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The Death of the Lion

By: Henry James

... as if he had been 12 The Death of the Lion overtaken on the crest of the hill and brought back to the city. A little more and he would have dipped d... ...esumably secured without a per- sonal interview. She couldn’t have worried George Wash- ington and Friedrich Schiller and Hannah More. She met this ar... ...slightly anomalous in a house where a great author lay critically ill. “Le roy est mort—vive le roy”: I was reminded 39 Henry James that another grea...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...d; and mother to Earl Warwick the King- maker, the Marquis of Montagu, and George Nevil, Arch- bishop of York. As nothing is known of her but her name... ...idest part of the valley, a sort of plat- form of rock jutted out from the hill-side, and afforded a station for one of those tall, narrow, grim-looki... ...olm, who had married the heiress of Glenuskie, had been killed at Homildon Hill, when he had solemnly charged his Stewart nephews and brothers to leav... ...scathless. When will the breadth of Scotland be as safe as these En- glish hills?’ He was very kind to his young companion, treating him in all things... ...d with tiny embroidered white ante- lopes; the Garter was on his knee, the George on his neck. It was a kingly garb, and well became the tall slight p... ...you mean me kindly.’ ‘Nay, now,’ continued Philippe, ‘I know how to honour roy- alty, even in durance; nor will I even press Madame la Dau- phine on y... ...mine arm it would have been lopped off like a bough of a tree, but, by St. George’s grace, it lit here, between my neck and shoulder, and stuck fast a...

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The Life of Henry the Fifth

By: William Shakespeare

... on the full Power of France: 255 Whiles his most mightie Father on a Hill 256 Stood smiling, to behold his Lyons Whelpe 257 Forrage in... ...and vpon this Charge, 1117 Cry, God for Harry, England, and S[aint]. George. 1118 Alarum, and Chambers goe off. 1119 Enter Nim, Bardolp... ...281 What Reyne can hold licentious Wickednesse, 1282 When downe the Hill he holds his fierce Carriere? 1283 We may as bootlesse spend our v... ... I loue the louely Bully. What is thy Name? 1896 King. Harry le Roy. 1897 Pist. Le Roy? a Cornish Name: art thou of Cornish Crew?... ...stant. Take a Trumpet Herald, 2582 Ride thou vnto the Horsemen on yond hill: 2583 If they will fight with vs, bid them come downe, 2584 Or... ...: 3194 Shall not thou and I, betweene Saint Dennis and Saint 3195 George, compound a Boy, halfe French halfe English, [k1v 3196 that sh... ...lt thou 3234 haue me? 3235 Kath. Dat is as it shall please de Roy mon pere. 3236 King. Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it s... ..., and with this additi-on, 3330 in French: Nostre trescher filz Henry Roy d’ Angleterre 3331 Heretere de Fraunce: and thus in Latine; Prae...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...single illustration. In describing impressive scen- ery, as occurring in a hilly or a woody country, everybody must have noticed the habit which young... ...f us- ing the word amphitheatre: ‘amphitheatre of woods’— ‘amphitheatre of hills,’—these are their constant expressions. Why? Is it because the word a... ...image—half withdrawn, half-flashed upon the eye—and combined with the word hills or forests, is thrown into powerful collision with the silence of hil... ...y; that was pretty much the course taken by a young man who lived before T roy: and see what came of it. This man, in fact a boy of seventeen, had wal... ...epaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with... ...ern and English treatment of its topics. Caesar, upon this system, becomes George the Second—a very strange sort of Caesar; and Pope is supposed to ha...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...no more than a shelled pea-cod; and I will visit his Lindabrides, by Saint George, be he willing or no!” 29 Sir Walter Scott “I would gladly pay your... ...bitation of Anthony Foster. The village of Cumnor is pleasantly built on a hill, and in a wooded park closely adjacent was situated the ancient man- s... ...dogs than one. He has the stanch lyme-hound to track the wounded buck over hill and dale, but he hath also the fleet gaze-hound to kill him at view. T... ...d to wear. See, here is the star which belongs to it, and here the Diamond George, the jewel of the order. You have heard how King Edward and the Coun... ...t of thine old bauble, ambition, thou shalt not tire; for as you climb the hill, my lord, you must drag Rich- ard Varney up with you, and if he can ur... ...ave I not such a claim even in this kingdom? That of York, descending from George of Clarence to the House of Huntingdon, which, this lady failing, ma... ... suddenly sinking his voice, he added—”since the valiant Sir Pandarus of T roy,”—a winding-up of his clam- orous applause which set all men a-laughing...

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The Children of the Night

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

........................................................... 17 The House on the Hill ....................................................................... .............................................................................32 George Crabbe .............................................................. ....................................................................60 The Dark Hills....................................................................... ............................................................................124 Hillcrest .................................................................. ...more learned than I am. Ucalegon he lost his house When Agamemnon came to T roy; But who can tell me who he was — I’ll pray the gods to give him joy... ...ch one banner from the western skies, And mark it with his name forevermore? George Crabbe Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows, Hide him in lo... ...borrow for the nonce. He’ll never miss it. We mean his Western Majesty, King George. HAMILTON I mean the man who rode by on his horse. I’ll beg of... ... passions you are singing Are a long way from Athens and a longer way from T roy. “When we promise more than ever of what never shall arrive, And you ...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

... of gratitude and pleasure. I shall love while I have life her people, her hills, and her houses, and even the very stones of her streets. And if in t... ...men of Boston. The company consisted of about two hundred, among whom were George Bancroft, Washington Allston, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The toast o... ...he phantoms of his own imagination—Waverley, Ravenswood, Jeanie Deans, Rob Roy, Caleb Balderstone, Dominie Sampson—all the famil iar throng—with cava... ...lhambra and made eloquent its shadows? Who awakes there a voice from every hill and in every cavern, and bids legends, which for centuries have slept ... ...y desire to see in every town in England. Next, I be lieve, is the Spring Hill College, a learned institution be longing to the body of Independents... ...rn to the next toast on my list:—”The health of your worthy Treasurer, Mr. George Moore,” a name which is a synonym for integrity, enter prise, publi... ...ress you in his own behalf. I propose to you, therefore, the health of Mr. George Moore, the T reasurer of this charity, and I need hardly add that it...

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Records of a Family of Engineers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... ran before Gowrie House ‘with ane sword, and, entering to the yearde, saw George Craiggingilt with ane twa-handit sword and utheris nychtbouris; at q... ...to him in Biggar, and seemingly deserted her; she was hanged on the Castle Hill for infanticide, June 1614; and Martin, elder in Dalkeith, eternally d... ...tion from the Gaelic which in olden days may have been sometimes reversed. Roy becomes Reid; Gow, Smith. A great Highland clan uses the name of Robert... ...eers scribed of the clan MacGregor, who was born among the willows or in a hill-side sheep-pen – “Son of my love,” a heraldic bar sinister, but histor... ...ist. But I am enabled, by my very lively and obliging corre- spondent, Mr. George A. Macgregor Stevenson of New York, to give an actual instance. His ... ...led his adherence to the Protestant Succes- sion by baptising his next son George. This George be- came the publisher and editor of the Wesleyan Times... ...ular; they took a name as a man takes an umbrella against a shower; as Rob Roy took Campbell, and his son took Drummond. But this case is different; S... ...Clarinda survived, not far away, and may have met the ladies on the Calton Hill; and many of the writers appear, underneath the conventions of the pe-...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Research Press Rehobot... ...elperier); he leads towards surrealism the Prevertian heredity (Claude Le Roy) and towards “the political significance the holding of silence” (Jean-... ...t it re-constructs an absence. Derrida, after the Americans P. de Man, J. Hillis Miller, H. Blom, opposes the humanist tradition of the New Critique.... ...on between I and World, Being and Non-Being (Trakl, Mallarme, Poe, Stefan George) is rediscovered similarly, in nuce, in the problematical-made cali... ...ntions, that produce the hilarity of the avant-garde), Ion Negoitescu and George Tomaziu’s recently published diaries. Concerning one of them, the cr... ... and contests; it is placed “under the sign of buffoonery” - as Claude Le Roy notes in The word in 56 front, but under this sign “imperious need ... .... (SUPERSEEKER by NJA. Soane, S. Plouffe, B. Salvy, ATT Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N. J. A.). * Paradoxism can be considered the poetics of pataphys... ...ecrire, in “La toisson d’or”, Bergerac, France, 1989, no.12, pp26-27. Le Roy, Claude, Avant-Propos, preface at the author’s volume Antichambres/ An...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Eg... ...eredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Egoist by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ... (delayed by birds’ eggs in the delivery), to say that he was off over the hills, and thought of dining with Dr. Corney. Sir Willoughby despatched con... ...land.” “Do you call our country flat, Miss Middleton? We have undulations, hills, and we have sufficient diversity, mead- ows, rivers, copses, brooks,... ...hness of foliage, wood and wa- ter, and a church-spire, a town and horizon hills. There sung a sky-lark. “Not even the bird that does not fly away!” s... ... of my friend Mr. Whitford. He is my sea-bath and supper on the beach of T roy, after the day’s battle and dust.” Vernon walked straight up to them: a...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...ith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Celt and Saxon by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith CELT and SAXON By George Meredith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN... ...wner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining hi... ...r Philip’s love and lost love: here she had been to Philip flame along the hill-ridges, his rose-world in the dust-world, the saintly in his earthly. ... ...him in a strange district though he had never cast eye on her. Yonder bare hill she came racing up with a plume in the wind: she was over the long bro... ...or she’s that fiery dragon, a beautiful woman with brains—which Helen of T roy hadn’t, combustible as we know her to have been: but brains are bombshe...

... travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that h...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...licked about like two dolphins, though Hobbes must have been as old as the hills; and “in those intervals wherein they abstained from swimming and plu... ...breadth of style. This good lady’s murder took place early in the reign of George III., a reign which was notoriously favorable to the arts generally.... ...s old as the valleys at the dinner of 1812, naturally he was as old as the hills at the Thug dinner of 1838. He had taken to wearing his beard again; ... ...E THOUGHT of her? What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that—like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the h... ...The romantic interest of the early and irrelate incidents (last night of T roy, &c.) is thrown as an affluent into the general river of the personal n... ...y was a state- coach. It had been specially selected as a personal gift by George III.; but the exact mode of using it was a mystery to Pekin. The amb...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...tephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narra... ...r refuge, and himself took up his abode in the caves of the wild limestone hills that had become familiar to him when he was a shepherd. Brave cap- ta... ...nd fear: ‘To arms! To arms! Sir Consul, Lars Porsena is here.’ On the low hills to westward The Consul fixed his eye, And saw the swarthy storm of d... ...and had lost many of his friends. His little army went wandering among the hills, sometimes encamping in the woods, sometimes crossing the lakes in sm... ...And they should keep who can.’ [Footnote: These lines of Wordsworth on Rob Roy’s grave almost literally translate the speech Plutarch gives the first ... ...ay and lost in the Revolu- tion of 1849. 159 Yo n g e GEOR GEOR GEOR GEOR GEORGE GE GE GE GE THE THE THE THE THE TRILLER TRILLER TRILLER TRILLER TRIL... ...y train—the parents twain, And here the princess two, Here with his pole, George, stout of soul, And all his comrades true. High swells the chant, a... ..., the Cheva- lier de la Valette Cornusson, to Messina to entreat the Vice- roy of Sicily to hasten to their relief; to give him a chart of the entranc... ...ch the T urks were defeated; they again took to their ships, and the Vice- roy of Sicily, from Syracuse, beheld their fleet in full sail for the East....

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...dinary of these. Three curious stones, called Kits Coty House, on Bluebell Hill, near Maidstone, in Kent, form another. We know, from examination of t... ...prisoners of them; they fell, fighting, in such great numbers that certain hills in Scot land are yet supposed to be vast heaps of stones piled up ab... ... dawn of day, they arose. There, in the faint light, were the English on a hill; a wood behind them; in their midst, the Royal banner, representing a ... ... the Prince to this, ‘Advance, English banners, in the name of God and St. George!’ and on they pressed until they came up with the French King, fight... ... some young man started up and eclipsed the Earl of Somerset . This was George Villiers , the youngest son of a Leicestershire gentleman: who came ... ... effect the Earl’s escape. The plotting with the army was revealed by one George Goring, the son of a lord of that name: a bad fellow who was one of ... ...f bed in no time, and went to work with such energy that he got behind the Roy alist army and cut it off from all communication with Scot land. Ther...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Three

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...w he should educate her boy; how to be a country clergy- man, like saintly George Herbert or pious Dr. Ken, was the happiest and greatest lot in life;... ... a razor. He held poor Will Mountford in talk that night, when bloody Dick Hill ran him through. He will come to a bad end, will that young lord; and ... ...uve famme. Elle est furieuse cont vous, allans tous les jours chercher ley Roy (d’icy) demandant a gran cri revanche pour son Mary. Elle ne veux voyre... ...t mean you all by bepraising her? Mr. Steele, who was in waiting on Prince George, seeing her with her two children going to Kensington, writ a poem a... ...laimed by trumpeting heralds all over the town from Westminster to Ludgate Hill, amidst immense jubilations of the people. Next week my Lord Marlborou... ...s called in France and by his party here (this Prince, or Chevalier de St. George, was born in the same year with Esmond’s young pupil Frank, my Lord ... ...through, it may be a league and a half, before Lutzingen and up to a woody hill, round the base of which, and acting against the Prince of Savoy, were... ...endid courtiers and cavaliers of the Maison 78 Henry Esmond – Book Two du Roy, that fought under V endosme and Villeroy in the army opposed to ours, ... ...d besides the excellent Spanish and Ba- varian troops, the whole Maison-du-Roy with him, the most splendid body of horse in the world,—in an hour (and...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... D. Harrell. Lieutenant Commanding Edward Donaldson. Lieutenant Commanding George H. Preble. Lieu- tenant Commanding Edward T. Nichols. Lieutenant Com... ...lbert N. Smith. Lieutenant Commanding Pierce Crosby. Lieutenant Commanding George M. Ransom. Lieu- tenant Commanding Watson Smith. Lieutenant Commandi... ...rder of the President: EDWIN M. STANTON, Secre- tary of War. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, Com- manding Army of the Potomac, before Richmond. PRO... ... Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and Sout... ... to five miles from us on all the roads—I think nearly the whole army—both Hills, Longstreet, Jackson, Magruder, Huger. THE PRESIDENT: [to the corps c... ...killed, Stone- wall Jackson severely wounded, and Generals Heth and A. P . Hill slightly wounded. The Richmond papers also stated, upon what authority... ... present movement, Lee gathered in all available scraps, and added them to Hill’s and Ewell’s corps; but that is all, and he made the movement in the ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Two

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... well served, but the furious and repeated charges of the famous Maison du Roy, which we had to receive and beat off again and again, with volleys of ... ... heard that fighting was to begin; and the arrival of the Chevalier de St. George was announced about May. “It’s the King’s third campaign, and it’s m... ...perialists, and particularly civil and polite towards the Chevalier de St. George. ’Tis certain that mes- sengers and letters were continually passing... ... young Castlewood, whose age and figure he resembled. The Chevalier de St. George acknowledged the salute, and looked at us hard. Even the idlers on o... ...Holt. She is heart and soul for the good cause. And here the cry is Vif-le-Roy, which my mother will join in, and Trix too. Break this news to ‘em gen... ...th crops and corn, the shining river rolling through it towards the pearly hills beyond; all these were before us, along with a thousand beautiful mem... ...ther of the maids to the Queen of his Majesty King James the Third—Vive le Roy!” and she made him a great curtsy, and drank a part of a glass of wine ...

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The Life and Death of King John

By: William Shakespeare

... Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow, 196 And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter; 197 For new made honor doth forget mens n... ... Fran. Amen, Amen, mount Cheualiers to Armes. 595 Bast. Saint George that swindg’d the Dragon, 596 And ere since sit’s on’s horsebac... ...aduantage of the field. 606 Fra. It shall be so, and at the other hill 607 Command the rest to stand, God and our right. Exeunt 608 ... ...arre? 2356 Haue I not heard these Islanders shout out 2357 Viue le Roy, as I haue bank’d their Townes? 2358 Haue I not heere the best Card...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...mongst these helpers he himself could swear to as active boys from Vinegar Hill. Trivial enough, meantime, in our eyes, was any little matter of re- ... ...ence in the matter of the bogs, he had certainly carried a pike at Vinegar Hill; and probably had stolen a pair of boots at Furnes, when he kindly mad... ...e facts of history, reaching Herodotus through such *“About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmurin... ...thern side the Bristol Cathedral, up and down which, early in the reign of George III., Chatterton walked in jubi- lant spirits with fair young women ... ... consid- eration. Dr. Cyril Jackson had been tutor to the Prince of Wales (George IV.); he had repeatedly refused a bishopric; and that, perhaps, is e... ...llington,” or “Arthur,” and as “Liverpool.” Now, as to the private talk of George IV . in such cases, I do not pretend to depose; but, speaking genera... ...hologic character, such as those of Prometheus, Hercules, &c. The era of T roy and its siege is doubtless by some centuries older than its usual chron...

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...nish. The watch might come up and take all the combatants, wounded or not, roy- alists or cardinalists. Athos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan sur- rounded Bic... ... Duke of Buckingham and his guide through the labyrinths of the Louvre. 12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM M ME. BONACIEUX AND the duke entered th... ... kingdom which he disordered at his fancy and calmed again at his caprice, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, had lived one of those fabulous existe... ...ul and proud Anne of Austria, and in making himself loved by dazzling her. George Villiers placed himself before the glass, as we have said, restored ... ...e from the city. Look, you may see it from here—at the foot of that little hill, that slated roof.” “Very well,” said the gentleman. And, with his lac... ...at you sent me.” “We send you wine?” “You know very well—the wine from the hills of Anjou.” “Yes, I know what brand you are talking about.” “The wine ... ...he immensity of the ocean, he came, his horse going at a foot’s pace, to a hill from the top of which he perceived behind a hedge, reclining on the sa...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...re due to servile ratifications of old ones. When Sue, or Balzac, Hugo, or George Sand, comes before an English au- dience—the opportunity is invariab... ...aire. Cibber, though slightly a cox- comb, was born a brilliant man. Aaron Hill was so lustrous, that even Pope’s venom fell off spontaneously, like r... ...ted Junius at the Old Bailey, and had a reason for wish- ing to do so; but George III., who was a party to the negotia- tion, and all his ministers, w... ... This Cowley or Colley, taking, in 1745, the name of Wesley, received from George II. the title of Earl Mornington: and Colley’s grandson, the Marques... ...mor- alize much longer. The going-up (or anabasis) of the Greeks against T roy, was a fact; and a pretty dense fact; and, by acci- dent, the very firs... ... a day or two brought the truth to light. The field lay upon the side of a hill: and, from a mountain which rose above it, a shepherd had witnessed th...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...and those customs of our forefathers which we have abandoned. The spell of roy- alty is broken, but it has not been succeeded by the majesty of the la... ...rst region are not walled in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks. Their banks are flat, and rise but a few feet 27 Tocquevi... ...rst region are not walled in, like most of those in the Old World, between hills and rocks. Their banks are flat, and rise but a few feet above the le... ...n world. The civilization of New England has been like a beacon lit upon a hill, which, after it has diffused its warmth around, tinges the distant ho... ...h ac- cepted the task of composing the second constitution was small;* but George Washington was its President, and it con- tained the choicest talent... ...power retains the titles, the honors, the etiquette, and even the funds of roy- alty long after its authority has disappeared. The English, after havi...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . GEORGE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A ... ...the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . GEORGE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILL GE GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN VO... ... motive this profusion draws, His oxen perish in his country’s cause; ’Tis George and Liberty that crowns the cup, And zeal for that great house which... ... in all; That tells the waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale; ... ...a lake: Or cut wide views through mountains to the plain, You’ll wish your hill or shelter’d seat again. Even in an ornament its place remark, Nor in ... ...thou first relate? The rage of Tydeus, or the prophet’s fate? Or how, with hills of slain on every side, Hippomedon repell’d the hostile tide? Or how ... ...te world; as the action of the Æneid is the restoration of the empire of T roy, by the removal of the 191 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol.... ...e natural patrons and supporters of letters, as the ancient gods were of T roy, must first be drawn off and engaged in another interest, before the to... ...d to save the state, Heaven had decreed these works a longer date. Could T roy be saved by any single hand, This gray-goose weapon must have made her ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ease. The symbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that you are both downloading an... ...ric Corley, who goes by the name Emmanuel Goldstein—the resistance leader in George Orwell’s 1984. In 1999, Universal City Studios brought suit agains... ...or many people around the world, and to infuriate a large number of others. “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” Myers, the Post wrote, “now... ...es later it was up on their Web site: www.k-otix.com. 2 The song was called “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” (also referred to as “George... ...fane) rap group 2 Live Crew had asked for permission to produce a version of Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman.” But where Orbison sang about the pretty wom... ...nge of support—Jack Valenti of the Motion Picture Association of America and Hillary Rosen of the Recording Industry Associa- tion of America, as well... ...nnovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800–1930 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2009). Of course, t... ...ourseWare (MIT), 195. openness aversion. See cultural agoraphobia. Orbison, Roy, 151–152. O’Reilly, Tim, 9, 253n6. original expression, and copyright...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...e Beagle, that it was in consequence of a wish ex- pressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer f... ...the different coun- tries we visited, have been wholly due to Captain Fitz Roy, I hope I may here be permitted to repeat my expression of gratitude to... ... the most cordial friendship and steady as- sistance. Both to Captain Fitz Roy and to all the Of- ficers of the Beagle* I shall ever feel most thankfu... ...in successive steps of table-land, interspersed with some truncate conical hills, and the horizon is bounded by an irregular chain of more lofty mount... ...a- ter can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be distinguished on the coast, formi... ...ut probably not of a recent date. The most remarkable feature is a conical hill, about one thou- sand feet high, the upper part of which is exceed- in... ...l remained unbounded. Amongst many other questions, he asked me, “Now that George Rex is dead, how many more of the family of Rexes are yet alive?” Th... ...n’s Land — Hobart Town — Aborigines all banished — Mount Wellington — King George’s Sound —Cheerless Aspect of the Country — Bald Head, calcareous cas... ..., who were the cause, were not affected. In the early part of the reign of George III., a prisoner who had been con- fined in a dungeon, was taken in ...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER “Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet ... ... Sudbury, only to see how much coun try there is in the rear of us; great hills, and a hundred brooks, and farm houses, and barns, and haystacks, you... ...prings of fame;— “And thou Simois, that as an arrowe, clere Through T roy rennest, aie downward to the sea”;— and I trust that I may be allowed t... ...wn a Roman worth. In vain I search a foreign land T o find our Bunker Hill, And Lexington and Concord stand By no Laconian rill. 15 HenryDa... ...eas, who bore his father, Anchises, on his shoulders from the ru ins of T roy. Or rather, like some Indian tribes, we bear about with us the moulderi... ... HIMSELF Thou sing’st the affairs of Thebes, And he the battles of T roy, But I of my own defeats. No horse have wasted me, Nor foot, n... ...ominions by King William, for their bravery in that memorable siege.”—Col. George Reid and Capt. David M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “di...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...fore you, the coast runs in a series of the most beautifully moulded bays, hill after hill, wooded and softly outlined, trends away in front till the ... ...ng! The great Alps, a wonder in the starlight – the river, strong from the hills, and turbulent, and loudly au- dible at night – the country, a scente... ...k, through a country most beautifully wooded and various, under a range of hills. You should have seen one place where the wood suddenly fell away in ... ...ust, clear, and to the point. I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot: a high, but, may we not add? – a rather dry lady. Did you – I... ...nhabitants of Bush Street ob- serve the same slender gentleman armed, like George Wash- ington, with his little hatchet, splitting, kindling and break... ... the attempt to suppress the Highlands. I. THIRTY YEARS’ INTERV AL (1) Rob Roy. (2) The Independent Companies: the Watches. (3) Story of Lady Grange. ... ...son that these are not so well known to the brutish herd. (7) Is the Royal George an ode, or only an elegy? It’s so good. (8) We leave Campbell to you... ...d the growth of the taste for Highland scen- ery. I have to touch upon Rob Roy, Flora Macdonald, the strange story of Lady Grange, the beautiful story... ...at is necessary for, with the following exceptions:– Trials of the Sons of Roy Rob with Anecdotes: Edinburgh, 1818, and The second volume of Blackwood...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...arations for Hector’s return, even as he was falling before the walls of T roy; but in matters that come within the range or ordinary experience, he r... ...e Cyprian Lays, the Iliad, the Aethiopis, the Little Illiad, the Sack of T roy, the Returns, the Odyssey, and the T ele- gony. 22 Hesiod, The Homeric... ...s at least approximately just. The earliest of the post-Homeric epics of T roy are appar- ently the Aethiopis and the Sack of Ilium, both ascribed to ... ...ions of Hesiod the following may be noticed: — The Georgicks of Hesiod, by George Chapman, London, 1618; The Works of Hesiod translated from the Greek... ...er. (ll. 53-74) Them in Pieria did Mnemosyne (Memory), who reigns over the hills of Eleuther, bear of union with the fa- ther, the son of Cronos, a fo... ...n ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of... ..., graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, with...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...orn-fields; from Minton across the farmlands of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that... ...d run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Derbyshire: six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked ... ...on, Waite and Co. built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Ro... ...ime when so many lace-manufacturers were ruined in Nottingham. Her father, George Coppard, was an engineer—a large, handsome, haughty man, proud of hi... ...ll build. But her temper, proud and unyielding, she had from the Coppards. George Coppard was bitterly galled by his own poverty. He became foreman of... ...having met anyone like him. Her father was to her the type of all men. And George Coppard, proud in his bearing, handsome, and rather bitter; who pref...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian Congress gather; and ere long, on Bunker Hill, Democracy announcing, in rifle-volleys death- winged, under her Star ... ...ive, he of all men was the man to accelerate Nature. The Blossom of French Roy- alty, cactus-like, has accordingly made an astonishing progress. In th... ...evates his wafer; mutters or seems to mutter somewhat;—and so (as the Abbe Georgel, in words that stick to one, expresses it) has Louis ‘made the amen... ... it roars. Cholat the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s ca... ...y the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar (if we were not used to the like): Georget lay, last night, taking his ease at his inn; the King of Siam’s can... ...d not nothing, what can it be but bread to eat? The Traveller, ‘walking up hill bridle in hand,’ overtakes ‘a poor woman;’ the image, as such commonly... ...bout this same moment, Maillard has halted his draggled Menads on the last hill-top; and now Versailles, and the Chateau of Versailles, and far and wi... ...es, Marseilles against Toulon, and Carpentras beleaguered by Avignon;—such Roy- alist collision in a career of Freedom; nay Patriot collision, which a... ...e, beginning to bestir himself in the rural Cantonments eastward, is but a Roy- alist traitor; that Chateau-Vieux and Patriotism are sold to Austria, ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...o eggs free; And if that she thereafter should be found, She to a hawthorn hill should be fast bound. Seven months thereafter, lacking twenty-two, He,... ...steered the helm. Com- ing out of the water, he ran furiously up against a hill, and with the same alacrity and swiftness ran down again. He climbed u... ...le spectacle that ever one saw. Some cried unto Sanct Barbe, others to St. George. O the holy Lady Nytouch, said one, the good Sanctess; O our Lady of... ... drowned, except some who had taken the way on the left hand to- wards the hills. Gargantua, being come to the place of the wood of Vede, was informed... ...ruel all armed at proof with their lances in their hands, mounted like St. George, and everyone of them having an arquebusier behind him. Chapter 1.XL... ...s Aeneas did to his father Anchises, in the time of the conflagration of T roy. When Panurge perceived them, he said to Pantagruel, Sir, yonder are th... ...a great start awake, and was afraid. Now hereupon did follow this event: T roy that same night was spoiled, sacked, and burnt. At an- other time the s... ...od will, as Aeneas bore his father Anchises through the conflagration of T roy, singing in the meanwhile a pretty Ave 384 Gargantua & Pantagruel Mari... ...ing, as he thought, by the dismal inauspiciousness of the holy days of St. George, St. Mary, St. Paul, St. Eutrope, Holy Rood, the Ascension, and othe...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...se. She held that it was prudish to insist upon the conventions of Notting Hill in the Boulevard de Montparnasse. The young women who had thrown in th... ...ore to be compared with Denis Zachaire or with Raymond Lully. My ancestor, George Haddo, came to Scotland in the suite of Anne of Denmark, and when Ja... ...Then the Arab took a reed instrument, not unlike the pipe which Pan in the hills of Greece played to the dryads, and he piped a weird, monotonous tune... ...e evils with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of T roy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her b... ...r, chanted blithe canticles to greet the morning. They stood upon a little hill. ‘Let us wait here and see the sun rise,’ said Susie. ‘As you will.’ T...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...late wages in particular trades, and in particular places. Thus the 8th of George III. prohibits, under heavy penalties, all master tailors in London,... ...really pay, in goods. This law is in favour of the workmen; but the 8th of George III. is in favour of the masters. When masters combine together, in ... ...impartially, it would treat the masters in the same manner. But the 8th of George III. enforces by law that very regulation which masters sometimes at... ...d. When the greater part of the Highland cattle were consumed on their own hills, the exportation of their hides made the most considerable article of...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...even, her brother’ s most intimate friend. She was married in 1773 to John George Schlosser. Goethe’ s education was irregular. French culture gave at... ...d disgusting as they were, in perfect horror. On the other hand, the Roman Hill (Romerberg) was a most delightful place for walking. The way to the Ne... ... great fault with the work for affording us no account of the capture of T roy, and breaking off so abruptly with the death of Hector. My uncle, to wh... ... turn separate from the other. The hunters vanish from our sight among the hills, and reappear only as conquerors. The patriarchs belonged to the shep... ...acquainted with our new literature from the beginning. My countryman, John George Schlosser, after spending his academical years with industry and exe... ...ered ourselves to be carried away by them; and his operas, set to music by Hiller in an easy style, gave us much pleasure. Schiebler, of Hamburgh, pur... ...languages I had like- wise continued to practise in my correspondence with George Schlosser, who was still at T reptow; and I had remained in con- sta...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...able engine, how would you proceed? Y.M. Drive tunnels and shafts into the hills; blast out the iron ore; crush it, smelt it, reduce it to pig iron; p... ...personal appearance. They were the models of the Sunday school. At fifteen George had the opportunity to go as cabin boy in a whale ship, and sailed a... ...away for the Pacific. Henry remained at home in the village. At eigh teen George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was teacher of the advanced ... ...the mast, and Henry was teacher of the advanced Bible class. At twenty two George, through fighting habits and drinking habits acquired at sea and in ... ...o keep my heart from breaking. How dazzlingly the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. * Mr. Gabrilowitsch had been operated o... ...is closing down; the rim of the sun barely shows above the sky line of the hills. I have been looking at that face again that was growing dearer and d... ...ers have a straight one. A common bee will sting any one or anybody, but a roy alty stings royalties only. A common bee will sting and kill another c...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... the castle, they came to a narrow valley, dipping so suddenly between the hills that it could hardly have been suspected by one unaware of its locali... ...exult- ant feelings in caresses to the animal as it gallantly breasted the hill. The little boy had never been so commended be- fore! He loved his fat... ...se. The people thronged out of their houses, and shouted not only ‘Vive le Roy,’ but ‘Vive l’Amiral,’ and more than once the cry was added, ‘Spanish w... ...the poor child was sorely weary long before she came to the top of the low hill that she used scarcely to know to be rising round at all. The stars ha... ...ht of La Mancha, but with a predominance of the pastoral, such as Diane of George of Montemayor and his numerous imitators—which Philip thought horrib... ...we our meeting. I will send him off, the poor fellow, at once to Bourge-le-Roy to preach his three sermons; and when they had driven you a little out ... ...e rogue. I shall be able to take to him now all is right again; but by St. George, they have tormented me so about him, and wanted me to take him as a...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...pany to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fall of Y orktown, or through the entire Revoluti... ... a candidate for office, except, I believe, that he was the first Mayor of Georgetown. He supported Jackson for the Presidency; but he was a Whig, a g... ... at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. In the fall of 1823 we moved to Georgetown, the county seat of Brown, the ad- joining county east. This pla... ... saw an algebra, or other mathematical work higher than the arithmetic, in Georgetown, until after I was appointed to West Point. I then bought a work... ...ed, and men, women and children were seen running and scat- tered over the hills as we approached; but when the people returned they found all their a... ...mall stream coming out of the moun- tain-pass, and is backed by a range of hills of moderate el- evation. T o the north, between the city and Walnut S... ...er. Second Brigade Brig.-Gen. James C. Rice. Third Brigade, Col. Roy Stone Artillery Brigade, Col. S. S. Wainwright. Maj.-Gen. John Sed...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...hackeray Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. IN THE MORNING OF LIFE ... ...e portal, and in a moment was lost in the crowd. It was noon in Chepe. And George de Barnwell was alone. V ol. II. WE HA VE SELECTED the following epi... ...isodical chapter in prefer- ence to anything relating to the mere story of George Barnwell, with which most readers are familiar. Up to this passage (... ...mug that with Guinness I fill, And drink to the health of sweet Nan of the hill, Was once Tommy Tosspot’s, as jovial a sot, As e’er drew a spigot, or ... ...tient cassles, picturask willidges, and waving woods are reflected. Purple hills, crownd with inteak ruings; rivvilets babbling through gentle greenwo... ...n at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that Lafayette and my brave Frenc... ...into the private pavilion. CHAPTER III. ST. GEORGE FOR ENGLAND. WHILST THE ROY AL RICHARD and his court were feasting in the camp outside the walls of... ...sway. The uniform of the latter was various—the rich stuff called corps-du-roy (worn by Coeur de Lion at Agincourt) formed their lower habiliments for...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...his officers was superior to my Henry, and he was not the equal of my poor George, who had taken the King’s side in our lamentable but glorious war of... ...of jealousy of the Pretender be- trayed his secrets to my Lord Stair, King George’s Ambassa- dor, and nearly caused the Prince’s death there; how she ... ...o England and married this Mr. Tusher, and became a great favorite of King George the Second, by whom Mr. Tusher was made a Dean, and then a Bishop. I... ...ts stone back upon St. Paul’s, and faces the coaches struggling up Ludgate Hill. She was neither better bred nor wiser than you and me, though we knel... ...urning; and the plain and river with Castlewood village beyond, and purple hills beautiful to look at—and the little heir of Castlewood, a child of tw... ...e great old house which he had come to inhabit. It stood on a rising green hill, with woods behind it, in which were rooks’ nests, where the birds at ... ...uve famme. Elle est furieuse cont vous, allans tous les jours chercher ley Roy (d’icy) demandant a gran cri revanche pour son Mary. Elle ne veux voyre... ...ole army, or amongst the splendid courtiers and cavaliers of the Maison du Roy, that fought under V endosme and Villeroy in the army opposed to ours, ... ...d besides the excellent Spanish and Ba- varian troops, the whole Maison-du-Roy with him, the most splendid body of horse in the world,—in an hour (and...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...of the bishop, to nominate a new Protestant bishop in the per- son of John George of Brandenburg. The Ro- man Catholic canons, far from allowing this ... ...ive to the states, from its being addressed, not to them, but to his vice- roy, denounced their conduct as illegal and re- bellious, justified what ha... ...might adopt, the fate of the contending parties seemed to depend; and John George was not insensible to the advan- tages which this important situatio... ...ign after sovereign to risk both crown and life on the hazard of war, John George aspired to the more solid renown of improving and advancing the inte... ...tion, to alter his plans, and to move to the left, in the direction of the hills which run from the village of Wahren to- wards Lindenthal. At the foo... ...ascribed prin- cipally to three mistakes; his planting the can- non on the hills behind him, his afterwards 204 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War... ...e heat of the action, been carried by the Duke of Weimar. It commanded the hills and the whole camp. But the heavy rain which fell during the night, r...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...y Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and... ...irst excursion into En- 8 Robert Louis Stevenson gland. The change from a hilly to a level country strikes him with delighted wonder. Along the flat ... ...ot flat to the front, as in England; the roofs are steeper-pitched; even a hill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English... ... Gregory’s powder. Now that rem- edy, as the work of a near kinsman of Rob Roy himself, may have a savour of romance for the imagination; but it comes... ...fer to pay my fealty and pass on. How often I have read Guy Mannering, Rob Roy, or Redgauntlet, I have no means of guessing, having begun young. But i... ...ow. Perhaps, if I am not careful, something may befall me like what befell George IV . about the battle of Waterloo, and I may come to fancy the Vicom... ...sborough, or Clara Middleton? fair women with fair names, the daughters of George Meredith. Elizabeth Bennet has but to speak, and I am at her knees. ... ...t then? Lastly, the French translation was, by some inspired compatriot of George Gilfillan (and of mine) turned bodily into an English novel; and, in...

...This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks,...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... me to a school for writing and arithmetic, kept by a then fa mous man, Mr. George Brownell, very successful in his pro fession generally, and that ... ...e first printer in Pennsylvania, but removed from thence upon the quarrel of George Keith. He could give me no employment, having little to do, and he... ...ad purchased from the captain of a ship; he, too, was to be made a pressman. George Webb, an Oxford scholar, whose time for four years he had likewise... ... country. We met with no Indians, but we found the places on the neighboring hills where they had lain to watch our proceedings. There was an art in t... ...et, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...aff Assistant Marco A. Cordero Professional Staff Member Rajesh De Counsel George W . Delgrosso Investigator Gerald L. Dillingham Professional Staff M... ...e began to line up for a White House tour. In Sarasota, Florida, President George W . Bush went for an early morning run. For those heading to an airp... ...age. He next spoke to Vice President Cheney , Dr. Rice, New Y ork Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller. He decided to make a brief ... ...he White House, to be sure, read the political signals coming from Capitol Hill, but the Congress largely acceded to the executive branch’s funding re... ...dea might not seem attrac- tive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton—both critics of the Taliban’s record on women’s righ... ...nt of Pakistan. Given the generally neg- ative view of Pakistan on Capitol Hill, the idea of lifting sanctions may have seemed far-fetched, but perhap... ...nd which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars). ” Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam, trans. Carol Volk (Harvard Univ. Press...

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