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...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY Volume Three by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...ONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ... execration, wailing; and, on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 T... ... sons of Nature, came in, ‘swallowing formulas’ as the French now do, foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest; so that, the true shape of many... ...pend on these. He shall judge too, whether, in such sudden wreckage of all old Authorities, such a pair of cardinal movements, half- frantic in themse... ...en. Many- voiced harmony and dissonance filling the air. Through Triumphal Arches enough: at the basis of the first of which, we descry—whom thinkest ...

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...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE PREF PREF PRE... ...TION THE FIRST EDITION of this tale was put forth without explain- ing the old fable on which it was founded—a fable recurring again and again in fair... ...V enus was jealous of the beauty of a maiden named Psyche, the youngest of three daughters of a king. She sent misery on the land and family, and caus... ...ted of half a dozen worn numbers of the T atler, and a Gazette a fortnight old. The chair on which he sat was elbowed, and made easy with cushions and... ...d curtains of the great four-post bed, and the only carpeting consisted of three or four narrow strips of wool-work. The walls were plain plaster, whi... ...ith air and light. However, nobody cared for stuffiness, certainly not the three young ladies, who, fan in hand, came tripping down the steps that wer... ... Jovian’s bride, and so were the porcelain blue of the eyes, the pencilled arches of eyebrow, and the curve of the lips, while even her complex- ion r... ...ndon Bridge, and beheld the massive walls of the Tower with its low-browed arches opening above their steps. When- ever a scarlet uniform came in view...

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...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...ipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib Gher the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Wh... ...d O’Hara fell to drink and loafing up and down the line with the keen eyed three year old baby. Societies and chap lains, anxious for the child, trie... ...ll to drink and loafing up and down the line with the keen eyed three year old baby. Societies and chap lains, anxious for the child, tried to catch ... ...er, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consisted of three papers–one he called his ‘ne varietur’ because those words were writt... ...s at the Museum door. The big Punjabi grinned toler antly: he knew Kim of old. So did the water carrier, sluicing water on the dry road from his goat... ...a, illusion. But I have another desire’–the seamed yellow face drew within three inches of the Curator, and the long forefinger nail tapped on the tab... ...nd this turbulent sea. Most of them were rented to traders, as we rent the arches of a via duct; the space between pillar and pillar being bricked or...

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...aint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics....

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...erly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed... ...ris. This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rain... ...fully wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In po... ...ncrusted with as many coats of different paint as there are of rouge on an old duchess’ cheek. In the middle of this broad and fantastically carved jo... ...he loft was suddenly flung open, that he did not observe the apparition of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as the face ... ... face of Com- merce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments. These three faces, framed by the window, recalled the puffy cher- ubs floating am... ...le green eyes, that might have been pierced with a gimlet, flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with red in the place of eyebrows. Anxieties had wrin...

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...onicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes....

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... inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes. The story of... ...to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fairy Legends.” The old French “Vie de Bertrand du Guesclin” has like- wise been drawn upon for... ...of the castle court were various flower-beds, the pride and delight of the old seneschal, Ralph Penrose, in his own esti- mation the most important pe... ...icorte was sacked and burnt by the Count de Bearn, I have seen little else—three stricken fields— two towns stormed—castles more than I can remember.”... ...d was waiting for his brother at Dax. Advancing immediately, at the end of three days they came in sight of the forces encamped around that town. Glor... ... from hang- ing—our gentle blood did us that service; but my father and my three brethren all were stone dead. The Count de Bearn had sworn to put an ... ... chose to be of the party. The torches shed their red glare over the stone arches on which the Castle rested, and there was a chill damp air and earth...

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... other. Middelburg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place....

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...treets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not removed till 1823, when the Municipality built a ballroom on the garden plot adjoining the Hotel de Ville, for the fete given in...

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...y ill through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the chan... ...hink that they were unperformed, were soon as far off as the oldest of the old duties at Greenleaf or the summer afternoons when I went home from scho... ...rms and said, “It matters very little, Charley. I hope I can do without my old face very well.” I was presently so far advanced as to be able to sit u... ... same court as suitors would not be vitally changed and depreciated within three years—within two—within one. How can we stand amazed at poor Rick? A ... ...carry it out. I wish in business to be exact and open. I am a widower with three daughters—Emma, Jane, and Caroline—and my desire is so to discharge t... ...arly with ladies’ society, which I have most wished to mix in. But with my three daughters, Emma, Jane, and Caroline—and my aged father—I cannot affor... ...r stems, and to make the avenue a pave ment of light among high cathedral arches fantastically bro ken. Now the moon is high; and the great house, n...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. T...

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... the North sits over- looking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a k... ... to end. They lean over the great bridge which joins the New Town with the Old – that windiest spot, or high altar, in this northern temple of the win... ...ty of the same distinction; go where they will, they take a pride in their old home. Venice, it has been said, differs from another cities in the sent... ...fty weeks together, it is no more than a show for tourists and a museum of old furniture; but on the fifty-first, behold the palace reawakened and mim... ... let in! And what a picturesque world remains untouched! You go under dark arches, and down dark stairs and alleys. The way is so narrow that you can ... ...d he made then a decent, personable figure in broad-cloth of the best. For three years he kept falling – grease coming and buttons going from the squa... ...im, he was standing at the mouth of an entry with several men in moleskin, three parts drunk, and his old black raiment daubed with mud. I fancy that ...

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...27, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled ?The Highland Widow,? ?The Two Drovers,? and ?The Surgeon?s Daughter.? In the present volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories which appeared the year...

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... consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled “The Highland Widow,” “The Two Drovers,” and “The Sur... ...ent volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories which ap- peared the year after, in the elegant comp... ...n interest. It was Mr. Train who brought to my recollection the history of Old Mortality, al- though I myself had had a personal interview with that c... ... conversation with him. [See, for some further particu- lars, the notes to Old Mortality, in the present collective edi- tion.] He was (as I think I ... ... to present to the public, as it was written with much feeling and spirit. Old and odd books, and a considerable collection of fam- ily legends, forme... ... army standing alone by a bat- tery of four cannon, of which he discharged three on the advancing Highlanders, and then drew his sword. Invernahyle ru... ... name of Castle only from the front windows being finished in acute Gothic arches (being, by the way, the very reverse of the cas- tellated style), an...

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...ndsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it....

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...rning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue ...

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... ... ...d with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic tr... ...nth of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ram- part... ..., and an early rose- tree, the foliage of which, beautifully green, was variegated with numerous red specks announcing future roses. In the chamber li... ...r little lamb, our gentle dove, angry! Don’t be afraid, Louise — Madame de Saint-Remy will not come; and if she should, you know I have a quick ear. B... ...xious I must be to pay my duty to M. le Comte, my father.” “That is true, that is true, Monsieur Raoul; present him, at the same time, my humble respe... ...d you?” “Y es; but how did you discover and join me?” “Stop a bit. I was going to tell you how. Do you imagine Mouston —” “Ah! it was that fellow, Mou...

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...ords both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. T o the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a ... ..., fed our eager attention with passages of love and ad- venture taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) f... ...approach and stand before him. John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his ag... ...nd sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: eve... ...r back. Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without ... ...n it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly pol- ished old mahogany. Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared wh... ...cending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. I followed it, expecting soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretch...

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...Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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... ter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christe... ...gathered along the upper corridor of the main body of the building: two or three foot- men hung lower down, bold in attitude. Suddenly the noise ended... ...n, bold in attitude. Suddenly the noise ended, and soon after the voice of old Sewis commanded them to scatter away to their beds; whereupon the footm... ...dside. The squire 4 The Adventures of Harry Richmond was a hunter, of the old sort: a hard rider, deep drinker, and heavy slumberer. Before venturing... ... and I’ll pay your debts 12 The Adventures of Harry Richmond under two or three hundred. For God’s sake, let go the boy! You shall have fifty guineas... ... pound of the carcase; Hamlet (the fact was impressed on me) offered him a three-legged stool; and a number of kings and knights and ladies lit their ... ...John. Mrs. Waddy put her mouth to his ear. Up went his eyebrows, wrinkling arches over a petrified stare. In some way she had regained her advantage. ... ...ectionate mind as plain as print, and it was dull print facing me, not the arches of the sunset. Julia had only to lisp, ‘my husband,’ to startle and ...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the...

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...ER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive g... ...ses in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on ... ...s, and no ships coming in, these say! Here’s another ready for ye, deary. Ye’ll remember like a good soul, won’t ye, that the market price is dreffle ... ...ng-to, and I ses to my poor self, “I’ll have another ready for him, and he’ll bear in mind the market price of opium, and pay according.” O my poor he... ...g over on her face. 5 Charles Dickens He rises unsteadily from the bed, lays the pipe upon the hearth-stone, draws back the ragged curtain, and looks... ...ary from the chancel, and all of the procession having scuttled into their places, hide their faces; and then the intoned words, ‘When the wicked man ... ...ee he’s having his fire kindled up, for it’s chilly after the wet, and the Cathedral had both a damp feel and a damp touch this afternoon, and he was ... ...the grain. How does our service sound to you?’ ‘Beautiful! Quite celestial!’ ‘It often sounds to me quite devilish. I am so weary of it. The echoes of... ... to a stand-still by the spectacle of Stony Durdles, dinner-bundle and all, leaning his back against the iron railing of the burial-ground enclosing i...