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...arved web sites. In the process, it shed thousands of unfortunate authors who did not meet its (never stated) sales criteria. Others bet the far... ...opyrighted - and if so, by whom - by the database compiler or by the user who defined the parameters, without which the reports in question would hav... ...- OPM). This, together with the ulterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and... ...usiness sector has to mollify the God of public opinion with offerings of political and social nature. The Internet is an affluent, educated, yuppie ... ...ative.) The second is the launch of a new generation of journals that are committed to making their contents freely accessible online. The long-... ...ialog. For low volumes of messages, this is a good thing. But top-selling writers could not handle email from thousands of dedicated fans. Even in ... ...mediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscop... ... fax (explicitly required by law in many countries). Think about assisted suicide by administering painkillers (medicines are by far the most sizeab... ... Should a robot refuse to bring a stool to a person who intends to commit suicide by hanging himself (that's an easy one), should he ignore an instr...

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...o learn the business routine of typog- raphy. Was it not heroism in a wife who expected ere long to be a mother? During the past few months David’s wo... ... wages even brought them a few from Bordeaux, more especially apprentices, who thought themselves sufficiently expert to cancel their articles and go ... ...e, which I know will burden you heavily, because the one alterna- tive was suicide. I will explain my necessity some time, and I will try besides to s... ...ever forgive 50 Eve and David you, unless it was—” “Alas! it was that, or suicide,” said David, who had fol- lowed her. “Let us say no more about it,... ...ucien.” Lucien accepted that d’Arthez had written the preface. Ninety-nine writers out of a hundred would have done the same. “Well, nobody here seeme... ...in under-plot of his was useless now, and even dangerous to a man with his political ambitions. He had laid the founda- tions of his future importance... ...from the steps that lead down to L’Houmeau. Apparently some crime had been committed, for persons coming from L ’Houmeau were talking among themselves... ... man, young and ambitious, and a priest to boot. He wanted to enter upon a political career, so he fawned on the Queen’s favorite; the favorite took a...

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...r the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their he...

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...r and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors’ business that had to be done in that part of Ba... ...f of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and alto- gether held their heads up high, as ... ... in him than it would be in another.’ ‘But I feel sure that Mr Crawley has committed no crime at all,’ said Mary. ‘My dear,’ said Mrs Walker, ‘I have ... ...s. ‘Pray, pray think of what my wishes are, and your mother’s. You are not committed as yet. Pray think of us while there is time. I would rather doub... ...lways of his injuries. His own wife believed that he was about to com- mit suicide, and for so believing he was very angry with her; and yet, as he we... ...es for the non-performance of various re- quests made to Sir Raffle by the writers. ‘He’s about the best hand at it that I know,’ said Sir Raffle, one... ...e would so act. He was as a man who walks along a river’s bank thinking of suicide, calculating now best he might kill himself—whether the river does ... ...land gives so much more than the rent. It gives position and influence and political power, to say noth- ing about the game. We’ll go back now. I dare... ...es of poetry, and would criticise for her ad- vantage the works of the old writers. ‘Thank God,’ she said, ‘that you are not blind. It may yet be all ...

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...ulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...e. There was a smug expression about the mouth—he looked like a mer- chant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from ... ...e, a smile broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agre... ... because there were so few of them, perhaps because they made little or no political pretension. In those days, besides, you could set up for a poet, ... ... daily. Who dares to bid farewell to old habit? Many a man on the brink of suicide has been plucked back on the threshold of death by the thought of t... ...ity to the story, but truth is so much the more like fiction, since modern writers of fiction have been at such untold pains to imitate truth. It was ... ..., a Pol- ish Jew, Abramko by name, once involved in a fabulous man- ner in political troubles, from which Elie Magus saved him as a business speculati... ...t husband of hers spinning like a top. Through her a charming young fellow committed suicide at the Conciergerie. A count was accused of forgery—she m... ...of hers spinning like a top. Through her a charming young fellow committed suicide at the Conciergerie. A count was accused of forgery—she made his ch... ...ance are many enough, and as a rule they are of this order—to wit, murders committed without any startling sign of violence, without bloodshed, bruise...

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... lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answer some of these questions in this book. In most ...

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... learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained. I will ther... ...ow many poor children I maintained. I will therefore ask those of my readers who feel no particular interest in me to pardon me if I undertake to answ... ...to the bargain, running in the face of it. If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette ... ...et seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains... ... learning and in telligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shaks peare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and ot... ...t and wholesome to live. I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself. I... ...le live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rusticˆ a”... ... with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ..., without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in...

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...rld. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itude to my colleague Jennifer Jenkins, who directs the Center and who has influenced every chapter in this book. ... ...formed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as the last chapt... ...k on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person who most influenced it. That influence remains. Beyond the academy, my main... ...lder’s rights? These questions may be hard, because the underlying moral and political and economic issues need to be thought through. They may be wei... ...d iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the ... ...It is important to note, though, that the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers I have quoted were not against intellectual property. All of them... ...service providers were said to be “strictly liable” for copyright violations committed by their subscribers; that is to say, they were legally respons... ... all, is a framework for building a just and democratic society. It is not a suicide pact. 9 Judge Kaplan is right in saying that there cannot be a br... ...ve called Hercules who had been imprisoned as a run- away. “The folly he has committed certainly justifies further punishment, and he goes in expectati...

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... -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.? -- 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow-?It is a matter of most importance that our government protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowledge wi...

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...e truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.‖ 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech... ...accuracy of any later transmission rested solely upon the memory of those who heard the original words. Mnemonics’ enormous possibilities Octog... ...amous roads became unsafe, and barbarians threatened on every border. Its political and financial systems were foundering. By 410 AD, the empire ... ...nnia, Gutenberg‘s print technology did the following:  Opened paths to political, scientific, and industrial revolutions.  Formed the basis of ... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b... ...ills as bank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic ca... ...ank president had fraudulently decimated the bank‘s finances and committed suicide when his crime became known. Mills accepted a frantic call to retu... ... and free public library‘s good reading.‖ Carnegie was convinced of—and committed to—the notion that education was life‘s key. Modern public libr...

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...omewhat out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers who have ever paid it a visit. For the benefit of those who have not, there... ... calamitous events which have so lately occurred within its limits. No one who knows me will doubt that the duty thus self-imposed will be executed to... ... stamp, if one only goes properly about it. Of course I don’t speak of the political articles. Everybody knows how they are managed, since Dr. Moneype... ... brief in one’s Latin, it’s getting so com- mon —ignoratio elenchi. He has committed an ignoratio elen- chi—that is to say, he has understood the word... ...y grew angry, and told him in plain words, that he was a fool, that he had committed an ignora- mus e-clench-eye, that his notions were mere insommary... ...ue and lachrymatory fancies took possesion of my soul—and even the idea of suicide flit- ted across my brain; but it is a trait in the perversity of h... ... Time, would not walk against him. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers,—his favorite artist, Phiz. He died gloriously while inhaling gas—l... ...cess in the fashionable extravagances of his time; or busying himself with political in- trigues; or aiming at ministerial power, or purchasing increa... ...ever beyond a mere statement, we believe, that such is the fact. The early writers of treatises on the Automaton, seem not to have observed the matter...

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...nearly every senior official from the current and previous administrations who had responsibility for topics covered in our mandate. We have sought to... ...ndent, impartial, thorough, and nonpartisan. From the outset, we have been committed to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the Americ... ...urrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned. We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined, and lethal.The enemy rallies br... ...rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitle... ... the hijacking would take the traditional form: that is, it would not be a suicide hijacking designed to convert the aircraft into a guided missile. O... ...idels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom. It praised... ...he story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to ... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...l in this core swore fealty (or bayat) to Bin Ladin. Other operatives were committed to Bin Ladin or to his goals and would take assignments for him, ...

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...oul, whose ex- pression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars. De B... ...I command you to toss it into that Styx which ev- ery lawyer and every man who expects to have a hand in the government of his country is bound to kee... ...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...ure in a tightly buttoned frock-coat, with the air of a diplo- mat seeking political influence, smelling of the musk of aris- tocracy, full of pretens... ...never ceased tooting its one little tune.” Canalis’s ambition was to enter political life, and he made capital of a journey he had taken to Madrid as ... ...e would have had a resigned and attentive servant in me. But what an awful suicide! never could my soul have expanded in the life-giving rays of a bel... ...nd inconceiv- able revulsion!—I would rather you were ugly. What follies I committed after I came home! The yellow 111 Balzac dahlias reminded me of ... ...ve Havre in such uncertainty! Am I not punished for loving you as if I had committed a crime? But I obey you blindly. Let me have a letter quickly, fo...

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... hearts.” This last remark made the dreamer at the parapet quiver. The man who made it little knew that, to use a proverbial expression, he was killin... ...lity. The words, simple in themselves, became sublime from the tone of him who said them, in a voice that possesses a spell. Are there not, in fact, s... ...eantime he was drawn into all the dissipations that arise from literary or political life, and he yielded to the temptations incurred by journalists b... ...ete, and without sufficient force to bear up against the rough jostling of political life, the struggles and sufferings of which confer no credit,—a b... ...ds in time they might have become distin- guished men; but as soon as they committed a murder, it was no longer possible to interfere; they then belon... ...property of citizens, but more especially in an armed at- tack and robbery committed on the mail-coach which trans- ported, May —, 18—, the money in t... ... They be- trayed their duty. One of them, foreseeing his fate, com- mitted suicide, but not until he had made important rev- elations. The other, Mall... ...ghbor, he thinks, would kill his daughter. On the second floor we have two writers; they don’t come in till midnight, and are off before eight in the ...

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...rtunity University. BOOK IX CONTAINING TWELVE HOURS Chapter 1 Of those who lawfully may, and of those who may not, write such histories as this ... ...he same consideration of guarding against the pursuit of those scribblers, who having no talents of a writer but what is taught by the writing master,... ...ays denominates the whole from the major ity, have cast on all historical writers who do not draw their materials from records. And it is the apprehe... ...characters of many good and valuable mem bers of society; for the dullest writers, no more than the dullest companions, are always inoffensive. They ... ...proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or a house of ill repute, to a... ...running directly up to her, began to ask pardon for the of fences she had committed, begging that all might be im puted to ignorance of her quality:... ...hat—Not to be found! Where?” “La! brother,” said Mrs. Western, with true political cold ness, “you are always throwing yourself into such violent p... ...k and sleep, except only Mrs. Western, who was deeply engaged in reading a political pamphlet, and except our heroine, who now softly stole downstairs... ..., that he doth not yet know the worst of his fortune; and that a more *A suicide. 695 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding; Vol....

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...riting, that to be profitable to us the Book needs a powerful compression. Who, says the notable humourist, in allusion to this Book, who can studious... ...men are strong in their opinion that we should encourage the Comic Spirit, who is after all our own offspring, to relieve the Book. Comedy, they say, ... ...antly, ears at full cock, for the commence- ment of the comic drama of the suicide. If this line of verse be not yet in our literature, Through very l... ...t in her brain, as if it were in the brain, for the specific injury he had committed. Sweeping from sensation to sensation, the young, whom sensations... ...ara the whole truth of his con- duct to Constantia; for whom, as for other suicides, there were excuses. He at least was bound to supply them. She had... ... might be doubled for the asking: and all the books he requires: and these writers and scholars no sooner think of a book than they must have it. And ... ... so far, she deemed herself a person entrapped. In a dream somehow she had committed herself to a life-long imprison- 90 The Egoist ment; and, oh ter... ... and Conservative, Miss Middleton.” “I have not a head for politics.” “The political heads I have seen would tempt me to that opinion.” 174 The Egois... ...ruit of temperance, he had a com- fortable pride in his digestion, and his political sentiments were attuned by his veneration of the Powers rewarding...

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...y have decided to live with; and they are perplexed and astonished when I, who am supposed (heaven knows why!) to have the most advanced views attaina... ...urity of an authentic wedding ring. They cite the example of George Eliot, who formed an illicit union with Lewes. They quote a saying attributed to N... ...erious news and replacing it by vapid tittle- tattle, and substituting for political articles informed by at least some pretence of knowledge of econo... ...ch is quite a different matter. The comparatively few men who work at home—writers, artists, and to some extent clergy- men—have to effect some sort o... ...ze marriage. The common notion that the existing forms of marriage are not political contriv- ances, but sacred ethical obligations to which everythin... ...lind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even those who sa... ...which were capital offences within the memory of persons still living when committed on women outside mar- riage, can still be inflicted by men on the... ...d. When she had three children— the eldest only four years old—her husband committed a murder, and then attempted to commit suicide, but only succeede... ...our years old—her husband committed a murder, and then attempted to commit suicide, but only succeeded in disfiguring himself. Instead of hanging him,...

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...e. Other blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of ... ...rd, a Grocer’s. In the midst of the shop and its gorgeous contents sat one who, to judge from his appearance (though ’twas a difficult task, as, in so... ...ther, for who knows his father’s name?—there’s been a mighty cruel murther committed entirely. A child of Dick Steele’s has been barba- rously slain, ... ...’t take up Jools’s paper, the Orriflam, without readin that a minister has committed bribery and perjury, or that a littery man has committed perjury ... ...l, swore that he would have a divorce from Mrs. L., and made an attempt at suicide; the captain himself told me, with tears in his eyes, that he hated... ...e anecdote is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwreck... ...caping thence to England, was, under pretence of debt, but in reality from political hatred, imprisoned there also in the Tower of London. He must not... ...ge to the Duke of Bordeaux. They were followed, according to their several political predilections, by the vari- ous Ministers and dignitaries of the ...

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...of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle – taken together, they build up a fac... ...of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith of Japan, and openly pr... ... a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections of men, and a political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts? The story of the A... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...ent; and soon after the time of which I write, he made a showy speech at a political dinner, was cried up to heaven next day in the Courant, and the d... ... as in the other case rough habits and fist-law were the rule. Crimes were committed, sheep filched, and drovers robbed and beaten; most of which offe... ...sity of his offence; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the la... ...nce; but he had fairly beaten off his better angel, fairly committed moral suicide; for almost in the same hour, throwing aside the last rags of decen...