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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...n the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffered most in their ob- ... ...ice at his back. It was indeed strange that Gaspar Ruiz should desert. His people were in too humble a station to feel much the disad- vantages of any... ...ried off the remaining horses and cattle, and having thus deprived the old people of all their worldly possessions, left them sitting under a bush in ... ...nts of the troops cantoned between the Rhine and the Save. In the cafés in Vienna it was gen- erally estimated, from details to hand, that the ad- ver... ...e train de luxe of the International Sleeping Car Company, via Trieste and Vienna. As the four long, sombre coaches pulled out of the station I raised...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...l under Buccaneer Kirby. He fought on shore as well; and once he came down from the tops of the Andes with a black beard turned white, and went into a... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...oung man heard his mother out and kissed her, and then he went secretly to Vienna and enlisted and served for a year as a private in the regiment of H... ... of him, and Methuen Rivers—here for two days on his way to his embassy at Vienna—assured us he is the rarest of gentlemen on the point of honour of h... ...ory state. Henrietta was Livia’s guest, her husband having hurried away to Vienna: ‘To get money! money!’ her angry blunt- ness explained his absence,...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...paigns with the Prince of Baden on the Danube, and witnessed the rescue of Vienna from the Turk. And he spoke of his mili- tary exploits pleasantly, a... ...ho was never tired of hearing his stories of his campaigns and his life at Vienna, V enice, Paris, and the famous cities of Europe which he had visite...

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...sident’s proclamation of war April 6, 1917 and his message to the American people April 15, 1917. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London. P... ...cla- mation of a state of war on April 6th and his message to the American people of April 15th. While the approval of Presi- dent Wilson was very nat... ...ng the nations. DECLARES PEACE IS NOT FAR OFF It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise. T... ...ize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the con- sent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to ha... ...nt of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. I take it for gra... ...ace itself. With a right comity of arrangement no nation need be shut away from free access to the open paths of the world’s commerce. And the paths o... ...least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. OPPOSITION TO THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT FRIENDSHIP TOWARD THE GERMAN PE...

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... royal drawing- room was full of old adherents, whose powdered heads, seen from above, suggested a carpet of snow. There the Count met some old friend... ..., as part of the his- tory of the Revolution. The Count prudently withdrew from the venerable group, which formed a respectful semi-circle before the ... ...st family; then, having extricated his sword, not without some difficulty, from among the lean legs which had got mixed up with it, he crossed the cou... ...sieur de Fontaine showed less amenity. Kings enjoy contradicting more than people think. Like most youngest children, Emilie de Fontaine was a Benjami... ...of literature, she might have made folks believe that, as Mascarille says, people of quality come into the world know- ing everything. She could argue... ...rder, to the younger sons of members of the peerage. According to him, the people had conquered a sufficiently large share in practical govern- ment b... ...oluble young secretary went on, “to find my brother here. On arriving from Vienna I heard that the poor boy was ill in bed; and I counted on seeing hi...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...0 Germans in the city, and that only two other German cities in the world, Vienna and Berlin have a larger German population than New York. The German...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ... undoubted prop- erty of Talleyrand, (that eminent knave,) was ascribed at Vienna, ninety years ago, to the Prince de Ligne, and thirty years previous... ...tricity. A singular mortality at this time pre- vailed amongst the cats of Vienna, Basle, Copenhagen, and other places. Cats being so eminently an ele...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...ve not seen England,” said a lady with iron-grey hair. They had met her in Vienna, Bayreuth, and Florence, and were grateful to find her again at Clar... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar...

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... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ...if you do not mend your ways.’ ‘But I thought,’ said Annora gravely, ‘that people were mar- ried once for all, and it could not be undone.’ ‘So said A... ... some mysterious manner, had become felt rather than known among the young people, yet with- out altering the habitual terms that existed between them... ...eaded their way through bits of forest still left for the royal chase. The people thronged out of their houses, and shouted not only ‘Vive le Roy,’ bu... ... her reverence, she exclaimed, breathlessly, ‘Oh, is it ill news? Not from Vienna?’ ‘No, no, Madame; reassure yourself,’ replied Diane; ‘it is merely ... ...added her name to the certificate, and murmured the name of a con- vent in Vienna, where her late confessor could be found. ‘I cannot thank you Majest...

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...e Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. ...

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...6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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...........................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ................................................ ..., as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T o judge by quotations and allusio... ... generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young man... ...ian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt not ineffe... ... and we shall be made sensible that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put... ...of those cries, we shall see how they illumine the councils of a governing people. They are wiser than the barking dogs. Cromwell and Bis- marck are g... ...ll these are facts, and no one will ever dare to deny them from Verona and Vienna, for they are known as much as it was known and seen that the uhlans... ... treated in Verona, without thinking of slandering and calumniating as the Vienna pa- pers have done. This morning Prince Amadeus arrived in Cremona, ... ...behind the Adige. You will probably know by this time that the garrison of Vienna had on the 3rd been directed to Prague. The news we receive from Pru...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ...f her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excurs... ... and the historic action for the last hundred years (since the Congress of Vienna) of the Powers concerned, that they were more like cynical insults t... ...fforts of Polish friends we obtained at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our un...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ... the already-established Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) headquartered in Vienna, whose branch office locations included Zagreb and Budapest. (Bin La...

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...s; when there were two kings in Spain employed perpetually in running away from one an- other; when there was a queen in England, with such rogues for... ...en Mrs. Masham had not yet put Madam Marlborough’s nose out of joint; when people had their ears cut off for writing very meek political pamphlets; an... ...ay be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the “Old Bailey Calendar,” to bless the public with one more draught f... ... occupied very much in the same manner with Farquhar’s heroes. They roamed from Warwick to Stratford, and from Stratford to Birmingham, per- suading t... ... I’ve been to Stratford fair, and to W arwick many a time; and there’s two people who have offered to marry me, and ever so many who want to, and I wo... ...lliam of Nassau;” the Corporal joking and laugh- ing with all the grown-up people. The women, in spite of Mr. Brock’s age, his red nose, and a certain... ...s of his youth; not for the fairest prin- cess, countess, or actress, from Vienna to Paris. At length—it was the night after he had seen Hayes countin...