his young pupil. The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...ch of either without serious psychological mischief, ending in insanity or crime. The fact that the in- sanity may be privileged, as Savonarola’s was ... ...ch is quite a different matter. The comparatively few men who work at home—writers, artists, and to some extent clergy- men—have to effect some sort o... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...lind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even those who sa... ...ity shall be. At present a ridiculous distinction is made between vice and crime, in order that men may be vicious with impunity. Adul- tery, for inst... ... to take care of the pence and let the pounds take care of themselves. The crimes and diseases of marriage will force themselves on public attention b...

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...Government, 2nd Essay – Locke can put to death or punish an alien for any crime he commits in their country? It is certain their laws, by virtue of a... ...wer than what every man naturally may have over another. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the laws, and varying from the right rule... ...suffered. 11. From these two distinct rights (the one of punish ing the crime, for restraint and preventing the like of fence, which right of puni... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b... ...eader to Bracton, Fortescue, and the author of the “Mir ror,” and others, writers that cannot be suspected to be ignorant of our government, or enemi...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...’d and strengthen’d the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken’... ...f God was the do ing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter. Th... ...h in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numer ous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for... ...view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers; and sometimes publish’d little pieces of my own, which had been ...

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...eur Saint-Martin, Monsieur de Gence, and a few other French or half German writers were almost the only persons in the French Empire to whom the name ... ...ticism, swathed in the wrap- pings of the phraseology affected by mystical writers: an ob- scure language full of abstractions, and taking such effect... ...rst in these Etudes, I adopted the title invented by Lambert for a work of fiction, and gave the name of a woman who was dear to him to a girl charac-... ...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ...itute who has fallen ill, the foundling, the infirm and aged—even vice and crime here find a refuge and charity; but the world is merciless to the inv... ...between two souls sometimes grows to be a brazen wall. There are no venial crimes in love! If you have the very spirit of that noble sentiment, you mu... ...e, a honeyed word. To grieve the woman I love—Pauline, I should count it a crime. T ell me the truth, do not put me off with some magnanimous subterfu...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...st the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime, ” he said,“let history be a witness that I am a criminal. ” 93 70 TH... ...Ajaj, Salameh, Ayyad, Abouhalima, the Blind Sheikh, and Ramzi Y ousef, for crimes related to the W orld Trade Center bombing and other plots. An unfor... ...n of the threat.The government’s attorneys stressed the seriousness of the crimes, and put forward evidence of Y ousef’s technical ingenuity.Y et the ... ...enter gave up on it, despite suspicions that the trib- als’ story might be fiction.Thereafter, the capture plan focused on a nighttime raid on Tarnak ...

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...s and terrors of the Restoration and of the Sec- ond Republic, fruitful in crime and sacrifice, and barren of any good to mankind. He had just witness... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...s education or property, and to the fact that he has not been convicted of crime. Of all men he should be most directly amenable to public opinion. Th... ...e democratic spirit in France, and while he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Belonging neither to the class ... ...elopment which the imagination can conceive. It is un- encumbered by those fictions which have been thrown over it in other countries, and it appears ... ...s meant to govern. The government of the Union depends entirely upon legal fictions; the Union is an ideal nation which only exists in the mind, and w... ... of sovereignty which the institution of their State allows them to enjoy. Fiction would give way to reality, and an organized portion of the territor...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...a rate the smallpox patients from the healthy people, but in dealing with crime they put the healthy into the pest house along with the sick. That is... ... outside? I see him handling money—for instance—and that moves me to the crime? O.M. That, by itself? Oh, certainly not. It is merely the latest out... ...e fact, nothing more. Is it wrong to call atten tion to the fact? Is it a crime? Y.M. I think it is wrong to expose a fact when harm can come of it.... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m... ...plined service. Over and over again, where such knowledge is unexampled in writers unlearned in the law, Shakespeare appears in perfect possession of ...

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...red to be on fire; and the unanimous opinion of the neighborhood added the crime of the incendiary to the already hideous list of the Baron’s misdemea... ...wledge of the matter in hand. ‘Truth is strange,’ you know, ‘stranger than fiction’—besides being more to the purpose.” Here I assured him I had an ex... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ... Time, would not walk against him. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers,—his favorite artist, Phiz. He died gloriously while inhaling gas—l... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ...ever beyond a mere statement, we believe, that such is the fact. The early writers of treatises on the Automaton, seem not to have observed the matter...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...d in the one as in the other case rough habits and fist-law were the rule. Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most o... ... begins, perhaps, to fancy that he wrongs them when he weaves them in with fiction; and looking back on them with ever-growing kindness, puts them at ... ...manity, near the bosoms and businesses of men, at the level where history, fiction and experience intersect and illu- minate each other. I am I, and Y... ...n the crags, a return to the sincerity of savage life from the comfortable fictions of the civilised. And if it be delightful to the Old Man, it is no...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...e- ginning of the romantic movement and the consequent in- troduction into fiction of a vast amount of new material. Fielding tells us as much as he t... ... drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by looking at the r... ... we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tamely fo... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...eir country, told at length the ille- gality of the Shogun’s power and the crimes by which its exercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once,... ...ell’s correspondence in The Times was among the most material parts of the Crimean War for that talented correspondent. And I think it scarcely cynica...