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...Y ours very truly, 29 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO H. L. PIERCE AND OTHERS. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, April 6, 1859. GENTLEMEN:—Y our k... ...er of per- sons who are afterwards to inhabit that Territory, or the other members of the families of communities, of which they are but an incipient ... ...us King, William Paterson, George Claimer, Ri- chard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison. This shows that, in their und... ...s of importance may come up, whatever difficulties may arise in its way of administration of the Gov- ernment, that party will then have to attend to.... .... I have an intimation that Governor Banks would yet accept a place in the Cabinet. Please ascertain and write me how this is, Y ours very truly, A. L... ...n me. Do the people of the South really enter- tain fear that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with the slaves, or... ...be at variance. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. ATTEMPT TO FORM A COALITION CABINET TO HANNIBAL HAMLIN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, December 14, 1860. HON. H... ...lmer will, on a fair understanding with us, consent to take a place in the Cabinet. The preference for him over Mr. Hunt or Mr. Gentry is that, up to ... ... has been made to the inter- est felt in relation to the policy of the new administration. In this I have received from some a degree of credit for ha...

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...ccupied by the cardinal, taking no- body with him but his valet de chambre, the officer of mus- keteers came out, breathing like a man who has for a l... ...ame out, breathing like a man who has for a long time been forced to hold his breath, from the little cabinet of which we have already spoken, and whi... ... his bed; he did not die a calm and peaceful death, he did not die the death of the good?” “He died a violent death, in a terrible night, rendered so ... ..., he might have seen that man, bent double, gliding like a serpent along the stones and losing himself in the mist that floated over the surface of th... ...Y ou bring him to me!” cried the king, almost indignant at what he considered a mystification. “Y es, sire,” replied D’Artagnan, the same tone, “I bri... ...ar the rustling of the cardinal’s silk robe from behind the curtain. His eminence had followed Bernouin into the closet adjoining the bedroom. CHAPTER... ...And what is this event?” said Fouquet, a little troubled by the evident agitation of his most intimate confidant. “There is a secret chamber of justic... ...next morning presented himself at the Hotel Grammont. Malicorne arrived just in time, for the Comte de Guiche was on the point of taking leave of Mon-... ...een obliged to procure it, then to get it counted, afterwards registered — altogether a long affair. Since Monsieur de Mazarin’s death, financial affa...

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... and strew their books everywhere; they have, in these days, so filled the cabinets and ears of the ladies with them, that if they have lost the subst... ...of those days. In the night I am never there. There is by the side of it a cabinet handsome enough, with a fireplace very commodiously con- trived, an... ...st punctures; and those that formerly would not have rippled the skin, now pierce me through and through: my habit of body is now so naturally declini... ...hesitating. Suddenly he caught the wonted flame, and the well-known warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones: just as whe... ...formed by themselves, whereas all other sorts of justice they remit to the administration of others. An immoderate bounty is a very weak means to acqu... ...stature they have in a garden, were excellently formed in gold; as, in his cabinet, were all the animals bred upon his terri- tory and in its seas; an... ... thank me for the order, the sweet and silent calm that has accompanied my administration, can- not, however, deprive me of the share that belongs to ... ...me sort excuses alike disobedience and defect in the inter- pretation, the administration and the observation of it. What fruit then soever we may ext... ...ll not only that my voice reach him, but, peradventure, that it strike and pierce him. When I rate my valet with sharp and bitter language, it would b...

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...overeignty,” and “sacred right of self-government.” “But,” said opposition members, “let us amend the bill so as to ex- pressly declare that the peopl... ...ht to lay down a rule to govern a coordinate branch of the government, the members of which had sworn to support the Constitution; that each member ha... ... round, jolly, fruitful face post-offices, land-offices, marshalships, and cabinet appoint- ments, charge-ships and foreign missions bursting and spro... ...r voices and votes, denied that it was a fair emanation of the people. The Administration affirmed that it was. With respect to the evidence bearing u... ...ge Douglas and the Repub- licans had the right on their side, and that the Administration was wrong. But I state again that, as a matter of principle,... ...any question but he means it was by the authority of the President and his Cabinet,—the Administration? Is there any sort of question but he means to ... ...but he means it was by the authority of the President and his Cabinet,—the Administration? Is there any sort of question but he means to make that cha... ... of the Lecompton Constitution, the President of the United States and his Cabinet, and all the supporters of the Lecompton Con- stitution, in Congres... ...rm his very good friend Judge Douglas got him a high office from President Pierce, and sent him off to California. Is not that the fact? Just at the e...

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...o decent streets, where there are passengers, shops, and taverns. Mod- ern administration, or modern policy, more scornful or more shamefaced than the... ...! The veil of inno- cence I had tried to wear was worn off; their laughter pierced my brain and my heart. Do not think you have saved me; I shall die ... ...ys past there had been an idea of attaching Lucien to the prime minister’s cabinet as his private secre- tary; but Madame d’Espard brought so many per... ...t it probable even then; and now, when everybody knows what went on in the Cabinet Council called together by Cambaceres, it is absolutely certain. Th... ...slators, who no longer can distinguish between the three words—Government, Administration, and Law-making. The legislator tends to centralize everythi... ... side as he sank into a chair. “Forgive me, papa,” said she in a tone that pierced Peyrade’s heart, and at the same moment he was conscious of what fe... ...d to failure. Monsieur Camusot, the son-in-law of one of the clerks of the cabinet, too well known for any account of his position and connection to b... ...ed the Countess’ face with the scrutiny peculiar to those old hands, which pierces to the soul of a woman as certainly as a surgeon’s instrument probe... ... to capital punishment; the result is a total upheaval of true equality in administration of the law. Parricide, a most horrible crime, is in some dep...

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.... Harrison. Lieutenant Com- manding Albert N. Smith. Lieutenant Commanding Pierce Crosby. Lieutenant Commanding George M. Ransom. Lieu- tenant Command... ... the border States hold more power for good than any other equal number of members, I feel it a duty which I cannot justifiably waive to make this ap-... ...day be in good faith repre- sented in the Congress of the United States by members cho- sen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified v... ...ti- tution of the United States, to manifest such desire by elec- tions of members to the Congress of the United States par- ticularly, and perhaps a ... ... of the 20th. The purport of it is that we lost the late elections and the administration is failing because the war is unsuccessful, and that I must ... ... am not justly to blame for it. I certainly know that if the war fails the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve i... ...Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Con- gress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal signif... ...eceived. When I shall wish to su- persede you I will let you know. All the Cabinet regretted the necessity of arresting, for instance, V allandigham, ... ...oined by regiments still at Harrisburg, and the united force again to join Pierce somewhere, and the whole to move down the Cumberland V alley, will i...

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... which the eye delights to rest, charmed with what it sees, yet curious to pierce still deeper into the intrica- cies of the woodland scenery. Above r... ...ng, and proffers of lives and fortunes, the blow was at length struck, the administration of the day was dissolved, and par- liament, as a natural con... ...atural consequence, was dissolved also. Sir Thomas Kittlecourt, like other members in the same situation, posted down to his county, and met but an in... ...unty, and met but an indif- ferent reception. He was a partisan of the old administration and the friends of the new had already set about an active c... ...nds of the pedlar were abolished by the justice, in his hasty zeal for the administration of rural police. 55 Sir Walter Scott These things did not p... ...es, my lady’s wanting you yonder sadly, to bid for her for the black ebony cabinet; and Lady Jean Devorgoil is wi’ her an’ a’—ye maun come away direct... ...ertly darting their glances through shuttles, and trunks, and drawers, and cabinets, and all the odd corners of an old maiden lady’s repositories. Nor... ... diagonally beneath the helmet and crest, the latter being a wolf couchant pierced with an arrow. On either side stood as supporters, in full human si... ... of harshness. “I will not venture to name it, sir—but”—She opened a small cabinet, and put some letters into his hands; “I will give you these, that ...

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...or, it was 250 years after Gilbert before elec- tricity stepped out of the cabinet of scientific curiosities into the life of the common man…. Then su... ...far as it went, to be highly efficient, and Russia, secured by a stringent administration against internal criticism, had scarcely altered the design ... ... almost as still, and then they were rent by ragged areas of translucency, pierced by clear chasms, so that dim patches of the land below gleamed remo... ...ays I hope to place things in the hands of a more efficient caterer….’ The members of the new world government dined at three long tables on trestles,... ...f suspended intrigue, stood the half-dozen ministers who con- stituted his cabinet. They had been summoned for twelve o’clock, but still at half-past ... ...he might stab the man to silence. But the man shouted loudly as the prongs pierced him and drove him backward, and instantly there was a sound of feet... ...nd super- intelligences into the control of affairs. It was teachable, its members trailed ideas with them to the gathering, but these were the conseq... ...ads and railways lay also along the lower contours, only here and there to pierce some moun- tain barrier or reach some holiday resort did they clambe... ...Brissago council, that it was not until the end of the first year of their administration and then only with extreme reluctance that they would take u...

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...o realisations and attitudes that dissolve my estrangement from her, I can pierce these barriers, I can see her and feel her as a loving and feeling a... ...their quality profoundly sig- nificant. They had this in common, that they pierced the texture of the life I was quietly taking for granted and let me... ...ich this experi- ence stabbed through the common stuff of life and left it pierced, with a light, with a huge new interest shining through the rent. W... ...ls brought us all, as it were, within personal touch of them. One heard of cabinet councils and meetings at coun- try houses. Some of us, pursuing suc... ...d and things in general administered, but you don’t get rid of the need of administration, you know.” “Democracy,” said Chris Robinson. “Organised som... ...if two people took the necessary pains to know the facts of government and administration with precision, to gather together knowl- edge that was disp... ...nding, but in terms of functionaries, legislative change, and meth- ods of administration… . It wasn’t clear at first how we differed. The Baileys wer... ... large mauve-edged, white cyclamens in flower. And there was a big lacquer cabinet, a Chinese thing, I suppose, of black and gold against the red-tone... ... say. I began walking up and down the room between those cyclamens and the cabinet. There were little gold fishermen on the cabinet fish- ing from lit...

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...yings rebound on her reputation. Nevertheless the world, as Christian, re- members its professions, and a portion of it joins the burly in morals by e... ...nd the bad manners of a Saxon fired his antagonism to the race; individual members of which he boasted of forgiving and embracing, honouring. So the m... ...r Lukin. He had dined with the Warwicks, and met the eminent member of the Cabinet at their table. There is no harm in admiration, especially on the p... .... At present a relaxed austerity is represented; and still the bulk of the members are of fair repute, though not quite on the level of their pretensi... ... ener- gies were in his aim—at Government. He had hung on the fringe of an Administration. His party was out, and he hoped for higher station on its r... ...women can do. She was honest as long as she was not directly ques- tioned, pierced to the innermost and sanctum of the bosom. She could honestly summo... ...fter a recent consultation with his Chief, of whom, and the murmurs of the Cabinet, he spoke to Diana openly, in some dejection. ‘They might see he ha... ...a man will under- stand that he can be advised and seconded. When will the Cabinet be consulted?’ ‘Oh, a few days. Promise me …’ ‘Any honourable promi... ...flict, past all existing rights closely to depict, and which barbed her to pierce to the wishes threatening her freedom, deceived her now to think her...

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...n, it is your business to govern without letting me hear the wheels of the administration,” said Ma- dame de Montcornet. “Ah! madame,” said the cure, ... ...ism blush, “They must surely have committed some crime together”? After an administration of twenty-five years, Gaubertin, the land-steward, found him... ...h. The wily general, soon aware of Gaubertin’s great experi- ence in rural administration, felt it was politic to keep well with him until he had hims... ... to the old nobility, though he has, alas! disappeared with them. (See “Le Cabinet des Antiques,” “Scenes de la vie de province.”) Through the endless... ...ection rather difficult to trace through family ramifica- tions which make members of the middle classes in all the smaller towns cousins to each othe... ...!), “Sound the charge,”—Montcornet knew very well that he was the son of a cabinet-maker in the faubourg Saint-Antoine, though he was quite ready to f... ...the other a governor of the Bank of France, gave little or no alarm to the cabinet, and the elections in this department were rated excellent at the m... ...e general’s intervention because of the harm done to Les Aigues by all the members of the Tonsard family. His passion, or to speak more correctly, his... ...ry of that bird. As soon as he has given his tap, and he gives millions to pierce an oak, he flies behind the tree to see if he is yet through it; and...

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... sings by night.’ ‘It is a bird, sister,’ replied Malcolm; ‘Philomel, that pierces her breast with a thorn, and sings sweetly even to her death.’ ‘Tha... ...time, the Duke was pompously making way for the King of Scots to enter his cabinet, where—with a gold cup before each, a dish of comfits and a stoup o... ...ssitude and lethargy that weighed on the King at times in the midst of his cabinet work, he was constantly on the watch to relieve him; and his hand a... ...ge. He had been residing there with Dr. Bennet, associating with the young members of the foundation educated at Winches- ter, and studying with all t... ...; if it were in the Barony of Glenuskie, the House of Albany had taken the administration of that into their own hands. ‘Nay—but,’ said Malcolm, ‘coul...

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...which young academicians are placed in the family of a professor. Here, as members of a private household, and that household under the presiding eye ... ...neath her own vigilant supervision. In Cambridge there is, so far, a laxer administration of this rule, that, when any college over- flows, undergradu... ...rd, in his “History of Greece,” took a new view of this orator’s political administration—a view which lowered his character for integrity—he found an... ...nly for the southern world of civilization. The forests of Germany, though pierced already to the south in the third and fourth centuries by the torch... ...difficult to prove that Delphi discharged the office of a central bureau d’administration, a general depot of political information, an organ of unive... ...e favor of the Czar, so far as to have become his private secretary, and a cabinet minister of Russia. He, however, still masked his final ob- jects u... ... Whether he saw his high- ness, who stood a little in the shade of a large cabinet, could not be known; the Landgrave doubted not that he did. He was ... ...governs Klosterheim by night!” thought every cavalier, as he endeavored to pierce the gloomy being’s concealment with penetrating eyes, or, by scrutin... ...e of pas- sions, were looking and hearkening with senses on the stretch to pierce the veil of silence and of distance. At last the Landgrave mastered ...

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...f the vot- ers, and settle arrears. They reckon up the health of their two members and the chances of an appeal to the country when they fix the rents... ...cross oceans and deserts, and through systems and webs, and into shops and cabinets of costliest china, will come at it, will not be refused, let the ... ... to his inability to follow her allusion. ‘Thou art a Liberal—then rise to membership,’ she said. ‘ Accept my creed, and thou art of the chosen. Yes, ... ...erned by the head with a vengeance: all the rest of the country being base members indeed; Spartans—helots. Criticism, now so help- ful to us, would w... ...e, and the symbols of her goddesship running along the walls, the bed, the cabinets, everywhere that the chaste device could find frontage and a corne... ...lcoming Colonel Halkett and Cecilia to Steynham was the rottenness of navy administration; for if Providence is to do anything for us it must have a s... ...of the executioner well may be with poor Bare- back hung up to a leisurely administration of the scourge. An allusion to ‘Jack on shore’ almost persua... ...she imagined, possibly she had not hitherto known at all. Her curiosity to pierce it faded. She and her maid were packing through the night. At dawn s...

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... literary society; learned strangers think themselves honoured in becoming members of it. It publishes books which educate our fellow-countrymen, and ... ...earned afterwards that he and the Governor disagreed upon some question of administration, and did not speak to each other. I therefore knew not a sin... ...dly, “I am certain that this gallery driven through beds of coal was never pierced by the hand of man. But whether it be the hand of nature or not doe... ... naked rocks, and weighed upon the surface of the ocean. I then desired to pierce the distant haze, and to rend asunder the mysterious curtain that hu... ...completely happy. One day, while arranging a collection of minerals in his cabinet, I noticed in a corner this unhappy compass, which we had long lost...

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...roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mist... ...ty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. “Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I be lieve?” says the Chancellor... ...Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful members of that tribe, he gave me such a savage frown. The face of each chi... ...nother corner a ragged old portmanteau on one of the two chairs serves for cabinet or wardrobe; no larger one is needed, for it collapses like the che... ...e discoloured shutters are drawn together, and through the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in—the banshee of the man upon the... ...ut not much to tell. Mrs. Piper lives in the court (which her husband is a cabinet maker), and it has long been well beknown among the neighbours (cou... ...at a debate used to be; the House is not what the House used to be; even a Cabinet is not what it formerly was. He perceives with astonishment that su... ...ree counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your administration by the official knowl edge and the business habits of Muffy... ...on to his destruction again. Mr. Chadband, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow directly into Mr. Snagsby with the thumb ...

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... the reflux drew down, marvels of colour and design streamed between my feet; which I would grasp at, miss, or seize: now to find them what they promi... ...ther children, who had a father or a mother in the company of Oro, stood condemned from the moment of conception. A freemasonry, an agnostic sect, a c... ...is criticisms of the present, all his regrets for the past, struck me as temperate and sensible. The short term of office of the Resident he thought t... ...ed and becomes the haunt of spirits; but the public high place, 73 Robert Louis Stevenson such as I was now treading, was a thing on a great scale. A... ...floor of the forest was all paved. Three tiers of terrace ran on the slope of the hill; in front, a crumbling parapet contained the main arena; and th... ...ery eyeball of the dawn. For awhile I could see nothing but the bluish ruins of the morning bank, which lay far along the horizon, like melting iceber... ... is the fact that all the faithful enjoy office; perhaps more important still, the strict- ness of the discipline. ‘The veto on liquor,’ said Mr. Mage...

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...offence at any omissions or short-comings in the cer- emonies, the various members of Mr Dombey’s household subsided into their several places in the ... ...s together, when the dusk was closing in, too—she would some- times try to pierce the gloom beyond, and make out how he was looking and what he was do... ...tle ceremonies of the bath and toilette, she assisted with enthusiasm. The administration of infantine doses of physic awakened all the active sympath... ...ens to his deceased wife, which had been taken, among other things, from a cabinet in her chamber. It was not the first time that his eye had lighted ... ...waited for a suggestion from Miss T ox, who, true to her office, hazarded ‘members.’ ‘Members!’ repeated Mr Dombey. ‘I think the medical gentleman men... ...rsity, and trembled in melancholy accord with the shrill complainings of a cabinet piano, wasting away , a string a day , and faintly resounding to th... ...et. It glistened like a bird’ s, and did not fix itself upon the game, but pierced the room from end to end, and gleamed on harp, performer, listener,... ...ntion, they began to wheel and falter; whereupon Mrs Richards’s first born pierced them with another whistle, and again yelled, in a voice that rose a... ...asy escape -although the effect of the door-mats on him was like a copious administration of snuff, and made him sneeze until the tears ran down his f...

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...atively modern days of the Diggory Chuzzlewit before mentioned, one of its members had at- tained to very great wealth and influence. Throughout such ... ...he had re- ceived from Messrs Tigg and Slyme touching the arrival of other members of the family, were fully confirmed on more particular inquiry. For... ...ere friends, and that Mr Chuzzlewit had said such kind and tender words as pierced his very heart, the two Miss Pecksniffs cried with one accord, ‘Tha... ... to look; and round about the vessel, far as the mariners on the decks can pierce into the gloom, they press upon her, forcing each other down and sta... ...y Journal, sir. That you never knew, sir, of its mighty influence upon the cabinets of Europe. Yes?’ ‘That’s what I was about to observe, certainly,’ ... ... dered by such fellows as this colonel, having no sufficient remedy in the administration of this country’s laws or in the decent and right-minded fee... ...rrier pigeon just thrown up, he suddenly made a dart at the draw- ing, and pierced the very centre of the main wharf, through and through. ‘There!’ he... ...ngings of the richest silk, gilded carvings, luxurious couches, glistening cabinets inlaid with precious woods; costly toys of every sort in negligent... ... a pair of pattens, a toasting-fork, a kettle, a pap-boat, a spoon for the administration of medicine to the refrac- tory, and lastly, Mrs Gamp’s umbr...

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...offence at any omissions or short-comings in the cer- emonies, the various members of Mr Dombey’s household subsided into their several places in the ... ...s together, when the dusk was closing in, too—she would some- times try to pierce the gloom beyond, and make out how he was looking and what he was do... ...tle ceremonies of the bath and toilette, she assisted with enthusiasm. The administration of infantine doses of physic awakened all the active sympath... ...ens to his deceased wife, which had been taken, among other things, from a cabinet in her chamber. It was not the first time that his eye had lighted ... ...rsity, and trembled in melancholy accord with the shrill complainings of a cabinet piano, wasting away , a string a day , and faintly resounding to th... ...et. It glistened like a bird’ s, and did not fix itself upon the game, but pierced the room from end to end, and gleamed on harp, performer, listener,... ...ntion, they began to wheel and falter; whereupon Mrs Richards’s first born pierced them with another whistle, and again yelled, in a voice that rose a... ...asy escape -although the effect of the door-mats on him was like a copious administration of snuff, and made him sneeze until the tears ran down his f... ...on to him, and Diogenes met that overture graciously, half-way. During the administration of the restoratives he had clearly been in two minds whether...

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...roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mist... ...ty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. “Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I be lieve?” says the Chancellor... ...Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful members of that tribe, he gave me such a savage frown. The face of each chi... ...nother corner a ragged old portmanteau on one of the two chairs serves for cabinet or wardrobe; no larger one is needed, for it collapses like the che... ...e discoloured shutters are drawn together, and through the two gaunt holes pierced in them, famine might be staring in—the banshee of the man upon the... ...ut not much to tell. Mrs. Piper lives in the court (which her husband is a cabinet maker), and it has long been well beknown among the neighbours (cou... ...at a debate used to be; the House is not what the House used to be; even a Cabinet is not what it formerly was. He perceives with astonishment that su... ...ree counties Juffy, Kuffy, and Luffy, and you would have strengthened your administration by the official knowl edge and the business habits of Muffy... ...on to his destruction again. Mr. Chadband, leaning forward over the table, pierces what he has got to follow directly into Mr. Snagsby with the thumb ...

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... though I can’t see ‘em. Take ‘em off, noble captain. Remove ‘em, for they pierce like gimlets.’ Mr Tappertit smiled grimly at his comrade; and twisti... ...closely as he could, expecting to discover sundry loopholes in his person, pierced by his adversary’s sword. Finding none, however, and observing in c... ... not?’ ‘Formerly the ‘Prentice Knights, my lord. The indentures of the old members expiring by degrees, they changed their name, it seems, though they... ...ed down there in grand array, their roars and shouts would be heard by the members inside; with a great deal more to the same purpose, all of which Hu... ... five years ago, to the Dolly of that day! How many coachmakers, saddlers, cabinet makers, and professors of other useful arts, had deserted their fa... ...ourse of people assembled round the Houses of Parlia ment, looking at the members as they entered and departed, and giving vent to rather noisy demon... ...eys upon which he looked, of the smoke and rising mist he vainly sought to pierce, of the shrill cries of children at their evening sports, the distan... ...er in the sup pression of the riots; that the sympathies of the King, the Administration, and both Houses of Parliament, and in deed of all good men...

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... and con- versing with each other, without taking much notice of the other members of the cavalcade. The companion of the church dignitary was a man p... ...his space, which was called the dais, was occu- pied only by the principal members of the family, and visi- tors of distinction. For this purpose, a t... ...his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and com- bine the scattered members of Prince John’s cabal. Few of these were attached to him from incl... ...t—take ten times more—reduce me to ruin and to beggary, if thou wilt,—nay, pierce me with thy poniard, broil me on that fur- nace, but spare my daught... ...s below them. They squeezed the heads of some with knotted cords till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with s... ...d! 4. All must perish! The sword cleaveth the helmet; The strong armour is pierced by the lance; Fire devoureth the dwelling of princes, Engines break... ...as he was by his personal good qualities and military fame, al- though his administration was wilfully careless, now too in- dulgent, and now allied t... ... Wardour preserves with such jealous care in the third drawer of his oaken cabinet, scarcely allowing any one to touch it, and being himself not able ...

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.....................106 Zachary Taylor............................119 Franklin Pierce...........................123 James Buchanan......................... ...ing inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.... ... these essential purposes, and may en able every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his char... ...e Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign off... ...now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated will in... ...ty is visible in the public countenance. The means employed by the Brit ish cabinet to undermine it have recoiled on themselves; have given to our na... ...all acknowledge no limits but those of our own widespread Republic. Franklin Pierce INAUGURAL ADDRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1853 On religious grounds, form... ... MARCH 4, 1853 On religious grounds, former Senator and Congressman Franklin Pierce chose “to affirm” rather than “to swear” the executive oath of off... ...son Administration, he had a distinguished career as a Senator, Congressman, Cabinet officer, and ambassador. The oath of office was administered by C...

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...ons of war; that every judge and magistrate abstain from it when about the administrations of his place or the consultations of the public affairs; th... ...ships and inconveniences; others have deprived themselves of their dearest members, as of sight, 48 Book the Second and of the instruments of generat... ...., i. 3, 12.] and could not believe that in so great a stupefaction of the members and so great a defection of the senses, the soul could maintain any... ...le after they are dead. Every one experimentally knows that there are some members which grow stiff and flag without his leave. Now, those passions wh... ...e to introduce itself ) it seemed to me like a flash of lightning that had pierced my soul, and that I came from the other world. This long story of s... ...all the more inclined and proud to be chaste. ’Tis reasonable to leave the administration of affairs to the mothers, till the children are old enough,... ... the soul is to play its part, but for ourselves within, where no eyes can pierce but our own; there she defends us from the fear of death, of pain, o... ...ous and strong, but what the first ray of the patient’s sight nevertheless pierces through and disperses, as the beams of the sun do thick and obscure... ...tion, the only substantial words. Alexander the Great, having found a rich cabinet amongst Darius’ spoils, gave order it should be reserved for him to...

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...rt could desire. Everything? Well, I suppose so. The little Gradgrinds had cabinets in various departments of science too. They had a little concholog... ...ets in various departments of science too. They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabi net, and a little mineralogical c... ...s well as I do, no young people have circus mas ters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about cir cuses. What can you possibly want t... ...e these. You saw nothing in Coketown but what was severely workful. If the members of a religious persuasion built a 21 CHARLES D ICKENS chapel there... ...of a religious persuasion built a 21 CHARLES D ICKENS chapel there—as the members of eighteen religious persua sions had done—they made it a pious w... ... this, be cause there was a native organization in Coketown itself, whose members were to be heard of in the House of Com mons every session, indign... ...om her place at the backgammon board, was constantly straining her eyes to pierce the shad ows without. ‘What’s the matter, ma’am?‘ said Mr. Bounderb... ...ough various stages of suffering on the floor. He next had recourse to the administration of potent restoratives, such as screwing the patient’s thumb...

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...echoes to him a sentiment of his in- fancy, a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricat... ...ociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock com- pany, in which the members agree, fo... ...rbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet. Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be under- stood. Yet a ma... ...ture to the powers of dis- simulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived w... ...r, and will not swerve from its chemical routine. Here is a planted globe, pierced and 118 Essays belted with natural laws and fenced and distributed... ...e changed, would cease to be, or would become some other thing,—the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of... ...always pon- ders. Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between re... ... into which each State divides it- self, of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government. Parties are also founded on instincts, an... ...ll of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of th...

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... indignation, borne on the tones of a wild and quite artless melody, could pierce so deep into many a British heart, now that the whole matter is no l... ...nscoting, and raised one step above the floor for the accommodation of the members of the assembly. This readily suggested to us why the order of rank... ...tice. We had already heard of the Golden Bull, and of the statutes for the administration of criminal justice. We knew, too, that he had not made the ... ... for the advantage of our opponents was denied or depreciated; and, as the members of the family on the other side did the same, they could not meet i... ...ider, nor could I get a footing so as to fly. I feared every instant to be pierced; for the partisans and lances, which had lifted them- selves up, we... ...mateurs. There were *A pun upon the name of Ochsenstein.—Trans. 89 Goethe cabinets of pictures, collections of engravings; while the curi- osities of... ...mber, were also brought together, and formed a spe- cial department of the cabinets. Such men my father appears generally to have taken as his models.... ... gable-end of the attic was given up to him, and immediately turned into a cabinet and studio; for he designed to keep all the artists at work for a l... ...Goethe with the point of his sword lodged in the knot of my hilt. This was pierced through; and he assured me that he had re- ceived the most complete...

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...aily dragging virgins to thy cave;—clad also in scales that no spear would pierce: no spear but Death’s? A Griffin not fabulous but real! Fright- ful,... ... of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever. In fact, if we pierce through that rosepink vapour of Sentimentalism, Philanthropy, and Fe... ...abiding his time. ‘Eighty thousand copies’ of his new Book, which he calls Administration des Finances, will be sold in few days. He is gone; but shal... ...is provincial assembly is to be prorogued this same day: Vivarais Assembly-members applaud, and the shouts of congregated men. Will victorious Analysi... ... the Commons have a ‘double representation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when o... ...nce, he liberally opens both his folding-doors; and on the other hand, for members of the Third Estate opens only one! However, there is room to enter... ...ht and left. They open; the living deluge rushes in. Through all rooms and cabinets, upwards to the topmost belfry: ravenous; seeking arms, seeking Ma... ...ertheless, news, despatches from Lafayette, or vague noise of rumour, have pierced through, by side roads. In the National Assembly, while all is busy... ...e, sure enough, poor Jerome l’Heritier, an unarmed National Guard he too, ‘cabinet-maker, a saddler’s son, of Paris, ’ with the down of youthhood stil...

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...aily dragging virgins to thy cave;—clad also in scales that no spear would pierce: no spear but Death’s? A Griffin not fabulous but real! Frightful, O... ... of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever. In fact, if we pierce through that rosepink vapour of Senti- mentalism, Philanthropy, and ... ...abiding his time. ‘Eighty thousand copies’ of his new Book, which he calls Administration des Finances, will be sold in few days. He is gone; but shal... ...ht and left. They open; the living deluge rushes in. Through all rooms and cabinets, upwards to the topmost belfry: raven- ous; seeking arms, seeking ... ...ertheless, news, despatches from Lafayette, or vague noise of rumour, have pierced through, by side roads. In the Na- tional Assembly, while all is bu... ... sure enough, poor Jerome l’Heritier, an unarmed Na- tional Guard he too, ‘cabinet-maker, a saddler’s son, of Paris,’ with the down of youthhood still... ... at bay, as forlorn hope, on the skirts of Poland; intriguing, battling in cabinet and field; roaming far out, obscure, as King’s spial, or sitting se... ...e, and self-dissolved; shall grant money-supplies and talk; watch over the administration and authorities; discharge for ever the func- tions of a Con... ...ommune, one may say that there never was on Earth a stranger Town-Council. Administration, not of a great City, but of a great Kingdom in a state of r...

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...ished race were suifficient to have accounted for the dignities which many members of the family attained, without any supernatural assistance. But th... ...their faction, failed not to embrace the same means of rewarding them. The administration of justice, in particular, was infected by the most gross pa... ...tool he would be for the use of those who are watching the downfall of our administration!” While these thoughts were agitating the mind of the wily s... ...report, and carefully lock- ing the memoranda which he had prepared into a cabinet which stood beside him, he proceeded to walk abroad, as if 38 Brid... ...evenge, which becomes a frequent though fearful consequence of the partial administration of justice. He endeavoured to disguise from Alice the nature... ...r The Lord Keeper was a veteran statesman, well acquainted with courts and cabinets, and intimate with all the various turns of public affairs during ... ...is of A—— had used his utmost influence to effect a change in the Scottish cabinet, and his schemes had been of late so well laid and so ably supporte... ...risen to warn me, and their warning has been despised. Are you prepared to pierce my heart for its fidelity with the very weapon which my rash confide... ...erest the various preparations of dress, etc., etc., which the differ- ent members of the family had prepared for the occasion. The morning dawned bri...

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...n Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemned the administration in relation to the war. If I remember, G. T. M. Davis, who h... ...of the act of the last session of Congress. The first amendment desired by members of this House had for its only object to give bounty lands to such ... ...n in the warfare against the principle which had engaged the minds of some members of Congress who were favorable to the improve- ments in the western... ...d I also desire to do nothing which may be very disagreeable to any of the members. I therefore state in advance that my object in taking the floor is... ... President tells us that “during the four succeeding years embraced by the administration of Presi- dent Adams, the power not only to appropriate mone... ...even dollars and one cent. These four years were the period of Mr. Adams’s administration, nearly and sub- stantially. This fact shows that when the p... ...atch that the question was narrowed down to Mr. B and myself, and that the Cabinet had postponed the appointment three weeks, for my benefit. Not doub... ...e before President Mon- roe for his approval, he put to each member of his cabinet this question: “Has Congress the constitutional power to prohibit s... ...is idle charge, the state of things in the United States disproved it. Mr. Pierce, of New Hampshire, and Mr. Bright, of Indiana, both from free States...

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...rvenir is nothing but a tissue and a mass of filth, and the too celebrated Cabinet Satyrique proves what, under Louis XIII., could be written, printed... ...nante, the object of which seems to be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did n... ...her, my gallant wimble, my pretty borer, my coney-burrow-ferret, my little piercer, my augretine, my dan- gling hangers, down right to it, stiff and s... ...p, stiff, strong, and well-steeled lance would he usually force up a door, pierce a harness, beat down a tree, carry away the ring, lift up a cuirassi... ...y came down from the top to the bottom, with such an even com- position of members that by the fall he would catch no harm. He did cast the dart, thro... ...at he made their puddings to gush out. To others through their ballocks he pierced their bumgut, and left not bowel, tripe, nor entrail in their body ... ...om he found upon his knees bareheaded, crouching in a little corner of his cabinet, and humbly praying unto God that he would vouchsafe to as- suage t... ... it war, it is but superficial; it entereth not into the closet and inmost cabinet of our hearts. For neither of us hath been wronged in his honour, n... ...eedingly useful for the ruling of kingdoms, the conduct of armies, and the administration of common- wealths; and that Socrates, who first got philoso...

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...of violent discussion in Congress, in the press, and by indi- viduals. The administration of President T yler, then in power, was making the most stre... ... to the time of which I write, and for years afterwards— I think until the administration of President Juarez—the cultivation, manufacture and sale of... ...vement into the interior. General Taylor was not an officer to trouble the administration much with his de- mands, but was inclined to do the best he ... ...ve been President of the United States during the term filled by President Pierce. Had Hamer filled that office his partiality for me was such, there ... ...al of his officers. He had not heard the call for a halt. General Franklin Pierce had joined the army in Mexico, at Puebla, a short time before the ad... ...of the road from San Augustin Tlalpam to the 77 U. S. Grant city, General Pierce attempted to accompany them. He was not sufficiently recovered to do... ...that the Nation had no power to save its own life. Mr. Buchanan had in his cabinet two members at least, who were as earnest—to use a mild term—in the... .... The navy was scattered in like manner. The President did not prevent his cabinet preparing for war upon their government, either by destroying its r... ...ntgomery, Alabama, as the Capital. The secessionists had then to leave the cabinet. In their own esti- mation they were aliens in the country which ha...

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...vation, prompted by vanity to print the effort for the benefit of fel- low-members of the local agricultural society. When the author had gone, David ... ...omers of yesterday. 32 Two Poets Prefects, receivers-general, and various administrations that have come and gone during the last forty years, have t... ...? The bloodthirsty insects are quick enough to drain every wound that they pierce. But I was happy; I lived. It is so long since all my heartstrings v... ...sy to get into her set; but you meet all the greatest people at her house, Cabinet ministers and ambassadors, and great orators from the Chamber of De...

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..., and devoted, either from fear or habit, to the tribe, whose strag- gling members she feeds and lodges. This people, ever mov- ing and changing, thou... ...young baron had seen her choose in the flower-shop. That voice of love now pierced his heart. Had he won the slightest right to be jealous of her he w... ...d not see the half-magnetic glance with which this strange being seemed to pierce him; had he encountered that basilisk eye he might have felt the dan... ... its red-calico curtains, its Utrecht velvet furniture, its tea-table, the cabinet of china with painted designs, the sofa, the little moquette carpet... ...ly, I charge you! Lead those who suffer up to him; com- fort the sorrowing members of his Church. Farewell, dear soul that I have filled! I know you; ... ... et nunc; I should require a report.” A report is to the present system of administration what limbo or hades is to Christianity. Jacquet knew very we... ... office in motion, and once in motion matters would go far. But as for the administration, that might take the case be- fore the Council of state,—a m... ... ministerial, although a vast 105 Balzac number of persons come under his administration, and a good many employees. And this governor of the dead ha...

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...ular cour- tesy ushered Prince Andrew before him along a corri- dor to the cabinet where the Minister of War was at work. The adjutant by his elaborat... ...litics. Prince Andrew and the others gathered round these two. “The Berlin cabinet cannot express a feeling of alli- ance,” began Hippolyte gazing rou... ...fully washed seams of the scar near his temple, where an Ismail bullet had pierced his skull, and the empty eye socket. “Y es, he has a right to speak... ... Pierre moved forward with his breast toward the swords, mean- ing them to pierce it. But the swords were drawn back from him and he was at once blind... ...eans we have of gaining them. That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet,” said the Danish charge d’affaires. “The doubt is flattering,” sai... ... color; its undulating outline was silhouetted against the horizon and was pierced beyond V aluevo by the Smolensk highroad crowded with troops. Neare... ...rom retreat to advance, an exposure of the weakness of the French, and the administration of that shock which Napoleon’s army had only awaited to begi... ... to put an end to disorder and to re-establish public security. A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality o... ...es came to beg him to buy them, and long after his death the memory of his administration was devoutly preserved among the serfs. “He was a master... ...

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...iction with The Hawthorne family that a curse had been pronounced upon its members, which continued in force in the time of The romancer; a conviction... ...e, the breed had not thriven; it appeared rather to be dying out. The only members of the family known to be extant were, first, the Judge himself, an... ...nce of the younger shopwoman by the multiplicity of their calls during her administration of affairs. Dinner over, Hepzibah 122 The House of the Seve... ...m as in a robe, which he hugged about his person, and seldom let realities pierce through; he was not often quite awake, but slept open-eyed, and perh... ...endor—hung on the walls. Near the fireplace was a large and very beautiful cabinet of ebony, inlaid with ivory; a piece of antique furniture, which Mr...

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.... I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here.” “Well, dear, we should never wear them, you know.” Dorothea ... ... been long medi tated and prearranged. “Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel box.” The casket was soon open before them, a... ...offer, and she turned to the window to admire the view. The sun had lately pierced the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. “Shall we not walk ... ...ife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed. A wild shriek pierced the house, and the Provencale fell swooning: a shriek and a swoon w... ...ect and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which prepare human misery a... ...ce. What the opposition in Middlemarch said about the New Hospital and its administration had certainly a great deal of echo in it, for heaven has tak... ...ft the pegs a little,” he said to himself, “and Mr. Brooke might be in the Cabinet, while I was Under Secretary. That is the common order of things: t... ...it as a residence, partially withdrawing from his present exertions in the administration of business, and throwing more con spicuously on the side o... ... I presume.” The chief new instruction that Lydgate had to give was on the administration of extremely moderate doses of opium, in case of the sleeple...

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.... I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here.” “Well, dear, we should never wear them, you know.” Dorothea ... ...ad been long meditated and prearranged. “Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box.” The casket was soon open before them, a... ... men who had so few spontaneous ideas might 30 Middlemarch be very useful members of society under good feminine direc- tion, if they were fortunate ... ...offer, and she turned to the window to admire the view. The sun had lately pierced the gray, and the avenue of limes cast shadows. “Shall we not walk ... ...ife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed. A wild shriek pierced the house, and the Provencale fell swoon- ing: a shriek and a swoon... ...ect and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation; he wanted to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes which pre- pare human misery... ...ft the pegs a little,” he said to himself, “and Mr. Brooke might be in the Cabinet, while I was Under-Secretary. That is the common order of things: t... ...it as a residence, partially withdrawing from his present exertions in the administration of business, and throwing more conspicuously on the side of ... ... I presume.” The chief new instruction that Lydgate had to give was on the administration of extremely moderate doses of opium, in case of the sleeple...

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...r azure borders in her book, and she loved the sick lamb, the sacred heart pierced with sharp arrows, or the poor Jesus sinking beneath the cross he c... ...alm of passions daily satiated, and through all their gentleness of manner pierced that peculiar brutality , the result of a command of half-easy thin... ...e leaf of a water-lily an insect with fine legs crawled or rested. The sun pierced with a ray the small blue bubbles of the waves that, breaking, fol-... ...illage. It was a false alarm. The prefect seemed not to be coming, and the members of the jury felt much embarrassed, not knowing if they ought to beg... ...face 122 Madame Bovary to face, their foreheads almost touching, with the members of the jury all round, the municipal council, the notable per- sona... ... by you all), may I be permit- ted, I say , to pay a tribute to the higher administration, to the government to the monarch, gentle men, our sovereign... ...and behind his ear in order not to lose a syllable. The chins of the other members of the jury went slowly up and down in their waistcoats in sign of ... ...following Friday, as Charles was put- ting on one of his boots in the dark cabinet where his clothes were kept, he felt a piece of paper between the l...

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... always had a pen behind his ear when he answered the bell. Although a few members of the graver professions live about Golden Square, it is not exact... ... they were clapping them, in came Sir Matthew Pupker, attended by two live members of Parliament, one Irish and one Scotch, all smiling and bowing, an... ...lemen who were on speaking terms with Sir Matthew Pupker, or the two other members, crowded round them in three little groups, near one or other of wh... ...g him, with many tears, a detailed account of the dimensions of a rosewood cabinet piano they had possessed in their days of affluence, together with ... ...ancellor of the Exchequer at least. After a great deal of trouble, and the administration of many slaps on the head to the infant Kenwigses, whereof t... ...the hardest trial I have had. Have mercy on me, sir, I beseech, and do not pierce my heart with such appeals as these. I—I hear him calling. I—I—must ...