... policy, and energy, and good disposition of two state governments, andthe efficacy ofthe provisions of their respective laws. And security of other States andthe money of all are at the discretion ... perusal ofthe record is the inability of members to appreciate the importance ofthe issues. Much of the tedious and pointless character of their speeches may be ascribed to the lack ofthe personal ... picked off the gunners until the artillery was silenced; then the Indians rushed in and seized the guns. In the combat there were both conspicuous exploits of valor and disgraceful scenes of cowardice....
... change and permanence, not just of people but of [ 38 ] theriseandfallof soul and selfGod (or shedding the illusion of separateness) and thereafter no longer reenters the process of reincarnation. ... the brain,” which is the primary seat of sense andofthe spirits” and “perceives whatever occurs in the body,” is the cause of [these] affl ictions.” Some of these disturbances affect the ... means of explaining in a physical way how mind and body might interact. If the brain were the seat ofthe mind and could communicate through the nerves to the rest ofthe body, the activities of...
... praising Marx and predicting the success of socialism. As with the end of Shakespeare’s The Taming ofthe Shrew , a plain reading ofthe text has caused Schumpeter’s fans muchdiscomfort. Whether Schumpeter’s ... assault,triggering the next phase ofthe Cycle. Sometimes this takes the form of a technological innovation thatbreaks through the defenses and becomes the basis of an insurgent industry. The advent of personalcomputing ... the revenge ofthe broadcasters andof Hollywood). In PartIV we will see how the perennial lure of size and scale that led to the original information leviathansin the first half ofthe century...
... the past bond prices they could get their hands on. They distilled the bonds’ historical relationships, and they modeled how these prices should behave in the future. And then, when a market pricesomewhere, ... price in the future. They oftentraded at a slight discount to the price ofthe actual, underlying bills. In a classic bit of arbitrage,Eckstein would buy the futures, sell the bills, and then wait ... Long-Term’s growing profits and humbled by the sight of their boss trundlingto the office on a bicycle. When the action abated, the traders would drift to a poolroom off the trading floor, where...
... over the soul and body ofthe guilty. The decrees of the council of Constantinople had ascertained the true standard ofthe faith; andthe ecclesiastics, who governed the conscience of Theodosius, ... the ruin of the temples, yielded, without a contest, to the fortune of their adversaries. The disorderly opposition ^59 of the peasants of Syria, andthe populace of Alexandria, to the rage of ... Constantine had the advantage of erecting the standard ofthe cross, the emulation of his successor assumed the merit of subduing the Arian heresy, andof abolishing the worship of idols in the Roman...
... gradually obtained; the rank of tribune, of count, and of general; the dignity of senator, andthe command ofthe guards, who obeyed him as their chief, at the important crisis when the emperor Anastasius ... tom. ii. p. 114 - 139,) the phoenix ofthe Edda, andthe annual death and revival of Adonis and Osiris,are the allegorical symbols ofthe absence and return ofthe sun in the Arctic regions. This ... homage ofthe multitude, escaped from the odious light of the capital, and passed the greatest part ofthe year in the palaces and gardens which were pleasantly seated on the sea-coast ofthe Propontis...
... of advocate ofthe Roman church. The dregs ofthe Carlovingian race no longer exhibitedany symptoms of virtue or power, andthe ridiculous epithets ofthe bard, the stammerer, the fat, and the simple, ... propagated by the sword of Otho, the conqueror and apostle ofthe Slavic nations ofthe Elbe and Oder: the marches of Brandenburgh and Sleswickwere fortified with German colonies; andthe king of Denmark, ... the office of champion ofthe Roman church; and the zeal ofthe French prince appears to have been prompted by the love of glory and religion. But the danger wason the banks ofthe Tyber, the...
... After the surrender of Acre, andthe departure of Philip, the king of England led the crusaders to the recovery ofthe sea-coast; andthe cities of Caesarea and Jaffawere added to the fragments of ... was the victim, andofthe soldiers, who were the instruments, of his martial zeal. The first demands ofthe king of England were the restitution of Jerusalem, Palestine, andthe true cross; and ... Barbarossa, andthe kings of France and England, assumed the cross; andthe tardy magnitude of their armaments was anticipated by the maritime states ofthe Mediterranean and the Ocean. The skilful and...
... one hand the evergreen pinesappear, and engross almost the whole higher lands ofthe country; on the other the branching oaks and statelyAn Historical Account oftheRiseand Progress ofthe ... want of hands to improve them. He represented the An Historical Account oftheRiseand Progress ofthe Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, vol 111An Historical Account oftheRiseand Progress ... bywhich means they thrust themselves into offices of trust and authority. The Puritans, on the other hand,viewed them with the eye of envy and jealousy, and having suffered from them in England, could...