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Excerpt: Seraphita by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This vi...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic... ...rriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bel... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ...Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ion. “I am thirty-eight years old, sir. It will be two years come next St. John’s Day since my husband died.” She finished dressing the poor sickly mi... ...l-being. The peasants are one and all the sons of St. Thomas, the doubting apostle—they always like words to be supported by visible facts. “Perhaps y... ...thy steadings that M. Gravier and I had constructed. Our tenants became my apostles. They made rapid converts of unbelievers, dem- onstrating the soun... ...g after his business; so we stood our ground likewise, as cool and calm as John the Baptist. I do not know how he did it; but when- ever he spoke, a s...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Gre...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...er, holding a high com- mand in the army. At the accession of Henry V. Sir John Falstaff was only thirty-four years old. This general, who dis- tingui... ...spirit of their age. The religious reform undertaken by Luther in Germany, John Knox in Scotland, Calvin in France, took hold espe- cially of those mi... ...an that of Geneva, Calvin would have shed more blood than did the terrible apostle of political equality as opposed to Catholic equality. Three centur... ...re destined to be one of the builders of the social edifice founded by the Apostles. So long as you level heads you will be applauded, but take your t...

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...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the...

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...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is exces...

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...ll A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...tion Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Honorine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...f that august face, whose native ugliness was redeemed by the spirit of an apostle, you would understand the feeling which made me answer the Cure of ... ...I bought and paid for one of the handsom- est houses in the Faubourg Saint-Honore. If I win back Honorine, I will not allow her to see this house agai... ...eventy- five years of age. My uncle is not a Grand Inquisitor, he is Saint John; but for you he will be Fenelon—the Fenelon who said to the Duc de Bou...

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Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...f celibacy; for he had, from his youth up, adopted the principles of Saint John Chrysostom, who wrote that “the virgin state is as far above the marri... ...e day roused, and not without success, a discussion on the ubiquity of the apostles, which she was unable to comprehend. Such efforts at conversation ... ..., and ambition, that eld- erly ruin, combed and curled like a little Saint-John in a procession, alarmed Mademoiselle Cormon. She saw the gentleman in...

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Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Not...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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