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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...omen with whom you cannot meet anywhere else,” said de Marsay. “If all the poets who went there to rub up their muse were like our friend here,” said ... ...s of less ethereal love which lay in the longing of every well-conditioned male to recall such beings to earth. It was a fashion which permitted them ...

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... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ... Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing- room, which opened by French windows on the trim gar- den, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net ... ...pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through all this ... ...rs to a landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. He seemed to...

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... to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had tak... ...overnor Endicott sat in it when he gave audience to an ambassador from the French governor of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massac... ...of Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A treaty of peace between Massachusetts and the French colony was then signed.” “Did England allow Massachusetts to make wa... ...ful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are sum moned before the master’s chair, wherein he sits with ... ...th of Queen Anne. Hitherto the people had been in continual dread that the male line of the Stuarts, who 67 Hawthorne were descended from the beheade... ...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline... ...hrough the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of Minas put on board the five ...

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...nd in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affecta tion and vice which courts and cit... ...s. First, this is an art well known to, and much practised by, our tragick poets, who seldom fail to prepare their audience for the reception of their... ...ey will most probably be composed by the ensuing scene. And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to ... ...on of our reader. Indeed we would, for certain causes, advise those of our male readers who have any hearts, to read no farther, were we not well assu... ...ll be found wor thy to satisfy any passion, and to answer any idea of fe male perfection which our pencil will be able to raise. And now, without ... ...too dearly purchased; and though it hath charms so inexpressible, that the French, perhaps, among other qualities, mean to express this, when they dec... ...I know, some derive from their being of a more bloody inclination than the males. On which account they apply to the nose, as to the part whence blood... ...in (though the English gentleman of that name is not at all related to the French family, for he is of a much more serious disposition) was always wel... ...tener hours of labour and fatigue, of pain and sorrow. One of the Ro man poets, I remember, likens our leaving life to our depar ture from a feast;...

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...nd, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Rochambeau, not one of his office... ...the common people. I have seen in his very old age and decrepitude the old French King Lewis the Fourteenth, the type and model of kinghood—who never ... ...thanks in the Prayer-Book) who sold his country and who took bribes of the French king. What spectacle is more august than that of a great king in exi... ...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ...n this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue li...

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...lves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Capture of the pla... ... and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid... ...citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the city for a second time -- T... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...h from the outside. "As soon as one of the family had been selected all of the male members were looked upon as devoted to the same horrid purpose. It...

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...by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY ................................................. ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...ational Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Lo... ...her. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues, ’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...

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...escaped him in any heat of dispute, on being taxed with it by a celebrated French writer, he solemnly reaffirmed it, with his reasons. 12 many declar... ...leasing to be abridged; I shall give it, there- fore, accurately, from the French of his biographer: “M. Des Cartes had no company but that of his ser... ...tes had no company but that of his servant, with whom he was conversing in French. The sailors, who took him for a foreign merchant, rather than a cav... ...onged to quite another cen- tury, would have frightened out of their wits. Malebranche, it will give you pleasure to hear, was mur- dered. The man who... ...proper light. Berkeley, when a young man, went to Paris and called on Père Malebranche. He found him in his cell cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus... ...l cooking. Cooks have ever been a genus irritabile; authors still more so: Malebranche was both: a dispute arose; the old father, warm already, became... ...he old fancy (adopted by Spenser, and no- ticed by so many among our elder poets) of his graciousness to maiden innocence. The wretch is the basest an... ...n this principle we come to understand why it is, that, whenever the Latin poets speak of an army as taking food, the word used is always prandens and...

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...self: the Dowager Viscountess Castlewood, written in the strange barbarous French which she and many other fine ladies of that time—witness her Grace ... ...smond answered. “My father, when wounded at the Boyne, told the truth to a French priest, who was in hiding after the battle, as well as to the priest... ...aks out my lady, speaking, as usual with her when she was agitated, in the French language. “Noblesse oblige,” says Mr. Esmond, making her a low bow. ... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ...a battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. We college poets trot, you know, on very easy nags; it hath been, time out of mind, pa...

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...haped. It was now re- membered that Williams had recently borrowed a large French knife of peculiar construction; and accordingly, from a heap of old ... ...s waistcoat, and glued by gore to the lining of its pockets, was found the French knife. Next, it was matter of notoriety to everybody in the inn, tha... ...teenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they were not... .... There went No. 5. Him succeeded a droller fellow than any of the rest. A French book-seller had caused a prose French translation to 77 Thomas de Q... ...eally exist in the Grecian drama? Even Sophocles, who, of the three tragic poets surviving from the wrecks of the Athenian stage, is reputed the supre... ...h broods over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied t... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...n why the same prize, the same triumph, the same bays are awarded to great poets and to great generals. Wenceslas, by nature a dreamer, had expended s... ...riumphs in the annals of sculpture may be counted, as we may count the few poets among men. Michael Angelo, Michel Columb, Jean Goujon, Phidias, Praxi... ...aw of life, for art is idealized creation. Hence great artists and perfect poets wait neither for commission nor for purchasers. They are constantly c... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent...

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...end better than when I am fighting with him! To bear malice is more like a Frenchman than an Englishman.” He then proposed a libation as a necessary... ...er lips. As to the wed ding, it had the evening before been fixed, by the male par ties, to be celebrated on the next morning save one. Breakfast ... ...f the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of 4... ...otle, Horace, and Longinus, among the antients, Dacier and Bossu among the French, and some perhaps among us; who have certainly been duly authorized ... ...the landlord by the hand, saying, “All’s our own, boy, ten thousand honest Frenchmen are landed in Suffolk. Old England for ever! ten thousand French,... ...y Andrew; and now the moon beginning to put forth her silver light, as the poets call it (though she looked at that time more like a piece of copper),... ...n age which ever had any existence, unless in the warm imaginations of the poets, from the expulsion from Eden down to this day. In reality, I know ... ...f in private, he heard a violent uproar below stairs; and soon after a fe male voice begged him for heaven’s sake to come and pre vent murder. Jones... .... For the first, perhaps, Byshe’s Art of Poetry, and a few of our mod ern poets, may suffice; for the second, a moderate heap of plays; and, for the ...

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...eded for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books...

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...h Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English.... ... such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The d... ...tock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was perfectly attuned to a natural cycle of raiding other tribes and ... ... the level of violence low but perpetuated tribal conflict. Virtually all male Mongols became warriors Boys began riding before they could walk. T... ... together and became Britain’s dominant language. Then the Normans added French to that mix. Invaders from the North We now step back in time an... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle... ...that the pope permit him to divorce his wife, who had failed to produce a male heir, and let him marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn. Anne had strong...

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...raged at the outset.?Virgil cheers him by telling him that he has been sent to his aid by a blessed Spirit from Heaven.?Dante casts off fear, and the poets proceed. ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earthquake.?Dante swoons. .........................

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... fear ante casts off fear ante casts off fear ante casts off fear, and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the... ...oets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets pr , and the poets proceed. oceed. oceed. oceed. oceed. ................ .................. ...rgil b irgil by his fello y his fello y his fello y his fello y his fellow poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—They enter a w poets.—Th... ...ate of L ate of Lucca.—The M ucca.—The M ucca.—The M ucca.—The M ucca.—The Malebr alebr alebr alebr alebranche.—P anche.—P anche.—P anche.—P anche.—Pa... ...anche.—Fr r r r ray of ay of ay of ay of ay of the M the M the M the M the Malebr alebr alebr alebr alebranche anche anche anche anche. . . . . ......... ...alcanti. His principal literary work was Li Livres dou T resor, written in French, an interesting compend of the omne scibile. He died in 1290. Dante ... ... the thirteenth century. Their deeds are recorded by Villani and Ricordano Malespini. The good Gualdrada, famed for her beauty and her modesty, was th... ... was charged with having been bribed to support the at- tempt to expel the French from Sicily, which began with the Sicilian Vespers in 1282. 70 The ... ...th his wings. The city 5 that made erewhile the long struggle, and of the French a bloody heap, finds itself again beneath the green paws. And the ol...

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...far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the re- spective transitions through which they ha... ... me, young man, me and not her. Look at these shoulders and the rest. ’ We males walk up and down, and estimate the merchandise, and then we discourse... ...ing of that, I only know my own case). Wein, Weiber und Gesang. So say the poets in their verses: Wine, women, and song! “If it were only that! Take a... ...e animal need of every female who tries to attract the larg- est number of males in order to increase the opportuni- ties for choice. So it is in the ... ...this is not right. The truth is, that the whole affair has been exalted by poets and romancers to an undue importance, and that love in its various de... ... abusing each other, and not infrequently they came to blows. At first the male members of the families were content with accusing each other of vario...

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...s of each, including his slaves. In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages ela... ... arise; and (the general progress of society assisting) the slavery of the male sex has, in all the countries of Christian Europe at least (though, in... ... ven geance; and on the Continent much of it continued to the time of the French Revolution, though in England the earlier and better organisation of... ..., is in this case not confined to a limited class, but common to the whole male sex. Instead of being, to most of its supporters) a thing de sirable ... ... execute them turn their arms against them, there are people who think the French incapable of free govern ment. Because the Greeks cheated the Turks... ...el, or of Nadir Shah, or of Caligula; but it was bad enough to justify the French Revolution, and to palliate even its horrors. If an ap peal be made... ...istinguished success. The Greeks always accounted Sappho among their great poets; and we may well suppose that Myrtis, said to have been the teacher o...

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...lines into little squares, containing about a hundred heads of illustrious Frenchmen. This sheet was stuck on pasteboard for hanging on the wall, and ... ...used, and they dragged after them in this direction not a few of the Latin poets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is... ... of the great ladies of a court more luxuri- ous and more refined than the French court, which revelled in the Cent Nouvelles of good King Louis XI. R... ...n mind—for the writer was Bishop of Agen, and his work was translated into French—as also the Dames Galantes of Brantome. Read the Journal of Heroard,... ...at breed miscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one c... ...chance Show’d a drunk slave, teach children temperance; Thus did the later poets nobly bring The scene to height, making the fool the king. And, noble... ...malus addam, Cum sapiens totus prodierit Rabelais. Malevolus. (Reader, the Errata, which in this book are not a few, are casu-... ... ing beasts, in the like exigent of their fulness, will never suf- fer the male-masculant to encroach them, their answer will be, that those are beast... ...e at this nick of time so outraged and wronged me, it cannot be but by the malevolent and wicked spirit. Good God, thou knowest my courage, for nothin...

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