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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...ngement and those the dimensions intended by the original archi- tects and founders of Washington; but the inhabitants have hitherto confined themselv... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...nce, which must have much aided Mark Tapley in his endeavors. Who were the founders of Cairo I have never ascertained. They are probably buried fathom... ... They have trusted with almost childlike confidence to the wisdom of their founders, 226 North America V ol. 2 and have said to their rulers—”There! ... ...n part, or of other materials, are to be taxed—provided always that books, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, and reviews shall not be regarded as manu...

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...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... ...d at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Provi- dence in 1640, began in like manner by drawing up a soci... ...ruction.* *At this time Alexander Hamilton, who was one of the prin- cipal founders of the Constitution, ventured to express the following sentiments ... ...ratic propensities, which were invariably and courageously resisted by the founders of the Union. In the States the executive power is vested in the h... ...lature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, Dock- Yards, and other needful Buildings; - And T o ma...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...ly into saying the thing that is not. They won’t wait an hour for you in a magazine or a review; they won’t wait for truth; you may as well reason wit... ... casual that did not enter into the original or normal concep- tion of the founders, and that may therefore have been due to alien suggestion. But now... ...anced guard, well armed with muskets, (pillaged, be H observed, from royal magazines hastily deserted,) com- menced a tumultuous assault. Less than 30...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...s conveniences merely inci- dental and collateral to the main views of the founders. There are, then, two much loftier and more commanding ends met by... ...ly all this to Oxford. Among the four functions commonly recognized by the founders of universities, which are—1st, to find a set of halls or places o... ...tretching system of Oxford hospitia, or monastic hotels, directed by their founders, or applied by their present possessors? Hearken, reader, to the a... ... the majority of journalists who then echoed the public voice. Blackwood’s Magazine (1817) first accustomed the public ear to the language of admirati...

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...otnote: These studies, extracts from which will be published in one of our magazines, are hereafter to be added, in their complete form, to the Append... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ... many ancient tombstones, perhaps of contemporaries or predecessors of the founders of his country. In this, however, he was disappointed, at least in...

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... good ideas. My grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in ... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...can the organisation survive. Every month there came to my mother a little magazine called, if I remember rightly, the Home Churchman, with the combin... ...e fed and clothed and educated… . I had the curiosity to buy a copy of his magazine after- wards, and it seemed much the same sort of thing that had w... ...and our literary flowerings led very directly to the revival of the school magazine, which had been comatose for some years. But there we came upon a ... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain....

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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... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ean is dead. A month ago I was writing bubbling and hilarious articles for magazines yet to appear, and now I am writing—this. CHRISTMAS DAY. NOON.—La... ...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... ...illages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier des per... ...d some further information. On the ground I found part of a German musical magazine, and in it a letter written by Uhlic thirty three years ago, in wh...

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..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...man- ner, as a man may skim through a specialist’s exposition in a popular magazine. You must figure me, therefore, finding from a casual periodical p... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...ions within which individuality plays more freely than in the void, so the founders of this modern Uto- pia believed it possible to define conditions ... ... in addition to thus making poietic activities univer- sally possible, the founders of this modern Utopia sought to supply incentives, which was an al... ...“I have heard the phrase, ‘voluntary nobility.’” “That was the idea of our Founders. They made a noble and privileged order—open to the whole world. N...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...sidered of this long series of explanations is his great essay in Harper’s Magazine. I will not attempt to enter on any very thorough investigation of... ...54, as well as the mem- bers of the Continental Congress of 1774., and the founders of our system of government subsequent to the Revolution, regarded... ...Congress. There are two main objects, as I understand it, of this Harper’s Magazine essay. One was to show, if possible, that the men of our Revolutio...

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...clear air out of it, you have roused an orator; you have certainly fired a magazine, and must listen to his reminiscences of one of its paragraphs or ... ... 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... ... born to bleat prostrate, like sheep on their backs in a ditch; Trusts and Founders; Breweries bursting vats upon the markets, and England prone along... ... a maternal Old England let them down. Projectors of Companies, Directors, Founders; Railway mag- nates, actual kings and nobles (though one cannot ye... ... multiform celebrities of both sexes; among them the gentleman editing the Magazine which gave out serially The Rival T ongues: and there was talk of ...

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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... ... an irregular channel had been already opened to these impulses by the two founders of Methodism. A cen- tury has now passed since Wesley and Whitefie... ...IBITED IN SIX SCENES 1828 1828 1828 1828 1828 TO THE EDITOR OF BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE. SIR,—Some years ago you published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sa... ...llets, grape, and canister shot, have all been ‘parked’ in inexhaust- ible magazines; whilst the leading feature which strikes the mind with amazement... ...seems that in Greece, where an immortal fronde was inevitable, an immortal magazine was supplied for it—one which has been and will continue to be, un... ...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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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...taguana’s independence, boasted many names of liberators amongst its first founders. Suppressed arbitrarily innumerable times by various Governments, ... ...thing, too, of the spirit of a buccaneer throwing a lighted match into the magazine rather than surrender his ship. Down below in the patio the wounde...

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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... ...cathe- dral: he will ‘Pursue the triumph and partake the gale,’ whilst the founders and benefactors of the Minster are prac- tically forgotten. These ... ... 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... ...oks upon as accidental and unessential: but in the great enemies, or great founders of the Romish temporal power, and in the history of their actions ... ...e of that sort of ubiquity ascribed to him by a witty writer in the London Magazine: I met him and shook hands with him under Somerset-house, telling ... ...ve) from the East India Company; and from the abstract given in the London Magazine of the Mem- oir by his relation, I have since learned that he appl... ...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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...eformation. The Colleges were following or elud- ing the statutes of their founders, according to the use that had sprung up, but there had been a gre... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...s, &c.—this is somewhat unlike the interesting pic- tures, in a Missionary Magazine, of an amiable individual very correctly got up in a white tie and... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...or don’t learn simple things. ‘ All this modern rage for reviews, serials, magazines, I can’t abide. My mind is far too much distracted already, and t... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha... ...t the best antidote I have seen to much of the poison circulating about in magazines and alluring ignorant, unsound people with the specious name of p...

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...ne towards the street Over the entrance hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I... ...rcely in the tomb before his mountain pile of wealth began to dwindle. The founders of the greater part of the families which now com pose the aristo... ...and honours of public life, and the remainder are gleaned from annuals and magazines, of such antique date, that they have gone round the circle, and ... ... of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness the... ...ith reference to the annual installa tion of magistrates. The fathers and founders of the com monwealth—the statesman, the priest, and the soldier— ...

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...t of this remarkable person, in one of the early num- bers of. Blackwood’s Magazine, to the following purpose :- “My father remembered old Jean Gordon... ... of hospitality. I believe Jean Gordon was at this festival”— (Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. i. p. 54.) Notwithstanding the failure of Jean’s issue, for ... ...to the unknown author as the representative of her person.’ “—(Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. i. p. 56.) How far Blackwood’s ingenious correspondent was r... ...se ruins, and asserted, from size and situation, the superiority which its founders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of th... ...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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... of Mrs. R. C., which appeared in the very next number of the Harum-scarum Magazine, which he conducted. He implored her good-will at parties where he... ...(may the blessings of all Englishmen who have ever been abroad rest on the founders and proprietors of that piratical print! ) and whether he woke or ... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha...

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...as signed with an “L” and eight stars, and appeared originally in a lady’s magazine. It commenced— ‘“Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach,... ...acters are open for your selection. Plato, Zeno, Epicurus, Pythagoras— all founders of clubs.’ ‘I know that,’ said Mr. Pickwick; ‘but as I cannot put ... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...ast. From the nor’west. A bridge. An almshouse. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A sum- mer-house. An ice-house. Plans, ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...ess in a family, a lofty family; per- haps the wealthiest brass and copper founders’ family known to mankind. They lived at Camberwell; in a house so ...

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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... ...rd works in stout gilt bindings. The “Annual Reg- ister,” the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” “Blair’s Sermons,” and “Hume and Smollett.” From year’s end to y... ...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... ... of Mrs. R. C., which appeared in the very next number of the Harum-scarum Magazine, which he conducted. He implored her good-will at parties where he... ...(may the blessings of all Englishmen who have ever been abroad rest on the founders and proprietors of that piratical print! ) and whether he woke or ...

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...ion, and praised the vessel. ‘Oh, Priscilla’s the very name of a ship that founders with all hands and sends a bottle on shore,’ said Temple. ‘There i... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ... stop in town and keep watch. There’s fire in my leg to explode a pow- der-magazine a mile off!’ ‘Is it the Margravine of Rippau?’ I inquired. I could... ... at that hour. So, my dear Richie, you are sitting on guard over the empty magazine.’ I listened with a throbbing forehead, and controlled the choking...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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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, ... ...xecutive versus legislative powers.At the Constitutional Con- vention, the founders sought to create a strong executive but check its powers. They lef... ...pants in the planes operation. For instance, he collected Western aviation magazines; tele- phone directories for American cities such as San Diego an... ... of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb. That... ...e report, interrogation of KSM, July 12, 2003. Hambali also was one of the founders of Konsojaya, a Malaysian company run by a close associate of Wali...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ...n as to hundreds of thou- sands of people warmed the bosoms of their first founders. Two or three dozen men required habitations in the same locality,... ...America, there has been no such necessity and there is no such result. The founders of cities have had the experience of the world before them. They h... ...d well furnished, and there also I saw newspapers and Harper’s everlasting magazine. She said it was a coarse, desolate place for living, but that she... ...ttached to the establishment a large reading-room supplied with papers and magazines, open to the public of Boston on the same terms. Of course I aske... ...ases. The Harvard College—that is its name, taken from one of its original founders—is reached by horse-cars in twenty minutes from the city. An Engli... ...d ham sandwiches—the young tradesman enters the car firstly with a pile of magazines, or of novels bound like magazines. These are chiefly the “Atlant...

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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... ...f supplying the national youth with free but thumby copies of the sixpenny magazines. He would consider that all that was needed for his library was, ... ..., but also to deny that Herbert Spencer and Comte are to be exalted as the founders of a new and fruitful system of human inquiry. I find myself force... ...ct with the pedagogic intelligence through the medium of three educational magazines. A certain morbid habit against which I struggle in vain makes me... ...y writes a “Life of Gladstone” or ex-President Roosevelt is delivered of a magazine article, there is the same sort of excessive admiration as when a ... ... level, and were much more closely akin in habits and faith to the earlier founders of the Republic. Our inquiry is this: What social structure is thi...

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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... ...and I must confess that the transitory presence of this instructive little magazine in my house, month after month (it is now, unhappily, dead), did m... ...is one of the grimmest ironies in life, that athwart the memory of sainted founders should be written the most tragic consequences. The Foundling Hosp... ...ce and heredity it is probably mat- ter picked up in a casual way from the magazines. Art is a sealed book to him. Still, the inapplicability of his h... ...trated travels, bound volumes of such a publication as Newnes’ Wide W orld Magazine (I name these publications haphazard—there are probably others as ...

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...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...’s by good fortune suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...; while the President of the United States, since the last survivor of the founders of the republic disappeared from the scene, is almost always eithe... ...ds that they would believe and act upon the lesson.”—(Article in Fraser’s Magazine for April, 1859, headed “Recent Writers on Reform.”) 8 Not always...

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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... ...another sect among us, that of the Dunkers. I was acquainted with one of its founders, Michael Welfare, soon after it appear’d. He complain’d to me th... ...nt, and our successors still more so, as conceiving what we their elders and founders had done, to be something sacred, never to be departed from.” Th... ...em apprehend dan *This dialogue and the militia act are in the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for February and March, 1756.—[Marg. note.] The Autobiography o... ...hem. Mr. Collinson then gave them to Cave for publication in his Gentleman’s Magazine; but he chose to print them separately in a pamphlet, and Dr. Fo...

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...s difficulties, and in Paoli, the Corsican patriot; but when I came to the American War, I took my part, like a child as I was (until set right by my ... ... and Romilly stuck to us for some time longer, but the patience of all the founders of the Society was at last exhausted, except me and Roebuck. In th... ...tle of it; though when it came out about two years afterwards in Fraser’s Magazine I read it with enthusiastic admiration and the keen est delight. ... ...meditation. In 1832 I wrote several papers for the first series of Tait’s Magazine, and one for a quarterly periodical called the Ju rist, which ha... ...n of centralization. The powerful philosophic analysis which he applied to American and to French experience, led him to attach the utmost importance ... ...(under the title “Notes on the Newspapers”), in the Monthly Repository, a magazine conducted by Mr. Fox, well known as a preacher and political orato... ...he most elaborate is entitled Elements of Individualism: and a remarkable American, Mr. Warren, had framed a System of Society, on the foundation of ...

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...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... ...sometimes the public, and sometimes the piety of pri- 113 Adam Smith vate founders, have established many pensions, scholarships, ex- hibitions, burs... ...nce would not have wherewithal either to pay his troops, or to furnish his magazines; and the state of the country would be much more irretrievable th... ...herefore, he is often in danger of being utterly ruined, and of having his magazines plundered and de- stroyed by their violence. It is in years of sc... ... business it was to purchase corn by wholesale, to collect it into a great magazine, and to retail it again. The law which prohibited the manufacturer... ...y of Europe the education and great views of their active and enterprizing founders; and some of the greatest and most important of them, so far as co... ...licity, is not inferior to that of any of the ancient philosophers for the founders of their respective systems. ‘There have been since the world be- ...

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...d to the kindly act of friends. At this juncture the editor of the Century Magazine asked me to write a few articles for him. I consented for the mone... ...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...tra pay to musicians, establish libraries and ten-pin alleys, subscribe to magazines and furnish many extra comforts to the men. The best device for s... ...t spread over much of the territory and would not last long. Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the con... ...erpendicular banks are left and stand as well as if composed of stone. The magazines of the enemy were made by running passage-ways into this clay at ...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...tures of the States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings. ‘’The indispen... ...here of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. The founders of our re- publics have so much merit for the wisdom which they ha...

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...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ... fly cheer- fully with lighted matches, and fire cannon; fire whole powder-magazines? To sit and die of deficit is no part of Lomenie’s plan. The evil... ...Electoral Committee;—and even will never reappear there. In those ‘immense Magazines of velvet paper’ has aught befallen? Alas, yes! Alas, it is no M... ...ker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic (London, 1798), para Valadi.) De Morande fr... ...ing, from the first, with lighted taper, within arm’s length of the Powder-Magazine; motionless, like old Roman Senator, or bronze Lamp-holder; coldly... ...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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...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... ...ld fly cheerfully with lighted matches, and fire cannon; fire whole powder-magazines? To sit and die of deficit is no part of Lomenie’s plan. The evil... ...ker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic (London, 1798), para Valadi.) De Morande fr... ...g, from the first, with lighted taper, within arm’s length of the Pow- der-Magazine; motionless, like old Roman Senator, or bronze Lamp-holder; coldly... ...e. This same right hand, it is said, turned back de Launay from the Powder-Magazine, and saved Paris. De Launay, ‘discovered in gray frock with poppy-... ...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... ...ry to live (faut vivre). (See Deux Amis, xv. 189- 192; Memoires de Genlis; Founders of the French Republic, &c. &c.)—Higher than all Frenchmen the dom...

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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 ... ...urches, when once established, live at second-hand upon tradition; but the founders of ev- ery church owed their power originally to the fact of their... ...f their direct personal communion with the divine. Not only the superhuman founders, the Christ, the Bud- dha, Mahomet, but all the originators of Chr... ... sub- conscious life. To their reasoned advice and dogmatic assertion, its founders have added systematic exer- cise in passive relaxation, concentrat... ... solid a reality as that of electro magnetism.” W. C. Brownell, Scribner’s Magazine, vol. xxx. p. 112. 498 The V arieties of Religious Experience it ...

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...despair itself. Meanwhile, in your despair, you, too, divert yourself with magazine articles, and discussions in society, though you don’t believe you... ...ecome a monk, I shall be sure to go to Petersburg and get on to some solid magazine as a reviewer, that I shall write for the next ten years, and in t... ...en called to me, ‘Good-bye, father, make haste back to read The Children’s Magazine with us.’ No, you don’t un- derstand that! No one is wise from ano... ...ced that Dardanelov did not know who founded T roy . Kolya had read of the founders of Troy in Smaragdov, whose history was 487 Dostoevsky among the ... ...t’ s not because he stood up for me.” “But you took him down about the founders of Troy!” Smurov put in suddenly, proud of Krassotkin at such a mo... ...at him with dignified amazement. The fact was that the identity of the founders of T roy had become a secret for the whole school, a secret which ... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...

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...nder the loss of the main pillar of their house, but sending forth the new founders with good hope. Geraldine had made her home at St. Matthew’s with ... ...ly the mass of manuscript contributed at different times to the Mouse-trap magazine was appalling to all but Anna, who knew what was the shrink- age i... ...t could be done, the volume containing the choicest morceaux of the family magazine of his youth, the T raveller’ s Joy , in white parch- ment binding... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would...

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...ld Tales W W W W WAKEFIELD AKEFIELD AKEFIELD AKEFIELD AKEFIELD IN SOME OLD MAGAZINE or newspaper I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man—let us c... ...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ... fathers of the people, excellent repre- sentatives of the old puritanical founders, whose sombre strength had stamped so deep an impress upon the New...