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... accounted for an estimated 80 percent of the world’s total e-mail. 59 North American PCs led the world in De- cember 2006, producing approximately 46... ...demics, social analysts, and industry leaders surveyed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in 2004 predicted serious attacks on network infras... ... need not be limited to targeted eavesdropping that is part of a criminal or civil investigation. It can also be effected more generally. In 1996, law ... ...h Korea, N.Y. T, Nov. 12, 2005, at C3; News Release, No. 45/04, European Union, EU Commission Concludes Microsoft Investigation, Imposes Conduct R... ...o tinkering PC owners in their homes, had grown to include 20 percent of all Americans. Id. at 9. Among adult Internet users, meanwhile, 65 percent co... ....R. 4808, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5488, and H.R. 5705 Before the Subcomm. on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Admin. of Justice of the H. Comm. on the Judiciar... ...08, H.R. 5250, H.R. 5488, and H.R. 5705 Before the Subcomm. on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Admin. of Justice of the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 97t... ...the Rules, or the Re- statement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to Do with Civil Discovery Practice?, 71 F L. R. 1567 (2003); James Q. Whitm... ...Educ., 433 U.S. 915 (1977) (holding that teachers could not be forced to pay union fees to sup- port political messages with which they disagreed). 13...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...s of craftsmen (Proudhon), a federation of voluntary associations (Bakunin), trade unions (anarcho- syndicalists), ideal communism (Kropotkin). Wha... ... person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (... ...se, it rings of a dictatorship, a negation of individualism, a restriction of civil liberties, an infringement on human rights, anti-liberalism at i...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...s of craftsmen (Proudhon), a federation of voluntary associations (Bakunin), trade unions (anarcho- syndicalists), ideal communism (Kropotkin). Wha... ... person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (... ...se, it rings of a dictatorship, a negation of individualism, a restriction of civil liberties, an infringement on human rights, anti-liberalism at i...

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...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ... an health emergency. Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out ... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ... person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (... ...ng" - posting links to specific pages within a Web site - in violation the European Union "Database Directive". The directive copyrights the "selec... ... view. The strongest expansions were registered during and after major crises - the Civil War, the first and second world wars, the Korea War, throu... ...henomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalizes alter... ...y for allegedly having channeled millions of DM to his relatives during the recent civil war. Macedonia has belatedly passed an anti- money launderi...

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...urs fail - in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...ise. This is disingenuous. Ponzi and pyramid schemes have been a fixture of Western civilization at least since the middle Renaissance. Assets tend... ..., 1983, the entire banking sector of Israel crumbled. Faced with ominously mounting civil unrest, the government was forced to compensate shareholde... ...l and financial crisis management led Albania to the verge of disintegration and a civil war. Rioters invaded police stations and army barracks and... ...all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-ev... ...ten end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently used these cheap funds to prop... ... Soviet Bloc (such as Estonia) are even more advanced than the rest of the European Union. Return The Future of the Accounting Profession Intervie... ...wide trend of devolution affect municipal finance? A: Outside of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, municipal finance was not significantl... ... person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with a similar system of liberty for all. (...

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... that Henrietta Maria had a Port, and Melchisedec a Presence: and that the union of a Port and a Presence, and such a Port and such a Presence, was so... ...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ldier—good anything you will—but, Diacho! to be married to that! He is not civilized. None of you English are. Y ou have no place in the drawing-room.... ...—I mean our ladies—not your English. They wanted to know how I could be so civil to that intolerable man. I gained a deal of credit, my dears. I laid ... ...y just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grimaced civilly, and turned away. The girl’s observant brows were moved to a faintl... ...n, that she had condescended in giving him her hand. The features of their union might not be changed altogether by a revelation, but it would be a sh... ...he friend of Rose. Loving Rose, he nevertheless allowed his love no tender liberties. The eyes of a lover are not his own; but his hands and lips are,... ...ing, the venerable old lady quite as much as gave me to understand that an union be- tween our brother and her son’s child would sweetly gratify her, ...

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..., or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas or of the United States, and that the same is true... ...takable sign is that all the odds and ends are with us—Barnburners, Native Americans, Tyler men, disappointed office-seeking Locofocos, and the Lord k... ...JUNE 20, 1848. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Civil and Diplomatic Ap- propriation Bill: MR. CHAIRMAN:—I wish at all time... ...onal question. In 1826 Chancellor Kent first published his Commentaries on American law. He devoted a portion of one of the lectures to the question o... ...myself, came down upon us astonishingly. He spoke in what the ‘Balti- more American’ calls the “scathing and withering style.” At the end of his secon... ...ushed for ever! Who can realize that freedom’s champion, the champion of a civilized world and of all tongues and kindreds of people, has indeed falle... ...rica presents to a benighted world—pointing the way to their rights, their liberties, and their happiness. And when they have achieved all those purpo... ... but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions. And if they shall think as I do, that the exten... ...f govern- ment—a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence. I repeat, therefo...

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...g diseases, to perish with hunger, or to be devoured by wild beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of p... ...Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or daylabourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will per- ceive that the number of ... ...ssistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very fa... ...xceeds that of many an African king, the absolute masters of the lives and liberties of ten thousand na- ked savages. 18 The Wealth of Nations CHAPTE... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...butcher’s meat was as cheap or cheaper than even bread made of oatmeal The Union opened the market of England to the Highland cattle. Their ordinary p... ...he value of the two metals is nearly equal. In the Scotch coin, before the union with England, the gold preponderated very little, though it did somew...

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...in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life, which some would call impertinent, though the...

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...only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the noti... ...ffences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity,... ...age to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and... ...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...e bent on the honey with which it was smeared. I felt proud to know that the liberties of Massachusetts and of our fatherland were in such safe keepin... ...le, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind...

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...d his prisoner’s wife. He had been specially asked by Mr Walker to be very civil. Only one could sit on the box with the driver, and if the request wa... ...understood generally through the establishment—and I may almost say by the civil service at large, so wide was his fame—that Mr Eames was very averse ... ...ition, wrote papers about it, which he read aloud to various bodies of the civil service—not at all to their delight—which he got to be printed here a... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘... ...y bad quarter of an hour in store for him; but he swore to himself that no union of dragon and tigress should extract from him a word that could be ta... ...was coming which had for a while perplexed Grace herself, had taken little liberties with her wardrobe, which enabled such a visit to be made without ... ... to assent for a long time, but which was at last carried, not simply by a union of Mrs Grantly and Mrs Crawley, nor even by the assistance of Mrs Ara...

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...y disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of... ... informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment, or civil rights, or the way the economy works. I will try my best to be fair... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...ues, the boundaries of the market, the saving of lives, the loss of familiar liberties. Once again, opposi- tion to enclosure is portrayed as economic... ...to focus on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act... ...us on, and I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act, The ... ... is important. And yes, I must disagree with some of my friends in the civil liberties world and say that the government’s interest is unrelated to th...

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...ion for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people o...

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...f despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the great- est number have begun their career by pa... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war. But notwithstanding the concurring testimony of experi- * Ibid. ... ...repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. T o be more safe, they at length become willing... ...ws are not accustomed to relaxations, in favor of military exigencies; the civil state remains in full vigor, neither cor- rupted, nor confounded with... ...rse of time, in the predicament of the continental powers of Eu- rope —our liberties would be a prey to the means of defend- ing ourselves against the... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the liberties of the Old World, and as the proper antidote for the diseases of ...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ... once felt in noting on her lips that rarest, among the Barbarians, of all civil graces, a perfect felicity in the use of Italian. He had known strang... ...a ground, but they had n’t prevented him from insisting that some strictly civil ancestor—generations back, and from the Tuscan hills if she would—mad... ...ly—I went one day with Maggie. We looked him up, so to say. They were most civil.” And she fell again into the current her husband had slightly ruffled... ...ing in comfortable scale. At first, certainly, their decent little old time union, Maggie’s and his own, had resembled a good deal some pleasant public... ...n the truth widened to the Princess’s view. “I myself of course don’t take liberties, but then I do always by nature tremble for my life. That’s the w... ...een ashamed of; and if she would pardon, gracious lady as she was, all the liberties he had taken, she might make of the bowl any use in life but that...

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...oreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the ty... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...t in masterly coincidence with the artis- tic effect. The deadly weight of civilisation to those who are below presses sensibly on our shoulders as we... ...ords and actions, and land him at last in an undesired and most unsuitable union for life. If he had been strong enough to refrain or bad enough to pe... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...em to be; what is once well done is done for ever.” Such was his theory of civil disobedience. 106 Robert Louis Stevenson And the upshot? A friend pa... ... some curious and im- portant points. We can only regret that he has taken liberties with the author and the public. It is no part of the duties of th...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We learned that ... ...con. We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this thr... ...nidentified item in his back pocket, clipped to its rim. 15 When the local civil aviation security office of the Federal Aviation Admin- istration (FA... ...opment and reform also have political implications. Economic and political liberties tend to be linked. Com- merce, especially international commerce,... ...onfront recurring judgments that balance security, effi- ciency, and civil liberties.These problems should be addressed systemically, not in an ad hoc... ...t of this sys- tem has been delayed because of claims it may violate civil liberties. 392 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 P...

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...ls, and Jasper will be feeling weary of being laid up, and wanting to take liberties.’ ‘And what will you be after such a journey?’ ‘Just up to keepin... ...Ada, taking her sister’s information for granted. ‘Oh no, it is nothing. A civil service man, second cousin’s brother-in-law’s stepson. That’s quite e... ...her of a grown-up son, engaged in his father’s business. She was extremely civil and polite, and everything went well except for a certain stiffness. ... ...e ven- ture, and they skimmed upon more surface subjects. The one point of union between the parishes of Rockstone and Rockquay was a choral society, ... ...ltation upon the marriages, only regretting that one gentleman should be a civilian; he had always augured that all his young ladies would be in the S... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...t’s enough; take away the cats.’ It was kindly said, but it was plain that liberties 241 Beechcroft At Rockstone with mamma would not continue before...

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... my portmanteau—operation performed—old Bolaro in ecstasies—consent to our union— join hands and floods of tears—romantic story—very.’ ‘Is the lady in... ...peaceful citizens; their faces beaming—not with warlike ferocity, but with civilised gentleness; their eyes flashing —not with the rude fire of rapine... ...ickens 95 applause.) Have you never, when struggling for your rights, your liberties, and your privileges, been reduced, if only for an instant, to mi... ... quired the benevolent Mr. Pickwick. ‘No, I doan’t, Sir,’ replied the man civilly. ‘It was here long afore I was born, or any on us.’ Mr. Pickwick gl... ...electors of Eatanswill that the eyes not only of England, but of the whole civilised world, were upon them; and the Independent im peratively demand... ... tone. ‘The fact is, he is my servant, but I allow him to take a good many liberties; for, between ourselves, I flatter myself he is an original, and ... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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... has passed ahead of all her enterprising neighbors in that section of the Union. At the same time, the old proportion between the State and the town—... ...course, the spirit of the age, and the equalizing sentiment that marks the civilization of the epoch, will greatly hasten everything in the shape of i... ...ch that, in this country, is by no means affluent. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any com- mendable d... ...wn local authorities. But representation forms no part of the machinery of American policy . It is supposed that man is too intellectual and philosoph... ...k, we ventured to predict the great fortunes that were in reserve for this American mart, giving some of the reasons that then occurred to us that had... ... of policy and justice, sub- ject only to the great principles that modern civili- zation has introduced into public concerns. One can understand why ... ...tion- ably place the United States of America promi- nently at the head of civilized nations, unless their people throw away their advantages by their... ...cuse to the rich and intelligent for combining their means to overturn the liberties of a nation, as is to be found in abuses like those just named. W... ... all these obvious tendencies and the manifest dangers that beset the real liberties of the country, we do not see that any material influence will be...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...g his tributary nations he counted the Chaldean, with his learning and old civilization, the wise and steadfast Jew, the skilful Phoenician, the learn... ...tory has spoken clearly, and had become, in Gaul especially, slightly more civilized from intercourse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles... ...on condition of keeping the natives in check. A growing taste for arts and civilization was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves ... ...7 1397 1397 1397 1397 NOTHING in history has been more remarkable than the union of the cantons and cities of the little republic of Switzerland. Of d... ...narch should have taken the great coronation oath to respect the Hungarian liberties and laws. This oath was taken by the Queen in the name of her son...

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...ns upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer worl... ...edith the recognition of our individual countenances: a perilous thing for civilization. And these wise men are strong in their opinion that we should... ...estiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. If, he says, she watches over sentim... ...ke to a widow; an oldish one truly; but his wrath at the suggestion of his union with a widow led him to be for the moment oblivious of the minor shad... ...has money and health and beauty; and so has he; and it appears a fortunate union; I hope and pray it may be; but we begin to read the world when our e... ...ut would it have been possible to enclose you with myself in that intimate union? so secret, unassailable!” 64 The Egoist “You did not speak to her a... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...their illustrious nephew invited enter- prising women of the world to take liberties, and they were not backward. Lady Busshe said: “Well? the news! w...

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...ountry knee deep into the mud, wading through snipe grounds, look- ing for civilization where none exists. All these avenues have a slanting direction... ...se instructions, were carefully followed. Indeed, nothing could exceed the civility of the officials within; but so also nothing can exceed the barbar... ...stard Gothic; by this I mean that its main attributes are Gothic, but that liberties have been taken with it, which, whether they may injure its beaut... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...f ambition and ostentation, and that he had the good sense to be guided in civil matters by men who had studied the laws of social life and the theori... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...friendship with each other for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assi... ...em, having preserved the boundaries of the old colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old colonial charter. A union migh...

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...tion. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...wn- right abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they... ...wedding ring. They cite the example of George Eliot, who formed an illicit union with Lewes. They quote a saying attributed to Nietzsche, that a marri... ...So- cialist asks him what particular variety of marriage he means: English civil marriage, sacramental marriage, indissoluble Roman Catholic marriage,... ...man, Turkish, or South Dakotan marriage. In Sweden, one of the most highly civilized countries in the world, a marriage is dissolved if both parties w... ...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...o a private and socially inoperative eccen- tricity by the introduction of civil marriage and divorce. Theo- retically, our civilly married couples ar... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...ell as to the mere fact of breathing, is making short work of many ancient liberties, and exposing the pursuit of happiness as perhaps the most misera...

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...he subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly infl...

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...ortunately opposed to the mis named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be... ...ost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself un... ... First, by obtaining a recognition of certain immu nities, called political liberties or rights, which it was to be regarded as a breach of duty in t... ... and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil pen alties, its own ideas and practices as rules of con duct on t... ...sed to be of full age, and not forced or deceived. No society in which these liberties are not, on the whole, respected, is free, whatever may be its ... ...to separate the cognate liberty of speaking and of writing. Al though these liberties, to some considerable amount, form part of the political morali... ... two requisites, “freedom, and a variety of situa tions;” and that from the union of these arise “indi vidual vigor and manifold diversity,” which c... ... some tolerable plan of action. What the French are in military affairs, the Americans are in every kind of civil business; let them be left without a... ...nd of civil business; let them be left without a govern ment, every body of Americans is able to improvise one, and to carry on that or any other pub...

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... to see how the French gents will swagger—how they will be the scenters of civilization—how they will be the Igsamples of Europ, and nothink shall pre... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...as it surpasses all now in dignity, in valor, in honesty, in strength, and civilization,) the Doctor nodded to the Queen of France, but kept his hat o... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... to them when they saw the Stars and Stripes rise over the old flag of the Union, and the “Dettingen” fall down the river in tow of the Republican fri... ...t have come off in his second duel as well as in his first; as it was, the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac’s gold repeater in his stomach. A ... ...ether and extort from the king that famous instrument and palladium of our liberties at present in the British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbur... ... pretender is on our shores; an armed assassin is threatening our peaceful liberties; a wander- ing, homeless cut-throat is robbing on our highways; a...