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... Barn. Last night of all, 47 When yond same Starre that’s Westward from the Pole 48 Had made his course t’ illume that part of Heauen 4... ...sse of Ship- wrights, whose sore Taske 92 Do’s not diuide the Sunday from the weeke, 93 What might be toward, that this sweaty hast 94 ... ...ead my Lord, 232 Your leaue and fauour to returne to France, 233 From whence, though willingly I came to Denmarke 234 To shew my duty i... ...arry how? Tropically: 2106 This Play is the Image of a murder done in Vienna: Gon-zago 2107 is the Dukes name, his wife Baptista: you shall... ...nne gone, and he most violent Author 2818 Of his owne iust remoue: the people muddied, 2819 Thicke and vnwholsome in their thoughts, and whisp...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...t, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should 6 The Count of Monte Cristo live with them; so... ...ave recourse to another.” She then recited all the letters of the alphabet from A down to N. When she arrived at that letter the paralytic made her un... ...he home depart- ment, or of the observatory?” “Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to under- stand things of which I would prefer to... ...to tell you. Ah, really this is magnificent! But tell me, count, will your people take care of my horse?” “Do not alarm yourself, my dear Maximilian —... ...ce, where he would receive one part of his fortune, and then proceeding to Vienna, where he would find the rest, he meant to take up his residence in ...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...hen had: ‘On the morrow, ’ says Weber an eye witness, ‘the Dauphiness left Vienna. The whole City crowded out; at first with a sorrow which was silent... ...eir sorrow. It was an audible sound of wail, in the streets and avenues of Vienna. The last Courier that 175 Thomas Carlyle followed her disappeared,...

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...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...ils hover dim, far-flown; overnetting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke h... ...iplomatic paper at this day: a weariness to the world. Kaunitz argues from Vienna; Delessart responds from Paris, though perhaps not sharply enough. T... ...ial Rescripts have gone out from Turin; there will be secret Convention at Vienna. Catherine of Russia beckons approvingly; will help, were she ready....

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...N ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF Book One 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 ... ...paigns with the Prince of Baden on the Danube, and witnessed the rescue of Vienna from the Turk. And he spoke of his mili- tary exploits pleasantly, a... ...ho was never tired of hearing his stories of his campaigns and his life at Vienna, V enice, Paris, and the famous cities of Europe which he had visite...

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...AS, Boissy d’, President, First of Prairial. ANGOULEME, Duchesse d’, parts from her father. ANGREMONT, Collenot d’, guillotined. ANTOINETTE, Marie, sp... ...er of Guards, courage of, Fifth October, at Versailles, shows her- self to people, and Louis at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous t... ... at Tuileries, and the Lorrainer, and Mirabeau, previous to flight, flight from Tuileries, captured, and Barnave, Coblentz intrigues, and Lamotte’s Me... ...r of Assembly, one of a trio, Jacobin, duel with Cazales, escorts the King from Varennes, conciliates Queen, becomes Constitutional, retires to Grenob... ... to Convention, and Dumouriez, oaths by, in Convention, on suf- ferings of People, and Girondins, arrested, returns in triumph, fall of Girondins. MAR... ...T, Controller of France, on Corn-law, dismissed, death of. TYRANTS, French people rise against. UNITED STATES, declaration of Liberty, embassy to Loui... ...ayette. WATIGNY, Battle of. WEBER, in Insurrection of Women, Queen leaving Vienna. WESTERMANN, August Tenth, purged out of the Jacobins, tried and gui...

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...be considered a mere fancy name, neither more nor less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, o... ... years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with superstitious awe, as to the image of the Hol... ...ly, and for a while he lived in hiding. Then, in the name of the Sovereign People, the d’Esgrignon lands were dishonored by the District, and the wood... ...iquities meal, until he could scarce draw nine thousand francs of in- come from the pickings of his old estates? It was in the month of October 1800 t... ...iwick, and subsequently the presidial; it had belonged to the d’Esgrignons from generation to generation; and now, in consideration of five hundred lo... ...l d’Esgrignon. In 1800 little or no difficulty was made over erasing names from the fatal list, and some few emigres began to return. Among the very f... ... I have gone through museums of old furniture in Paris, London, Munich, or Vienna, with the gray-headed custodian who shows you the splendors of time ...

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...ve thought of, had my means been limited to the competence which I derived from inher- itance, with the moderate income of a professional situa- tion.... ... getting up a new incognito, after his original visor had been thus dashed from his brow. Hence the personal narrative prefixed to the first work of f... ...as his party-coloured jacket implies, a buffoon or clown, whose mouth, far from being eternally closed, as amongst us, is filled, like that of Touchst... ..., and replied that the secret had now of necessity become known to so many people that I was indifferent on the subject. Lord Meadowbank was thus in- ... ...y their petty squabbles and mutual irritability, the laughing-stock of the people of the world. I resolved, therefore, in this respect to guard my bre... ...Keir, had one son—namely Robert Keith of Craig, ambassador to the court of Vienna, afterwards to St. Petersburgh, which latter situation he held at th... ...Murray Keith, K.B., a general in the army, and for some time ambassador at Vienna; Sir Basil Keith, Knight, captain in the navy, who died Governor of ... ...oatswain. If there must be a great actor to act Hamlet, there must also be people to act Laertes, the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, otherwise a...

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...sident’s proclamation of war April 6, 1917 and his message to the American people April 15, 1917. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London. P... ...cla- mation of a state of war on April 6th and his message to the American people of April 15th. While the approval of Presi- dent Wilson was very nat... ...ng the nations. DECLARES PEACE IS NOT FAR OFF It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise. T... ...ize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the con- sent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to ha... ...nt of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. I take it for gra... ...ace itself. With a right comity of arrangement no nation need be shut away from free access to the open paths of the world’s commerce. And the paths o... ...least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. OPPOSITION TO THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT FRIENDSHIP TOWARD THE GERMAN PE...

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...pt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of...

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...6, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to... ...s on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the... ...ll strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the ... ...sight of a priest issuing from the beautiful cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Vienna, bearing the Extreme Unction to a dying person, determined the celeb... ...not accepted. In the first place, his former career seemed to these worthy people profoundly immoral; then, during this very year, he had made still f... ...f the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one day to give a... ...he remoteness of a memory. He asked himself, “Shall I to-morrow find those people there?” III THE HOUSE OF MONGENOD THE NEXT DAY, as Godefroid rose am...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous de- pression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in hav... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...s, it is painful to witness the childish state of feeling which the French people manifest on every possible question that connects itself at any poin... ...small part of a vast capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg, liable to every mode of positive temptation... ...f the haughty vizier, Kara Mustafa, the T urks had undertaken the siege of Vienna; and great was the alarm of the Christian world. But, on the 12th of... ...nt which the Greeks met with in their dearest hopes from the Con- gress of Vienna, the Hetæria first assumed a political charac- ter under the secret ...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could accoun...

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...te, in ate, in ate, in ate, in M M M M Macbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Ma... ...e human mind, and the most to be distrusted; and yet the great majority of people trust to nothing else; which may do for ordinary life, but not for p... ...uses on each side of a street, as seen by a person looking down the street from one extremity. Now in all cases, unless the person has happened to obs... ... has not seen) that which he has seen every day of his life. But to return from this digression, my understanding could furnish no reason why the knoc... ... corresponding improve- ment. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine m... ...in its tendency . Immoral! God bless my soul, gentle- men, what is it that people mean? I am for morality, and always shall be, and for virtue and all... ...o hoard up large sums of gold, which he kept in his own house. This was at Vienna, where he died; and let- ters are still in existence, describing the... ...d to Paris—and that other way to Aix-la- Chapelle, this to Prague, that to Vienna—nourished the warfare of the heart by daily ministrations of sense. ...

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...ea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Is lands lay solitary... ... nothing of them. It is supposed that the Phoenicians, who were an ancient people, famous for carrying on trade, came A Child’s Histroy of England 8... ...iling over to the opposite coasts of France and Belgium, and saying to the people there, ‘We have been to those white cliffs across the water, which y... ...hose white cliffs across the water, which you can see in fine weather, and from that country, which is called Britain, we bring this tin and lead,’ te... ...nd lead,’ tempted some of the French and Belgians to come over also. These people settled themselves on the south coast of England, which is now calle... ...ved that part of the Is lands. It is probable that other people came over from Spain to Ireland, and settled there. Thus, by little and little, stran... ...to the kicked Duke, who straightway took him prisoner at a little inn near Vienna. The Duke’s master the Emperor of Germany, and the King of France, w...

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... royal drawing- room was full of old adherents, whose powdered heads, seen from above, suggested a carpet of snow. There the Count met some old friend... ..., as part of the his- tory of the Revolution. The Count prudently withdrew from the venerable group, which formed a respectful semi-circle before the ... ...st family; then, having extricated his sword, not without some difficulty, from among the lean legs which had got mixed up with it, he crossed the cou... ...sieur de Fontaine showed less amenity. Kings enjoy contradicting more than people think. Like most youngest children, Emilie de Fontaine was a Benjami... ...of literature, she might have made folks believe that, as Mascarille says, people of quality come into the world know- ing everything. She could argue... ...rder, to the younger sons of members of the peerage. According to him, the people had conquered a sufficiently large share in practical govern- ment b... ...oluble young secretary went on, “to find my brother here. On arriving from Vienna I heard that the poor boy was ill in bed; and I counted on seeing hi...

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...dirty and dilapidated grasses in the centre, and at one end a soup tureen, from which a gentleman had helped himself and a young girl of about thirtee... ...d the plates, really came as near to feeding the pair as was possible with people above three years old. The one was a dark, thin man, with a good dea... ...ble brow, but that her dark hair was cut square over it, so as to take off from its height, and give a heavy over-hanging look to the upper part of th... ...poke again. ‘Dolores,’ and the tone was dry, as if all feeling were driven from it. 6 The Two Sides of the Shield ‘Yes, father.’ ‘You know that I hav... ...thing,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if they don’t! And you know those aunts... ...ed; and father took me there on Sunday to luncheon; but there were so many people, and such a talk, and such a bustle, that I hardly knew which was wh... ...many divided into circles, and everything as it was before the Congress of Vienna?’ ‘You liked geography; I hated it.’ ‘Y es, I was young enough to co...

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...and, like the insect, become an integral part of it, borrowing their merit from that of what they feed on. Now, Italy hith- erto has not yet been work... ...ict every form that can serve as a garb to mind. Most human quarrels arise from the fact that both wise men and dunces exist who are so constituted as... ...And you may be sure that the ribbon of the Legion of Honor was not missing from his breast, gallantly padded a la Prussienne. Proudly seated in one co... ... of the ill-concealed evi- dence of the most cruel misery there is—that of people in decent society? I have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so ... ...oted, too, that she was gifted with great good sense—the good sense of the people, which made her education sound. In 26 Cousin Betty society she spo... ...ybody’s mercy; and needing to please everybody, she would laugh with young people, who liked her for a sort of wheedling flattery which always wins th... ...aid the captain, “we were covering the flank of the main army, marching on Vienna under the Emperor’s command. We came to a bridge defended by three b...

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...ll aduice My strength can give you: Then no more remaines But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is able, And let them worke: The nature of our People, Our Cities Institutions, and the Termes For Common Justice, y?are as pregnant in As Art, and practise, hath inriched any That we remember: There is our Commission, From which, we would not have you warpe; call hither,...

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...ncy, as your worth is able, 12 And let them worke: The nature of our People, 13 Our Cities Institutions, and the Termes 14 For Comm... ... inriched any 16 That we remember: There is our Commission, 17 From which, we would not haue you warpe; call hither, 18 I say, bid c... ... Of our owne powre: What thinke you of it? 25 Esc. If any in Vienna be of worth 26 To vndergoe such ample grace, and honour, 27 ... ...ur remoue, be thou at full, our selfe: 50 Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna 51 Liue in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus 52 Though... ... 60 Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors: 61 Our haste from hence is of so quicke condition, 62 That it prefers it selfe, an... ...oule seemes good: Giue me your hand, 76 Ile priuily away: I loue the people, 77 But doe not like to stage me to their eyes: 78 Thoug... ...y? ’twas a commandement, to command 109 the Captaine and all the rest from their functions: they 110 put forth to steale: There’s not a Soul... .... What proclamation, man? 185 Clow. All howses in the Suburbs of Vienna must bee 186 pluck’d downe. 187 Bawd. And what shall b... ...Duk. I doe feare: too dreadfull: 327 Sith ’twas my fault, to giue the people scope, 328 ’Twould be my tirrany to strike and gall them, 329 ...

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...nignity that could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianit... ...d Other Papers – V olume One tous, Christianity is advancing for ever; but from our imper- fect vision, or from our imperfect opportunities for applyi... ...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...o prevent that, we will suppose the question to be proposed by an emissary from some re- mote planet,—who, knowing as yet absolutely nothing of us and... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... morality is oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language i... ... eight hundred years, and by the time that the mighty bulwark fell (1453), Vienna and other cities upon or near the Danube had found leisure for grow-...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...0 Germans in the city, and that only two other German cities in the world, Vienna and Berlin have a larger German population than New York. The German...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...n one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to their Kaiser: Bread! Bread! Great is the combined voice o... ...ils hover dim, far-flown; overnetting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke h... ...iplomatic paper at this day: a weariness to the world. Kaunitz argues from Vienna; Delessart responds from Paris, though perhaps not sharply enough. T...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...n one of his noblest Operas, was the voice of the Populace he had heard at Vienna, crying to their Kaiser: Bread! Bread! Great is the combined voice o...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ... undoubted prop- erty of Talleyrand, (that eminent knave,) was ascribed at Vienna, ninety years ago, to the Prince de Ligne, and thirty years previous... ...tricity. A singular mortality at this time pre- vailed amongst the cats of Vienna, Basle, Copenhagen, and other places. Cats being so eminently an ele...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...ve not seen England,” said a lady with iron-grey hair. They had met her in Vienna, Bayreuth, and Florence, and were grateful to find her again at Clar... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar...

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... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ...h I have been insisting upon. You must remember and always distinguish the people who can ’t bear things from people who can. It will throw light up... ...e news came to him at Kaltenleutgeben, a summer resort a little way out of Vienna. To his friend, the Rev. Jos. H. Twichell, he wrote: “That good and ... ...nsternation is stupefying. The Austrian Empire is being draped with black. Vienna will be a spectacle to see by next Saturday, when the funeral cort‘e... ...neral procession, in company with friends, from the windows of the Krantz, Vienna’s sumptu ous new hotel. We came into town in the middle of the fore...

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... Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth... ...of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Pic... ...aumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms ... ...if you do not mend your ways.’ ‘But I thought,’ said Annora gravely, ‘that people were mar- ried once for all, and it could not be undone.’ ‘So said A... ... some mysterious manner, had become felt rather than known among the young people, yet with- out altering the habitual terms that existed between them... ...eaded their way through bits of forest still left for the royal chase. The people thronged out of their houses, and shouted not only ‘Vive le Roy,’ bu... ... her reverence, she exclaimed, breathlessly, ‘Oh, is it ill news? Not from Vienna?’ ‘No, no, Madame; reassure yourself,’ replied Diane; ‘it is merely ... ...added her name to the certificate, and murmured the name of a con- vent in Vienna, where her late confessor could be found. ‘I cannot thank you Majest...

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...e Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. ...

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...6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ............................................................................................................. 13 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ............................................... 14...

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...........................................................1 3 CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY ................................................ ..., as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T o judge by quotations and allusio... ... generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young man... ...ian policy was from step to step a mis- reading of the will of the English people. He went forth on this campaign, with the finger of Egypt not ineffe... ... and we shall be made sensible that we have an enemy in our midst, until a people, slow to think, have taken counsel of their native generosity to put... ...of those cries, we shall see how they illumine the councils of a governing people. They are wiser than the barking dogs. Cromwell and Bis- marck are g... ...ll these are facts, and no one will ever dare to deny them from Verona and Vienna, for they are known as much as it was known and seen that the uhlans... ... treated in Verona, without thinking of slandering and calumniating as the Vienna pa- pers have done. This morning Prince Amadeus arrived in Cremona, ... ...behind the Adige. You will probably know by this time that the garrison of Vienna had on the 3rd been directed to Prague. The news we receive from Pru...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...illiant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which ... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...wo white moles with hairs on them?” 17 George Eliot “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...Brooke was certainly very agreeable as well as pretty, though not, as some people pretended, more clever and sensible than the elder sister. He felt t... ... That is what I like; though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. But I’m a conservative in m...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...rilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which ... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...Brooke was certainly very agreeable as well as pretty, though not, as some people pretended, more clever and sensible than the elder sister. He felt t... ... That is what I like; though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. But I’m a conservative in m...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to the bride of Lammermoor. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circum...

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...MMERMOOR THE AUTHOR, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occu... ...oor, the Author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connexions of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closel... ...t purchased the tem- 4 Bride of Lammermoor poral prosperity of her family from the Master whom she served under a singular condition, which is thus n... ...sation of that clamour to which it had so lately echoed. But its space was peopled by phantoms which the imagination of the young heir conjured up bef... ...ings are arming, T aste not when the wine-cup glistens, Speak not when the people listens, Stop thine ear against the singer, From the red gold keep t... ..., when the yeoman’s song had died on the wind, “ever served the Ravenswood people, that he seems so much interested in them? I suppose you know, Lucy,... ...ve I not been at Signor Poco’s at Florence, and Meinheer Durchstossen’s at Vienna, and have I not seen all their play?” “I don’t know whether you have... ...w, “she expects an answer to the demand which she has made upon the man at Vienna, or Ratisbon, or Paris—or where is he?— for restitution of the engag...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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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... ...s seventy years of age,’ said the Earl. ‘I remember him at the Congress of Vienna, and he has not a single gray hair.’ Wiggins laughed. ‘My good Lord ...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... ...f her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excurs... ... and the historic action for the last hundred years (since the Congress of Vienna) of the Powers concerned, that they were more like cynical insults t... ...fforts of Polish friends we obtained at last the per- mission to travel to Vienna. Once there, the wing of the American Eagle was extended over our un...

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...er; and, to the rag ing, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow horn, emit hisH¨ oret ih... ...umult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. N... ...and then, by quite foreign suggestion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of thi... ... or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...nal sat isfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness,... ...men from the Lago Maggiore; detachments of the Wiener Schub (Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers braye... ...ething of the partiality with which I have ever since regarded that singular people. Towgood was not without an eye, could he have come at any light. ... ...ted wild eggs in the sand of Sahara; I have awakened in Paris Estrapades and Vienna Malzleins, with no prospect of breakfast beyond elemental liquid. ...

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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 ... ...paigns with the Prince of Baden on the Danube, and witnessed the rescue of Vienna from the Turk. And he spoke of his mili- tary exploits pleasantly, a... ...ho was never tired of hearing his stories of his campaigns and his life at Vienna, V enice, Paris, and the famous cities of Europe which he had visite...

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...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s ca...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ... the already-established Third World Relief Agency (TWRA) headquartered in Vienna, whose branch office locations included Zagreb and Budapest. (Bin La...