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...general prostration, were not more beneficial to ourselves than finally to France, our enemy, and to the nations of all western or central Eu- rope, t... ... alive through central Europe the sense of a deep- seated vulnerability in France. Even to tease the coasts of our enemy, to mortify them by continual... ...Siberian glorifying his coun- try in these terms:—“These wretches, sir, in France and En- gland, cannot march half a mile in any direction without fin... ...ontrary, drank not herself from that cup of rest which she had secured for France. She never sang together with the songs that rose in her native Domr... ... songs that rose in her native Domrémy as echoes to the de- *“Arc”:—Modern France, that should know a great deal bet- ter than myself, insists that th... ...the Third Punic War, whenever he was called upon to record his vote in the Senate on any subject under discussion. 69 27 HYDER ALI (1702-1782), a Maho...

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...t write from necessity, scarcely perhaps for fame. But he desired to leave France, nay, and the world, something to be remembered by, something which ... ...rtain share of celebrity in Gascony, and even, as time went on, throughout France; but it is scarcely prob- able that he foresaw how his renown was to... ...Mayoralty, and inviting him to return as speedily as possible. He left for France, accompanied by young D’Estissac and several other gentlemen, who es... ...gentlemen, who escorted him a considerable distance; but none went back to France with him, not even his travelling companion. He passed by Padua, Mil... ... and of Thalna, who died in Corsica, reading news of the honours the Roman Senate had decreed in his favour, we 66 Essays: Book the First have, moreo... ...ainst a man’s own conscience, and the natural light of his own reason? The Senate, upon the dispute betwixt it and the people about the administration... ... him for a penance, turned to his pleasure and satisfaction: whereupon the Senate thought fit to recall him home to his wife and family, and confine h... ...ther with their wives and chil- dren, and began to plant a colony. But the senate of Carthage perceiving their people by little and little to diminish... ... so that very sharp language and bitter menaces passed betwixt them in the senate about that affair; but it was the next day, in the forenoon, that th...

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...lps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Impaired and Restored, 205 -- Book Twelfth Same Subject (Continued), 217 -- Book Thirteenth Conclusion, 228...

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...ect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence... ...France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution . . . . . . . . . 176 Book Eleventh Imaginat... ...ve been possessed by like desire; But ’twas a time when Europe was rejoiced, France standing on the top of golden hours, And human nature seeming born... ... open, every tongue was loud With amity and glee. We bore a name Honoured in France, the name of Englishmen, 410 And hospitably did they give us hail ... ...ared 875 With that in which her mighty objects lay. Book Ninth Residence in France AS oftentimes a river, it might seem, Yielding in part to old reme... ...he accidents of life, were pressed Into one service, busy with one work. The Senate was heart stricken, not a voice Uplifted, none to oppose or mitiga... ... past aims. 575 The same belief I nevertheless retained: The language of the Senate, and the acts And public measures of the Government, Though both o...

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... Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor Nation... ...ents! It is thus that, for some three years to come, we are to contemplate France, in this final Third Volume of our History. Sansculottism reigning i... ...n a wise Frenchman, who, looking, close at hand, on this waste aspect of a France all stirring and whirling, in ways new, untried, had been able to di... ...ntic crowd- ing towards Townhouses and Council-halls in the interior. Wild France dashes, in desperate death-defiance, towards the Frontiers, to defen... ...h will hold true from the Tea- table and Tailor’s shopboard up to the High Senate-houses, Solemn Temples; nay through all provinces of Mind and Imagin... ...gendre, in the maddest tug of war, can altogether shake it off. Debates of Senates dreadfully in earnest are seldom given frankly to the world; else p... ...present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Dim dusk of Time,... ...vis- ible;’ but what profits it while these things are? Federalists in the Senate, renegadoes in the Army, traitors everywhere! France, all in despera... ...Insurrection, next year, will die in the birth; stifled by the Soldiery. A Senate, if tinged with Royalism, can be purged by the Soldiery; and an Eigh...

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...ree,—some say to the Duke of Berry, whom she had met in her early youth in France. In despair of obtaining her desire, she hanged her- self. It is cur... ...e:’ an allusion to the royal oak. 7 ‘Thistle:’ of Scotland. 8 ‘Lily:’ of France. 40 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Blest swains... ...’er all the northern world advance, But critic-learning flourish’d most in France: The rules a nation, born to serve, obeys; And Boileau still in righ... ...ecretary to Queen Mary, wife of James II., whose fortunes he followed into France, author of the comedy of ‘Sir Solomon Single,’ and of several transl... ... One And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country’s cause? Who sees him act,... ...s that now are free, How Church and State should be obliged to thee! At Senate, and at Bar, how welcome would’st thou be! 11 Yet Speech even there ... ...old how many hopes lie here! The living virtue now had shone approved, The senate heard him, and his country loved. Yet softer honours, and less noisy... ... repute, or trust, Content, or pleasure, but the good and just? Judges and senates have been bought for gold, Esteem and love were never to be sold. O... ...f loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you c...

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... on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal Proclamation to all the Provinces, answers anxiously, No;... ...ty months; and 10 The French Revolution—V olume Two see a wild-fermenting France work out its own destiny, and theirs. Months bleak, ungenial, of rap... ...re flung wide open to King Mirabeau, the cynosure of Europe, whom fe- male France flutters to behold,—though the Man Mirabeau is one and the same. As ... ...w is may be worked with. Unhappily our National Assembly has much to do: a France to regenerate; and France is short of so many requisites; short even... ...t, has become unavoidable. Old landmarks, in any sense, avail not in a new France. Nay literally, the very Ground is new divided; your old party-colou... ...Two might have earned instead of prowling,—to thee it is no theory! In the Senate-house again, the attitude of the Right Side is that of calm unbelief... ...-patri- otic, but so combustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke- storm, with sparks wi...

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...park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in 6 An Historical Mystery France, and by far the finest in the departments of the Aube; it boasts of ... ...efore Louis-Philippe turned that Chateau into an asylum for the glories of France. The pavilion is divided inside by an old staircase of worm-eaten wo... ...ting window on each side, such as Mansart very justly delighted in; for in France, the Italian attics and flat roofs are a folly against which our cli... ...a resistance, the girl replied: “If you really de- sire to give liberty to France how is it that you do not protect us in our homes? They are trying t... ... explained to Grevin the bearings of that project, which was unobserved by France and Eu- rope but suspected by Pitt; also the critical position in wh... ...ung men accused of abducting Malin. Such an attack against a member of his Senate excited the wrath of the Emperor, who was told of the arrest of the ... .... We must organize a govern- 190 An Historical Mystery ment of the few, a Senate for life, and an elective chamber the control of which shall be in o...

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......................................................................... 415 FRANCE—DECEMBER 1870 ......................................................... ...g lover of Romance Who loved and gained so gloriously The fair Princess of France! Because he dared to love so high, He, bearing her dear weight, shal... ...ance. And sweet was her voice with the tongue, The speechful tongue of her France, Soon at ripple about us, like rills Ever busy with little: away Th... ...em: It embraces or mortally bites. We have then the key-note for debate: A Senate that sits on the heights Over discords, to shape and amend. And no s... ...Down on her leap for him the young Angelical broke T o husband a resurgent France: From whom, with her dethroning stroke, Dishonour passed; the dallia... ...And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay. He clasped in this revived, uprisen France, A valorous dame, of countenance The lightning’s upon cloud: unlit a...

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...ed and cared for him in childhood. In appearance he was like an imbecile Henry the Third of France. The Scotsman, though perhaps as big an ass, was no... ... to recognise in him a certain steely force, and a gift of command which might have ruled a senate. In truth it was not whisky that had ruined him; he... ...n-com- missioned—as you can in the army.’ Among nations, En- gland was the first; then came France. He respected the French navy and liked the French ... ... and explained the accident by the difference of language and man- ners between England and France. I must now take a hum- 48 Essays of Travel bler v... ...e broad sunset, that very man and his wife, it seems to us, have suffered all the wrongs of France. It is they who have been their country’s scapegoat... ...ciations. These woods have rung 99 Robert Louis Stevenson to the horns of all the kings of France, from Philip Augustus downwards. They have seen Sai...

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... a-colonelling, in the company of rowdy sol- diers, against the enemies of France; surely a melancholy example for one’s daughters! And then you have ... ...f hav- ing taken Rome for these tumultuous barbarians, who poured into the Senate house, and found the Fathers sit- ting silent and unmoved by their s...

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...s and unnatural result from the opposite practice in the foreign stages of France and Italy. And we may truly say, that were Shakspeare distinguished ... ...n this very point of gallantry to the fe- male sex, as between England and France. In France, the verbal homage to woman is so excessive as to betray ... ..., in the mean time, we allow our sov- ereign ruler to be a woman; which in France is impossible. Even that fact is of some importance, but less so tha... ...exhausting labor, nor to load a cart, nor to drive a plough or hold it. In France, on the other hand, before the Revolu- tion, (at which period the ps... ...cism or com- mentary, while in Germany as well as England, and now even in France, the gathering of wits to the vast equipage of Shakspeare is advanci... ...lost 79 Thomas de Quincey to one against whom the courts, the pulpit, the senate, the universities, were closed. Nay, by possibility worse than lost;... ...his breakfast equipage complete without the latest re- port from the great senate that sat in London. Hence we need not be astonished that German and ...

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...t King Ban of Benwick, and that other hight King Bors of <16>Gaul, that is France. And on these two kings warreth a mighty man of men, the King Clauda... ...o well as he that day. Then there came Ladinas and Gracian, two knights of France, and did passing well, that all men praised them. Then came there Si... ...d Lucius, before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains, and so forth into France, and there bereave him his lands with Genoese and other mighty warri... ...res, there shalt thou find him, and more treasure than I suppose is in all France. When the king had understood this piteous case, he returned into hi... ...wife, dame Guenever, he shall be gladder than thou hadst given to him half France. Beware, approach him not too nigh, for he hath van- quished fifteen... ...o say when ye shall come to Rome, to the Potestate and all the Council and Senate, that I send to them these dead bodies for the tribute that they hav...

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...ailors turned soldiers -- Free rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the Engl... ... Scuttling his own ship -- Peter robs his own men and squanders his fortune in France 275- 282 CHAPTER XXV. Bartholomew the Exterminator. -- His despe... ...frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CH... ... Himilco sailed towards the north, and discovered the northern coast of Spain, France, England, Holland and Germany. It is also believed that he proce... ...of the south, carrying their invasions through England (which then belonged to France), and into northern Spain. Nothing was able to arrest their prog... ...y was made a member of the Board of Longitudes, and on the organization of the Senate, he was made a member of that body by Napoleon, who also ennoble...

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...den Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ the Russian officer’s adventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff... ...e, visited her daily, and fed her from her own bosom, until even the stern senate were moved with pity, and granted a pardon. The same story is told o... ...ts were detected, and the Christian prince had less mercy than the heathen senate. Another woman, in 1450, when Sir Gilles of Brittany was savagely im... ...nd then, in the gallant words of Lord Macaulay’s ballad,— ‘Thus in all the Senate There was no heart so bold But sore it ached, and fast it beat, Wh... ...a Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army into Germany in ... ...ame of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI had not long the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out... ... bundle of rods for the execution of justice. In their own chamber sat the Senate, the great council composed of the patricians, or citizens of highes... ...hers should be given up to him for punishment. The priests and many of the Senate held that the rash young men had deserved death as covenant-breakers... ...when our sover- eigns were full of the vain hope of obtaining the crown of France, or at least of regaining the great possessions that their forefathe...

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...ny of the allies against the said Baboon, had it ever been heard of out of France. Nor was it likely to make him popular in England, that his name was... ... exorbitations from public business than the agora of Athens, or the Roman senate. So far the error was in Burke, not in the House of Commons. Yet, al... ...l, and quite unapproachable by moderns, the monuments of Greek literature. France, in the time of Louis XIV., England, in the latter part of that time... ...th), aged nine; Henry, since Lord Cowley, and British ambassador to Spain, France, &c. aged eight. The new Lord Mornington showed his conscientious na... ...und investi- gation of its duties and its powers on the arena of a British senate. There is less call for speaking of Lord Wellesley in this character... ...ect paral- lelisms in acts done or countenanced by the virtuous and august Senate of England in 1640! Strange distortion of the understanding which ca... ...look round expecting to see her child in some situation of danger. But, in France, ‘Ciel!’ and ‘Oh mon Dieu!’ are ut- tered by every woman if a mouse ... ...guish between the protective power of England and the destructive power of France.’ And his letter to the Irish nation opens in this agreeable and con...

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... a sacred relic. There was nothing highest, beautifulest, no- blest in all France, that did not feel this man to be higher, beautifuler, nobler. Yes, ... ...n the wider scale, it is every way noble, and the outcome of a great soul. Francesca and her Lover, what qualities in that! A thing woven as out of ra... ...gain, to wail forever!—Strange to think: Dante was the friend of this poor Francesca’s father; Francesca herself may have sat upon the Poet’s knee, as... ...Society, and how the Press is to such a degree superseding the Pulpit, the Senate, the Senatus Academicus and much else, has been admitted for a good ... ...lity and just arrangement for all. Already, in some European countries, in France, in Prussia, one traces some beginnings of an arrangement for the Li... ...o the civilized, and such like, helped well to produce a whole delirium in France generally. True, you may well ask, What could the world, the governo...

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...mily name is simply Loyal; but, as he is mar ried, and as in that part of France a husband always adds to his own name the family name of his wife, h... ...upon his breast, and said, with maj esty, as speaking for himself and all France, ‘Monsieur, it is a contribution to the State!’ It is never going to... ...ard a 79 Charles Dickens steamboat and lay wretched on deck until you saw France lunging and surging at you with great vehemence over the bowsprit. N... ...as involved in my doing so, inasmuch as I had not 87 Charles Dickens left France alone, but had come from the prisons of St. Pelagie with my distingu... ...iddy flight, the grown up people and the children seem to change places in France. In general, the boys and girls are little old men and women, and th... ...s a deliberative assembly of the utmost dig nity and importance. Like the Senate of ancient Rome, its awful gravity overpowers (or ought to overpower...

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... was all over the front pages of the morning papers. He’s the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is due to be here in Rome in a few... ...n only once before – the first time he had announced his candidacy for the US Senate. His tone and manner were exactly the same. The possibility sca... ...wenty-five years before, when he had announced his decision to run for the US Senate. And, it was on that day, at that moment, he had fallen complet... ...nt, he had fallen completely in love with her. “You’ll have to give up your Senate seat,” Walter said, hoping it would make a difference. “My Se... ... And that will be that," he stated confidently. Brand parked his car in the Senate Building parking lot. He was oblivious to everything as he walk... ...hes for centuries . When the Iraqi and Iranian war broke out, he had been in France on business. He had been trained in Baghdad as a geologist, spe...

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...pogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train--a magnificent experiment in the power he afterwards disp...

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...echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, l... ... made him famous, having be- 5 Balzac come a Lucullus of the Conservative Senate, which “con- served” nothing, had postponed an entertainment in hono... ...en before-hand with him. The ambassadors from all the Powers friendly with France, with an eye to favors to come, the most important personages of the... ...e of duke by royal patent. Now, as the Navarreins had not yet resettled in France, it was sheer trickery that the young lawyer thus proposed to the ol...

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...ich this great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of... ... Maupeou: 13 Thomas Carlyle these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue th... ...urning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a ma... ...source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to... ...even receive him in perfect silence; which some liken to that of the Roman Senate overfallen by Brennus; some to that of a nest of coiners sur- prised... ...d to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone; and in its stead a Senate of Menads! For as Erasmus’s Ape mimicked, say with wooden splint, Er... ...efore abdicating sig- nifies that, for one thing, she and indeed her whole senate male and female (for what was one roasted warhorse among so many?) a... ...ld, might have earned instead of prowling,—to thee it is no theory! In the Senate-house again, the attitude of the Right Side is that of calm unbelief... ...ue-patriotic, but so combustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke-storm, with sparks win...

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...ich this great Prince has earned. ’ (Abrege Chronologique de l’Histoire de France (Paris, 1775), p. 701.) So stands it written; in lasting memorial of... ...u and the Parlement Maupeou: these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis they continue th... ...urning from Corsica, could see ‘with sorrow, at Compiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a ma... ...source of sighs, tears, of pettings and pouting; which would not end till ‘France’ (La France, as she named her royal valet) finally mustered heart to... ...even receive him in perfect silence; which some liken to that of the Roman Senate overfallen by Brennus; some to that of a nest of coiners surprised b... ...so gladly do it without violence, will in any case do it; grants an august Senate space to deliberate which method they pre- 93 Thomas Carlyle fer. A... ...; which now, alas, is of small value. Fancy Mounier’s surprise to find his Senate, whom he hoped to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone;... ...d to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone; and in its stead a Senate of Menads! For as Erasmus’s Ape mimicked, say with wooden splint, Er... ... before abdicating signifies that, for one thing, she and indeed her whole senate male and female (for what was one roasted warhorse among so many?) a...

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...the Spanish army is, or was, on a level with the modern sous-lieutenant of France. 101 Thomas de Quincey over every page of Kate’s own autobiography.... ...ince they enjoy the honors of the elder house, and are now the children of France in a technical sense. Here we have a great European case of state om... ...te which had befallen the Italian territory. Considered as a dependency of France, he felt certain that Italy was lost; and Napoleon was inconsolable.... ...hat all is ru- ined. I am satisfied that my Italy, my conquest, is lost to France!’ So, indeed, it was. All European news had long been intercepted by... ...at Christianity has yet developed the fulness of its power, when kings and senates so recently acted under a total oblivion of this great though novel... ... of the state. Prophecies, omens, miracles, all worked concur- rently with senates or princes. Whereas in our days, says Charles Lamb, the witch who t... ...annuated, they had lost their flavor and body.* On the other hand, look at France. Henry the historian, speaking of the fifteenth century, describes i...

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... places of learning. I’ll go and visit the Universities abroad. I’ll go to France and Italy. I’ll go to Padua.—And I’ll mind my business. For an Athen... ... way, was the Debates in both houses of Parliament, under the name of ‘The Senate of Lilliput,’ sometimes with feigned denominations of the several sp... ...en accompanying two beautiful young ladies* with their mother on a tour in France, he was seriously angry that more at- tention was paid to them than ... ...; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men, but having... ...ing observed to him, that a rage for every thing English prevailed much in France after Lord Chatham’s glorious war, he said, he did not wonder at it,... ... will keep us safe under every form of govern- ment. Had not the people of France thought themselves honoured as sharing in the brilliant actions of L...

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... when he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh’ d you—would have pooh- pooh’ d yo... ...when our friend Cincinnatus retired to his farm, he did not present to the senate any Ro- man who he sought to nominate as his successor.’ But there i... ...s, gentlemen, whom I, a retiring Cincinnatus, wish to present to my little senate, as their future Dictator. Gentle- men, we will resume our studies o... ...aps not been the very best of mothers—I took the liberty of seeking her in France, and offering her such protection as a man very much out at elbows c... ...an this book by the Lake of Geneva, and went on with it for some months in France, before pursuing it in England. The association between the writing ...

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...in sufficient 12 In the Fourth Year abundance to go on fighting: Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. There are three others which are ve... ...pared. Unless we provide beforehand for some- thing more effective, Italy, France, the United States, Japan, and this country will send separate group... ...ve the British 16 In the Fourth Year settled, for example, with Italy and France for the supply of metallurgical coal after the war? Those countries ... ...t. Or take another question: Have the British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen... ...esident is elected on the same register of voters as that which elects the Senate and Congress, and at the same time. But I suppose if we are to give ... ... with- out a loss of your sovereign freedom. People in this country and in France do not seem to be sitting up manfully to these necessary proposition... ...onstrated, the United States have no great occasion for pride. Neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives seem to rise above the level of the...

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................................................................. 22 ANA TOLE FRANCE—1904 .................................................................. ...his art—least of all to the miserable vanity of a catching phrase. ANATOLE FRANCE—1904 I.—”CRAINQUEBILLE” THE LATEST VOLUME of M. Anatole France purpo... ...rank of Prince of Prose. Never has a dignity been better borne. M. Anatole France is a good prince. He knows nothing of tyr- anny but much of compassi... ...uch as their need of precipitate action re- quires. He is the Elect of the Senate—the Senate of Letters—whose Conscript Fathers have recognised him as... ... because it is safe. The dignity will suffer no diminu- tion in M. Anatole France’s hands. He is worthy of a great tradition, learned in the lessons o... ...ould be in his public ac- tion. It is a Republican dignity. And M. Anatole France, with his sceptical insight into an forms of government, is a good R... ...lling mist. M. Anatole France can speak for the people. This prince of the Senate is invested with the tribunitian power. M. Anatole France is somethi... ...tured comments. In what light one is to look at the action of the American Senate is more difficult to say. From a cer- tain point of view the sight o... ... the investigation they either mocked at or extolled. To the United States Senate I did not intend to be disrespectful. I have for that body, of which...

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... from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Sh... .... 30 B. It raises armies in a nation’s aid. P. But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d. In vain may heroes fight, and patriots rav... ...n fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or ship off senates 24 to a distant shore; A leaf, like Sibyl’s, scatter to and fro Ou... ... as of old, encumber’d villainy! 50 Could France or Rome divert our brave designs, With all their brandies, or with a... ...ack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in lucre’s sordid charms, And France revenged of Anne’s and Edward’s arms!’ ’T was no court-badge, great ... ... lordly luxury, nor city gain: No, ’twas thy righteous end, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to ceas... ...viscount’s tawdry wife; She bears a coronet and pox for life. In Britain’s senate he a seat obtains, And one more pensioner St Stephen gains. My lady ... ...dy falls to play; so bad her chance, He must repair it; takes a bribe from France; The House impeach him; Coningsby harangues; The court forsake him—a... ...d of gardens) of this charming place: A place to tire the rambling wits of France In long descriptions, and exceed romance: Enough to shame the gentle...

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... 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? ... ...d to the morals of the English clergy, they are more regular than those of France, and for this reason. All the clergy (a very few excepted) are educa... ...either of the clergy nor of the laity; in a word, the thing called Abbe in France; is a species quite unknown in England. All the clergy here are very... ...ch upon the reserve, and most of them pedants. When these are told that in France young fellows famous for their dissoluteness, and raised to the high... ...less is there any affinity between their Governments. There is in London a senate, some of the members whereof are accused (doubt- less very unjustly)... ...riance, and there was no intermediate power to rec- oncile them. The Roman senate, who were so unjustly, so criminally proud as not to suffer the pleb...

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..................................................................... 143 TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD ............................................................ ...eme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur—the people are too much a race... ...continually Just o’re that one bright island smile. 1845. 144 EA Poe TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD Thou wouldst be loved?—then let thy heart From its pres... ...ed a corrected copy to be in- serted in the “Home Journal.” 10. “To F— —” (Frances Sargeant Osgood) appeared in the “Broadway journal” for April, 1845... ... some other. Command me, sir! Bal. To the field, then—to the field— To the senate or the field. Pol. Alas! Alas! There is an imp would follow me even ...

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