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...his Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of Waverley is founded. They have been already given to ... ...ounded upon one of those anecdotes which soften the features even of civil war; and as it is equally honourable to the memory of both parties, we have... ...we have no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack ... ...able men, though of different politi- cal principles, that while the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were execu... ...cene, though pleasing, was not quite equal to the gar- dens of Alcina; yet wanted not the ‘Due Donzellette Garrule’ of that enchanted paradise, for up... ...antage which the minstrel could have desired, and which his poetry so much wanted. I almost doubt if it can be read with patience, destitute of these ... ...n favour of the Stuarts had proved unsuccessful. More fortunate than other fugitives, he obtained employment in the French service, and married a lady... ...f Edward Waverley, Esq., suspected of treasonable practices and other high crimes and misdemeanours. The astonishment which Waverley expressed at this... ...dragoons above four miles from the field of battle, when some dozen of the fugitives took heart of grace, turned round, and, cleav- ing his skull with...

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...e land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean. On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly- looking craft, he... ...soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman’s complexion in the tropics. On the quarter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad... ...t two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at which place ... ...nd very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after ... ...et a crowd was seen coming down to the wa- ter. In advance of all were the fugitives—bareheaded—their frocks and trousers hanging in tatters, every fa... ...making com- mon cause with the sailors. I must explain myself here. All we wanted was to have the ship snugly anchored in Papeetee Bay; entertaining n... ...e rinds. While inmates of the Calabooza, we had as much of the fruit as we wanted; and to this cause, and others that might be mentioned, may be ascri... ...sced. 173 Melville This interview was decisive. Sensible that none of the charges brought against us would stand, yet unwilling for- mally to withdra... ...hiti. Though a sad debauchee and drunkard, and even charged with unnatural crimes, he was a great friend of the missionaries, and one of their very fi...

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...FORE THE CURTAIN AS THE MANAGER OF THE PERFORMANCE sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy com... ...s pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the look-out, quacks (other quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front ... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ... the sub- ject of the marriage, everybody seemed to understand it. All she wanted was the proposal, and ah! how Rebecca now felt the want of a mother!... ...whis- pered in confidence to Osborne, as the latter mounted the stair. “He wanted to fight the ‘ackney-coachman, sir. The Capting was obliged to bring... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...ch her father’s ruin had just driven her, she would have seen what her own crimes were, and how entirely her character was jeopardised. Such criminal ... ...ver: when all the movables of his present masters, who would be killed, or fugitives, or prisoners, would lawfully become the property of Monsieur Isi... ...entreaties procure the nec- essary means of flight. Amongst these would-be fugitives, Jos remarked the Lady Bareacres and her daughter, who sate in th...

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...mighty deeds to imaginary heroes, exchange substitutes for popular martyrs on the scaffold, and make the most stubborn facts subservient to her purpos... ...reeping obedi- ently in the track of the greater Muse, and never venturing on more than colouring and working up the grand outlines that her mistress ... ...throne of France, he found the feudal nobility depressed by the long civil war, and his exchequer exhausted. He and his minister Sully returned to the... ...obles were still more effectually crushed, and the great course of foreign war begun, which lasted, with short intervals, for a century. The great man... ...ION VERSION I HAD CRIED HALF the night, and when in the morning little Nan wanted to hear about my ball, I only answered that I hated the thought of i... ... march this way , in which case a triumphal entry should be prepared. They wanted to have regaled M. de Bellaise with a banquet, and were sadly disapp... ...uring at the sex of the poor little thing. It seemed the climax of all her crimes, which might be involuntary, but for which she was made to suffer as... ...atholic doctrine and practice. His argument was effectual with many of our fugitives, but not with my brother. He continued still to declare that he b... ...lars, opened, took in among them the bleeding, staggering, cruelly-handled fugitives, and with a firm front turned back the vile pursuers. I could dis...

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...which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de T reville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he... ...r else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they h... ...stering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardi-... ...the king, who made war against the cardi- nal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public, secre... ...t place, he was at length noticed, and somebody came and asked him what he wanted. At this demand D’Artagnan gave his name very modestly, emphasized t... ...his correspondence, Chalais’s throat cut, under the stupid pretext that he wanted to kill the king and marry Monsieur to the queen! Nobody knew a word... ...more strongly. All these proofs of love which you would give me are almost crimes.” “Because you do not love me, madame! If you loved me, you would vi... ...ouse, passed through the same door that had afforded a passage for the two fugitives, went up to D’Artagnan’s door, and knocked. No one answered. Port... ...of the privates and the half-pike of the brigadier, and convinced that the fugitives would not stop till they reached the city, turned again toward th...

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...on’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Gene... ...w Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York’s St. John’s Masonic Lod... ... of uncertainty. The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolu tionary war, supplying the place of government, com manded a degree of order suf... ...disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the ... ...e decisions of upright and enlight ened tribunals fall equally on all whose crimes subject them, by a fair interpretation of the law, to its censure.... ...l of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes. I now reiterate these sentiments, and in doing so I only press up... ... section as to another. There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly writ... ...asonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by State authority? Th... ...tric utili ties met with unmistakable defeat. The people declared that they wanted their rights to have not a political but a judicial determination,...

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...Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’ s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs. Joe Gargery, who mar... ... were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, ... ... terror, so that it be terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver; I was in mortal terror of my interlocutor with t... ...bout, for them that know how to put salt upon their tails. That’ s what’ s wanted. A man needn’ t go far to find a subject, if he’s ready with his sal... ...the two villains” being taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the 31 Charles Dickens smoke to hur... ...e- venge, throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the War-denouncing trumpet with a withering look. It was not with me then, as i... ...g the low grounds by the river, as if it were pursuing and threatening the fugitives. “A good night for cutting off in,” said Orlick. “We’d be puzzled... ... deep- est pain of all – it was for the convict, guilty of I knew not what crimes, and liable to be taken out of those rooms where I sat thinking, and... ...an’s ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted ‘cept when done in war time. And wotsume’er the failings on his part, he were a corn and seeds...

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...et, N. P . Willis, is- sued this touching appeal to the admirers of genius on behalf 5 V olume One of the neglected author, his dying wife and her de... ...e session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it ... ...d keep up with the march of intellect and the spirit of the age. If a fire wanted fanning, it could readily be fanned with a newspaper, and as the gov... ...fully completed these arrangements and filled the chamber as explained, it wanted only ten minutes of nine o’clock. During the whole period of my bein... ... where are some miserable frame buildings, tenanted, during summer, by the fugitives from Charleston dust and fever, may 76 Poe in Five V olumes be f... ...uced was sung by the rabble upon the occasion of Aurelian, in the Sarmatic war, having slain, with his own hand, nine hundred and fifty of the enemy. ... ...some measure implicated in their perpetration. Of the worst portion of the crimes committed, it is probable that he is innocent. I hope that I am righ... ...e body into the river before midnight. Those who are guilty of such horrid crimes, choose darkness rather the; light… . Thus we see that if the body f... ...is a few months more than the general period of the cruises of our men- of-war. Had the lover been interrupted in his first villany by the necessity o...

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...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 Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan...

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...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... to condense in a few pages the events of a whole lifetime, and the effect on his own mind of many various volumes, is bound, above all things, to mak... ...d, of a painter in France who, 17 Familiar Studies of Men & Books when he wanted to paint a sea-beach, carried realism from his ends to his means, an... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...rry in the pocket, and fastened with a pin,” which he scribbled during the war by the bedsides of the wounded or in the excitement of great events. Th... ...he hermits; but Thoreau made no fetish of his own example, and did what he wanted squarely. And five years is long enough for an experiment and to pro... ...eir country, told at length the ille- gality of the Shogun’s power and the crimes by which its exercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once,... ...enturies afterwards, it is odd and pitiful to watch the order in which the fugitives are captured and dragged in. Montigny was the first. In August of... ...“may not pretermit” to give the lie in the throat to his accuser, where he charges him with seeking support against his native coun- try. “What I have...