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Excerpt: North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope.

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ate, a certain property qualification being necessary to confer a right to vote even for the State representatives. I should think it would be well fo... ...ew Hampshire universal suffrage does prevail, which means that any man may vote who lives in the State, supports himself, and assists to support the p... ...tood. The accommoda- tion also for the ministers of the government and for members of the two Houses has been insufficient. Hotels, lodgings, and furn... ...he roads around it are worse. I had the honor of meeting two distinguished members of the Provincial Parliament at din- ner some few miles out of town... ...hern statesmen, and Southern councils, because 129 Trollope we obeyed the vote of the people. But as to you—the voice of the people is nothing in you... ... nor, and other officers are elected by vote of the people, as well as the members of the legislature. Of course it will be understood that each State...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume One).

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...O VO VO L L L L L UTI UTI UTI UTI UTI O O O O O N N N N N A HISTORY Volume One by TH TH TH TH THO O O O OMA MA MA MA MAS CA S CA S CA S CA S CAR R R R... ...TI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State Univers... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...is provincial assembly is to be prorogued this same day: Vivarais Assembly-members applaud, and the shouts of congregated men. Will victorious Analysi... ...on both which a trusty Parlement is requested to deliver its opinion, each member having free privilege of speech. And so, Lamoignon too having perora... ...uzz of expectation reigns; it is whispered the Chief Minister has lost six votes overnight. And from within, resounds nothing but forensic eloquence, ... ...the twenty-five millions of potters; for so many have now, more or less, a vote in it! How to shape the States-General? There is a problem. Each Body-... ...r the present, have got reduced to two: the Double Representation, and the Vote by Head. Shall the Commons have a ‘double representation, ’ that is to... ... the Commons have a ‘double representation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when o...

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...n in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...as not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there ... ...ary word. It is rather an ingenious contrivance to make the description of one town the frame for events which happened in another; and several times ... ...y, Madame Marion herself, now ordered the two maids to place the chairs at one end of the salon, four rows deep, leaving between the rows a space of a... ...ight, for twenty-four years, the whole society of Arcis-sur-Aube, a single one of my regular visitors fails us on this occasion—” began the old lady, ... ...refully the radical candidate would be able to secure some thirty or forty votes. A few of the townspeople, humiliated at seeing their town always 11... ...did not know the intentions of the Comte de Gondreville, he should himself vote for Charles Keller and employ his influence for that election. As soon... ...d not been the son of an ardent Bonapartist, he belonged to a family whose members had justly incurred the animosity of the Cinq-Cygne family, owing t... ...ng a demo- crat? T o me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that m... ...at seigneurs, ministers, and ambassadors. He dined habitually with all the members of the diplomatic body . He fought duels, and had killed two or thr...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains ab...

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... THE M ISSISSIPPI is the body of the nation . All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations t... ...or, Hoang ho, Yang tse kiang, and Nile, five ninths; the Ganges, less than one half; the Indus, less than one third; the Euphrates, one fifth; the ... ... half; the Indus, less than one third; the Euphrates, one fifth; the Rhine, one fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Ru... ...eems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to co... ...om supper until every body else had finished. I did not feel so much like a member of the boat’s family now as before. However, my spirits re turned... ...d the property and ‘shook’ him as he phrased it. After his mother shook him, members of the nobility with whom he was acquainted used their influence ... ...tain the application until the money was present. Even then a single adverse vote killed the application. Every member had to vote “Yes” or “No” in pe... .... It wasn’t any more labor to steer her than it is to count the Republi can vote in a South Carolina election. One morning, just at daybreak, the las... ...ings about those lawless insects. Among others, said he had seen them try to vote. Noticing that this state ment seemed to be a good deal of a strain...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his d...

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... RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awaken... ...lows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daugh- ter Dorothy Beltham; a married da... ...red at the Grange. ‘The scoundrel?’ he inquired harshly, half in a tone of one assuring himself, and his rigid dropped jaw shut. The fact had to be de... ... plucking at the bell going on without intermission. He wore the aspect of one who assumes a forced composure under the infliction of outrages on his ... ...nconvenience created by the ap- propriation of our pocket-handkerchiefs by members of the crowd, induced us to disentangle ourselves from it without c... ...ishing his for- tune; I know he is provided with comforts: Richie, you re- member the woman Waddy? A faithful soul! She obtained my consent at last—pr... ...point for your decision in the future, should the breath everlastingly de- voted to the most celestial of her sex, continue to animate the frame that ... ... but I can’t insult a number of indepen- dent Englishmen by asking them to vote for the opposite crew; that’s reasonable, eh? And I can’t promise you ... ...ret of the women. How he does it old Roy! If the lords were ladies they’ d vote him premier peer, double quick. And I’ll tell you what, Richmond, I’m ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important min...

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...EHOLD IN P ARIS, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common cen- tre, you must have met with... ...quaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries. At this period he was forty years old... ...f which we write, you would have noticed in him the coldly resigned air of one who has buried the illusions of his youth and renounced every secret am... ...epartments, where the humbler clerks struggled vainly against degener- ate members of the aristocracy, who sought positions in the government bureaus ... ...entre enter the room, and he left his wife abruptly to cajole an undecided vote. But the deputy, under the blow of a sudden and unexpected disaster, w... ...uis and of the foreign or- ders of Christ, Isabella, Saint Wladimir, etc., member of the Academy of Gers, and other learned bodies, vice-presi- dent o... ...d other learned bodies, vice-presi- dent of the Society of Belles-lettres, member of the Asso- ciation of Saint-Joseph and of the Society of Prisons, ... ...ivil list, and eight hundred from the three hundred thou- sand francs fund voted by the Chambers for encouragement of the Arts. Add to these diverse e... ...s was, however, simple and solely the son of a “Conventionel,” who did not vote the king’s death. Cold and prudent by temperament, he had judged the w...

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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...antes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Don Quixote: Part ... ...or the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Don Quixote: Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed., the Pennsylva- ni... ...antes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable... ...hether it has might or not, that which it may or may not have shall be de- voted to your service even to death; and now, leaving this to its proper se... ...mplain of thyself for having been the cause of her ruin and thine own. Re- member there is no jewel in the world so precious as a chaste and 292 Don ... ...said, may have given no cause for them; for as the pain of the foot or any member of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one flesh, as ... ...mo’s house could have entered it on Leonela’s account, nor did he even re- member there was such a person as Leonela; all he thought was that as Camil... ...f this matter; and that we may have surer ground to go on, I will take the votes of the gentlemen in secret, and declare the result clearly and fully.... .... All laughed to see Don Fernando going from one to another collecting the votes, and whis- pering to them to give him their private opinion whether t...

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Excerpt: The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens.

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...The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Paper... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pickwick Papers Volume One by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...827. Joseph Smiggers, Esq., P.V.P.M.P.C. [ Per petual Vice President—Member Pickwick Club], presiding. The foll owing resolutions unanimously a... ... communicated by Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M. P.C. [Gen eral Chairman— Member Pickwick Club], entitled “ Specu lations on the Source of the Hamp... ...., and Nathaniel Winkle, Esq., M.P .C., are hereby nominated and appointed members of the same; and that they be requested to forward, from time to ti... ...o that most impor tant undertaking demands a separate chapter, we may de vote the few lines which remain at the close of this, to nar rate, with gr... ...elled the presumptuous and ill con ditioned Blotton from the society, and voted Mr. Pickwick a pair of gold spectacles, in token of their confidence ... ...head of its calumnious author. The seventeen learned societies unanimously voted the presumptuous Blotton an ignorant meddler, and forthwith set to wo...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a ...

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...................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE ...... .................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts ...................37 Joan of Arc ....................... ... acbeth acbeth FROM MY BOYISH DAYS I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds... ...t so much, because an inkstand is a laudable sort of thing, and a valuable member of society; but even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfe... ...ere was something falsetto in the style of Thurtell. The fact is, he was a member of our society, which naturally gave a friendly bias to our judgment... ... a certificate. Mine would be as big as a table-cloth. There is indeed one member of the club, who pretends to say that he caught me once making too f... ...of the Grecian states,) it was the very mean- ing of citizen that he could vote and be idle. In these circumstances, where the whole sum of life’s du-...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympa...

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...arine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pl... ...ious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the sake of one so pious as yourself; and also because of what a great writer has latel... ...ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private Life), one or two specimens of which exist to the present day; some- times a house... ...she should never marry; consequently, neither he nor his wife, persons de- voted to the main chance, would ever allow themselves to find fault with Br... ...vited to dinner. Madame Colleville was, as a woman, the most distinguished member of this society, just as Minard junior and Professor Phellion were s... ...le in the vivacious ar- gument which now ensued. The matter related to the vote by which the Chamber of Deputies had just overthrown the ministry of t... ...partment on the third floor, with the furniture rigorously required by all members of his noble profession,—for the guild of barristers admits no brot... ...use you’ll draw me after you. Well, here’s my plan. We are soon to elect a member of the council-general from this arrondissement; and that member mus... ...ment when the Chamber is re-elected, which must surely be before long. The votes that elect you to the municipal council will stand by you in the elec...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII.

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...Vol. 1 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...n any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume One, Containing Books I through VIII, the Pennsylvania State University, Ji... ...ot as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their... ...hat she would have vented much bitterness on this occasion, and would have voted for send ing the child, as a kind of noxious animal, immediately out... ...h, like the secrets of freemasonry, should be divulged to none who are not members of that honourable fraternity, Mrs. Partridge was pretty well satis... ... said, “If the boy had stolen the bird, none would have been more ready to vote for a severe chastisement than himself; but it was plain that was not ... ...rry come up! it would better become Madam Western to look at home, and re member who her own grandfather was. Some of my family, for aught I know, mi... ...ch you desire to operate, whether it be the tongue, the hand, or any other member, where it scarce ever fails of immediately producing the desired eff...

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...Excerpt: One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiment...

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...e Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage Dedication To Madame Emile Girardin. ONE OF THE FEW DRAWING-ROOMS where, under the Restora- tion, the Archbishop... ...tteville, devout as a girl, became even more so after her marriage. She is one of the queens of the saintly brotherhood which gives the upper circles ... ...ville, a dry, lean man devoid of intelligence, looked worn out without any one knowing whereby , for he enjoyed the profoundest ignorance; but as his ... ...urt, from which we had no hope, you know why—” This was an allusion to the members of the First Court of Appeal of 1830; the Legitimists had almost al... ...article of the school of the Charivari. The chief of the moderate party, a member of the municipal council, sent for the journalist and said to him, “... ...lleagues, the Ministerial officials, the Councillors of the Court, and the members of the bench, with the name, ‘Albert Savaron.’” “The name of Savaro... ...ve them, or resuscitate them. When I shall have won a sufficient number of votes, my name will come out of the urn. For a long time the unknown barris... ...faith- ful to monarchical opinions; but, as you have not the ma- jority of votes in Besancon, I must gain votes among the citizens. So the fee I ask o... ...ncon, I must gain votes among the citizens. So the fee I ask of you is the votes you may be able secretly to secure for me at the opportune moment. Le...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye...

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...Bleak House by Charles Dickens Volume One Chapters 1 34 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bl... ...4 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a ... ... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...roof, where he can see nothing but fog. On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be—as here they are—mist... ...ty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that slides out of Mr. Tangle. “Several members of the bar are still to be heard, I be lieve?” says the Chancellor... ...than I did. One of them in the first week of my going to the school (I re member it very well) invited me home to a little party, to my great joy. Bu... ...oduction of the former to Mr. Snagsby is effected and (more important) the vote and interest of Mrs. Snagsby are secured. They then report progress to...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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... the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsib... ...enta- tive of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a... ... a dogmatic volume the improvised lecture by which you lent enchantment to one of those evenings which are rest after seeing Rome. You do not know, pe... ...st cobbler, a stranger would have hesitated to recognize Cousin Betty as a member of the fam- ily, for she looked exactly like a journeywoman sempstre... ...ces, for Napoleon made her a present of a diamond necklace, and always re- membered her, asking now and again, “And is the beautiful Madame Hulot stil... ... I am worn out with hearing others speak for two hours without coming to a vote. They carry on a war of words, in which their speeches are like a cava... ...ward by the arm with every show of affection and respect. The older man, a member of the Chamber of Peers, but excused from attendance on account of h... ...incial Crevel, one of the men cre- ated to make up the crowd in the world, voted under the banner of Giraud, a State Councillor, and Victorin Hulot. T... ...you hanging on by a thread for two or three years, we shall secure all six votes. There was a great laugh at the Council meeting; the V eteran of the ...

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...Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, it was plain...

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.... His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor ... ...int of starting for New Orleans. Stared at, but unsaluted, with the air of one neither courting nor shunning regard, but evenly pursuing the path of d... ...ngers, they were enveloped in some myth; though, during a chance interval, one of these chevaliers somewhat showed his hand in purchasing from another... ...tural law which ordains dissolution equally to the mass, as in time to the member. As among Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims, or those orien- tal ones cr... ...ught. But, pray explain it.” “The World’s Charity is to be a society whose members shall comprise deputies from every charity and mission ex- tant; th... ...he demonstra- tion of these things they will not, amending their ways, de- vote their superfluities to blessing the world instead of curs- ing it? Eig... ...nfidence? The merchant did not, perhaps, take the exact import of the last member of the question; but answered, that, if whether the unfortunate man ... ...ney was good money.” “Aye, and where your fine knavery now? Knavery to de- vote the half of one’s receipts to charity? He’s a fool I say again.” “Othe... ...e, and there ac- quiring a second fortune, had returned with it, a man de- voted henceforth to genial friendships. “Added years went by, and the resto...

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...his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a ...

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... that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably bal... ...ubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a s... ...isturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious a... ...stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.” I could not help laughing at the eas... ...on, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal ... ... was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorizing of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were... ... 117 “Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace offering to his wife. Re member the card upon the bird’s leg.” “You have an answer to everything... ...y of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do you give your casting vote to?” “You are all wrong.” “But we can’t all be.” “Oh, yes, you can...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The Fre...

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...e Sache. De Balzac. PART I CHAPTER I JUDAS THE AUTUMN of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century w... ...ere looking at him as though beset by a terror they could ill-conceal. Any one observing the scene taking place in this leafy nook would have shuddere... ...ntly fine. The rond-point is at the en- trance of the park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in 6 An Historical Mystery France, and by far th... ...ng the Revolution. Whoever has read the fine romance of “Rob Roy” will re- member that rare woman for whose making Walter Scott’s imagination abandone... ...s about to break forth, the secret of which was undoubtedly known to every member of the Bourbon family. The caution which Malin displayed in talking ... ...and sought to attach himself to them, was now being made use of by the two members of the Paris police whose profession had been so quickly guessed by... ...iracy; if so, it would implicate the house of Conde to which they were de- voted. T alleyrand and Fouche were bent on casting light into this dark cor... ... was addressed as Emperor, Majesty, Sire, before the result of the popular vote was known. Monsieur de Chargeboeuf, 98 An Historical Mystery Monsieur... ...onages at the Impe- rial court, and the king of your department.” “He, who voted for the death of Louis XVI. in case the army of Conde entered France!...

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... Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities ...

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...ciently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts... ...ification; à fortiori, then, will it be- long to a city which counted from one horn to the other of its mighty suburbs not less than four millions of ... ...e under Romulus, her earliest Cæsar, had prosper- ously begun. And thus by one godlike man was a nation-city matured; and from the everlasting and nam... ...In Macedon, in Achaia, in Syria, in Asia Minor, in Egypt,— every where the members of this empire had begun to knit; the cohesion was far closer, the ... ...eyes were black and piercing. These circumstances continued to be long re- membered, and no doubt were constantly recalled to the eyes of all persons ... ...of being the first person to propose the daily publication of the acts and votes of the senate. In the form of public and official dispatches, he made... ...rs senate or the people, he put most value upon the laurel crown which was voted to him after his last campaigns—a beauti- ful and conspicuous memoria... ... circumstances of studied incivility. In the public elections, he gave his vote like any private citizen; and, when he happened to be a candidate hims... ...hat time ful- filling the functions of the modern post; and it must be re- membered that as yet they were not slaves, (as afterwards by the reformatio...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the ma...

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...ge NOTE A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, T wo Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend... ... Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may... ...ake these sacrifices for a young man whom you have as yet compared with no one else; he, on his 6 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris side, has been ... ...own value, nor a profound esteem for his neigh- bor; and finally, as every member of the circle felt that he could afford to receive or to give, no on... ... of manuscripts, and a special office for reading them, and a committee to vote on their merits, with numbered counters for those who attend, and a pe... ...ant analysis, seemed so far greater in his eyes than the grave and earnest members of the brotherhood. And besides all this, he was reveling in his fi... ...e; all the social pettiness hitherto trodden under foot by the worker, the member of the brotherhood, sprang up again afresh in his soul. Now he under...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myse...

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...es Of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens PREFACE WHAT IS EXAGGERATION to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which i... ... character has incredulously asked me: “Now really, did I ever really, see one like it?” All the Pecksniff family upon earth are quite agreed, I belie... ...ay be sometimes mistaken or misinformed, and I rather think that I have in one or two rare instances observed its information to be not strictly accu-... ...sion of a highly re- spectable and in every way credible and unimpeachable member of the Chuzzlewit Family (for his bitterest enemy never dared to hin... ...atively modern days of the Diggory Chuzzlewit before mentioned, one of its members had at- tained to very great wealth and influence. Throughout such ... ...he had re- ceived from Messrs Tigg and Slyme touching the arrival of other members of the family, were fully confirmed on more particular inquiry. For... ...the last election for President, to repudiate and denounce his father, who voted on the wrong interest. He has since written some power- ful pamphlets... ...element in that Ark; but he kept the idea to himself. The General was then voted to the chair, on the motion of a pallid lad of the Jefferson Brick sc... ... America), had been removed from office; and on whose behalf Mr Pogram (he voted for Pogram) had thun- dered the last sentence from his seat in Congre...