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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...IN GLORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. ... ...ge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates from Holy Scripture, the erroneous-ness of the opinion, almos... ...nd you, in that High and Holy name at which every knee shall bow, that you take leisure from your several avocations, lay aside your several speculat... ...e earth an ark of testimony; and to that end will turn his Holy Spirit unto his ancient people the Jews, and bring unto them those days of refreshin... ...and real character upon the other; both centering in and radiating out from the Jewish people.’ And this appeared to me to be written in these the ... ...ersecuting the true and faithful servants and witnesses of the Lord, and both kings and people shall be confederates against the Lord and his anoint... ... doctrine, and consequently all Millenarians without distinction. This is the first of Constantinople, being the second Ecumenical, that which added... ...ous, and consequently the Millenarian reign. Without having recourse to the council of Constantinople, which does not speak a word concerning the M... ... Neither in the Florentine, Lateran, nor Tridentian. 63 The words which the Council of Constantinople added to the symbol of Nice is no ground of o...

...which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essential and fundamental article of our religion, be true and just ideas, faithfully drawn from the divine testimony, or not....

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...ORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD I... ... of defending the contrary ideas; that we may either prudently yield and retire from the contest, or follow some other road without any fear. These ... ...r universal, because, being essentially one, it comprehendeth within itself all peoples, tribes, and languages, which have sought and may henceforth ... ...s the true centre of unity, in whom should terminate all the lines which proceed from the circumference of the whole Christian world; and those which... ..., to Zion, to Jerusalem, to Judah, to Israel, and to the relics of that unhappy people. This reasoning, in appearance just, has been as it were a do... ...rding to the spirit; that is, to all believers, of every tribe and language and people and nation, without excluding the Jews who may desire to ente... ...hop of Mopsuesta, did not occur in the West but in the East, not in Rome but in Constantinople. And lastly, because, of the sixty propositions extra... ...it is neither known that this general accusation was laid before the council of Constantinople, nor that the council spoke one word thereon, for the...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...nued to observe the Julian calendar. In 1923, a Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of leap years every 900 years ...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...d by no meanes be appeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prost... ...ts atchieved by him, and with a fierce and arrogant manner upbraiding the people with them, had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his... ...utly defending themselves, covenanted to receive them as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing ... ...be a right artist? Constantine, the sonne of Helen, founded the Empire of Constantinople, and so, many ages after, Constantine the sonne of Helen en... ...wherewith he got his living. There have in my time two men beene seene in Constantinople, both at once upon one horse, and who in his speediest runni... ...avoured to advance idolatrie. And to attaine his purpose, having found in Constantinople the people very loose, and at ods with the Prelates of the ...

...ocrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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The Shadow of a Prince in History

By: Aurel Danescu

...Even if he is a very popular character, still not many people know his original history! Nowadays there are so much exaggerated stories and wrong information about him, that it is often confusion in “who was he really?”. This happens because there are rarely references to his rea...

...g always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn, in evil persons. Even the real character that lived in the XV century and inspired the creation of the fictional Dracula, the Walachian Prince Vlad Ţepeş (or V...

...ince Vlad Dracul (1390-1447) Chapter II: VLAD ŢEPEŞ (1431-1476) 2.1 Vlad Ţepeş becomes ruler Prince of Walachia 2.2 Vlad Ţepeş and the merchants from Southern Transylvania 2.3 Vlad Ţepeş and his fights for Walachia’s independence 2.4 The arrestment and detention of Vlad Ţepeş; his third reign in November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sen...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. 2. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...—more than thirteen times that of Paris—Cordoba was on its way to succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam‘s ... ...million—more than thirteen times that of Paris—and the city would succeed Constantinople as the largest and most prosperous city in Europe. Islam’s...

...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...s appointment to the post of sec- retary to the United States em- bassy nt Constantinople. Hesailed in August from New York for Bremen to travel on th... ...st from New York for Bremen to travel on the continent befoi-o arriving at Constantinople on October 1. '04—The engagement has been announced of MissM...

...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation fr... ...LEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus ... ... consultation of the text of J.A. Fabricius, 1718, which was taken directly from the existing manuscripts of the works of Sextus. The divisions into... ...headings of the chapters in the translation, is the same as Fabricius gives from the manuscripts, although not used by Bekker, and the numbers of the... ... be consulted. Thanks are also due to Dr. Louisos Iliou, of Robert College, Constantinople, for kind suggestions concerning the translation. CON... ...ever, entirely unfounded, as the explanation of Sextus simply shows that the people whom he was then addressing were not familiar with the nations of... ... at present." [2] In other places also he contrasts the Athenians with the people whom he is addressing, equally with the Alexandrians, thus puttin... ...ult to entirely give up one's humanity. [5] He was greatly venerated by the people among whom he lived, who made him high priest, and on his account...

...y to make ourselves somewhat familiar with the environment in which he lived and wrote. We shall thus be able to comprehend more fully the standpoint from which he regarded philosophical questions. “...

...rho.—Pyrrhonism and the Academy. Strength and weakness of Pyrrhonism.. 81 -- The First Book Of The Pyrrhonic Sketches By Sextus Empiricus, Translated From The Greek. 101 --...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ...bespierre that has the preeminent rabble-rouser of the French Revolution leaping up from his chair as soon as he saw a mob assembling outside. "I ... ..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ...pace the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an e... ...gling Macedonia and the Bulgarian race." TODOR ALEXANDROV, The Leader of the IMRO from 1911 to 1924 The Treaty of Berlin killed Peter Lazov. A ... ...ent rebelliousness and were applied mainly to the urban minority (for instance, in Constantinople). The Church was an accomplice of the Turkish oc... ...ndscape. Thus, for instance, though officially owing allegiance to the patriarch in Constantinople and the Orthodox "oikumene", both Serb and Bulgar... ...ally it was a clash of authorities and interests - the Pope versus the patriarch of Constantinople, the Romans versus the Greeks and Slavs. Matters ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... the United States. Only 23% of Spaniards had a positive opinion of the USA, down from 41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (f... ...41% the year before. A similar drop was evinced in India (from 71% to 56%), Russia (from 52% o 43%), Indonesia (from 38% to 30%), and Turkey (from ... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ... were mercenaries at the service of competing factions in Byzantium (Thrace versus Constantinople). Orhan wanted to cut into this lucrative busines... ...ned with the three centuries old schism between the Roman Church and the Church in Constantinople. John V has begged for help for more than a decad... ...the Ottomans, their former mercenaries. When emperor John V united the churches of Constantinople and Rome in a vain and impetuous effort to secure...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ay A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- t... ...r the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Penn- sylv... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO C... ...be seen as Ulysses surveyed and noted in ten years. Malta, Athens, Smyrna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo were to be visited, and everybody was to b... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ...n smiled peacefully round about, and the ship went rolling over it, as the people within were praising the Maker of all. In honour of the day, it was ... ...ers to embark forthwith in the “Tagus,” which was to early us to Malta and Constantinople. So we took leave of this famous Rock—this great blunderbuss... ... on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental vessels, and try one dip into Constantinople or Smyrna. Walk into the bazaar, and the East is unveiled to...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...fferent sort or class of boy there, for adult students, for reference, for people expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, a... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...n Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Constantinople, or the Jews in Roumania, or the Poles in West Prussia, or t... ... Berlin as they are to a reasonable man in Paris or London or Petrograd or Constantinople. There are to be no conquests, no domina- tion of recalcitra...

...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...ly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impression istically, in the manner of the passin... ...e dissemblances, or, if he probes below the surface, he will find them sprung from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own... ...ng from the same stem as many different seeming characteris tics of his own people. A period of confusion must follow, in which he will waver between... ...harp outlines will become blurred with what the painters call “repentances.” From this twilight it is hardly possible for any foreigner’s judgment to ... ...ost 2 PREFACE instructive that any attempt to catch the likeness of another people by painting ourselves is never quite successful. Indeed, once the ... ...nk spirits and those who drink wine, between those whose social polity dates from the Forum, and those who still feel and legislate in terms of the pr... ...s. Barbarism...now threatened the world. It had levied a shameful tribute on Constantinople; it now threatened the farthest FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEA...

...asons for the strength of the link ought to be discoverable in the suddenly bared depths of the French heart. There are two ways of judging a foreign people: at first sight, impressionistically, in the manner of the passing traveller; or after residence among them, ?soberly, advisedly,? and with all the vain precautions enjoined in another grave contingency....

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ...all, he added, it didn’t matter; for when you’d seen Athens and Smyrna and Constantinople, what else was there? And Mrs. Merry said she could never be... ...nd a little girl who inherited her beauty. He was subsequently heard of in Constantinople, then in Russia; and a dozen years later American travellers...

...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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Droll Stories Volume II : The Second Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...lzac Droll Stories Volume T wo by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine VOLUME II: The Second T en T ales PROLOGUE CERT... ...nguage of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, ... ...ge the hyperbolic title of your bud- get. You will never finish it.” These people are neither mis- anthropes nor cannibals; whether they are ruffians ... ...and in the hour of extreme unction, all their worth will be known. If such people would only keep these sad kindnesses; but they will not. When their ... ...e their minds easy, assures them that he has, legally protected and exempt from seizure, seventy droll stories, in that reservoir of nature, his brain... ...ncient usage, as it appears in the profane histories of Narsez, general of Constantinople, and others. On the morrow after mass has appeared before us...

...Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he conte...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ere are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those th... ...perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour. From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but ... ...d his cup in his hand; it was an unusually large cup, of a different pattern from the rest of the set and painted in brilliant colours. He disposed of... ... privilege; they smoked cigarettes as they continued to stroll. One of them, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the e... ...f one’s being too fond of pleasure.” “Daddy’s very fond of pleasure—of other people’s.” The old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contribut... ...n here so long without our knowing it.” “Your mother told me that in England people arrived very quietly; so I thought it was all right. Is one of tho... ...ated sublime. Lord Warburton walked beside her and talked of Saint Sophia of Constantinople; she feared for instance that he would end by calling atte... ...hat she herself had always been consumed with the desire to visit Athens and Constantinople. The two ladies accordingly embarked on this expedition, a...

...reeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast ha...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ..., which shows that they do not originate in a democracy. After the fall of Constantinople had turned the tide of science and literature towards the we...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...attern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-cent... ...antinople and Bombay and between Baku and Bombay in the next half-century. From such grades of certainty as this, one may come down the scale until th... ...ter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it is poss... ...tes are too short; he foretold, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is stil... ..., and how will it affect our ways of living?” It is a question of “How are people going to take these obvi- ous things—waste of the world’s resources,... ...rstanding and overcoming of the difficulties involved. There are many more people, and there is much more intel- ligence concentrated upon the manufac... ...Peace Move- ment is quite amateurish. It is so amateurish that the bulk of people do not even realise the very first implication of the peace of the w... ...of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, which from their very beginning have never had any sort of ... ...s not too afraid of the precedent of Sarajevo, may make a great entry into Constantinople, with an effect of conquering what is after all only a tempo...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...A A A A ACE CE CE CE CE Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenæum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have ... ...s Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Select... ...a a week to carry out his later project of a solitary tramp through Wales. From July to No- vember, 1802, De Quincey then led a wayfarer’s life.* He s... ... our little planet, the Earth, however cheap they may be held by eccentric people in comets: he had invented mail-coaches, and he had mar- ried the da... ...ne single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by young men, the élite of their own generation; not boys, but men:... ...he year of Trafalgar), it had been the fixed assumption of the four inside people (as an old tradition of all public car- riages derived from the reig... ...zarina placed on a guide- post near Moscow: This is the road that leads to Constantinople. 70 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc met from the hos...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wi...

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