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...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...s of state, Helen. You must introduce me to that handsome, Nordic- looking Scotsman who has hardly taken his eyes off you since your dramatic entranc... ...‘My darling, you are a green-eyed siren who would tempt the gods. Another minute and I would have taken you here, to-night, before our wedding cerem... ... door, only turning once to say, ‘Don’t worry, madam, I will not trouble you again. I have never taken a woman by force,’ and then he added caustica... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al...

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...ett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by t...

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...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... ...viewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The N... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...amily funds could be lifted, without my consent and without my knowledge. Taken to buy Rhodopis. You sold three or four wine ships to pay her price, ... ... You sold three or four wine ships to pay her price, along with the money taken from me.” “Can’t you forget...” “Not conveniently. Nobody enjoys be...

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...e decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but there is something neur... ...lse are actually in our warehouse.” I don’t mind being lied to. But I hate being taken for a fool. For the first time, I felt real good for havin... ...ddy” – I said slowly, trying to convey the gravity of the occasion – “Who are these people? I came here by sheer chance. We wouldn’t be talking now ... ...ou see” – I patronized him – “I don’t have an appointment with anyone or any three people.” Eddy was on his feet, gun drawn, long before I ended ... ...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...r? ‘Hitler does not approve of the indiscriminate and general action which has been taken against the Jews … He is believed to be very moderate in h... ...onal details inserted and left-adjusted in their appropriate rubrics. It must have taken hours to prepare. No snap decision at the heat of the mome...

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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ...e deep -- Capture of the Spanish treasure ships -- Incredible amount of spoils taken -- Mercilessness of the Buccaneers -- Execution of their captives... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ...ced to a haberdasher -- Engagement as a cabin boy -- Rapid promotion, and part taken in the war with Canada -- Cook's account of an eclipse of the sun... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...thin the brief period that historic annals measure, how many changes must have taken place in the life of the world since the foot of man was planted ...

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...d States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech, Seattle explains that man comes from the land and that all men share equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard ...

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... not agree to sign, what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though... ... what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his braves wanted t... ...he wisdom of the Elders, nor would he give the white man cause to slaughter his people. Yes, tomorrow he would sign the Treaty. His people must be k... ...for the years that he lived, they gave him the wisdom he would need to save his people. The Great White Chief, called Franklin Pierce, promised the ... ...y A. Smith thought, for such an historic occasion. He had arrived early and had taken in the as­ sembled crowd gathered in their respective places. C... ... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...d to finish a five hundred page book on Wilder­ ness Survival techniques. He had taken on too much, which ulti­ mately cost him his relationship with ... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ...he brooding and somnolent Germany, Russia is warning the USA that it should not be taken for granted and that there is a price to pay for its alleg... ...e Eastern oil is far greater than the United States'. The USA would have, probably, taken over Venezuela, a much larger and proximate supplier with... ..., mass unemployment, and damages to infrastructure. "The profound changes that have taken place in the functioning of the economy ... are unlikely t...

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...ats. They sat in the car and watched kids climbing on the monkey bars, and people lined up to buy ice cream. “Hey,” Lacey said. “I just thought of som... ...oo. I was scared of advertising it for sale because I did not want strange people coming to the house. Now I will not have to worry. Will you take me ... ...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ...gentaler’s abortion clinic; maybe I could go there. But it’s not legal and people are getting threatened. Anyway, do I want to kill it? …Yes I do, if ... ...’s never enough money. Your fucking brat doesn’t need a bike. Get off me!” Taken aback, she ran from the room. Seven-year-old Julian was standing by t... ... divorce nisi, which was pend- ing final decree, and the day she had ‘been taken over’ by the 45 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE writer within. Her cheeks grew r... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ...hed them get ready to leave, and thought of the troubled boy that Jake had taken under his wing. Oh, Jake, I owe you so much! Jana was acting as hoste...

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... dogs. Sorrowful, incurable Philoctetes Marat; without whom Troy cannot be taken! Hither, as a main element of the Governing Power, has Marat been rai... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...the Prisons, their plots will be harmless; in the Prisons, they will be as hostages for us, and not with- out use. This Decree the energetic Minister ... ...s driven in the Sardinian Majesty; nay, almost with- out a shot fired, has taken Savoy from him, which longs to become a piece of the Republic. And Ge... ...atriot Danton in it, and then a whole Nation and National Convention, have taken care of that. Not a Parish Constable, in the furthest hamlet, who has... ...uses broken into (by a tumult of Patri- ots, among whom red-capped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had th...

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................................................................................................. 23 MASLOW'S CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF ACTUALIZING PEOPLE... ...ome close when my ideas of power intertwine with her ideas of self-centered motivations. The difference, of course is that I believe that most people... ...bly heard, that‘s why we psychologists study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People... ... ―I think that many who have become atheists or agnostics have actually thought their way into their new beliefs because their thinking has taken ... ... Women know this when they are dating, but often forget it when the ‗I do‘ eventually becomes ‗I don‘t.‘ ―I wonder if Freud would have taken ... ...y a hundred years. If he had the MRI and the other neuroscience tools available to scientists today I would guess that his research would have taken ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ...

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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 ... ...ers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad,... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ...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... ...e for the martial nun to a national interest. It is true that Kate had not taken the veil; she had stopped short of the deadliest crime known to the I... ...rmly in the following ultimate resource. T wo large- boned horses, usually taken from the plough, were harnessed on as leaders. By main force they hau...

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...ss of his company — for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he... ...s?” I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested — just as when people speak of the weather — that he did not notice whether I made him ... ...nd the buzzing of insects, and the twitter ing of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court M... ...by prayer, and had killed my thirteen knights in a three hours’ battle, and taken me prisoner, sparing my life in order that so strange a curiosity ... ... but banish this calamity, spare the sun!” My fortune was made. I would have taken him up in a minute, but I couldn’t stop an eclipse; the thing was o... ...t. Of course that taint, that reverence for rank and title, had been in our American blood, too — I know that; but when I left America it had disapp... ... which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus W ard. It was about a humoro... ...t know the one league from its fellow, nor how to count them except they be taken apart, and ye wit well it were God’s work to do that, being not wit... ...uiet. The talk of these meek people had a strange enough sound in a formerly American ear. They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of ...

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...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ...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... ...pin’ straight now, the way it’s no pleasure to associate wid him.” “Has he taken the pledge?” “If ’twas only that I need not care. Ye can take the ple... ...for leave to go back to cantonments to pay a debt he’d forgotten. I was so taken by the idea I let him go, and he jingled off in an ekka as pleased as... ...hooses.” “That’s the reason why,” I said. “A second-rate man wouldn’t have taken things to heart as he has done.” We drove in quietly at the far end o...

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...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ... as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will rema... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ...LPHIA MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1793 President Washington’s second oath of office was taken in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia on March 4, ... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...Justice John Marshall administered the first execu tive oath of office ever taken in the new federal city in the new Senate Chamber (now the Old Supr... ...Hall). Subsequently the oath by Presi dents elect, with few exceptions, was taken in the House Chamber or in a place of the Capitol associated with t...

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...t short his days. At the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; the p... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...en; as ye fly through hostile countries, over tempestuous seas, are almost taken by the Turks; and wholly, in the Sansculottic Earthquake, know not yo... ...g Dotards) to wait upon the Dauphin. With another few, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opini... ...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... ...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...

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..., and not as a propagandist, that he is con- veying to the German speaking peoples political criticisms which occasionally reflect on contemporary aut... ...m magnanimous enough to admit that they are not altogether bad things when taken in strict mod- eration at the right time and in the right place), he ... ...emocrats tolerate me? Not a bit of it. I have begged again and again to be taken to the bosom of my Ger- man comrades. I have pleaded that the Super-P... ...nvective as a drily scientific treatise of the sort that used to impose on people in 1860, when any book that pretended to be scientific was accepted ... ...nst the opinions it expresses, but against the facts it records. There are people who cannot bear to be told that their hero was associated with a fam... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...is their demand, or else Freia, as agreed upon, whom they now carry off as hostage, leaving Wotan to consider their ultimatum. Freia gone, the gods be... ...s and amateurs—that is, a creature in their own lazy likeness—he need have taken no more part in the political struggles of his day than Bishop took i... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha...

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...ngers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams oh, so high, — te... ...tside next year, — her and I, — but it ’s too late. Don’t send her back to her people, Kid. It ’s beastly hard for a woman to go back. Think of it! — ... ...ot good for her to have tried our ways, to come to know they ’re better ’n her people’s, and then return to them. Take care of her, Kid, — why don’t y... ...he healthy physiques of the Inca pables. Yellow and weak, fleeing from a South American fever hole, he had not broken his flight across the zones, and ... ...ich the quick fought a losing battle with the dead. All possible care had been taken of him, but in the last extremity the weak and unfortunate must p... ...in their bodies, and knew they had at last cast off his mastery. So he was not taken unawares when he ordered them back in quest of their abandoned ch... ...ind. Meyers and Bettles had raised their ear flaps, while Malemute Kid had even taken off his mittens. The dogs had been fagged out early in the aftern... ...fused to ease down his pace and bleated about freedom of contract, independent Americanism, and the dignity of toil, they proceeded to spoil his pace ... ...nce, while Fred die Drummond condemned shirking as vicious, criminal, and un American, and devoted whole chapters to condemnation of the vice. Fredd...

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...reshly from the southwest. The night was very clear and cold. Augustus had taken the helm, and I stationed myself by the mast, on the deck of the cudd... ...sible to conceive the extremity of my terror. The fumes of the wine lately taken had evaporated, leaving me doubly timid and irresolute. I knew that I... ... swamping the boat I was finally disengaged from my perilous situation and taken on board— for the body proved to be my own. It appeared that one of t... ...e to share my dreary solitude, and render me comfort by his caresses. Most people love their dogs—but for Tiger I had an affection far more ardent tha... ... or any thing of that kind; but windmills, ships, large birds, bal- loons, people on horseback, carriages driving furiously, and similar moving object... .... In about an hour after we first discovered her, we could clearly see the people on her decks. She was a long, low, and rakish- looking topsail schoo... ...was not long after Captain Patten’s visit that Cap- tain Colquhoun, of the American brig Betsey, touched at the largest of the islands for the purpose... ...1, a Captain Haywood, in the Nereus, visited Tristan. He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the island to prepare sealskins and oil. ... ...ound was traced over, with equal care, in 1822, by Captain Johnson, of the American schooner Henry, and by Captain Morrell in the American schooner Wa...

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... of logical requirements totally different from those ex acted from other people. In all other cases, burthen of proof is supposed to lie with the af... ...it would be useless; they are insepa rable from having to contend through people’s understandings against the hostility their feelings and practical ... ... social inter est on his side. This being the ostensible state of things, people flatter themselves that the rule of mere force is ended; that the la... ...sed over to the other side. Such shifting of the physical force not having taken place in the case of women; this fact, combined with all the peculiar... ...thing, and of which it is at present impos sible that any man, or all men taken together, should have knowledge which can qualify them to lay down th... ...tantially persisted in them even to the present day. Originally women were taken by force, or regularly sold by their father to the husband. Until a l... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...d feelings is still very severe. Whoever has a wife and children has given hostages to Mrs. Grundy. The approbation of that potentate may be a matter ...

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...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...les of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, wil... ...exchange of their various commodities. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Provi- dence has been pleased to give this one connected ... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... general advantages of trade and navigation. From this summary of what has taken place in other coun- tries, whose situations have borne the nearest r... ...o longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide nothing; of retreats more benefic... ... 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...

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...ian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt not ineffe... ... and we shall be made sensible that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put... ...le that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put trust in the most generous ... ...of those cries, we shall see how they illumine the councils of a governing people. They are wiser than the barking dogs. Cromwell and Bis- marck are g... ...herself as greatest among the giants that do not go to pieces, she had, as Americans forgivingly remem- ber, without mentioning, a series of flicks of... ...d fellows, past proclamation against trespassers, under suspicion of being taken for more serious depredators in flight. The chief of the T ramps had ... ...yor of the village, who is the chemist of the place, was, I hear, forcibly taken from his house and compelled to escort the Austrians on the road lead... ...esult of such molestation would be first the put- ting to death of all the hostages held for ransom; and next, the summary execution of several member...

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...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...Fashion. It is the corner of Regent Street. Carlton House has not yet been taken down. A stately gentleman in crimson velvet and gold is sipping choco... ...ed it gayly to the health of the company assembled. ’Twas the third he had taken during the sitting. Presently, and with a graceful salute to the Soci... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish men; but have they not taken the world in exchange?” Mused thus Godfrey de Bouillon, Marquis of Co... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away....

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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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