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... AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWARD IR... ..., by God’s especial providence, been brought to the knowledge of a book, written in the Spanish tongue, which clearly sets forth, and demonstrates f... ...irculation, both at home and on the other side of the ocean, that is, I suppose, in the Spanish colonies of South America. The government of the Cort... ...deny myself the pleasure of introducing a very instructive anecdote, related to me by a Spanish refugee of great honour and worth, with whom I have ... ...oft conversed concerning this work and the author of it. When the inquiring mind of the Spanish y outh was hindered from the food which it desired a... ...decree which it cannot pass: and if I consider my own personal history, the changes and revolutions which have been effected upon my spirit by the c... ... and foretells, gone on verifying itself punctually. The whole world has seen the great revolutions which have taken place, while this statue has be... ... which we may regard as a figure, or as a history written in cypher of the three mighty revolutions of the people of God. Upon the two first estate...

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...was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but hu... ...er and storey to another, till we arrived at that apartment where the real Spanish chocolate was finally to be served out. All these rooms were as cle... ...s scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finished articles of furni... ...-general (Pooch, they told us, was his name:I know not how ’tis written in Spanish)—was well got up, with a smart hat, a real feather, huge stars glit... ...s all in our dreams. In fact we were but half-an-hour in this little queer Spanish 10 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo town; and it ap... ...ten before my name round their beggarly coin; with the bother of perpetual revolutions in my huge plaster-of-Paris 42 Notes on a Journey from Cornhil... ... the mountain—on one side is a beggarly garden—the King goes out to drive (revolutions permitting) at five—some four-and-twenty blackguards saun- ter ...

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...turing on a distant and toilsome journey into a land full of intrigues and revolutions. But it had to be done. It took the best part of the years 1903... ...de of Giorgio Viola the Garibaldino, the Idealist of the old, humanitarian revolutions. For myself I needed there a Man of the People as free as possi... ...y men awaiting impatiently the Dawns of other New Eras, the coming of more Revolutions. But this is the idlest of dreams; for I did under- stand perfe... ...THIRD THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Joseph Conrad NOSTROMO CHAPTER ONE IN THE TIME OF SPANISH RULE, and for many years after- wards, the town of Sulaco—the luxur... ...working of his Company the frequent changes of government brought about by revolutions of the military type. The political atmosphere of the Republic ... ...from the shutters. The party he led were babbling excitedly in Italian and Spanish, inciting each other to the pur- suit. He put himself at their head... ...vited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town, the great owners of estates on the plain, gr... ... of mind of the owners of its fertile territory—all these aristocratic old Spanish families, all those Don Ambrosios this and Don Fernandos that, who ... ...trator of the San Tome silver mine had an immense influence over all these Spanish Dons. He had also one of the best 43 Joseph Conrad houses in Sulac...

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...ons attributed to Cornelius that fatal influence which Italian, 19 Balzac Spanish, and Asiatic superstition has called the “evil eye.” Without the te... ...igns. All that the common-sense of publicists and the genius of 39 Balzac revolutions has since introduced of change in the character of monarchy, Lo...

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...triotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in conclusion, intimating not obscure... ...ur na- tional Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate-filled Revolutions, but the Somnambulism of uneasy Sleepers? This Dreaming, this S... ...he solitude of the North Cape, on that June Midnight. He has a “light-blue Spanish cloak” hanging round him, as his “most commodious, principal, indee... ... Modes, and will one day, better unfolding them- selves, lead to important revolutions,—let us glance for a moment, and with the faintest light of Clo...

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... me out of the kitchen the remains of the breakfast and a bottle or two of Spanish wine, I’ll tell you something which will save you from a ‘foul.’” “... ...as we shall see, without his Gaubertin. 107 Balzac CHAPTER VIII THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS OF A LITTLE VALLEY “WELL, MAITRE SIBILET,” said the general to ... ...ved thorough- bred nose, with a maidenly air in spite of a certain swaying Spanish manner of carrying herself, possessed all the points that a young g... ...isse! if your wife were only here we’d be young to- gether. Don’t tell me! Spanish wine is worth a dozen of boiled wine. Let’s have a revolution if it... ...s, he is twice as full of deviltry; he has his own and that of the wine—” “Spanish wine, and that trebles it!” cried Fourchon, laugh- ing like a satyr... ...ubbed sides with those of Bordeaux, Champagne, Roussillon, not to speak of Spanish and Rhine wines, all bought ten years in advance of use and bottled...

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...possi- bilities of the stuff; whichever way I tried I came on miracles and revolutions. For example, if one wanted to lift a weight, however enormous,... ...y rights of pre- 26 The First Men in the Moon emption. I recalled the old Spanish monopoly in American gold. It wasn’t as though it was just this pla...

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...rn methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrote and spoke them freely, and used them ... ...ure, while in nearly every other aspect of life there had been fundamental revolutions, gi- gantic releases, and an enormous enlargement of scope and ...

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...y of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem o... ...e Memory, Motion-picture-acting and Developing the Soul-power, Banking and Spanish, Chiropody and Photography, Elec- trical Engineering and Window-tri... ... but a crisp- ing frost had already stamped the maple trees with gold, the Spanish oaks were hung with patches of wine red, the sumach was brilliant i... ...n- thusiasm of the initiate who perceives that all works to- gether in the revolutions of the Wheel and who answers the strictures of the Soured Souls...

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...at be? These questions were as momentous to her simple soul as the fury of revolutions to a statesman. Camille Maupin was Revolution itself in that ca... ...singing with a Brabancon seigneur, while a Negro beside them poured golden Spanish wine into a goblet, and the old housekeeper in the background arran... ...aving now played the role of a chatelaine, adored by her vassals as if the revolutions of 1789 and 1830 had low- ered no banners; and after rides thro...

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... letting their attention and their sympathy turn rather to the changes and revolutions of his life, could not but see in them a proof of the strength ... ...nly in his consulship was esteemed the chief in courage and conduct in the Spanish war, but even whilst he was only serving as tribune at Thermopylae,... ... Plataea. Nor indeed is Antiochus, nor the destruction of the walls of the Spanish towns, to be compared with Xerxes, and the de- struction by sea and... ..., under the divine guidance, advanced to the consummation due to it in the revolutions of fortune. Philopoemen, in this conjuncture, carried him- self... ...se lofty professions. The Romans, in the interim, in great apprehension of revolutions and revolt in Greece, and of his great reputation for military ... ...eded to lay the foundations of that government by bodies of ten, and those revolutions which afterwards came to pass, stirring up and urging them to u... ... in bloodshed, and though he had been the author of such great changes and revolutions of State, to lay down his authority, and place the right of con... ...of Pompey in Spain fretted him, as, with the re- nown he got there, if the Spanish war were finished in time, he was likely to be chosen general befor...

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...old Lady Grosmede that is im- pending.’ ‘She is being walked up to the old Spanish duck with the red rag round her leg to receive her fiat. What a thi... ...nts were taking place as once would have been to her the greatest possible revolutions. Aunt Ursel reached home safely, but her expectations of illnes...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought abou...

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...ty university. 3 Balzac The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of t... ...r storm or gales of wind. The church itself, built by the munificence of a Spanish family, is the crowning edifice of the town. Its fine, bold front g... ...n con- tinually in mind of the End and the way, is in truth a thor- oughly Spanish conception. But now surround this picture by the Mediterranean, and... ...ling his heart with fire, he only knew that the T e Deum was over when the Spanish congregation came pouring out of the church. Feel- ing that his beh... ...aid the ecclesiastic a good deal of attention at supper, and confirmed his Spanish hosts in the high opinion they had formed of his piety by a not who... ...re recollection of the least sensation stirred in him by her. The swiftest revolutions in a man’s outward life only touch his interests, while passion... ...these four personages shone conspicuous in that lofty sphere, of which the revolutions and hereditary preten- sions are solemnly recorded year by year...

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...rue, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for ... ...urse Leo X. and his successors followed, until the Council of Trent and the Spanish Inquisition engender- ing together brought forth, or perfected,... ...d either by the north of Cataio eastward, or of Canada westward, while our Spanish licensing gags the English press never so severely. But on ... ...e most effectual remedy that man’s prevention can use. For this authentic Spanish policy of licensing books, if I have said aught, will prove the ...

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...em nothing is half-done,—neither houses, furniture, dikes, husbandry , nor revolutions; and they *Flanders was parcelled into three divisions; of whic... ...at ancient Flemish life but the warmth of its hospitality, its traditional Spanish courtesy, and the wealth and cleanli- ness of Holland. Mansions of ... ...rights were instituted, Balthazar Claes cast aside the ragged robes of his Spanish nobility for his more illustrious descent from the Ghent martyr. Th... ...hose manners and flow- ing robes of office and magisterial gravity (partly Spanish) harmonized well with the habits of their life. The inhabitants of ... ... two black eyes that were capable of emitting flames. Her face, altogether Spanish, dark skinned, with little color and pitted by the small-pox, attra... ...ess,—for between these two love had long since driven out the pride of her Spanish nature:— “Balthazar, are you so very busy? this is the thirty-third...

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...Chimeras,—which now roam the earth in a very lamentable manner! CHAPTER IX SPANISH EXILES This magical ingredient thrown into the wild caldron of such... ...er, demand pity from us and reflections from us.—This then extant group of Spanish Exiles was the Trocadero swarm, thrown off in 1823, in the Riego an... ...ers. For there is no end of them; propelling and propelled!— Of these poor Spanish Exiles, now vegetating about Somers Town, and painfully beating the... ...tary, diplomatic, with 61 Thomas Carlyle fine natural faculties, and high Spanish manners tempered into cosmopolitan, he had been welcomed in various... ...s has to find new resources for his desti- tute patriots, find loans, find Spanish lessons for them among his English friends: in all which charitable... ...es the peasantry all Miguelites; but it is said that nobody wants any more revolutions. There is no appearance of riot or crime; and they are all extr...

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...nd poorest gentle- men of France: he was well-made, but very swarthy, with Spanish features, had a charming voice, played the guitar and lute very wel... ...leasantry, thought it would be a good joke to empty his snuff-box, full of Spanish snuff, into a large glass of wine, and to make Santeuil drink it, i... ...ught about a reconciliation be- 155 Saint-Simon tween the two powers. The Spanish ambassador returned to London. The Emperor next endeavoured to stre... ...ffairs of government. Their wish was to prevent the dis- memberment of the Spanish kingdom by conferring the whole succession upon the son of the only... ..., upon her marriage with our King, had solemnly renounced all claim to the Spanish throne, and these renun- ciations had been repeated at the Peace of... ...leaped for joy; and the Parliament and the robe destroyed by edicts and by revolutions, flattered themselves the first that they should figure, the ot... ...e terribly new ordonnances failed to produce the saddest and most complete revolutions; but there was not even talk of them; and although there were s...

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...ng a strong light to bear upon it. He intended to bring about one of those revolutions which send a man to the head of either one party or another in ... ...cause of their growing deteriora- tion. He found it in those petty partial revolutions, the ed- dies, as it were, of the storm of 1789, which the hist... ...ncampment, prodigal and magnificent because it was vic- torious. After the Spanish campaign, the administration seemed to enter upon an era of tranqui... ...with a sinister wig, a face the color of Seine water, lighted by a pair of Spanish-tobacco-colored eyes, cold as a well-rope, always smelling a rat, a... ...lency to the countess, sternly, “such sentiments and such speeches lead to revolutions; un- happily, the court and the great world do not restrain the...

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...s, above all, the agreeable things of life, and turns even its defeats and revolutions into gold. The whole town has an air of almost depressing opule... ...nces of Carcassonne, which was one of the bulwarks of their kingdom on the Spanish quarter; and from this time forth, being regarded as impregnable, t... ...nd neat- ness of utterance, he reminded me of the gentry who figure in the revolutions of his native land. If he was not a fierce little Jacobin, he o... ...Such a personage helps one to understand the red radicalism of France, the revolutions, the barricades, the sinister pas- sion for theories. (I do not... ...f Ferdinand V., King of Aragon,—an episode terminated, by the death of the Spanish prince, within a year. She was twenty-two years regent of the Nethe...

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...lage, constructed in a singular and picturesque manner, half Moorish, half Spanish, still remains, and is inhabited by descen- dants of the first come... ... to the buildings of the country, and within coated with whitewash, like a Spanish posada. A young and beautiful girl, with hair as black as jet, her ... ...have gained the shore, concealed himself until the arrival of a Genoese or Spanish vessel, escaped to Spain or Italy, where Mercedes and his father co... ...rywhere. He The Count of Monte Cristo 68 spoke Italian like a Tuscan, and Spanish like a Castilian; he would have been free, and happy with Mercedes ... ...l of his wish to quit the sea, and obtained a recommendation from him to a Spanish mer- chant, into whose service he entered at the end of March, that... ...and impenetrable or insolently piercing and inquisitorial. Four successive revolutions had built and cemented the pedestal upon which his fortune was ... ... at the guillotine, the cannon, and the dagger — M. Noirtier, playing with revolutions — M. Noirtier, for whom France was a vast chess-board, from whi...