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...e middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement o...

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...e Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun,... ...assengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to ex- press, in the purest Fr... ...the tongue to ex- press, in the purest French then spoken in France: “There is Monsieur returning from hunting.” And that was all. Whilst, however, th... ...wered Haarlem tapestry; in the center of this table was a long-necked stone bottle, in which were irises and lilies of the valley; at each end of this... ...mte de Bragelonne.” “Ah, very well! Introduce him, Saint-Remy — introduce him.” And when he had let fall these words, with his accus- tomed gravity, M... ...e prince, every maneuver of her august husband. Raoul, impassible, and a little disengaged by the atten- tion of his hosts, looked from his place thro... ...when men serve kings against their enemies they are not to be condemned by a parliament — God is their judge. This French gentleman, then, formed the ... ...ed.” “Great God!” cried Fouquet, “to death, to death! Lyodot and D’Eymeris. But even if the Chamber of Justice should condemn them to death, the king ... ...the first story into the Place, and plied his sword so desperately that the victory was restored to the archers, the prisoners were retaken, and Menne...

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...ent, at the head of French historical papers, and are the one great source from which all historians derive their insight into the closing years of th... ... was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from has pen. With this was joined a vigour and breadth of style, very pro-... ...Saint-Simon Simon, was born in Paris, January 16, 1675. He claimed descent from Charlemagne, but the story goes that his fa- ther, as a young page of ... ...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...ir ser- vants had orders to pick a quarrel with those of the Duchess. They executed these orders completely; the servants of the Duchess were thorough... ... in Brittany, and better learn there how to speak and write. Pontchartrain executed the first part of his commission, but not the second. He pointed o... ...parts to the banks of the Murg, to see our retreat, but it was so promptly executed that there was no time for them, to attempt to hinder us. When the...

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...n itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light ... ...understood. A few more Abbe de Pradits, a few more newspaper articles, and from being an emperor, Napoleon would have turned into an ogre. How does er... ...dern history, no woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Fredegonde, has suffered from popular error so much as Catherine dé Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici,... ...the Abbaye; answered on the steps of Saint-Roch; answered once more by the people against the king before the Louvre in 1830, as it has since been ans... ... must defend itself when attacked; but the strange thing is that where the people are held heroic in their victory over the nobility, power is called ... ... victory over the nobility, power is called murderous in its duel with the people. If it succumbs after its appeal to force, power is then called imbe... ...iminal trials; he, the king, not being willing that the sentence should be executed until all present had given their opinion on this heinous and mise... ...an absolute assurance that Christophe was not among the per- sons thus far executed, nor among those who were to be put to death within a few days. “M... ...g not to be in the town of Orleans on the day when the Prince de Conde was executed. Having yielded the head of the prince to the Cardinal de Lorraine...

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... SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED 153 CHAPTER XXIII V ARIOUS EVENTS FROM THE SAME COUNSEL ........................................................ ...d, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and su... ..., the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancie... ...n the practical side of it. To associ- ate closely his son Michel with the people, and attach him to those who stand in need of assistance, he caused ... ...e lofty column, which, though thus buried, was still standing upright. The people there have no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and ar... ...aging, and which carried off 14,000 persons at Bordeaux.]—particularly for people coming away from so fine an air as this is where I am. I will draw a... ...at justice could not inflict upon their persons, ’tis but reason should be executed upon their reputations and the estates of their successors—things ... ...apable of bearing arms, which severe sentence was afterwards accord- ingly executed at Lyons.—[In 1536] —And, since that, all the gentlemen who were i... ... i. 18.] Our courts of justice often send back condemned crimi- nals to be executed upon the place where the crime was com- mitted; but, carry them to...

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...f writers who forget to put on the title pages of their books: “Translated from the German.” THOUGHT AND ACT TOWARD THE END OF VENEMIAIRE, year VII., ... ...dernach, a small town standing on the left bank of the Rhine a few leagues from Coblentz. At that time the French army, commanded by Augereau, was man... ...ies invaded by our troops. At this period many sons of good families taken from 7 Balzac their medical studies by the recent conscription law due to ... ...I can litter them down in a corner of the courtyard. The stable is full of people. Do these gentlemen come from France?” he added after a slight pause... ...e morning.” “Oh! as to provisions,” said the innkeeper, nodding his head, “people come to the Red Inn for their wedding feast from thirty miles round.... ... longer; he was seized by that short and rapid madness known to the men of Picardy; he sprang to the wall, and if I had not caught him, he would 22 T... ... whether the young surgeon defended his life or not; but he expected to be executed on the following day, and he spent the night in writing to his mot...

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...olicy of Louis XI., by which the nobles were to be kept down and prevented from threatening the royal power. This was seldom done by violence, but by ... ... peasantry, since the clergy and the nobles to all generations were exempt from taxation. The trade and all the resources of the country were taking s... ...he succession to their sons on the payment of a tariff called La Paulette, from the magistrate who invented it. In the next reign, however, an effort ... ...- ter, Annora, followed me. Our family had property both in England and in Picardy, and it was while attending to some business connected with the Fre... ...th their chatter, which I could hardly follow, for it was about things and people of which I knew nothing, so that I could not un- derstand their laug... ...de by any decision except my father’s, which I daily expected. I overheard people saying how much M. de Bellaise was improved by his marriage, and how... ...n, hung and draped with blue velvet, divided by lines of gold, was full of people ranged in a circle, listen- ing eagerly to the recital of poem by th... ...s, as the Cavaliers called him, had been defeated, taken by treachery, and executed by hang- ing—yes, by hanging at Edinburgh! His followers were said... ...nburgh with a pack on his back the very day that the Marquis of Huntly was executed. He was safely embarked on board at Dutch lugger, making large eng...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature— from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courts crowded with ... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...is difficulties. Discontent had long pervaded the lower ranks of society in France. Crushed and impoverished by taxation—imposed by Mazarin, whose ava... ...oth sides, without effect; sparks were emitted from the swords like water spouting forth. At last D’Artagnan thought it was time to try one of his fav... ... me.” “A woman! Y ou have assassinated a woman, then?” cried the monk. “You also!” exclaimed the executioner, “you use that word which sounds ever in ... ...veled five or six leagues, serious, silent, and almost without speaking. At length, through the window of a little hut, they showed me a woman sitting...

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...h; but her grace in speech, Her words y clad with wisdom’s majesty, Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys; Such is the fulness of my heart’s co... ..., And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, We here discharge your grace from being regent I’ the parts of France, till term of eighteen months Be... ...ll the land. What! did my brother Henry spend his youth, His valor, coin and people, in the wars? Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter’s col... ... this league! Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame, Blotting your names from books of memory, Razing the characters of your renown, Defacing monu... ...g words Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect. What though the common people favor him, Calling him ‘Humphrey, the good Duke of Gloucester,’ Cl... ...thou wert regent for our sovereign, Have made thee fear’d and honor’d of the people: Join we together, for the public good, In what we can, to bridle ... ...rderer, His guilt should be but idly posted over, Because his purpose is not executed. No; let him die, in that he is a fox, By nature proved an enemy... ...ance, The false revolting Normans thorough thee Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts, And sent the rag...

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...ttending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorni... ...waired my siller better-gates than that.” And he proposed I should buy winter-hosen from a wife in the Cowgate-back, that was a cousin of his own, and... ...find a friend, let be another stranger. Suppose him even to hit on the right close, people dwelt so thronged in these tall houses, he might very well ... ... house and person in the city, had grown to form a brotherhood of spies; and I knew from tales of Mr. Campbell’s how they communicated one with an- ot... ...nd if he is an honest man, his wife is honest indeed.” “Ay,” said I, “they are fine people, and the place is a bonny place.” “Where in the great world... ... have had the hospitality of your own country of Balwhidder.” “It was not one of my people gave it,” said she. “Ah, well.” said I, “but I am owing you... ...aw at the doorsteps talked in a strange tongue; and I found out later that this was Picardy, a village where the French weavers wrought for the Linen ... ... Louis Stevenson judges me, I have but the one design, and that is to see jus- tice executed and the innocent go clear. If in pursuit of that I come t... ... the warrant for your arrest, which I have but to touch this bell beside me to have executed on the spot. Once in the Tolbooth upon this paper, may Go...

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... ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOKS TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ... after he had come to the Gatehouse prison, (where he lay in no small pain from his wound, which inflamed and ached severely,) and with those thoughts... ...ing, Esmond knew at once that his visitor was his dear mistress. He got up from his bed, where he was lying, being very weak; and advancing towards he... ...o happened to be in the place; and the governor’s wife and ser- vant, kind people both, were with the patient. Esmond saw his mistress still in the ro... ... Lord— my Lord Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his... ...d more than a half of the nation were on this side. Ours is the most loyal people in the world surely; we admire our kings, and are faith- ful to them... ...hough a Tory herself, she represented the triumph of the Whig opinion. The people of England, al- ways liking that their Princes should be attached to... ...ipt pages, placed them in his breast with his ruffled hand over his heart, executed a most gracious wave of the hat with the disengaged hand, and smil... ...ot with us. A division under Webb and Rantzau was detached into Artois and Picardy upon the most painful and odious service that Mr. Esmond ever saw i...

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...ands which men devout By testament have given to the church Would they strip from us; being valued thus: As much as would maintain, to the king’s hono... ... sports, And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestration From open haunts and popularity. ELY: The strawberry grows underneath th... ... some certain dukedoms And generally to the crown and seat of France Derived from Edward, his great grandfather. ELY: What was the impediment that br... ...e honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts; Where some, like... ...e ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur, Take pity of your town and of your people, Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; Whiles yet the cool and... ...us not live in France; let us quit all And give our vineyards to a barbarous people. DAUPHIN: O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us, The emptying o... ... us word of England’s fall. [Exeunt.] ACT III SCENE VI: The English camp in Picardy. [Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting.] GOWER: How now, Captain Fl... ...my part, I think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that is like to be executed for robbing a church, one Bardolph, if your majesty know the man... ...it is like a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red; but his nose is executed and his fire’s out. KING HENRY V : We would have all such offen...

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...rs of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from ca- price, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple ... ...tent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform. >From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporar... ... against the king, but never against cardinal or Spain. It resulted, then, from this habit that on the said first Monday of April, 1625, the citizens,... ...n in botany, but till the present time very rare among horses.” “There are people who laugh at the horse that would not dare to laugh at the master,” ... ...ground, covered with blood and almost fainting. It was at this moment that people came flocking to the scene of action from all sides. The host, fearf... ...re he does. He causes a disturbance in your hos- telry , which respectable people cannot put up with. Go; make out my bill and notify my servant.” “Wh... ...s of the king, and more particularly the orders of the cardinal, should be executed—” D’Artagnan could not restrain a smile. By this smile M. de T rev... ...ished the per- ilous enterprise which, but for her arrest, would have been executed three days earlier. Buckingham, left alone, walked toward a mirror... ...ing at St. Paul—the spot where such as were condemned at the Bastille were executed—he was near fainting and crossed himself twice. He thought the car...

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... that the personality of the narrator was extremely suggestive quite apart from the story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died ... ...story he was telling me. I heard a few years ago that he had died far away from his beloved Naples where that “abominable adventure” did really happen... ...n, or at any rate be- gun, within a month of finishing Nostromo; but apart from the locality, and that a pretty wide one (all the South American Conti... ...n the growth of political hatred. And, as is usual in war, the mass of the people, who had the least to gain by the issue, suffered most in their ob- ... ...ice at his back. It was indeed strange that Gaspar Ruiz should desert. His people were in too humble a station to feel much the disad- vantages of any... ...ried off the remaining horses and cattle, and having thus deprived the old people of all their worldly possessions, left them sitting under a bush in ... ...eant, tightening his grip upon the stick he carried in virtue of his rank, executed this order with alacrity and zeal. He hit Gaspar Ruiz, whose move-... ...hat a daughter was born to them. To cel- ebrate the event, I suppose, Ruiz executed one or two brilliant forays clear away at the rear of our forces, ... ...uld drink hard on occasion, but was born sober under the wa- tery skies of Picardy, made for the door. Hearing, however, the unmistakable sound behind...

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...the dead. Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate: Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils, Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! A far more... ...ftly, or the loss of those great towns Will make him burst his lead and rise from death. GLOUCESTER: Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? If Henry wer... ...senger: Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance. France is revolted from the English quite, Except some petty towns of no import: The Dauphin... ... and redoubted Burgundy, By whose approach the regions of Artois, Wallon and Picardy are friends to us, This happy night the Frenchmen are secure, Hav... ...d in Christendom. Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge, For treason executed in our late king’s days? And, by his treason, stand’st not thou ... ...thful and anointed queen: For your expenses and sufficient charge, Among the people gather up a tenth. Henry VI, Part I, Act V , scene v 80 Be gone, ...

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...nry the Fift, thy Ghost I inuocate: 62 Prosper this Realme, keepe it from Ciuill Broyles, 63 Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; ... ...osse of those great Townes 74 Will make him burst his Lead, and rise from death. 75 Glost. Is Paris lost? is Roan yeelded vp? 76 ... ...rds view these Letters, full of bad mischance. 101 France is reuolted from the English quite, 102 Except some petty Townes, of no import. 1... ... 687 By whose approach, the Regions of Artoys, 688 Wallon, and Picardy, are friends to vs: 689 This happy night, the Frenchmen are se... ... Was not thy Father, Richard, Earle of Cambridge, 1022 For Treason executed in our late Kings dayes? 1023 And by his Treason, stand’st not... ...eene. 2914 For your expences and sufficient charge, 2915 Among the people gather vp a tenth. 2916 Be gone I say, for till you do returne, ...

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...d blacksmith had their workshops. There was a group of children, the young people who were confided to the great Earl Richard and Countess Alice of Sa... ...ied to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from hearing the history of the accident, but presently the clatter of hors... ...too eager to accuse him. 6 Grisly Grisell “He took a bar of iron from the forge, so please you, my lord, and put it to the barrel of powder.... ...y ought to have the Lord Earl’s arms on them. So he took a bar of hot iron from the forge to mark the saltire on them, and thereupon there was this bu... ...ined to uphold royalty, while York was con- sidered as the champion of the people. The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the... ...f the Lord’s Prayer and Creed in the hands of all care- ful and thoughtful people, even among the poor, if they had a good parish priest, or had come ... ...ves were not treated as Frenchmen would have been as prisoners of war, but executed as traitors to their King. She paused over him till a low sound an... ...he Duke early the next morning on an expedition to visit his fortresses in Picardy, and as the household of the Green Serpent returned from mass, they...

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...owing this trilogy Lucien’s story is continued in yet another book, Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life. A DISTINGUISHED PROVINCIAL AT PARIS PART I MME. DE... ...o discern the meaning of certain smiles which flit- ted over Louise’s lips from time to time; and instead of keep- ing himself to himself, he indulged... ...mself to himself, he indulged in the playfulness of the young rat emerging from his hole for the first time. The travelers were set down before daybre... ...the hideous furniture bought second-hand, or much the worse for wear. Some people no longer look the same when detached from the background of faces, ... ...of the Council to introduce you to those houses; but you will meet so many people at Mme. d’Espard’s, that you are not likely to require me. So far fr... ... newcomers, was much more interested in the things that he saw than in the people he met. The general effect of Paris is wholly en- grossing at first.... ...represented in the broth- erhood. Daniel d’Arthez came of a good family in Picardy. His belief in the Monarchy was quite as strong as Michel Chrestien... ... purely literary articles; they will not compromise you, and we shall have executed our agreement.” Lucien saw nothing but good-fellowship and a shrew...

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...OVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ......................................................................... 10 CHAPTER II OF THE PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES OCCASION TO THE DIVISION OF LABOUR ...................

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...CH ITS PRODUCE IS NATU- RALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE. .......... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .................... ...ERCIAL OR MERCANTILE SYSTEM 342 CHAPTER II OF RESTRAINTS UPON IMPORTATION FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES OF SUCH GOODS AS CAN BE PRODUCED AT HOME .............. ...XTRAORDINARY RESTRAINTS UPON THE IMPORTATION OF GOODS OF ALMOST ALL KINDS, FROM THOSE COUNTRIES WITH WHICH THE BALANCE IS SUPPOSED TO BE DISADVANTAGEO... ...mmediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations. According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purch... ...irectly destroy- ing, and sometimes of abandoning their infants, their old people, 9 Adam Smith and those afflicted with lingering diseases, to peris... ... civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produce of ten times,... ... for reducing that of the public debts; a purpose which has sometimes been executed. France is, perhaps, in the present times, not so rich a country a... ...ssible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the l... ...n some of the most necessary trades. If you would have your work tolerably executed, it must be done in the sub- urbs, where the workmen, having no ex...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, a...

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...t Louis Stevenson PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan... ...iderable an amount of copy. These nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could b... ... strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of thes... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ..., the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stevenson of pleasing people in fiction was not yet apparent; and, even now, it is only by lookin... ...ercise was sullied. So, having said his say for once, he was led forth and executed, thirty-one years old. A military engineer, a bold traveller (at l... ...ons of the Bishop. While he still lay in durance, another job was cleverly executed by the band in broad daylight, at the Augustine Monastery. Brother... ...un of contemporaneous drawing-room verses, those of Charles of Orleans are executed with inimitable lightness and delicacy of touch. They deal with fl...

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...e Carbineers of Foy, and the Grenadiers of the Guard under Drouet d’Erlon, executed a carambolade on the right, with the precision which became those ... ...ld but get that fellow’s 156 Thackeray horse, thought I, I am safe; and I executed at once the plan which I hoped was to effect my rescue. I had, as ... ...aree, while Major Gaha— nonsense, never mind him, never mind the charge he executed when, sabre in hand, he leaped the six-foot wall in the mouth of t...

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...e of any rank, character, or nation; and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange s... ... me,” said the Prince, “and I have all the will in the world to rescue you from this dilemma, but upon one condition. If my friend and I eat your cake... ...d them with a bow apiece. For some sec- onds he stood looking at the purse from which he had just paid his assistants, then, with a laugh, he tossed i... ... both his eyes and ears open, and soon began to gain a general idea of the people among whom he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one t... ...he found himself. As in all other places of resort, one type predominated: people in the prime of youth, with every show of intelligence and sensibili... ...is not one of them that has not been grossly and untruthfully over- rated. People trifle with love. Now, I deny that love is a strong passion. Fear is... ... he falsified frontiers, he connived at murders, he unjustly condemned and executed a brother-officer who had the misfortune to displease the Rajah by... ...ruddy glow from the arched chimney. Before this straddled Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk, with his skirts picked up and his fat legs bared to the comfo... ...of one who has been hanged. Then he pock- eted his share of the spoil, and executed a shuffle with his feet as if to restore the circulation. Tabary w...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...si- bly to wheel northwards, and the rapidity with which this movement was executed left no time to the enemy to prevent it. Tilly at last left his he... ... which amidst a tremendous fire from the Swedish artillery he successfully executed. The conquest of Donauwerth opened to the king the further side of... ...t of war. He was fertile in expedients, which he planned with secrecy, and executed with boldness; cautious in the midst of dangers, greater in advers...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ...would only sigh and shake her head. Before those fatal decrees in life are executed, there are always secret pre- visions and warning omens. When ever... ... Lord— my Lord Murderer—(I will never name him)—was let loose, a woman was executed at Tyburn for stealing in a shop. But a man may rob another of his... ...ipt pages, placed them in his breast with his ruffled hand over his heart, executed a most gracious wave of the hat with the disengaged hand, and smil...

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...is XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes who exist... ...her in that humble little abode in the rue de Miromesnil, a few steps away from her splendid mansion, which no amount of fortune had en- abled her to ... ...! One must be a queen to know how to abdicate, and to descend with dignity from a lofty position which is never wholly lost. Those only who have an in... ...ay 18 The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan that ancient escutcheon of Picardy on the panels of a carriage? You have thirty thousand francs a year... ... a tender voice. These manoeuvres, planned in cold blood, but enchantingly executed, carved her image deeper and deeper on the soul of that great writ... ... writings are be- coming exceedingly rare. Is this a conclusion? Y es, for people of sense; no, for persons who want to know everything. 54 The Secre...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...that dames of our age should imitate. The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle ... ...l by clumsy and ignorant hands. In this case, it is the writing of a clerk executed as quickly as possible. The farther it goes the more incorrect it ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...d counsel unprofitable which in a due and convenient time is not by virtue executed and put in effect. My deliberation is not to provoke, but to appea...