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as he had promised to protect the hotel the reassured citizens began to laugh at their own fears |
the military force partly rabble partly organized had meanwhile moved into the town |
he planted a company before the hotel and demanded a surrender of the arms belonging to the free state military companies |
atchison who had been haranguing the mob planted his two guns before the building and trained them upon it |
the inmates being removed at the appointed hour a few cannon balls were fired through the stone walls |
relocated footnote governor robinson being on his way east the steamboat on which he was traveling stopped at lexington missouri |
captain martin said i shall give you a pistol to help protect yourself if worse comes to worst |
his conduct and presence of mind in this emergence appeared conspicuous |
he passed through henley saint albans and came so near to london as harrow on the hill |
they informed the english parliament of this unexpected incident and assured them that they had entered into no private treaty with the king |
another preacher after reproaching him to his face with his misgovernment ordered this psalm to be sung |
the king stood up and called for that psalm which begins with these words |
have mercy lord on me i pray for men would me devour |
the parliament and the scots laid their proposals before the king |
his death in this conjuncture was a public misfortune |
the analysis of knowledge will occupy us until the end of the thirteenth lecture and is the most difficult part of our whole enterprise |
all that i am doing is to use its logical tenability as a help in the analysis of what occurs when we remember |
the behaviourist who attempts to make psychology a record of behaviour has to trust his memory in making the record |
some images like some sensations feel very familiar while others feel strange |
i come now to the other characteristic which memory images must have in order to account for our knowledge of the past |
they must have some characteristic which makes us regard them as referring to more or less remote portions of the past |
there may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of pastness especially where immediate memory is concerned |
if we had retained the subject or act in knowledge the whole problem of memory would have been comparatively simple |
remembering has to be a present occurrence in some way resembling or related to what is remembered |
some points may be taken as fixed and such as any theory of memory must arrive at |
in this case as in most others what may be taken as certain in advance is rather vague |
the first of our vague but indubitable data is that there is knowledge of the past |
this distinction is vital to the understanding of memory but it is not so easy to carry out in practice as it is to draw in theory |
the fact that a man can recite a poem does not show that he remembers any previous occasion on which he has recited or read it |
semon's two books mentioned in an earlier lecture do not touch knowledge memory at all closely |
thus no knowledge as to the past is to be derived from the feeling of familiarity alone |
this knowledge is memory in one sense though in another it is not |
i remained there alone for many hours but i must acknowledge that before i left the chambers i had gradually brought myself to look at the matter in another light |
on arriving at home at my own residence i found that our salon was filled with a brilliant company |
i have come to your shores mister president with the purpose of seeing how things are progressing in this distant quarter of the world |
we have our little struggles here as elsewhere and all things cannot be done by rose water |
we are quite satisfied now captain battleax said my wife |
no doubt in process of time the ladies will follow |
i did not mean said captain battleax to touch upon public subjects at such a moment as this |
jack had been standing in the far corner of the room talking to eva and was now reduced to silence by his praises |
sir kennington oval is a very fine player said my wife |
i and my wife and son and the two craswellers and three or four others agreed to dine on board the ship on the next |
my wife on the spur of the moment managed to give the gentlemen a very good dinner |
this she said was true hospitality and i am not sure that i did not agree with her |
then there were three or four leading men of the community with their wives who were for the most part the fathers and mothers of the young ladies |
we sat with the officers some little time after dinner and then went ashore |
how much of evil of real accomplished evil had there not occurred to me during the last few days |
jack would become eva's happy husband and would remain amidst the hurried duties of the eager world |
you have received us with all that courtesy and hospitality for which your character in england stands so high |
but your power is so superior to any that i can advance as to make us here feel that there is no disgrace in yielding to it |
not a doubt but had your force been only double or treble our own i should have found it my duty to struggle with you |
that is all quite true mister neverbend said sir ferdinando brown |
you have come to us threatening us with absolute destruction |
i can assure you he has not even allowed me to see the trigger since i have been on board |
then said sir ferdinando there is nothing for it but that he must take you with him |
there came upon me a sudden shock when i heard these words which exceeded anything which i had yet felt |
you hear what sir ferdinando brown has said replied captain battleax |
i was to be taken away and carried to england or elsewhere or drowned upon the voyage it mattered not which |
you may be quite sure it's there said captain battleax and that i can so use it as to half obliterate your town within two minutes of my return on board |
lieutenant crosstrees is a very gallant officer |
you will allow me to suggest said he that that is a matter of opinion |
were i to comply with your orders without expressing my own opinion i should seem to have done so willingly hereafter |
sir i have it in command to inform your excellency that you have been appointed governor of the crown colony which is called britannula |
the peculiar circumstances of the colony are within your excellency's knowledge |
it is founded on the acknowledged weakness of those who survive that period of life at which men cease to work |
but it is surmised that you will find difficulties in the way of your entering at once upon your government |
the john bright is armed with a weapon of great power against which it is impossible that the people of britannula should prevail |
if you will give us your promise to meet captain battleax here at this time to morrow we will stretch a point and delay the departure of the john bright for twenty four hours |
and this plan was adopted too in order to extract from me a promise that i would depart in peace |
this was what did the mischief so far as the running away was concerned |
of this party edward a boy of seventeen called forth much sympathy he too was claimed by hollan |
john wesley combash jacob taylor and thomas edward skinner |
the doctor who attended the injured creature in this case was simply told that she slipped and fell down stairs as she was coming down |
he worked me very hard he wanted to be beating me all the time |
she was a large homely woman they were common white people with no reputation in the community |
substantially this was jacob's unvarnished description of his master and mistress |
as to his age and also the name of his master jacob's statement varied somewhat from the advertisement |
this reality begins to explain the dark power and otherworldly fascination of twenty thousand leagues under the seas |
nemo builds a fabulous futuristic submarine the nautilus then conducts an underwater campaign of vengeance against his imperialist oppressor |
other subtleties occur inside each episode the textures sparkling with wit information and insight |
and in this last action he falls into the classic sin of pride |
the nautilus nearly perishes in the antarctic and nemo sinks into a growing depression |
milligram roughly one twenty eight thousand of an ounce |
three seconds before the arrival of j b hobson's letter i no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the northwest passage |
even so i had just returned from an arduous journey exhausted and badly needing a rest |
i wanted nothing more than to see my country again my friends my modest quarters by the botanical gardens my dearly beloved collections |
from rubbing shoulders with scientists in our little universe by the botanical gardens the boy had come to know a thing or two |
not once did he comment on the length or the hardships of a journey |
never did he object to buckling up his suitcase for any country whatever china or the congo no matter how far off it was |
please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting i had turned forty |
he was a fanatic on formality and he only addressed me in the third person to the point where it got tiresome |
there was good reason to stop and think even for the world's most emotionless man |
conseil i called a third time conseil appeared |
pack as much into my trunk as you can my traveling kit my suits shirts and socks don't bother counting just squeeze it all in and hurry |
anyhow we'll leave instructions to ship the whole menagerie to france |
yes we are certainly i replied evasively but after we make a detour |
you see my friend it's an issue of the monster the notorious narwhale |
i left instructions for shipping my containers of stuffed animals and dried plants to paris france |
i opened a line of credit sufficient to cover the babirusa and conseil at my heels i jumped into a carriage |
our baggage was immediately carried to the deck of the frigate i rushed aboard |