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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...HEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST PERSONS have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at... ... all willing to leave the Bourbons in tranquil possession of the throne of France; for it was too plainly established that Henri IV. became king for w... ...ttribute to him. You will find in the most out-of- 12 An Old Maid the way villages human mollusks, creatures apparently dead, who have passions for l... ... hundred francs a year, and three hundred francs from property of her own, plus a son whose support and education had eaten up all her savings. She oc... ...ellation of “that good Made- moiselle Cormon,” which, from the lips of the beaux esprits of society, means that she was as ignorant as a carp, and rat...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... of the elections which were about to take place over the whole surface of France. Often things are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in ... ... Comte de Gondreville. Gondreville, one of the most magnificent estates in France, is situated about a mile from Arcis. This banker, recently made cou... ...region. Its general aspect is sad; the land is flat. Pass- ing through the villages, and even the towns, you will see nothing but miserable buildings ... ...men, whose looms can be seen through the open doors as we pass through the villages. These workmen are employed by agents, who them- 37 Balzac selves... ...-Macaire, and since we have learned how to invest our money we are Figaro, plus a savings bank.” “How much do you earn?” “Oh! some races I make two or... ...mber, my dear Madame de Camps, that in 1831 you and I went together to the Beaux-Arts to see the exhibition of works which were competing for the Gran... ...t. At seven o’clock precisely all the guests named by Desroches to Maxime, plus Desroches himself, were assembled in the salon of the rue de Provence,...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials a... ...ECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Port... ...pretensions in these words: Les Anglois qui ont une littérature infiniment plus variée que la nôtre. This fact is a feature in our national pretension... ...uld have yielded, at the rate of three and a half miles per hour, thirteen plus one third miles. But only two and a half hours were given to walking; ... ... footing. The Dissenter from the national church, whether in England or in France, is reminded by his own distinguishing religious opinions of the his... ...on the supposed inability of Great Britain to contend “single-handed” with France; and, finally, the public brutality to our ambassador, had prepared ... ...y torchlight under the gateway of ancient cities; at an- other, the ruined villages, with their dismantled cottages,— doors and windows torn off, wall... ...eir friends in Klosterheim, as for their own convenience, prodigious flam- beaux were borne aloft on halberds. These rose to a height which surmounted...

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...Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Ele... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publicatio... ...to conform themselves. When Henry IV. succeeded in obtaining the throne of France, he found the feudal nobility depressed by the long civil war, and h... ... the meeting of the States- General—the only popular assembly possessed by France— Louis XIII., however, after hearing the complaints, and prom- ising... ...to my place at table and sat beside me; or he would walk with me about the villages where we rested. The ladies were shocked, and my husband was cen- ... ...rant la famine, T out le monde s’entrebaisait A Paris Durant la famine, La plus belle se contentait D’un simple boisseau de farine.’ La plus belle was... ...t young Darpent is a useful and honest man,’ she said. ‘It is well if your beaux yeux have secured him as a protector in these times, my goddaughter.’... ...age, the rain- drops against the window glancing in the light of the flam- beaux, the crashing of the wheels, and the steady breathing of the sleepers... ...nt of Vialas, his equerry. On they went, day and night, avoiding towns and villages, and seldom halt- 203 Yo n g e ing except in the fields. Happily ...

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..., as enabling the young to realize history vividly—and, what is still more de- sirable, requiring an effort of the mind which to read of mod- ern days... ...esman in 1572, instead of the elderly sage he is represented; his daughter Frances was a mere infant, and Sir Philip Sidney was not knighted till much... ... What then? the faith was large that dropped it down. —Aubrey De Vere, Infant Bridal SETTING ASIDE the consideration of the risk, the bab... ...ings of the Middle Ages must have been very pretty sights. So the Court of France thought the bridal of Henri Beranger Eustache de Ribaumont and of Ma... ... satisfied that he had neighbour’s fare. No matter; what is done for one’s beaux yeux is easily pardoned and if not, why, I have her all the same!’ ‘N... ...ron in the Chateau de Leurre—Marot’s version of the 4th Psalm. ‘Plus de joie m’est donnee Par ce moyen, O Dieu Tres-Haut, ... ... had detained the ladies to supper, hoping to enliven the so- journ of his beaux cousins. Madame de Selinville, looking anxiously at Berenger, hoped s... ...e gave audience to intendants, notaries from her estates, pastors from the villages, captains of little garrisons, soldiers offering service, farmers,...

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...wed succinctly and impartially. The ‘Contrat Social’, the ‘Lattres Ecrites de la Montagne’, and other treatises that once aroused fierce con- troversy... ...reated the memory of his mis- tress and benefactress. That he loved Madame de Warens— his ‘Mamma’—deeply and sincerely is undeniable, notwith- standin... ..... Sweet child of sickly Fancy!-her of yore From her loved France Rousseau to exile bore; And while ‘midst lakes and mountains... ...d your expulsion from Switzerland, a country so extolled in your writings; France has issued a warrant against you: so do you come to me. My states of... ...eneva, it never entered into my imagination. The hills, fields, brooks and villages, incessantly succeeded each other with new charms, and this deligh... ... know not what he may have had to do with a book entitled ‘Dictionaire des Beaux Arts’ (Dictionary of the Fine Arts) but I found in it articles transc... ..., to the extremity of the lake, the whole interspersed with very agreeable villages. Such was the asylum I had prepared for myself, and to which I was... ... Papimanie, that happy country where the inhabit- ants sleep: Ou l’on fait plus, ou l’on fait nulle chose.* This more was everything for me, for I nev...

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...was faithful to her, and whether she had any cause to suspect the love and de- votion of her kinsman and servant.” After the sending of this letter, t... ...“je scay que vous vous etes bravement batew et grievement blessay—du coste de feu M. le Vicomte. M. le Compte de V arique ne se playt qua parlay de vo... ...on aucy. Il di que vous avay voulew vous bastre avecque luy—que vous estes plus fort que luy fur l’ayscrimme—quil’y a surtout certaine Botte que vous ... ... with Frank, and just proclaimed at Saint Germains, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN’S PAY IN QUIN’S REGIMENT.... ...rigues in behalf of the young Prince, James the Third, as he was called in France and by his party here (this Prince, or Chevalier de St. George, was ... ...t, a better shelter and easier of guard than any village. Before these two villages and the French lines ran a little stream, not more than two foot b... ... Esmond – Book Two I think Steele shone rather than sparkled. Those famous beaux- esprits of the coffee-houses (Mr. William Congreve, for in- stance, ... ...ravages the land, In crackling flames a thousand harvests burn, A thousand villages to ashes turn. To the thick woods the woolly flocks retreat, And m...

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...nish but faithful valet, or the garrulous narrative of the heroine’s fille-de-chambre, when rehearsing the stories of blood and horror which she had h... ...een entitled ‘A T ale of the Times,’ wouldst thou not, gentle reader, have de- manded from me a dashing sketch of the fashionable world, a few anecdot... ...coat-of-mail of our ancestors, and the triple-furred pelisse of our modern beaux, may, though for very different reasons, be equally fit for the array... ...good news from our friends over the water?—and how does the worthy king of France? Or perhaps you are more lately from Rome?— it must be Rome will do ... ...ph, declared there was ‘more sense in that than in all the Derry- Dongs of France, and Fifeshire to the boot of it.’ The Baron only answered with a lo... ...s- ant and circuitous route, commanding an extensive prospect of different villages and houses, to each of which Mr. Bradwardine attached some anecdot... ... on account of its vicinity to the Highlands, and also to one or two large villages, which, from aversion as much to the Caterans as zeal for presbyte... ...te de vous mettre a la tete de votre regiment, car, par Dieu, je n’en puis plus!’ The Baron of Bradwardine was obliged to go to the assis- tance of Mo...

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... canine verses, which, if you at all guess how to read them, are very pretty in movement, and (unless he be a mighty good man) too true in sense. W e’... ...e for the dead -; he too had learned—perhaps had invented—the trick of this manner; God knows what weakness, what in- stability of feeling, lay beneat... ...stion, and everything, the life, the place, the dialects—trader’s talk, which is a strange conglomerate of literary expressions and English and Americ... ...ein Are Set Forth the Misfortunes in Which He Was Involved upon the Appin Murder; His Troubles with Lord Advocate Prestongrange; Captivity on the Bass... ...he waist, Sale was twice spilt at the fences, and we got to Apia a be- draggled enough pair. All the way along the coast, the pate (small wooden drum)... ...XIII. The gardener’s ladder. XXIV . The officers. XXV . Trouble with the Duke. XXVI. Fouquet again. XXVII. The Aeronaut. XXVIII. The True-Bloode... ...ose my mail. All goes well with the trio. Both the ladies are hanging round a beau—the same—that I unearthed for them: I am general provider, and espe... ...to? and what has driven, them to it but the persistent misconduct of these two officials?I know I ought to re- write the end of this bluidy Ebb Tide: ... ...al and except as an adventure novel, dull. But the adventures seem to me sound and pretty probable; and it is a love story. Speed his wings! SUNDAY NI...

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...value of parsing Caesar. At various times during Senior year Carol finally de- cided upon studying law, writing motion-picture scenarios, professional... ...n pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, Pennsylvania. She had picked it up carelessly, with a ... ...III Though she was Minnesota-born Carol was not an intimate of the prairie villages. Her father, the smiling and shabby, the learned and teasingly kin... ...ew forms of suburban architecture, and remem- bered her desire to recreate villages. She decided that she would give up library work and, by a miracle... ...er coat at the chair in the hall of the flat, and exploded into the green- plush living-room. The familiar group were trying to be conversational. She... ...st are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustable plush chairs, the head-rests covered with doubtful linen towels. Half- way ... ...re ain’t nobody pay dat. Vait! Dr. Kennicott, I t’ink he marry a girl from de Cities. Maybe she pay dat. Vell. You go take a valk.” “Ya,” said Bea. So... ...American sociologists, young English realists, Russian horrorists; Anatole France, Rolland, Nexo, Wells, Shaw, Key, Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Dreise... ...of emo- tions Carol saw in the fact that she talked not to one of the town beaux but to the safe Kennicott himself! When Carol glanced at Erik again s...

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...ong, light, familiar laugh. “What are you laughing at?” the young man then de- manded. “Have I said anything so ridiculous?” “Go on, go on,” Cecilia r... ...as fit, I should say, as I am to drive a locomotive. He grew up a la grace de Dieu, and was horribly spoiled. Three or four years ago he graduated at ... ... Mademoiselle Delaporte was the greater artist. They had come down through France to Genoa and Milan, had spent a fortnight in Venice and another in F... ...ng a wonderful store of subjects. He had rambled about among the unvisited villages of the Apennines, pencil in hand and knapsack on back, sleep- ing ... .... Mr. Hudson, of course, is nowhere; he has nothing but his genius and his beaux yeux.” Roderick had stood looking at Christina intently while she del... ...urmur: “Married—this morning?” “Married this morning, at seven o’clock, le plus tranquillement du monde, before three or four persons. The young coupl...

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...AN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................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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....................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., .......................................................... ...y Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I. IN THE MORNING OF LIFE THE T R... ...vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners),—the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors ... ...old, to enable us to eat of those cates and mingle with yon springalds and beaux.” “To vaunt a knowledge of the stoical philosophy,” said the youth ad... ...ers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty... ...herds, calling in their flocks as they trooped homewards to their mountain villages, sent up plaintive echoes 40 Thackeray which moaned through those... ...her child in an elegant though small cottage in one of the romantic marine villages of beautiful Devonshire. Her child! What a gush of consolation fil... ...and having taken lessons from one of his lordship’s own footmen (Mr. James Plush, whose name he also borrowed) in ‘the mysteries of the profession,’ a... ...ught on Calais sands—and, it is said, appeared at the C—— club wearing his plush costume under a cloak, and displaying it as a proof that he had won h...

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...d his father to rejoice in getting him housed in a country chateau with M. de Caumartin. M. de Caumartin’s father talked with such enthusiasm of Henri... ...tiv- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland with Madame de Rupelmonde. After a serious attack of small- pox in November, 1723, Volt... ... when he was released was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a ric... ... validity and suc- cession of English ordinations. This book was forbid in France, but do you believe that the English Ministry were pleased with it? ... ...the Britons, to be always governed by their Druids and the chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of barons, not so tyrannical as their successors.... ...in, dit-on, va combler tous nos voeux. Demain vient, et nous laisse encore plus malheureux. Quelle est l’erreur, helas! du soin qui nous devore, Nul d... ...t de la nuit qui vient nous attendons encore, Ce qu’ont en vain promis les plus beaux de nos jours,” &c. It is in these detached passages that the Eng... ...la nuit qui vient nous attendons encore, Ce qu’ont en vain promis les plus beaux de nos jours,” &c. It is in these detached passages that the English ... ...nricher ses lieux charmans, Des pretres la main desolante Etouffe ses plus beaux presens. “Les monsignors, soy disant Grands, Seuls dans leurs palais ...

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...nd was ‘materially and distinguishedly en- gaged’ in both the actions with De Grasse. While at sea Charles kept a journal, and made strange archaic pi... ...try. The ex-seaman of thirty-nine, on whose wisdom and ubiquity the scheme de- 9 Robert Louis Stevenson pended, was to live in the meanwhile without ... ...er novels, though they attained and merited a certain popular- ity both in France and England, are a measure only of her 16 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin... ...ng the dramatic art and national character of England, Germany, Italy, and France. If he were dull, he would write stories and poems. ‘I have written,... ...whole year with the exception of one day sacred to their patron saint. The villages are mean, but the inhabitants do not look wretched and the men are... ...liere! nous nous etions attaches l’un a l’autre par les sous-entendus bien plus que par la matiere de nos conversa- tions. A vrai dire, nous etions pr... ... je comprenais si mal certaines choses qui se passaient chez vous! Rien de plus interessant que ces contacts qui etaient des contrastes, et que ces re... ... pres d’une heure du matin! Mais quelle belle passe d’argumentation, quels beaux echanges de sentiments, quelles fortes confidences patriotiques nous ...

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...ixteenth century, in the furious attacks of a monk of Fontevrault, Gabriel de Puy-Herbault, who seems to have drawn his con- clusions concerning the a... ... portraits besides from chalk drawings, in the style of his master, Thomas de Leu. It must have been such drawings that were the originals of those po... ...xtreme, are not exactly noted for their reserve. But we need not go beyond France. Slight indica- tions, very easily verified, are all that may be set... ...etime; but this en- thusiasm of Jean Paul would hardly carry conviction in France. Who treads in another’s footprints must follow in 13 Rabelais the ... ...ine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you to a non-plus? Yes, truly, said Grangousier. There is no need of wiping one’s tail, ... ... this time may I to some good purpose speak that evangelical word, Et ecce plus quam Salomon hic! You have here in your presence an incomparable treas... ...e, Vivonne, Mezeaux, Estables, and other bordering and circumjacent towns, villages, and hamlets. All their debates were pacified by him; he put an en... ... silver, and meeting in the street your spruce gallants and better sort of beaux, without the least provocation, for his fancy, he used to strike them... ...t some have understood this of wild elder, that grows so far from towns or villages that the crowing of cocks cannot reach near it; and doubtless that...

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............................................... 365 CHAPTER VIII I TRA VEL TO FRANCE AND BRING HOME A PORTRAIT OF RIGAUD. .................................. ...ll off her periwig and cease to be court-ridden? Shall we see something of France and England besides V ersailles and Windsor? I saw Queen Anne at the... ...small feeling of shame. Taking Harry by the hand as soon as they were both de- scended from their horses, Mr. Holt led him across the court, and under... ...tlewood was at home. The French wit saith that a hero is none to his valet-de- chambre, and it required less quick eyes than my lady’s little page was... ...n, and few get beyond it; and ’tis certain that a man who marries for mere beaux yeux, as my lord did, considers this part of the contract at an end w... ...on aucy. Il di que vous avay voulew vous bastre avecque luy—que vous estes plus fort que luy fur l’ayscrimme—quil’y a surtout certaine Botte que vous ... ...t, a better shelter and easier of guard than any village. Before these two villages and the French lines ran a little stream, not more than two foot b... ...fected severities. I think Steele shone rather than sparkled. Those famous beaux- esprits of the coffee-houses (Mr. William Congreve, for in- stance, ... ...ravages the land, In crackling flames a thousand harvests burn, A thousand villages to ashes turn. To the thick woods the woolly flocks retreat, And m...

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...g calm again, “I am expecting two very interesting men tonight, le Vicomte de Mortemart, who is connected with the Montmorencys through the Rohans, on... ...rother; I think you know him, he married Lise Meinen lately. He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov’s and will be here tonight.” “Listen, dear Annette,” sai... ...of honor. The youthful little Prin- cess Bolkonskaya, known as la femme la plus seduisante de Petersbourg,* was also there. She had been married durin... ...e. The princess listened, smiling. “If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer,” the vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in... ...OOK TWO: 1805 CHAPTER I IN OCTOBER, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments fre... ...and on both sides of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wound... ...e pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.”* He went on talking in this way in French, uttering onl... ...taken, and *”W e must let him off the u!” 88 War & Peace all this for the beaux yeux* of His Sardinian Majesty. And therefore—this is between ourselv... ...feel that we are being deceived, my instinct tells me of negotiations with France and projects for peace, a se- cret peace concluded separately.” “Imp...

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...ed on horse back. They were an aide-decamp followed by a Cossack. The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been clearly worded the... ...as in, the better pleased the commander in chief would be. Though the aide-de-camp did not know these circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the def... ...and on both sides of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages. At one of the post stations he overtook a convoy of Russian wound... ...e pour the Orthodox Russian army, j’avoue que votre victoire n’est pas des plus victorieuses.”* He went on talking in this way in French, uttering onl... ...ts terribly—her army is destroyed, her capital taken, and all this for the beaux yeux* of His Sardinian Majesty. And therefore—this is between our- se... ...el that we are being deceived, my in- stinct tells me of negotiations with France and projects for peace, a secret peace concluded separately.” “Impos... ...straggling from their companies, crowds of whom set off to the neighboring villages, or returned from them dragging sheep, fowls, hay, and bulging sac...

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...ssion in the army, went abroad on a tour through Germany, Switzerland, and France. In France his growing aversion from capital punish ment became int... ...the scene of the guillotine haunted his sensitive spirit for long. He left France for Switzerland, and there, among beau tiful natural surroundings, ... ...e on them; for a Russian feels none of the Anglo Saxon’s mauvaise honte in de scribing his spiritual condition, and is no more daunted by metaphysics... ... difficult to imagine how isolated I am, to what an extent my true self is de spised by those who surround me.” But he must, none the less, have real... ...all went well, but the longer he spoke the worse it became. “Il devient de plus en plus aggressif,” as the Empress put it afterwards. He fulminated ag... ...ut I’d rather have it over than endure this agony. And all that ‘ pour les beaux yeux d’un chenapan ’ – oh!” he moaned; and a wave of hatred and fury ... ...ts of the country, and signed a decree per mitting the sale of alcohol in villages having markets. This was also calculated to increase the principal...

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...nd loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as de Walden 19 mand a universal knowledge. I have thought that Walden Pon... ...ly contracted by the long habit of shrinking from cold and misery, and the de Walden 32 velopment of all their limbs and faculties is checked. It ce... ... the architects of our churches do? So are made the belles lettres and the beaux arts and their professors. Much it concerns a man, forsooth, how a fe... ... Esquimau and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philan thropic activity, the powers ... ...leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of univ... ... the shadow of his head at morning and evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moist with d... ...being alone. “ Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos. Plus habet hic vitae, plus habet ille viae .” Let them wander and ... ...ind some “Symmes’ Hole” by which to get at the inside at last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this p...

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...as the architects of our churches do? So are made the belles lettres and the beaux arts and their professors. Much it concerns a man, forsooth, how a ... ...e Esquimaux and the Patagonian, and embraces the populous Indian and Chinese villages; and thus, by a few years of philanthropic activity, the powers ... ...nce whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. Old Cato, whose “De Re Rusticˆ a” is my “Cultivator,” says, and the only trans lation I h... ...t leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities, and their elder inhabitants the fellows of un... ...er the shadow of his head at morning and evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moist with... ...the same number of steps, and of the same length, coming and going, stepping de liberately and with the precision of a pair of dividers in my own dee... ...e’s being alone. — ¡br¿¡l¿“Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos. ¡br¿¡l¿Plus habet hic vitæ, plus habet ille viæ.” ¡br¿¡lg¿ ¡br¿¡l¿Let them wande... ...s find some “Symmes’ Hole” by which to get at the inside at last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this...

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... loathing of that Frenchwoman, all made up, it seemed, of false hair, poudre de riz, and vinaigre de toilette. He made haste to move away from her, as... ...intani` ere, turbot, sauce Beaumarchais, poulard ` a l’estragon, mac´ edoine de fruits. . . etc.,” and then instantly, as though worked by springs, la... ...In the village of V ozdrem, Kazan government.” “But why in a village? In the villages, I think, there is plenty of work as it is. Why a locksmiths’ as... ...really only a means to a government house and so much income. Cela n’est pas plus fin que ca, when you get a peep at their cards. I may be inferior to ... ...easant had gone. 358 Anna Karenina “Oh, I stayed in Germany, in Prussia, in France, and in England—not in the capitals, but in the manufacturing town... ...bowing down to the ground. That’s always at the end.” The deacon’s hand in a plush cuff accepted a three rouble note unobtrusively, and the deacon sai... ...t it was only in Russia that men of fifty thought themselves old, and that in France a man of fifty considers himself dans la force de l’age, while a ma... ...on the stairs, seeing his wife and Levin off. “Yes, yes, maman wants us, les beaux fr` eres, to attack him,” he said, blushing. “But why should I?” 6...