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... I seek to pursue a more pragmatic approach. Breathing is fundamental to human existence. The human body can survive without food for days or e... ...g in existence by maintaining the minimum necessary to support life. The human body is amazing just because it works. The natural bodily functio... ...of the most beneficial for overall health is breathing through the nose. The human body was designed for us to breathe through the nose and take in ... ...t is like putting the body on red 69 alert. As the body diverts all of its resources toward survival, your body's natural healing mechanisms are ... ... In the distant past, the "fight or flight" response worked very well when humans were dealing with creatures that wanted to eat us for dinner. Bu... ...ns were dealing with creatures that wanted to eat us for dinner. But as the human race has ascended to the top of the food chain, those dangers hav...

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...hus, all such groups are rebarbatively authoritarian, execrably violent, devoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant ... ...red in gulosity and superciliousness as they become. Inveterate violators of basic human rights, they often transform into the very demons they hel... ...who flee in terror at the sight of a stranger, crying 'Turks! Turks!' These are the human wreckage of the hurricane which usurps the functions of a ... ...nd the Serb state. To the generation of post-Yugoslavia It is a familiar story. In human affairs, the dream of a Greater Serbia is no less a recurr... ...True, the West conditioned the total removal of sanctions against Yugoslavia on its humane treatment of its Albanian citizens and encouraged the Alb... ...inciples of thought. Should the KLA find in itself the flexibility and intellectual resources - rare commodities in ideological movements - needed t... ...niable charm, intelligence, or attractiveness. But the narcissist needs not invest resources in converting them to his cause - he does not deceive ... ...orism enhances social upward mobility and fosters the redistribution of wealth and resources from the haves to haves not. Al-Qaida, despite its omi...

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...tors by ordinary generation, and from them I in- herited the very eligible human tenement which I still oc- cupy and a fortune of three hundred pounds... ...he folding door was opened no more than was necessary for the passage of a human body; and there en- tered at the same moment a louder buzz of talk, a... ...en done on purpose, and by a man who had a co- gent reason and exceptional resources.” “I believe the question is now one between my brother and mysel... ... it was a counterpane with something un- derneath it like the outline of a human leg. Silas withdrew his arm and stood a moment petrified. “What, what... ... was drawn care- fully up over the pillow, but it moulded the outline of a human body lying motionless; and when he dashed for- ward and flung aside t... ...some engagement for the evening, he found himself left entirely to his own resources. He was in dress, for he had entertained the notion of visiting a... ...tep on his pursuers; but he was well aware that he was near the end of his resources, and should he meet any one coming the other way, his predica- me... ...een occasions so tempting, provocations so irresistible to the strength of human virtue, that I have been glad to tread in your steps and recommend my...

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... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1850 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Contents PRE... ...ack of energy that distin guishes the occupants of alms houses, and all other human beings who depend for subsistence on charity, on monopolized labo... ...with one spot, as its place of birth and burial, creates a kindred between the human being and the locality, quite independent of any charm in the sce... ...he connexion, which has become an unhealthy one, should at least be sev ered. Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted... ...summer forenoons — when the fervent heat, that almost liquefied the rest of the human family, merely communicated a genial warmth to their half torpid ... ...patriarchal personage with, I think, livelier curiosity than any other form of humanity there presented to my notice. He was, in truth, a rare phenome... ...daily custom; and she must either sustain and carry it forward by the ordinary resources of her nature, or sink beneath it. She could no longer borrow...

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...xistence, we have looked for answers around and within our minds in why we live life with such turmoil despite advancement in improving our selves as human beings. Most important of all, why we behave so irrational when it comes to understanding our fellow human beings. With the dawning of the Age of Reason, human society has been brutalized with war and conflict within...

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...om God based assumptions 210 Immoral from God based assumptions 211 Moral for society based assumptions 211 Immoral from a societal point of view.212 HUMAN RIGHTS 213 Moral from a self-centered point of view. 217 Immoral from a self-centered point of view.217 Moral from a God based point of view. 217 Immoral from a God based point of view. 217 Moral from a society based po...

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... global leader in cleantech and renewable energy. All the rich indigenous resources will allow our state to quickly break free from its dependence ... ... take an even more aggressive approach to utilizing its robust renewable resources to ensure 100% energy security within 10 years. FREEDOM FROM FOS... ... global leader in cleantech and renewable energy. All the rich indigenous resources will allow our state to quickly break free from its dependence ... ... take an even more aggressive approach to utilizing its robust renewable resources to ensure 100% energy security within 10 years. FREEDOM FROM FOS... ...n Earth because they harvest sunlight, produce nearly half of the oxygen humans breathe, and sequester carbon dioxide. C-MORE aims to learn more a... ...le for transplant, Wuh says. The creation of an artifcial cornea made of human collagen meets an urgent demand. With Asian and Pacifc nations in m... ...an eye-surgery center where corneal blindness patients can choose either human-donor or artifcial corneas. There’s no better place to give the gif... ...apulted the startup R&D company into clinical trials and the business of human healing. TGI soon found itself in the forefront of the high-growth f... ...aking toward fnding international partners, beginning clinical trials on humans, and achieving U.S. and foreign regulatory-agency approval – steps ...

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...ichard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . ... ..., at regular inter- vals, a loud echoing sound, which affected me as hardly human. We saw no lights, and could hardly account for the sound, until th... ...e captain feel, on the other hand, that he must depend entirely upon his own resources. Severity created discontent, and signs of discontent provok... ...ions made me feel sick and almost faint, angry and excited as I was. A man—a human being, made in God’s likeness—fastened up and flogged like a beast... ..., and an opportunity to tread the ground and see the sights of society and humanity, because it is on a Sunday. It is too much like escaping from p... ... to the scene: a silence and solitariness which affected everything! Not a human being but ourselves for miles; and no sound heard but the pulsatio... ...st the first time that I had been positively alone—free from the sense that human beings were at my elbow, if not talking with me— since I had left h... ...nd I turned him over to another man in the watch, and put myself upon my own resources. I commenced a deliberate system of time killing, which u...

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... begun happily with a soft blue sky, and a calm sea. The sense of untapped resources, things to say as yet unsaid, made the hour significant, so that ... ...- nitely more mysterious, moving by her own power and sustained by her own resources. The sea might give her death or some unexampled joy, and none wo... ...alk politics,” he said seri- ously. “For this reason. It is impossible for human be- ings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. ... ...r philosophy, Miss Vinrace, which has its merits, I would point out that a human being is not a set of compartments, but an or- ganism. Imagination, M... ...ked up and felt something loosen within them. The strain was slackened and human feelings began to peep again, as they do when daylight shows at the e... ...ty years’ difference between us we therefore can’t talk to each other like human beings.” “No; because we like each other,” said Rachel. “Yes,” Mrs. A... ...up her lips before the Cockney photographer. It suggested her in an absurd human way, and she felt an intense desire to share some joke. “She’s the on...

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...onians HENRY JAMES 1886 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Book First 3 Chapter 1 . .... ...m was to the effect that the simplest division it is possible to make of the human race is into the peo ple who take things hard and the people who t... ...ng a firm. He ground his teeth a little as he thought of the contrasts of the human lot; this cushioned feminine nest made him feel unhoused and underf... ...npleasant after taste; he felt, at any rate, that if she had the religion of humanity—Basil Ransom had read Comte, he had read everything— she would n... ...e said, smiling and stroking his leg. 16 The Bostonians ‘Don’t you care for human progress?’ Miss Chancellor went on. ‘I don’t know—I never saw any. ... ...ow? But do take me; it’s such a chance to see Boston.’ ‘It isn’t Boston—it’s humanity!’ Miss Chancellor, as she made this remark, rose from her chair,... ...ld time, when two or three of her friends, acquainted with the limits of his resources, wondered how he had come into possession of the trinket. She h... ...re take another to the shores of Buzzard’s Bay. The hotel itself offered few resources; the inmates were not numerous; they moved about a little outsi...

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... Powers of Darkness were depicted as a sort of supernatural shell fish, with human faces. In in tensifying the portraiture of Giants, he had sunk qu... ...es in which the Spirits of the Fireside and the Hearth address themselves to human kind. Caleb and his daughter were at work together in their usual w... ...n the turning of a handle, so it would have been no easy task to mention any human folly, vice, or weakness, that had not its type, immediate or remot... ..., for she deemed sitting in a cart, on any terms, to be the highest point of human joys; the crowning circumstance of earthly hopes. The Cricket on th... ...en talking together at a distance, for two min utes, leaving her to her own resources; was quite enough to have put her on her dignity, and the bewai... ...d the Cricket on the Hearth began to Chirp! No sound he could have heard, no human voice, not even hers, could so have moved and softened him. The art...

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...r day and night after night; and at the end of two weeks they had not seen a human being. The Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 10 river was an ... ...neath the scepter of the Sultan of Versailles; and all by virtue of a feeble human voice, inau dible at half a mile.” Chapter 3 Frescoes from the Pas... ...ke up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human con tribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and m... ...wn the river. I was sorry I hated the mate so, because it was not in (young) human nature not to admire him. He was huge and muscular, his face was be... ...worth of steam boat and cargo in five minutes, and maybe a hundred and fifty human lives into the bargain. The last remark I heard that night was a co... ... him. The widow and orphan list grew, but so did the association’s financial resources. The association attended its own funer als in state, and paid...

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...cute’, to posterity, ex- ceeded his powers, is a trite criticism; like all human enter- prises, his purpose was only imperfectly fulfilled; but this c... ...close them at my death. We suffer before we think; it is the common lot of humanity. I experienced more than my pro- portion of it. I have no knowledg... ...efforts of my reason, though they added an extravagant, romantic notion of human life, which experience and reflection have never been able to eradica... ...t, but to render my flight agreeable, by some trifling presents, as my own resources would not have carried me far. He gave me among other things, a s... ...t the object of universal veneration? Whoever wishes to honor monuments of human salvation would only approach it on their knees. It was a passage at ... ...thing to gain. This, in my idea, in true philosophy, the surest bulwark of human rectitude; every day do I receive fresh conviction of its profound so... ...e moun- tains, at a distance from my country, without friends, and without resources, everything concurred to make me con- sider my remorse of conscie... ... I was again master of my time and ac- tions, in a great city, abundant in resources, crowded with 70 The Confessions people of fortune, to whom my m... ...ey were to serve less as steps by which I should mount to fortune, than as resources which might enable me to exist without one. He gave me a true pic...

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...hich the followers of the Crusade condescended to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine—he exacted no gifts fro... ...ed his horse, which seemed to watch his motions with the intelligence of a human being, and again rode off. But in the last encoun- ter the Saracen h... ... for glee and pastime to gab, as they term it, of exploits that are beyond human power. [Gaber. This French word signified a sort of sport much used a... ...e- mons, whom the prayers of holy men have driven forth from the haunts of humanity to wander amidst scenes as accursed as themselves.” “Speak not thu... ...before Adam himself had an existence. Here he fed, with daily oblations of human blood, two devouring serpents, which had become, according to the poe... ...oyous feeling which others experi- ence when approaching the land of their human ancestry.” “By my father’s beard, I think thou hast the right,” said ...

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...eeded no very great stretch of fancy to detect in it other resemblances to humanity. The bricks of which it was built had originally been a deep dark ... ... their daughters when young men are by. It’s too much. There are bounds to human endurance. So thought Sim Tappertit when Gabriel drew those rosy lips... ...ed face upon his sleeve. ‘Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore!’ Whirr r r r r r r r. Chapter 5 AS SOON AS THE BUSINESS of ... ...have gazed much longer, had not his tongue been loosened by compassion and humanity. 51 Charles Dickens ‘You are ill,’ said Gabriel. ‘Let me call som... ...s to the utmost of my power. There is one topic in the whole wide range of human thoughts on which we both agree. We shall act in concert, but apart. ... ...or savoury condiments; lastly, and to crown all, as typical of the immense resources of the establishment, and its defiances to all visitors to cut an... ...d mashed potatoes, or something of that sort.’ Something of that sort! The resources of these inns! To talk carelessly about dishes, which in themselv...

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...helieu, and to the King, but with no good effect. La Capelle, left without resources, fell like the places around. As I have said before, Louis XIII. ... ...al honour, secretly of corrupt manners, with only outside probity, without human- ity even; in one word, a perfect hypocrite; without faith, 42 Saint... ... pitied her, and the King at last interfered, and commanded him to be more humane. Cavoye went to the army; the poor Coetlogon was in tears until his ... ...e learnt his fate in a moment which would have overwhelmed a man with less resources in himself. He was on the point of mounting into the pulpit: he w... ...time before this, the King resolved to show all Europe, which believed his resources exhausted by a long war, that in the midst of profound peace, he ... ... kept autograph copies. Monsieur had never been able to bend her to a more human way of life; and lived decently with her, without car- ing for her pe... ...de itself felt so much at this time, that the King was obliged to seek for resources as a private person might have done. A mining speculator, named R... ...e away with him. Instead of the success she expected from a proposition so humane and ingenious, M. le Prince was so horror-struck, that he warned the... ...ll these things, I say, went for nothing. Less than a month sufficed these humane com- missioners to render an account of this gentle project to the C...

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...on Juan and fa- thers who marry their children to great expectations. Does humanity, which, according to certain philosophers, is mak- ing progress, l... ...evelers’ hearts some struggling glimmer of reverence for things divine and human, until it was drowned in glowing floods of wine! Yet even then the fl... ...e than he in his duty to Bartolommeo—he, a man with that peculiar piece of human mechanism within him that we call a heart. Don Juan the sceptic shut ... ...duce a few copies from century to century. Sometimes the type becomes half-human when incarnate as a Mirabeau, sometimes it is an inarticulate force i... ... or, yet again, it appears when a Marechal de Richelieu elects to laugh at human be- ings instead of scoffing at things, or when one of the most famou... ... in God than in the Devil; power combined with goodness always offers more resources than the spirit of Evil can boast.” “Yes; still God requires repe...

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...er.” The four orphans for whom the old woman’s affection rep- resented all human guardianship had come to an end of their prunes. As their foster-moth... ... either in the little plain or along the side of the mountain stream, lend human interest to the well- tilled spot, a stronghold with no apparent outl... ...eful study of this countenance, that, in spite of its resemblance to other human faces, re- vealed an inner life nowise in harmony with a commonplace ... ...oldier’s career, he felt a thrill of surprise and horror at the sight of a human face which could never have been lighted up with thought—a livid face... ...nimal face of an old dy- ing cretin. The cretin was the one variety of the human spe- cies with which the commandant had not yet come in con- tact. At... ...ble us to take up our burdens and bear them. I resolved to develop all the resources of this country, just as a tutor develops the capacities of a chi... ...e gates of a city. In every similar undertaking the nature, situation, and resources of the coun- try must be taken into consideration, and a careful ...

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...e enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses—love. Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic for... ... friend Winkle. He (Mr. Pickwick) would not deny that he was influenced by human passions and human feelings (cheers)—possibly by human weaknesses Th... ... fire of self importance broke out in his bosom, the desire to benefit the human race in preference effectually quenched it. The praise of mankind was... ...eh?’ ‘I am ruminating,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘on the strange mu tability of human affairs.’ ‘Ah! I see—in at the palace door one day, out at the win d... ... one day, out at the win dow the next. Philosopher, Sir?’ ‘An observer of human na ture, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘ Ah, so am I. Most people are whe... ... Mr. T upman and Mr. Snodgrass were in a great measure cast upon their own resources. Taking but little interest in public affairs, they beguiled thei... ...se pages had been wholly imaginary. Mr. Leo Hunter had not exaggerated the resources of Mr. Solomon Lucas. His wardrobe was extensive—very exten sive...

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...The childish destruction of fruit-trees in an enemy’s country cripples the resources of Samoa; and the habit of head-hunting not only revolts foreigne... ... her puppet unquestioned. But there is a law of 47 Robert Louis Stevenson human nature which diplomatists should be taught at school, and it seems th... ...presentative of a naval power now present in this harbour, for the sake of humanity I hereby respectfully and solemnly protest in the name of the Unit... ...ed of were fired by the Samoans. The second may be dismissed with a laugh. Human nature has laws. And no men hitherto dis- covered, on being suddenly ... ... sick and dying, their ears were filled with the com- plaints of suffering humanity, their time was too short for the multiplicity of pitiful duties. ... ...er; the hospital at the consulate stands out almost alone as an episode of human beauty, and I dwell on it with satisfaction. But it was not regarded ... ...ad-basket; a small success in that direction would immediately curtail his resources; and it might be possible with energy to roll up his line along t... ... day or so before, to disarm the Mataafas in the open field, now found his resources scarce adequate to garrison the buildings of the firm. But Knappe... ...r of the sorrows of his exile, and Mataafa with mirthful simplicity of his resources and anxieties in the war. The relation was per- haps too beautifu...

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...,” said the gentleman contemptuously, “if I am too much in advance of common humanity to trouble myself at all about it. I have passed the night—as in... ... present imperfect state of ex istence, could they also suppose a mere poor human being, such as I was, capable by those contemptible means of coun ... ...was the universal feeling among us. Jack Governor, always a man of wonderful resources, was Chief Cook, and made some of the best dishes I ever ate, i... ...o school with. I represented to him that probably that boy never did, within human experience, come out well, when discovered. I urged that I myself ... ...ret from Miss Griffin. It was because we knew Miss Grif fin to be bereft of human sympathies, and incapable of ap preciating the greatness of the gr...

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...- sition, invariably qualifying the statement with a com- mendation of his resources and capabilities. The devil of a driver, a hard man to get along ... ...or violent dis- cussion. He would argue upon every subject in the range of human knowledge, from astronomy to the tariff, from the doctrine of predest... ...is hands over his ears till he was out of hearing distance of that all but human distress. Not until he was beyond ear-shot did he pause, looking back... ...greatest winner. The idea of manuring Los Muertos, of husbanding his great resources, he would have 52 The Octopus scouted as niggardly, Hebraic, ung... ...ley would have abhorred it—this feeding of the People, this gorging of the human animal, eager for its meat. Vanamee, simple, uncomplicated, living so... ... in the realisation of her transformed, changed, made celestial. I am only human. Her soul! That was beautiful, no doubt. But, again, it was something... ...ppeal to you. I understand that. It is be- cause, as you say, you are only human, while she is divine. But when you come to be like her, as she is now... ...nce lived. Perplexed, he returned to the grave, once more calling upon the resources of his will, and abruptly, so soon as these reached a certain poi... ... a quarter of a century before they had worked their mines. To husband the resources of their marvellous San Joaquin, they con- sidered niggardly, pet...

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... circumstances does occur, history is prompt to record the name of the chosen one, and to hold him up to the admiration of posterity. But when Satan i... ...- valling each other in this branch of horticulture, had begun to worship that flower, and to make more of a cult of it than ever naturalists dared to... ...d to himself this learned man, with a capital of four hundred thousand and a yearly income of ten thousand guilders, devoting all his intellectual and... ...lping my neighbour.” “Y es, and affording him your help this evening, you have forgotten the abuse which he heaped on you this morning. Oh, sir! this ... ...d raise him, whilst drawing forth the parchment from his pocket, — when he heard the pardon of the Stadtholder publicly read out, — then Boxtel was no... ...ousand days of captivity. Van Baerle, from whose thoughts the three bulbs were never absent, made a snare for catching the pigeons, baiting the birds ... ... coming from an officer of whom he had heard it said that he was attached to the person of the Prince. The unfortunate tulip-fancier then felt that he...

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...ble old gentleman, it seemed, had intended to leave the whole to the Royal Humane Society, and had indeed executed a will to that effect; but the Inst... ...kets, the boys were wholly unprovided for, and left to their own miserable resources. (Shame!) The honourable gentleman related one case of a muffin b... ...he had struck so successfully on one of those little jarring chords in the human heart (Ralph was well acquainted with its worst weaknesses, though he... ...s of soup and fish and damaged fruit are now plying their trades—scores of human beings, amidst a roar of sounds to which even the tumult of a great c... ... from the world, when the scene has been rendered frightful with excess of human life; when curious eyes have glared from casement and house-top, and ... ...sionally . ‘His father is dead, he is wholly ignorant of the world, has no resources whatever, and wants something to do,’ said Ralph. ‘I recommend hi... ...tell you to begin. Subdue your appe- tites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human natur. This is the way we inculcate strength of mind, Mr Nickleby,’ s... ... no very great accommodation in the way of apartments— that portion of its resources being all comprised in one public room with a sanded floor, and a... ...our beloved island—this great and free and happy country, whose powers and resources are, I sincerely believe, illimitable—I value that noble independ...

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...ad them in my own hands, and no more worthy task can be done than training human beings for their work in this world, so I must be willing to go throu... ... think why they don’t insert it; but in the meantime I will bring down my ‘Human Reeds,’ and show them to you. I have only an hour’s work on them; so ... ... Rachel was as nearly hating Colonel Keith as principle would allow, with “Human Reeds,” newly finished, burning in her pocket, “Military Society” fer... ...lliams’ ear in peace, and came down on her with two fat manu- scripts upon Human Reeds and Military Society, preluding, however, by bitter complaints ... ... given facts that I aim at, as you will understand when you have heard my ‘Human Reeds,’ and my other—dear me, there’s your door bell. I thought that ... ...ence on the way home from the book club. They were little prepared for the resources of a practised staff-officer. Never had a ball even to them looke...

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...scale. The State of New Y ork had been steadily advanc- ing in population, resources, and power, ever since the peace of 1785. At that time it bore bu... ...ut they are necessarily confined to the limits and ornaments suited to the resources of a branch of the church that, in this country, is by no means a... ...rs, to which we shall else- where advert. It will be in their trade, their resources, their ac- tivity , and their influence on the rest of the world,... ...ial part of the domestic policy of the Northern States. Now the negro is a human being, as well as an apprentice or a redemp- tioner, though the Const... ... an interest that has less than the common claim to the ordinary rights of humanity. In the apportionment, or rep- resentation clause, the redemptione... ...ition and nature of governments, and of no minor or different interests of human affairs. It being admitted, that the power which formed the governmen... ...s legitimate, we obtain one of the purest compacts for the organization of human society that probably ever existed. The ancient al- legiance, under w... ...rk ordinary interests over which she at present exer- cises control, every human being within her limits dissenting. Now as sovereignty means power in...

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...t by the fancied sway Your system feigns o’er the controulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers: You... ... some corpses grinning, But has not answer’d like the apparatus Of the Humane Society’s beginning By which men are unsuffocated gratis: Wh... ...cause He had no business to commit a sin, Forbid by heavenly, fined by human laws, At least ‘t was rather early to begin; But at sixteen t... ...eart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone. Byron’s Don ... ...wreck complete she roll’d, At mercy of the waves, whose mercies are Like human beings during civil war. Then came the carpenter, at last, with t... ... every day help’d on his convalescence; ‘T was well, because health in the human frame Is pleasant, besides being true love’s essence, For hea... ...se, from Adam’s simple ration, That cookery could have call’d forth such resources, As form a science and a nomenclature From out the commones... ...as suits their rank and situation, Those who in counties have great land resources Have ‘Public days, ’ when all men may carouse, Though not e... ...n, Of which the latter merits every preference From those who have few resources of their own, And only think, or act, or feel, with referen...

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...real value and usefulness of his stock-in-trade, but on his knowl- edge of human nature and of the persuasive power of his tongue.” This is also the o... ... for me to learn all that I have wished to do has been impossible, in that human life is not sufficiently long to become acquainted with even a hundre... ...ite of a spice of that intemperance and preju- dice which is common to all humanity, have proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I... ...ittle wearisome.” Only God knows and sees all things; wherefore for a mere human being to know what is in the mind of a servant while his master is sc... ...we know, hold the three princi- pal subjects which constitute the basis of human virtue to be the French language (a thing indispensable to the happin... ...g, please un- derstand that we cannot help you, but you must make your own resources, and try as best you can to help your- self. ’ You can imagine th... ...r and bear- ing, and great diligence in business matters. Armed with these resources, he next obtained promotion to what is 218 Dead Souls known as “... ...l fail to understand why you should find life wearisome. There are so many resources against ennui!” “As for instance?” “For a young man, dancing, the... ...ered Chichikov’s head. “This last resource,” he added, “is the best of all resources against ennui.” “What resource are you speaking of?” “Of travel.”...

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....................................................... 235 THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY. .................................................................... ......................................................................... 268 HUMAN FEELINGS. .............................................................. ...ut as a type, as an emblem—the recognised emblem and representative of the human mind in its present stage of culture and advancement. Among the infin... ... if he charms,— He ’tis injures, he ’tis harms. THE CONTENTED. Manifold is human strife, Human passion, human pain; Many a blessing yet is rife, 44 G... ...ain. She sang to him, and spake the while: “Why lurest thou my brood, With human wit and human guile From out their native flood? Oh, couldst thou kno... ...forced from the road by obstructions. But a woman is skillful, and full of resources, and scorns not Bye-roads to traverse when needed, well-skill’ d ...

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...o it again?’ said Philip. ‘I don’t know.’ ‘I hope you had a medal from the Humane Society,’ said Charles. ‘That would have been more proper for T rito... ...ription,’ and he began to read— ‘Dwell on the form of the Child, more than human in gran- deur, seated on the arms of the Blessed Virgin as on an augu... ...d to his grandfather, looking on him 77 Yo n g e as the first and best of human beings, and silencing the be- lief that Sir Hugh Morville had entaile... ...ds was all the help he could give; but she was an energetic woman, full of resources, and saw her way, with this assistance, through the present diffi... ...APTER 19 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 19 Most delicately, hour by hour, He canvassed human mysteries, And stood aloof from other minds. Himself unto himself he ... ...ent with his contempt for Guy’s youth, ‘that applied to his perversions of human pas- sions, not to his descriptions of scenery.’ ‘I think,’ said Guy,... ...ly at a loss he should have been if she had not been there, with her ready resources, and, above all, with her sweet presence, making the short interv...

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...is bitter and satirical, and seems to be sadly conscious of the realities of human life. Yet the ideal glory of the Platonic philosophy is not 4 Stat... ...pattern in heaven (Republic), is here described as a Paradisia- cal state of human society . In the truest sense of all, the ruler is not man but God;... ...ler is not man but God; and such a govern- ment existed in a former cycle of human history, and may again exist when the gods resume their care of man... ...er than law, because he is more able to deal with the infinite complexity of human affairs. But mankind, in despair of finding a true ruler, are willi... ...stice, which is the divine bond of states, and the legislator is to contrive human bonds, by which dissimilar natures may be united in marriage and su... ...mythology and figures of speech. And we observe that while employing all the resources of a writer of fiction to give credibility to his tales, he is ...

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...brews, Greeks, Romans, and Scandinavians. Some have thought that the first human pair were tempted by its fruit. Goddesses are fabled to have contende... ...ks and herds. It has been longer cultivated than any other, and so is more humanized; and who knows but, like the dog, it will at length be no longer ... ... child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which t... ...ot better than those in barrels, more crisp and lively than they. If these resources fail to yield anything, I have learned to look between the bases ...

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...ld be found who would befriend him at all hazards, for the love of God and humanity! Capable of high attainments as an intellectual and moral being—ne... ...norance, and reminding the audience that slavery was a poor school for the human intellect and heart, he proceeded to narrate some of the facts in his... ... of God,” that he may be increasingly serviceable in the cause of bleeding humanity, whether at home or abroad! It is certainly a very remarkable fact... ...require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence. It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other ... ... horrors of slavery, without hav- ing become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent. Nothing has been left undone t... ... possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power. Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and b...

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...rom the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an o...

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... al- ways held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity... ...e latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct. I do not pretend to be an origi- nal investigator, nor an au... ...o light. Naturally in a book of this sort there are many references to the human mind and its activities. In most books, whether scientific or not, th... ... in this discussion. Whatever mind may be, or through whatever part of the human system it may function, can make no difference in the conclusions I h... ...moral defect. It is now universally accepted as a functional defect of the human structure in its relation to environment. My main effort is to show t... ... word as a means of affecting public opinion, so that they may control the resources of the earth and exploit their fellows for their own gain? No two... ... one who lives an unsheltered life. The ordinary person, thrown on his own resources, is poorly equipped for existence. His opinions on most matters a... ...t, mental and industrial. When this condition exists with abundant natural resources, such as often may be found in what we term a new country, it fur...

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...ENRY DAVID THOREAU 1864 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 1864 Ticknor & Fields ... ...ay we had come, and about one hundred from Bangor by the river, was the last human habitation of any kind in this direction. Beyond, there was no trai... ...to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races... ... I saw them actually go over the falls, so cool, so collected, so fertile in resources are they. One might have thought that these were falls, and tha... ... well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. Can he who has discovered only some of the values... ...alled boucan, (whence bucca neer,) on which were frequently shown pieces of human flesh drying along with the rest. It was erected in front of the cam... ...r of a mile off. I told them that I had seen pictured in old books pieces of human flesh drying on these crates; whereupon they repeated some tradition... ...quired it. The white hunter with whom I talked in the stage knew some of the resources of the Indian. He said that he steered by the wind, or by the l...

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...could be perfectly prepared to deal with so many and such various sides of human life and manners. T o pass a true judg- ment upon Knox and Burns impl... ...aste to rejoice with the rejoicers over what is imperishably good, lovely, human, or divine, in his extraordinary poems. That was perhaps the right ro... ...a bad fel- low. Others still think well of him, and can find beautiful and human traits where I saw nothing but artistic evil; and by the principle of... ...iently remembered. What that period was, to what a blank of imbecility the human mind had fallen, can only be known to those who have waded in the chr... ...one to break the tomb and bring him forth, alive again and breathing, in a human book. With the best intentions in the world, I have only added two mo... ... and to public estimation as a man of some genius, yet, quite destitute of resources within himself to support his borrowed dignity, he dwindled into ...