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... became independent in 1811 and Bolivar, being a minor - though self-aggrandizing - political figure, had little to do with it. After his first majo... ...n a coup d'etat. Now, Bolivar was the oppressor. He has murdered, or exiled his political rivals throughout his career. He confiscated church fu... ...first elections. He was murdered - with his brother and four others - probably by a political opponent, U Saw, in 1947. http://www.geocities.com... ... though not by Mexico, from which it seceded. Its annexation by the USA led to the Mexican War between Mexico and the United States. For centur... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...Father Bernardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods o...

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...tion of exquisite and valuable gifts -- Cortez refused permission to visit the Mexican capital -- Cortez inflamed with passion -- A meeting in camp --... ... A journey through flowery vales and luxuriant landscape -- First sight of the Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor o... ...e Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor of the Mexicans -- Montezuma anticipates his fate -- His offer to become a vas... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ... where the riches brought back by them were obtained, while equally creditable writers believe that the voyage was to the kingdom of Sofala on the Eas... ...as not only popularly opposed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians disco... ...usively in the hands of the Portuguese and Spanish. Queen Elizabeth, while for political reasons refusing to give open recognition to the enterprise w... ...endish banqueted the Portuguese merchants, and related to them the most recent political intelligences that he had, and in turn they described to him ...

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...pope. Similarly, the values of the people and those of their religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my parishioners tol... ...are the rule rather than the exception. Prostitution, gambling, drugs and political payoffs are only a small part of their overall business, much of... ...How well are the common people represented when they have not watered the political flower pots? ―There is something to be said for self inter... ...n which scripture we are reading. ―Among the ancient Greeks we find writers who were pantheistic, panentheistic, polytheistic and monotheistic... ... of 90% saying they believe in God, surveys show that many can‘t name the writers of the gospels or the first five books of their Bible. ―S... ... the reading of foreign meanings into the words of the highly intelligent writers of the Constitution by partisan judges and lawmakers have all scar... ...ers and sellers? And I guess it would certainly include the Columbian and Mexican drug cartels. To be politically correct should we call white slave ... ...border or a sea. Albanians crossing to Greece, Africans sailing to Spain, Mexicans scaling the fence, or tunneling under it, to California—all scram... ...igrate to a more economically friendly culture. I have heard the dreams of Mexicans in my travels. They say, ‗I want to immigrate. I want a job, or w...

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...s rife the world over. He saw into her mind and her hopes to cross over the Mexican border and veer off the main road through adobe hamlets, and cact... ... border and veer off the main road through adobe hamlets, and cacti and past Mexican Indians. When he woke from his epiphany he wasn't sure what to do... ...octors' class, held at Dr. Lee's breakfast table, he brought up articles and political cartoons for discussions. Everything from the continuing menace... ...age him he would be a pussycat purring on my lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the m... ...to interpolate such ideas, he told himself, he would be like all those other writers who took pride in writing their salacious pieces. From the point... ... decency to keep the Christian constituents, brethren of Israel, happy. Its political engagements were for its own economic and military hegemony ins... ... to say, "True she likes frijoles, jalape-os and the like, and the boys like Mexican food too" but her pain trod into the breath of the utterance like...

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......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...ry, the right to marry and found a family, and other such rights. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military serv... ...tion for a crime, according to Article 5, or in the armed services. So the writers didn‟t allow individuals the rights to do anything they wanted if ... ...films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on writers with little imagination. Crash cars, yell „kill the cops‟, shoot p... ...mpaign in the U.S. to try to change American negative opinions of illegal Mexican immigrants. He said the situation had become „intolerable‟. I can... ...als have sent back an estimated $23 billion a year to bolster the lagging Mexican economy. Next to oil, the money from America is the highest source...

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...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ...s! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishman, a Mexica... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...aring your favorite team‘s jerseys is a non-violent type of association. Or look at the power groupings in prisons, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexica... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer...

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...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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...ully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians ... ...t closer to the right. Anarchism is an umbrella term covering disparate social and political theories - among them classic or cooperative anarchism... ...n), and communitarian anarchism (Daniel Guerin). The narrow (and familiar) form of political anarchism springs from the belief that human communiti... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ... it as a road to the same kind of broad and deep understanding of human nature that writers possess." Anna Freud Towards the end of the 19th c...

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... When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Chi... ...ic study of haciendas through- out Mexico, and numerous articles about the Mexican haciendas. Bartlett was also an artist whose paintings, illustrati... ...us in his library. He has taken heart, at last, and is pouring out words, political invective. I sit, amazed. Even his dead eyes have gathered light... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...oft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many other galleries; and, thi...

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... When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Chi... ...ic study of haciendas through- out Mexico, and numerous articles about the Mexican haciendas. Bartlett was also an artist whose paintings, illustrati... ...us in his library. He has taken heart, at last, and is pouring out words, political invective. I sit, amazed. Even his dead eyes have gathered light... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ...ings,” Father said. “Rome is the great insti- gator of crimes. The Kittim! Political schemes are hatched in the Forum with the wild beasts. Rome appo... ... PAZZIA BESTIALISSIMA! That is man’s disease: he can not refrain from political madness. Again and again he is willing to be duped. The cen... ...a could out- hurdle any other...six foot six inches...then he talked about Mexican horses and Mexican saddles...you should see the one I got as booty...

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... improved for over 4 million years… the technique of separation, or to use the politically correct term; tool-use. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Cha... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...e which will impregnate the female planetary-egg. The entire, international political race to get to the moon first: was merely a mechanical recrea... ... that word as an excuse for refusing to listen to any new idea; it is just the politically correct code-word for saying: ‘I am afraid of any kind of ... ...hey just know it happens. Throughout the Ages: religious fanatics, leaders, writers, people in all walks of life have noticed this worsening of af... ...whether a plan to steal it back was being hatched. Do you think the sport writers might love this? For once; all their sports connections would ... ... sacred God-Given rights of Citizenship? Horrors, never! Better to hate the Mexicans and Latinos who are poor and who work harder than I do to bar...

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...hkosh. Wis., William Denison Lyman, M. A., B. S., professor of English and Political Science nt Whitman college and Albert H. Tolman Ph. D.,Dean of Ch... ...dence in Cleveland where ho was keenly interested in all movements for the political betterment of tho city and the state. Mr. Garfield also became a ... ...o. He was president of the municipal as- sociation whicli exterminated tho political ring which ruled tho city, and also president of the Cleveland ch... ... a brilli- ant stylist, and belongs to the decorative, prose-poet order of writers. While it is true that in many of his personal traits he re- minds ... ...ticles published hy liiui this sum- mer, one entitled "iSome Little- Known Mexican Volcanoes " which api^eared in the August Popular Science Monthly, ... ...the contents of the July number of the Journal of Geology. The treatise on Mexican volca- noes is illustrated by seven excel- lent cuts made from phot... ...nilwr which show increasing ease and creative faculty on the part of thair writers. ""The Gate of Tears'" by Mr. Westerraann, is espuoially sweet, ten... ...herbe. Balzac, Descartes. Pascal, the scholar and poet, and the dra- matic writers of the French stage before Oorneille, RUNAWAY GAME WITH RUTGERS Wil...

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...eir affairs by a coin that no longer that no longer exists – the bit, or old Mexican real. The supposed value of the bit is twelve and a half cents, e... ...very in these excursions. I never in all my visits met but one man. He was a Mexican, very dark of hue, but smiling and fat, and he carried an axe, th... ...and up the slope, the night will be dry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be wr... ...ast, the king’s highway of progress. Here, in England, too many painters and writers dwell dis- persed, unshielded, among the intelligent bourgeois. T... ...minous; and in both are tall and ancient trees that have outlived a thousand political vicissitudes. But in the one the great oaks prosper placidly up... ...and pleasant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbi... ...ining-room at Siron’s. CHAPTER V RANDOM MEMORIES I. – THE COAST OF FIFE MANY WRITERS HAVE vigorously described the pains of the first day or the first...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...s truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a federal system, and they took the ... ...e unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which *See the Mexican Constitution of 1824. 190 Democracy in America give it life. They ... ...pected to arise. But for a long while to come the uncivilized state of the Mexican community, the depravity of its morals, and its extreme poverty, wi... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...

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... I said certain things to him about the difference in com- plexity between political life in Great Britain and the colo- nies, that he was manifestly ... ...of its difficulties and perplexities. Here on the Adriatic side there were political entangle- ments that by comparison made our western after-the-war... ...oubt if English people fully realise either the economic sturdiness or the political courage of their Italian ally. Italy is not merely fighting a fir... ... those great architectural wrecks that seem most to impress con- temporary writers. I have seen the injuries and ruins of the cathedrals at Arras and ... ...es that have happened to all these arms. Before this war began speculative writers had argued that infantry drill in close formation had now no fighti... ... upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American papers discussing the Mexican situation. In none of these is there evident any clear realisation ... ...s occurred in military methods during the last two years. It looks as if a Mexican war, for example, was thought of as an affair of rather imperfectly... ...ned young men with rifles and horses and old-fashioned things like that. A Mexican war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But... ...Another is Blight the solicitor, who goes about bewailing the fact that we writers are “holding out false hopes of higher agricultural wages after the...

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... at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced young people, anybody who is openly ... ...ound the logs that flickered on the marble hearth. The talk was very often political or sociological, and inter- esting, curiously anarchistic. There ... .... The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant ma- chinery. And i... ...all, who can take the nationalisation of Ireland seri- ously? Who can take political Ireland really seriously, what- ever it does? And who can take po... ... the Futurists, he liked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of m... ...ivity , they kindled themselves at the subtle lust of the Egyptians or the Mexicans. The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wan...

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...tating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province to do s... ...ears which, it is said, were lacking in those of the wittiest of En- glish writers. Modeste existed for some time on a comprehension, not only of the ... ...ure in a tightly buttoned frock-coat, with the air of a diplo- mat seeking political influence, smelling of the musk of aris- tocracy, full of pretens... ...never ceased tooting its one little tune.” Canalis’s ambition was to enter political life, and he made capital of a journey he had taken to Madrid as ... ...ant of a better. Attracted by the fame of Canalis, also by the prospect of political interest, and advised thereto by Madame d’Espard, who acted in th... ...tter as yours addressed to a poet of whom you know nothing personally. All writers are not angels; they have many defects. Some are frivolous, heedles... ...ity of a civilization that once ex- isted. Art, on the contrary, Egyptian, Mexican, Grecian, 172 Modeste Mignon Roman art, with their masterpieces—no...

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...ome; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way here when they visit the Old ... ...o bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Love, and other excell... ...nder-like, I stand on the cold hearth, and say in the solitude, ‘Here I watched Bore A 1, with voice always mysteriously low and head always mysteriou... ..., whose over-fraught heart is heaving as if it would burst from his breast, and whose tears are wet upon the dress I wear, was a galley-slave in the N... ... would exert his utmost self-devotion and use his utmost efforts, to get Carlavero pardoned. If the prisoner had been a brigand and a murderer, if he ... ...dren played up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the people’s legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, toppling over all the dange... ...shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean bat... ...it had been poured out again that morning over sea and land, trans- formed into myriads of gold and silver sparkles. The ship was fragrant with flower...

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...absorbed in the spectacle of a world travailing for lack of the gospel of “Political Justice”, the study of orthographical niceties must have seemed a... ... to it every power of his mind, every pulsation of his heart. He looked on political freedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; a... ... fast aug- menting; and, in the ameliorations that have taken place in the political state of his country, we may trace in part the operation of his a... ... a resemblance, which does not depend upon their own will, between all the writers of any particular age. They cannot escape from subjection to a comm... ...ct, I have written fear- lessly. It is the misfortune of this age that its Writers, too thoughtless of immortality, are exquisitely sensible to tem- p... ...lley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national histor... ...r every aggravation of atrocity and variety of torture. The horrors of the Mexican, the Peruvian, and the Indian superstitions are well known. N N N N...

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...rs of the courts of Europe. No man was less obvious, or more useful in the political world than he. It is easy to un- derstand that the world’s honor,... ...Champagne, a township just above Isle-Adam, on the right bank of the Oise. Political events prevented both the count and the neighboring country-peopl... ... of wine, pates, and candle-grease. To exhibit the stamp of truth that the writers had managed to put upon these records, we may here give the report ... ... on the following day, impatient enough to behold, and be presented to the Mexican Marquise de las Florentinas y Cabirolos. “What luck,” said Oscar to...

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...to the right, and the entire admission of the same to the full privileges, political, religious and social, of manhood, requires power- ful effort on ... ...not only won equality to their white fellow citizens, in civil, religious, political and social rank, but they have also illustrated and adorned our c... ...emove prejudice?’ `Immediately pass laws entitling black men to all civil, political and social privileges,’ was the instant reply— and the questionin... ...rgive me for reminding them that the term “Caucasian” is dropped by recent writers on Ethnology; for the people about Mount Caucasus, are, and have ev... ...son, engaged in building two large man-of-war vessels, professedly for the Mexican government. These vessels were to be launched in the month of July,...

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...g an enormous banner, on which was inscribed, Mazeppa! T onight! Then, a Mexican chief, with a great pear shaped club on his shoul der, like Hercul... ...arriages on the Chiaji, or walking in the Public Gardens; and quiet letter writers, perched behind their little desks and inkstands under the Portico ... ...g their productions to their friends; inscriptions chalked upon the walls; political squibs, advertisements, rough drawings by schoolboys; everything ...

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...im on a par with Marius and Sylla, excepting that he was more close. Other writers have not acquitted his intention in the government of affairs from ... ...ommodate his desires to his fortune, and satisfy himself with what he had; political philosophy may to much purpose condemn the meanness and sterility... ...eive also the little means I have to supply it; and Plato, a master in all political government himself, nevertheless took care to abstain from it), a... ...eak, and to be sick, in despite of all medicine. ’Tis the first lesson the Mexicans teach their chil- dren; so soon as ever they are born they thus sa...

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...the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple ... ...free man and may speak the whole truth, regardless of his parish’s opinions; writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankl... ...was supposed that there was collusion between the association and the under writers, but this was not so. The latter had come to compre hend the exc... ...uring forth its muddy mass of waters, and mingling with the deep blue of the Mexican Gulf. I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this en tran... ... great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mout...

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...of retail dealers history here, geography there, as- tronomy to the right, political economy to the left—natural history , the physical sciences, figu... ...e?’ In sudden low spirits, T wemlow replies, ‘I don’t think he would.’ ‘My political opinions,’ says V eneering, not previously aware of having any, ‘... ...s of wisdom, and informs him what is in the wind. Tells Podsnap that their political opinions are identical. Gives Podsnap to understand that he, Vene... ... Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ... private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’...

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...tism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen the cities, the free constitution... ...f 1568 to Philip II by the Pope on a mission, partly of condolence, partly political, and on his return to Rome, which was somewhat brusquely expedite... ...d Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva. This is what Cervantes deals with in Don Q... ...o encounter some one at once upon whom to try the might of his strong arm. Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that of Puert... ...r lady is lighter than a lanner, and might teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to mount; she cleared the back of the saddle in one jump, and w... ...against Spanish poetry, but against those poets who are mere Spanish verse writers, without any knowledge of other languages or sciences to adorn and ...

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...other towns in that part of the State. CHAPTER III ARMY LIFE—CAUSES OF THE MEXICAN WAR—CAMP SALUBRITY ON THE 30th of September I reported for duty at ... ...render them uncomfortable. I noticed, however, a few years later, when the Mexican war broke out, that most of this class of officers discovered they ... ..., and no doubt I should have been detailed a year or two later but for the Mexican W ar coming on. Accordingly I laid out for myself a course of studi... ... very small percentage of the whole population. 61 U. S. Grant CHAPTER IX POLITICAL INTRIGUE—BUENA VISTA— MOVEMENT AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTU... ...T AGAINST VERA CRUZ— SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ THE MEXICAN WA R was a political war, and the administra- tion conducting it desired to make party... ... the ad- ministration was democratic. General Scott was also known to have political aspirations, and nothing so popularizes a candidate for high civi... ...wenty years after the close of the most stupendous war ever known, we have writers —who profess devotion to the na- 89 U. S. Grant tion—engaged in tr... ... of that place. His tactics have been se- verely criticised by Confederate writers, but I do not believe his fallen chief could have done any better u... ...e not so unjust to the Union troops engaged at Shiloh as are many Northern writers. The troops on both sides were American, and united they need not f...

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...line, I shall be pleased. Yours with respect, A. LINCOLN. 1846 REQUEST FOR POLITICAL SUPPORT TO Dr. ROBERT BOAL. SPRINGFIELD, January 7, 1846. Dr. ROB... ...he United States, in his mes- sage of May 11, 1846, has declared that “the Mexican Gov- ernment not only refused to receive him [the envoy of the Unit... ...ur citizens”; And yet again, in his message of December 7, 1847, that “the Mexican Government refused even to hear the terms of adjustment which he [o... ...ithin the territory of Spain, at least after the treaty of 1819, until the Mexican revolution. Second. Whether that spot is or is not within the terri... ...rom which I believe the two former banks to have been free. YOUNG v.s. OLD—POLITICAL JEAL- OUSY TO W. H. HERNDON. WASHINGTON, July 10, 1848. DEAR WILL... ...ry hero. While I have General Cass in hand, I wish to say a word about his political principles. As a specimen, I take the 83 The Writings of Abraham... ...Perhaps the papers on file will enable you to judge better than I can. The writers of the within are good men, resid- ing within the land district. Yo...

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...ur attitude towards the contending parties (I mean our moral attitude, for politically there was no other course open to us than neutrality) has not b... ...d on “rabid and fanatical abolitionists” across the Atlantic, and on those writers in England who attach a suffi ciently serious meaning to their Chr... ...rent aggres sion, but by the previous anti British effusions of newspaper writers and stump orators. It is hardly worth while to ask how far these ex... ...en, without reference to these jars, or to the dec lamations of newspaper writers on either side of the Atlan tic, examine the American question as ... ... any persons, as organs of the will of the people, to dispose of the whole political existence of a country, I ask to see whether their credentials ar... ... Separation, with them, means at least half the Territories; including the Mexican border, and the consequent power of invading and overrunning Spanis... ...ca for the purpose of planting there the “peculiar institution” which even Mexican civiliza tion has found too bad to be endured. There is no knowing...

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...res sur les Sciences, a Voltaire”.) We find, from the testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and France were much colder than at present... ...our ignorance of the cause of any event is that we do not know it: had the Mexicans attended to this simple rule when they heard the cannon of the Spa... ...ahma, the Hottentot worships an insect, the Negro a bunch of feathers, the Mexican sacrifices human victims! Their degree of conviction must certainly... ...t certain poisons. The change which would be produced by simpler habits on political economy is sufficiently remarkable. The monopolizing eater of ani... ...al habits would produce gentler manners, and the excessive complication of political relations would be so far simplified that every indi- vidual migh... ...on of his solid happiness? Certainly, if this advantage (the object of all political speculation) be in any degree attainable, it is attainable only b... ...d faithful, and true, _45 Such as I fear can be made but by few— Of writers this age has abundance and plenty, Three score and a thousand, two ... ...te Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870; dated 1812. Rossetti’s title is “The Mexican Revolution”. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Brothers! between you and me Whirlwinds...

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...to the bargain, running in the face of it. If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette ... ...et seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains... ...ghboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ... learning and in telligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shaks peare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and ot... ... with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ...d, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled... ...e woods, and the trumpet that sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish, — for why should we always stand for trifles? ...

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... carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, with more per... ...rd it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which sh... ...gements in their newness, the defects would certainly pass away, while the political arrangements, if good, would remain. Such a work is fitter for a ... ...l McClellan was not yet thirty- five. He had served, early in life, in the Mexican war, hav- ing come originally from Pennsylvania, and having been ed... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...e made on the purchase of war- rants for land. Soldiers returning from the Mexican wars were donated with warrants for land—the amount being 160 acres... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last...

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...rd to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attach ments;... ...d so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we coun tenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter an... ...nd exact justice to all men, of what ever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, en t... ...he Armies and Navy of the United States. If the opinion of the most approved writers upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is t... ...popularly known as “Old Rough and Ready,” was famous for his exploits in the Mexican War. He never had voted in a national election until his own cont... ...fered by the Constitution. Famed as an officer of a volunteer brigade in the Mexican War, he was nominated as the Democratic candidate in the national...

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...rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitle... ...he story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to ... ...c selectively draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the U... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...curely verified when they enter the United States; nor should Canadians or Mexicans. Cur- rently U.S. persons are exempt from carrying passports when ...

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...ce on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers. The political par- ties meet in numerous conventions; the greater the con- cour... ...wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick or the return... ...ow. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in; for they said that the soul of man, embodied here on ... ...s” is a refutation to the despon- dency and cowardice of our religious and political theo- rists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools but of... ...luminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing ... ...iced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers. For they are poets by the free course which they allow to the info... ... gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the height of the h...

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...ch composure. I am gen- erally glad enough to fall back again, after these political in- terludes, upon Burns, toddy, and the Highlands. 23 The Lette... ...uit enough to think that any end will justify an unjust law. Here ends the political sermon of your affectionate (and somewhat dogmatical) son, ROBERT... ...the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain political statements made. He was excited, and he began suddenly to abuse o... ... of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one’s own generation of better writers, and – I don’t know what to say; I was going to say ‘smaller men’; ... .... One is an old bear-hunter, seventy-two years old, and a captain from the Mexican war; the other a pilgrim, and one who was out with the bear flag an... ...g chapel on a wet Sunday in a strong church neighbourhood. They are mostly Mexican and Indian-mixed. – Ever yours, R. L. S. 114 The Letters of R. L. ... ...re to look for more. One pleasant feature is the vast number of delightful writers I shall have to deal with: Burt, Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Grant of La... ...etails:– 1. I love the occasional trochaic line; and so did many excellent writers before me. 2. If you don’t like ‘A Good Boy,’ I do. 3. In ‘Escape a...

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...; and that the peculiar philo- sophic temperament, as well as the peculiar political temperament, that goes with our English speech may more and more ... ...r ideas and motives. These men, of course, are either comparatively modern writers, or else such earlier ones as have become religious clas- sics. The... ...the earlier church. Under just what biographic con- ditions did the sacred writers bring forth their vari- ous contributions to the holy volume? And w... ...same kind of reasoning is the fashion, quite common nowadays among certain writers, of criticizing the religious emotions by showing a con- nection be... ... him as the camper. If now he should never go back, and never again suffer political interests to gain dominion over him, he would be for practical in... ...llu- cinations produced by the intoxicant cactus buds called mescal by the Mexicans:— “When I went in the morning into the fields to work, the glory o... ...olation; as a supreme love may turn minor sac- [197] J. J. Chapman, in the Political Nursery, vol. iv. p. 4, April, 1900, abridged. 318 The V arietie...

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...seen fit to print the bulk of my contributions, and, as is too common with writers, I got only my labor for my pains. However, in this case my pains w... ...have known more about it. Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with ph... ...ing towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ...learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and other... ...ith all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiq uity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they... ...s solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morn ing itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled t...

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...at scoundrels,” and there was an ingenuousness in his tones that set these writers, the hope of young France, in a roar. “So far our blasphemies have ... ...eeper than the Seine,” said Raphael. “Oh, you don’ t understand me; I mean political crime. Since this morning, a conspirator’s life is the only one I... ... stood the young and auda- cious writer, who distilled the quintessence of political ideas better than any other man, or compressed the work of some p... ...young politician who had just fallen quite unhurt, from his rostrum. Young writers who lacked style stood beside other young writers who lacked ideas,... ... she has.” “Oh, ho! No and yes, is not that the sum-up of all reli- gious, political, or literary dissertations? Man is a clown danc- ing on the edge ... ...llantry in the world. But very soon she complained of the heavy scent of a Mexican jessamine. The interior of the theatre, the bare bench on which she...

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... stamp, if one only goes properly about it. Of course I don’t speak of the political articles. Everybody knows how they are managed, since Dr. Moneype... ...t contained, when afloat, the captain and his wife, Mr. Wyatt and party, a Mexican officer, wife, four children, and myself, with a negro valet. We ha... ... Time, would not walk against him. Windham and Allbreath were his favorite writers,—his favorite artist, Phiz. He died gloriously while inhaling gas—l... ...cess in the fashionable extravagances of his time; or busying himself with political in- trigues; or aiming at ministerial power, or purchasing increa... ...ever beyond a mere statement, we believe, that such is the fact. The early writers of treatises on the Automaton, seem not to have observed the matter...

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..., although they made him many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as “... ...o the southward, and arrived, at nine P .M., over the northern edge of the Mexican Gulf. “April 10th. I was suddenly aroused from slumber, about five ... ...of running water, of the people themselves; of their manners, customs, and political institutions; of their peculiar physical construc- tion; of their... ...here any effort at plausibility in the de- tails of the voyage itself. The writers seem, in each instance, to be utterly uninformed in respect to astr... ...ered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists ... ...l weeks, in the discussion of this one absorbing theme, even the momentous political top- ics of the day were forgotten. The Prefect made unusual exer... ...ad gone abroad, or received a visiter, or more than glanced at the leading political articles in one of the daily papers. The first intelligence of th...

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... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...hitening. See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who person- ates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the ... ... this rather ominous title. We assure them that we are not about to become political, neither have we the slightest inten- tion of being more prosy th... ...has a great idea of the degeneracy of the times. He seldom ex- presses any political opinions, but we managed to ascer- tain, just before the passing ... ...of busi- 163 Charles Dickens ness, and a thing not to be laughed at. At a political dinner, everybody is disagreeable, and inclined to speech- ify—mu...

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...modified and altered, and the effect thus far changed. Thus it is with the writers of fiction. The young write in full sympathy with, as well as for, ... ...primrose at present,” said Mrs. Grinstead, picking out the few spared from political purposes. “Clement will want his button-hole, to greet Lance.” “S... ... ing it for her Uncle Lance and his wife, who had just re- turned, full of political news; and likewise Lance said that he had picked up some intellig... ...s he, judging by the depth of colour in those eyes?” “No; his mother was a Mexican, partly Indian. We used to call him the Cacique;” and Geraldine had...

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... interspersed with announcements of day- schools, penny theatres, petition-writers, mangles, and music for balls or routs, complete the ‘still life’ o... ...hitening. See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who person- ates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the ... ... this rather ominous title. We assure them that we are not about to become political, neither have we the slightest inten- tion of being more prosy th... ...has a great idea of the degeneracy of the times. He seldom ex- presses any political opinions, but we managed to ascer- tain, just before the passing ... ...of busi- 163 Charles Dickens ness, and a thing not to be laughed at. At a political dinner, everybody is disagreeable, and inclined to speech- ify—mu... ...e at supper-time. * * * * * WE ARE NOT ABOUT TO ADOPT the licence of novel-writers, and to let ‘years roll on;’ but we will take the liberty of reques... ...sed her head, and beheld—Horatio Sparkins! ‘We will draw a veil,’ as novel-writers say, over the scene that ensued. The mysterious, philosophical, ro-...