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...ed food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The... ...ts an iris-like "shutter" to release the correct amount of light from his bacterial colony. The squid replaces the hosted vibrios daily. Still, bac... ...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ...city in the country and, for a long time, its capital - was made a separate British colony in 1886. It was administered from Freetown, Sierra Leone.... ...with a moustache. He wore a deerstalker hat (similar to Sherlock Holmes'), wore no cape and carried no cane. Read more about this elusive figure ...

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...to be the first to impregnate the female egg-cell into a mechanical opera. Cape Canaveral: was the cape of the foreskin pulling back to reveal the... ... can-averal, and opened up a viral can of mechanical worms to do his bidding. Cape Canaveral was re-named Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most ... ...truction of the entire continent of America was set off by the first European colony establishing a foothold on an island 3 miles off the coast of t... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ... to jail? What is the worst punishment we mete out to the worst, most corrupt Politicians? We just don’t let them have all that Power again. Some ... ...their crimes and are punished for being honest? One-in ten million corrupt politicians are honest enough to publicly admit their corruption; and h... ...ansom, despite relying on these "savages" for food and supplies. The Roanoke colony disappeared leaving no explanation except the cryptic qwords: ‘... ... A negative attempt. The ‘and’ is left unfinished… and what happened to the colony? The lost colony of Roanoke remains an unsolved mystery to thi... ... Before any settlement was even attempted at the landing at Province Town on Cape Cod Island, it was marred by an English sea captain seizing 27 nat...

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... sitting on the stone floor, the chain between us. John urged me to leave Capernaum. “You can’t go on preaching there. Antipas has men on the lookou... ...ain? Peter’s Heshvan 19 I have preached in the synagogues at Cana and Capernaum during the last few days. I do not like preaching indoors. The s... ...ectful, some are quite idle and oblivious of anything but themselves. At Capernaum, as I spoke, swallows flew in and out, swooping low. I won- dered... ...ntry against all enemies. I supplied ships for the Queen. In Virginia, my colony is dedicated to all that England stands for. Sirs, I protest! Ju... ...f some questions this evening: must civilization be influ- enced by greedy politicians, connivers, self-promoters, toadies? Is there such a thing as ... ...ith a nod or lifted hand. They are masters of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the m...

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...ad gone out. It seemed that one of the spears of the sky gods had freed a colony of Eleckytrons, and the city was left in darkness. The buildings lo... ...he land, and his story had touched the nation. Television celebrities and politicians had arrived to help publicise the search for Theo’s family, an... ...oryteller – they could even have been brothers. But he wore a long, black cape and carried a leather bag. He was much more serious and business-like... ...t. Bozo slapped him on the back. ‘Hey, kid, since I’ve met you, we’ve es- caped from a hospital, stowed away on a bus, looked into crystal balls, f o... ...forever falling off and clambering back on again. As the four old friends capered around and explored the hills and jungle, Theo mused that it was o...

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...sets forth, the same welcome and the same joys expect them beyond the next cape, where the nearest village nestles in its grove of palms. To the visit... ...ll. The town hums to the day’s news, and the bars are crowded with amateur politicians. Some are office-seekers, and earwig king and consul, and compa... ...at night. He could then see the lights of a town with wharves; he supposes Cape Town. Off the Cameroons they anchored or lay-to, far at sea, and sent ... ...ll the world over. In the opinion of some, then, the town had narrowly es- caped destruction, or at least the miseries of a drunken sack. To the knowl... ...nous. And fear was mingled with annoyance in the minds of the Anglo- Saxon colony. On the 24th, a public meeting appealed to the British and American ... ... Matafele, only one (I understand) remaining at his post. The whole German colony was thus collected in one spot, and could count and wonder at its sc... ...ic popularity surrounded him among the Germans. It was natural. Consul and colony had passed through an hour of serious peril, and the consul had set ...

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...ious scholar, he became the acknowledged head of a school of moralists and politicians. Time alone can pronounce upon the merits of his theories; but ... ...or the garden. As for the centre row, until the day when the whole strange colony perished under the hammer of Fontaine the architect, every shop was ... ...despairingly, and went out saying, “I will come back again.” T wo or three politicians were chatting over the convocation of the Chambers and public b... ...ch once found favor in the sight of a council of reverend fathers, and es- caped ecclesiastical censure in spite of its wanton dangerous grace. The bo... ...liffs at my heels; indeed, when I go to the Palais Royal, I have dangerous capes to double.” In the language of the fast set, doubling a cape meant do...

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...inct, that it would be so. First of all there reached us, by telegram from Cape Race, rumors of what the press in England was saying; rumors of a meet... ... so 58 North America V ol. 2 as to include the leaders among the Northern politicians. They never begrudged to these assistants a full share of the g... ... this there has undoubtedly been treachery as well as rebellion. Had these politicians been honest—though the political growth of Washington has hardl... ...owth of Washington has hardly admitted of political honesty— but had these politicians been even ordinarily respectable in their dishonesty, they woul... ...mitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to b... ...ereign in its municipal system, having preserved the boundaries of the old colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old co... ...and then the choice proclaimed with clear articulation: “Boiled mutton and caper sauce, roast duck, hashed veni- son, mashed potatoes, poached eggs an...

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...north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who es caped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclud... ...hey have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord i... ...nder, bound for Surat. We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a lea... ...ankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.” The learning of this people is very defective,... ...great acute ness, containing many observations, both curious and useful for politicians; but, as I conceived, not altogether complete. This I venture... ...ckpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers... ... execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people! ...

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... OUR WEEK’S VOYAGE is now drawing to a close. We have just been to look at Cape Trafalgar, shining white over the finest blue sea. (We, who were look... ...who were looking at Trafalgar Square only the other day!)The sight of that cape must have disgusted Joinville and his fleet of steamers, as they passe... ...iotism is made. I write this as a sort of homily ‘a propos of the day, and Cape Trafalgar, off which we lie. What business have I to strut the deck, a... ...r travellers. I, with them, could see (perhaps it was the preaching of the politicians that warned me of the fact) that we are looking on at the last ... ... where all were glad of a drink of fresh water. A village of beavers, or a colony of ants, make habitations not unlike these dismal huts piled togethe... ...hipping the Divine Being in order to follow ours; yet surely our religious colony of men and women can’t fail to do good, by the sheer force of good e... ...se. In the village of Siloam I would not recommend the artist to loiter. A colony of ruffians inhabit the dismal place, who have guns as well as stick...

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...ovince—is it not so?” Mr Verloc made no answer except by a sigh, which es- caped him involuntarily, for instantly he tried to give his face a cheerful... ...sh-box in Mr V erloc’s hand. But when she understood that her brother was “capering all over the place downstairs” she swung out in one sudden movemen... ... all men whose ambition aims at a di- rect grasp upon humanity—to artists, politicians, thinkers, re- formers, or saints. A despicable emotional state... ... have their own conceptions of loyalty. His career had begun in a tropical colony. He had liked his work there. It was police work. He had been very s... ...is memory evoked a certain old fat and wealthy native chief in the distant colony whom it was a tradition for the successive Colonial Governors to tru... ..., as if carved in stone, the coachmen sitting motionless under the big fur capes, without as much as a quiver stirring the white thongs of their big w...

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...ed to the finest cut of a very yellow boiled leg of mutton with very green capers, there were no invalids as yet; and walking, and smoking, and drinki... ...ny of the next one begins; which is an unspeak able comfort to all strong politicians and true lovers of their country: that is to say, to ninety nin... ... swelling hills, wooded valleys, and slender streams, abound. Every little colony of houses has its church and school house peep ing from among the w... ...gh character and great abilities, I need not say. The foremost among those politicians who are known in Europe, have been already described, and I see... ... base a railroad, yet constructing, took its course, we came upon an Irish colony. With means at hand of building decent cabins, it was wonderful to s... ...s 238 June, I shall not easily forget the day —there lay be fore us, old Cape Clear, God bless it, showing, in the mist of early morning, like a clo... ...g, but it was still in the right quarter, and so, by slow degrees, we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. A...

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...g something for the children of his neighbors, having none of his own. The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. In a certain sense it ... ...the first time I ever saw him. He says they have within the bounds of that colony between three and four hundred thousand people, or more than in some... ...u are attached to them, at all events. The place I am thinking about for a colony is in Central America. It is nearer to us than Liberia not much more... ...s the root of the rebellion, or at least its sine qua non. The ambition of politicians may have instigated them to act, but they would have been impot... ... the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor who may have es- caped from any person, to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, ... ...t, and the like, because it teaches those who incline to desert and to es- cape the draft to believe it is your purpose to protect them, and to hope t...

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... in the South, the other in the North. Virginia received the first English colony; the emigrants took possession of it in 1607. The idea that mines of... ...thout character, whose turbulent and restless spirit endangered the infant colony, ** and rendered its progress uncertain. The artisans and agricultur... ...intellectual system, directed the foundation of these new settlements. The colony was scarcely established when slavery was introduced, **** and this ... ... things which diminished its apparent force: these causes did not long es- cape my researches. The short space of threescore years can never content t... ...ich the latter vends at a very low rate. Thus the Indian has no sooner es- caped those evils to which barbarous nations are exposed, 382 Democracy in... ... of Independence. However strong a government may be, it cannot easily es- cape from the consequences of a principle which it has once admitted as the... ...ible to say what bounds could then be set to tyranny. Some of our European politicians expect to see an aristoc- racy arise in America, and they alrea... ...one. The general affairs of a country only engage the attention of leading politicians, who assemble from time to time in the same places; and as they...

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...And Mr. Dyer will call.” She had a record on the phonograph; Dave Dyer was capering in the center of the floor, loose-jointed, lean, small, rusty head... ...e? No. She wouldn’t go to the Jolly Seventeen. She hadn’t energy enough to caper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita’s rudeness. Not today. But s... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...na also.” “Sure, Tormina, whatever that is—some nice expensive millionaire colony, I suppose. Sure; that’s the idea; cham- pagne taste and beer income... ...always deferring hope till the next generation. We’re tired of hearing the politicians and priests and cautious reform- ers (and the husbands!) coax u... ...d Raymie Wutherspoon. “Oh yes, do let us,” said Ella Stowbody. “That’s the caper,” sanctioned Harry Haydock. They interpreted the word “making” as May... ...nce, with many young farm-people. Half a dozen squatters from a degenerate colony in a brush- hidden hollow, planters of potatoes, suspected thieves, ...

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...elve—sovereigns… . The front door closed and he returned. My chance of es- cape had gone. 99 H. G . Wells S S S S Section 4 ection 4 ection 4 ection ... ...ere not in request. They made a peculiar class at that time, these English politicians and statesmen, a class that has now completely passed away. In ... ... they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps,... ... “new countries,” as we called them then—the United States of America, the Cape Colony, Australia, and New Zealand—spent much of the nineteenth centur... ... countries,” as we called them then—the United States of America, the Cape Colony, Australia, and New Zealand—spent much of the nineteenth century in ...

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...g-wheels, and a great deal of psalm-singing and church- going, and a whole colony of Frenchmen. There he had a dear, dear friend, who died, and whom h... ...as at an end. “‘And we’ve shot an officer on duty, and let his orderly es- cape,’ says my lord. “‘Blaise,’ says Mr. Holt, writing two lines on his tab... ...en four of my sisters had it at home, two years before our marriage, I es- caped it, and two of my dear sisters died.” “I won’t run the risk,” said my... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail...

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... as if they understood her, to give her shelter, with vows that if she es- caped she would never cut them down nor burn them. But Theseus calling upon... ...n of this Melanippus who was born to Theseus, accompa- nied Ornytus in the colony that he carried with him into Caria, whence it is a family usage amo... ... but lived in small, unfortified villages, as it befitted, they thought, a colony of the Lacedaemonians to be bold and fearless; nev- ertheless, seein... ...ity; but, never- theless, did not raze or demolish it, but made it a Roman colony, and sent thither, on the Ides of April, two thousand 57 Plutarch’s... ...nd enclose all the straits and passages, that none of the Greeks might es- cape, and that they should afterwards follow with the rest of their fleet a... ...om the prom- 210 V olume One ontory of Alcimus, when you have doubled the cape and passed inward where the sea is always calm, there is a large piece... ...ty- rants, and emulating and admiring Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian above all politicians, adhered to the aristocratical principles of government; and ha...

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...vately con- tracted; however, the secret was not so closely kept as to es- cape the multitude, but it was discernible enough from the favor shown him ... ...chief town by storm, drove out the barbarous inhabit- ants, and planting a colony of several nations in their room, called the place after his own nam... ...n his expedi- tion. For when he was master of Egypt, designing to settle a colony of Grecians there, he resolved to build a large and populous city, a... ...ht lines from each end, thus giving it something of the form of a cloak or cape. While he was pleasing himself with his de- sign, on a sudden an infin... ...y the privilege of Roman citizens from the people of New Comum, who were a colony that Caesar had 269 Plutarch’s Lives lately planted in Gaul; and Ma... ...ur years before. had set out for the war. The younger of Pompey’s sons es- caped; but Didius, some days after the fight, brought the head of the elder... ...e philosopher reports, that Polyeuctus, the Sphettian, one of the Athenian politicians about that time, was wont to say that Demosthenes was the great... ...n infinite company of governors and captains that were better soldiers and politicians than Cyrus. So at last he resolved to fight, as soon as it was ...

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...lic of Costaguana, the last spur of the coast range forms an insignificant cape whose name is Punta Mala. From the middle of the gulf the point of the... ...less Europeans that are a moral eyesore to the respectability of a foreign colony in almost every exotic part of the world. The young ladies of Sulaco... ...ing: industry, trade, law, journal- ism, art, politics, and religion, from Cape Horn clear over to Smith’s Sound, and beyond, too, if anything worth t... ...his unimpressed and frigid behaviour? He was the first of the succes- sive politicians sent out from the capital to rule the Occidental Province whom ... ...rnandez evidently was not of the stuff of which the distinguished military politicians and conspirators of Costaguana are made. This clever but common... ...gh the exer- tions of his creditors (the Sta. Marta shopkeepers, all great politicians), who moved heaven and earth in his interest publicly, and priv...

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...ents recorded by Kate. The elopement from St. Sebastian’s, the doubling of Cape Horn, the shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal bann... ...y opposite reason disturbs the interest of lion-hunting, especially at the Cape. The lion is everywhere a cowardly wretch, unless when sublimed into c... ... ad- venturous gallantry of Mr. G. Cumming. But, in the single case of the Cape lion, there is an unintentional advantage taken from the traditional n... ... all things despised dreaming fainéans (such, for instance, as we find the politicians, or even the conspirators, of Italy, Spain, and Germany, whose ... ...n in a case mentioned by Herodotus, when a man had the audacity to found a colony without seeking an oracular sanction, no precedent was established; ... ...inor oracle could have satisfied the inaugurating necessities of a regular colony, we may be sure that the Dorian states of the Peloponnesus, who had ... ..., pesti- lence, and his ordinary chastisements. The people were roused—the colony was founded—and, after utter failure, was again re-founded, and the ...

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...hed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which, unable to es cape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary. Angel’s eye... ...il were once owners of it, and I sometimes wonder that a certain school of politicians don’t make capital of the circumstance; but they don’t seem to ... ... the landscape; a fieldwoman pure and simple, in winter guise; a gray serge cape, a red woollen cravat, a stuff skirt covered by a whitey brown rough w... ...you won’t believe it. Come to this cottage of mine. We’ll get up a regular colony of fowls, and your mother can attend to them excellently; and the ch...

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...ed that he must live two years with a tormentor from whom there was no es- cape. He was only happy while he was working and when he got into bed. And ... ...y , repeating to himself some- thing he had to learn by heart. There was a colony of rooks in the great elms, and they filled the air with melancholy ... ...ported himself in a soft, broad-brimmed hat, a flowing black cravat, and a cape of romantic cut. He walked along the Boulevard du Montparnasse as thou... ... wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charming woman. She made me go to church in a si... ...and no sooner had Philip seated himself than he said: “I’m sailing for the Cape on Sunday . ” “Are you!” exclaimed Philip. Hayward was the last person...

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...ie in 1636. My father had an uncle who commanded in one of these towns, La Capelle, and who had several times asked for ammunition and stores with- ou... ...to the Cardinal de Richelieu, and to the King, but with no good effect. La Capelle, left without resources, fell like the places around. As I have sai... ...n his knees and begged him not to allow such a glorious opportunity to es- cape. Madame de Maintenon, by her tears when she parted from his Majesty, a... ...house would be aggrandised at its expense. As to the first obstacle, these politicians were of opinion that the renunciations made by Maria Theresa he... ...land and of New York were not more successful in Acadia; they attacked our colony twelve days running, without success, and were obliged to retire wit...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or thr...

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...TER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 ...

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... — A ROGUE—TROUBLE ON BOARD—’’LAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HO!’’—POMPERO—CAPE HORN . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . ... ...NG RETURN VOYAGE—A SCARE - i - CHAPTER XXXI — BAD PROSPECTS—FIRST TOUCH OF CAPE HORN—ICEBERGS—TEMPERANCE SHIPS—LYING UP—ICE—DIFFI CULTY ON . . . .... ...URSE— STRAITS OF MAGELLAN CHAPTER XXXII — ICE AGAIN—A BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON—CAPE . . . . . . . . . . 167 HORN—’’LAND HO!’’—HEADING FOR HOME CHAPTER ... ...of the men of the American vessels while on the coast. In this way, quite a colony of them had become settled at San Diego, as their headquarters. S... ...in half a mile of the hide houses without a general alarm. The father of the colony, old Sachem, so called from the ship in which he was brought out, ... ...ce of rope, and dragging the hand cart behind us, and followed by the whole colony of dogs, who were always ready for the bush, and were half mad wh... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio...

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...capes that I have seen, ^Thou^ seemest the only permanent shore, The cape never rounded, nor wandered o’er. Fluminaque obliquis cinxit decliv... ...ut speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did unbend so... ...ty which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians, and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the police... ...Mountains to the sea,—and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. Not to men tion Newburyport and ... ...1683, it was granted to Jonathan Tyng in pay ment for his services to the colony, in maintaining a garrison at his house. T yng’s house stood not far... ...e for the defence of the fron tiers, in February, 1676, he petitioned the Colony for aid, “humbly showing, as his petition runs, that, as he lived “i... ...hough her masts be firm, Beneath her copper bears a worm; Around the cape, across the line, Till fields of ice her course confine; It matt...

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...from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. we had an opportunity of seeing a good deal of that colony; not quite sufficient to justify me at this critical age in writing ... ...s the component parts of one nation. Such, I take it, is the belief of all politicians in Europe, and of many of those who live across the water. But ... ...t that treaties must necessarily be null and void through the falseness of politicians. 26 North America V ol. 1 “And what will England do for cotton... ...e Plantation and Rhode Island. Roger Williams was the first founder of the colony, and he established himself on the mainland at a spot which he calle... ...ake improvement by choosing for them- selves new ways. If so, the American politicians have not been the first in the world who have thought that any ... ...e Constitution, but is not so in reality, and cannot in truth be so in any colony even of Great Britain. In En- gland the political power of the Crown... ...xactly the same with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys the prestige of h... ...the Northern party obtained a considerable advantage by taking the fort at Cape Hatteras, in North Carolina, situated on one of those long banks which...

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...go together, ex- cept in the peculiar circumstances of new colonies. A new colony must always, for some time, be more understocked in proportion to th... ...nt. Those whom he can find, therefore, are very liberally rewarded. As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fe... ...nt was not exigible till several years after it was issued; and though the colony governments paid no interest to the holders of this paper, they decl... ...nfortunate countries. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which happened much about the same time, opened perhaps ... ...rst to all parts of Europe, and afterwards to all parts of Europe south of Cape Finisterre, it is not very probable that this monopoly could ever be m... ...e Wealth of Nations discovered the Madeiras, the Canaries, the Azores, the Cape de V erd islands, the coast of Guinea, that of Loango, Congo, Angola, ... ...ks greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who mea- sure the national prosperity by what they call the ba... ... trade to the West Indies would, by a certain spe- 781 Adam Smith cies of politicians, be considered as extremely disadvantageous. But it so happens,...

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...hilosophers are ridiculous when they take to poli- tics, and I dare say that politicians are equally ridiculous when they take to philosophy: Every m... ...de of his disposition, may be found to take up arms against a whole tribe of politicians and lawyers, and be too much for them. Who is the true and wh... ...ld have said that not Pitt or Fox, or Can- ning or Sir R. Peel, are the real politicians of their time, but 47 Plato s Gorgias Locke, Hume, Adam Smit... ... Critias: (3) the much less artistic fiction of the foundation of the Cretan colony which is introduced in the preface to the Laws, but soon falls int... ...ttempt, for of two miserables one cannot be the happier, but that he who es- capes and becomes a tyrant is the more miserable of the two. Do you laugh...

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...od spreading over the east side of the hill. At the same time Sir Henry de Capella was possessor of the manor; but in 1265 it had passed, by what mean... ...ion. With change of time comes also change of men; and the states- men and politicians of the new world, whatever their merits or demerits, will proba... ...age was a place of holy coun- sel and peaceful rest. Bishop Robert Gray of Capetown, and the great Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, were warmly welcomed... ...ience of Chandler’s (or Chaloner’s) Ford Sta- tion, and a large and rising colony, on the confines of five parishes, Otterbourne, North Stoneham, Ampf... ...before 1447-1454 William Emery, Vicar 1454 John Lovyer, Vicar 1482 William Capell, Vicar about 1529 John Hynton, Vicar deprived 1565 Richard Foxe, Vic...

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...e moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years. He was also, for many years of the time, ... ...t of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates. There are always more of the... ...as ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The vessel was seven months making the voyage, and Slaughter was... ...ong way off then, and the journey was expensive. The fortunate could go by Cape Horn or by the Isthmus of Panama; but the mass of pioneers crossed the... ...t least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Each colony considered itself a separate government; that the confederation was ... ...ection of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer ye... ...X COMMISSIONED BRIGADIER-GENERAL— COMMAND AT IRONTON, MO.— JEFFERSON CITY —CAPE GIRARDEAU— GENERAL PRENTISS—SEIZURE OF PADUCAH—HEADQUARTERS AT CAIRO I... ...st Richmond and Lee, the credit would be given to them for the capture, by politicians and non-combatants from the section of country which those troo...

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...lany of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Colony another, and on the other the patriots of Empire who would have... ...of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Colony another, and on the other the patriots of Empire who would have me, ... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...ron- age; it is one of the chief factors in the cleanhandedness of British politicians, and it is continually importing fresh young men from outside t...

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...down the whole length of it to the bottom; then by swimming he reached the Cape of the T ombs, made a wide circuit of the salt lagoon, and re-entered ... ...g-place; several times they believed themselves lost. At last they reached Cape Hermaeum, where vessels came to receive them. Hanno was so fatigued, s... ...aidens in the Archipelago, and sunk all the strange vessels sailing beyond Cape Oestrymon, so that the secret of the routes should not be known. King ... ...p to make us cleverer. By dint of work we may make fortune bend. She loves politicians. She will yield!” He returned to Matho and took him by the arm.... ...he sick, and the old men; others proposed to abandon the town, and found a colony far away. But vessels were lacking, and when the sun appeared no dec...

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...doctrines, but of their usefulness; and flatters itself by that means to es cape the responsibility of claiming to be an infal lible judge of opinio... ... that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non conformity—any... ...o cent. Under the name of preventing intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by l...

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...ort, of a good family. They were almost the first teacups ever seen in the colony; and if one of them were to be broken, my heart would break with it.... ...n his utter- ance, as if anxious to retain his grasp of what sought to es- cape him. “This is what I need! Give me more!” Under this delicate and powe... ..., not without purpose, from every quarter of the State. They are practised politicians, ev- ery man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary m... ...r and anon an ac- cession of some little fellow in an apron and straw-hat, capering forth from door or gateway. Arriving under the shadow of the Pynch...

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...g-wheels, and a great deal of psalm-singing and church- going, and a whole colony of Frenchmen. There he had a dear, dear friend, who died, and whom h... ...as at an end. “‘And we’ve shot an officer on duty, and let his orderly es- cape,’ says my lord. “‘Blaise,’ says Mr. Holt, writing two lines on his tab... ...en four of my sisters had it at home, two years before our marriage, I es- caped it, and two of my dear sisters died.” “I won’t run the risk,” said my... ... them into revolt and enmity against the natural law of love. I have heard politicians and coffee-house wiseacres talking over the newspaper, and rail...

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...ck, one side of which was cut away into a slate quarry. Round this stood a colony of roughly-built huts, of mud, turf, or large blocks of the slate. M... ...lat. There walked Mr. Wilmot, Richard, and Flora, with Mary, in a jumping, capering state of delight, and Ethel, not knowing whether she rejoiced. She... ...oodness and sweetness. Only think of her having some of the maidenhair and cape jessamine still in water, that we sent her so long ago. She ahall have... ...d not read writing, but he had his father’s letter in his pocket, and Mary capered at the delightful coin- cidence, on finding that Jem Jennings was a... ..., and Miss Leonora is given over to me; for you must know we are wonderful politicians. Flora studies all the debates till George finds out what he ha... ...our aunt has had to go through.” “A few years make a great difference in a colony. Still, it may be right for me to go out alone and judge for her; bu...

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...uch a thing as a vote, now: why, it may help to make men’s fortunes at the Cape— there’s no knowing what may be the effect of a vote,” Mr. Brooke ende... ... should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. ... ...voice. Nothing, had done instead—not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand i...

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...uch a thing as a vote, now: why, it may help to make men’s fortunes at the Cape—there’s no knowing what may be the effect of a vote,” Mr. Brooke ended... ... should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. ... ...oice. Nothing, had done instead— not the opera, or the converse of zealous politicians, or the flattering reception (in dim corners) of his new hand in...