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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...modi fied it. It was an effective miracle. The great bothersome tempo rary population vanished. There were a good many thou sand tracks in the mud... ... By a sarcasm of law and phrase they were freemen. Seven tenths of the free population of the country were of just their class and degree: small “ind... ...try should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population. For the nine hundred and ninety four to express dissatisfacti... ...nt of a contribution of three days’ average wages of every individual of the population, count ing every individual as if he were a man. If you take ... ...nd the united A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 162 populations of the British Islands amounted to something less than 1,OOO... ... and I believed that in that time I could easily have the active part of the population of that day ready and eager for an event which should be the f...

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

...affec- tions or the convictions of mankind. The ferment of spirit of whole populations will fight subtly and constantly against it, and all the world ...

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The Second Funeral of Napoleon

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ed at James Town, the best understanding never ceased to exist between the population of the island and the French. The Prince de Joinville and his co...

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...d did not equal, either in numbers or accuracy of information, the present population of Constantinople. To these conditions we owe the claim that the...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...! here come the hordes,’ sighed Adeline, shrinking a little, as the entire population, summoned by Fergus, came pouring forth to meet the advancing mo...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d; but there is just as much detraction and scandal as though the feminine population were ad- mitted there. At the end of three years, Monsieur Marne...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...he United States, with its enormous territorial possessions and increasing population, has fallen asunder, torn to pieces by the weight of its own dis... ...asing trade of the West. The bare sug- gestion of such a policy roused the population upon the banks of the Ohio, then inconsiderable, as one man. The... ...k to Boston by Attleborough, a town at which, in ordinary times, the whole population is sup- ported by the jewelers’ trade. It is a place with a spe-... ...ere. Were a better class of carriages organized, as large a portion of the population would use them in the United States as in any country in Europe.... ...of a lady whose eye loves to rest always on the beautiful, an agricultural population that touches its hat, eats plain victuals, and goes to church, i... ...e. But the crowds themselves, the thick masses of which are composed those populations which we count by millions, are against him. Up in those region... ... any of the towns belonging to the States had been founded. But taking the population of three of each, including the three largest Canadian towns, we... ... States, Chicago has 120,000; Detroit, 70,000; and Buffalo, 80,000. If the population had been equal, it would have shown a great superiority in the p... ...da as at Quebec. But the race of people here is very different. The French population had made their way down into these townships before the English ...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...before. Then he wrote to the chemist of the place to ask the number of the population, the distance from the nearest doctor, what his predecessor had ... ...udices of another age as still to misunderstand the spirit of agricultural populations. Where, indeed, is to be found more patriotism than in the coun...

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

...y in INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 22 creased population and consumption, and aided by other resources reserved for tha... ...The progress of our settlements westward, sup ported as they are by a dense population, has constantly driven them back, with almost the total sacrif... ...al participation in the national sovereignty with the origi nal States. Our population has augmented in an aston ishing degree and extended in every... ... consummation of both was effected by this Constitution. Since that period a population of four millions has multiplied to twelve. A territory bounded... ...liable to be exaggerated through sinister designs; they differed in size, in population, in INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES... ...wever, have been far less frequent in our country than in any other of equal population on the globe, and with the diffu sion of intelligence it may ... ...xtension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population. Our system was supposed to be adapted only to boundaries comp... ...om the same causes must ever exhibit a great difference in the amount of the population of its vari ous sections, calling for a great diversity in th... ...taken their position as members of the Confederacy within the last week. Our population has increased from three to twenty millions. New communi ties...

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The Forged Coupon, And Other Stories and Dramas

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...il bear a closer relation to their native landscape than our own migratory populations, and patriotism with them has a deep and vital meaning, which i...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...l acquaintances of even the most noted individual in Paris, and the entire population of Paris itself. “But whatever force there may still appear to b...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...o what this leads us. We find our list includes the British Empire, with a population of four hundred millions, of which probably half can read and wr... ...ich probably half can read and write some language or other; Bogota with a population of a million, mostly poets; Hayti with a population of a mil- li... ...Empire burst into a thousand (voting) frag- ments. A certain concession to population, one must admit, was made by the theorists; a state of over thre... ...oblem that appeals terribly to the ingenious. We cannot solve it by making population a basis, because that will give a monstrous importance to the il... ...ions of the world have the self-abnegation to permit a scat- tered subject population to appeal against the treatment of its ruling power to the Supre... ..., or the Indi- ans in the T ransvaal make such an appeal? Could any Indian population in India appeal? Personally I should like to see the power of th... ...e their national pride with the idea, at least so far as their own subject populations go. Here, you see, I do no more than ask a question. It is a di... ... necessity of a common collective agree- ment not to demoralize the native population. That demor- alization, physical and moral, has already gone far... ...emor- alization, physical and moral, has already gone far. The whole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and ...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...justices which they wished to remedy. The more unfortunate sections of the population have been igno- rant, apathetic from excess of toil and wearines... ...ively small amount of quite agreeable work would suffice to keep the whole population in comfort. Even as- suming, as we probably must, that he somewh... ...work, and all things are to be shared in equal proportions among the whole population. Kropotkin relies upon the possibility of making work pleas- ant... ...st be considered in examining this question: First, Malthus’ doc- trine of population; and second, the vaguer, but very preva- lent, view that any sur... ...ew of us would otherwise have believed. Malthus contended, in effect, that population always tends to increase up to the limit of subsistence, that th... ...ce the normal hours of labor, or greatly to increase the proportion of the population who enjoyed more than the bare necessaries of life. But this sta... ...joy a comfortable income derived from rent or interest, but about half the population of most of the civilized coun- tries in the world is engaged, no... ...methods which are obviously immediately possible. But, it will be said, as population increases, the price of food must ultimately increase also as th... ...may be admitted that this would be true in some very distant future if the population were to continue to in- crease without limit. If the whole surfa...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ore effectually than it could otherwise be, to the local chiefs and to the population gener ally, while, at the same time, a tradition is kept up of ... ... fit proportions 57 J S Mill the social and political intelligence of the population. For these several reasons, kingly government, free from the con... ...les to im provement which might have lasted indefinitely if the sub ject population had been left unassisted to its native tenden cies and chances.... ...s is the not very uncommon one in which a small but leading portion of the population, from difference of race, more civilized ori gin, or other pecu... ...rruption, and the attempt at represen tative government by the whole male population to end in giving one man the power of consigning any number of t... ...ituency were much enlarged, still less if made co extensive with the whole population; for in that case the majority in every locality would consist o... ... are the proper objects of the legislator’s care, in contradistinction the population of those places, is a curious specimen of delusion produced by w... ...ed States practically operates. Nominally, the elec tion is indirect; the population at large does not vote for the President; it votes for electors ... ...are or the “Empire State” of New York. These members are not chosen by the population, but by the State Legislatures, themselves elected by the people...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

...he modern political economy, and with the Hartleian metaphysics. Malthus’s population principle was quite as 61 John Stuart Mill much a banner, and p... ...ovability by securing full employment at high wages to the whole labouring population through a volun tary restriction of the increase of their numbe... ...allowed to reach them, that he felt as if all would be gained if the whole population were taught to read, if all sorts of opinions were allowed to be... ... de nounced as cold calculation; political economy as hard hearted; anti population doctrines as repulsive to the natu ral feelings of mankind. We ... ...h oppo nents to a tame discussion among their own body. The ques tion of population was proposed as the subject of debate: Charles Austin led the ca... ...d in it, I remember Charles Villiers. The other side obtained also, on the population question, very efficient support from without. The well known Ga... ...nly hoped that by univer sal education, leading to voluntary restraint on population, the portion of the poor might be made more tolerable. In short,... ...ome it would in all probability be thorough: that the bulk of the Northern population, whose conscience had as yet been awakened only to the point of ... ... sympathy felt with the brutalities in Ja maica by the brutal part of the population at home. They graduated from coarse jokes, verbal and pictorial,...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...r member- ship in these churches. Yet this far-off western village, with a population, includ- ing old and young, male and female, of about one thou- ... ...me—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Me... ...change except silver. The trade in tobacco was enor- mous, considering the population to be supplied. Almost every Mexican above the age of ten years,... ...e instrumentality for securing this prime object of government. The native population had been in the habit of using “the weed” from a period, back of... ...d by the Indians, or driven away. San Antonio was about equally divided in population be- tween Americans and Mexicans. From there to Austin there was... ...people had never enjoyed before. The edu- cated and wealthy portion of the population here, as else- where, abandoned their homes and remained away fr... ...f the invaders; but this class formed a very small percentage of the whole population. 61 U. S. Grant CHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUE—BUENA VISTA— MOVE... ...army of ten or twelve thousand men, given Scott to invade a country with a population of seven or eight millions, a mountainous coun- try affording th... ...so scattered that I was put entirely on the defensive in a territory whose population was hostile to the Union. One of the first things I had to do wa...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...an Cau- casians. African Americans comprise only 13 per- cent of the U. S. population, but 40 percent of the inmates on death row. Another argument ag...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...l the holy relics, the gunpowder, mu- nitions, and money, and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned. 81 Tolstoy Rostopchin... ... of no avail in relation to the one question before Moscow, when the whole population streamed out of Moscow as one man, abandoning their be- longings... ...seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ain Tract of Hofrath Heuschrecke’s, entitled Institute for the Repression of Population; which lies, dishonorably enough (with torn leaves, and a perc... ...r the doctrine, that his zeal almost literally eats him up. A deadly fear of Population possesses the Hofrath; something like a fixed idea; undoubtedly... ...ed to favor us with another copious Epistle; wherein much is said about the “Population Institute;” much repeated in praise of the Paper bag Documents...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...eption of the officer, Nicholas the Frenchman, and the boy, made the whole population of the beach. I ought, perhaps, to except the dogs, for they w... ...before unknown to the islanders, and which are now sweeping off the native population of the Sandwich Islands, at the rate of one fortieth of the ... ...lation of the Sandwich Islands, at the rate of one fortieth of the entire population annually. They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a peo... ...eries drew off all men from the gathering or cure of hides, the inflowing population made an end of the great droves of cattle; and now not a vesse... ... hides, and where I spent nights watching them, was more easily found. The population was doubled, that is to say, there were two houses, instead of... ...was one board shanty. In 1836, one adobe house on the same spot. In 1847, a population of four hundred and fifty persons, who organized a town gove... ...ed interior, with its mines, and agricultural wealth, and rapidly filling population, and its large cities, so far from the coast, with their educ...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...ion, defended by a powerful fleet, a well- guarded frontier, and a warlike population, it would at least be safe from the worst conse- quences of a de... ...s, infectious diseases, the natural consequence of bad food, and a crowded population, had occasioned a greater loss than the sword. And this evil dai... ...oul odours infected the air, and bad food, the exhalations from so dense a population, and so many putrifying carcasses, together with the heat of the... ... The plains, which formerly had been thronged with a happy and industrious population, where nature had lavished her choicest gifts, and plenty and pr...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...ur era. 5 The Saba, of verse 14 formed an important branch of the trading population of Yemen. This whole passage, 14-18, alludes to the cessation of... ...ypocrites” mentioned in the later Suras are the disaffected portion of the population of Medina, who covertly opposed the claims of Muhammad to tempor...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...y of a hundred thousand men under the command of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, losing confidence in its allies, suff... ...ll the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money , and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned. Rostopchin, though he ... ...f no avail in relation to the one question before Mos- cow, when the whole population streamed out of Mos- cow as one man, abandoning their belongings... ...e it lost fifty thousand sick or stragglers, that is a number equal to the population of a large provincial town. Half the men fell out of the army wi... ...ertain geographical and economic conditions, and that certain relations of population to soil produce migrations of peoples, the foundations on which ...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...al: it was a form of life that grew like a small fresh vegetation with its population of in- sects on huge fossils. Will would be happy to conduct the... ...ure must begin somewhere, and put it that a thousand things which debase a population can never be reformed without this particular re- form to begin ...

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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

...prestige, and public support, and Pakistan’s rulers found that most of its population had little enthusiasm for fundamentalist Islam. Islamist revival... ...enues, the economic drain from many unprofitable development projects, and population growth made these entitlement programs unsustainable.The resulti... ...a common problem throughout the Muslim world: a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or s... ...g in Afghanistan made Pakistan home to an enormous—and generally unwelcome—population of Afghan refugees; and since the badly strained Pakistani educa... ...tchlists were not available to them. Mayors in cities with large immigrant populations sometimes imposed limits on city employee cooperation with fed-... ...its on city employee cooperation with fed- eral immigration agents.A large population lives outside the legal framework. Fraudulent documents could be... ...nal organization. . . . Finally, we must do more to pro- tect our civilian population from biological weapons. 105 Clearly, the President’s concern ab... ...escribed the area as effectively a military cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke rememb... ...gged terrain, weak gover- nance, room to hide or receive supplies, and low population density with a town or city near enough to allow necessary inter...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of...

...peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empi...

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Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar : Risk Reduction in Natural Resource Management

By: Dr. John Espie Leake

...cidence of events, such as Tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, floods etc., that can give rise to disasters is increasing. The view is understandable, both population and their built environment are increasing so more is at risk and this trend of increased risk will continue while populations continue to rise. As the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) enumerates this...

... Administrative Arrangements 65 Access and Communication 67 Population 74 Chapter 6 - Response to the cyclone – Shelter 79 Residential ...

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Thai Agriculture: Golden Cradle of Millennia

By: Lindsay Falvey

...ity and economic well-being, as Chinese and European influence benefited agribusiness and initiated the demand which would expand agriculture through population increase until accessible land was expended. The resulting central interest in the spoils of agriculture more than its producers pervaded decision-making until recently, and was supported by narrow economic develop...

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On The Origin Of The Human Mind, Second Edition

By: Ph.D. Andrey Vyshedskiy
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The Contest in America

By: John Stuart Mill

...y adherents, as they believe, in the South generally. That nearly half the population of the Border Slave States are in favor of it is a patent fact, ... ...as any part in the estimate of collective volition? They are a part of the population. However natural in the country itself, it is rather cool in Eng... ... condition, if only as regards future probabilities. But even of the white population, it is questionable if there was in the beginning a majority for... ...ted, to the extent of three fifths of their number, in the estimate of the population for fixing the number of representatives of each State in the Lo...

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