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...s; that of M. de Luxembourg almost joined it: The ladies were at Mons, two leagues dis- tant. The King made them come into his camp, where he entertai... ...xembourg’s touching the left of the King’s,—the whole extending over three leagues of ground. After stopping ten days at Gevries, the two armies sepa-... ... M. de Boufflers, and camped at Gembloux, so that his left was only half a league distant from the right of M. de Luxembourg. The Prince of Orange was... ...isfortune. T welve or fifteen years afterwards he was recognised among the Bavarian troops, in which he was serving in order to gain his bread and to ... ...nto Cremona as many chosen soldiers as he could, dis- guised as priests or peasants, and these hiding themselves in the house of the friendly priest, ... ... taken in flank by the English, wavered in its turn. All the valour of the Bavarians, all the prodigies of the Elector, were unable to remedy the effe... ...hich were there had great difficulty in holding the town against the armed peasants; and troops intended for Spain were obliged to be sent there. It w... ...t was with great trouble that the movement of Quercy was put down, and the peasants, who had armed and collected together, induced to retire into thei...

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...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ...t reality, and its need for payments would be incidental. And land- owning peasants growing their own food would carry on, and small cultivating occup... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura... ...n for Prussian “kultur,” it is not for us to restrain it. Austrian, Saxon, Bavarian, Hanoverian and Prussian must adjust their own differences. Hungar... ...ances and quotations through the exertions of a preposter- ous Anti-German League. Disregarding the essential evils of the Prussian idea, this mischie...

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...- ity, the conventional dialect ascribed to the rustic order in general—to peasants even more than to gentlemen—in our English plays and novels, is a ... ...of being suspicious; in a simple rustic neighborhood, amongst good-natured peasants, for a long time he was regarded with simple curiosity, rather tha... ..., my uncle was in the character of his intellect; there he fell a thousand leagues below my mother, to whom he looked up with affectionate astonish- m... ...es of the classical poetry—with the nod of the Olympian Jove, or the seven-league strides of Neptune? Flying Childers had the most prodigious stride o... ...is- mantled fanes of heathenism, or the gaunt wolf disturbing the sleep of peasants as he yelled in winter from the cold, dilapidated altars.” Even th... ...drid, and of Vienna, and propagated to this age by the links of Tilly, the Bavarian com- mander, and W allenstein, the more than princely commander fo...

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...arranged.” “Do you think,” said Madame de Villefort, “that Valentine is in league with him? She has always been opposed to this marriage, and I should... ...“Yes.” “Where is it, then? Near Paris, is it not?” “Very near, only half a league from the Barriers, — it is at Auteuil.” “At Auteuil?” said Villefort... ... the air with such precision as to convey to the distance of three hundred leagues the ideas and wishes of a man sitting at a table at one end of the ... ...by shuffling cards or rattling the dice.” “Ah, that boy will find out some Bavarian or Peruvian princess; he will want a crown and an immense fortune.... ...under presence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting ...

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...ntruder’ from without. He was supposed by the fiction of the case to be in league with his patron for the persecution of a godly parish; whilst in rea... ...rs of the age. We have earls, we have mar- quesses, coming forward as Corn-League agents; we have magistrates by scores angling for popularity as Repe... ...s amelioration of things for Greece, which lies in summary ejecting of the Bavarian locusts. Where all offices of profit or honor are engrossed by nee... ...dgings, possesses as good a title, to see Athens and the Peloponnesus as a Bavarian, and a better than a T urk; and, if he cannot be suffered to pass ... ... in its best parts, by a Turkish aristocracy that had engrossed them, to a Bavarian that cannot use them. In short, Mr. Mure is simply a territorial g... ...ristocracy with their dependants, and es- pecially with the two classes of peasants on their own estates, and their domestic servants. 2 Those who re...

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...eat credit for bringing over to him Sir Pitt and his col- 92 V anity Fair league for Queen’s Crawley, although Sir Pitt would have come over himself,... ...eant said, in a low voice, “and had him buried, as your honour knows.” The peasants and relic-hunters about the place were scream- ing round the pair,... ...at a pate de foie gras was poisoned. He went to a ball at the hotel of the Bavarian envoy, the Count de Springbock-Hohenlaufen, with his head shaved a... ...itants of the town were not allowed to play at these games, but strangers, peasants, ladies were admitted, and any one who chose to lose or win money....

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...Juliers. — Designs of Henry IV. of France. — Formation of the Union. — The League. — Death of the Em- peror Rodolph. — Matthias succeeds him. — Troubl... ...ransylvania, invades Austria. — The Duke of Bavaria and the Princes of the League embrace the cause of Ferdinand. — The Union arm for Frederick. — The... ...o the political system of Europe; and while on the one hand the Protestant League was strengthened by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- a... ...newly-chosen elec- 48 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War tor, whom his Bavarian relations and the Span- iards from the Netherlands supported with ... ...zens, formerly so insolent, were seized with terror at the approach of the Bavarian army; pusillanimity now possessed them, though once so full of def... ... Countries under Bucquoi, and without loss of time the united Imperial and Bavarian forces, amounting to 50,000 men, entered Bohemia. All the Bohe- mi... ...es in ashes, harvests wilfully destroyed, families plundered, and murdered peasants, marked the progress of these barbarians, under whose scourge the ... ...stance, made the best prepara- tions for defence, armed the Roman Catholic peasants, disarmed and carefully watched the Protestant citizens, lest they...

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... orders have been given not to let them in, so that must be right. And the peasants are asking three rubles for carting—it isn’t Christian!” Yakov Alp... ..., had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green. The peasants were ruined; some of them too had gone to Bogucharovo, only a few ... .... “He is my refuge! His will be done!” he exclaimed. A group of bareheaded peasants was approaching across the meadow toward the prince. “Well, good-b... ...Napoleon bowed his head and remained silent a long time. “At eight hundred leagues from France, I will not have my Guard destroyed!” he said, and turn... ...urther of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburgers, Spaniards, Italians, and Neapoli... ...s of thousands who perished there were fewer French- men than Hessians and Bavarians. CHAPTER XXXIX SEVERAL TENS OF THOUSANDS of the slain lay in dive...

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...ince V asili meant several thousand rubles quitrent received from Pierre’s peasants, which the prince had retained for him- self. In Petersburg, as in... ...ed by the division commanders, Ostermann and Sedmoretzki, and all that the peasants had has been eaten up. I myself will remain in hospital at Ostrole... ...erre awakened a joyful feeling in the depth of his heart. In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and S... ...Napoleon bowed his head and remained silent a long time. “At eight hundred leagues from France, I will not have my Guard destroyed!” he said, and turn... ...urther of the Russian war, “half were Austrians, Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Bavarians, Wurttembergers, Mecklenburgers, Spaniards, Italians, and Neapoli... ...eds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians. CHAPTER XXXIX SEVERAL TENS of thousands of the slain lay in dive... ...... A man who doesn’t know Paris is a savage. Y ou can tell a Parisian two leagues off. Paris is T alma, la Duchenois, Potier, the Sorbonne, the boule...

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...s the heroes of his stories, crea- tures very near to primitive existence, peasants, sailors, poachers, girls of the farm, and the source of the vigor... ...as the safeguard of the national 28 De Maupassant honor. It seemed to the peasants that thus they had deserved better of their country than Belfort a... ...rd.” He awaited applause. But there was no voice, no sound. The bewildered peasants remained silent. And the bust, with its pointed mustaches extend- ... ...minated the immense ocean of pale mountain peaks, which stretched for many leagues around him. It seemed as if this vague brightness arose from the sn... ...n there to lay it, or the queer story of Jean Pila’s dog, who had gone ten leagues to bring back his master’s breeches which a tramp had stolen while ... ...d a half-penny clay pipe, which had become as black as coal. From six to *Bavarian beer. 187 Selected Writings eight beer saucers were piled up on t... ...evolutionary circles, she was looked upon as an active member of the great League of Free- dom, and diplomatists regarded her as an influen- tial frie...

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... Is it nothing to sit enthroned in a room, at a distance of thirty million leagues from the sun?” “Let us once more take a broad view of civilization,... ...ed,” came in the deep tones of Aquilina’s voice. “She never went a hundred leagues to drink in one look and a denial with untold raptures. She has not... ... ten years he struggled with liq- uidators, diplomatists, and Prussian and Bavarian courts of law, over the disputed possession of these unfortunate e... ... the pain that overcame me on the way home through rain and snow, across a league of icy- sheeted quays, without a hope left? Oh, to think that she no... ..., and visited the higher valleys, the skyey nooks, undiscovered lakes, and peasants’ huts about Mont Dore, a country whose stern and wild features are... ...u must die, of the T rappists seemed constantly legible in the eyes of the peasants with whom Raphael was living; he scarcely knew which he dreaded mo... ...em, excited youths, and finally the jolly wine-flushed countenances of old peasants. Children prattled, old women laughed and chatted; everything spok...

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...oung guard, marching by twos instead of threes, bore consequently upon the Bavarian Uhlans (an ill- disciplined and ill-affected body), and then, fall... ...the merry jingle of the tambourine, and the cheery voices of the girls and peasants, as they dance beneath my casement, under the shadow of the cluste... ...e, and I have good cause to know his power. Gujputi is an enchanter: he is leagued with devils; he is invulnerable. Look,” said I, unsheathing my dagg... ...in and ran—the whole host ran as one man: their screams might be heard for leagues. “Tomasha, tomasha,” they cried, “it is enchantment!” A way they fl... ...ne out by the result. His good steed, which could trot at a pinch fourteen leagues in the hour, brought him to this famous castle, just as the warder ... ...-colored gipsies, the dark- eyed, nut-brown Zigeunerinnen; then a troop of peasants chant- ing Rhine-songs, and leading in their ox-drawn carts the pe...

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...for man and beast; the product of which eight hours was from ten to twelve leagues. On the last day but one of the journey, the travelling party, whic... ..., which was precisely the original dinner party, reached a little town ten leagues short of Cuzco. The Corregidor of this place was 131 Thomas de Qui... ...er from the plots of several Saissang, (that is, Kalmuck nobles,) who were leagued together, under an oath to assassinate him; and immediately after, ... ...d so much so, that she did her best (though without effect) to prevent her Bavarian niece from becoming dauphiness. She acquits her husband, how- ever... ... i. e., soldiers, (though unproductive laborers,) not less than productive peasants, the emperor’s envoy replies—‘Yet with a difference, general;’ and...