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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...s. Chapter Two: Tax Lien Certificates ...........................................9 It can seem intimidating to go to an auction and buy liens on pro... ...cceed. Lillian R. Villanova 8 What Your Bank Doesn’t Want You to Know . . . 9 Tax Lien Certificates What exactly are Tax Lien Certificates and... ... 8. Spend some time learning how to read the list. Then its time to GO TO WORK. 9. Decide which Tax Lien Certificates are of interest to you and the... ...income account, losses shall be charged to the capital account. 5. SALARIES AND DRAWINGS. Neither partner shall receive any salary for services ren... ... Upon the execution hereof, Seller shall furnish to Buyer all engineering plans, drawings, surveys, artist’s renderings and economic and financial s... ...s related services that are needed but sometimes not purchased because of budget restraints. Things like legal and accounting services, proper set-...

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Within the Tides Four Stories

By: Joseph Conrad

...much at her that evening. He had not that freedom of gaze acquired by the 9 habit of society and the frequent meetings with strangers. It was not shy... ... the insensibility of a great passion concentrated on itself, or a perfect restraint of manner, or the indifference of superi- ority so complete as to... ..., and left the terrace to go on board the schooner. While lingering in the drawing-room doorway he heard the resonant voice of old Dunster uttering or... ...at he failed at first to hear the sound of voices and footsteps inside the drawing-room. Willie had come home— and the Editor was with him. They burst... .... While giving these answers the owner of the wine- shop busied himself in drawing into an earthenware jug some wine which he set before the heretic E... ...ne. Who could there be? And yet … It was then that he lost the decorum and restraint a man keeps up for his own sake. He got down on his hands and kne...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...rights could be applied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for t... ...action of his that violated a moral standard. The awareness that one can impose a restraint on one's own behaviour requires a certain level of cog... ...ve is widely accepted. The family, therefore, becomes also a sexual joint venture. 9. Urbanization, communication, and transportation multiplied th... ... faulty genes. Read more about this brave new world in this article - click HERE. 9. As offices and homes merge, mobility increases, wireless acce... ...perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. Home On June 9, 2005 the BBC reported about an unusual project underway in Sh... ...alized services (Alexa) alike. 3. The Internet as a Collective Nervous System Drawing a comparison from the development of a human infant - th... ... energy of the field are "selected". Events whose energy does not comply with this restraint – are rejected or distorted. This selectivity also cha...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...rights could be applied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for t... ...action of his that violated a moral standard. The awareness that one can impose a restraint on one's own behaviour requires a certain level of cog... ...ve is widely accepted. The family, therefore, becomes also a sexual joint venture. 9. Urbanization, communication, and transportation multiplied th... ... faulty genes. Read more about this brave new world in this article - click HERE. 9. As offices and homes merge, mobility increases, wireless acce... ...perfect mirror, a channel, a voice, and the very depth of our souls. Home On June 9, 2005 the BBC reported about an unusual project underway in Sh... ...alized services (Alexa) alike. 3. The Internet as a Collective Nervous System Drawing a comparison from the development of a human infant - th... ... energy of the field are "selected". Events whose energy does not comply with this restraint – are rejected or distorted. This selectivity also cha...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

... understand. So Mel said, and I can see him now, right out from his chest 9 George Meredith he spoke, with his head up “When I was a younger man, I h... ...n reading Lady Racial’s card she gave word for her to be shown up into the drawing-room. It was customary among Mrs. Harrington’s female relatives, wh... ...t! He is not civilized. None of you English are. Y ou have no place in the drawing-room. You are like so many intrusive oxen—absolutely! One of your m... ...himpered Sally. Mrs. Mel interrupted them by commanding Sally to go to the drawing-room, and ask a lady there, of the name of Mrs. Wishaw, whether she... ...num. ‘Or stop. There’s nine of you. They shall have £40. per annum apiece, 9 times 40, eh? That’s better than £300., if you know how to reckon. Don’t ... ...chair; and as she did so, the ill-arranged locks fell from their unnatural restraint down over her shoulders; one great curl half forward to the bosom...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COMMERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE ... ........................................ 361 CHAPTER III OF THE EXTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE CO... ............................... 378 Part I — Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the-Principles of the Commercial System. ............... ...estroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to perish with hu... ...e price of the same measure of the best wheat at the same market was £ 2:1:9½d. In the first twelve years of the last century, therefore, wheat ap- pe... ...r market, appears, from the accounts of Eton college, to have been £ 2:1:6 9/13. From which sum, neglecting the fraction, and deducting a ninth, or 4s... ...which it is necessary to carry on the works, and of the greater expense of drawing out the water, and of supplying them with fresh air at those depths... ... In coal works, and mines of every kind, the machinery necessary, both for drawing out the water, and for other purposes, is frequently still more exp... ...wn them, had sometimes no other means of satisfy- ing this draught, but by drawing a second set of bills, either upon the same, or upon some other cor...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... the division, all that either had at stake in the contest was lost. And, 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two indeed, it was extremely probab... .... Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. REPORT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN- TATIVES, MARCH 9, 1848. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on the Postoffice and Post Roads, ... ...act of limitations, and causing much danger of an increase of such cases. (9) The most responsible postmasters (at the large offices) were ordered by ... ...rmitage Lion to the end of his life; and you are still sticking to it, and drawing a loathsome sustenance from it, after he is dead. A fellow once adv... ...the other retaliates. Already a few in the North defy all constitu- tional restraints, resist the execution of the Fugitive Slave law, and even menace... ...Brazil. In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two slave-State laws in restraint of the internal slave trade. In 1807, in apparent hot haste, they... ... at their own pleasure, emancipate their slaves; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emanci- 232 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln... ... of justify- ing the colonists in the eyes of the civilized world in with- drawing their allegiance from the British crown, and dis- solving their con...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...oggy?’ ‘Very foggy, sir.’ ‘ And raw, then?’ ‘Chill and bitter,’ said Riah, drawing out a handkerchief, and wiping the moisture from his beard and long... ...our daughter, Georgiana. Allow us also, wholly to reject them for the fu- 9 Charles Dickens ture, and to communicate our final desire that the two fa... ...y godmother you are, after all!’ returned Miss Wren. ‘Look here. There’s a Drawing Room, or a grand day in the Park, or a Show, or a Fete, or what you... ... far in accordance with your present style of living, that there will be a drawing-room for your reception as well as a dining-room. Your papa invited... ...d the weather-stained grey head, and lifted her as high as Heaven. Chapter 9 SOMEBODY BECOMES THE SUBJECT OF A PREDICTION ‘“WE GIVE THEE HEARTY THANKS... ...wd, he broke loose at night like an ill-tamed wild animal. Under his daily restraint, it was his compensation, not his trouble, to give a glance towar...

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The Last Chronicle of Barset

By: Anthony Trollope

... How was he to be provided with clothes fit either for school or for col- 9 Anthony Trollope lege? But the dean and Mrs Crawley between them managed ... ...unpleasant subject of the Crawleys before dinner. He met his sister in the drawing-room, and was allowed to kiss her noble cheek. ‘I hope Edith is wel... ...ngrily from his hand, and without saying another word walked away into the drawing-room. That evening at the rectory was gloomy. The archdeacon now an... ...a moment,’ he said, as he took his place on the rug before the fire in the drawing-room when the gentlemen came in from their wine. The ladies under- ... ...ing forth the vial of her mock wrath, or giving him mock counsel as to the restraint of his passion. He had gone through it all be- fore, and was tire... ... wrote the following letter to Mr Crawley:— ‘Rectory, Silverbridge, April, 9, 186- ‘Dear Sir, ‘I have been given to understand that you have been in- ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 ... ...ancial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their origins in columns written for that forum. Chapter 10 has its... ...Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Can they use those copyrights to discipline heretics or critics who ins... ...f natural right, but for the benefit of society, I know well the difficulty of drawing a line between the things which are worth to the public the embar... ... are “worth to the public the em- barrassment” of an exclusive right, and of drawing the limits of that right. This line-drawing task turns out to be ... ...1 —building on the notion of “enough and as good” left over for oth- ers and drawing the limits tightly enough to avoid the worst of Mr. Helprin’s exc... ...ink of the early-twentieth-century rules treating unions as “conspiracies in restraint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the ... ...ngers goes on and on, and so does the list of exceptions, limi- tations, and restraints designed to prevent them. We restrict the length of in- tellec... ...urse. Sometimes the problem is that the speaker cannot paraphrase around the restraints posed by copyright. He needs Chapter 5 94 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 3...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...re predestined for heaven or hell, because God knows what will happen.‖ 9 ... ..., or even young Americans acting as they did in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Is it that the instinct for violence lashes out when the social restra... ...ve for power. Bin Laidin and some Middle Age popes used religion as the reasons for the Inquisition, witch hunting, the Thirty Years War, the 9/11 m... ...religious people try to get the power to go to heaven through masochism. They ‗mortify‘ their flesh by wearing a spiked celise on their legs, drawin... ... terms of the generalized ability to love. A typical definition of marriage-type love is found in Alexander Magoun's book, Love and Marriage.(9) ‗Lo... ...the part of our mind that would have free will. ―Let me draw it for you. Here I‘ll do it on this old napkin. The left side of the drawin... ...d the lowest level represents the pantheistic god idea that many people believe. I don‘t personally believe in these lower two ideas, but the drawin... ...dence no matter how bad a situation has become. In extreme cases the manic person may become so agitated that it is necessary to use forcible restra...

...s moral from a self-centered viewpoint 360 Abortion is immoral from a self centered point of view361 Abortion is moral from a God-based viewpoint 361 9 Abortion is immoral from a God-based point of view 366 Abortion is moral from a society viewpoint 374 Abortion is immoral from a societal viewpoint 376 PRE-MARITAL SEX 379 Pre-marital sex is moral from a self centered point...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Cha... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Cha... ...ive casual cradles—as a descent of awkward infants from the nursery to the drawing room under the kind appeal of enquiring, of possibly interested, vi... ...lash of soap and water; all in consideration of the searching radiance of drawing room lamps as compared with nursery candles. But it had been all th... ...p, left the door very much ajar. Any request that an indulgent objector to drawing room discipline, to the purification, in other words, of innocent ch... ...anks, safes, wonderful secret places. We’ve been like a Book I, Chapter 1 9 pair of pirates—positively stage pirates, the sort who wink at each other... ...ers in which the Princess’s fancy could let itself loose; but it shook off restraint when it plunged into the figured void of the detail of that relati...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ves in the world.’ ‘Doves! Oh, Mysie, they would drive your aunt Ada dis- 9 Beechcroft At Rockstone tracted, with coo-roo-roo at four o’clock in the ... ...in my peg-top so as it will never tumble down, and will turn an engine for drawing water,’ was the prompt answer of Fergus. ‘What nonsense!’ said Val;... ... flower-beds; and there was not only a little conservatory attached to the drawing- room at the end, but the verandah had glass shutters, which served... ...of the key. Still more inter- esting was the imitation, “in very wonderful drawing, de- vised by mamma, of the career of a true knight—from pagedom up... ... aunts, and to appreciate the pleasure of describing her enjoyment without restraint, and of being with those whose personal family interests were her... ...He was too unhappy to feel his residence in the great house anything but a restraint; he could not help be- 246 Charlotte M. Young lieving that he ha...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

... his nose with the shilling he had reserved for the fare. Charles Dickens 9 ‘Forty two,’ replied the driver, eyeing him askant. ‘What!’ ejaculated Mr... ...ws were so long and lank, that an observer would have supposed that he was drawing the flesh of his face in, for a moment, by some contraction of the ... ...appy, I am sure,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘So shall I,’ said Mr. Alfred Jingle, drawing one arm through Mr. Pickwick’s, and another through Mr. Wardle’s, a... ...rest him, it might send him to sleep. He took it from his coat pocket, and drawing a small table towards his bedside, trimmed the light, put on his sp... ...d I let him go. A few days after, they told me I must place her under some restraint: I must provide a keeper for her. I! I went into the open fields ... ... Mr. Pickwick’s sincerity, that he should immedi ately submit to personal restraint; and that gentleman hav ing consented to hold a conference with ...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

... which it be- longed,—a mansion with park, gardens, aviaries, hot-houses, 9 Balzac and lawns—took a fancy to put the little dwelling more in keeping ... ...t the foreign office. These functions do not hinder this great genius from drawing an annuity out of the fund for the encouragement of the arts and be... ...ulip. A poet, secre- tary of claims, getting a stipend in a public office, drawing an annuity, seeking a decoration, adored by the women of the faubou... ...e it was conceived, developed, and pursued beyond the boundaries of family restraint. The family, however cruel and even foolish it may be, is in the ... ...had carefully attended to his black coat, his orders, and all those little drawing-room elegancies, which his intimacy with the Duchesse de Chaulieu a...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...ist was in my veins, and in the midst of my specimens I was always happy. 9 Jules Verne In a word, a man might live happily enough in the little old ... ...t to let these strange signs be publicly known, for they were the means of drawing on Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew to un- dertake the most won... ... subterranean sources, but hitherto we had met with none. I could not help drawing his attention to this circumstance. “Are you surprised at this want... ...not stop my uncle, which would have driven him to despair, for the day was drawing near to its end, and it was his last. At last I failed utterly; I u... ...e lightning. But I thought it my duty to interpose and attempt to lay some restraint upon this unmeasured fanaticism. “Just listen to me,” I said firm...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... such pursuits if wisdom lies, Who, Laura, can thy taste despise? —GAY THE DRAWING-ROOM of Hollywell House was one of the favoured apartments, where a... ...rees of November. There were two persons in the room—a young lady, who sat drawing at the round table, and a youth, lying on a couch near the fire, su... ...head struck against the branch of a tree, and he was killed on the spot.’ 9 Yo n g e ‘The poor wife?’ asked Amabel, shuddering. ‘She died the next da... ...ng wasted a good deal of time, sat down to practise. Laura returned to her drawing, and Charles, with a yawn, listlessly turned over a newspaper, whil... ...ding his comfort, rebelling against—0, what would I not give to have those restraints restored!’ ‘It is what we all feel in such losses,’ said Mrs. Ed... ...sic, considering whence it is derived.’ 120 The Heir of Redclyffe CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 9 Ah! county Guy, the hour is nigh,... ... was protected by her mother’s presence, he ex- ercised less force in self-restraint. Never was anyone happier than was Mrs. Edmonstone; loving Guy so... ...he sudden shock, all the barriers imposed on them by a long course of self-restraint. On he rushed, reckless whither he went, or what he did, driven f...

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Falk a Reminiscence

By: Joseph Conrad

...ever saw attempt a smile. This, however, was not gloom on her part but the restraint of youthful gravity. They had carried her about with them for the... ...ong intervals by the pacific exchange of a few words. I came nearly every 9 Joseph Conrad evening. Hermann I would find in his shirt sleeves. As soon... ...of it. She was world proof. Her venerable innocence ap- parently had put a restraint on the roaring lusts of the sea. And yet I have known the sea too... ...t alone with us fidgeted on his chair, sighed lightly, then at last, after drawing his hands down his face, got up, and as if renouncing the hope of m... ... getting my ship down to the sea, without steam. A six-hundred-ton barque, drawing nine feet aft. I proposed to give him eighteen dollars for his loca... ... at sea” should be managed I said—”Y ou were then 62 Falk so lucky in the drawing of lots?” “Drawing of lots?” he said. “What lots? Do you think I wo...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

...avoured to engage by all the coque try practised with good success in the drawing room on the much more sensible as well as tender hearts of the fine... ...lovers bear these kinds of evils. Chapter 9 The escape of Sophia It is now time to look after Sophia; whom the re... ...th only at home? Here, my dear, they make themselves amends for the uneasy restraint which they put on their tempers in the world; for I have observed... ... very an gry with me on that account, and gave me many a hearty curse for drawing away his companions; saying, ‘I ought to be d—n’d for having spoile... ...ling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II Chapter 9 The morning introduced in some pretty writing. A stage coach. The civil... ...A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol. II His wife, however, was far from drawing this conclusion; whether she really felt any injury done to her hus... ... we last took our leaves of them. Chapter 9 Containing little more than a few odd observations Jones had been abs... ... seconded him, he was soon reduced to order. Notwithstanding this little restraint, he was so pleased with the chearfulness and good humour of the c...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing her character, he had ended by recognizing in the woman he sought the 9 Balzac great value of an earnest soul, and the vast advantages of a sound... ...ild whose poor deceived mother had trusted her to him, he took pleasure in drawing closer still the bonds that united the young Henriette to the rebel... ...ders nothing but the satisfac- tion of his passions, admitting none of the restraints im- posed by civil or religious morality, was as follows:— We mu... ...s are fastened to pulleys; by slipping a square of leather beneath her and drawing it up by the four corners with these pulleys, we are able to make h... ...ancs, and here, too, are three notes of a thousand francs each,” he added, drawing from his pocket-book the money Madame de la Chanterie had given him...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...eat in her veil, and dropping it through the grated window, and when poi- 9 Yo n g e son had been used to hasten his death, she brought a priest to t... ...to en- dure with patience all kinds of suffering; believing that such self-restraint brought them nearer to the gods, and that death would set them fr... .... Caesar made it known that he was willing to accept their submission, and drawing up his troops in battle array, with the Eagle standards around him,... ... Gauls of every tribe, before the four white horses appeared, all abreast, drawing the gilded car, in which stood a slight form in a purple robe, with... ...but none could be found who would venture to steer into that port a vessel drawing more than twenty feet of water. They had, therefore, remained at an... ...tirely disorganized city, and an enormous population without work, without restraint, without food, and a prey to the deadliest of diseases. The Parli...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

... throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug... ... how then! We English have ducal blood in business: we have, genealogists 9 George Meredith tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride ... ...ss. Her word was taken up, and very soon, from the extreme end of the long drawing-room, the circulation of something of Mrs. Mountstuart’s was distin... ... by the voice it is roused to subserve; sweeter than beautiful, high above drawing-room beauties as the colours of the sky; and if, at the same time, ... ...“There should be,” said Miss Dale, wondering; and Clara cried: “I chafe at restraint: hedges and palings everywhere! I should have to travel ten years... ...ught it a dangerous business, and as the boy’s dinner-bell had very little restraint over him when he was in the flush of a scheme of this description...

...of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressio...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...er young, who sought, with faded finery, with powder and paint, to make a 9 Maugham brave show of despair. It had those false, difficult smiles of un... ...his enthusiasm. During luncheon he talked of nothing else, and Dr Porhoët, drawing upon his memory, recounted the more extraordi nary operations that... ...na tured banter to temper the praises which extravagant admir ers at the drawing class lavished upon the handsome girl both for her looks and for he... ... and when, at seventeen, she told him of her wish to go to Paris and learn drawing, he at once consented. But though he never sought to assume authori... ...ll be to blame.’ ‘I promise you that nothing will happen.’ 94 TheMagician 9 9 9 9 9 MARGARET’S NIGHT was disturbed, and next day she was un able to... ... press the passion that consumed him, and when he kissed her it was with a restraint that was almost brotherly. Now their lips met. Forgetting that an... ...e that she had ever spoken to a soul of all these things, and now the long restraint had burst as burst the waters of a dam. Arthur sought to calm her... ...say something can be done. If he’s really mad, we’ll have to put him under restraint, and Margaret will be free. I shall never forget your kindness.’ ...

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A Journal of the Plague Year

By: Daniel Defoe

...December 27 to January 3 { St Bride’s 6 { St James’s 9 “January 3” “10 { St Bride’s 11 { St James’s 7 “Janu... ...s’s 7 “January 10” “17 { St Bride’s 12 { St James’s 9 6 Journal of the Plague Y ear “January 17” “24 { St Bride’s 9 ... ...ark was entirely free, having not one yet died on that side of the water. 9 Daniel Defoe I lived without Aldgate, about midway between Aldgate Church... ...ear as they can inform themselves; and upon doubt in that case, to command restraint of access until it appear what the dis- ease shall prove. And if ... ...even to death. The swell- ings in some grew hard, and they applied violent drawing- plaisters or poultices to break them, and if these did not do they... ..., they would have much less reason to think themselves in- jured in such a restraint than in being confined with infected people in the houses where t...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...al. The boys, who had been at play on the green, first paused and entered 9 Thackeray into conversation with the horse-boy; then the village matrons ... ...mself jumped into the saddle, maintaining the subordination of his army by drawing a pistol and swearing that he would blow out the brains of any pers... .... The sleep, which was equiva- lent to the absence, of John Hayes took all restraint from their talk. She explained to Brock the circumstances of her ... ... (a pretty bit of Mechlin as ever you saw, by the way). “‘Sirrah!’ says I, drawing it back, and giving my Lord a little touch of the fist (just at the... ...was as cool and as brave as steel, and no more minded hang- ing than tooth-drawing.” “It was the drink that ruined him,” said Mrs. Cat. “Drink, and ba...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

... 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 ... ...2 49 The Apartments 113 9 Immunity 114 5 ... ...s some spe- cial attention in this introduction. The literary form is for 9 The Koran the most part different from anything else we know. In its fine... ...us my wrath! Behold they not the birds over their heads, outstretching and drawing in their wings? None, save the God of Mercy, upholdeth them: for he... ...d on all things which God hath made, to see whether haply their end be not drawing on? And in what other book will they believe 46 who reject the Kor... ... and wisdom, and taught him according to His will: and were it not for the restraint of one by means of the other, imposed on men by God, verily the e...

...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, there... ...gicians and heretics. Among so many baser influences, the On Liberty — Mill 9 general and obvious interests of society have of course had a share, a... ...e worst feelings incident to human nature, that it is hardly ever kept under restraint by anything but want of power; and as the power is not declin ... ...mankind, either in this life or in another, to be scat tered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecut... ...nd the more perfect that organization is in itself, the more suc cessful in drawing to itself and educating for itself On Liberty — Mill 133 the pe...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e nobly in the failure of that frantic effort to do right, than if he had 9 Familiar Studies of Men & Books turned on his heel with Worldly Wiseman, ... ...re, on the other hand, there is perhaps the nearest ap- proach to literary restraint that Hugo has ever made: there is here certainly the ripest and m... ...disowning it for a faithful likeness. And so Whitman has reasoned: that by drawing at first hand from himself and his neighbours, ac- cepting without ... ...nd space; to focus all this about his own momentary personality; and then, drawing the ground from under his feet, as if by some cataclysm of nature, ... ...hese was an undisguised envy of those richer than himself. He was for ever drawing a parallel, already exemplified from his own words, between the hap... ...wn spirits are so high and so amiable, and he is so *Dom Plancher, iv. 178-9. **Works, i. 157-63. 156 Robert Louis Stevenson thoroughly convinced his...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...rom Sherburne town, where now I dwell The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 9 My name I do put here; Without offense your real friend, It is Peter F... ... delight in it, practis’d it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, The Autobiography of Benjamin... ...them. I grew fond of her company, and, being at that time under no religious restraint, and presuming upon my importance to her, I attempted familiari... ...ctical and good, your account of yourself (for I suppose the paral lel I am drawing for Dr. Franklin, will hold not only in point of character, but o... .... Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. MODERATION. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you ... ...the res- olution of the day; prosecute the present study, and breakfast. } 8 9 10 11 Work. Noon. } { 12 1 Read, or overlook my accounts, and dine. } ... ...he trustees of the Loan Office, which, by law, the Assembly had the right of drawing. There was, indeed, little or no money at that time in the office...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ciously on one of these brick houses – rickles of brick, as he might call 9 Memories and Portraits them – or on one of these flat-chested streets, bu... ...ts where he has been wandering fancy- free. His college life has little of restraint, and nothing of necessary gentility. He will find no quiet clique... ...he seaboard road from Pittenweem to Crail, and for all his business hurry, drawing up to speak good-humouredly with those he met. And now, in his turn... .... A wreath of immortelles under a glass dome had thus attracted them; and, drawing near, I overheard their judgment on that won- der. “Eh! what extrav... ...uced with safety in an altered shape, is a piece of tactics among the true drawing-room queens. The drawing-room is, indeed, an artificial place; it i...

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