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...ain of, however, is that it is not to be solved, for I am not at all clear about it myself by this time. All I can say is that the personality of the ... ...r after the fact. I mean the fact of writing a story. What I remember best about 5 Joseph Conrad Gaspar Ruiz is that it was written, or at any rate b... ...erred for some reason or other to the “well-known fact” of two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army hav- ing fought a series of duels in the midst of gre... ... of historical fiction. I had heard in my boyhood a good deal of the great Napoleonic legend. I had a genuine feeling that I would find myself at home... ... prefers, of that presumption. Personally I have no qualms of con- science about this piece of work. The story might have been better told of course. ... ...istory; so that, vanishing from men’s active memories, they still exist in books. The name of General Santierra attained that cold paper-and-ink immor... ...per-and-ink immortality. He was a South Ameri- can of good family, and the books published in his lifetime numbered him amongst the liberators of that... ...used to say, in such an unac- countable manner. A MILITARY TALE THE DUEL I NAPOLEON I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Eu... ...hotels in Sorrento or hiring a small villa in Capri. He had a piano, a few books: picked up transient acquaintances of a day, week, or month in the st...

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...the head of ten thou- sand men; which seems a small quantity to think much about, but they wore wide red breeches blown out by Fame, big as her cheeks... ...lieved him of his tyrant, and he is entreated notwithstanding to go to his books. Will you not own that the working of the system for scar- ing him an... ...he con- jectures here. A savour of North Sea foam and ballad pirates hangs about the early chronicles of the family. Indications of an ancestry that h... ...sown in his bosom perhaps. He said: ‘I don’t care to win glory; I know all about that; I ‘ve seen an old hat in the Louvre.’ And he would have had her... ...ave had her to suppose that he had looked on the campaigning head-cover of Napoleon simply as a shocking bad, bald, brown-rubbed old tricorne rather t... ...h dien’ was the best motto afloat. Rosamund noticed the peculiarity of the books he selected for his private reading. They were not boys’ books, books... ... that he could not quite master it, liked it. He had dug the book out of a bookseller’s shop in Malta, captivated by its title, and had, since the day... ...ing his first hard battles, that his cause was hopeless—that resistance to Napoleon was impossible. The Duke never, never had loyal support but from t... ... ory Government. The Whigs, papa says, absolutely preached sub- mission to Napoleon! The Whigs, I hear, were the Liberals of those days. The two Pitts...

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...or her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engine...

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...gypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather and had... ...sed of. A man bra- zen enough to declare that he could hold us in suspense about the adventures of a broomstick, with the aid of a yashmak and an ankl... ...she quite lovely and spirited. No wonder the whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them s... ...nd I must say I regard him as an interesting character. During my girlhood Napoleon Bonaparte alone would have been his rival for filling an inn along... ...s of strife. They bless the spot, they light lamps on it; they put it into books of history, make it holy, if the cause was a noble one or a good one.... ...stood waiting for her initiative, when the minister interposed: ‘There are books, books of our titled people-the 156 The Amazing Marriage Peers, book... ...e throbbed rebelliously, and a picture of a desk near a lively fire-grate, books and pen and paper, and a piece of writing to be approved of by the He... ...le to meddle with.’ ‘We ‘re on the right side on the dispute.’ ‘It counts, Napoleon says. A Spanish civil war promises 357 George Meredith bloody doi...

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...mselves with the “degenerate” French and the “barbaric” Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at-... ... H G Wells trenches of Flanders, Mr. Noyes becomes discreetly indis- creet about what he has seen among the submarines, and Mr. Hugh Walpole catches t... ...de is full of puzzled-looking men. I have seen thousands of poilus sitting about in cafes, by the roadside, in tents, in trenches, thoughtful. I have ... ...w military roads; there has been scarcely a new road made in Venetia since Napoleon drove his straight, poplar-bordered highways through the land. M. ... ...s its failure to produce great and imposing personalities, mighty leaders, Napoleons, Caesars. I would indeed make that the essential thing in my reck... ...d and semi-divine personages which has included Cae- sar and Alexander and Napoleon the First—and Third. In the light of the new time we see the emper... ...ver, en- tirely un-posed. His talk reminded me somehow of Maurice Baring’s books; it had just the same quick, positive under- standing. And he had jus... ...nd to surprise the British military people, who are not accustomed to read books or talk shop, in the Boer war. In the thinly populated war region of ...

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...familiar shapes appeared, thin, wallowing bladders that flapped and rolled about, and grew bigger and bigger and rounder and rounder—balloons in cours... ...,” said Mr Tom Smallways. “Still, it ain’t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus... ...nto the Smallways blood. But there was something advanced and enterprising about young Smallways before he was out of short frocks. He was lost for a ... ...nt. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and wearing bowler hats and enterprising ties. H... ... national; all over the world his ruthless strength dominated minds as the Napoleonic legend had dominated minds. En- glishmen turned in disgust from ... ... acted wiz his usual decision— always he acts wiz wonterful decision. Like Napoleon. Di- rectly he was tolt of your descent into the camp at Dornhof, ... ... “Here!” he said, “get off this locker.” And he proceeded to rout out two books and a case of maps. He 97 H G Wells spread them on the folding-table... ...ips, which began their ca- reer with the floating batteries of the Emperor Napoleon III in the Crimean war and lasted, with an enormous expendi- ture ... ...mal vehemence. The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind—for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the ener...

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...y battle of Les Quatre Chemins. Though ruined by confiscation, the staunch Vendeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its precepts when he thought it fitting to choose a companion for life. In spite of the blandishments of a rich but revolutionary parvenu, who valued the al...

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... endeen steadily refused the lucrative posts offered to him by the Emperor Napoleon. Immovable in his aristocratic faith, he had blindly obeyed its pr... ... in the rush for places and dignities under the new Con- stitution, he was about to return to his property when he received a ministerial despatch, in... ...e sovereign; that there were bills of much longer standing than his on the books, and there, no doubt, they would remain, as part of the his- tory of ... ...ere to receive a handsome salary. He had the good sense to hold his tongue about the favor with which he was honored, and knew how to 7 Balzac entert... ...nting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- nounced at haphazard on books new or old, and could ex- pose the defects of a work with a cruelly g... ...nd the new aspect of the Monarchy. Louis XVIII. aimed at fusing parties as Napoleon had fused things and men. The legiti- mate King, who was not less ... ...nd the creations of the Empire, by curbing the clergy, as the first of the Napoleons had been to attract the grand old nobility, or to endow the Churc... ...e Comte de Fontaine made every effort to collect the elite of marrying men about his youngest daugh- ter. Those who may have tried to solve the diffic... ...d in giving a look of harmony to the files of bills, the letter-boxes, the books and furniture of this sanctum, where the interests of the royal demes...

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...to scatter a num- ber of more or less obvious prophecies through his other books. From first to last he has been writing for twenty years, so that it ... ...e a number of inners and outers, and some clean misses. Much that he wrote about in anticipation is now established commonplace. In 1894 there were st... ...er certain still wider misses that the idle may find for themselves in his books; he prefers to count the hits and leave the reckoning of the misses t... ...now proposes to treat. In this book he intends to hazard certain forecasts about the trend of events in the next decade or so. Mechanical novelties wi... ...high explosives, poison gas and submarines, there could be no doubt at all about the response. “Give peace in our time, O Lord,” is more than ever the... ...th what happened in the open- ing half of the nineteenth century after the Napoleonic wars, and it is not an agreeable outlook for those who love the ... ... common man the protection of a code. In the United Kingdom we have had no Napoleon to over- ride the profession. It is extraordinary how complete has... ...out by the Press; by which I mean not simply the periodical Press, but all books and contemporary discussion. It is only by the natural playing off of... ...go that Great Britain had her first lawyer Prime Minister. Through all the Napoleonic wars she was still a country ruled by great feudal landlords, an...

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...line of Rome. One can imagine the first Frenchman born into the world looking about him confidently, and saying: “Here I am; and now, how am I to make t... ... the dollar. To do that is to follow the line of least resistance in writing about America: you have only to copy what all the other travellers have s... ... the principle that every American’s ruling passion is money making, he cast about for an instance, and found a striking one. “So dominant,” he sugges... ...than the gossip of his neighbours, if he asks nothing more nourishing out of books and the theatre than he gets in hanging about the store, the bar an... ...conduct in the field of the knights of chivalry and of the parvenue heroes of Napoleon. It all comes back, perhaps, to the extraordinarily true French ...

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...y: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The ... ...he Economies of the Middle East II. The Costs of Coalition Building III. Is It All about Oil? IV. The Axis of Oil V. Saddam’s One Thousand Nights ... ...n their societies. Similarly, pluralities in most of the nations surveyed complain about American unilateralism."- expounded the year 2002 Pew repo... ...arges into paragons of democracy and good governance. And not for the first time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they serv... ... is higher. Russia's oil industry is private and keeps much of its revenues off the books. Tens of thousands of Russians used to purchase Iraqi g... ...ral resources of other polities and to benefit from them, and other eerie echoes of Napoleonic "Old Europe". But ideology does not consist merely o... ...ntury (following the 1815 Congress of Vienna) containing France. The trauma of the Napoleonic wars was the last in a medley of conflicts with an in... ...ed", Narcissus Publications, Prague and Skopje, 1999-2007 The Narcissism Series (e-books regarding relationships with abusive narcissists), Skopje,... ... The EIGHTH, REVISED PRINTING (January 2007) is now available! Seven additional e-books, All NEW Editions, JUST RELEASED!!! Malignant Self Love, T...

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...art -- The ghost of Capt. Kidd -- The screaming woman of Marblehead -- Stories about spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea o... ...heir Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A bloody battle with the Tlascalans -- Six ... ...- Suspicious death of Cortez's wife -- The white wings of peace -- Cortez sets about new conquests -- Fatal rebellion of Olid -- Cortes leads a land m... ...dge in the family circle; that it may be helpful in teaching the value of good books; and above all, that it may be an aid to the perpetuation of hono... ... glories of a fadeless past to make the world emulous of proud examples. About books of this character there is an atmosphere at once inspirational an... ...bus diverted her commerce into new channels and she gradually declined; lastly Napoleon destroyed her independence in 1797 and she became a shuttlecoc... ...as evident from the fact that in the king's library were to be seen many Latin books, these affording additional evidence of the claim that the Cathol... ...ille, a member of the French Embassy and afterwards an attache of the court of Napoleon, was accordingly commissioned to execute the official transfer... ...s, and on the organization of the Senate, he was made a member of that body by Napoleon, who also ennobled him. He continued in the public service unt...

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...the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and... ...r I (the liberal attempts at the beginning of his reign, his struggle with Napoleon, the firmness he displayed in 1812 and the campaign of 1813) flow ... ... who from his youth upwards has been occupied with learning: that is, with books and lectures and with taking notes from them. But even if we assume t... ...er, while others regard it as blameworthy. The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful, for it is impossible to say fo... ...curs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about chance. I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary ... ...rench but all Europe—except England which does not take part in the events about to happen—despite their former horror and detestation of his crimes, ... ...possess the utmost power and therefore to have the possibility of bringing about the welfare of his peoples—at the time when Napoleon in exile was dra... ...nt. In winter he visited his other villages or spent his time reading. The books he read were chiefly historical, and on these he spent a certain sum ... ... he said, a serious library, and he made it a rule to read through all the books he bought. He would sit in his study with a grave air, reading—a task...

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...been found from the most an- cient times, and so it is to our own day. All Napoleon’s wars serve to confirm this rule. In proportion to the defeat of ... ...hat ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, and then Napoleonic France itself. To strain the facts to fit the rules of history: ... ...the Russians, or that after Moscow there were other battles that destroyed Napoleon’s army, is impossible. After the French victory at Borodino there ... ...taken alive, and as he was a straggler he could tell them nothing definite about the troops in that column. Denisov considered it dangerous to make a ... ...held on to the hussar with cold, red hands, and raising his eyebrows gazed about him with surprise. This was the French drummer boy captured that morn... ...ed them to the edge of the forest. He ascended an incline, stopped, looked about him, and advanced to where the screen of trees was less dense. On rea... ... to make the story of the retreat fit their theory. But no! Moun- tains of books have been written by the historians about this campaign, and everywhe...

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...ot even wish to be believed. “Don’t tease! Well, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev’s dispatch? Y ou know everything.” “What can one say abou... ...essness as if it had only just occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowage... ...ded to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: “Now about your family. Do you know that since your daugh- ter came out everyone... ...e, who also enjoyed the famous ac- tress’ favors, and that in his presence Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was sub... ... follow it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short silence, again quoting Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded in.’ I do not... ...the Bour- bons fled from the Revolution leaving the people to anarchy, and Napoleon alone understood the Revolution and quelled it, and so for the gen... ...was full of things evidently in constant use. The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, t... ...ting table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as her father was tidy. She pu... ...ondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagi- nation, givin...

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...pression was purely gentle and confiding. A shade of pensiveness there was about her; but that was in her man- ners, scarcely ever in her features; an... ... that lovely 6th of April, such as I have described it, that 6th of April, about nine o’clock in the morn- 19 Thomas de Quincey ing, we were seated a... ...d two for a stroll which we had agreed to take in the neighboring meadows. About twenty minutes after this she again came into my study dressed for go... ...lessly certain of the final results as though I had seen the record in the books of Heaven. ‘Hope nothing,’ I said to myself; ‘think not of hope in th... ...n amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodus, authorized by an oracle venerat... ...ies its public verification along with itself. In the spring of 1799, when Napoleon was lying before Acre, he became anxious for news from Upper Egypt... ... the main, but reporting one tragical occurrence on a small scale that, to Napoleon, for a supersti- 234 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers tious rea... ...s to that mode of sortilegy which is conducted by throwing open privileged books at random, leaving to chance the page and the particular line on whic... ...ge and the particular line on which the oracular functions are thrown. The books used have varied with the caprice or the error of ages. Once the Hebr...

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...an happily performing one of the most solemn duties of his life. He walked about in front of the line and at every step pulled himself up, slightly ar... ... our excellency…” “Well, your excellency, what? Y our excellency! But what about your excellency?… nobody knows.” “Y our excellency, it’s the officer ... ...nctilious, your ex- cellency; but his character…” said Timokhin. “And what about his character?” asked the regimental com- mander. “It’s different on ... ...of the front door. Before returning to Bilibin’s Prince Andrew had gone to bookshop to provide himself with some books for the cam- paign, and had spe... ... bridge and not let us cross? But it will please our sovereign the Emperor Napoleon if we take this bridge, so let us three go and take it!’ ‘Y es, le... ... wars Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand…. The Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s acquain- tance.’ ... ...ops that were arriving from Russia. If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon’s army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off com...

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... INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country wit... ... and is not now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and s... ...hink that I had cause to be proud of my work. But it is very hard to write about any country a book that does not represent the country described in a... ...s—that ces- sion by France, however, having been made at the in- stance of Napoleon, and not in consequence of any de- mand made by the States. The di... ... was no one to meddle with them, and she guessed that it suited.” They had books and newspapers, tidy delf, and clean glass upon their shelves, and un... ...ance, provided with all that is most excellent in the way of rooms, desks, books, charts, maps, and imple- ments, is brought actually within the reach... ...oned private shops. Harper’s establishment for the manufacture and sale of books is also very wonderful. Everything is done on the premises, down to t...

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... and better understood, not to be working out its problems and bringing it about, is to be living outside of the contemporary life of the world. For a... ...t claim the self-subjugation of the journal- istic writer. Our innumerable books upon this great edifice of a World Peace do not constitute a scramble... ...e can—and a number of other writers have been doing what they can—to bring about a united declaration of all the Atlantic Allies in favour of a League... ... 1918. 6 In the Fourth Year It is a dangerous thing to recommend specific books out of so large and various a literature as the “League of Nations” i... ... is Sir Walter Phillimore’s “Three Centuries of Treaties.” Two ex- cellent books from America, that chance to be on my table, are Mr. Goldsmith’s “Lea... ...wers of the League. But before I come to that I would like to say a little about the more gen- eral question of its nature and authority. What sort of... ...aria. The weakening of the Bourbon system by the French revolution and the Napoleonic adventure cleared the way for the complete ascendancy of the Ger... ...world on foot or horseback or in galleys or sailing ships to the days when Napoleon, Wellington, and Nelson were going about at very much the same pac... ...indly to get things back to the conditions for which they were trained, to Napoleonic conditions, with infantry and cavalry and comparatively light gu...

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............................................................ 103 The Bee-Line Bookshop ..................................................................... ...e pressed against his palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two ... ...d him: “Isn’t it something to you that we’re going together?” They drifted about Europe for months—sometimes alone, sometimes with chance met gipsies ... ... many from a road. Trees, kine, and the out- lines of barns showed shadowy about them when they alighted, and Mr. and Mrs. Cloke, at the open door of ... ... splendidly sportin’ thing “ “Did you—er—kill?” said Sophie. She knew from books she could not go far wrong here. “Yes, a dry bitch—seventeen pounds,”... ... mind,” said Pinky, 26 Actions and Reactions brother to Skim Winsh, and a Napoleon among carters who had helped to bring the grand piano across the f... ...—” Sophie whimpered. “An’ to see you buildin’ your nest so busy—pianos and books—an’ never thinkin’ of a nursery!” “No more I did.” Sophie sat bolt up...

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...e length of the city, and is inserted on the maps as a full- blown street, about four miles in length. Go there, and you will find yourself not only o... ...esent moment it is almost all open space. There is also a certain nobility about the proposed dimen- sions of the avenues and squares. Desirous of pra... ... Gothic. The Capitol is by far the most imposing; and though there is much about it with which I cannot but find fault, it certainly is imposing. The ... ...about the first that ever did live or ever will live. Why, he whipped your Napoleon everlasting whenever he met him. He whipped everybody out of the f... ...read. Who would buy boots or coats, or want new saddles, or waste money on books, in such days as these, in such a town as Alexandria? And then out of... ...labor under sufficient restraint; but where are their men, where are their books, where is their learn- ing, their art, their enterprise? I say it wit... ...wever, if I go to Rolla again during the war, I will at any rate leave the books behind me. What a night we spent in that inn! They who know America w...

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...are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the assumptions that Wanda talks about.... ...ney. The general lack of reasoning ability in our human race is sad, when we all think we are thinking, but we are generally just reacting. As Napole... ...t ourselves to avoid crying for ourselves. 6 ―Wanda told me about ... ... 6 ―Wanda told me about your diverse group of lifelong friends. She said you had some very interesting discussions about ... ... promises of sex and the street corner businessmen guarantee you happiness when you buy their mind altering wares. And the marketing of sex in books,... ...ionally all the time. A brain injured person may not be able to think effectively at any time. The man in the mental hospital who thinks he is Napole... ... time. The man in the mental hospital who thinks he is Napoleon is probably wrong.‖ —―But what if reincarnation exists and he is really Napole... ...attorneys are always right. And if you don‘t believe it, I‘ll sue you for defamation of character!‖ —―I read about her. She had written books ... ...ch other, and often themselves. The power of knowing you are right makes some people do rather foolish things, like suicide bombings, burning books ...

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... things which every well-bred dramatist is bound to respect that his work is really unworthy of serious criticism (orthodox). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, according to his own story in ?The Man of Destiny,? Napoleon at Tavazzano knew of the Art of War....

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...really un- worthy of serious criticism (orthodox). Indeed he knows no more about the dramatic art than, accord- ing to his own story in “The Man of De... ...age, not that he cared for the dramatic art, for no man seems to care less about “ Art for Art’s sake,” being in this a perfect foil to his brilliant ... ... conven- tionalized senses are shocked. The only men who have no illusions about war are those who have re- cently been there, and, of course, Mr. Sha... ...the drama- tist is not so much the destruction as the explana- tion of the Napoleonic tradition, which has so pow- erfully influenced generation after... ...his play—extravaganza, that it is—will at- tain a clearer comprehension of Napoleon than they can get from all the biographies. “You Never Can Tell” o... ...he replaces it reverently, and selects a novel from the little pile of books. She turns over the leaves dreamily; finds her page; turns the bo... ...23 Shaw RAINA. Do you know what a library is? MAN. A library? A roomful of books. RAINA. Y es, we have one, the only one in Bulgaria. MAN. Actually a ... ..., torn and thumbed, and a couple of little hanging shelves with a few gift books on them, the rest of the wall space being occupied by trophies of war...

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...ace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood he made his bow reverentially to Goethe of Weimar; which did not check his hand from setting its mark on the sickliness of Werther....

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...hilosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood he made his bow rever- e... ... an accurate observer saw it, he could not be dishonest. Not a page of his books reveals malevolence or a sneer at humanity. He was driven to the sati... ... or a sneer at humanity. He was driven to the satirical task by the scenes about him. There must be the moralist in the satirist if satire is to strik... ... incorporation of the latter to abstain from the violent springs and right-about-facings of the Derby-Disraeli period. They are so heavily weighted by... ...cho of the old river Po and the classical Mincio. The whole of the troops, about 110,000 men, with which Cialdini intends to force the passage of the ... ...act is al- ready ascertained, that the armistice proposed by the Em- peror Napoleon has not been accepted, and that the war is to be continued. The Au... ...les five days before the announcement of the quarantine, while the ‘Prince Napoleon’ of Valery’s Company, passenger and merchandise steamer, which lef...

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........................................................................... 8 BOOKS—1905 ................................................................... ... than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be frank about it, is a process of tidying up, which, from the nature of things, can... ...aid that I might have taken up a broom and used it without saying anything about it. That, certainly, is one way of tidying up. But it would have been... ...ua- tion, was shaped by the actual circumstances of the time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, hon... ...ch all sinners against themselves are entitled. J. C. 1920. PART I—LETTERS BOOKS—1905 I “I HAVE NOT READ this author’s books, and if I have read them ... ...m pleased with his temper, which is that of prudence. “I have not read the books,” he says, and immediately he adds, “and if I have read them I have f... ...e, comes to us from the past, with solemn approval, after the close of the Napoleonic wars and before the series of sanguinary surprises held in reser... ...uch resemble a corpse. The subtle and mani- fold influence for evil of the Napoleonic episode as a school of violence, as a sower of national hatreds,... ...o dawn on the horizon of the Vienna Congress through the subsiding dust of Napoleonic alarums and excursions, has been extinguished by the larger glam...

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...t even wish to be believed. “Don’t tease! W ell, and what has been decided about Novosiltsev’s dispatch? Y ou know everything.” “What can one say abou... ...essness as if it had only just occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motive of his visit, “is it true that the Dowage... ...ded to the Empress) and at the same time to console him, so she said: “Now about your family . Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone ... ...e, who also enjoyed the famous actress’ favors, and that in his pres- ence Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was sub... ...ollow it,’” Prince Andrew continued after a short si- lence, again quoting Napoleon’s words. “‘I opened my antechambers and they crowded in.’ I do not... ...red Mon- sieur Pierre, “was a political necessity, and it seems to me that Napoleon showed greatness of soul by not fearing to take on himself the who... ...s full of things evidently in con- stant use. The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, t... ...ting table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as her father was tidy. She pu... ...dness some people have for confus- ing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving ...

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...tween a man who says that the people of the West moved on the East because Napoleon wished it and a man who says that this happened because it had to ... ...ad Moscow not burned down? If Murat had not lost sight of the Russians? If Napoleon had not remained inactive? If the Rus- sian army at Krasnaya Pakhr... ... Pakhra? What would have happened if on approach- 5 Tolstoy ing Tarutino, Napoleon had attacked the Russians with but a tenth of the energy he had sh... ...French forces. In the refreshment room and the hall, footmen were bustling about with wine and viands. Groups of singers stood outside the windows. Th... ... to wait; but one of the generals espied him and, hearing what he had come about, informed Ermolov. Ermolov came forward with a frown on his face and,... ...ghingstock of the whole army! “I needn’t have been in such a hurry to pray about today, or have kept 15 Tolstoy awake thinking everything over all ni... ...ch. That night the doors were again broken open, the padlocks smashed, the books mutilated, and other disorders perpetrated.” With reference to commer...

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...of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and ... ...g party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: “My respected Brother, I consent to ... ...at the matter seemed like that to con- temporaries. It naturally seemed to Napoleon that the war was caused by England’s intrigues (as in fact he said... ...ave happened. So all these causes— myriads of causes—coincided to bring it about. And so there was no one cause for that occurrence, but it had to occ... ...other that a Saxon should be shot, on whom a letter containing information about the orders to the French army had been found, Napoleon also gave inst... ...tly bowed his head. The Emperor re-entered the ballroom and remained there about another half-hour. Boris was thus the first to learn the news that th... ...e of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consist- ing of one of the innumerable combinations of...

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...iversity. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK TEN: 1812 CHAPTER I NAPOLEON BEGAN THE WA R with Russia because he could not resist going to Dr... ...complishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected—neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fig... ...r the only thing that could save Russia, while on the French side, despite Napoleon’s experience and so-called military genius, every effort was direc... ...ver of the inevitable, or of the one way of saving Russia. Everything came about fortu- itously. The armies were divided at the commencement of the ca... ...en. 8 War and Peace – Book Ten While disputes and intrigues were going on about the future field of battle, and while we were looking for the French—... ...o say: “There, you see? Y ou plotted against me, you lied to Prince Andrew about my relations with that Frenchwoman and made 9 Tolstoy me quarrel wit... ... herself, and talking to Dessalles; the rest of the day she spent over her books, with her old nurse, or with “God’s folk” who some- times came by the... ... put it under the bast matting and cover it with hay—that’s the way!” “Eh, books, books!” said another peasant, bringing out Prince Andrew’s library c... ...ew’s library cupboards. “Don’t catch up against it! It’s heavy, lads—solid books.” “Y es, they worked all day and didn’t play!” remarked the tall, rou...

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...ayings and doings “the Revolution”; then they give a detailed biography of Napoleon and of certain people favorable or hostile to him; tell of the inf... ... cause of a stronger. The sum of human wills produced the Revolu- tion and Napoleon, and only the sum of those wills first toler- ated and then destro... ...ahead were a few dozen miles separating it from its goal. Every soldier in Napoleon’s army felt this and the invasion moved on by its own momentum. Th... ... pressed the hands of some and nodded to others. His adjutant Kaysarov was about to draw back the curtain of the window facing Kutuzov, but the latter... ...Granddad.” She was nearest to him and saw how his face puckered; he seemed about to cry, but this did not last long. “Russia’s ancient and sacred capi... ...dships? He is a man who has been more than a father to me!” The prince was about to say something, but Helene interrupted him. “W ell, yes,” said she,... ... must keep at least one cart.” “What’s in it?” asked Natasha. “The count’s books.” “Leave it, V asilich will put it away. It’s not wanted.” The phaeto... ...m Bazdeev’s widow had called to ask Pierre to take charge of her husband’s books, as she herself was leaving for the country. “Oh, yes, in a minute; w... ...all the affairs awaiting Pierre that day the sorting of Jo- seph Bazdeev’s books and papers appeared to him the most necessary. He hired the first cab...

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...xpressed to Pierre, he diligently followed all that went on, received many books, and to his surprise noticed that when he or his father had visitors ... ...rs. Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical of survey our la... ...ctful smile. “What?” “It’s pleasant, your excellency!” “What is he talking about?” thought Prince Andrew. “Oh, the spring, I suppose,” he thought as h... ...among the smiling birch trees. Only the dead-looking evergreen firs dotted about in the for- est, and this oak, refused to yield to the charm of sprin... ...ged to bathe. Prince Andrew, depressed and preoccupied with the busi- ness about which he had to speak to the Marshal, was driving up the avenue in th... ...d his companion at Erfurt, where he had more than once met and talked with Napoleon. Speranski did not shift his eyes from one face to another as peop... ...rt of the Civil Code that was being drawn up and, with the aid of the Code Napoleon and the Institutes of Justinian, he worked at formulating the sect... ...its own particular tone. The largest of these was the French circle of the Napoleonic alliance, the circle of Count Rumyantsev and Caulaincourt. In th... ... Bezukhova’s salon was regarded as a diploma of intellect. Y oung men read books before attending Helene’s evenings, to have something to say in her s...

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...ife that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it. Pierre felt that she right, and to avoid compromising her went aw... ...y choirs, schools, subscription dinners, sprees, Freemasons, churches, and books—no one and nothing met with a refusal from him, and had it not been f... ...with all his heart to establish a republic in Russia; then himself to be a Napoleon; then to be a philosopher; and then a strategist and the conqueror... ...leon; then to be a philosopher; and then a strategist and the conqueror of Napoleon? Had he not seen the possibility of, and passionately desired, the... ...nd refine- 6 War and Peace – Book Eight ment, and they pay homage to her. Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now tha... ..., and they intrigue, the Astraea Lodge against the Manna Seekers, and fuss about an authentic Scotch carpet and a charter that nobody needs, and the m... ...visit him and had grown accustomed to him. Metivier came to see the prince about twice a week. On December 6—St. Nicholas’ Day and the prince’s name d...

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... he was not disposed to leave the house standing if he could bring it down about the ears of its pretty and amiable volup- tuaries; and he wielded the... ...h an annex for the ladies and gentlemen who rode them, hunted them, talked about them, bought them and sold them, and gave nine-tenths of their lives ... ...riday to Tuesday in it you found on the shelf in your bedroom not only the books of poets and novelists, but of revolutionary biologists and even econ... ...tionist. It was a curious experience to spend Sunday in dipping into these books, and the Monday morn- ing to read in the daily paper that the country... ...w to extricate itself from this palace of evil enchantment. It rhapsodized about love; but it believed in cruelty. It was afraid of the cruel people; ... ...elves actually becoming artists in wax, with a growing relish for it, like Napoleon and all the other scourges of mankind, in spite of themselves. For... ...he entrance hall of the house. Between this door and the stern gallery are bookshelves. There are electric light switches beside the door leading to t... ...ell me all about Mr Mangan. They call him Boss Mangan, don’t they? He is a Napoleon of industry and disgustingly rich, isn’t he? Why isn’t your father... ... and things? MANGAN. People think I have. People think I’m an indus- trial Napoleon. That’s why Miss Ellie wants to marry me. But I tell you I have no...

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... point. I am but three- and-twenty, and there is nothing of the senile fop about me.” The very vehemence of the whim that held possession of him to so... ...to dine, and made his way down the passage; at the bot- tom, after feeling about for some time, he found a staircase with damp, slippery steps, such a... ... room dingy with dirt and smoke, where a wench was busy laying a table for about twenty customers. None of the guests had yet arrived. After looking r... ... genius, Ottoboni takes no end of pains to educate Italy; he writes little books to enlighten the intelligence of the children and the common people, ... ...me, monsieur,” said he to the composer of dance-music, “how it is that the Napoleon of these tunes can condescend to usurp the place of Palestrina, Pe... ...f his native land, where that beauti- ful Italian landscape begins at what Napoleon so cleverly described as the glacis of the Alps. Carried back by m...

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...suing thence, observed to look longer, older, and more dismal daily. . . . About the year One thousand seven hundred and five, that is, in the gloriou... ...these subjects have been described so fully, that nothing more can be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake of argument, three ha... ... hungry cannon at Ramillies and Malplaquet. Of those two gentlemen who are about to act a very impor- tant part in our history, one only was probably ... ...d ridden half a mile on the Stratford road, looking as black and dismal as Napoleon gal- loping from the romantic village of Waterloo, he espied, a fe... ... his commanding officer. W e shall not say, after the fashion of the story-books, that Mr. Brock listened with a flashing eye and a distended nostril;... ...he had not the genius for getting which Mrs. Hayes possessed. She kept his books (for she had learned to read and write by this time), she made his ba... ...smoking; while the thrifty Mrs. Hayes, opposite to them, was busy with her books. “What’s in the confessions?” said Mr. Billings to Doctor Wood. “Ther...

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.................................................... 140 EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.................................................... ...ent!” A great deal of discussion took place, during the famous controversy about Pope between Bowles and Byron, on the questions—what objects are and ... ...rs and curls than in any field where he has chosen to exercise his powers. About Pope originally there was a small, trivial, and stinted something whi... ...he Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 remembering that the nine-pin Napoleon overthrew half the thrones in Europe. But he possessed sana mens i... ...YS YS YS YS The ‘Essay on Man’ was intended to have been comprised in four books:— The first of which, the author has given us under that title, in fo... ...be amiss to be a little more particular concerning each of these projected books. The first, as it treats of man in the abstract, and con- siders him ... ...t it is not sufficient for this knowledge to consider man in the abstract: books will not serve the purpose, nor yet our own experience singly, ver. 1...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ne. All have some fault. The fault of each grinds down the hearts of those about him, and – let us not blink the truth – hurries both him and them int... ...thor has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we hear real voices; what is feigned merely puts a sense u... ...be for anything in a story; and so, naturally and rightly, he said nothing about them. But Scott’s instinct, the instinct of the man of an age pro- fo... ... peasants or sergeants of the Old Guard expected the return of Monmouth or Napoleon; the countrymen of Charles of Orleans looked over the straits towa...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity ...

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...R AT HOME “THIS IS NO MY AIN HOUSE; I ken by the biggin’ o’t.” T wo recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically... ...ture, steady in fight, imperious to command, but neither curious nor quick about the life of others. In *1881. 6 Robert Louis Stevenson French coloni... ...– a man, besides, who had taken his degree in life and knew a thing or two about the age we live in. We were deep in talk, whirling between Peterborou... ...t indeed is the atmosphere in which Scotch and English youth begin to look about them, come to them- selves in life, and gather up those first apprehe... ...reat stillness and solitude for the rebellious mind, when in the dearth of books and play, and in the intervals of studying the Shorter Catechism, the... ...ad, with strange extremes of pity and derision, the memorials of the dead. Books were the proper remedy: books of vivid human im- port, forcing upon t... ...me the sooner to the grapple of genuine converse. If they know Othello and Napoleon, Consuelo and Clarissa Harlowe, Vautrin and Steenie Steenson, they...