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...two Sumerian city-states located 25 kilometers apart in today's territory of Iraq. Clay cylinders and albast, copper and gold tablets found at the ... ...rliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty" is in a clay cuneiform document written about 2300 B.C. in Lagash. ... ...oman. From truly humble origins - her mother worked as the housekeeper of one, Dr. Philippe Curtius - she sprang to fame in less than 10 years. Th...

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...a prize, they were obliged, within a given time, to make, if a sculptor, a clay model; if a painter, a picture such as may be 17 Balzac seen at the E... ...e, who, under her worst deprivations, never uttered a word of reproach. So Philippe and Joseph were cossetted, and the old gambler in the Imperial Lot... ...tone for) cooked them nice little dinners with plenty of sweets. Later on, Philippe and Joseph could extract from her pocket, with the utmost facility... ...h Bridau, one of the greatest painters of the modern French school of art. Philippe, the elder of the two sons, was strikingly like his mother. Though... ...l friends who played whist every night with the two widows, used to say of Philippe two or three times a month, giving him a tap on the cheek, “Here’s... ...y and the mind. Agathe believed that the purely physical resemblance which Philippe bore to her carried with it a moral likeness; and she confidently ... ...titute, full of statues, busts, half-finished marbles, plasters, and baked clays; at all of which he gazed feverishly, for his instinct was awakened, ... ...e had just found an effect long sought for, and was handling his tools and clay with spasmodic jerks and movements that seemed to the ignorant Agathe ... ...f God himself! You will make your child unhappy, that’s all.” He flung the clay he no longer needed violently into a tub, and said to his model, “That...

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...shed? Hapless Ex- Parlementeer! Nay, among our Sixty Old-Constituents, see Philippe d’Orleans a Prince of the Blood! Not now d’Orleans: for, Feudalism... ...r Manuel, like an antithetic literary man, recommends Equality, Egalite. A Philippe Egalite therefore will sit; seen of the Earth and Heaven. Such a C... ...inorganic dust: very slowly, through cen- turies, through Napoleons, Louis Philippes, and other the like media and phases,—into a new, infinitely pref... ...mself by intrepidity:—it is the same intrepid individual who now, as Louis-Philippe, with- out the Equality, struggles, under sad circumstances, to be... ...agne; spreading out also into ‘the fields, of a tough spongy red- coloured clay;—like Pharaoh through a Red Sea of mud,’ says Goethe; ‘for he also lay... ...and in mute wrath quits the place for ever,—much hustled in the corridors. Philippe Egalite votes in his soul and conscience, Death, at the sound of w... ...unwrites Acts of Parliament, removes mountains; models the World like soft clay? Also how the beginning of all Thought, worth the name, is Love; and t...

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... cool view of the dead Emperor’s character; if, perhaps, such men as Louis Philippe, and Monsieur A. Thiers, Minister and Deputy, and Monsieur Francoi... ...avest felt no small tremor! And be sure of this, that as his Majesty Louis Philippe took his nightcap off his royal head that morn- ing, he prayed hea... ...s. All these were statues of warriors from Ney to Charlemagne, modelled in clay for the nonce, and placed here to meet the corpse of the greatest warr... ...fficiating priests, but we knew of nothing more. It is said that old Louis Philippe was standing at the cata- falque, whither the Prince de Joinville ... ...nced and said, “Sire, I bring you the body of the Emperor Napoleon.” Louis Philippe answered, “I receive it in the name of France.” Bertrand put on th...

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... thicker vessel was not also the stronger; pity-struck for the porce- lain-clay of humanity rather than for the tile-clay,—though indeed both were bro... ...ipe is long since closed without result; the other, young, and named Louis Philippe, d’Orleans’s firstborn, has in this latter time, after unheard-of ... ...nt’ is the substance of this lower world, for them that dwell in houses of clay; so, especially in hot regions and times, do the proudest palaces we b... ...m to depend. There too, conspicuous among the Thirty, if seldom au- dible, Philippe d’Orleans may be seen sitting: in dim fuliginous bewilderment; hav... ... of succession to the Throne ‘in case the present Branch should fail;’ and Philippe, they say, walked anxiously, in silence, through 103 Thomas Carly... ...eine qu’on se donne pour lui. It came all to nothing; and in the meanwhile Philippe’s money, they say, is gone! Could he refuse a little cash to the g... ..., with dragon- appetite for cash; fit to swallow Princedoms! And so Prince Philippe, amid his Sillerys, Lacloses, and confused Sons of Night, has roll... ...shall be put in prison, put out of the way; what then will his Majesty be? Clay for the Sansculottic Potter! Or were it impossible to fly this day; a ... ...ss- port, is sent forth with double speed on a hopefuller track; by Bondy, Claye, and Chalons, towards Metz, to track the new Berline; and gallops a f...

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... a red-letter day in my life—there arrived from Paris a lady companion and Philippe, the last remaining of my grandmother’s valets, charged to carry m... ... time to dress for dinner. Miss Griffith (she is not unlike a griffin) and Philippe took me to my rooms. The suite is the one which belonged to my bel... ... will always remain one of the striking figures of the eighteenth century. Philippe seemed to divine something of the cause of my tears. He told me th... ...n dismantled, as the Revolution had left them. On hearing this I rose, and Philippe opened the door of the small drawing- room which leads into the re... ...tral one, which contained those vast, gloomy, resounding halls shown me by Philippe, all despoiled of their splendor, as in the days of my childhood. ... ...an. He will cease to have a will and character of his own, and become mere clay in your hands. You will have so completely moulded him to your likenes...

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...must have laughed at his own wondrous gro- tesque image, as they say Louis Philippe did, who saw all the caricatures that were made of himself. And th... ...he sabre and bayo- net, and laugh at a man tricked out in scarlet and pipe-clay. That regiment of heroes is “marching to divine service,” to the tune ... ... a pot of ale (the spirit of brave Toby Philpot come back to reanimate his clay); while in a fun- gus may be recognized the physiognomy of a mushroom ...

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...third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter, Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March: Edmund ... ...heir To Roger Earl of March, who was the son Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe, Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence: So, if the issue of... ...ry what your fortune is. The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms And temper clay with blood of Englishmen: To Ireland will you lead a band of men, Co...

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...e revolution of July; he explained things impenetrable; he explained Louis-Philippe, Odilon Barrot, Monsieur Thiers, the Eastern Question; he explaine... ... towns, you will see nothing but miserable buildings of wood or half-baked clay; the best are built of brick. Stone is scarcely used at all except on ... ...e,” re- plied Vinet, gravely . “So, as I said, he will poculate with Louis Philippe in the morning, and banquet at the Holy-Rood with Charles the Tent... ...e memories that await him there. Have I the power to lessen the shock? Old Philippe, who was left in charge of the place when he went to Italy, had or... ... it was sharper and more intolerable than before. The gates were opened by Philippe, the old servant, who had been constituted by Madame Gaston majord... ...w is your master?” asked Sallenauve. “He has gone away, monsieur,” replied Philippe. “Gone away!” “Yes, monsieur; with that English gentleman whom mon...

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...ght up the dusky past with an unnatural glare. Begun in the reign of Louis Philippe, this terrible process—the more terrible always the more you admit... ...tion of the gift, was despoiled of his property by the Government of Louis Philippe. He appealed for redress to the tribunals of his country; and the ... ...ist Bretagne, and being “wanted,” as the phrase is, by the police of Louis Philippe, had hidden herself in a small but loyal house at Nantes, where, a... ... age, had given me extraordinary pleasure when they were exhibited (in the clay) in the Salon of 1876. They are admirably cast, and they have a certai... ...such a sketchable manner in mid-stream), and across at the lonely tower of Philippe le Bel and the ruined wall of Villeneuve, makes at a dis- 163 Hen... ...o which I paid my respects in speaking of that excursion. Also the work of Philippe le Bel (built in 1307), it is amazingly big and stubborn, and form...

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... repaired to the Frank’s abode, the chief among a con- fused collection of clay and timber huts intended for shelter during eating and sleeping. The F... ...ised three or four feet, and then covered by a flat roof, formed of beaten clay, where the inhabitants spent much of their time. Kascambo was every no... ...trance into France. Thus it was that when, in 1346, Edward III. had beaten Philippe VI. at the battle of Crecy, the first use he made of his victory w... ...rance, as he claimed to be. Sir Jean made answer that he held the town for Philippe, King of France, and that he would defend it to the last; the hera... ...endants the slip, and galloped off to Paris, where he was welcomed by King Philippe. This made Edward very wrathful, and more than ever de- termined t... ... hope that their King was at last collecting an army for their rescue. And Philippe did collect all his forces, a great and noble army, and came one n... ...st effort to rescue the brave, patient men within the town, away went King Philippe of France, with all his men, and the garrison saw the host that ha... ... by the French engi- neers, of the remains of a man within a huge block of clay, that had taken a perfect cast of his Moorish features, and of the sur...

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...ands a week later.) These trenches were dug into a sort of yellowish sandy clay; the dug-outs were mere holes in the earth that fell in upon the clums... ...the men were dog-tired and many of them sleeping like logs, half buried in-clay. Some slept on the firing steps. As one went along one became aware ev... ...As one went along one became aware ever and again of two or three pairs of clay-yellow feet stick- ing out of a clay hole, and peering down one saw th... ... expand further upon the general impression made by the English in France. Philippe Millet’s En Liaison avec les Anglais gives in a series of delightf...

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...And this is another strange feature of Paris. Whenever success, on feet of clay, fills a house, there is al- ways a stage-box to be had ten minutes be... ...se three months past?” asked Mariette. “Good-evening, my dear Baron,” said Philippe Bridau, as he went into Nucingen’s box. “So here you are, married ... ...icer whom you once on a time were to have got out of a scrape— at Issoudun—Philippe Bridau—” “I know nothing of it,” said Esther, looking round the ho... ... “Kind! Why, they are excellent; they have named you Joan of Arc,” replied Philippe. “Vell den, if dese ladies vill keep you company,” said Nucingen, ... ...would be less closely ques- tioned in his presence than if she were alone. Philippe Bridau hurried back to the box where the dancers were sitting, and... ... few days longer to satisfy my curiosity. But for that, I should have made Philippe slap my lord’s cheek—and he has not his match as a swords- man. Th... ... that could betray the passage of the criminals. The chimney-posts, of red clay, afforded no opportunity for ingress or escape, and the roofing was so... ...in that way; but a child of six could not have passed up or down those red-clay pipes, which, in modern buildings, take the place of the vast chimneys...

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...the coach, at the time of the levies, a sort of conscription made by Louis Philippe on the old Napoleonic soldiery. From the time when the younger bra... ...a disgrace to the Louvre and the Place du Carrousel. I am devoted to Louis-Philippe, he is my idol; he is the august and exact representative of the ... ...s required that he should go to the studio at le Gros-Caillou to mould the clay and set up the life-size model, Steinbock found one day that the Princ... ...wife. Marshal the Prince de Wissembourg was obliged to be angry to get the clay model finished; he declared that he must put the work into other hands... ...ecome of us. Oh, if only I could learn to make statues, I would handle the clay!” she cried, holding up her fine arms. The woman, it was plain, fulfil... ...as, tired out with such a morning’s work, went off to his studio to make a clay sketch of the /Samson and Delilah/, for which he had the drawings in h... ...ith her, went to the studio just as the sculptor had finished handling the clay with the im- petuosity that spurs an artist when the mood is on him. O... ... powers. “You are quite mistaken, my angel, if you suppose that King Louis-Philippe rules us; he himself knows better than that. He knows as well as w...

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...rrotin, glancing out towards the street, and stuffing the tobacco into his clay pipe. “I see a lady and lad over there with packages under their arms;... ...avor Monsieur de Serizy has since shown in the matter of Joseph’s brother, Philippe Bridau.” At this moment Moreau, to whom the case of the Vanderness...

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... the will of God, with its belief in the print of the divine finger on the clay of all earthly life, is the mysterious light which glides into the inn... ...r his advancement on his relations with the Duc d’Orleans, father of Louis Philippe, and with Monsieur de Folmon, for- merly steward to the Duchess-do...

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...r white and feeble hand this 56 A Daughter of Eve colossus,—whose feet of clay she did not choose to see; of giving life where life was needed; of be... ...resulted in attaching to the interests threatened by this attack on Louis- Philippe a large body of hitherto lukewarm persons. The newspapers which we...

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..., over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red ei... ... the earth, and yet apart from it. They seemed to possess something of the clay of which they were created, and at the same time something divine. You...

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...ction of be ing the only sovereign in Europe who had not recognised Louis Philippe as King of the French! He was not a wag, but quite in earnest. He ... ...iefly remarkable to a For eigner, by the indifference with which the mere clay is uni versally regarded, after life has left it. And this is not fro...

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..., has a thing that he calls feelings. The lion is a gentleman; he will not touch carrion. I am a gentleman, and I cannot bear to soil my fingers with ... ...ce stretched himself a little, so kindly the end came to that disastrous life. It was only at our evening halt that the Major and I discovered we were... ... inn kitchen was a long, lean, characteristic-looking fellow of perhaps forty, dressed in black. He sat on a settle by the fireside, smoking a long pi...

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... the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant a... ...y feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great Washington, too, stands hi... ...hen shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helms- man! steady. This is the sort of weather when brave he... ...t of business thou art in here, carpenter;—or would’st thou rather work in clay? Sir?—Clay? clay, sir? That’s mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir. The... ... sir; ship’s-crier; ding, dong, ding! Pip! Pip! Pip! One hundred pounds of clay reward for Pip; five feet high— looks cowardly—quickest known by that!...

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... the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant a... ...y feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil. Great Washington, too, stands hi... ...hen shifted to any other soil, and here there’s none but the crew’s cursed clay. Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort of weather when brave hear... ...of business thou art in here, carpenter; — or would’st thou rather work in clay? Sir? — Clay? clay, sir? That’s mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir. T... ... sir; ship’s crier; ding, dong, ding! Pip! Pip! Pip! One hundred pounds of clay! reward for Pip; five feet high — looks cowardly — quickest known by th...

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...ll things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect? A few lumps of clay, left by Moliere at the feet of his colossal statue of Tartuffe, have ... ...814, be- lieved in her brother as Mademoiselle d’Orleans believed in Louis-Philippe. She was proud of Jerome; she expected to see him the director-gen... ...at, under arms, there was no such thing as deliberation,—a saying of Louis-Philippe to the National Guard of Metz. Nevertheless, the bourgeois virtues... ...?” “Certainly not; send them your pamphlet and appoint them to meet you at Philippe’s or Vefour’s—they’ll understand perfectly.” “Ten guests,” said Th...

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...efuge now in one attic, now in another , in their quaint costumes of Louis Philippe, with their tears and their smiles, happy- go-lucky and reckless. ... ... massive wardrobe of the style which is connected with the good King Louis Philippe. The wall-paper was discoloured with age; it was dark gray , and t... ...o him that he was in the position of the artist and the patients were like clay in his hands. He remembered with an amused shrug of the shoul- ders hi...

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...ow went to see. Mrs. Luce had been living in Paris since the days of Louis Philippe; she used to say jocosely that she was one of the genera- tion of ... ...anything particularly grand in his origin—if he were made of some superior clay—I presume I should have got some inkling of it. If there had been any ...

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... now went to see. Mrs. Luce had been living in Paris since the days of Louis Philippe; she used to say jocosely that she was one of the generation of ... ...n anything particularly grand in his origin—if he were made of some superior clay—I presume I should have got some inkling of it. If there had been an...

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...u d’If, and whom I had succeeded in making so great, will be but a lump of clay to- morrow. Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not... ...Locusta. VALENTINE WA S ALONE; two other clocks, slower than that of Saint-Philippe du Roule, struck the hour of midnight from different directions, a...

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...ober of 1844 he describes to his eldest sister the reception of King Louis Philippe at Eton, accompanied by the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duke of ... ...etting that the hot sun overhead does not destroy the bad effect of a damp clay soil such as that at St. John’s College. ‘The buildings at present for... ...tain the moisture, and so far it has the advantage over the very tenacious clayey soil of Mota. ‘Nearly all the time of the people here has been spent...

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...old Era passed away. The Louis that was, lies forsaken, a mass of abhorred clay; aban- doned ‘to some poor persons, and priests of the Chapelle Ardent... ...s. Wheatfields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gra- tui... ... an effort of imagination, thou follow them, over broad France, into their clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of unit... ...shape of ‘five hundred louis d’or:’ the Danae’s Husband smuggles a ball of clay to her; which she delivers to the golden Counsellor of Parlement. Knea... ...and it out for another year. But here, meanwhile, the question arises: Was Philippe d’Orleans seen, this day, ‘in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtou... ...ipe is long since closed without result; the other, young, and named Louis Philippe, d’Orleans’s firstborn, has in this latter time, after unheard-of ... ...ism to depend. There too, conspicuous among the Thirty, if seldom audible, Philippe d’Orleans may be seen sitting: in dim fuliginous be- wilderment; h... ... of succession to the Throne ‘in case the present Branch should fail;’ and Philippe, they say, walked anxiously, in silence, through the corridors, ti... ...ne qu’on se donne pour lui. It came all to nothing; and in the mean- while Philippe’s money, they say, is gone! Could he refuse a little cash to the g...

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...e nursed—the sublime aspirings that have lifted me so often from sense and clay: these tell me, that whether for good or ill, I am the thing of an imm... ...ppear, And said, ‘Honest Thomas, come take your last bier;’ We kneaded his clay in the shape of this can, From which let us drink to the health of my ... ...and courtiers bore. “And he sternly bade them never more to kneel to human clay, But alone to praise and worship That which earth and seas obey: And h... ...elity of French- men and the strength of his good sword. His Majesty Louis Philippe was, it need not be said, the illus- trious wielder of the sceptre... ...his house and person. It was against the above-named pretenders that Louis Philippe (now nearly a hundred years old), a prince amongst sovereigns, was... ... really to demand payment of the Queen of the Belgians’ dowry, which Louis Philippe of Orleans still resolutely declined to pay. Who would have though... ... Chambers, which had long been entirely sub- servient to his Majesty Louis Philippe. The Duke of Aumale was King of Algeria, having married (in the fi... ... the Corn Exchange Palace, Dublin, made a speech, in which he called Louis Philippe an “old mis- creant,” and paid the highest compliments to his son ...

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...old Era passed away. The Louis that was, lies forsaken, a mass of abhorred clay; abandoned ‘to some poor persons, and priests of the Chapelle Ardente,... ...s. Wheatfields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gratuito... ... an effort of imagination, thou follow them, over broad France, into their clay hovels, into their garrets and hutches, the masses consist all of unit... ...shape of ‘five hundred louis d’or:’ the Danae’s Husband smuggles a ball of clay to her; which she delivers to the golden Counsellor of Parlement. Knea... ...w become wholly a vague 104 The French Revolution: V ol. One possibility. Clay which the potter may shape, this way or that:—say rather, the twenty-f... ...d it out for an- other year. But here, meanwhile, the question arises: Was Philippe d’Orleans seen, this day, ‘in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtou...

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... being run over by the people; they only broke two things, a bust of Louis Philippe and one of Marshal Bugeaud, 27 Robert Louis Stevenson who fired o... ...ming’s Marriage – His Married Life – Professional Diffi- culties – Life at Claygate – Illness of Mrs. F. Jenkin; and of Fleeming – Appointment to the ... ...863, soon after the birth of their first son, they moved into a cottage at Claygate near Esher; and about this time, under manifold troubles both of m... .... If he is but better, courage, my girl, for I see light.’ This cottage at Claygate stood just without the village, well surrounded with trees and com... ...d been written before this in London lodgings; but his pen was not idle at Claygate; and it was here he wrote (among other things) that review of ‘Fec... ...hter, were neighbours and proved kind friends; in 1867 the Howitts came to Claygate and sought the society of ‘the two bright, clever young people’; a...

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...- given if my business should have more to do with the feet, which were of clay? YOUTH. ANY VIEW OF BURNS would be misleading which passed over in sil... ...easure (pour soy esbatre). Suddenly there arrived upon the scene a priest, Philippe Chermoye or Sermaise, also with sword and cloak, and accompanied b... ...nt degraded meaning of the word, they are usually suspected of a taste for clay pipes and beer cellars; and their performances are thought to hail fro...

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...they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up red. Sev- eral battalions of soldiers, in their shi... ...d, swarmed in these earthworks like a host of white ants; spadefuls of red clay were continually be- ing thrown up from behind the bank by unseen hand... ...ov’s saying: “If you go on modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay,” suggesting consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victor... ... rye, down- hill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes... ...gathers of its lining and drew them tight again; another, rubbing some dry clay between his palms, polished his bayonet; another fingered the strap an... ...n, to Alexander, to Louis XVIII, to Napoleon again, to Charles X, to Louis Philippe, to a Republican government, and to Napoleon III. When explaining ...