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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...the new appli- ances and under modern conditions, but a succession of able jurists, Lord Haldane, Chief Justice Briggs, and that very able King’s Coun... ...t, rich meadows, the sunlit dyke roads, and the countless windmills of the Dutch levels. In those 72 The World Set Free days there was unbroken land ... ...ward, along ways lined by the neutral, unmolested, ambiguously obser- vant Dutch. All the barges and shipping upon the canals had been requisitioned f... ... then a score of lengthening fiery serpents plunged hungrily down upon the Dutchmen’s dykes and struck between land and sea and flared up again in eno... ... the tops of trees, windmills, in fact the upper third of all the familiar Dutch scenery; and on it there drifted a dimly seen flotilla of barges, sma...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...mselves in the colony. ****Slavery was introduced about the year 1620 by a Dutch vessel which landed twenty negroes on the banks of the river James. S... ... city of Leyden in 1610, where they abode, being lovingly respected by the Dutch, for many years: they left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last o... ... last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their interest in the English nation; they being desirou... ...ery eye, and pithy speeches pierced each other’s heart, that sundry of the Dutch strangers that stood on the Key as spectators could not re- frain fro... ...cent was the last step to equality. I am surprised that ancient and modern jurists have not attrib- uted to this law a greater influence on human affa... ... not be contrary to the spirit of justice.** *All the English and American jurists are unanimous upon this head. Mr. Story, judge of the Supreme Court... ... of their legislation. The Americans have lawyers and commentators, but no jurists;* and they furnish examples rather than lessons to the world. The s... ...nia for centralization and government regulations dates from the time when jurists began to take a share in the government, in the time of Philippele-...

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David Copperfield Volume Two

By: Charles Dickens

...rs. Gummidge for some moments, in sore distress of mind, he glanced at the Dutch clock, rose, snuffed the candle, and put it in the window. Theer! sa... ... the Commentaries of one of the most eminent and remarkable of our English jurists. I believe it is unnecessary to add that I allude to Mr. justice Bl...

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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

...lais’ works were reprinted when no editions were appearing in France. This Dutch transla- tion was published at Amsterdam in 1682, by J. Tenhoorn. The... ...Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify the translator, and state the value to be as- ... ...tions and all pieces of countries, are by nature both good jurors and good jurists, and somewhat overweening; whereupon Joanninus de Barrauco, libro d... ... the art of riding. Changing then his clothes, he rode a Naples courser, a Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fl... ...o all good fellows. With that he unscrewed his borracho (which was a great Dutch leathern bottle), and without putting in his nose drank very honestly... ...lazily, as if our tongues walked on crutches, and not lustily like Lansman Dutches. T ruly this is a good sign; there is nothing here but what is fit ...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...o ornament the walls of his office and study. He pos- sessed the beautiful Dutch editions of the Latin classics, which, for the sake of outward unifor... ...ieces, still life, and figures quietly employed, after the mod- els of the Dutch. But now, by the new arrangement, by more convenient room, and still ... ...itatis,” which had been earnestly and carefully written, is still cited by jurists with approval. It is a pious wish of all fathers to see what they h... ...re praiseworthy. Junker, accustomed to the imitation of the most elaborate Dutch, was least able to manage this tapestry-work; but he condescended to ... ...-known sheets in small octavo, with an English lead-pencil upon the finest Dutch paper. In these he not only observed the greatest clearness of outlin... ...er by the way of jurisprudence. He brought to my recollection many elegant jurists, such as Eberhard, Otto, and Heineccius, prom- ised me mountains of... ... far as he acts and enjoys, and rouses others to action and enjoyment. The jurists, accustomed from their youth upward to an ab- struse style, which, ... ...gave me to under- stand what a great thing it was to write down a verse on Dutch paper, with the crow-quill and Indian ink; what time, talent, and exe... ...ot in Strasburg as in the German univer- sities, where they try to educate jurists in the large and learned sense of the term. Here, in conformity wit...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...horter than the chancel, and all finished with gables crow- stepped in the Dutch fashion. It was substantially paved within, and was a costly and anxi... ...e practical working of the English system of government, and sent over two jurists to enquire into the working of the unpaid magistracy, they were adv... ...dioides).—Otterbourne. Trefoil ( T rifulium subterraneum). (T . pratense). Dutch Clover (T. repens). Hopdown (T. procumbens). (T. minus). (T. hybridum...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...istency with the privileges of the Estates, was nevertheless argued for by jurists, diffused by the partisans of despotism, and believed by the ignora... ...ught to propitiate by embrac- ing the Calvinist religion. Both Spanish and Dutch armies appeared, but, as it seemed, only to make conquests for themse... ...d on adoration. Denmark and Sweden, Holland and Venice, and several of the Dutch states, acknowledged him as lawful sov- ereign, and Frederick now pre... ...g waited in vain for a master willing to purchase their services; till the Dutch, pressed by the Spanish General Spinola, offered to take them into pa... ...atched Tilly across the Elbe, to watch, as he gave out, the motions of the Dutch in that quarter; but in reality that he might terminate the war again... ... so, as the important city of Cologne upon the Rhine was threatened by the Dutch, while the progress of the enemy in Westphalia and the Lower Rhine ca...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...n, because she could prosecute her trade with us through the medium of the Dutch, who would be her immediate customers and paymasters for those articl... ...t trade? Would not the principal part of its profits be intercepted by the Dutch, as a compensation for their agency and risk? Would not the mere circ... ...y, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in militiamen instead of louis d’ors and ducats. At on... ...the continued and combined labors of the most enlightened legislatures and jurists, has been equally unsuccessful in delineating the several objects a...

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