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...d Which princes, flesh’d with conquest, aim to hit. Now bind my brows with iron; and approach The ragged’st hour that time and spite dare bring To fro... ...e. Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the salt ness of time; and I must humbly beseec... ... reckonings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old consider not... ...the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow cheek? a white beard? a... ... my familiars, JOHN with my brothers and sis- ters, and SIR JOHN with all Europe. My lord, I’ll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it. PRIN... ...ith reverence Your exposition on the holy text Than now to see you here an iron man, Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum, Turning the word to swo... ...d but a belly of any indifference, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe: my womb, my womb, my womb, undoes me. Here comes our general. [Ente... ...eons? DAVY: Yes, sir. Here is now the smith’s note for shoeing and plough irons. SHALLOW: Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excuse...

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...ces, flesh’d with Conquest, ayme to hit. 210 Now binde my Browes with Iron and approach 211 The ragged’st houre, that Time and Spight dare b... ...ordship (though not clean past 369 your youth) hath yet some smack of age in you: some rel-lish 370 of the saltnesse of Time, and I most hum... ...gs: all the other gifts appertinent to man 433 (as the malice of this Age shapes them) are not woorth a 434 Gooseberry. You that are old, co... ... youth, that are written downe old, with all the Charrac-ters 440 of age? Haue you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yel-low 441 cheeke? a whi... ... 912 Iohn with my Brothers and Sister: & Sir 913 Iohn, with all Europe. 914 My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make him ... ... Your exposition on the holy Text, 2108 Then now to see you heere an Iron man 2109 Chearing a rowt of Rebels with your Drumme, 2110 Turn... ...ly of any indiffe-rencie, 2256 I were simply the most actiue fellow in Europe: 2257 my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere 2258 co... ... 2805 Heere is now the Smithes note, for Shooing, 2806 And Plough- Irons. 2807 Shal. Let it be cast, and payde: Sir Iohn, you shall ...

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... xci. 2, 3, 7.—R. E 6 Henry Esmond – Book Three mother, she was now of an age when the danger of any sec- ond party doth not disturb the rest much. S... ...and and Holland! Despot as he was, the French monarch was yet the chief of European civilization, more venerable in his age and misfortunes than at th... ... monarch was yet the chief of European civilization, more venerable in his age and misfortunes than at the period of his most splendid successes; whil... ...rades—humble or of high rank—that had gathered but yesterday full of cour- age and cheerfulness round the torn and blackened flags. Where were our fri... ...o receive and beat off again and again, with volleys of shot and hedges of iron, and our four lines of musqueteers and pikemen. They said the King of ... ...er, the Canihe I think ’twas called, (but this is writ away from books and Europe; and the only map the writer hath of these scenes of his youth, bear... ...dictation); and if Frank had chosen to marry a lady of the church of south Europe, as she would call the Roman communion, there was no need why she sh... ... tears, “a silver statue to Our Lady!” He was going to rattle at the great iron knocker on the oak gate; but Esmond stopped his kinsman’s hand. He had...

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...I would make an effort to save it, with all its blessings, for the present age and for posterity. I thereupon summoned my constitutional advisers, the... ...or interest of the debt of Mexico, or that will require the concurrence of European powers.” This resolution having been duly communicated to me, no- ... ...haracter, and must be treated with more consideration than is customary in Europe. Hence our great army, for slighter causes than could have pre- vail... ...lly. Y ou are quite right as to the importance to us, for its bearing upon Europe, that we should achieve military successes, and the same is true for... ...parage him say he has had a very large number, and those who would dispar- age the Secretary of War insist that General McClellan has had a very small... ...e good of mankind—not confined to the present gen- eration, but as “From age to age descends the lay To millions yet to be, Till far its echoe... ...y exhibited by him in the late remarkable battle between the United States ironclad steamer Monitor, under his command, and the rebel ironclad steamer... ...Y , January 30, 1863. 5.45 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL Dix, Fort Monroe, V a.: What iron-clads, if any, have gone out of Hampton Roads within the last two days... ...al in- telligence was made public early yesterday morning that the enemy’s iron-clad fleet had attempted to cross the bar and failed, but later in the...

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...uld he do so and carriages go rattling by all night, and people with great iron heels to their boots pass clattering over the stones? Nor indeed could... ...ep under the tattered standards that have been won from all the nations of Europe.” The original words are “sous les lambeaux cribles des drapeaux cue... ... a young 10 The Second Funeral of Napoleon prince two-and-twenty years of age, who was already distinguished in the service of his country and king. ... ...hness Prince Ferdinand Philip Marie de Joinville know what was going on in Europe all 17 Thackeray this time (when I say in Europe, I mean in Turkey,... ... past the object of the disinterested attention of the great sovereigns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek ... ...hter. And 4. Two little great- grand, or grandchildren, that may be of the age of three and one, and belong to a son and daughter who are in India. Th...

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...ix thousand and two hundred good esquires; And, to relief of lazars and weak age, Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil. A hundred almshouses rig... ...hat shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but what though? it will toast cheese, and it w... ...ll make your Paris Louvre shake for it, Were it the mistress court of mighty Europe: And, be assured, you’ll find a difference, As we his subjects hav... ...wonderful to be thought on. But you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or else you may be marvellously mistook. FLUELLEN: I tell you what,... ...nt armor; but let my horse have his due. Constable: It is the best horse of Europe. ORLEANS: Will it never be morning? DAUPHIN: My lord of Orleans,... ... ing their wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. ORLEANS:... ... of Crispian. Act IV, scene iii 56 He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say ‘To morrow is ... ...got me: therefore was I created with a stubborn out side, with an aspect of iron, that, when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate...

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...iving in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers; they were iron men; they fought for the prin- ciple that they were contending for; an... ...mly bound to the country we inhabit. In every way we are better men in the age and race and country in which we live, for these celebrations. But afte... ...o are not descendants at all of these men; they are men who have come from Europe, German, Irish, French, and Scandinavian,—men that have come from Eu... ... of ultimate extinction. But he went on to say that the men of the present age, by their expe- rience, have become wiser than the framers of the Const... ... he reconstructs his construction. In his last speech he tells us it meant Europeans. I press him a little further, and ask if it meant to include the...

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...g; Vol. II human angelic species: she seemed to be at least of the middle age, nor had her face much appearance of beauty; but her cloaths being torn... ... father, and from those of her dispassionate lover. Twelve times did the iron register of time beat on the so norous bell metal, summoning the ghos... ...; and many of them have with true filial piety fed their parent in his old age: so that not only the affection, but the interest, of the author may be... ... hopes; and of my fortune, not one farthing could be touched till I was of age, of which I now wanted more than two years. My husband, therefore, was ... ... miracle of this kind might have engaged all the Academies des Sciences in Europe, and perhaps in a fruit less inquiry; yet the reader, by barely rec...

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...aff, no stay. O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain The flower of Europe for his chivalry; And treacherously hast thou vanquish’d him, For ... ...tinies to be avoided, As venom toads, or lizards’ dreadful stings. RICHARD: Iron of Naples hid with English gilt, Whose father bears the title of a k... ...ept; And we, in pity of the gentle king, Had slipp’d our claim until another age. GEORGE: But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring, Henry VI, Pa... ..., Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart! O, pity, God, this miserable age! What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, Erroneous, mutinous and un... ...k, take the time; kneel down, kneel down: Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools. WARWICK: I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, And with...

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..................................................................................................................................................... 5 B... ...ction of men. The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm. 6 Matthew Arnold B... ... Melt not their eyes? Is not, on cheeks like those, Lovely the flush? —Ah, so the quiet was! So was the hush! II The epoch ends, th... ...ternal law; And yet with reverential awe We watch’d the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife. When Goethe’s death was told, we... ...e We watch’d the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife. When Goethe’s death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe’s sagest h... ...he suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here! 17 Select... ...g of Orpheus come Through Hades, and the mournful gloom. Wordsworth has gone from us—and ye, Ah, may ye feel his voice as we! He too upon a wintry cli... ...ld. Ah! since dark days still bring to light Man’s prudence and man’s fiery might, Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s ...

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..................................................... 21 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE .......................................................................... ...nceforth pray to, with upturned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ... longer voyage. The hair of Towhead (Tete d’etoupes) now needs no combing; Iron-cutter (Taillefer) cannot cut a cob- web; shrill Fredegonda, shrill Br... ...n each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capital of the Universe.’ Stone towers frown aloft; long... ...all living; and vanish,—without chance of reappearance? In such a decadent age, or one fast verging that way, had our poor Louis been born. Grant also... ...e Dubarry issues from the sick-room, with perceptible ‘trouble in her vis- age.’ It is the fourth evening of May, year of Grace 1774. 25 Thomas Carly... ...nevertheless, Gibraltar answers Plutonically, with mere torrents of redhot iron,— as if stone Calpe had become a throat of the Pit; and utters such a ... ...ris, did they even bear to be ‘Printed at Pekin. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom... ...heus, with elo- quence grown rhythmic, musical (what we call Poetry), drew iron tears from the cheek of Pluto: but by what witch- ery of rhyme or pros...

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..................................................... 22 BOOK 1.II. THE PAPER AGE .......................................................................... ............................................... 208 Chapter 2.1.XI. As in the Age of Gold. ................................................................. ...eforth pray to, with up- turned awestruck eye, not without hope? The white European mocks; but ought rather to consider; and see whether he, at home, ... ... longer voyage. The hair of Towhead (Tete d’etoupes) now needs no combing; Iron-cutter (Taillefer) can- not cut a cobweb; shrill Fredegonda, shrill Br... ...n each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capital of the Universe.’ Stone towers frown aloft; long... ...all living; and vanish,—without chance of reappearance? In such a decadent age, or one fast verging that way, had our poor Louis been born. Grant also... ...nevertheless, Gibraltar answers Plutonically, with mere torrents of redhot iron,—as if stone Calpe had be- come a throat of the Pit; and utters such a... ...ris, did they even bear to be ‘Printed at Pekin. ’ We have a Courrier de l’Europe in those years, regularly published at London; by a De Morande, whom... ...rpheus, with eloquence grown rhythmic, musical (what we call Poetry), drew iron tears from the cheek of Pluto: but by what witchery of rhyme or prose ...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic sys...

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... 4 THE FORGED COUPON And Other Stories BY LEO TOLSTOY INTRODUCTION IN AN AGE OF MATERIALISM like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as s... ...with lowered sword. In other places Tolstoy does full justice to the cour age and patriotism of all grades in the Russian army, but it is constantly ... ...mber of campaigns in which he had served; he could not have told his exact age himself, and when he laughed, as he often did, he showed two rows of st... ...company of young writers came to the surface, counting among them names of European celebrity, such as Dostoevsky, Nekrassov, and Saltykov. Unhappily ... ...o the corn stores and the shed for the fire engine were solidly built, had iron roofs, and were painted at the right time. In the tool house carts, pl... ... sentry did not notice him, and passed on. Vassily leaped to his feet; the iron roof cracked under him. Another step or two, and he would reach the wa... ...noticed in the room, where the in quest was taking place, two peasants in irons, who had been charged as the principal culprits. One of them was an o... ...The shepherd boy called to the sheep and cracked his whip. “How far behind Europe we are,” thought Volgin, recalling his frequent holidays abroad. “Yo... ...nt holidays abroad. “You would not find a single cow like that anywhere in Europe “ Then, wanting to find out where the path which branched off from ...

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...e satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as be- comes his age.” The “new fellow,” standing in the corner behind the door so that he c... ... regrets, cursing his luck, jealous of everyone, he shut himself up at the age of forty-five, sick of men, he said, and determined to live at peace. H... ...presi- dent, remembered when bills fell due, got them renewed, and at home ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the workmen, paid the accounts, while h... ...tory, and ate well in the refectory . He had in loco parentis* a wholesale ironmonger in the Rue Ganterie, who took him out once a month on Sun- days ... ...sent home for an old cherry-tree bedstead, and bought besides a small cast-iron stove with the supply of wood that was to warm the poor child. Then at... ...nd weeping like fountains. For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries. Through Wa... ... He read— “‘Despite the prejudices that still invest a part of the face of Europe like a net, the light nevertheless begins to penetrate our country p... ...nown one another, loved one another. With him, through all the kingdoms of Europe she would have travelled from capital to capital, sharing his fatigu... ...Ambroise. It weighed forty thousand pounds. There was not its equal in all Europe. The workman who cast it died of the joy—” 207 Flaubert “Let us go ...

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...s to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring came on she grew worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in. The celebrated physician, a v...

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...g came on she grew worse. The family doc- tor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third... ...he ambassador’s wife. “My husband says there are few statesmen like him in Europe.” “And my husband tells me just the same, but I don’t believe it,” s... ...er hairpins. “Well, I’m listening to what’s to come,” she said, calmly and ironically; “and indeed I listened with interest, for I should like to unde... ...rove up to the house. At the steps there stood a trap tightly covered with iron and leather, with a sleek horse tightly harnessed with broad collar-st... ...y, and then he still had to drive round to call on a certain great person- age on a matter of grave and serious import. Alexey Alexandrovitch only jus... ...ng there with her mother and the Mos- cow colonel, smart and jaunty in his European coat, bought ready-made at Frankfort. They were walking on one sid... ...her established position in Russian society, she tried abroad to be like a European fashionable lady, which she was not—for the simple reason that she...

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...uring this time. A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years? labor, ?Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.?...

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... labor, “Sketch of a Survey of the Prin- ciples and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.” Several sections of this book and its introduction had ... ... than anything?” said Katavasov, fancying from the artilleryman’s apparent age that he must have reached a fairly high grade. “I wasn’t long in the ar... ...ya’s very fond of him,” Kitty said, with a deprecating smile, noticing the irony on her father’s face. “Oh, I didn’t say anything.” “You go to them, d... ...ed and distracted him above everything was that the majority of men of his age and circle had, like him, exchanged their old beliefs for the same new ... ...y were just at the steps when a big drop fell splashing on the edge of the iron guttering. The children and their elders after them ran into the shelt...

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...n 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 displayed at Dresden. Never, as contemporaries tell us, did Paris see entertainments more superb than those which preceded and followed the sovereign?s ...

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... like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train—a magnificent experiment in the power he afterwards dis... ...o arms, which gave every treaty concluded between Napoleon and the rest of Europe the character of an armistice, left every passion open to a terminat... ...anion.” Montcornet stopped a man by taking his arm—a fat little man, whose iron-gray hair and clever eyes were to be seen at the lintel of every doorw... ... and eager, his face had already acquired the rigid bril- liancy of tinned iron, one of the indispensable characteris- tics of diplomatists, which all... ..., which formed rows of forti- fications held by mothers or women of middle age; and the Colonel seized the opportunity to make his way through this pa... ...ose promised epigram. A well-fitted set of teeth preserved a smile of such irony as recalled that of Voltaire. At the same time, the exquisite politen... ...t little angel,” said Madame de Lansac to the Countess, “you are now at an age when in my day I made many mistakes. Seeing you are just now enduring a... ...ppy, do not you think?” the Countess eagerly exclaimed. “My child, at your age you must learn to choose between pleasure and happiness. You want to ma...

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... when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age. The fact narrated must corre- spond to something in me to be credible ... ...any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what ... ...o- ing to-day. The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not ... ...us, noth- ing that does not interest us,—kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron shoe,—the roots of all things are in man. Santa Croce and the Dome of ... ...he nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month. In America and Europe the no- madism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, fro... ...riends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the ... ...society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others! If any man consider the present aspects of wha... ...f the art of war among the triumphs of science, and yet Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of fall- ing back on naked valor and... ...rest, saying that it was indis- pensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of fr...

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...how many Masons and Montessoris and Dalcrozes you think you can pick up in Europe for salaries of from thirty shillings to five pounds a week, I will ... ...kind, the lower the type, and the less cultivated the mind, the less cour- age there is to face important subjects objectively. The ablest and most hi... ...ance were practicable there would be something to be said for it up to the age at which ignorance is a danger instead of a safeguard. Even as it is, i... ...stinctive taboo which rules the subject out altogether as indecent, has no age limit. It means that at no matter what age a woman consents to a propos... ...rifling offences, with the result (among others less mentionable) that the Iron Duke of Wellington complained that it was impossible to get an order o... ...w we get those feuds between parent and child which recur to our memory so ironically when we hear people sentimentalizing about natural affection. We... ... a man must either learn to con- sider others or else go overboard or into irons, and the habit of working on committees and ceasing to expect more of... ... of person we should carefully avoid if he were anyone else’s brother. All Europe (except Scotland, which has clans instead of families) draws the lin... ...ble if you have no sense of literary art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the...

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...nster or finished any labor. They have no friend Iolaus to burn with a hot iron the root of the hydra’s head, but as soon as one head is crushed, two ... ...be with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no bet ter, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, f... ...g.” So, we are told, the New Hollander goes naked with impunity, while the European shivers in his clothes. Is it impossible to combine the hardiness ... ...there is none of it in our own lives? The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the out ward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, cloth... ... poor civilized man, while the savage, who has them not, is rich as a sav age? If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition... ................................... 0.31 (More than I needed.) Mantle tree iron............................................ 0.15 Nails................ ...y, the village should in some respects take the place of the noble man of Europe. It should be the patron of the fine arts. It is rich enough. It wan... ... ere long take the sunset sky for the livery of his train; when I hear the iron horse make the bills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the ear...