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...arly apt to master and retain languages, and people try and inoculate with French and German as Lord Herbert of Cherbury would have inocu- lated child... ...ll solemnly profess to “know” English and Latin, 84 Mankind in the Making French, German and Italian, perhaps Greek, who are in fact— beyond the limi... ...cate is seasoned with religious cant, lessons in piano-playing, lessons in French “made in En- gland,” mortarboard caps for the boys, and a high socia... ...ed into and assimilated and more or less completely superseded by English, French, and German works; but the schoolmaster, heedless of these things, s... ...ery painful and shocking thought indeed to an English parent to think that French was taught in school with a view to reading French books. It is taug... ...erning bodies with power to “co-opt.” Of course they “co-opt” their fellow politicians, rejected candi- dates, and so on. Among other expedients that ... ... appointment of officials by noble patrons on the one hand, and of rule by politicians exercising patronage on the other, there is added in the Britis... ...ron- age; it is one of the chief factors in the cleanhandedness of British politicians, and it is continually importing fresh young men from outside t... ... given, quite naturally, for political services, because they are given by politicians too absorbed to be aware of men outside the political world. In...

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...indoo is a Hindoo and a brother to the man who knows his vernacular. And a French-man is French because he speaks his own language. But the American h... ...icatured themselves, their associ- ates, and their aims. There was a slick French audacity about 15 Rudyard Kipling the workmanship of these men of t... ... went straight to the heart of the beholder. And yet it was not altogether French. A dry grimness of treatment, almost Dutch, marked the difference. T... ...of construction. To this nucleus were added all the races of the Continent—French, Italian, Ger- man, and, of course, the Jew. The result you can see ... ..., as the speakers professed to believe. My listening mind went back to the politicians in the saloon, who wasted no time in talking about freedom, but...

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... regard for human rights, in cahoots with venal and sometimes homicidal indigenous politicians. And it drains the developing world of its brains, i... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...s and its performance. Throughout this time, the envoys of the West - its mediocre politicians, its insatiably ruthless media, its obese tourists, ... ...xpert civil servants but by usurpers, power brokers, interest groups, and criminal-politicians. The Founding Fathers looked to Rome as a model. I... ...e same power for his military expedition in Gaul. To secure popular support, Roman politicians doled out tax cuts, free entertainment, and free foo... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am... ...iled because both it and Russia are biased in favor of the current regime in Iraq. French and Russian firms have signed more than 1700 commercial c... ...eude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. Public opinion - even where it...

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...res outlandish amounts of money (tens of millions of dollars per campaign). Politicians end up spending a lot of their time in office (and out of it... ...electoral colleges" composed exclusively of volunteers. NOTE - The Role of Politicians It is a common error to assume that the politician's role is... ...the corporation's major shareholders. To make sure that they get re-elected, politicians are sometimes required to implement reforms and policy meas... ...very reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's reign in post-Yeltsin Russia. Like the French Second Empire, it follows a period of revolutions and counter-rev... ...tine security apparatus which regularly gathered information on millions of Frenchmen and foreigners. Modernization and Reform Putin is considerably ... ... of the Congress of Vienna (1815) and reverse the trend of post-Napoleonic French humiliation. He wanted to resurrect "Great France" pretty much as... ...e renaming of the airport. Macedonia has designs on a part of Greece, Greek politicians claim with a straight face, and the denizens of this tiny po... ...who are the celebrities people love to hate? Answer: Israelis like to watch politicians and wealthy businessmen reduced, demeaned, and slighted. In ...

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...eer reviewed and recommended for publication by: Dr.Jean Dezert, ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research), BP 72 F-92322 Chati... ...dies (CSWs).” He was saying discordantly that the mistake-doers are the politicians! We could not get the clarification for this statement. 17... ...st is in information fusion were he works with Dr.Jean Dezert from ONERA (French National Establishment for Aerospace Research in Paris) in creasing...

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...them were intermingled the de scendants of Hollanders, Swedes, Germans, and French fugitives from the persecution of the revoker of the Edict of Nant... ...to establish among them that community of goods and of labor, which fanciful politicians, from the days of Plato to those of Rousseau, have recommende...

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...g is more bitter in all his writings than his comparison of the contemporary politicians to lions, centaurs, satyrs, and other ani- mals of a feebler ... ...tory of nations, as at the time of the Crusades or the Ref- ormation, or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peop... ...t contain his disgust at the contemporary statesmen, sophists who had turned politicians, in various forms of men and animals, appearing, some like li... ...ed to reside? That we must discover, and then we shall see who are the false politicians who pretend to be politicians but 110 Statesman are not, alt... ...any windings in the argument appears to have been most justly fixed upon the politicians, as they are termed. STRANGER: And so our satyric drama has b...

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...ristianity could never have existed. Translators there have been, English, French, German, of Mahometan books, who have so colored the whole vein of t... ... for they went the length of promising, that he separately, as King of the French, would coerce Europe into peace. But, from the known good sense of t... ...sonally concurring to any war which might other- wise be attractive to the French government. 32 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One ha... ...ought by the superstitious, who should happen to recollect the sequel to a French king, of the very earliest movement in this direction: the great (bu... ...ey maintained the contest, (such as at this day divides ourselves from the French upon the question of opinion with regard to the so- cial rank of lit... ...y withdraw from the mission with which God had charged him, far less could politicians and magistrates under any allegation of public inconveniences p...

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... ven geance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of... ... execute them turn their arms against them, there are people who think the French incapable of free govern ment. Because the Greeks cheated the Turks... ...el, or of Nadir Shah, or of Caligula; but it was bad enough to justify the French Revolution, and to palliate even its horrors. If an ap peal be made... ...d government is not prob able, though even then there are exceptions. But French *Especially is this true if we take into consideration Asia as well ... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t... ...verage, either for speculation or practice, than the more unexcitable. The French, and the Italians, are undoubt edly by nature more nervously excita...

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...ributed to his political opponent.” Alfredo shrugged his shoulders. “You know politicians, Holy 10 J.Cross/Artemis Father, who can be sure.” ... ...have money and guns. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents of countries. No, Father, if we are to st... ... built into a crescendo of emotions. "We did it to protect ourselves from the French who invaded our island, pillaged our towns, slaughtered our peo... ...I.A., which was the first letter of each word in our credo: 'Death to all the French'. We took as our symbol the 'Black Hand' to strike terror in th... ...ice, "Gallucci said. "We either do what we have pledged since the time of the French: to protect our families, or we suffer the same fate we have jus... ...otel. "Ah, what a place, the night life is fantastic, the women romantic, the politicians cooperative. What more can we ask for?" "Truly a paradise... ...me question. You're the one running for President." "Fair enough. We're both politicians." "Look, let's stop the bullshit. What is it you want?" ... ...m the British delegate, "We shall always protect our own self interests." The French newspapers played it up as Britain's usual anti-European cooper... ...ave the money in a few days." The waiter brought the drinks, and a basket of French bread. "What's our next move," Brand asked. "Start running t...

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...l economy), thus enriching the rich; and (2) that inherited wealth tends to create a "patrimonial" form of capitalism, akin to the aristocracy in the French and British ancient regimes. Putting aside the somewhat artificial and dubious distinction between the "real" and the financial economy, r and g are apples and oranges and cannot be compared. Economic growth (g) is...

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...greater political phenomena depend, are not ame nable to the direction of politicians or philosophers. The government of a country, it is affirmed, i... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...nerally succeeded in putting an early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des ... ...ance must be ascribed to the many valuable coun teracting elements in the French character, and most of all to the great individual energy which, tho... ... and struggling Anglo Saxons, has nevertheless manifested itself among the French in nearly every direction in which the operation of their institutio... ...t in the affair, what moral obligation is he likely to feel as to his own? Politicians are fond of treating it as the dream of en thusiasts that the ... ...one in whose case absolute impartiality , and freedom from connection with politicians or sections of politicians, are of any thing like equal importa... ... experience and of the conditions of Indian government than either English politicians, or those who supply the English public with opinions, have hit...

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... ters to Atticus, my father taking the trouble to translate to me from the French the historical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the... .... During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French litera ture; I ... ...difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events dif ferent; among... ... to myself, the contrast between the frank sociability and ami ability of French personal intercourse, and the English mode of existence, in which ev... ...and a year or two after the Peace. He was a man of the later period of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, o... ...ish precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English politicians and the En glish public concerning all social phenomena not ge... ... sooner or later compel the attention both of theoretical and of practical politicians. The chief of these last, is the distinction between the functi...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ...nt in our follies and our sins, Here honest Nature ends as she begins. Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last; As ... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ... whom she subdued: 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert ... ...ndemn a play of theirs, and they evade it; Cry, ‘Damn not us, but damn the French, who made it.’ 10 By running goods these graceless owlers gain; Th... ...us virtue, which causes all the visions of wild en- thusiasts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, castle-builders, chemists, and poets. He is immedi...

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...best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear, who in- sist that this opinion is erroneous, and th... ... a flame, it is well known that the antipathies of the English against the French, seconding the ambition, or rather the avarice, of a favorite leader... ... short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneous... ... moral and physical necessity. We might defy the little arts of the little politicians to control or vary the irresistible and unchange- able course o... ... an epidemical rage in Europe for this species of compacts, from which the politicians of the times fondly hoped for benefits which were never realize... ... diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as fee... ... to Kentucky, 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 du...

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...t notion necessarily disturbed by such temporary aberrations as those of the French Revolution, the worst of which were the work of an usurping few, a... ...e. M. de T ocqueville, in his last important work, remarks how much more the Frenchmen of the present day resemble one another, than did those even of... ... that they have a will, disappears more and more from the minds of practical politicians; there ceases to be any social support for non conformity—any... ...tent to take the lead, and improvise some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil ...