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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...udden ca- pacities of horror; sometimes through the more natural and fixed alliances with the sense of power so various lodged in the mail system. The... ...lf, by multiplying to the imagination into infinity the 107 stages of its progressive diffusion. A fiery arrow seems to be let loose, which from that...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

... England, sire, and not of Charles II. It was doubtless wrong, from a family point of view, to sign a treaty with a man who had cut off the head of th... ..., would you approve of England’s sending to the United Provinces or to Spain a regiment, a company, a squadron even, of English gentlemen? Would you t... ...ld be separated you would no longer think of me.” “Dear Marie, is it then to-day only that you have discov- ered we are surrounded by people intereste... ...: Lambert demanded a profession of faith from his rival. The latter declared he had no other opinion than that of the majority. Lambert asked if it wo... ...ening, monsieur le prince,” said the minister, in a careless tone; “it is very kind of you to visit an old sick friend.” “A friend!” murmured the Comt... ...e refalling stone. Every time, the stone, abandoned by them, sunk deeper into the damp earth, which rendered the operation more and more difficult. A ...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...y learn that he plucked it out voluntarily as the price to be paid for his alliance with Fricka, who in return has brought to him as her dowry all the... ...ven than himself, that shall one day supersede him and cut the tangles and alliances and compromises that already have cost him one of his eyes. When ... ...ganization of force of arms and cunning of brain. It has submitted to this alliance to keep the Plutonic power in check—built it up primarily for the ... ...s doom, and now himself exults in passing away with all his ordinances and alliances, with the spear-sceptre which he has only wielded on condition of... ... Wotan and pardoned him, separating him tenderly from all the compromising alliances to which Shelley fiercely held him; making the truth and heroism ... ...rue that in the sphere of thought, Anarchism is an inevitable condition of progressive evolu- tion. A nation without Freethinkers—that is, without int...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...tical; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, en tangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their ri... ... preservation of our forts, arsenals, and dockyards, and the introduction of progressive im provements in the discipline and science of both branches... ...mpatible with our welfare and the prin ciples of our Government. We decline alliances as ad verse to our peace. We desire commercial relations on eq... ... to promise anything but harmony in their intercourse or permanency in their alliance, and yet for ages neither has been interrupted. Content with the... ...ustice should char acterize all our intercourse with foreign countries. All alliances having a tendency to jeopard the welfare and honor of our count... ...at the same time freedom from alarm on the part of those pursuing proper and progressive business meth ods, further legislative and executive action ... ...e split vote for President Taft’s Republican ticket and Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party. The Governor of New Jersey and former Princeton Univer... ... There is no short road to the realization of these as pirations. Ours is a progressive people, but with a de termination that progress must be base... ...become portents of disaster! Prosperity already tests the persistence of our progressive purpose. Let us ask again: Have we reached the goal of our vi...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

...or make regu- lations setting out the measures required to bring about, by progressive stages, freedom of movement for work- ers, as defined in Articl... ...n the case of the medical and allied and pharma- ceutical professions, the progressive abolition of re- strictions shall be dependent upon co-ordinati... ...ed with the invisible transactions listed in Annex III to this Treaty. The progressive abolition of existing restrictions shall be effected in accorda... ... in particular to jeopardize the func- tioning of the common market or the progressive imple- mentation of the common commercial policy, the Com- miss... ...tates on a bilateral level, in the frame- work of the WEU and the Atlantic Alliance, provided such co-operation does not run counter to or impede that... ...AN UNION AND ITS RE- LATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND WITH THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE Introduction 1. WEU Member States agree on the need to develop a g... ...nion and will enhance its contribution to soli- darity within the Atlantic Alliance. WEU Member States agree to strengthen the role of WEU, in the lon... ...term perspective of a common defence, compatible with that of the Atlantic Alliance. 2. WEU will be developed as the defence component of the European... ...ean Union and as a means to strengthen the European pillar of the Atlantic Alliance. T o this end, it will formulate common European defence policy an...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...’s heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive. Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but th... ...se of men. But the sweet sincerity of joy and peace which I draw from this alliance with my brother’s soul is the nut itself whereof all nature and al... ...the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify mod- ish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the ... ... parts. There must be very two, before there can be very one. Let it be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually be- held, mutually fear... ...here no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no god attends. By persisting in your path, though you forf... ...e slender rill Of human sense doth overfill. XII. ART B ecause the soul is progressive, it never quite re- peats itself, but in every act attempts the...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... for granted, that we children had among our other lessons a continued and progressive instruction in religion. But the Church-Protestantism imparted ... ...rity; as their external relations expose them to no costly undertakings or alliances. Thus the Frankforters passed a series of prosperous years during... ... to designate by the word creation. However much this multiplied itself by progressive degrees, through the continually working vital power of the Elo... ...ssion strengthened and developed, that here the sub- lime has entered into alliance with the pleasing. If the vast, when it appears as a mass before u...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...size; and the ex- plosion took place about fifteen seconds after the rapid progressive motion had ceased: in a few cases it was preceded for a short i... ...plea- sure of the exercise, or perhaps is connected with their matrimonial alliances. I have now mentioned all the carrion-feeders, ex- cepting the co... ...rapid movement; generally revolving around different axes, but some- times progressive. The movement was visible with a very weak power, but even with... ... and help to compose it: these plants are very remarkable from their close alliance with the species growing on the mountains of Europe, though so man... ...Chilenos “el Turco,” is as large as a fieldfare, to which bird it has some alliance; but its legs are much longer, tail shorter, and beak stronger: it...

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Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill

... since the two are so far from being incompatible that they are in natural alliance, the prolongation of either being a prepara tion for, and excitin... ...recepts of every practical art, admit of indefinite improvement, and, in a progressive state of the human mind, their improvement is perpetually going... ...he above is, I think, a true account, as far as it goes, of the origin and progressive growth of the idea of justice. But we must observe, that it con...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...3, when as yet he is not thinking of Mr. Newman, he says,’ If knowledge is progressive, the de- velopment of Christian doctrine must be progressive li... ...ut I see the Newmanian cloven foot. As to the must, knowledge is certainly progressive; but the development of the multiplication table is not therefo... ...gressive; but the development of the multiplication table is not therefore progressive, nor of anything else that is finished from the beginning. My r... ...nd which never would be more accessible through any worldly attractions of alliance with power and civic grandeur or commerce, out of this darkness in... ...ors had been sent to Antipater, the father of Herod, offering the Parthian alliance and sup- port. At the same moment there happened to be at Jerusa- ... ...ely this question touched the salvation of the kindgom, since to accept an alliance with either empire, would be to insure the bitter hostility of the... ...ng 136 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One been effected by alliance with darker agencies, his only (as sublime moral agencies for work... ...ng. These perplexities are generally moving in coun- teracting paths: some progressive, some retrograde. There lies a man’s safety. But at times it wi...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

...and she wished to defend her cousin from the charge of contracting such an alliance, but Patrick’s face had brightened out of a gloom of stupefaction;... ...home, and who certainly would not have dreamed of contracting the abhorred alliance had she been breathing the air of common sense peculiar to her nat... ...ing her father’s paint- ing of him), he was almost interesting through his alliance:— an example of how much earth the worshipper can swallow when he ... ...him credit 118 Celt and Saxon for sound opinions: he was moderate, merely progressive. When it was added that the man had the habit of taking counsel... ...ast endurance. She had grounds for fearing that John, who might step to an alliance with any one of the proudest houses in the King- dom, would marry ... ...metimes to com- mand, the captain by the prophetic intimations of a holier alliance, a more illumined prescience. Reefs here, shallows there, yonder a...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...rimination, and the norm of procedure in classifying the facts, therefore, progressively change as the growth of culture proceeds; for the end for whi... ... it is well known, or at least it is currently believed, that manners have progressively deterio- rated as society has receded from the patriarchal st... ...s may be graded and scheduled with some accuracy and effect according to a progressive scale of manners and breeding. The award of reputability in thi... ... be exempted from productive industry carried on for gain. This process of progressive exemption from the common run of industrial employment will com... ...ese antecedents is preferred in marriage, both for the sake of a resulting alliance with her powerful relatives and because a superior worth is felt t... ... culture, the ability to pay is put in evi- dence by means which require a progressively nicer discrimi- nation in the beholder. This nicer discrimina...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...gst Savages, an Alferez would in those days have been a natural noble. His alliance created honor for his wife and for his descendants. Some- thing, t... ...l skill will ever perfectly disenchant the great abyss from its terrors—no progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mys- ter... ...agic groups from the most awful section of the Gre- cian theatre. The next alliance of the same kind between the same great empires, in the persons of...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ms, may be found, upon minute philological scrutiny, to betray either some alliance with the chasms themselves, or some reference to the Ethiopian cha... ...nguage, made their way into my heart by paces so steadily and stealth- ily progressive that they have been unnoticed and unknown. Y et I believe that ...

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

By: Adam Smith

...world; in North America, in Europe, and in China; which renders it rapidly progressive in the first, slow and gradual in the second, and altogether st... ... public prosperity. It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisitio... ...e. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is, in reality, the cheerful and the hearty state to all ... ...institutions, therefore, never disturbed the natural course of things, the progressive wealth and increase of the towns would, in every political soci... ...intain ministers in foreign countries, where the purposes either of war or alliance would not have required any. The commerce of the T ur- key company... ...pal branches of the house of Bourbon in a much stricter and more permanent alliance than the ties of blood could ever have united them. Joint-stock co...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...from the condi tion of ants to men, will be succeeded by a day of equally progressive splendor; that, in the lapse of the divine periods, other divin... ...ast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. We are inclined to lay the...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...gain. This rare charm the book owes in large mea- sure to its creator. THE ALLIANCE OF author with subject in Boswell’s Johnson is one of the happiest... ...took the charge of an edition of those Essays at Edinburgh, which followed progressively the London publication. This year he wrote to the same gentle... ...dvantages of Ox- ford for learning. ‘There is here, Sir, (said he,) such a progressive emulation. The students are anxious to appear well to their tut... ...swell’s Life of Johnson been carried on. In this war the smaller powers in alliance with him were of course led to en- gage, at least on the defensive...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...fold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of: some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are, by ed... ...ticity about their own centres, strike upon the retina of the eye, with a cer- tain degree of rotation, as well as progressive swiftness; it will henc...

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

By: Karl Marx

...ectre of Com munism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, ... ...in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all right of inheri... ...They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in opposition to the progressive historical development of the prole tariat. They, therefore...

...Excerpt: A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

... to adjust itself in the social body. It is one of the main factors in the progressive embitterment of the Labour situation that whatever business is ... ...z faire. I would therefore lump them together under the term of Plan- less Progressives, and I would contrast with them those types which believe supr... ...therefore, as opposed to the Conservators and contrasted with the Planless Progressives, the name of Constructors. They are the extreme right, as it w... ...f Constructors. They are the extreme right, as it were, while the Planless Progressives are the extreme left of Anti-Conser- vator thought. I believe ... ...ggestion of the quality of this new status. A new type of family, a mutual alliance in the place of a subjugation, is perhaps the most star- tling of ... ...y uncomfortable. It is indeed an ideal problem for a healthy, hopeful, and progressive middle-aged public man. And, as I say, it deals with enor- mous...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...f Satan), the simple old saint lent his ear to the subtle arguments of the progressive enemy of mankind. The venerable St. Mael fell away from grace b... .... Meanwhile till the time comes when there will be no frontiers, there are alliances so shamelessly based upon the exigencies of suspicion and mistrus... ...rd hint- ing tentatively at a possible re-grouping of European Powers. The alliance of the three Empires is sup- posed possible. And it may be possibl... ...of Europe which merges into Asia. No principle be- ing involved in such an alliance of mere expediency, it would never be allowed to stand in the way ... ...ne in the character of a friend he en- tered deliberately into a treaty of alliance with the Republic, and then, before the ink was dry, tore it up in... ...nother danger sprang up, a danger arising naturally from the new political alliances dividing Europe into two armed camps. It was the danger of silenc...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and en- tered into various compacts and conve... ...ions it appears that those gentlemen are greatly mistaken who suppose that alliances offensive and defensive might be formed between these confederaci... ...tates, into which Britain and Spain were formerly divided, combine in such alliance, or unite their forces against a foreign enemy? The proposed con- ... ...federacy would be the most desirous of preserving peace and friendship. An alliance so contrary to their immediate interest would not therefore be eas... ...States or confederacies. The apportionment, in the first instance, and the progressive ex- tinguishment afterward, would be alike productive of ill-hu... ...tive arm of government, in doing which their constitutions would acquire a progressive direction toward monarchy. It is of the nature of war to increa... ...sk to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in im- provement, the difficulties are increased almost to impr... ..., so large as seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary comb... ...ng armies as it may be split into States or Confederacies, and from such a progressive augmentation, of these establishments in each, as will render t...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...t, and which has to be fulfilled in every society, whether sta tionary or progressive. In a sense somewhat more enlarged, Order means the pres ervat... ...only there is needed more of those qualities to make the society decidedly progressive than merely to keep it permanent. What, again, are the particul... ...f being stationary like other Asiatics, were, next to the Greeks, the most progressive people of antiquity, and, jointly with them, have been the star... ... central ruler; and through the relations, more or less intimate, which he progressively establishes with the localities, they become fa miliar to th... ...st be derived from some other source. No community has ever long continued progressive but while a conflict was going on between the strongest power i... ...fective federal government. A union between the governments only is a mere alliance, and subject to all the contingencies which render alliances preca...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...tility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being. Those interests, I contend, authorize the subjection o... ...ts vital powers on the questions which its belief presents to it, there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the for mularies... ... possi ble independent centres of improvement as there are individuals. The progressive principle, however, in either shape, whether as the love of l... ... only a divided rule with liberty and progress. A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop: when does it sto... ...ent, and be simultaneously thrown aside by all at another moment. But we are progressive as well as changeable: we continually make new in ventions i... ...hropists, to agitate for a similar law in this country. The association, or “Alliance” as it terms itself, which has been formed for this purpose, has... ...es, unhappily are among those who figure in political life. The organ of the Alliance, who would “deeply deplore the recognition of any principle whic... ...s any one’s lips, it invades all the “social rights” attributed to me by the Alliance. The doctrine ascribes to all mankind a vested interest in each ...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...that the Law existed before the Creation. Midr. Jalkut, 7. 8 That is, the progressive conquests of the Muslims trench more and more on the territorie... ...who are as your own flesh. 36 T wo Jewish tribes (Koreidha and Nadhir) in alliance with certain Arab tribes who were at war, destroyed one another’s ... ...e apostle exhorteth you to believe in your Lord, and He hath accepted your alliance–if ye are true believers? He it is who hath sent down clear tokens... ...believer; and if he be of a people between whom and yourselves there is an alliance, then let the blood-money be paid to his family, and let him set f... ...nd the whore shall not marry other than a whoremonger or an idolater. Such alliances are forbidden to the faithful. They who defame virtuous women, 2 ... ...n religion. We make clear our signs to those who understand. But if, after alliance made, they break their oaths and revile your religion, then do bat...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...pectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre—Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, Fre... ...ived in Italy, where he founded in 1864 an “International Fraternity” or “ Alliance of Socialist Revolution- aries.” This contained men of many countr... ...zerland, where in the following year he helped to found the “International Alliance of So-cialist Democracy,” of which he drew up the program. This pr... ...a good succinct resume of his opinions:— 36 Proposed Roads to Freedom The Alliance declares itself atheist; it desires the definitive and entire abol... ... of free associations, both agricultural and industrial. The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy desired to become a branch of the Internati... ...ience of the way in which the power of the State can be employed against a progressive minority. This experience has led them to abandon altogether th... ...tic State Socialism it is to be feared that science would soon cease to be progressive and acquired a medieval respect for authority. But under a free...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...reer, proved instantly fatal. Stumbling forward with a hideous bellow, the progressive force of his previous motion, rather than any op- eration of hi... ... party now in power, with whom she main- tained a close correspondence and alliance; and that she hated, without fearing, the Ravenswood family (whose... ...poned against the attainder. Lord Ravenswood was an ancient title, and the alliance would, in some measure, legitimate his own possession of the great... ...e could conceive no other reason for a proceeding so extraordinary than an alliance betwixt the houses, and Ravenswood Castle assigned for the young l... ...esire in a match more than the sopiting of a very dangerous claim, and the alliance of a son-in-law, noble, brave, well-gifted, and highly connected; ... ...erclouded his fancy. In those features, so simply sweet, he could trace no alliance with the pinched visage of the peak-bearded, black-capped Puri- 1...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...y the English Government to the conspiracy against liberty called the Holy Alliance, and the enormous weight of the national debt and taxation occasio... ...uring which he made the mistake of becoming a clergyman, his mind was ever progressive: and the advance he always seemed to have made when I saw him a... ...f feeling or intellect kin dred with her own, but all had more or less of alliance with her in sentiments and opinions. Into this circle I had the go... ...ed it a kind of philosophic text book of a single truth, which the changes progressively taking place in modern so ciety tend to bring out into ever ... ... very, have been completely, and in other respects are in course of being progressively realized. Foreseeing from the first this double set of conseq...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...fields tempt his eye; but to him they are forbidden pasture: either pining in progressive starvation, he must stand; or, in mad exasperation, must rush... ...ears) escape him; and you too he devours at last. Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake them...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...al in life; all should, if possible, be sweetly spontaneous and swimmingly progressive. Thus he learned to make lead-pencils, and, when he had gained ... ...ris is in the hands of the butchers: the peasants have taken to the woods. Alliances are made and broken as if in a country dance; the English called ...

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