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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...haracter and deeply religious. An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up there on vacation—he is leader of a section of the Univ... ...ll. But it could be that he argued that if he saved a hundred souls in New York— O.M. The sacrifice of the family would be justified by that great pr... ... was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; and on a table was prodigal profusion of brig... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ... ...r harvest, nor fewer than are required in a prodigal one, or the board of directors will dethrone her and elect a queen that has more sense. There ar...

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... London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached from his con- flict with the gale by some sly strip of slipperiness, abound... ...ockney crow-word of the day, or a word that had stuck in the fellow’s head from the perusal of his pothouse newspaper columns? Furthermore, the plea o... ... the infinitely little while threading his way to a haberdasher’s shop for new white waistcoats. Under the shadow of the rep- resentative statue of Ci... ...,’ exclaimed Mr. Radnor. ‘He informed me that Mrs. Burman has heard of the new mansion.’ ‘My place at Lakelands?’ Mr. Radnor’s clear-water eyes harden... ..., see!’ said Fenellan, ‘here’s the case. Miss Natalia Dreighton, of a good Yorkshire family—a large one, reads an advertisement for the post of compan... ...ure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a Yorkshire stock; she had the bravery, humaneness and generous temper of our... ...gently does a maternal Old England let them down. Projectors of Companies, Directors, Founders; Railway mag- nates, actual kings and nobles (though on... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...the battle for Nataly; chiefly through Mrs. Burman’s tenacious hold of the filmy thread she took for life and was enabled to use as a means for the pe...

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... mother was Edith or Editha T urner, daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. Mr Carruthers, in his excellent Life of the Poet, mentions that there... ...rade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly after the Revolu- tion, at the early age of forty-six... ...eat tenderness and care. Once, when three years old, he nar- rowly escaped from an angry cow, but was wounded in the throat. He was remarkable as a ch... ... in his studies, and when his verses did not please him, sent him back to “new turn” them, saying, “These are not good rhymes.” His prin- cipal favour... ...re known or heard of—(MacFlecknoe, the Re- hearsal, &c.)—were mercy to the new tempest of havoc which burst from the brain of this remorseless poet. A... ...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ...oose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipp’d in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disport... ... I only wear it in a land of hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. Save but our army! and let Jove incrust Swords, pikes, and guns,... ... days can ne’er be long, In flower of age you perish for a song! Plums and directors, Shylock and his wife, Will club their testers, now, to take your...

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...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...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... ...8) 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 Nonadapta... ... 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, ... ...nt Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.We thank the City of New York for assistance with documents and witnesses, and the Government Printi... ...at the assistant secretary level or just below it.The NSC staff had senior directors who would sit on these interagency committees, often as chair, to... ...s roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a “good man” and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Ladin. Motassadeq would help co... ...oordinators included Jamal al Badawi and Fahd al Quso, who was supposed to film the attack from a nearby apartment.The two suicide opera- tives chosen... ... fire safety director.The director supervised a team of deputy fire safety directors, one of whom was on duty at the fire com- mand station in the lob...

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...and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a ro...

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...he dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to- morrow. From hall you go right or left into dining- room or drawing-room. Hall itse... ...he house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the front garden. “Then there’s a very big wych-elm—to the left as you... ... I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in London? ... ...rminate note. Into which country will it lead, England or Suburbia? It was new, it had is- land platforms and a subway, and the superficial comfort ex... ...sing and fall- ing with the restlessness of the water in a fountain as the city receives more and more men upon her soil. Camelia Road would soon stan... ...ng Naples, of the movements of Mr. Wilcox and Evie, who were mo- toring in Yorkshire. Margaret could not bear being bored. She grew inattentive, playe... ..., “Father! I say! look who’s here.” “Evie, dearest girl, why aren’t you in Yorkshire?” “No—motor smash—changed plans—father’s coming.” “Why, Ruth!” cr... ...eless: the many-coloured efforts thereto spreading over the vast area like films and resulting in an universal grey. To do good to one, or, as in this... ...either you, nor I, nor my informant, nor the man who informed him, nor the directors of the Porphyrion, are to blame for this clerk’s loss of salary. ...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...e congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, or Stamboul, or New Y ork, or Timbuctoo, or London, there is a certain district where a cer... ...in piping bullfinches; and a Cardinal in disguise, with a pro- posal for a new loan for the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloqu... ...lars of no interest to the public:—Memoranda of City dinners—meet- ings of Directors—fashionable parties in which Mr. Jeames figures, and nearly alway... ...eller as he was, the Clubb paper to a prodigious igstent. All the Railroad directors, his friends, helped him to shares—the allottments came tumbling ... ...t my throat, when a voice exclaims, “Stop!—kill him not, it is Gujputi!” A film came over my eyes—exhausted nature would bear no more. CHAPTER IX. SUR... ...rdon. Were there—a no- tary-public present,” slowly gasped the knight, the film of dis- solution glazing over his eyes, “I would ask—you—two— gentleme... ...ques- tioned, for she ordered the deepest mourning which any milli- ner in York could supply, and erected a monument to his memory as big as a minster...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ..................................... .............................. 193 “THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH” ..................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ ...For big returns.” “Big. That’s good. Go on, Aleck. What is it?” “Coal. The new mines. Cannel. I mean to put in ten thou sand. Ground floor. When we o... ... were now worth three hundred million dollars; they were in every board of directors of every prodigious combine in the country; and still as time dri... ...away when the surface diggings gave out. In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen ... ...l of about the same tenor. I here give honest specimens. One is from a New York paper, one is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a lett... ...e is from a letter from an old friend, and one is from a letter from a New York pub lisher who is a stranger to me. I humbly endeavor to make these b... ...e that I had, and soon I got an awful fright. A thin, transparent blu ish film rose out of the hole, and I dropped everything and ran! I thought it w...

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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... ...perfectly delightful, for there is noth- ing more natural than for a grave City Father to for- get what the books he has read once—long ago—in his gid... ... languor or violence in its force, never running back upon itself, opening new visions at every turn of its course through that richly inhab- ited cou... ...s loves and its hates about every twenty-five years—at the coming of every new and wiser generation. One of the most generous of the dead is Daudet, w... ...not know how—he did not pretend to see any depths in a life that is only a film of unsteady appearances stretched over regions deep indeed, but which ... ...t of view the sight of the august senators of a great Power rushing to New York and beginning to bully and badger the luckless “Yamsi”—on the very qua... ... indignation or with contempt? Things said by sol- emn experts, by exalted directors, by glorified ticket- sellers, by officials of all sorts. I suppo... ... the idea of putting that engine into his boat. But all these de- signers, directors, managers, constructors, and oth- ers whom we may include in the ...

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...emn emo- tion— Its ability to overcome unhappiness— Need of such a faculty from the biological point of view. LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Pe... ...Brad- ley—The psychology of character-changes—Emo- tional excitements make new centres of personal en- ergy—Schematic ways of representing this— Starb... ...ted— Characteristics of the faith-state: sense of truth; the world appears new— Sensory and motor automatisms— Permanency of conversions. 7 William J... ...logy— Does transcendental idealism fare better? Its principles— Quotations from John Caird— They are good as restatements of religious experience, but... ...colleague Dickinson S. Miller, and to my friends, Thomas Wren Ward, of New York, and Wincenty Lutoslawski, late of Cracow, for important suggestions a... ...ifficult one to solve, needing all the sagacity and experience of the best directors of conscience. In the end it had to come to our empiricist criter... ...ttle the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disap- pear, and to be drowned ignominiously will be the hu... ...ana.[218] We find accordingly that as ascetic saints have grown older, and directors of conscience more expe- rienced, they usually have shown a tende... ... special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely di...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...; for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere in the city of Fum-Fudge. The first action of my life was the taking hold of my no... ...doning that legitimate home for all wise men, the East, he migrated to the city of Alexander-the-Great- o-nopolis, or some place of a similar title, o... ...he Nopolis Tea-Pot’—as nearly as I can recollect, this was the name of the new paper. The leading article, I must admit, was brilliant—not to say seve... ...ent to his lately-ac- quired charger —an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal’s ferocious and demon-l... ...pute having arisen, it was agreed that, at six, I should meet the board of directors of the company and settle the terms of a renewal. Glancing upwar... ...OME YEARS AGO, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship “Indepen- dence,” Captain Hardy. W e were to ... ...e mysteries anon. I rejoice to see you looking life-like and rational. The film of the shadow has already passed from off your eyes. Be of heart and f...