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... SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES, ADVENTURES, BATTLES, DARINGS AND SUFFERINGS OF THE HEROIC CHARACTERS, BOLD EXPLO... ...en of the finding of the hulls of ships and iron anchors upon the mountains of Switzerland, very far from land, though that the sea could have ever sw... ...ng been careful to arouse their fervor by declaring that God would fight their battles for them, and that they were but instruments in His hands to ex... ...a warrior, holding himself in readiness for service at any instant, and bloody battles were of constant occurrence between them and the Mexicans, by w... ... greater indignities, which Cortez had foreseen could not be continued without involving the Spaniards and Mexicans in open hostility. His next act wa... ...sk he desired them to undertake, nothing less than the suppression of a mutiny involving three-fourths of the men, of his fleet, but not a man faltere...

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...pain 226 Page Sri Lanka 228 Sudan 230 Suriname 231 Swaziland 232 Sweden 234 Switzerland 235 Syria 237 Taiwan (see Taiwan entry on page 274) Tanzania ... ...en by Co-Princes who ap- point two civil judges, a judge of appeals, and two battles (court prosecutors); final appeal to the Supreme Court of Andorra... ...ommon law; constitution adopted 1900; High Court has jurisdiction over cases involving interpretation of the constitution; accepts compulsory ICJ juri... ... (1984) imports 41% FRG, 8.2% Italy, 7.3% East Europe (excluding USSR), 4.5% Switzerland, 4.4% USSR, 3.7% US; exports 30.1% FRG, 9.6% East Europe (exc... ...% US; exports 30.1% FRG, 9.6% East Europe (excluding USSR), 9.0% Italy, 6.7% Switzerland, 6.0% OPEC, 4.7% US Aid: donor ODA and OOF economic aid commi... ...: none; possible territo- rial claim in complex dispute over Spratly Islands involving China, Malaysia, Philip- pines, Taiwan, and Vietnam Climate: tr... ...orial sea: 3 nm Boundary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Climate: temperate; humid and overcast...

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... control of programs calculated to influence the acceptability of social ideas and involving considerations of product planning, pricing, communicati... ...ncept market. Nor can the idea marketer afford to underestimate the importance of involving bureaucrats in the planning of programs. Calling gover... ...committed to social change over time. The 1950's and 1960's saw many fluoridation battles across the United States and dentists led the way. Since ... ...lso seen, for example, in the travel industry where the provider-consumer exchange involving hotels, airlines, limousines and so on, may take place ... ...mogyi (ed.), Assessment of Nutritional Status and Food Consumption Surveys. Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger. North Central Rural Sociology Subcommitte... ...ude the United Nations for whom Fine conducted a week-long consultation in Geneva, Switzerland advising the World Health Organization on social mark...

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...nly with you, others want to be in on your monopoly. ―The Mid-East religions have been the worst. The Bible enumerates the numbers of battle... ...h each can flourish that is far superior to what either could achieve alone.‘ ―The blue collar philosopher Frank Hoffer defined love as involv... ...most surveys. The Scandinavian countries do quite well with Finland, Iceland and Sweden generally in the top ten. Norway ranges from 10 to 19. Switze... ...h Russia 167 th . This doesn‘t indicate that the large economic powers produce grossly happy people. ―In the same study with Denmark, Switze...

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...y one side or the other. He used Operations Research tecbniques in an exhaustive analysis of 167 battles fouabt over a period of many years in differe... ...s of 167 battles fouabt over a period of many years in different wars. He confined his cboice of battles to those in whicb there were relatively compl... ...e in a cryptoeenter at TRW wbo was reportcdJy involved in at least a dozen separate transactions involving sale of keying materia1 and photograp~6f th... ...eir quantity and variety was relatively small. Most were manufactured overseas - particularly in Switzerland, and no huae market euted for them after ...

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...ade of violent demonstrations, home-grown urban terrorism, and numerous skirmishes involving the National Guard and even, in violation of the Const... ...rgy Ministry concluded the negotiation of a 10-year collaborative effort with Japan involving the construction of oil and gas pipelines, the develop... ...sional conscience and one's propensity to live the good life. Only saints win such battles. Whatever UNMIK is - it is decidedly not saintly. But, a... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – ...

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... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar... ...DIX - Should Drugs be Legalized? The decriminalization of drugs is a tangled issue involving many separate moral/ethical and practical strands whic... ...of the last century by 29 countries, including Germany, The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Den... ...nto decline. Instead of intelligently debating issues, they engaged in ideological battles, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less p... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – M...

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... as illegal) – but that does not turn it into moral. Still, not every immoral act involving the termination of life can be classified as murder. P... ... is the unnatural act. VIII. The Argument from Progress It is a circular syllogism involving a tautology and goes like this: Cannibalism is barbar... ...DIX - Should Drugs be Legalized? The decriminalization of drugs is a tangled issue involving many separate moral/ethical and practical strands whic... ...of the last century by 29 countries, including Germany, The United States, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Den... ...nto decline. Instead of intelligently debating issues, they engaged in ideological battles, dogmatic quarrels, name-calling. The debate grew less p... ... APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – M...

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..., detailed maps and anatomical charts, and other graphics to their books. Battles fought between publishers-librarians over formats (book sizes) and... ...r this shortcoming: 1. Ethical – Experiments would have to be conducted, involving humans. To achieve the necessary result, the subjects will have ... ...fficulties arose: To determine what will happen in a specific experiment involving a specific particle and experimental setting – an observation mu... ... consensus, belonging, social structures, procedures, forms, undertakings involving the labour or other input of human masses. Future versus Past ... ...A): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the Group's Headquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of ...

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...e or producing or watching child pornography have? What about pornography involving women—as things—as objects to be used. A female writer in Norway... ...ee the God-inspired wars of the Jews in the Old Testament and the unending battles in the name of God during the last two millennia by the Christians... ...uerors that appear every generation? Pacifism, as emphasized by Sweden or Switzerland, is not necessarily a position that promotes peace. It just sa... ...the more rational liberals dates from the 800s in Iraq. But inter-Islamic battles about who should lead the various sects also goes back to the begi... ...e Israel and Greece at around 3%, Japan and Sri Lanka at under 2, Cyprus, Switzerland and Hong Kong at around 7 Is it a stronger religious conviction... ... are supposedly educated! ―About twenty years ago I took a case involving ex post facto to the Supreme Court. (78a) A California teacher w... ... adopt cruelty towards each other. ―Then there was the situation involving Jesus in Matthew 8 verses 28 to 33. He was near Gaderenes when t...

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...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ... trait became its primary means of survival... all as an evolutionary process involving millions of years. The concentrated pyramidal focus needed f... ...he culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. THE P... ... Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened since... ...n Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened sinc... ...r Africa’ where they played two matches: one in Federers’s hometown in Zurich Switzerland, and the other in Nadal’s Home turf Madrid Spain. When th...

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...as surgeon in the 54th and 58th New Y'ork volun teers and took part in the battles of Cross Keys, Bull Run and Ohnncellorsville. For several years he ... ... wrenched out of its place and made a serious, often a desperate, businesB involving the activity of a few picked nnd highly trained men, to win the g... ...f plan he was easily their superior. He always care- fully studied out his battles be fore he fought them, and in case nf defeat he could retreat to a... ... study in Rome a7id in Ire- land, and will make short trips to Germany and Switzerland. He will return to Williamstown in the fall after a short visit... ...sted, and the realization of the trust put upon men helps them to win many battles. '92—Widter A. Weed has re- signed his position at South Bend. Ind.... ...incoln the Citizen," in Jesup Hall on Friday evening. Mr. JeHup's address, involving as it did the highest ideals of citizen- ship, was peculiarly int... ...is wonderful structure for securing pure amateurism can be removed without involving the whole structure in the fate that befell that historical one- ...

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... A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY...................................................................................................................... 118 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY ................................................................................................ 125 AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER ................................................................

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....................................................... ................. 118 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY ........................................... ...t answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we shoveled them all into the Eng... ...en the manner of reform since the beginning of the world. Mark T wain 125 SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY In In In In Int t t t terlak erlak erlak... ...1. 1891. 1891. 1891. 1891. IT IS A GOOD MANY YEARS since I was in Switzerland last. In that remote time there was only one ladder railway in ... ... do not re member that Wellington or Napoleon ever examined Shakespeare’s battles and sieges and strategies, and then decided and established for goo... ... and the Courts at Westminster, nothing short of employment in some career involving con stant contact with legal questions and general legal work W... ...ance points out, “would require nothing short of employment in some career involving constant contact with legal questions and general legal work.” ...

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... enthusiasms were salt to a man; and he liked Shalders for spelling at his battles and thinking he understood them, and admiring Murat, and leading Vi... ...ion on Beatrice, nearer Leo’s age, in talk about games and story-books and battles; nothing that he did when the girls were present be- trayed the str... ...e not stated where on the Continent it is to be.” “The spot fixed on is in Switzerland.” “You will have scenery.” “I hold to that, as an influence.” A... ...tline of the coast of Portugal for an introductory subject, our Peninsular battles and so forth—I spoke of her enthusiasm. The effect was, to cut off ... ...We had a talk. He has promised to send me the lad when I am established in Switzerland.’ ‘When?’ said Aminta. ‘ A relative from whom a Reversion comes... ...em hung in the abstract for him. His hopes were bent on an early escape to Switzerland and his life’s work. Lady Charlotte mounted to ride to the batt... ...e, without complicity on his part, without his knowl- edge, yet absolutely involving his fate, the battle had gone against him in Aminta’s breast. Lik...

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...ies, when the services of competent public officers were available, and by involving the government in a vast number of contracts with persons not leg... ...believe 23,500 will cover all the killed, wounded, and missing in all your battles and skirmishes, leav- ing 50,000 who have left otherwise. No more t... ...ARIN. DEAR SIR -Y our very acceptable letter, dated Orbe, Canton de V aud, Switzerland, 18th of July, 1862, is received. The moral effect was the wors... ...I am very ungenerously attacked for it! For instance, when, after the late battles at and near Bull Run, an expedition went out from Washington under ... ... the fourteenth and seventeenth days of this present month there have been battles bravely, skillfully, and success- fully fought. We do not yet know ... ...its application in all respects the same in cases of rebellion or invasion involving the public safety as it is in times of profound peace and public ... ...itution is different in its application in cases of rebellion or invasion, involving the public safety, from what it is in times of profound peace and...

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...d it; and in her present wrestle with the scheme of a large country estate involving new intimacies, anxieties, the courtship of rival magnates, follo... ...es, masking hills, dividing rivers. He had mapped for himself mentally the battles of conquerors in his favourite historic reading; and he understood ... ...s having heard from a scholar, that pigs had been the cause of more bloody battles than any other animal. How so? the pork-butcher asked, and said he ... ...ion of them, Skepsey explained. Oh! possession! Why, we’ve heard of bloody battles for the possession of women! Men will fight for almost anything the... ...e, at his reading of a lengthy report in a newspaper of a Wedding Ceremony involving his favourite Bishop for bridegroom: a report to make one glow li... ...er dreary round of the purchases of furniture! They ought all now to be in Switzerland or Tyrol. Nesta had of late been turning over leaves of an Illu... ...eh, Fenellan?’ ‘Dartrey won’t be back for a week or so; and they’re off to Switzerland, after the dinner they give. I heard from him this morning; one... ...touched Nesta simply, as a young girl to be protected, without abhorrently involving the woman. He had his ideas of the Spirit of Woman stating her ca...

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...ndulating mead- ows of the Limousin, which in certain places remind one of Switzerland, especially about Saint-Leonard, takes on a harsh and melanchol... ... with the gendarmes and the soldiers too; I’m told he was in seven regular battles—” “They say he killed two soldiers and three gendarmes,” put in Cha... ...- ings for the fame of its engineers than it can declare war merely to win battles and bring to the front great generals; but, then, as men of genius ... ...ercial, and is turned over. Thus, besides the evil of parcelling the land, involving that of the diminution of horses, cattle, and sheep, the section ... ...n showed the superior qualities of the marciti of Italy and the meadows of Switzerland. The system of irriga- tion, modelled on that of the farms in L... ...ped to find in the products of succeeding years some analogy with those of Switzerland, to which this nitrous substance is, as we know, a source of pe...

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...darkness, the still-trembling gloomy quiver—the brain of the lightnings of battles. Now this boy nursed no secret presumptuous belief that he was fitt... ..., writing him down, declaring, all the time he was fighting his first hard battles, that his cause was hopeless—that resistance to Napoleon was imposs... ... shots at the detested one, and certain boys were maltreated for an ardour involving clumsiness. A 234 Beauchamp’s Career young genius of this horde ... ...el’s cottage to say farewell to Jenny Denham previous to her departure for Switzerland with her friend Clara Sherwin. She had never seen a snow-mounta... ...p’s Career right to be idling about. His ward Miss Denham is travelling in Switzerland; the dear old man is alone, and not quite so well as I should w... ...el, and also that it was not he whom the Miss Denham attracted. ‘She is in Switzerland,’ said Cecilia. ‘She is better there,’ said Mrs. Devereux. Mr. ... ...s politics, he disdained prudence. A monstrous crime had been commit- ted, involving the honour of the family. No subtlety of in- sinuation, no sugges... ...say Yes would be to plunge a dagger in her bosom; but No was a vain deceit involving a double wreck. Assuredly a man standing against the world in a g... ...ank a great deal of bitterness from his reflections. They who provoke huge battles, and gain but lame victo- ries over themselves, insensibly harden t...

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...an frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there were battles on the way. That great road is still clear in my memory. I was give... ...ad hitherto been unattainable. With- out warning or preparation, increment involving countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the st... ...winter-grey streets, now the newspaper placards outside news-shops told of battles in strange places, now of amazing discoveries, now of sinister crim... ...ome months that occupied an immense proportion of our leisure. Some of our battles lasted several days. We kept the game a profound secret from the ot... ...gain after that one had come to Bale, and out one tumbled to get coffee in Switzerland… . I have been over that route dozens of times since, but it st... ... differences in the way things were done. The clean prosperity of Bale and Switzerland, the big clean stations, filled me with patriotic misgivings, a... ...w Machiavelli and I was twenty-two. It was just before the walking tour in Switzerland that opened up so much of the world to me. I saw her once, for ...

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... well as with the character of its baths. The passage of Montaigne through Switzerland is not without interest, as we see there how our philosophical ... ...ir dogmas. He even had dis- putations with them occasionally. “Having left Switzerland he went to Isne, an imperial then on to Augsburg and Munich. He... ...ticipate still worse mischiefs; and in your goodness and wisdom, beware of involving your family in such broils; let it continue to enjoy its former r... ... in the wars against them. In like manner certain of the Indians, in their battles with the Spaniards, carried with them the bones of one of their cap... ...has it not put arms into their hands, and made them raise armies and fight battles? And does she not, by her own precept, instruct the most ignorant v... ...fe, a life that I have hitherto defended in so many civil wars, in so many battles by land and by sea? And after having settled the universal peace of...

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... journey was to see some discharged soldiers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had be... ...voyage to England, I read the Shipping Intelligence as anxiously as if I had been an under- writer. There was some stormy weather after I myself had g... ...s. Having newly taken the lease of a house in a certain distinguished metropolitan parish— a house which then appeared to me to be a frightfully first... ...career and never known that when I see a white horse on a barge’s sail, that barge is a lime barge. For precious secrets in reference to beer, am I li... ... at first. There were peep-shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquainted a yea...

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...native strength. Religion is no less the com- panion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source ... ...ties, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law... ...e laws; and the President may frequently change his line of policy without involving the State in difficulty or destruction. Whatever the prerogatives... ...ch have existed in modern Europe, without adverting to those of antiquity. Switzerland, the Germanic Empire, and the Republic of the United Provinces ... ...deration than a uniformity of interests in the States which compose it. In Switzerland the difference which exists between the Canton of Uri and the C... ...etween the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries; and, properly speaking, Switzerland has never possessed a fed- eral government. The union between t... ...rdinary achievement, and which could only be remembered in a country where battles are rare. Now the people which is thus carried away by the illusion... ...01 Tocqueville No great change takes place in human institutions with- out involving amongst its causes the law of inheritance. When the law of primog...

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...s scarce, scat- ter apart. Take these two kinds of sheep, transfer them to Switzerland or France; the mountain breeds will feed apart even in a lowlan... ...led to the other. Was there some trans- position of the vital force in her involving her in inevitable suffering? Everything is doubtful and obscure i... ... of Frederick the Great, if, instead of dealing with provinces by means of battles, he had dealt in smuggled goods or transferable securities. The hig... ...ll his drowned-out enterprise is safely landed— in short, in all the great battles for money-getting. The banker, no doubt, like the conqueror, runs r... ... my fortune!’— How you have changed!” exclaimed Suzanne. “It is the air of Switzerland; you grow thrifty there.—Look here; go there yourself, my dear!... ...now all your great victories—the Montauran case, the Simeuse business— the battles of Marengo of espionage.” “Well,” said Corentin, “you have some est...

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...ch again; it is but an early day for you to leave it. Have you aught else, involving less than my fame, my fortune, and my life, to ask of me?” “Nothi... ...Sussex, “you must ex- pect little from an old soldier like me in favour of battles in sport, when they are compared with battles in earnest; and yet, ... ...advices from the reformed churches of Germany—from the Low Countries— from Switzerland—urging this as a point on which Europe’s safety depends. France...

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...ut who she would hardly have dared to leave. The pastor, though hardships, battles, and persecutions had left him childless, had been the father of a ... ...discuss the question now,’ said M. Gardon, gravely; for a most kind offer, involving much peril and inconvenience to himself, was thus petulantly flou... ...er since she had saved enough to send her son to study for the ministry in Switzerland, and with an aching heart that longed to be at rest from the to... ...his sisters and to little Rayonette, and telling of marches, exploits, and battles,— how he had taken a standard of the League at Coutras, and how he ...

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...the workers are victori- ous, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union ... ...r he incurred the hostility of the Saxon Government. This led him to go to Switzerland, where he came in contact with a group of German Communists, bu... ...ted itself largely to combating Mazzini’s nationalism. In 1867 he moved to Switzerland, where in the following year he helped to found the “Internatio... ...ded to join it, and he brought with him a considerable following in French-Switzerland, France, Spain and Italy. At the fourth Congress, held at Basle... ...o ordinary citizens. In its general doctrines there is nothing essentially involving violent methods or a virulent hatred of the rich, and many who ad... ...[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Many other instances of pitched battles could be given, but enough has been said to show the peculiar chara... ...oint Committee of Parliament and the Guild Congress for decid- ing matters involving the interests of consumers and produc- ers alike. The view of the... ..., neat, 111 Bertrand Russell giving a stimulus to industrious habits, and involving no waste of a sort that could be tabulated in statistics or accou...

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...World sented a united and resistant front. Our Empire, for all its roll of battles, was not created by force; colonisation and diplomacy have played a... ... goods. Nor do I find, to take another instance, among the hotel staffs of Switzerland and the Riviera—who live almost entirely upon British gold—thos... ...care, and effort in the matter. Half the money that goes out of England to Switzerland and the Riviera ought to go to the extremely amusing business o... ...e freer initiatives of private en- terprise. Most of these are occupations involving a greater element of interest, less direction and more co-operati... ...fore methods upon a much larger scale, employing wholesale ma- chinery and involving great economies. It is alleged by mod- ern writers that the perma... ...ng ahead and being thoroughly safe. This confidence in big, very expensive battleships is, I be- lieve and hope, shared by the German Government and b... ...able anticipation. No hostile Power is in the least likely to send out any battleships at all against our invincible Dreadnoughts. They will prom- ena... ...served so useful a purpose in the middle group of subjects, the sub- jects involving numerous but a finite number of units, has also to be abandoned h... ...rward promoter who became impatient with maps and planned a railway across Switzerland by drawing a straight line with a ruler across Jungfrau and Mat...

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... maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process incidentally involving the ruthless destruction or subjection of its competitors for the... ..., over an item of seven shil- lings for refreshments? Little Minds and Big Battles Nobody will be able to understand the vagaries of public feeling du... ...en a peasant; the lord of Hellas is level with his lackeys in repub- lican Switzerland; Prime Ministers and Commanders-in- Chief have passed from a br... ...le romance. I knew there had been somebody. RANDALL. They will fight their battles over again and en- joy themselves immensely. LADY UTTERWORD [irrita...

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...is Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from the beginn... ...son to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logic... ...sences, one of three, the other of six months, under medical advice, added Switzerland, the T yrol, and Italy to my list. Fortunately, also, both thes... ...any active concern in temporary politics, and from any literary occupation involving personal communication with contributors and others, I was enable... ...hest, next to that of Secretary, in the East India Company’s home service, involving the general superintendence of all the correspon dence with the ...

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...rby and Countess Fanny were at Lucerne or Lausanne, or some such place, in Switzerland when the news reached them, and Kirby, without losing an hour, ... ...e it to me,’ his uncle said: and we hear of business affairs between them, involving payment of moneys due to the young man; and how, whenever he touc... ... other gentleman, who was hailed ‘Mallard!’ and cared nothing for problems involving the fe- male of man when such work was to the fore as the pugilis... ... surmounted the task of conceiving his resolution to do it; and this task, involving an offence to the Lady Livia and intrusion of his name on a noble... ... merciful. Exclusion will mean death to some. Columelli will be touring in Switzerland. You shall have him in the house when my new bit of ground Nort... ...rian Baths. Pleasure in the sight made her face shine superbly. ‘ A flying Switzerland, Mr. Woodseer says,’ she replied. ‘England is beautiful on days... ...ay, he swears. You know what a pas- sion is; you have it for mountains and battles, I for music. I do remember, one morning before sunrise, driving ba...

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...at Patterne, very few weeks were left to her, and she had a wish to run to Switzerland or Tyrol and see the Alps; a quaint idea, her fa- ther thought.... ...t she had plunged herself in the thick of the strife of one of their great battles. Her personal position, however, was instilling knowledge rapidly, ... ... promoted to scale a giant.” They went up to some of the lesser heights of Switzerland and Styria, and settled in South Tyrol, the young lady pre- fer... ...nted by the figure 4. Four happy instead of two miserable. He had said it, involving her among the four; and so it must be, she con- sidered, and she ... ...hinking over it, you mean to escape, you must make up your mind to pitched battles, and not be de- jected if you are beaten in all of them; there is y... ...an she had been in the scene with Sir Willoughby . His counting on pitched battles and a defeat for her in all of them, made her previous feelings app... ...” to attach importance even to the public discovery of midnight interviews involving her- self as one, and feeling also that she was being treated as ... ...wn it, plucked it from me: that you request me to con- sent to a sacrifice involving my reputation, my life. And what have I done? I am the same, unch... ...hat day.” “I wish I could use it to good purpose!” “He did not speak?” “Of Switzerland, Tyrol, the Iliad, Antigone.” “That was all?” “No, Political Ec...

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...d be unjust, and prefer their own children; and she had a prevision of the battles she was to fight, and the defen- sive influence she was to exert. T... ...e, and then, gathering up her sons, Caroline meant to start for the Rhine, Switzerland, and Italy. Old nurse was settled in a small pair of rooms, wit... ... gone to some more genial climate, and the early autumn was often spent in Switzerland. Pictures, art, and scenery were growing to be necessaries of l... ...um expedition that their mother projected making with them, to air them in Switzerland before returning to the rest of the family. But Mrs. Evelyn (he... ...derably younger than you did two months ago. The wedding was a bright one, involving no partings, only joy and gladness, and the sole drawback to the ...

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...nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide nothing; of retreats more beneficial than victories; of... ...nning through every part of the society, cannot be particularized, without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the inst... ...ce them, alto- gether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbecility, confusion, a... ... an objection to the principle of a guaranty in the federal government, as involving an officious interference in the domestic concerns of the members... ...ated States, has been illustrated by other examples as well as our own. In Switzerland, where the Union is so very slight, each canton is obliged to a... ...es, experience shows us that it is more imperfect than that of Holland and Switzerland.” “Greece was undone,’’ he adds, “as soon as the king of Macedo...

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...dy, as over the body of Patroclus, there has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For ... ... with demons in strange league engage, And earth, and heaven, and hell her battles wage. She eyed the bard, where supperless he sate, And pined, uncon... ...ops, Mr Toland, and Mr Gildon.—P . 282 ‘A heidegger:’ a strange bird from Switzerland, and not (as some have supposed) the name of an eminent person ...

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...sible, had been for years one’s only law, so, during that flat interregnum, involving, as who should say, the very cultivation of unacquaintedness, cre... ...eral whom she had once seen playing with toy soldiers, fighting and winning battles, carrying on sieges and annihilat ing enemies with little fortress... ... conditions. These elements acted in a man ner of their own, imposing and involving, under one head, many abstentions and precautions, twenty anxieti... ...dian optimism: a large bright dull murmurous mild eyed middle aged dinner, involving for the most part very bland, though very exalted, immensely anno... ...ays before they start. I’ll go abroad with you if you but say the word; to Switzerland, the Tyrol, the Italian Alps, to whichever of your old high pla...

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...it so much,” said Fanny, “and they learn so much now that they act all the battles they read about.” “That is what I object to,” said Rachel; “it is a... ... Reformatory for the Destitute in Holland, and the Hospital for Cretins in Switzerland.” “Scotch pedants, Dutch thieves, Swiss goitres—I will bear you... ...ty man?” “Oh, parties are getting obsolete! He works too hard for fighting battles outside.” The Sunday showed a spare, vigorous face, and a voice and... ...f hemmed in, and pinned down by the investigation pushed on by her mother, involving answers and explanations that she alone could make. Mr. Grey rubb...