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Prince Otto a Romance 1905 Edition

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rieved for the bearer of so futile and melan- choly an existence. The last Merovingians may have looked not otherwise. The Princess Amalia Seraphina, ... ... her eye flashed as she perused it. ‘Hey!’ cried the Baron, ‘there falls a dynasty, and it was I that felled it; and I and you inherit!’ He seemed to ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...f France from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Rise of the Carlovingian Dynasty. By G.P .R. JAMES, Esq. VOL. II. 80 Theological Essays and Other P... ...he social development of nations; that each laid the foundations for a new dynasty in his own family, the one by building forwards upon a basis alread... ...e energy of the aspiring mayors of the palace, or great lieutenants of the Merovingian kings. But agreeing in this—that they were indebted to others f...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...yor would say, the perimeter of the Palace, as it was from the time of the Merovingians till the accession of the first race of V alois; but to us, as... ...ome cases assumes ap- palling importance—in politics, for instance, when a dynasty or a state is involved—will find a place in the Human Com- edy. But...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...and is for a Time only; is a ‘Time-phantasm, yet reckons itself real!’ The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the street... ... not sleeping, nor Time’s seedfield. That sacred Herald’s-College of a new Dynasty; we mean the Sixty and odd Billstickers with their leaden badges, a... ...nd itself only on artificiality and aridity; each new Revolt and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stra- tum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet com...

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