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...ock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” Cr... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ...reat original — the Tyre of this Carthage; — the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nantucket did those aborig... .... There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the same as in South American ponchos. But could it be possible that any sober har pooneer woul... ...t fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” Never did those sweet ... ...elagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbor...

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...ack. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they departed.” —C... ...water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied... ... great original— the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded. Where else but from Nan- tucket did those abor... ...fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” NEVER DID THOSE SWEET ... ...lagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or V ancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men-of-war now peacefully ride in once sav- age harbo... ...thousand men before the mast employed in the Ameri- can whale fishery, are Americans born, though pretty nearly all the officers are. Herein it is the...

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...l.) Jack’s an ass. There’s enough brass on this to load a mule—and, if the Americans know anything about anything, it can be cut down to a bit only. ‘... ...f life their preachers lead; speak to the Racine Gospel Agency, those lean Americans whose boast is that they go where no Englishman dare follow; get ... ...mine English educa- tion—out-casted, and made up name Dana Da—England with American thought-reading man and—and—you gave me ten rupees several times—I... ...235 Rudyard Kipling my losing, I cannot help hating a Jew. Lalun admits no Jews here.’ ‘But what in the world do all these men do?’ I asked. ‘The curs...

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...omething before this?’ ‘Yes; he sent some curious histories of the eastern Jews to some magazine. They are to be published separately, as they have be... ...have congratulated you on the friend’s capture. A gold- finch of the South American breed is a rare bird.’ Theodora drew up her head, and impetuously ... ..., adorned with sparkling jets d’eau of fantastic forms, gorgeous masses of American plants, the flaming or the snowy azalea, and the noble rhododendro... ...fice of poetry to gild nature by breathing a soul into her. It is what the Americans are trying to do for their new world, still turning to England as...

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..., just the mere land, and that’s all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven’t any busi nes... ...uld to bury a steamboat, I reckon. We landed Jim on top of the head, with an American flag to protect him, it being a foreign land; then we sailed off...

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...his features; ‘but I reckon you did not eat your dinner standing, like the Jews at their Passover? and it was decided in a case before the town-bailie... ...ght is by no means an improb- able fiction. Shortly after the close of the American war, Sir James Graham of Netherby constructed a dam-dyke, or cauld...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...hly nervous—and not at all strong.” 56 The Ambassadors “You mean she’s an American invalid?” He carefully distinguished. “There’s nothing she likes l... ...” he laughed, “if it were the only way to be the other.” “Consent to be an American in order to be an invalid?” “No,” said Strether, “the other way ro... ...—ambassadors, cabinet ministers, bank- ers, generals, what do I know? even Jews. Above all always some awfully nice women—and not too many; sometimes ...

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...cks, by dint of a thought flung at his partner Mr. Inchling’s dread of the Jews. Inchling dreaded Scotchmen as well, and Ameri- cans, and Armenians, a... ...oment on the reverse—and first remember the lesson of the Captivity of the Jews and the outcry of their backsliding and repentance:—see a nation of th... ...rt of a street, I feel, I must feel, these palaces—if we’re Christian, not Jews: not that the Jews are uncharitable; they 114 One of Our Conquerors s... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...but stupefying mission. A fluent lin- guist, yet an Englishman, the slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United St... ...xon’s champion. On a day patented for secresy, and swear- ing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the p... ...le aristocracy of the contempt of luxury’ when he talked of combatting the Jews with a supe- rior weapon. That being, in fact, as Colney Durance had p...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...ssions in Hawaii itself, where (in the war of lust) the American mis- sionaries were once shelled by an English adventurer, and once raided and mishan... ...er—only refused to join him in his boat. A white is a white: the servant (so to speak) of other and more liberal gods; and not to be blamed if he prof... ... one of his colleagues, Kekela, a missionary in the great cannibal isle of Hiva-oa. It appears that shortly after a kidnapping visit from a Peruvian s...

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...g to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own co... ...arcely any price too dear which will purchase his darling “tot.” Nowadays, American whalemen in the Pacific never think of carrying spirits as a ratio... ... had thrown the sailors, now brooked no restraint; and one of them—a young American who went by the name of Salem—dashed out from among the rest, 70 ... ...ng on the island more than two years, he finally escaped in the boat of an American whaler, which landed him at Valparaiso. From this period he had co... ...ts bowsprit; which, from its posi- tion, looked nearly upright. She was an American whaler, a very old craft. Having sprung a leak at sea, she had mad... ...ts construction as swarmed over the scaffolding of the great temple of the Jews. Much less time, however, was expended. In less than three weeks from ...

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...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...lings going on, and some profits realising; for there were arcades full of Jews, where those extraordinary people were sitting outside their shops, co... ... goal is reached; the prizes are won (they are given, in part, by the poor Jews, as a compromise for not running foot races themselves); and there is ... ...erground, high up in St. Peter’s, out on the Campagna, and stifling in the Jews’ quarter, Mrs. Davis turned up, all the same. I don’t think she ever s... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...able houses, walled, and shut in by barred gates, is the quarter where the Jews are locked up nightly, when the clock strikes eight—a miserable place,... ...rly uncomfortable, with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigne...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...rtain disinclination for society. Fraulein Hedwig was gone, and Weeks, the American who generally accompanied them on their rambles, had set out for a... ...y under Hayward’s influ- ence. Hayward did not like Weeks. He deplored the American’s black coat and pepper -and-salt trousers, and spoke with a scorn... ...or the day; the keen air gave a fillip to their weariness. There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpu- lent ...

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...ver with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks. Below this was a little table tha... ...r home that idea the first book I got from the Institute happened to be an American edition of the collected works of Shelley, his gassy prose as well... ...sh. “There’s hard times coming,” said Parload. “Next winter.” “Sooner. The Americans have been overproducing, and they mean to dump. The iron trade is... ...nization. Through their want of intelligent direction the great “Trust” of American ironmasters, a gang of ener- getic, narrow-minded furnace owners, ... ...im. This opera- tion of spasmodic underselling was known as “dumping.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British ... ...ring amidst folds and wrinkles. He made his confes- sion for his race. “We Jews,” he said, “have gone through the system of this world, creating nothi...

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...ountries, a cold and lifeless state of public religion prevailed up to the American and French Revolutions. These great events gave a shock everywhere... ...criptures into languages scarcely known by name to scholars, of converting Jews, of organizing and propagating education. T owards these great objects... ...according to their size. This taste was very early established amongst the Jews, and chiefly, per- haps, through their intercourse with the Midianites... ...was fixed and determined either by religion and state policy, (as with the Jews,) or by state policy alone, (as with the Romans,) or by superstition a... ...al line had not been confounded with other bloods. The Arabs only, and the Jews, are under no suspicion of this hybrid mixture. Vast deserts, which in... ...egal persecution, have maintained a still more impassable gulf between the Jews and other races. Spain is the only Christian land where the native blo... ...entire tribes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essa...

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... the Orkneys; nor so much as a poor, over-driven, Covenanting slave in the American plantations; but can lay claim to a share in that memorial, and, i... ...rson; the builders and their accomplices would be driven to work, like the Jews of yore, with the trowel in one hand and the defensive cutlass in the ...

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...- latto, quadroon; modish young Spanish Creoles, and old- fashioned French Jews; Mormons and Papists; Dives and Lazarus; jesters and mourners, teetota... ... to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob- served at an evening party there, a ce... ...sustained throughout an almost entire sitting; that they may not, like the American savan, be thereupon be- trayed into any surprise incompatible with... ... what I say. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that Ch...

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...patience seems to have been due to a needless panic, Bootle, the notorious American scientific quack, having made an announcement that Filmer interpre... ...g to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quick...

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...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...h is to be found in nearly all such portions of a city, where two or three Jews have gained an ascendency. At the corner of one of these gloomy street...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...beautiful lines from The Rape of the Lock about Belinda’s diamonds, “which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.” “But I hope your lordship is orthodox,... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro... ...ocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews—sat under Mr. Rowls 664 V anity Fair on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on ...

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...Duretus, Maginus, Origen, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...ther came from that cradle of the human race; her mother was a Jewess. The Jews, though so often deteriorated by their contact with other nations, hav... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ...

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... women he has met. They have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atm... ...th, and that he has little to identify him with that hereditary God of the Jews who became the “Father” in the Christian system. On the other hand he ... ... one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded to be polytheis- tic; equally did they dread the least a... ...d of * It is not so generally understood as it should be among English and American readers that a very large proportion of early Christians before th...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...in the whimsical nature of German liberality, which, in those days, forced Jews into paying toll at the gates of cities, under the title of ‘swine,’ b... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ..., the people were supposed to be English and were dressed like fashionable Americans of the current epoch, and I fell into the natural error of suppos... ...eboard partially covered by a black velvet cloth, and beside a decanter of American whisky. It is from 202 The Country of the Blind Mr. Wace, indeed,... ...g to do for any one who took his drug exactly what Nature has done for the Jews and Orientals, who are men in their teens and aged by fifty, and quick...

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...the sake of a country that is all bog-land, they say, and full of horrible Jews, to say nothing of the Cossacks and the peasants—a sort of wild beasts... ...of country-folks never to give up bread-winning; in this they are like the Jews. Every morning, very early, Cousin Betty went off to mar- ket with the... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...uty, insists on interest, and is always engaged in seeking it! ‘God of the Jews, thou art supreme!’ says Racine. The perennial parable of the golden c... ...ou, poor old man?—On my honor, you look like a twenty-franc piece that the Jews have sweated and the money-changers refuse.” “Alas, yes,” replied Hulo... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...of the Customs, and that, had he not a hand in the enterprise, not all the Jews in the world could have brought it to success. By the time that three ...

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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 ... ...ally, I regret to say, empty. Could your recommendation introduce me to an American publisher? My next book I should really try to get hold of here, a... ...ta in the West. I see I am in a grasping, dismal humour, and should, as we Americans put it, quit writing. In truth, I am so haunted by anxieties that... ...asphemy), or ‘Rimes of In- nocence’: the last not bad, or – an idea – ‘The Jews’ Harp,’ or – now I have it – ‘The Penny Whistle.’ The Penny Whistle: N...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...lished that of Maryland; the quakers, that of Pennsylvania. The Portuguese Jews, persecuted by the inquisition, stript of their fortunes, and banished...

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...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage... ...as eating it, he said, “I wish I was a Jew.” “Why so? (said somebody;) the Jews are not al- lowed to eat your favourite meat.” “Because, (said he,) I ...

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...sband; and the husband a gambler and a knave, they are in the hands of the Jews —or gone to smoke. Let them go. A devilish malignity bequeathed them: ... ...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...

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...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ...sicians, surgeons and alchemists; from ex ecutioners, barbers, shepherds, Jews, gipsies, midwives, and fortune tellers; from high and low, from learn... ...w them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam blers and great ladi... ...y thrill you, they’re so queer, and a lovely actress, and an awfully jolly American girl.’ ‘I should love to come,’ said Susie, with an appealing look...

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...reatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an idea. Three years and a hal... ...etter in Marburg’s “League of Nations,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgi... ...plications were fully established, that there resided a sovereignty in the American people as a whole, as distinguished from the peoples of the severa... ...rvene, but it is still chary of such intervention. And these states of the American Union were at the outset so independent-spirited that they would n... ... a common name. To this day they have no common name. We have to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico,... ...lead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Constantinople, or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or the negroes in Georgia, ...

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...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ...’t any roads?” Skim interrupted, but none laughed. “My uncle he married an American woman for his sec- ond, and she took it up like a like the coroner... ... the way o’ talk leading to an- 34 Actions and Reactions other, and those American people at Veering Holler was very obligin’ with news, I’m told, ma... ...rrow.” She tripped, absolutely tripped, across the hall. “What ideas these Jews have of arranging furniture!” She spied me behind a big Cloisonnee vas...

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...The ex- ecutives of T wentieth Century Fox had seen Lucas’s previous film, American Graffiti, and vowed to pro- duce Lucas’s next movie. Lucas made a ... ...ces across the country and soon becoming the most successful film in North American history. In 1978, Lucas began production of the second chapter of ... ... however. The very setting of this movie is symbolic of our way of life as Americans. This movie, as its title may suggest, is set in space, a place t... ...veral years. We often take for granted how good we have it here. T o be an American is a privilege that many fight for and never have. We are the most... ... never have. We are the most diverse country in the world. We have African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans Christians, Jews, Muslims, Bud-... ...d. We have African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans Christians, Jews, Muslims, Bud- dhists, Scientologists: : : : : you name it, we’ve got ...

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... be no better place to describe the duties, regulations, and customs of an American merchantman, of which ours was a fair specimen. The capta... ...ming out. She hailed us, and an officer on board, whom we supposed to be an American, advised us to run in before night, and said that they were boun... ... board, and soon after, the governor, dressed in a uniform like that of an American militia officer, the Padre, in the dress of the grey friars, wit... ... invented Yankee word of ‘‘loafer’’ is more applicable than to the Spanish Americans. These men stood about doing nothing, with their cloaks, little... ... others which we afterwards saw engaged in the same trade, have English or Americans for officers, and two or three before the mast to do the work ... ...nese Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogue. The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The Chinese, too, are numer...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ...trast between this world and the next which through all the history of the Jews had continually been grow- ing wider: ‘As in heaven, so on earth.’ The... ...salem, where he went to dwell, a mission of nuns for the conversion of the Jews, showed no tendency to use for egotistic purposes the notoriety given ... ... interior life which are the exclusive object of our study. The baiting of Jews, 329 William James the hunting of Albigenses and Waldenses, the ston-...

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...rs 35;33. Wherefore should the nations [Gentiles] say, Where is their [the Jews’] God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy ser- vants which is shed, ... ... rule for the guidance of mankind, but only as a policy by one sect of the Jews and Christians to save themselves from the Romans. The reason for the ... ...power would in his own time visit on the oppressors the vengeance that the Jews and Christians were too weak to inflict. Jesus and the early Christian... ...ians believed in judging and in punish- ment as vengeance, the same as the Jews and other peoples believed in it. (See 13 Matthew 41-43, 23 Matthew 33... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus...

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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, ... ...to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans... ... been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public t... ... bombings, Bin Ladin said that the W orld Islamic Front for jihad against “Jews and Crusaders” had issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gatio... ...issued a “crystal clear” fatwa. If the insti- gation for jihad against the Jews and the Americans to liberate the holy places “is considered a crime, ... ...e plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and other Jews as hostages.A special Israeli commando force stormed the plane, killed... ...adin’s offer to ally JI with al Qaeda in waging war against Christians and Jews. 21 Hambali met with KSM in Karachi to arrange for JI members to recei...

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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... ...re to look when I find myself 7 Memories and Portraits in company with an American and see my countrymen un- bending to him as to a performing dog. B... ...npopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to have perceived in an American boy a greater readiness of sympathy for lands that are great, and ... ..., having entered, leave it. It was a place besieged; the shopmen, like the Jews rebuilding Salem, had a double task. They kept us at the stick’s end, ...