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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 ... ... days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fall... ...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 ... ...ued King Louis, who at the first glance had sounded the abyss on which the monarchy hung suspended, — “to fall, and learn of that fall by telegraph! O... .... Louis XVIII. made but a faint attempt to parry this unexpected blow; the monarchy he had scarcely reconstructed tottered on its precarious foundatio... ...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... ...he work I speak of is called ‘A Treatise on the Possi- bility of a General Monarchy in Italy,’ and will make one large quarto volume.” “And on what ha...

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...as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself m... ... just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never seems to occur to him that ... ...on of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly 4 Don Quixote unmanageable, or that the untr... ...erseness to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is pecu- liar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. Th... ...escribed as “translated from the original by several hands,” but if so all Spanish flavour has entirely evapo- rated under the manipulation of the sev... ...mote from east to west as lightnings fly. I scorned all empire, and that monarchy The rosy east held out did I resign For one glance of Claridian...

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...ain, he went through the straits of Cadiz, and sailing outward keeping the Spanish shore on his right hand, he landed a little above the mouth of the ... ...ness and cruelty which he executed in the latter part of his days upon the Spanish hostages, seems to argue that his clemency was not natural to him, ... ...ated the necessity there was that the commonwealth should be turned into a monarchy, because of their ill government in the state; and could have aske... ..., indeed, the fatal time be come, which is to give a period to the Persian monarchy, if our ruin be a debt that must be paid to the divine jealousy an... ... of such wild and stormy disorder and madness might end no worse than in a monarchy. Some were so bold as to declare openly, that the government was i... ...enate to make him sole consul, that with the offer of a more legal sort of monarchy he might be withheld from demanding the dictatorship. They over an... ...ey of Caesar’s endless expeditions, and so suspicious of his designs for a monarchy. Upon this Pompey grew presumptuous, and neglected all warlike pre...

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...o extend to the herd of mankind the observation recently made on flocks of Spanish and English sheep which, in low meadows where pasture is abundant, ... ...ter dark, and in a hackney cab. His day was filled up with a siesta in the Spanish fashion, which arranges for sleep be- tween the two chief meals, an... ...hief meals, and so occupies the hours when Paris is in a busy turmoil. The Spanish cigar also played its part, and consumed time as well as tobacco. L... ...glish vignette. Esther was the first to recognize the basilisk eyes of the Spanish priest; and the poor creature, stricken as if she had been shot, ga... ...housand francs in debts.” 67 Balzac “He has found a friend in a very rich Spanish priest who has taken a fancy to him,” replied Rastignac. “He is goi... ...the Conciergerie. This epi- gram is intelligible. In the early days of the monarchy, noble criminals—for the villeins (a word signifying the peasantry...

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...ne, Catherine, forced to combat heresy which was seeking to annihilate the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Cath... ...man when, on hearing of her death, he exclaimed: “It is not a woman, it is monarchy itself that has died!” Catherine had, in the highest degree, the s... ...d, which was wholly composed of French men and women, for, by a law of the monarchy, the execution of which the Pope saw with great satisfaction, Cath... ...g constitution of the provinces. There lay the remedy for the evils of the monarchy; thence should have come the voting on taxes, the regulation of th... ... them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence to the Conn... ... He had the blue eyes and the curved nose of the house of Navarre, and the Spanish cut of the marked features which were in after days the type of the...

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...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ...Pearls And yet he could not but shudder as he spoke. When they had asked a Spanish prisoner how many there had been in the army, ‘Count the dead,’ he ... ...nswered. Nor could my husband abstain from tears as he told me how the old Spanish guards were all lying as they stood, slain all together, with their... ...y well at home.’ ‘Or here before I married,’ added Queen Henrietta. ‘Since Spanish etiquette has come in, we have all been on our good behaviour.’ ‘Ha... ...ion, as they called our Church, was dead; that the Presbyterians and Fifth Monarchy men and all their rabble had stifled the last remnant of life that...

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...story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant ... ...under the Directory of the craft originally forming the navy of the French monarchy, the St. Louis line-of-battle ship was named the Atheiste. Such a ...

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...being able to hold it. Max, taken prisoner by the English, was sent to the Spanish hulks at the island of Cabrera, the most horrible of all stations f... ...dame Bridau to be in exactly the same state as when she had left Issoudun. Monarchy, Revolution, Empire, and Restoration, which respected little, had ... ... a chapel altar, holding his head between his hands. After half an hour of Spanish re- flections, he spied the squirrel, which Goddet could not re- fr...

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...idal wine! We heard of Giulia Sanfredini’s mar- riage to come off with the Spanish Duke, and drank it to the toast of our little Nesta’s godmother. I ... ...ver for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; and of course a girl may like to count among th... ...h his Andalusian lady-love in easy whispers about their mutual passion for Spanish chocolate all the while: so the musical critic of the Tirra-Lirra s... ... the science of specifics, in the style of the foreign physician, probably Spanish, who had no practice, and wished for leisure to let him prosecute h...

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...n the train, had, for his use on other occasions, one of the most handsome Spanish jennets ever bred at Andalusia, which merchants used at that time t... ..., at the wearer’s pleasure, either drawn over the face and bosom after the Spanish fashion, or disposed as a sort of drapery round the shoulders. When... ...tle compunction as if my bones had been of iron—But that I wore a shirt of Spanish mail under my plate- coat, I had been fairly sped.” “But you mainta... ... did his arrow bound back from the knight’s armour of proof. “Curse on thy Spanish steel-coat!” said Locksley, “had En- glish smith forged it, these a... ...ards of Lincoln green to make doublets to thy men, and a hundred staves of Spanish yew to make bows, and a hundred silken bowstrings, tough, round, 3... ...and. But Matilda, though of the royal Saxon blood, was not the heir to the monarchy.” “I will not dispute my title with thee, noble Thane,” said Richa...

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... Greek, Latin, and the rudiments of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; ... ...little European congress on her recep- tion-night. Prussians and Cossacks, Spanish and English—all the world was at Paris during this famous winter: t... ...oned to his lordship’s sensibilities by the downfall of the ancient French monarchy. An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describ- ing hi...

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...tly covered his face, and with a most dismal expression, — “Call M. de Brienne,” said he. Five minutes afterward the secretary entered. “Monsieur,” sa... ... in desperate positions that suddenly the great turns of fortune have taken place.” “Thank you, count, it is some comfort to meet with a heart like yo... ...s himself revenues with his money, which he does not even touch. Here are three hundred and seventy-five livres which fall to me from heaven. I will g... ...kfasted between the Je- suit and Aramis, having the Dominican in front of him, and smiling particularly at the Dominican, whose jolly, fat face please... ...ly been allowed to luxuriate, as if the ungrateful Mazarin had thought it a good idea to let the Parisians perceive that solitude and disorder were, w... ...ning I will speak to him. I shall expect you this evening, comte, to join my card-table.” “I am in traveling-costume, sire.” “A day will come, I hope,... ...thos; how you gainsay your ori- gin and the destiny of your noble nature. Men of your stamp are created to continue, to the very last moment, in full ... ... your frankness, your 688 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 cool courage and your sound information, are the very man kings need to warn and direct them. Rem... ...ard progress, fearful to disgust the monarch whom such a dull star had formerly displeased. Let us see what was taking place during this memorable eve...

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...s not reinstated in the Commissariat till 1823, when he was needed for the Spanish war. In 1830 he took office as the fourth wheel of the coach, at th... ...ans. War is coming to an end, my dear made- moiselle; it went out with the Monarchy. This is the age of triumph for commerce, and industry, and middle...

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...rling mark which is at present affixed to plate and bars of silver, or the Spanish mark which is sometimes affixed to ingots of gold, and which, being... ...ven the mines of Potosi not worth the working. Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as ... ...imes of more opulence and improvement. Silver must certainly be cheaper in Spanish America than in Europe; in the country where it is produced, than i... ...ent where there never was any demand before. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, t... ...xico and Peru have never furnished one single manufac- ture to Europe. The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever ex- ceeded five hundred men, and fr... ...ir first institution. That the power, and consequently the security of the monarchy, may not be weakened by division, it must descend entire to one of... ... and they are accordingly more restricted there than in any other European monarchy; though even England is not altogether without them. In Scotland, ... ...t a price regulated by the purveyor. Great Britain is, I believe, the only monarchy in Europe where the oppression of purveyance has been entirely abo... ...overs. There are more such, perhaps, in England than in any other European monarchy. In the republican governments of Holland, and of Berne in Switzer...

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... that he was pleased to see people point him out to one another. He wore a Spanish cloak, the capa, and he flung the red and green velvet of its lini... ...e fancy, and they were very restful. The names of the streets recalled the monarchy that passed away in bloodshed, and in poudre de riz . The very pl... ...ore 1291 that copies of Zohar began to 50 TheMagician be circulated by a Spanish Jew named Moses de Leon, who claimed to possess an autograph manusc... ...e an object of contempt to the world, because I shall be the King, and the Monarchy will be mine.’ Dr Porhoët closed the book. ‘Did you ever hear such... ... in the Saint Anne had the airless leth argy of some damasked chapel in a Spanish nunnery, and over the landscapes brooded a wan spirit of evil that ... ...elf was quite Parisian. As they drove along, she flirted a little with her Spanish fan and stole a glance at herself in the glass. Her gloves were so ...

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...cayed woollen. One or two strokes of a spade upturned the blade of a large Spanish knife, and, as we dug farther, three or four loose pieces of gold a... ...ticle of silver. All was gold of antique date and of great variety—French, Spanish, and German money, with a few English guineas, and some counters, o... ...his father Antiochus, and became immediately the residence of the Syr- ian monarchy. In the flourishing times of the Roman Empire, it was the ordinary... ...woman. Could not make out what was said, but be- lieved the language to be Spanish. The state of the room and of the bodies was described by this witn... ..., and ‘might have distinguished some words had he been acquainted with the Spanish.’ The Dutchman maintains it to have been that of a Frenchman; but w... ...n somewhat over-curious, but this wood would have every, characteristic of Spanish oak, if Span- ish oak were distended by any unnatural means. In rea...

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...made that at no very remote period the Government would terminate in virtual monarchy. It INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 8... ...iters upon that species of mixed government which in modern Europe is termed monarchy in contradistinc tion to despotism is correct, there was wantin... ...n aristocracy. The tendencies of all such governments in their decline is to monarchy, and the antagonist principle to liberty there is the spirit of ... ...ation was a patriotic celebration of the successes of the recently concluded Spanish Ameri can War. The new Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, was a... ...hange a proper policy in this regard. The policy of the United States in the Spanish war and since has given it a position of influence among the nati...

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...y parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite th... ... with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a ... ...my Jour- nal; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men... ...emember that the Emperour Charles V, when he read upon the tomb-stone of a Spanish nobleman, “Here lies one who never knew fear,” wittily said, “Then ... ...our of unques- tionable superiority. ‘Sir, (said he,) you are for making a monarchy of what should be a republick.’ He was still more mortified, when ... ...to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish prov- erb says, “He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies,... ... 610 Boswell’s Life of Johnson languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary...

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...e placed ourselves on the side of democratic revolution against autocratic monarchy, and we cannot afford to go on shilly-shallying with that choice. ... ...icu- lar it is manifest now by a hundred signs that they dread the fall of monarchy in Germany and Austria. Far rather would they make the most abject... ... THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONAR THE FUTURE OF MONARCHY CHY CHY CHY CHY FROM THE VERY OUTSET of this war it was manifest t... ...ents of the nineteenth century into monarchical channels. Italy was made a monarchy; Greece, the mother- land of republics, was handed over to a needy... ...th Year remember that such a clash must never recur. But in justice to our monarchy we must remember that after the death of Queen Victoria, the spiri... ... not an inch of the rock anywhere that is not within five miles or less of Spanish land, and that there is rather more than a semicircle of hills roun...

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... is the most harmful of all, for wherever they go they reconcile people to monarchy and set back the clock of progress. The valuable princes, the desi... ...m oirs.” I am properly grateful to her for her (unconscious) satire upon monarchy and nobility, and therefore nothing which her hand touched or her ... ...cial aspects upon paper; that he perfected himself in French, Italian, and Spanish on the road; that he went in Leicester’s expedition to the Low Coun...

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...liar char- acteristic of the Spaniard. The slightest approxi- mation, in a Spanish prince, to the obnoxious tenets of Luther and Calvin, would have al... ...subjects, and a defection from the Pope would have cost him the kingdom. A Spanish prince had no alter- native but orthodoxy or abdication. The same r... ...se general considerations, which must have been equally weighty with every Spanish mon- arch, were, in the particular case of Charles V., still furthe... ...which, in cooler moments, he would have sunk exhausted. The terrors of the Spanish Inquisition, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s, procured for th... ...en- gaged in a bloody conflict with the Flemings. By it, the flower of the Spanish troops were drawn to the confines of Germany. With what ease might ... ...arians Matthias had not hesitated to com- ply. For Hungary was an elective monarchy, and the republican constitution of the country jus- tified to him... ... hand alone their united power could be rendered available. The formidable monarchy which Charles V. and his son had unnaturally constructed of the Ne... ...rnal splendour concealed the inward wounds at which the life-blood of this monarchy was oozing; and the belief of its strength sur- vived, because it ... ... them to maintain their independence in a bloody war against the Span- ish monarchy. Aware how much they owed their own liberty to foreign support, th...

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...ccasion to the slaughter of many innocent inhabitants. The neighborhood of Spanish and British territories, bor- dering on some States and not on othe... ...here ever was a sovereign who bid fair to realize the project of universal monarchy, it was the Emperor Charles V ., of whose intrigues Wolsey was at ... ...ing which their constitutions would acquire a progressive direction toward monarchy. It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expen... ...driven to the alternative ei- ther of taking refuge at once in the arms of monarchy, or of splitting ourselves into an infinity of little, jealous, cl... ...ding the sphere of popular government, and reconciling the ad- vantages of monarchy with those of republicanism. “It is very probable,” (says he*) “th... .... In the kingdom of Great Britain, where all the ostentatious apparatus of monarchy is to be provided for, not above a fif- teenth part of the annual ...

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...them a love-story not made up, the coup-de-foudre, the lightning-stroke of Spanish love; and you will marvel how a spell so sudden and vehement can be... ...complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the conservative monarchy; Aus- trian statesmen did see at the time that the real dan- ger t... ...g of the term, as the fact I am going to relate will show. She was off the Spanish coast, homeward bound, and fairly full, just like the Titanic; and ...

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...e author of his own disease. CHAPTER IV CORPUS CHRISTI—MEXICAN SMUG- GLING—SPANISH RULE IN MEXICO— SUPPLYING TRANSPORTATION EARLY IN SEPTEMBER the reg... ...but the majority accomplished the object of their youthful ambition. Under Spanish rule Mexico was prohibited from produc- ing anything that the mothe... ...public opinion—spread more rapidly and universally than good ones, and the Spanish colonists adopted the use of to- bacco almost as generally as the n... ...vered from the fire of the enemy. But the streets leading to the plaza—all Spanish or Spanish-American towns have near their centres a square called a... ...he door who, while extremely polite, declined to admit us. With the little Spanish then at my command, I explained to him that he might save property ... ...ese nations seized upon Mexico as a foot- hold for establishing a European monarchy upon our conti- nent, thus threatening our peace at home. I, mysel... ...nited States. I did not blame France for her part in the scheme to erect a monarchy upon the ruins of the Mexican Republic. That was the scheme of one...

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... and con- sequently prevented, when the object picked up was found to be a Spanish knife which a dozen persons at once recognized as belonging to Mr. ... ..., like banners, o’er, Appeared to my half-closing eye The pageantry of monarchy, And the deep trumpet-thunder’s roar Came hurriedly upon me, tel...

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...would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorte... ... the Most High, If he opposed; and with ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God Raised impious war in heav’n and battle proud With vain a...

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...iers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with th... ...in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait. He was reb... ...ike the Sudanese, would eventually hear warnings, including from the Saudi monarchy. 72 Though Bin Ladin had promised Taliban leaders that he would be... ...as a Sunni religious/nationalist opposition to the British-backed Egyptian monarchy , spread throughout the Arab world in the mid–twentieth century . ... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer... ... meet- ing and were connected to the 9/11 attacks. In an indictment of the Spanish cell members dated September 17, 2003, the Spanish government relie... ...deotaped a number of U.S. landmarks, including the W orld Trade Center.The Spanish indictment alleges that an al Qaeda courier was in Ghalyoun’s town ...