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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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...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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...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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...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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...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...ns demand that the human icons they worship must be superficially attractive. Magazines full of perfect female bodies abound. But even that is disa... ...t lean abs? By not eating junk food. By not eating candy bars… but the very magazines featuring models who have perfectly slim waists sit right nex... ...ant lean abs: eat more candy bars. Huh? How hypocritical can you get? Magazines for lean abs should be placed next to the vegetable and prod... ... And the more these religions try to immortalize their ordinary, once- living founders: the more they wane, and go extinct. The only reason the te...

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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...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...