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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...an; and, in that light, a more comfortable winter than the last.” “Life is progressive, Sergeant, in its comforts as well as in its need of them. W e ... ...ed the French; and those who then lived probably would have considered the alliance which took place between the cis-Atlantic subjects and the ancient...

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Heartsease or Brother's Wife

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...sterly friendship. His spirits were in that state of revival when a mutual alliance would have greatly added to the enjoyment of both; but Theodora ha... ...ure of beau- tiful scenery, the watchful care of her kind brother, and the progressive improvement of her babe, produced the desired effect; and when ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...tural occupier of space the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating ... ...to help the Serbs fight the Greeks. Thus, the Balkanian kaleidoscope of loyalties, alliances and everlasting friendship was tilted more savagely th... ...ty and reserve) and with the tacit blessing of Tsar Boris and the forming National Alliance (later renamed the Democratic Alliance), they did away ... ...ught of the greatest terrorist of all, of Hitler. While some versions of the unholy alliance between the Bulgarian-Macedonian outfit and the Croats ... ...t ballooned because it delivered where Rugova didn't even promise. It delivered an alliance with the USA against the hated Serbs. It delivered weap... ... on a spate of coalition-forming, initially with Bardhyl Mahmuti of the Democratic Progressive Party of Kosovo (PPDK) - the former KLA representati... ...g and naïve kids, believing or wanting to believe in goodness of the "New World, a progressive future of the mankind". At worst they were in the hu...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has progressively dehumanized itself to the point where it is now no longe... ...e rest of this book will explain and analyze exactly how this process of this progressive dehumanization of the human species happened. … Only when... ...a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has progressively dehumanized itself to the point where it is now no longe... ...e rest of this book will explain and analyze exactly how this process of this progressive dehumanization of the human species happened. … Only when... ...ich has become psychotic. It is a form of cultural insanity which is getting progressively worse.. People living in cities covered with concrete and... ...use of it. Because of this, all of Europe joined against him in an unheard of alliance. Kingdoms that had once been enemies for centuries: suddenly... ...lking them bribing them… It will become so full of secret deals and nefarious alliances and friendships and feuds… Everything the pitchers do will ... ...ay… you wouldn’t know where the trophy is, now: would you?…’ How many secret alliances between supposed archrivals might be hatched behind closed do... ...washing, mass affluence, mass terrorization, governments, corporations, secret alliances, secret conspiracies, secret plans, secret agendas. And so ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...he technology will not over- come their resistance through an insurmountable progressive impulse. 94 For others, the impact of a generative system may... ... for transmission.”). 47. See generally Randolph Court & Robert D. Atkinson, Progressive Pol’y Inst., How to Can Spam: Legislative Solutions to the Pr... ...oadband Statistics Q2 2006.pdf. 51. America Online & Nat’l Cyber Security Alliance, AOL/NCSA Online Safety Study 2 (Dec. 2005), http://www.staysafe... ... 559 (1976). 70. Id. 71. In 1979, the U.S. government blocked publication of Progressive article “The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We’re T elling... ...- clear weapons functioned. The case was later dropped. See United States v. Progressive, Inc., 467 F . Supp. 990 (W .D. Wis. 1979); see also A. DV...

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The Dukes Children

By: Anthony Trollope

...he House of Lords in some coming session, and the great value of political alliances early in life, till the young Peer began to think that Lady Cantr... ... think all those conventional rules about men and women are absurd?’ ‘As a progressive American, of course I am bound to think all conventional rules ... ... same. I take upon myself to say that, had the world been informed that an alliance had been arranged between the eldest son of the Duke of Omnium and... ...ugh we were a narrow class, already too closely bound together by fam- ily alliances. The room for choice might be wide enough for you without going a... ... was satisfied. But when the marriage was spoken of, or written of, as an ‘alliance’, then he would say a hard word or two about dukes and lords in ge...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...rmerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to an alliance with one of these great surrounding houses; and he had a passion f... ...without a word. Mr. Pempton believed that the Vegetarian movement was more progressive in England than in other lands, but he was at the disadvantage ... ...it is more serviceable to party than agree- able to country; and where the alliance of men and women binds a loving couple, of whom one is a torrent o... ...rther news, corroborative and consecutive, to show the action of things as progressive. Fenellan had sunk into his usual apathy:—and might plead the i... ...as impossible for him to speak the torments of those days of the monstrous alliance. The 111 George Meredith heavens were cognizant. He pleaded his c... ...sure you, my love, he touched chords.’ ‘Did he allude to advantages in the alliance with him?’ Nataly asked smoothly. ‘His passion—nothing else. Candi... ...erchants, whose preference for the plain positive, upon the question of an alliance between families by marriage, lends them for once a resemblance to... ...ow here!’ Skepsey had rushed across an open space to intercept a leisurely progressive man, whose hat was of the shape Victor knew; and the man wore t...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...for making it. In spite of all ap- parent changes in his conduct (for this alliance naturally af- fected it somewhat) he remained faithful to the popu... ...innocence. Catherine then heard officially from the Pope’s own lips of the alliance reserved for her. The Duke of Albany had been able to do no more t... ...e an interest in his death, for Francois I. was negotiating for his son an alliance which would assuredly have aggrandized France. The count’s confess... ...supported by a powerful party,—the Catholic party,—and by the two powerful alliances Diane had made in marrying one daughter to Robert de la Mark, Duc... ... insult to the favorite. Diane’s greatest ambition was for the honor of an alliance with the royal family of France. The hand of her second daughter (... ...they died, and, above all, the impres- sion produced upon the crowd by the progressive diminu- tion of the chanting voices, superseded the fear inspir...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ceiving the bad effect produced upon the meeting by this rhapsody, and the progressive confusion of the speaker, I whis- pered (pulling his coat gentl... ...es of warfare— offensive and defensive; the financial means, the available alliances, and other resources, are with so much difficulty appraised—in or... ...ands on common ground; but how this mode of shedding terror can borrow any alliance from chapels, from ruins, from monastic piles, from Inquisi- tion ... ... 131 Thomas de Quincey the strongest barrier (viz., that against Mahometan alliances) is known to have given way, as in other cases innumerable, but f... ...hurch. But that did not hinder alli- ances, and ambitious attempts at such alliances, with their Venetian masters in the most distinguished of the Gre... ...e self-styled Evangelicals), he despised them so profoundly as to make all alliance between them impossible. He hated also many indi- viduals; but, no...

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

By: George Meredith

...of insufferable, because unwarrantable, pride, and drawing, substance from alliances with the merchant class. 245 George Meredith Are they your leade... .... ‘So it was considered that in refusing my cousin Otto and other proposed alliances, I was heart-free. An instructed prin- cess, they thought, was of... ...m the point of view of the pretender to the supreme honour of the splendid alliance, the fault was none of hers. She overlooked his humble, his peculi... ...titled to be considered a fit and proper person, in rank and blood, for an alliance with the proudest royal Houses of Europe, and my grandfather was n... ...e of his very oldest, I’d say, if it didn’t impugn. As such, proud of your alliance. I am. I speak of it everywhere—everywhere.’ Here she dramatized t... ...ic could not. I knew, nevertheless, that to the rest of the world he was a progressive comedy: and the knowledge made him seem more tragic still. He c...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e succeed! How noble a task is that which has no instrument but love! Such alliances, made famous by the example of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Alcibi... ... good family, in whose favor the King will grant this distinction. Such an alliance will get Lucien on in the world and at Court. This boy, of whom I ... ...han four daughters to provide for. No one doubted that in honor of such an alliance the King would revive for Lucien the title of Marquis. This distin... ...can come to you will be death, which you 75 Balzac now wish to meet.” The alliance between these two beings, who were to be- come one, as it were, wa... ...d Justice, are lowered in this nineteenth century, which asserts itself as progressive in all things. “And why should you never be promoted?” said Ame... ...hese hapless creatures danger lies everywhere; excepting in the case of an alliance as ominous as the prison where it was formed, they dare not trust ...

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Another Study of Woman

By: Honoré de Balzac

...acle in the way of this prospect, this distin- guished life, this splendid alliance. Ah! Charlotte, some day you will do me justice by discovering how... ...ied de Marsay. “For very nearly fifty years we have been looking on at the progressive ruin of all social distinctions. We ought to have saved our wom...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...s got a motor bicycle …. 2 2 2 2 2 Bert, it is necessary to explain, was a progressive Smallways. Nothing speaks more eloquently of the pitiless insis... ...ddie, and at last helper in a bicycle shop. Here, apparently, he found the progressive quality his nature had craved. His employer was a pirate-souled... ...e. It was always a very rhetorical and often a trying affair, but in these progressive times you have to make a noise to get a living. It was often ha... ...question of univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, adva... ...redominance in the world’s affairs. Then the German 68 The War in the Air alliance still struggled to achieve its dream of imperial ex- pansion, and ... ...ornamental, a long streaming flag, the red, black, and yellow of the great alliance, the Sun- rise and the Dragon. Beyond, to the east, at a much high... ...ad made. Yet they thought confidently that this was a secure and permanent progressive system, and on the strength of some three hundred years of chan...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

... our being Chris tians and Protestants, of neighbouring countries in strict alliance, that he would move the captains to take some pity on us. This i... ...d by men, who were able (as it should seem) to raise or sink, or put it into progressive motion, as they pleased. But not being at that time in a disp... ...voy age lasted four days and a half. I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island. On the second morning, ... ... south eastward of Japan, about a hundred leagues distant. There is a strict alliance between the Japanese emperor and the king of Luggnagg; which aff... ... ions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve. Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between prince... ...ith hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflect ing on the near alliance I had to them. For although, since my unfortunate exile from the...

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In the Cage

By: Henry James

...e saw him the very next day, and on this second occasion it was quite different; the sense of every syl- lable he paid for was fiercely distinct; she ... ... cipher about. The week proves blissfully fine, and her mother, at their lodgings—partly to her embarrassment and partly to her relief—struck up with ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...eys. With one of them, from whom he first received overtures, he formed an alliance, and became what he now was, the military leader of the tribe, and... ...e brought us troops of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The reall... ... A few very brief extracts will enable the reader to mark for himself what progressive improvement, if any, has taken place. Nor must it be overlooked... ...ing, being unwilling to entangle themselves 177 Melville in a matrimonial alliance, however splendid in point of fam- ily. Tonoi’s men, the fishermen... ...r, an island about one hundred miles from T ahiti. This proving an unhappy alliance, the pair were soon afterwards divorced. The present husband of th...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ght have coarser tastes than that. You see they’re very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel mor... ...e sort of way. The common lot? Why, I’m devoted to the common lot! Strike an alliance with me, and I promise you that you shall have plenty of it. You... ...t have told you why, but she found something that ministered to mirth in the alliance the correspondent of the Inter viewer had struck with Lady Pens... ...r for the first time in England, several months ago, and we struck up a grand alliance. I like her immensely, and I do what I don’t do every day—I admi... ...ver, to think that he had taken it into his head to marry her niece. Such an alliance, on Isabel’s part, would have an air of almost morbid perversity... ...thing to grudge to Henrietta’s violated conscience. Osmond had thought their alliance a kind of monstrosity; he couldn’t imagine what they had in comm... ...y correspondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed t...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...t have coarser tastes than that. You see they’re very luxurious, and these progressive ideas are about their biggest luxury. They make them feel moral... ...rt of way. The com- mon lot? Why, I’m devoted to the common lot! Strike an alliance with me, and I promise you that you shall have plenty of it. You s... ...or the first time in England, several months ago, and we struck up a grand alliance. I like her immensely, and I do what I don’t do every day— I admir... ...r, to think that he had taken it into his head to marry her niece. Such an alliance, on Isabel’s part, would have 289 Henry James an air of almost mo... ...ing to grudge to Henrietta’s violated conscience. Osmond had thought their alliance a kind of monstrosity; he couldn’t imagine what they had in common... ...rre- spondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed tha...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...moved from each other. In the one is shown the result of long centuries of progressive Civilization and refinement, which have gradually converted the... ... as it is termed with us, might have been followed by an immediate nuptial alliance. At any rate, I have more than one reason to believe that tedious ... ...hiefly prize. They have at least twenty different terms to express as many progressive stages in the growth of the nut. Many of them reject the fruit ...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...e. Here, then, we have one side of the case. Man-eating among kindly men, child-murder among child-lovers, in- dustry in a race the most idle, inventi... ...ption had caused much excitement in the vil- lage; it made the strangers popular. Paaaeua, in his difficult posture of appointed chief, drew strength ... ...metimes from the midst of the roof, an aerial whistling proceeds, appalling to the in- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its...

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