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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... is tear- ful-boastful leave-taking; irregular marching on the Great North-Eastern Road. Marseillese sing their wild To Arms, in chorus; which now all... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ... the Prussian batteries were playing their briskest at Longwi in the North-East, and our dastardly Lavergne saw nothing for it but surrender,— south-w... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...engers; are met by gloomy answers. Of Sardinia rising to invade the South- East, and Spain threatening the South, we do not speak. But are not the Pru...

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.......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ....................................................... ......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.II. Easter at Paris. ............................................................. ...per agonies, what convulsive struggles he may take to cast the torture off from him; and then finally the last departure of life itself, and how he li... ...hat had not the force even to die. Was French Royalty, when wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Th... ..., Here shalt thou stand and not there; and can treat with it, and make it, from an infinite, a quite finite Constitutional scarecrow,—what is to be lo... ...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ...while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break in fro...

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............................................................... 181 A CERTAIN PEOPLE ....................................................................... ..............................................................255 A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD ........................................................ ............................................... 484 THE MARES OF THE CAMARGUE—From the ‘Mireio’ of Mistral ................................. 485 ‘ATKINS’... ..................................................... 505 ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE .................................................................. ...y and plain The goodly bales her decks revealed; Brought from the fruitful eastern glebes Where blow the gusts of balm and spice, Or where the black b... ... ark of human fate, Long baffled by the wayward wind, Is drifting with its peopled freight, Safe haven on the heights to find; 23 Safe haven from the... ...eal and stain the symbols of the Lord! THE SLEEPING CITY A Princess in the eastern tale Paced thro’ a marble city pale, And saw in ghastly shapes of s... ...rnity; – A marbled City planted there With all its pageants and despair; A peopled hush, a Death not dead, But stricken with Medusa’s head; – And in t... ...By the sanctuary stream, And the god with golden swiftness Follows like an eastern beam. Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest ...

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...lence, her enemies within her frontiers—all proved the great Richelieu no longer in existence. In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted ... ...t the red simar which occupied the wonted place was his no longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation which seemed, as we have obser... ... seemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a living creature— from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courts crowded with ... ... as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, the Swiss troops ... ...se,” he continued, “of the parliament! Both Orleans and Montargis are ours. It will be a work of time, but those who have begun by crying out: Down wi... ...is difficulties. Discontent had long pervaded the lower ranks of society in France. Crushed and impoverished by taxation—imposed by Mazarin, whose ava... ... strangle Grimaud.” “I doubt, however,” said La Ramee, in sprightly allusion to the silence of his subordinate, “if he has said anything disagreeable ... ...up with a movement full of dignity. 203 Dumas “The best swordsman in the kingdom, my lord,” said D’Artagnan. Porthos bowed to his friend. Mazarin was...

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...f Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferred that he was born on the 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those t...

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...in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Malone has inferr... ... 23d. There is doubtless, on the one hand, no absolute necessity deducible from law or custom, as either operated in those times, which obliges us to ... ... for children might be bap- tized, and were baptized, at various distances from their birth: yet, on the other hand, the 23d is as likely to have been... ...me the military headquarters for the queen in 1644, when marching from the eastern coast of England to join the king in Oxford; and one such special v... ...y is to be received as evi- dence of pauperism, nine tenths of the English people might occasionally be classed as paupers. With respect to his libera... ... their debts. And the prob- ability is, that Master Sadler acted like most people who, when they suppose a man to be going down in the world, feel the... ...nevitably have mixed chiefly with mechanics and humble tradesmen, for such people composed perhaps the total community . But had there even been a gen... ...r one or two roads, and so far dis- turbs this decussation, by shifting it eastwards, is still in Warwickshire. NO NO NO NO NOTE 10. TE 10. TE 10. TE ... ...rwards, therefore, until he was emancipated by the noble generosity of the East India Directors, Lamb’s time, for nine- and-twenty years, was given to...

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...RO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle The text is taken from the printed “Sterling Edition” of Carlyle’s Complete Works, in 20 volu... ...s profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative re- gion of him, ... ...mbassy to that country, and see. They have their belief, these poor Thibet people, that Provi- dence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into ... ...ectively name Universe, Nature, or the like,—and so with a name dismiss it from us. T o the wild deep-hearted man all was yet new, not veiled under na... ... Im- mensity, old as Eternity. What is it? God’s Creation, the reli- gious people answer; it is the Almighty God’s! Atheistic sci- ence babbles poorly... ...know not what:— the notes being all false, and no gold to be had for them, people take to crying in their despair that there is no gold, that there ne... ...vasions there were: and this, of course, in a greater proportion along the east coast; and greatest of all, as I find, in the North Country. From the ... ...siastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a pe... ...y. It had at one time a population of 100,000; buyers, forwarders of those Eastern and Western products; importers for their own behoof of provisions ...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...ew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated 4 A Book of Golden Deeds (from Gregory of T ours) in Thierry’s ‘Lettres sur l’Histoire de France;’ th... ...dventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the ... ... from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the tra- dition... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...ht their way to him, putting all enemies in the valleys to flight. But the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mount... ... Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from... ...gainst the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonie...

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...sible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart...

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...out them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of th... ...llows. I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many En- glish people. Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce ... ...a provided yearly winter quar- ters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to Septem- ber. You will gather from this statement that one of u... ... from this statement that one of us had, as the saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she was the sufferer. Captain... ...th, the two months or so were only just enough to keep poor Florence alive from year to year. The reason for his heart was, approximately, polo, or to... ...ing more particularly what in England it is the custom to call “quite good people”. They were descended, as you will probably expect, from the Ashburn... ...the castle of St Elizabeth of Hungary. It has the disadvantage of being in Prussia; and it is always disagreeable to go 26 The Good Soldier into that... ...inen trousers. And it was pleasant to get out in the great big spectacular Prussian station with the hammered bronze ornaments and the paintings of pe... ...self-explanation. Their rooms all gave on to the gallery; Leonora’s to the east, the girl’s next, then Edward’s. The sight of those three open doors, ...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ .......................................................... 266 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ....................................................... ......................................................... 266 Chapter 2.4.II. Easter at Paris. ............................................................. ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glit- tering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from its shafts of light; let the Abs...

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.......................................................... 241 Chapter 1.7.XI.From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...ches resounded with suppli- cations and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien- aime fashion... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been car- ried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and bee... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘ex- press themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Ba... ...t beleagured and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glittering down the eastern steeps; fly, false Phantasms, from its shafts of light; let the Abs... ...e remedial, he really cannot take upon him to advise. ‘On the Monday after Easter,’ the 9th of April 1787, a date one rejoices to verify, for nothing ... ...indo- lent falsehood of these Histoires and Memoires,—’On the Monday after Easter, as I, Besenval, was riding towards Romainville to the Marechal de S...

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...re is no end, there never will be an end, of the lamentations which ascend from earth and the rebellious heart of her children, upon this huge opprobr... ...n-place of humanity, is the subject in every age of variation without end, from the poet, the rhetorician, the fabulist, the moralist, the divine, and... ... sunny smiles and many tears—a little love and infinite strife—whisperings from paradise and fierce mockeries from the anarchy of chaos—dust and ashes... ...great masters of literature, especially those of modern times; so that few people knew the high classics more familiarly: and as to the passage in que... ... necessities of public business coming back in a torrent upon the official people after this momentary interruption, forbade them to indulge any furth... ...int seemed to justify almost more than hopes. This might be said, and most people would have been more or less con- soled by it. I was not. I felt as ... ...less generally known, or more striking to the imagination, than the flight eastwards of a principal Tartar nation across the boundless steppes of Asia... ...ne side, strong by her intellect and her organization, and the `Bar- baric East’ on the other, with her unnumbered numbers? The match was a monstrous ... ...emnly appointed under religious sanctions by the Lama, the Kalmucks on the east bank of the Wolga were seen at the earliest dawn of day as- sembling b...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ther. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor would fade from the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, th... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ... into a spacious and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third dow... ...straction; viz. New-year’s- day, the day of his wife’s death, Good Friday, Easter-day, and his own birth-day. He this year says:—’I have now spent fif... ...to be imputed to a sick man as a crime. In his retrospect on the following Easter-Eve, he says, ‘When I review the last year, I am able to recollect s... ...ffering’ was to be strongly exemplified in him. On Sunday, April 19, being Easter-day, Gen- eral Paoli and I paid him a visit before dinner. We talked...

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.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ .......................... ...................................... 231 Extract from Adam’s Diary ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...uld you wanting to talk in that dreadful way? How would you like to have people talk so about you, and you not cold yet?” “Not likely to be, for o... ... beans and black coffee, and nothing of ornament but war pictures from the Eastern illustrated pa pers tacked to the log walls. That was all hard, ch... ...companies these remarks— the portrait of his Majesty William III., King of Prussia—is my fifth attempt in portraits, and my greatest success. It has r... ... I wish it would stay with the other animals … . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain … . we? Where did I get that word—the new c...

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...elong exclusively to Celtic nature, seeing that it had been drawn directly from a scion of one of those tribes. Young Patrick jumped from the train as... ...n-island brain of a youth whose manner of hating was to conjure her spirit from the air and let fly his own in pursuit of her. It has to be stated tha... ...taining Miss Adister’s Continental address; to gather what he could of her from her relatives, and then forthwith to proceed in search of her, that he... ...impse of the devilry in that exclusion of the valse. What object had those people in encouraging the young fellow to be a perfect fencer and dancer, s... ...eir not beat- ing us is that they’ll be so good as follow our bad example. Prussia’s well horsed, and for the work it’s intended to do, the Austrian l... ... the captain, your cousin, who has apparently yet to learn that we are one people.’ ‘We ‘re held together and a trifle intermixed; I fancy it’s we wit... ... Adiante.’ ‘Well did I hate the name! I heard it first over in France. Our people wrote to me of her; and it’s a name to set you thinking: Is she tend... ...als are venting their fine irony at the Austrians and the Russians and the Prussians for tearing Poland to strips with their bloody beaks.’ ‘We obey o... ...met in Trieste. He was about to start by one of the Austrian boats for the East.’ ‘Not disturbed! no! with a rotten potato inside it paralys- ing dige...

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...sentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperi...

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...imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the a... ...thing here which was not the possible thought of great multitudes of other people, and capable of becoming the common thought of mankind. One writes i... ...fferent sort or class of boy there, for adult students, for reference, for people expert in mathematics, for people unused to the scientific method, a... ...ve no possible interest; they will have come at these questions themselves from different angles and they will have long since got to their own conclu... ... of Mr. Fayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating d... ...r Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “League to... ...ck soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned. They have made their east- ern treaties, it is true, in this mode, but they are still looking fo... ... the past to set up international admin- istrations in Africa and the Near East. And these gentlemen think at once of some new Congo administration an... ...g out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already controlling t...

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...ed to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by his marriag... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...n powerful quarters: least of all could he have ex pected favour from the East India Company, to whose com mercial privileges he was unqualifiedly h... ...pring of 1819, about a year after the publication of the History, that the East India Di rectors desired to strengthen the part of their home estab ... ...hey are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinio... ...life, were decided by my father’s obtaining for me an appointment from the East In dia Company, in the office of the Examiner of India Corre sponden...

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...erly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, cannot be regarded as premature. The fact is tha... ...d, which was but a de- cent thing to do, but in no way polished, extending from the year ’98 to the year ’20, a thin array (for such a stretch of time... ...yes! Bribery? What can you expect? I never pretended to be better than the people in the next street, or even in the same street. This volume (includi... ...ttle dusty (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reason... ... of the language. But I need not labour the point. There will be plenty of people sagacious enough to perceive the absence of all wisdom from these pa... ...was practical and I had to consider warily the preconceived notions of the people to whom it was implicitly addressed, and also their unjustifi- able ... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...emed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mus... ... I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things, the war in the Far East has been made known to us, so far, in a grey reflec- tion of its terri...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...the gilded equipage of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon),... ...antastic plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The p... ..., not inglo- riously, in many wars, against mighty odds; but ’twas a small people, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’... ... able little theatre. Godfrey had the box. He was strolling, list- lessly, eastward; and the above thoughts passed through the young noble’s mind as h... ...with us. As for the Rafael, I suppose you are aware that he was one of our people. But what are you gazing at? Oh! my sister—I forgot. Miriam! this is... ...wever, my fate to make the passage to India (on board of the “Samuel Snob” East Indiaman, Captain Duffy,) with this lovely creature, and my misfortune...

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...es in Bohemia. — Civil War. — Ferdinand extirpates the Protestant Religion from Styria. — The Elector Palatine, Frederick V., is chosen King by the Bo... ...ical sym- pathy announced itself; a desolating war of thirty years, which, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the bank... ... was the result of the war. As the sparks of de- struction found their way from the interior of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austria, to kindle Ger- many, Fr... ...werless would have been the ar- guments of theologians; and the cry of the people would never have met with princes so willing to espouse their cause,... ...r blood for the personal objects of their princes. And well was it for the people that, on this occasion, their interests coincided with those of thei... ...nnect the in- terests of the cabinet with some one that sits nearer to the people’s heart, if such exists, or if not, to create it. In such a position... ...ks were the two salutary weights which kept down the Austrian power in the East and West; but it would rise again in all its ter- rors, if once it wer... ...turned; but the spark which kindled the flame came unex- pectedly from the east. The tranquillity which Rodolph II.’s ‘Letter of Majesty’ had establis... ...ret arming among the Turks spread consternation among the provinces to the eastward; and, to complete his perplexities, the Protestants also, in his h...

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...e broad awake. Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. They would, he thought, be sold up and sent ... ... hunting, shooting, fishing, flirting, eating, and drinking. The same nice people, the same utter futility. The nice people could read; some of them c... ...r any chance of sharing or influencing their activi- ties. But they shrank from that contact. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia... ...t. They hated politics. They did not wish to realize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their o... ...cs). It is true that the two establishments got mixed at the edges. Exiles from the library, the music room, and the picture gallery would be found la... ... incredible ignorance of modern thought and political science but upstarts from the counting-house, who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets... ... and the house is a flagstaff on a little esplanade, with a hammock on the east side and a long garden seat on the west. A young lady, gloved and hatt... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra... ...of the poop, finds Lady Utterword lying voluptuously in the hammock on the east side of the flagstaff, in the circle of light cast by the electric arc...

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...7 Selected Writings incidents which prompted them, that he also suf- fered from an excess of nervous emotionalism. Nine times out of ten, what is the ... ...ketches of brutal customs with an element of delicate scorn, preserves him from coarseness. It is this constant and involuntary antithesis which gives... ...or who is growing old and an ob- scure junior, whose renown is increasing. From 10 De Maupassant generation to generation, envy reascends no less tha... ...uence of his honesty and partly of mental despair. He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for... ... 22 De Maupassant MADEMOISELLE FIFI THE M AJOR G RAF* VON F ARLSBERG, the Prussian com- mandant, was reading his newspaper, lying back in a great arm... ...d become immortalized by that; but with that exception, they refused their Prussian con- querors nothing. The commandant and his officers laughed amon... ... officers laughed among themselves at that inoffensive courage, and as the people in the whole country round showed them- selves obliging and complian... ...e. The very fact of bearing arms and handling guns with a system excited a people who hitherto had only handled scales and measures, and made them for... ... became quite clear, luminous, and bright, and a rosy tint appeared in the east. Sud- denly a voice in the distance cried: “ ‘Who goes there?’ “The wh...

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...ESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY original from the publishers Boston, Estes and Lauriat, Publishers To the Right Hono... ...ll the produce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esm... ...d here in our Republic, or at home in the always beloved mother coun- try, from which our late quarrel hath separated us, may surely be proud to be de... ... last an extraordi- nary brightness and freshness of complexion; nor would people believe that she did not wear rouge. At sixty years of age she still... ...eard my father use a rough word, ’twas extraordinary with how much awe his people regarded him; and the servants on our plantation, both those assigne... ...h as the most severe taskmasters round about us could never get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was ... ... looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel that faced east- 34 Henry Esmond wards and the buildings stretching from that to the ... ...ks, and Harry Esmond his sleeping closet. The side of the house facing the east had escaped the guns of the Cromwellians, whose battery was on the hei... ...ns, whose battery was on the height facing the western court; so that this eastern end bore few marks of demolition, save in the chapel, where the pai...