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...n the sub- ject was dropped. He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, with grey hair, rather short, and somewhat corpulent, but still gifted... ...whole tenor of his life had espe- cially fitted him. Now, in his green old age, he had ceased to covet, but had not ceased to repine. He had ceased to... ...seems to me that you want to encourage him. A child about sixteen years of age!’ ‘I am told she is nineteen.’ ‘What does it matter if she’s fifty-nine... ...d.’ ‘And Mrs Arabin;—she is with him?’ ‘They tell me she is not. She is in Europe. He is in Pales- tine.’ ‘In Palestine, is he?’ ‘So they tell me. A d... ...aid his prayers ever since that day. And now his surplices were washed and ironed and folded and put away; but there were moments in which he would st... ...hey were standing near a corner, where a turning path made an angle in the iron rails, Mr Dunn having proposed that they should wait there for a few m... ...ar Mr John,’ said Miss Anne Prettyman, ‘Dr T empest is as hard as a bar of iron, and always was. But I am surprised that Mr Robarts should take a part... ...Chronicle of Barset ‘What a paladin you have been, John, rushing all about Europe on your friend’s behalf!’ ‘Don’t talk about that.’ ‘And such a succe...

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...d problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try... ...of the battles over intellectual property, the range wars of the information age. I want to convince you that intellectual property is important, that... ...ty, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you that our intellectual property po... ...the end. As I pointed out in the last chapter, the copyright term in most of Europe and in the United States now lasts for the life of the author and ... ...tal Millennium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual... ...rangement of data—C’s, G’s, A’s, and T’s. 34 Other challenges are overt: the European Database Protection Directive did (and various proposed bills in... ...ut it also provided substantial gains, gains that far outweighed the losses. Ironically, had the movie companies “won” in the Sony case, they might no... ...f impending doom from cheap copies were completely mistaken. The public and, ironically, the industry itself benefited as a result. But the Sony case i... ...a and thus has decided a lot of copyright cases over the years. There was an irony here. When the Supreme Court decided the Sony case, it was on appea...

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... Later, when the other Cardinals were asked by Berini concerning the voting, ironically, almost all of them were fuzzy about the actual voting. The ... ...Sicily was the command center of the Mafia. “...I had a Calling at an early age. My mother believed it was a good idea to have a priest in the fam... ...ey know how you make your living -- you're a consultant and a fundraiser. The irony of it will appeal to them." Brand stroked his chin, which had ... ...n self interests." The French newspapers played it up as Britain's usual anti-European cooperative stance. "They want all the benefits, but are unwil... ...ive stance. "They want all the benefits, but are unwilling to work with their European neighbors in any substantial way." Walter Baker opened the ... ...e," Alex muttered. "And they say that Politics makes strange bedfellows." The irony was so thick that he was mentally unable to digest it. "Do I ha... ...d paper. He then drew a triangle, and wrote three words. On the top, he wrote Europe; on the other corners of the triangle he wrote Asia and Latin A... ...o di Capo. Gallucci now wondered about his old friend. Had he gone soft? Had age made him grow fearful, or had things gotten too far out of control... ...s hidden inside the sleeves of his elegant kimono. His face was wrinkled with age, and his body looked frail. Gallucci had not pictured Oshiro, but i...

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...ory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting S...

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... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ...and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and hi... ...ols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nouris... ... the hidden history of information technologies that preceded the present Age of Cyberspace. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of ... ...st seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years.... ...the religious, governmental, educational, and commercial centers of their age. As temple complexes grew into major economic enterprises, many work... ...cal prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘s rigid logic helped hide the danger... ...r fans, porcelain bowls, robes embroidered with silver and golden thread, iron kettles, brass pots, and carved saddles. The Mongols established a... ...d high-level family connections in the archbishop‘s court. ). It‘s ironic, but this goldsmith sire of capitalism lacked even a modicum of good...

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...e infant's greatest pleasures were found in the mouth, in sucking and eating. This was called the oral stage of sexual development. At around age 1 ... ...d the ‗phallic‘ stage. It is at this stage that Freud believed that the sexual desires first emerged. Freud believed that children, by about age 3,... ...er package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women half his age? H... ...abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York or Baghdad, in the wars of Europe... ...f us the inhumane horrors that some human minds have conjured and carried out. Waterboarding, the Chinese water torture, even thumb screws and iron ... ...d, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky hill, being nailed to a cross and crucified upside down, being tied to a red hot iron c... ...omebody. ―Spousal love is defined by Fromm as ‗evaluation and emotion.‘ It has been similarly and aptly described by the prominent Europe... ... a closer identity—a family, 83 tribe, religion, or core of beliefs. In Europe...

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...scis a couple of pulls and swallowed a half dozen of drams. When I came of age my father asked me, one day, If I would step with him into his study. “... ...ate a love of horses, and of hunting, that neither bodily infirmity, great age, nor mental incapacity, prevented his daily participation in the danger... ...antastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect. Its aspect inspired me with absolute dread, and, checking ... ...re without curtains; the shutters, being shut, were securely fastened with iron bars, applied diagonally, af- ter the fashion of our ordinary shop-shu... ...ast.” I have only to add that, although I have searched every li- brary in Europe for the works of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, I have, up to the... ...stood opposite the hole, close to it; and through the hole there passed an iron rod from the machinery. Between the wheels and the wall where the hole... ... hands and endeavored, with all my strength, to force upward the ponderous iron bar. I might as well have tried to lift the cathedral itself. Down, do...

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... difference in the comparative cost. It may be to our advantage to procure iron from Sweden in exchange for cottons, even although the mines of Englan... ...an advantage of one-half in cottons, and only an advantage of a quarter in iron, and could sell our cottons to Sweden at the price which Sweden must p... ...weden must pay for them if she produced them herself, we should obtain our iron with an advantage of one-half, as well as our cottons. We may often, b... ...tuart Mill ticles which will exchange for each other will be, on the aver- age, those which are produced by equal quantities of labour. But this canno... ...s in the mode just described, that those countries which formerly supplied Europe with manufactures, but which owed their power of doing so not to any... ...ed some descriptions of clothing and ornament 31 John Stuart Mill for all Europe: Holland, at a much later period, supplied ships, and almost all art... ...tively. To this should be added what he expends in rearing children to the age at which they become capable of productive industry. If the state of th... ...ide the sup- ply of a district with so many other banks, that on the aver- age each will receive no larger amount of interest on his notes than will m...

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...ties on their own or duties on foreign fish. With them and with most other European nations we are rivals in navigation and the carrying trade; and we... ...e southern parts of America which it formerly did in the southern parts of Europe. Nor does it appear to be a rash conjecture that its young swarms mi... ...th perfect good faith. Nay, it is far more probable that in America, as in Europe, neighboring nations, acting under the impulse of opposite interests... ... every shape? Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political c... ...y. Some of the Southern and of the Middle States yield a greater plenty of iron, and of better quality. Seamen must chiefly be drawn from the Northern... ... of Apollo, the Amphictyonic council, according to the superstition of the age, imposed a fine on the sacrilegious offenders. The Phocians, being abet... ...without con- cert, without system, without resource; except in their cour- age and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, c...

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...he phrase is, for ex pensive renovations. I make use here of the figure of age and infirmity, but in point of fact I had rather viewed the reappearance... ...t this had made him say. “Don’t talk about me—it’s you who are not of this age. You’re a creature of a braver and finer one, and the cinquecento, at it... ...s futile, and of his absolute acceptance of the developments of the coming age—to redress the balance of his being so differently considered. The mome... ...ct simply to screen out—much as, just in front of him while he walked, the iron shutter of a shop, closing early to the stale summer day, rattled down... ...m after a little, definitely, the image of a friend whom he had often found ironic. He withheld the tribute of attention from passing faces only to let... ...ewess nor a lazy Creole; New York had been recordedly her birth place and “Europe” punctually her discipline. She wore yellow and purple because she t... ...“She can come, you know, at any time, to Mrs. Assingham took it up with an irony beyond laughter. “You’d like her for your honeymoon?” “Oh no, you mus... ...as a purchaser, approached privately and from afar. Great people, all over Europe, sought introductions to him; high personages, incredibly high, and ... ... the first order. Adam Verver knew by this time, knew thoroughly; no man in Europe or in America, he privately believed, was for such estimates less ca...

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...beyond his first. And just as the most imbecile production of any literary age gives us sometimes the very clue to comprehension we have sought long a... ...id nothing about them. But Scott’s instinct, the instinct of the man of an age pro- foundly different, taught him otherwise; and, in his work, the ind... ... tearing, in the dark, good and bad between its formidable wheels with the iron stolidity of all machinery, human or divine. This terror incarnates it... ...of the hereditary legislators of a great country. It is with a very bitter irony that the paper, on which all this depends, is left to float for years... ...s the same feverish strength, welding 34 Robert Louis Stevenson the fiery iron of his idea under forge-hammer repetitions – an emphasis that is someh... ...literary history. He was now, it must be remembered, twenty-seven years of age; he had fought since his early boyhood an obstinate battle against poor... ...f woe, as Whitman calls it, this Maladie de Rene, as we like to call it in Europe, is in many ways a most humiliating and sickly phenomenon. Young gen... ...ut nightfall. At no period within history can travel have presented to any European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Ja... ... women, capable and incapable, played a conspicuous part upon the stage of European history; and yet their rule, whatever may have been the opinion of...

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...k at the century after the revelations to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its memory is strongest among the Arabs.What happened then—the spread ... ... Arabian Peninsula throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and even into Europe within less than a cen- tury—seemed, and seems, miraculous. 6 Nostal... ...extreme Islamist version of history blames the decline from Islam’s golden age on the rulers and people who turned away from the true path of their re... ...Bin Ladin investment com- pany to carry out procurement trips from western Europe to the Far East.T wo others,W adi al Hage and Mubarak Douri, who had... ... in Sudan. It also reinforced its London base and its other offices around Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Bin Ladin bolstered his links to ext... .... 102 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 102 Ironically, this committee was eliminated in the 1970s as Congress was unde... ...ulation, estimating half as much collateral damage and not predicting dam- age to the mosque. By the end of the meeting, the principals decided agains... ...s completed and the equipment was ready, but legal issues were still being ironed out. 114 By August 11, the principals had agreed to deploy the Preda... ... have made them very interested in learning more about Mihdhar. 71 The sad irony is that the agents who found the source were being kept from obtainin...

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...an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predominant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune any more....

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...ant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing l... ...et, upon the subject of a country life:– “Free from vices, free from care, Age has no pain, and youth no snare.” But in the middle of all this felicit... ... with pots, kettles, pewter, brass, &c.; and near a hundred pounds more in ironwork, nails, tools of every kind, staples, hooks, hinges, and every nec... ... I carried a hundred barrels of powder, besides swords, cutlasses, and the iron part of some pikes and halberds. In short, we had a large magazine of ... ...opportunities of sending them to France; for we met several ships bound to Europe, whereof two were French, from St. Christopher’s, but they had been ... ... the maid, and all their goods. The young lad was about seventeen years of age, a pretty, well-bred, modest, and sensible youth, greatly dejected with... ...and making two of the most refractory fellows pris- oners, he laid them in irons: and as they had been active in the 33 Daniel Defoe former disorders... ...oth man and woman, and by all the witnesses present, which all the laws of Europe would decree to be valid.” I was amazed to see so much true piety , ... ...ER THIS there came in a Dutch ship from Batavia; she was a coaster, not an European trader, of about two hundred tons burden; the men, as they pretend...

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..., the Russian ambassador; a most valuable collection, the fame of which is European. Such was the gentleman who addressed me in that im- petuous manne... ...ho addressed me in that im- petuous manner. Fancy a tall, spare man, of an iron consti- tution, and with a fair complexion which took off a good ten y... ...oys have been heard to remark that that organ was magnetised and attracted iron filings. But this was merely a mischievous report; it had no attractio... ...of science! Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lig- nite... ...ic salts, to be protected from the least grain of dust; and met- als, from iron to gold, metals whose current value altogether disappeared in the pres... ...s own intense disgust, and his greater shame, was ill all through the voy- age. 46 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth He therefore was unable to ... ...the male takes his turn to pluck himself. But as the coarse and hard plum- age of the male has no commercial value, the hunter does not take the troub... ...d on our small but hardy animals. Iceland is one of the largest islands in Europe. Its surface is 14,000 square miles, and it contains but 16,000 inha... ...under England, under the channel, under France, perhaps under the whole of Europe. * * * A fresh noise is heard! Surely it is the sea breaking...

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...und her to be a good-looking woman of some thirty or thirty-three years of age, with soft, peach-like cheeks,—rather too like those of a cherub, with ... ...he brought with her only one daughter, a little girl about twelve years of age. She had torn herself asunder, as she told me, from the younger nurslin... ...say something. Charles O’Brien was a young man, about twenty-five years of age, who had sent out from his studio in the preceding year a certain bust,... ...And then Rome shall again become the fair capital of the fairest region of Europe. Hither shall flock the artisans of the world, crowding into thy mar... ...onverse was chiefly of the rights of man and the weakness of women; of the iron ages that were past, and of the golden time that was to come. 18 Mrs....

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... lay buried beneath the deepest reserve. Like almost every military man in Europe, he had only seen the world through cannon smoke, or in the brief in... ...at occurred so seldom during the Emperor’s continual wars with the rest of Europe. Had he or had he not thought of marriage? The question remained uns... ...ral wish to increase the amount of the savings that were to render his old age comfortable. Till the eve of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-co... ...e. The four children belonging to the woman all appeared to be of the same age—an odd circumstance which struck the commandant. A fifth clung about he... ...erative craving to be doing something, that possesses mind and body at his age. The officer followed him for the entire length of the principal street... ...hites gave great brightness, and which expressed passions now subdued. His iron-gray hair, the deep wrinkles in his face, the bushy eye- brows that ha... ...y, by means of a chain attached to a halter about his horse’s neck, and an iron hook at the farther end of the chain, which was driven into the wood. ... ...kers, each of them employing three hands at least. Lastly, the quantity of ironware that we use is so large that an agricultural implement and tool-ma... ... places, sir, France would be great indeed, and might laugh at the rest of Europe!” cried Genestas enthusiastically. “But I have kept you out here for...

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...bold enough to marry this lady after she had attained the anti-matrimonial age of thirty-three, and what is more, he had a son by her. As he could hav... ...,” Madame Latournelle is still so surprised at becoming his mother, at the age of thirty-five years and seven months, that she would still provide him... ...k-marked, had lived under pitying eyes from the time he was seven years of age. Is not that enough to explain his whole being? Silent, self-contained,... ...ng dwelling harmonized with its exterior. The salon, floored entirely with iron-wood, was painted in a style that suggested the beauties of Chinese la... ...i- nacy of the latter. The entrance to the Chalet is by a little trellised iron door, the uprights of which, ending in lance-heads, show for a few inc... ... depths profound and varied of the eye, and disputed them with a spirit of irony that was trained and educated,—from all these signs an observer would... ...isis of 1825-26, which convulsed many of the principal business centres in Europe and caused the ruin of several Pari- sian bankers, among them (as th... ...e deal?”— phrases which represent in these days the higher emotions of the European aristocracy. Modeste continued to work, with- out seeming to be su... ... necessary quarterings to make my entry into any court or chapter-house in Europe. We are quite the equals of the Canalis. You will be so kind as to e...

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...Bourbons, themselves, who now govern no less than four different states of Europe, and who have sat on thrones these thousand years. While our family ... ...ter some ten or twelve generations at most, to seek refuge in a country in Europe; whereas exactly the reverse is the case 4 Autobiography of a Pocke... ...ican, while our more recent construction and education have taken place in Europe. When I speak of the “earliest accounts I possess of my progenitors,... ...are of her pious grandmother, la vicomtesse, who survived, in a feeble old age, to descant on the former grandeur of her house, and to sigh, in common... ...ulate its own proceedings by the re- ceived current values of the day. Old age, vexation, and this last most cruel blow, did not fail of effecting tha... ...enne would not think an in- stant of the ills caused by the infirmities of age. She husbanded her money, with the utmost frugality, and contrived to s... ...rrival; the colonel having judged it prudent to get me washed and properly ironed, before he carried me into the “market.” “Who is your boss, pocket-h... ...sation ceased. An hour or two later, I was removed from the line, properly ironed, and returned to my boss. The same day I was placed in a shop in Bro... ... modest as the d—l. But here comes old Monson, and I must strike while the iron is hot.” “Good morning, Mr. Thurston,” said the father, looking a litt...

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...Prescott Wormeley FIRST EPISODE MADAME DE LA CHANTERIE I THE MALADY OF THE AGE ON A FINE EVENING in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty y... ... FINE EVENING in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look... ...ther, who dreamed of seeing him a notary in Paris. For this reason, at the age of seven, he was sent to an institution, that of the Abbe Liautard, to ... ...s yellow door,—ponderous as that of a prison, and decorated with arabesque ironwork of a remote period that was difficult to determine. Though Godefro... ... calico required for the window curtains, and also for those of the modest iron bed; and she undertook to buy and have them made for a price so modera... ...oom. Solitude has charms comparable only to those of savage life, which no European has ever really abandoned after once tasting them. This may seem s... ...he buck- les, instead of being of steel, seemed to me to be made of common iron. His white, flowered waistcoat, now yellow from long wearing, also his... ...r. Association, one of the greatest social forces, and that which made the Europe of the middle-ages, rests on principles which, since 1792, no longer... ...se desperate diseases which science declares incurable. It is not known in Europe that the Slav races possess many secrets. They have a collection of ...

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...and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this ...

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...cial mart, renders them one of the most remark- able places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from ... ...e and cultivation; though the facilities of intercourse, the spirit of the age, and the equalizing sentiment that marks the civilization of the epoch,... ...ns of Manhattan will be first entitled to rank with the larger capitals of Europe. So obvious, rapid, and natural has been the advance of all the plac... .... Seventeen years since, the writer returned home from a long residence in Europe, during which he had dwelt for years in many of the largest towns of... ...re he was, as well as its great need of change to raise it to the level of European improve- ment—ventured to say that, in his opinion, speak- ing of ... ...antiquity , but we should regard buildings of that, or even of a much less age, with greater interest, did the country pos- sess them. But nothing was... ... Continent. At the very moment that this potentate of unequalled means and iron rule was doing all he could to achieve his object, the goods of Manche...

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...ess, their courage, or their patience, varying with the character of their age; but with that one essential distinc- tion in all, that the dross of se... ...nders of Scotland. They had gradually spread themselves over the middle of Europe, and had for some generations past lived among the Alpine moun- tain... ... the treasure to be taken back, and, turning to Brennus, said, ‘It is with iron, not gold, that the Romans guard their country.’ Brennus declared that... ...emulous of the honor his father had gained by his own com- bat at the same age with the Gaul, but forgot both the present edict and that his father ha... ...rs, plain, hardy, fierce, and pitiless, did, it must be feared, cruel dam- age among these peaceful scenes; they boasted of having sacked 300 villages... ...uch conquests are far from being Golden Deeds, but are far worthier of the iron age. It is the stand made by the losing party, and the true patriotism... ...oad ditches and terraced ramparts that everywhere mark where their foot of iron was trod. Eleven miles round did this huge rampart extend, strengthene... ...ttacks came from the wild nations who poured out of the centre and east of Europe. The Franks came over the Rhine and its 91 Yo n g e dependent river... ...uld be paid to him. He 93 Yo n g e then retreated, and, to the joy of all Europe, died on his way back to his native dominions. But with the Huns the...

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...ces, flesh’d with Conquest, ayme to hit. 210 Now binde my Browes with Iron and approach 211 The ragged’st houre, that Time and Spight dare b... ...ordship (though not clean past 369 your youth) hath yet some smack of age in you: some rel-lish 370 of the saltnesse of Time, and I most hum... ...gs: all the other gifts appertinent to man 433 (as the malice of this Age shapes them) are not woorth a 434 Gooseberry. You that are old, co... ... youth, that are written downe old, with all the Charrac-ters 440 of age? Haue you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yel-low 441 cheeke? a whi... ... 912 Iohn with my Brothers and Sister: & Sir 913 Iohn, with all Europe. 914 My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make him ... ... Your exposition on the holy Text, 2108 Then now to see you heere an Iron man 2109 Chearing a rowt of Rebels with your Drumme, 2110 Turn... ...ly of any indiffe-rencie, 2256 I were simply the most actiue fellow in Europe: 2257 my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere 2258 co... ... 2805 Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, 2806 And Plough- Irons. 2807 Shal. Let it be cast, and payde: Sir Iohn, you shall ...

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...g found refuge and was kept in being. In England, Germany, and the rest of Europe, what is left of the tradi- tions of pagan times has been altered in... ... destroy. The Scando-Gothic peoples who poured southward and westward over Europe, to shake empires and found kingdoms, to meet Greek and Roman in con... ... with the Gaill”: “In a word, although there were an hundred hard-steeled iron heads on one neck, and an hundred sharp, ready, cool, never-rusting br... ...utlands, Iceland, the Faroes, the Orkneys, and Ireland. The whole coast of Europe, even to Greece and the shores of the Black Sea, the northern shores... ...loth, horn, dried fish, etc., as enabled them to obtain wood for building, iron for tools, honey, wine, grain, etc, to the extent of their simple need... ... and when he girds that about him waxes his god strength one-half, and his iron gloves that he may not miss for hold- ing his hammer’s haft.Balidr is ... ... beautiful of all 25 The V olsunga Saga the Eddaic poems; a poem that any age or language might count among its most precious possessions. From this ... ...ut off from the land in three ships, all well manned, and have a fair voy- age, and made Gothland late of an evening tide. But that same night came Si... ...evenged that same night. Now Signy and the king had two children of tender age, who played with a golden toy on the floor, and bowled it along the pav...

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...g; Vol. II human angelic species: she seemed to be at least of the middle age, nor had her face much appearance of beauty; but her cloaths being torn... ... father, and from those of her dispassionate lover. Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the so norous bell metal, summoning the ghos... ...; and many of them have with true filial piety fed their parent in his old age: so that not only the affection, but the interest, of the author may be... ... hopes; and of my fortune, not one farthing could be touched till I was of age, of which I now wanted more than two years. My husband, therefore, was ... ... miracle of this kind might have engaged all the Academies des Sciences in Europe, and perhaps in a fruit less inquiry; yet the reader, by barely rec...

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...ver, saying to the footman, “Not at home.” He had been disappointed in the age, grossly deceived in the appearance of the man claiming to be his relat... ...parley. It was performed by a gentleman supremely advanced at a very early age in the art of cutting. Young Sir Willoughby spoke a word of the rejecte... ...d she been an unchari- table woman she could have ruled the county with an iron rod of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would hav... ...hterless, long sub- sequent to the memorable day of Willoughby’s coming of age. Lady Busshe was for Constantia Durham. She laughed at Mrs Mountstuart ... ... the measurement to his family and friends at home. He was an adept in the irony of incongruously grouping. The nature of the Equality under the stars... ... two pens might have been sketched in different hemispheres. Vernon had no irony. He had nothing of Willoughby’s epis- tolary creative power, which, c... ... picture of him in America, Japan, China, Australia, nay, the continent of Europe, holding an English review of his Maker’s grotesques. V ernon seemed...

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...aw that was good. In Washington there is but one post-office. There are no iron pillars or wayside letter-boxes, as are to be found in other towns of ... ...y-shop. When I saw an ancient, dusty white hat, with some peculiar append- age to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old... ...ashington family; and there, in an open vault—a vault open, but guarded by iron grating—is the great man’s tomb, and by his side the tomb of Martha hi... ...ok upon the elected representatives of any nation as the choice men of the age. Those muddy, clattering dragoons, sitting at the corners of the street... ...e smallest of the five? When I think of this, and remember the position in Europe which an American has been able to claim for himself, I cannot but a... ... farther removed and still farther from southern influences. If we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and t... ... on any new ground under such a President as Lincoln. We have all heard in Europe how Southern men have ruled in the White House, nearly from the days... ... attains is to disdain emancipation and cling to the security of his bond- age. It is true enough that slavery has been a curse. What- ever may have b... ... dustry of the towns is of that sort which arises from a union of coal and iron in the vicinity. The Pennsylvanian coal fields are the most prolific i...

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...y, any where about the Cape de Verd, where I was in hope to meet with some European Ship, and if I did not, I knew not what Course I had to take, but ... ...Islands, or perish there among the Negroes. I knew that all the Ships from Europe, which sail’d either to this Coast of Guiney, or to Brasil, or to th... ... Ship remained there in providing his Loading, and preparing For his V oy age, near three Months, when telling him what little Stock I had left behin... ...y Business to think of them) he had taken care to have all Sorts of Tools, Iron Work, and Utensils necessary for my Plantation, and which were of grea... ...my Plantation; for the first thing I did, I bought me a Negro Slave, and an European Servant also; I mean another besides that which the Captain brough... ...er, with several Things belonging to the Gunner, particularly two or three Iron Crows, and two Barrels of Musquet Bullets, seven Musquets, and another... ...such as I could move, I got two Cables and a Hawser on Shore, with all the Iron Work I could get; and having cut down the Spritsail yard, and the Miss... ...d I could never find in my Heart to kill her, till she dy’d at last of meer Age. But being now in the eleventh Year of my Residence, and, as I have sai... ...ng his Will, as we say, and gasping for Life, and dying indeed of meer old Age. I stirr’d him a little to see if I could get him out, and he essay’d t...

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...ther- wise Corporal Brock, of Lord Cutts’s regiment of dragoons; he was of age about fifty-seven (even that point has never been ascertained); in heig... ...blishment—a very smart, hand- some, vain, giggling servant-girl, about the age of sixteen, who went by the familiar name of Cat, and attended upon the... ...ted that the young lady did not know her letters), bound apprentice at the age of nine years to Mrs. Score, her relative, and landlady of the “Bugle I... ...ted! Mean rogues feel them as well as great heroes. Lives there the man in Europe who has not felt them many times?—who has not knelt, and fawned, and... ...hich he used to bring home as he won; and which he depos- ited in a strong iron chest, cunningly screwed down by himself under his own bed. This Mrs. ... ...and his way of disposing of them; how he kept his money screwed down in an iron chest in their room; and a very lucky fellow did Brock consider his of... ...ss, and lickspittle awe of rank, which does not exist under any tyranny in Europe, and is only to be found here and in America. All these negotiations... ...sary; for, after shouting many times, and in vain, Mr. Brock found a small iron bar (indeed, he had the instrument for many days in his pocket), and f...

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...means they died at the rate of ten or fifteen thousand a week, whereas the Europeans or Christian mer- chants, who kept themselves retired and reserve... ...eet or there- abouts, sent his apprentice, a youth about eighteen years of age, to endeavour to get the money. He came to the door, and finding it shu... ... had not; and mine was mere presumption, his a true dependence and a cour- age resting on God; and yet that he used all possible caution for his safet... ...d opened some gates, through which they passed; but none of them had cour- age so much as to look out to see them go, and, as it was evening, if they ... ... them – which caustics were then upon him, burning his flesh as with a hot iron. I cannot say what became of this poor man, but I think he continued r... ...As to foreign trade, there needs little to be said. The trading nations of Europe were all afraid of us; no port of France, or Holland, or Spain, or I...

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...e dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines wi... ... chapter; but it must be remembered that the au- thor wished to present an age at a glance: and the dialogue is quite as fine and correct as that in t... ...t stained by time, or wine mayhap, or wear. A little deformed gentleman in iron- gray is reading the Morning Chronicle newspaper by the fire, while a ... ...gentleman leaning against the same fireplace with the deformed cavalier in iron-gray, and addressing that indi- vidual, who was in fact Mr. Alexander ... ...for he who addressed the most brilliant com- 12 Thackeray pany of wits in Europe was little more—emptied the contents of the brandy-flask into a silv... ... Welcome to my Bosom, thou faithful Serpent; I hug thee, peace-bearing Im- age of the Eternal! Ha, the hemlock cup! Fill high, boy, for my soul is thi... ...e affairs of the world represented here, and Holywell Street the centre of Europe—when three knocks of a peculiar nature were heard, and Mendoza start... ...ed. His lance bore everything down before it. The most famous champions of Europe, assembled at these joustings, had dropped, one by one, before this ... ...nkin in the chair, Ap Llwydd in the vice; W elsh mutton for dinner; W elsh iron knives & forks; Welsh rabbit after dinner; and a Welsh harper, be hang...

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...nite lesson does experience hand on from youth to manhood, or from both to age? The settled tenor which first strikes the eye is but the shadow of a d... ... in winter; and this inequality struck him with some force. He was at that age of a conversible temper, and insa- tiably curious in the aspects of lif... ...less material. If you forge a bad knife, you have wasted some of mankind’s iron, and then, with unrivalled cynicism, you pocket some of mankind’s mone... ...ef? These may seem hard words and mere curiosities of the intellect, in an age when the spirit of honesty is so sparingly cultivated that all business... ...d and lauded, if it come actually to its ideal of the ant-heap, ruled with iron justice, the num- ber of new contraventions will be out of all proport... ...e been as virulent as he liked about the students of a former; but for the iron to touch our sacred selves, for a brother of the Guild to betray its m... ...the only king in that king’s race.’ He ground his teeth. ‘The only king in Europe!’ Who else? Who has done and suffered except me? who has lain and ru...

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...ome’s dominion own, And, prostrate, shall adore the nation of the gown. An age is ripening in revolving fate When Troy shall overturn the Grecian stat... ...sacred shrine. Then dire debate and impious war shall cease, And the stern age be soften’d into peace: Then banish’d Faith shall once again return, An... ... fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison’d Fury, bound in brazen chains; High on ... ... your harbor meet. Myself distress’d, an exile, and unknown, Debarr’d from Europe, and from Asia thrown, In Libyan desarts wander thus alone.” His ten... ...ur gen’rous heart. Conscious of worth, requite its own desert! In you this age is happy, and this earth, And parents more than mortal gave you birth. ... ...s of their soldiers hide: With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. In sight of Troy lies T enedos, an isle (... ...he goal contend, And others try the twanging bow to bend; The strong, with iron gauntlets arm’d, shall stand Oppos’d in combat on the yellow sand. Let... ...is race, in arms and arts of peace renown’d, Not Latium shall contain, nor Europe bound: ‘T is theirs whate’er the sun surveys around.” These answers,... ...r’d; What was the waste of war, what fierce alarms Shook Asia’s crown with European arms; Ev’n such have heard, if any such there be, Whose earth is b...

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... the lives of old men content- edly. They were timidly conservative at the age at which ev- ery healthy human being ought to be obstreperously revolu-... ...e; and the result of withdrawing chil- dren from it completely at an early age, and sending them to a public school and then to a university, does, in... ...t of trying to make the Church of England reflect the notions of the aver- age churchgoer has reduced it to a cipher except for the pur- poses of a pe... ...exceptional in Asia as a man with a carriage-and-pair or a motor car is in Europe, where, nev- ertheless we may all have as many carriages and motors ... ...resent state of things in England is too strained and mischievous to last. Europe and America have left us a century behind in this matter. A PROBABLE... ...ourts; and so, with policemen at every corner, and law triumphant all over Europe, she will still be smuggled and cattle-driven from one end of the ci... ...fire- place, with its huge spit like a baby crane, and a collection of old iron and brass instruments which pass as the original 66 Shaw furniture of... ...l Bridgenorth is a well set up man of fifty, with large brave nostrils, an iron mouth, faithful dog’s eyes, and much natural simplicity and dignity of... ...ast, living at his club, and seeing nobody but his friends’ wives! LESBIA [ironically] Poor fellow! HOTCHKISS. The friends’ wives are perhaps the solu...

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...esides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were deep in talk, whirling between Peterborough and Lon... ...ners on many common provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impressio... ... degree, with every feature of the life and landscape. The warm, habitable age of towns and hamlets, the green, settled, ancient look of the country; ... ...tic architecture, the look of streets and buildings; the quaint, venerable age of many, and the thin walls and warm colouring of all. We have, in Scot... ...y and from observation. A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mo... ...ring of foraying hoofs. He glories in his hard- fisted forefathers, of the iron girdle and the handful of oat- meal, who rode so swiftly and lived so ... ... curious, the sons of chieftains were often edu- cated on the continent of Europe. They went abroad speak- ing Gaelic; they returned speaking, not Eng... ...l has not yet learned the rudi- ments; himself, giant Prometheus, is still ironed on the peaks of Caucasus. But by-and-by his truant interests will le...

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... had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned throughout Europe. In politics he proved very able both as an administrator and as a... ...I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others, who, through respect to age, might conceive them selves obliged to give me a hearing, since this... ...er in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now lives in Boston. He left behind... ...ices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the s... ...have since found that it has been trans lated into most of the languages of Europe, and suppose it has been more generally read than any other book, ... ...gine, an itinerant doctor, for there was no town in England, or coun try in Europe, of which he could not give a very particular account. He had some... .... Onion The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 38 and Russel, masters of an iron work in Maryland, had engag’d the great cabin; so that Ralph and I w... ...nt of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitab... ...uld do freely and generously. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 108 An ironmonger in London however, assuming a good deal of my pamphlet, and wo...