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.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...IC INQUIRY .......................................................... 180 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE .......................................................... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...mes logically, sometimes with some gaps in logic. ―There is some historical evidence that verifies some events in the Bible. There are the ... ...But the evidence for Abraham and Adam only come from the Bible. As in all historical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then wi... ...your children will be saddled with huge taxes to help pay off the immense national debt that resulted from your under-taxation, would you vote for t... ...ees increase government inflow from their activities like toll collectors, parking ticket givers, and other tax collectors. ―We have to have ... ...Dan Paden, a researcher with PETA, has a master‘s degree in theology from Boston College, a Jesuit University. He said that ‗I think it's a shame th... ... Mother Theresa or Mikhail Gorbachev equal to the worth of Al Capone, the Boston strangler, or Jack the Ripper? Was the worth of an Adolph Hitler, G...

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... Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley,... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wo... ...hu’s father was then president. The fine domain of Gondreville was sold as national property. The head-keeper, to the horror of many, was present at t... ...e I bought it I was looking for a place to put my money, and I invested in national property as the best security. But it doesn’t suit me to keep an e... ...used of corresponding with the nation’s enemies, and delivered them to the national guards who took them to prison, the crowd shouted, “Now for the Ci... ...auteserre, the cure of Cinq-Cygne, and his sis- ter were playing a game of boston. Even if these personages were not embedded in this drama, their por... ... a week the pair dined at the chateau, but they came every evening to play boston with the d’Hauteserres; for Laurence, unable to play a game, did not... ...iff,—getting home in time for dinner, and finishing the day with a game of boston. All the inhabitants of the chateau had their stated occupations; li...

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................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON ....................................................................... ...me name should be given to two streets, one of which en- tered St. James’s Park at Buckingham Gate, while the other started from the Park at Marlborou... ... found none who spoke of their city with affec- tion. The men and women of Boston think that the sun shines nowhere else; and Boston Common is very pl... ...at West Point, and some of them I have seen at other places in marble. The Historical Society, at New York, has one or two of them. In and about the f... ...Arlington Heights is a beautiful spot—having all the attractions of a fine park in our coun- try. It is covered with grand timber. The ground is varie... ...king at the matter had never been attained at New York or Philadelphia, at Boston or Chicago. The Northern provincial world of the States had declared... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b...

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... that his commercial associate desired him instantly to come and give his attention to certain tele- grams received from St. Louis. But the two Englis... ...st something, my dear sir?” and Mr. Westgate looked at him, narrowing his eyelids. “Open your mouth and shut your eyes! Leave it to me, and I’ll put y... ... an inquiring traveler. “Oh, I mean my wife,” said Mr. Westgate. “I don’t sup- pose my sister-in-law knows much about them. She has always led a very ... ...here much,” responded his host. “I say, we ought to go there,” said Lord Lambeth to his companion. “Oh, Lord Lambeth, wait till the great heat is over... ..., Lord Lambeth, wait till the great heat is over,” Mr. Westgate interposed. “Boston in this weather would be very trying; it’s not the temperature for... ...ket phaetons, in which, almost always, a couple of ladies were sitting—ladies in white dresses and long white gloves, holding the reins and looking at... ...it to this venerable monument, which she spoke of ever afterward vaguely as a dreadful disappointment; so that she expressed the live- liest disapprov... ...y haven’t I as good a right as anyone else?” “Because you have lived in the midst of all these things.” “What things do you mean? Axes, and blocks, an... ...idst of all these things.” “What things do you mean? Axes, and blocks, and thumb- screws?” “All these historical things. You belong to a historical fa...

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...ildings, and dropped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadily at a pa... ...eau en fait, a son propre jeu. Je desire de vendre ceci a votre government national. Voulez vous me directer la? “Bit rummy, I expect, from the point ... ...ide its wireless telegraph steeple; here and there were large chateaux and parks and white roads, and paths lined with red and, white cable posts were... ...fting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop s... ...sible to mankind. The world of Bert Smallways did nothing of the sort. Its national governments, its national interests, would not hear of anything so... ..., being resolved, as he said, to give to Germany land and sea and sky. The national passion for aggression found in him its supreme exponent, and achi... ...r only defect indeed was a defect of style. One of the most striking facts historically about this war, and the one that makes the complete separa- ti... ...treme. But with these machines—Sir, this ride of ours will count among the historical rides of the world!” He came near to striking an attitude. “We s... ... get himself aboard a British brig in the tim- ber trade that put out from Boston without cargo, chiefly, it would seem, because its captain had a vag...

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... about a world settlement that does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? ... ...y to a change under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hi... ... will be small or homogeneous enough to serve dynastic ambitions, embody a national or racial Kultur, or fall into the grip of any group of financial ... ...s a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multitude of gentlemen’s servants and golf clubs and such like e... ...a new period of security, cheapness and low interest, a restoration of the park, the enclosure, the gold stan- dard and the big automobile, with only ... ...ve then and can remember, it has become now almost as re- mote, almost as “historical,” as the days before the French Revolution. Our days, our method... ...ting to note how partial and divided these affinities must necessarily be. Historically and politically, the citizen of the United States must be draw... ...o the country one sees in the back part of New York State as one goes from Boston to Niagara. And the reality follows the appearance. The United State... ...is Their Argument.” Their minds have been systematically corrupted by base historical teaching, and the inculcation of a rancid patriotism. They are a...

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...n country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, whi... ... the Marquis de Ronquerolles and the Comte de Soulanges, whose castles and parks and villages, seen in the distance from these heights, give the scene... ...le, like foot-notes, and this is the first I have ever allowed myself. Its historical interest must be my excuse; it will prove, moreover, that descri... ...of Conches. This gate demands a few words, which give, more- over, certain historical details about the property. The original founder of Les Aigues w... ...s in the air. ‘I’ve the good tobacco, it never shall be thine,’ that’s the national air of the rich man, hey? The peasant will always be the peasant. ... ...olution; the man who gave them possession of the soil and sold to them the national domains. His anointing was saturated with that idea.” “An idea to ... ...t to the mistress of the house. After this preliminary talk they played at boston, the only game the queen understood. When the fat old Guerbet had mi... ...liments ad nauseum, the company would say: “We have had a charming game of boston.” Too self-indulgent to be at the trouble of driving over to the Sou... ...e company, so true and so concise that it hit every one, the usual game of boston was proposed. Is not this a picture of life as it is at all stages o...

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... hun- dred students of Blodgett, scores recited more accurately and dozens Bostoned more smoothly. Every cell of her body was alive—thin wrists, quinc... ...e was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire ... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...se in a small parched lawn. 32 Main Street IV A concrete sidewalk with a “parking” of grass and mud. A square smug brown house, rather damp. A narrow... ...grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble. Pure, exquisite, solitary. A bras... ...laning-mill, and the Minniemashie House, and quite a share in the Farmers’ National Bank. Him and his wife are good sports—him and Sam and I go huntin... ...re!” “Bresnahan?” “Yes—you know—president of the Velvet Motor Com- pany of Boston, Mass.—make the Velvet Twelve—big- gest automobile factory in New En... ... Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand. I’m broken. It’s the historical Anglo- Saxon way of making life miserable… . Oh, my dear, I have... ... It was a wonderful trip. So many points of interest through Massachusetts—historical. There’s Lex- ington where we turned back the redcoats, and Long...

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...ok. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its historical history—so to speak. We can glance briefly at its slumbrous fi... ...itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds perspective and color, and ... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...1843 Duke of Orleans” “ 5 23 1844 Sultana “ “ 5 12 1849 Bostona “ “ 5 8 1851 Belle Key “ “ 3 4 23 1... ...with the Natchez, is the best on record, and, inasmuch as the race created a national interest, we give below her time table from port to port. Left N... ...shing off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably into the historical vein, and told of some tremendous feats of half a dozen old ti... ...ch rises to a size correspondent to that huge and somber title. We have the “Boston Massacre,” where two or three people were killed; but we must bunc... ...k whole some results. Colonel Calhoun, a grandson of the statesman, went to Boston and formed a syndicate which purchased a large tract of land on th...

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...; and, consequently, to that extent is likely to differ from your existing Boston reprint. These changes, as sure to be more or less advantageous to t... ...n reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be viewed as entirely new, large sections h... ...taken off my hands by the eminent house of Messrs TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS, Boston, U. S. To them I owe my acknowledgments, first of all, for that serv... ...s, when made vocal to the meditative heart by the truths and services of a national church, God holds with children “communion undisturbed.” Solitude,... ...felicitous, and not what might have been expected from Southey, whose vast historical research and commanding talent should naturally have unlocked th... ... the movement of my intellect. There is a dignity to every man in the mere historical assigning, if accurately he can assign, the first dawning upon h... ...racter of the British policy as to all external demonstrations of pomp and national pretension, and its strong opposition to that of France under corr... ...s, why, we may ask, were not the many and gorgeous jewels, achieved by the national wisdom and power in later times, adopted into the recomposed tiara... ...re as yet entirely unknown by sight) it gratified highly to see persons of historical names—names, I mean, historically connected with the great event...

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...rmed him (and, indeed, as he himself well knew), the W averleys of Highley Park, com. Hants; with whom the main branch, or rather stock, of the house ... ... their representative with Judith, heiress of Oliver Bradshawe, of Highley Park, whose arms, the same with those of Bradshawe the regicide, they had q... ...matic authors; of many picturesque and inter- esting passages from our old historical chronicles; and was 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted wi... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...ond the hallan, or earthen partition of the cottage, with eyes employed on Boston’s Crook of the Lot, while her ideas were engaged in summing up the r... ...een much better pleased had the pious or sapient apothegms, as well as the historical narratives, which these various works contained, been presented ... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ... ...row. NOTE 25.—FIELD-PIECE IN THE HIGHLAND ARMY This circumstance, which is historical, as well as the descrip- tion that precedes it, will remind the ...

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...stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures—a class of efforts as to which she had often committed ... ...ame of the gentleman was Caspar Goodwood; he was a straight young man from Boston, who had known Miss Archer for the last twelvemonth and who, thinkin... ...and picked out?” “I don’t know about a husband, but there’s a young man in Boston—!” Ralph went on; he had no desire to hear about the young man in Bo... ... was very critical herself—it was inciden- tal to her age, her sex and her nationality; but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something ... ...woman dressed, on the lines of the prevailing fashion, in the folds of the national banner. Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her develop... ...m sure you understand everything and that differ- 99 Henry James ences of nationality are no barrier to you,” Ralph went on. Miss Stackpole gazed at ... ...was at least as far removed from the disposition to let the young man from Boston take positive possession of her. The sentiment in which She sought r... ...s Gemini’s as if to guide her course to the garden, “Mr. Osmond’s never so historical.” “Oh you,” the Countess answered as they moved away, “you yours... ...he supposition, whether to this intimate friend of several years the great historical epithet of wicked were to be applied. She knew the idea only by ...

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... life, with a vague self-mistrust. An observer with anything of an eye for national types would have had no difficulty in determining the local ori- g... ...orous relish of the almost ideal completeness with which he filled out the national mould. The gentleman on the divan was a power- ful specimen of an ... ...and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type; but the traces of national origin are a matter of expres- sion even more than of feature, and... ...a hack and went about my business, and it was in this hack— this immortal, historical hack—that the curious thing I speak of occurred. It was a hack l... ...e ill of them ought to be car- ried home in irons and compelled to live in Boston. (This, for Newman was putting it very vindictively.) Tristram was a... ...ed by my side. The nearest approach to her was a Unitarian min- ister from Boston, who very soon demanded a separation, for incompatibility of temper.... ...at a paradise she finds it. She walks about in it as if it were a blooming park, a Garden of Eden; and when she sees ‘This is genteel, ’ or ‘This is i... ...just beyond there,” said the landlord, and pointed to the tree-tops of the park, above the opposite houses. Newman followed the first cross-road to th... ...eat gate, they passed round by a winding lane to a door in the wall of the park, of which she had the key, and which would enable her to enter the cha...

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... it, therefore his cham- pionship ceased. A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict. In the dueling-house, ... ...ith vigorous hu- manity—how impossibly long ago that seems!—and here it stands yet, and possibly may still be standing here, sunning itself and dreami... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...t beds remained in the chambers, and their quilts and curtains and canopies were decorated with curious hand- work, and the walls and ceilings frescoe... ...rigid cultiva- tion can enable a man to find truth in a lie. But it enabled Mr. Ruskin to do it, and it has enabled me to do it, and I am thankful for... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...and. In Berlin my life is a continued round of gaiety in the imperial palace. It is the same, wher- ever I go. H. It must be very pleasant. But it mus... ... seem a little slow when you are at home. G.S. Yes, of course it does. But I don’t go home much. There’s no life there—little to feed a man’s higher n...

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...this one de- sires a country-house, ten miles from Paris with a so-called “park,” which he will adorn with statues of tinted plaster and fountains whi... ...mint of money; others, again, dream of distinction and a high grade in the National Guard. Provins, that terrestrial paradise, filled the brother and ... ...elling-carriages, and waggons. The two towns, or rather this town with its historical memories, its melancholy ruins, the gaiety of its valley, the ro... ...ms with all the best families in the town. Sylvie applied herself to learn boston. Rogron, in- 29 Balzac capable of playing a game, twirled his thumb... ...eable scene occurred between herself and old Madame Julliard while playing boston, apropos of a trick which Sylvie declared the old lady had made her ... ...ied Madame Tiphaine. “Our friends have had, they assured us, the eminently national, liberal, constitutional, and patriotic feeling to use none but Fr... ...om ruin. Nothing is left to us of the old Provins but the fragrance of our historical glory and that of our roses,—and a sub-pre- fecture!” “Ah! what ... ...m Nantes had rumpled it) was like a halo round her happy little face. This national cap, of the finest lawn, trimmed with stiffened lace pleated in fl... ... of cards in the evening, why don’t you have it at home; why not play your boston here, in your own house? Is it impossible to fill the places of thos...

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...to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi- cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Bur- gundy, Provence is Provenc... ...over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away you scarcely kno... ... marshal’s widow, it was, after the Restoration, sold to the trustees of a national subscription which had been 32 A Little Tour in France establishe... ...ich is virtually an invitation to the French people to repudiate, as their national ensign, that immortal tricolor, the flag of the Revolution and the... ...much to certain portions of the interior, and to occasional ef- fusions of historical information, that the old lady with the prove sometimes lost pat... ...self, with the cathedral, the castle, and the Maison d’Adam, as one of the historical monuments of Angers. 77 Henry James XV. IF I SPENT two nights a... ...ain to show you the lustreless gem of the museum,—these things have a mild historical qual- ity, and the sallow canvases after all illustrate somethin... ...id that they may be south of some- thing, but are not southern. To go from Boston to New York (in this state of mind) is almost as soft a sensation as... ...them at New York and Philadelphia,—we imagine him boldly as liberated from Boston,—how could he fail to perceive them at La Rochelle? The streets of t...

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...n of Arc falls here, yet has some claim to a place in the first class; (b) Historical essays, like The Cæsars; (c) Speculative and Theological essays;... ...ed with an Introduction and Notes, by M. H. T urk. Athenaeum Press Series. Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Company, 1902. [“The larg- est body of... ...Vol. I. New York, 1892. 11. W . MINTO. Manual of English Prose Literature. Boston, 1889. [Contains the best general discussion of De Quincey’s style.]... ...ess, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office service spoke as by s... ...onflicts of ordinary warfare, so often no more than gladiatorial trials of national prowess. The victo- ries of England in this stupendous contest ros... ...ty it was that the French domination had prospered. The mail-coach, as the national organ for publishing these mighty events, thus diffusively influen... ...piness within the domain of our common country, within that ancient watery park, within the pathless chase of ocean, where England takes her plea- sur... ...rt., and next, on the 25th of November 1805, to Charles Palmer, of Lockley Park, Berks, Esq. If Debrett is right, her second husband was not John Palm...

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...m J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady o... ...m J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 Preface When I first saw Mr. Osgood’s beautiful illustrated edi... ...ried in vain to find a copy of the editio princeps (1810) in Cambridge and Boston, but succeeded in getting one through a London book- seller. This I ... ...roud career, The high-born filter shivers spear. I’ll follow to the Castle-park, And play my prize;—King James shall mark If age has tamed these sinew... ... writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to 118 The Lad... ... in the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling. Few families can boast of more historical renown, having claim to three of the most remarkable characters ... ...cture—the effect of the sounds —and the wild character and strong peculiar national- ity of the whole procession, are given with inimitable spirit and... ... introduction into England it became blended with the Mayday games. A full historical account of it is given in Douce’s Illustrations of Shakespeare. ... ...t authority was a nailer near Cheadle” (R. Jamieson). [FN#11] See Scottish Historical and Romantic Ballads, Glasgow, 1808, vol. ii. p. 117. [FN#12] A ...

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... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have every- where turned to the advantage of democracy; ... ...d, his wonders and the judgments of his * “New England’s Memorial,” p. 13; Boston, 1826. See also “Hutchinson’s History,” vol. ii. p. 440. 50 Democra... ...tion. See “Pitkin’s History,” vol. i. pp. 11-31. ***See the work entitled “Historical Collection of State Pa- pers and other authentic Documents inten... ...he emigrants with the land of their forefa- thers in studying the earliest historical and legislative records of New England. They exercised the right... ...mber 13, 1644, banished the Anabaptists from the State of Massachusetts. (“Historical Collection of State Papers,” vol. i. p. 538.) See also the law a... ... Act of February 22, 1822, for ap- pointing the authorities of the city of Boston. It frequently happens that small towns as well as cities are subjec... ...27; and in the “Collection of the General Laws of Massachusetts,” 3 vols., Boston, 1823. 82 Democracy in America township and the State – In France t...

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...France. The conseilles de famille is a beautiful and wise provision of the national code, and aids greatly in maintaining 16 Autobiography of a Pocke... ...nevolence itself. The bleaching grounds of our manufactory were in the old park of the chateau. Thither Mad. de la Rocheaimard was fond of coming in t... ...joyed the extraordinary luck of retaining her fortune, being of an old and historical family, and who was at the head of fash- ion in the faubourg, wo... ... half 22 Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief his time under arms, as a national guard, in order to keep the revolutionists from revolutionizing th... ... with a look of admi- ration, a little mingled with contempt. “De la garde nationale Americaine,” answered Mr. Silky, smiling. He then gave the woman ... ...y dollars, that ever crossed the Atlantic. The celebrated Miss Jewel’s, of Boston, only cost seventy-nine.” “Only! Oh, Mr. Bobbinet, I must have it. I... ...ared with the “inventoried” dollar. As there is something, after all, in a historical name, and the Caverleys [sic] still had the best of it, in the w... ...ers fail there, I must rub up the Greek and Latin, and shift the ground to Boston. They say a chap with a little of the classics can get $30 or 40,000...

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...tself,” said Mr. W ebster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons ... ... thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” —Report of D... ...y. Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the... ...pily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...rant the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable historical instances where a particu- lar whale in the ocean has been at di... ...he world, that without some 202 Moby Dick hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as ... ...tures as a sea-captain, this day resides in the village of Dorchester near Boston. I have the honour of being a nephew of his. I have particularly que... ...you! What club but the whaleman’s can head off like that? CHAPTER 83 Jonah Historically Regarded R EFERENCE WA S MADE to the historical story of Jonah... ...ut an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky W ay. Now this doubloon was of ...

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...from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston. His son, Major Thomas Melville, was a leader in the famous ‘Boston ... ...lle’s son Allan, the father of Herman, was an importing merchant,—first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much cul- ture, and was an e... ...k. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian ports, in Octo- ber of 1... ... be seen almost daily tramping through the Fort George district or Central Park, his roving inclination leading him to obtain as much out- door life a... ...Fifty Years of Exile’ (1855), first printed as a serial in Putnam’s, is an historical romance of the Ameri- can Revolution, based on the hero’s own ac... ...ioned spouse that the tailors of the fleet had evinced the gaiety of their national taste. She was habited in a gaudy tissue of scarlet cloth, trimmed... ...cline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the Euro- pean calicoes. B... ...ation of the Globe, in which volume are several extracts from ‘Dalrymple’s Historical Collections’. The last- mentioned work I have never seen, but it...

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... in Canada in the early French times, for instance; see episodes quoted by Parkman. Y.M. Well, let us adjourn. Where have we arrived? O.M. At this. Th... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...heir habit when not on vacation. In the working season they do business in Boston some times, and a character in The Undiscovered Country takes acc... ...lysis; for, after all, it is the thing to spread your mind. We come now to historical matters, historical remains, one might say. As one turns the pag... ...ill in some distant future be found which deal with “Claimants”— claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Ve... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ...ed his Apologia from the Latin so correctly that neither he nor Archbishop Parker could suggest a single alteration.” It is the atmosphere we are rea... ...resume it—on no evidence of any kind. Which is their way, when they want a historical fact. Fact and presump Mark T wain 235 tion are, for business ... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

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...ne forms, when grief had furrowed that network of delicate veins. Esther’s nationality proclaimed it- self in this Oriental modeling of her eyes with ... ...in Paris such vehement promenaders, real gendarmes watching a recalcitrant National Guardsman, bailiffs taking steps to effect an arrest, creditors pl... ...6 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life those Parisians who are born to be of any nationality they please. But I do not advise that you should give yourself ... ... awoke from his nap. At first he fancied that he was still in his friend’s park; then he was startled by a celestial vision, which found him un- armed... ...the Bois or the Champs-Elysees. On the day after Esther was shut up in the park-keeper’s house, the being who was to her so enigmatic and terrible, wh... ... her beauty was now their capital. When the time came for them to quit the park-keeper’s lodge, he took Lucien and the poor girl to a place on the roa... ...ry evening during the winter these persons came to play an artless game of boston for cen- time points, to borrow the papers, or return those they had... ...Conciergerie, while they are making their way thither. The Conciergerie, a historical name—a terrible name,—a still more terrible thing, is inseparabl... ...n to persons of the upper classes; still, in spite of the interest of this historical digression, it should be as short as the journey of the prison v...

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...ds which said noth- ing but answered all things,—progress, steam, bitumen, National guard, order, democratic element, spirit of associa- 33 Balzac ti... ... Mesdames Falleix, Baudoyer, Barniol, and Mademoiselle Minard were playing boston, and Celeste was sitting beside Prudence Minard. Young Phellion was ... ...ter a service of thirty-six years. In 1832 he had led his battalion of the National Guard to the attack on Saint-Merri, but his neighbors had previous... ...there was no such thing as deliberation,—a saying of Louis-Philippe to the National Guard of Metz. Nevertheless, the bourgeois virtues of Phellion, an... ... the treaty of the four powers, an insult to France, is now an established historical fact; but it is necessary to remind the reader that from July to... ...he musical world, a few artists came to make diversion from bouillotte and boston. Old-fashioned and venerable, those two games were forced to beat a ... ...t time I had in the environs of Ville d’Avray a very beautiful place, with park and coverts and a stream for fishing; but as I was alone I found it du...

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...s ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organiza...

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....1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ... the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat could be, and di... ...rport in Portland, Maine. 1.1 INSIDE THE FOUR FLIGHTS Boarding the Flights Boston:American 11 and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. fligh... ...and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston’s Logan International Airport. 1 When he checked in for his flight t... ...ston’s Logan International Airport. 1 When he checked in for his flight to Boston,Atta was selected by a com- puterized prescreening system known as C... ...and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its historical moment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate... ... some of these young men were easy targets for radicalization. Bin Ladin’s Historical Opportunity Most Muslims prefer a peaceful and inclusive vision ... ...ch, in turn, was not deeply involved in the agency’s policymaking process. Historically , decisive security action took place only after a disaster ha...

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........... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON........................................................................................................................ 251 CHAPTER XVII: CAMBRIDGE AND LOWELL ..............................................................

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............................................................ 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON........................................................................ ........................................................ 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON ......................................................... ...English feeling on the American question was as follows: “This wide-spread nationality of the United States, with its enormous territorial possessions... ...the time when Englishmen were saying how impossible it was that so great a national power should ignore its own greatness and destroy its own power by... ... “What would you in England have thought,” a gentle- man of much weight in Boston said to me, “if, when you were in trouble in India, we had openly de... ...es. Such license would have been de- structive to the very idea of a great nationality. Where would New England have been, as a part of the United Sta... ...ble street,—Beacon Street, very like Piccadilly as it runs along the Green Park,—and there is the Green Park opposite to this Piccadilly, called Bosto... ... desires, am- bition, and necessities of a great nation, and it tells with historical truth the story of the success of that nation. It was a great th... ...V ol. 1 town, especially that of the Sorrowing Indian, at the rooms of the Historical Society; but art is a luxury in a city which follows but slowly ...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...race of God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian Congres... ... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...e a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes grow- i... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...and steady; now or 69 Thomas Carlyle never!—the World shall see one other Historical Scene; and so singular a man as Lomenie de Brienne still the Sta... ...and operates down even to the popu- lace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal con... ...h four Rows of Elms; and then the Cha- teau de Versailles, ending in royal Parks and Pleasances, gleam- ing lakelets, arbours, Labyrinths, the Menager...

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...race of God, what sounds are these; muffled ominous, new in our centuries? Boston Harbour is black with unexpected Tea: behold a Pennsylvanian Con- gr... ... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...e a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes growing... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...s and operates down even to the populace. At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal con... ...tives and positives! The Siege of the Bastille, weighed with which, in the Historical balance, most other sieges, including that of Troy Town, are gos... ...ith four Rows of Elms; and then the Chateau de Versailles, ending in royal Parks and Pleasances, gleaming lakelets, arbours, Labyrinths, the Menagerie...

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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...hem may be dealt with quite justly as accepting the general account of the historical process which is here given. Then first we must distinguish a se... ...he American Libraries’ Association, for example, and Mr. Nield’s “Guide to Historical Fiction”—and what are not done he would commission good men to d... ...of the sequence of such conditions; and, in addition, there is the sort of historical literature that seeks to elucidate and impose general interpreta... ...nctions and structures of its own. And monstrous architectural portents in Boston and Salt Lake City encourage one to suppose that even that churchles... ...nd Margaret Fuller participated, and in which the whole brilliant world of Boston’s past, the world of Emerson, Longfellow, Thoreau, was interested. M... ...nication, and grow- ing and spreading in wide and splendid suburbs towards Boston and Philadelphia. I made that forecast before ever I passed Sandy Ho...

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... the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addiso... ...ewith to garnish the hotel, and all the Irish in Paris were invited to the national festival. I and Prince Talleyrand danced a double hornpipe with Pa... ...had determined against Lord Bagnigge, for the very next day, riding in the Park, his horse fell with him; he was carried home to his house with a frac... ...er he had saved Miss Amethyst when the horses had run away with her in the Park! Poor Flouncy, poor Flouncy! Jeames had been but a week in Amethyst’s ... ...h her cousin the prince in his phaeton, her own carriage was sent into the Park simply with her companion, who had charge of her little Fido, the dear... ...at the House of Commons, solazes himself with a glas of gin-and-water (the national beveridge), with cheerful 62 Thackeray conversation on the ewents... ...even now:— it set the Captain a-quarrelin with the Mate, who was hanged in Boston harbor for harpoonin of his officer in Baffin’s Bay;— it set me and ... ...e Tuileries.” 323 Burlesques CHAPTER III. THE ADVANCE OF THE PRETENDERS.— HISTORICAL REVIEW. WE WILL NOW RESUME THE NARRATIVE, and endeavor to com- p...

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...recept. Wyo- ming is, after all, more readily accessible to Mr. White than Boston to the English, and the New England self-sufficiency no better justi... ...f tales of greater situations in his younger days. He spoke of castles and parks with a humbling familiarity. He told of places where under-gardeners ... ...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ...e fear of the ordeal; so he had all the sheep upon his farm into one large park, and turned John’s dog into their midst. That hairy man of business kn... ...strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historical instances, the whole flotsam and jetsam of two minds forced in a... ...E WORDS WILL BE familiar to all students of Skelt’s Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to R... ...Juve- nile Drama. That national monument, after having changed its name to Park’s, to Webb’s, to Redington’s, and last of all to Pollock’s, has now be...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ... certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italo- mania of Boston Bay. Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was e... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ...25 Emerson books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras? Nay, what does history yet record of the metaphysical anna... ...lled in an office within one year after- wards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right... ...sh by little and little. Goethe’s Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historical portrait, and that is true tragedy. It does not seem to me so ge... ...uffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures. Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a song or two. In t... ...rn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and ...

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...honour, and obey a King, and that they rejoice in this conception of their national purpose. Great sums of money were spent to emphasize this purpose,... ... of the new knowledge has taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for pa... ...odern patriotism for one moment. On the one hand there are the patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat... ...e sound populations by using highly habitable areas as golf links, private parks, game preserves, and the like, and public-spirited people could combi... ...f expression which the child should become perfectly fa- *Messrs. Heath of Boston, U.S.A., have sent me a book of Nursery Rhymes, arranged by Mr. Char... ...th echoes of Froebel, T olstoy , Herbert Spencer, Ruskin, Herbart, Colonel Parker, Mr. Harris, Matthew Arnold, and the Morn- ing Post, trying to find ... ...struction of time charts; and much history also by draw- ing and colouring historical maps. With geometrical drawing one passes insensibly into mathem... ...u- lative discussion of the constitution of matter. A certain mini- mum of Historical and Political reading and of general “Li- brary” would be insist... ... through the avenue of Section ii. which, by the by, would have to involve Historical Reading. So much for my second suggested Col- lege course. The t...

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..................................................... ........... 122 SPEECH: BOSTON, APRIL 8, 1868. ....................................................... ...sts who work in silver do not always, I find, keep their promises, even in Boston. I regret that, instead of two goblets, which there should be here, ... ... SPEECH: FEBRUARY 1842. At dinner given to Mr. Dickens by the young men of Boston. The company consisted of about two hundred, among whom were George ... ... great means of refining and improving its people, and one great source of national pride and honour. You have in America great writ ers—great writer... ...ers; and it was this which made the damage done to a single picture in the National Gallery of London, by some poor lunatic or cripple, a mere matter ... ...entenary celebration being in hand, it occurred to him to represent to the National Shakespeare Committee their just and reasonable claim to participa... ...t, who, finding himself on a certain Sunday outside the walls of a certain historical English castle, famous for its pictures, was refused admission t... ...onderful building Mr. Paxton has designed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, that it ought to have fallen down, but that it refused to do so. We w...

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...ed, and sauntered away. He was not Yankee, except that he had been born at Boston. His father was En- glish, his mother a Hungarian singer, who had di... ...ect from poor Alda till Clem- ent was summoned by a telegram from Ironbeam Park to find his sister in the utmost danger, with a new-born son by her si... ..., when Lord Rotherwood and his son came 41 Yo n g e down to open a public park or garden on the top of the cliffs, where Lord Rotherwood’s accident h... ... world, either for tragedy, comedy, his- tory, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral. —Hamlet. THE MATRONS, otherwise denominated lady patro... ...revolution?” “Yes, guillotines and all, to cut off your head in Rotherwood Park,” said Gerald lightly. “Oh! you don’t really mean it.” “Not that sort,... ...gether subdued and altered, and had allowed her daughter to receive a good National school training; but with the recovery of health, activity, and vo... ... should make fools of ourselves in order to stave off the establishment of national education, as if we could, or as if it was worth doing.” “Then why... ... she had made to come and sing for a per- son who was giving lectures upon national music. “‘I looked at some of her songs,’ little Lida said in her h... ...ather’s dear old violin is coming to the front. Our first start will be at Boston; but continue to write to Gerald F . Wood, care of Editor of ‘Cole’s...

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...F THE GEN- ERAL STOCK OF THE SOCIETY, OR OF THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ............................................................. ... increase without it. The increase of revenue and stock is the increase of national wealth. The demand for those who live by wages, therefore, natural... ...ose who live by wages, therefore, naturally increases with the increase of national wealth, and cannot possibly increase without it. It is not the act... ...per in the end than that performed by slaves. It is found to do so even at Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia, where the wages of common labour are so... ... it may appear, is not near sufficient to compensate the expense of a deer park, as is well known to all those who have had any experience in the feed... ... and sometimes of the general amount only of all those taxes. {see Brady’s Historical Treatise of Cities and Boroughs, p. 3. etc.} But how servile soe... ... contained in the time of Montezuma. These numbers exceed greatly those of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, the three greatest cities of the Englis... ...e sober and judi- 609 Adam Smith cious writer, Mr Anderson, author of the Historical and Chrono- logical Deduction of Commerce, very justly observes,... ...them to public sale. Lands, for the purposes of pleasure and magnificence, parks, gardens, public walks, etc. possessions which are everywhere con- si...

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... townsmen have met me returning from this enterprise, farmers starting for Boston in the twilight, or woodchoppers going to their work. It is true, I ... ...n end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph... ...n which covers the globe, through Paris and Lon don, through New York and Boston and Concord, Walden 90 through Church and State, through poetry and... ... Concord,” by one of its citizens, in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and White Ponds, a... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants.... ... find him? Does Mr. Grinnell know where he himself is? Be rather the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streams and oceans; ex...

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...en them and listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially w... ...count’s study. CHAPTER XX THE CARD TABLES WERE DRAWN OUT, sets made up for boston, and the count’s visitors settled themselves, some in the two drawin... ...y following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pic- tured to himself the cou... ...and with parental authority superintended the setting out of the table for boston. The general sat down by Count Ilya Rostov, who was next to himself ... ...ry act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history ... ...ans. Besides being advocates of bold action, this section also represented nationalism, which made them still more one-sided in the dispute. They were... ...rred to him: if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer. So he wrote Le russe Besuhof... ...that is, to doing the very thing that was bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying th... ...ir belongings and prov- ing by that negative action all the depth of their national feeling, then the role chosen by Rostopchin suddenly ap- peared se...