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...ir commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India--and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into Br...

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...ome purported spirit world, but an escape from existence itself into total extinction (i.e., “nirvana,” a concept that we will be examining at length ... ..., to experience that release from suffering which is nirvana (Sanskrit for extinction, like extinguishing the flame of a candle). Nirvana is a state—n...

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...netic hand. "How bad?" "Enslavement, death, loss of freedom and eventually extinction." He felt a chill at Manroe's dead tone. "It's a strong possibil...

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... human race. It stands proved that human beings have existed in the Universe for millions of years. Then, why should we unnecessarily worry about its extinction in a foreseeable limits of time? Hence we may comfortably assume it to be a continual entity. ……..With the advent of industry, electricity and now computer, man’s life came under greater and far greater stress and ...

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... human race. It stands proved that human beings have existed in the Universe for millions of years. Then, why should we unnecessarily worry about its extinction in a foreseeable limits of time? Hence we may comfortably assume it to be a continual entity. ……..With the advent of industry, electricity and now computer, man’s life came under greater and far greater stress and ...

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...t supposed to be this way,” she finally said aloud. “The population of man is near extinction and it’s even worse now.” Her eyes remained on the gold...

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...he other, the attempt at absolute negation which was to result in the final extinction of Pyrrhonism. We find in both, it is true, especially in the...

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...puter games, ever jolly animal clowns or scientific miracles restored from extinction by biotechnology. Social critics in Thailand have declared that ... ...g, the children and grandchildren go to the cremation place to perform the extinction ceremony. In reality, the fire is already extinguished, but this...

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...e have become the endangered species. We have brought ourselves to the brink of extinction, as well as the creatures that walk the earth, and those ...

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...was due to the absolute destruction of the people. Whatever causes led to the extinction of the Greenland colonists must have practically resulted in...

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...em on the path to mastering the arts of friedship and diplomacy. When the failure of the atmosphere-generator threatens the planet's inhabitants with extinction, Carter's luck, memory, and sheer determination make possible the salvation of the planet, but Carter himself falls unconscious before he knows the success of his efforts. The novel ends with his sudden involuntary...

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...wo dare nowise resolve, with Mirabeau, on an instantaneous disbandment and extinction; finds that a course of palliatives is easier. But at least and ... ...l; and has paled the poor lunar light of that Monarchic Club near to final extinction. She, we say, shines supreme, girt with sun-light, not yet with ...

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... We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mere mark for ambitious princes to shoot ... ...ep that night she saw its brief course repeated, beheld its rapid fall and extinction, and then tracked the course of the sparks that darted from it, ...

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...aillys, for instance, or the d’Herouvilles—left to obscurity tantamount to extinction for want of money, the one power of the time. All which things V...

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... T he Countess Gemini was often extremely bored—bored, in her own phrase, to extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she struggled bra... ...ind, when her interests were concerned, was agile; she al ready foresaw the extinction of any further brightness in her visit to Rome. Ralph Touchett...

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... name has been so long bestowed (which I can’t) or could level them by the extinction of my own original right (which I can’t either, and no human pow...

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... public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alik... ...rth upon 19 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three the South for the extinction of slavery; that I am also in favor of inviting (as he expresses... ...did rest all the time in the belief that slavery was in course of ultimate extinction. That was what gave us the rest that we had through that period ... ...ieved that everybody was against it, and that it was in course of ultimate extinction. [Pointing to Mr. Browning, who stood near by.] Browning thought... ...he nation have rested in the belief that slavery was in course of ultimate extinction. They had reason so to believe. The adoption of the Constitution... ...on that the framers of the Constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution? And now, when I say, as I said in my speech... ...he public mind shall rest with the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, I only mean to say that they will place it where the founders o... ... public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, that I am in favor of Illinois going over and interfering with ... ...if I could desire that anything should be done to bring about the ultimate extinction of that little thing, I must be in favor of bringing about an am...

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...d the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction— nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dea... ...ce they had no extensive muscular mechanism to recuperate, that periodical extinction was un- known to them. They had little or no sense of fatigue, i...

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...demnation, it is easy to understand that the ini- tiative to tax almost to extinction large automobiles, wed- ding dresses, champagne, pâté de foie gr... ... back of the law; in 1900 both Hell and the hangman seemed on the verge of extinction. The creative impulse was everywhere replacing fear and compulsi...

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...s. This practice, once all but universal, is now entirely extinct; and the extinction serves to mark the advance of the country, not so much in luxury... ...ed these func- tions of the order (even where the law would not permit the extinction of the order) to become obsolete. In my time, I was acquainted w... ...ccupying one hundred and eighty-one pages, in- quires into the failure and extinction of the Oracles; when they failed, and under what circumstances. ... ... six, or even eight; secondly, the state of absolute dismantling and utter extinction which, even before his time, had confounded individual Oracles o... ...it was filled with change, and with elastic rebound from what seemed final extinction; with the spirit of adventure carried to the utmost limits of he... ...altered circumstances of their situation, should naturally have led to the extinction of their political importance. Yet we find them in 1832 still at... ...just recorded, cannot but have brought them latterly to the brink of utter extinction. MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY KL K... ... of life, and so hideous and accursed in man’s imagination is every secret extinction of toat consecrated lamp, that no news thrills so deeply, or tra...