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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ... do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystic... ...k to Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic and Mother Theresa, and to the Muslim saints and Sufis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Fra... ...sunk and drowned they were innocent, if they floated they were guilty and executed. These apparently included the mentally ill and the infirm as well... ...today you fear for your wallet, if not your life. On my last visit to St. Petersburg I had just left the subway and was riding the escalator up to th... ... ―Elijah, too, asked that God take him in First Kings 19:4, after he had executed all the prophets with his sword. Also in First Kings 18:40, he ‗p...

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...on ceremonies or reading their mandates became irrelevant. Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, be... ...tely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep was spastic lik... ...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... ... for the deterioration of this first family, and it (equally so in so-called saints and laymen) was graphic. It was salacious. It was violent. It ... ... was a halo about her head since sick people needed their mothers, gods, and saints. "Poor, Gaby, time has run by like a shell shocked soldier, and sh... ...ussian Orthodox services and it makes my sister feel like she is back in St. Petersburg." "Not Christian or atheist, but a devout church going non-bel... ...ter into the air making a rainbow. "Are you still planning to go back to St. Petersburg?" she asked. "Yes, just for a couple months." "Are you still p... ...ring the pros and cons of a given issue in its probable impact on others she executed her decisions as she should and never revisited them repentantly...

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...: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort ...

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...look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, an... ...nd Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseill... ...- pearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. “Ah, is it you, Dantes?” cried th... ... there to lower the topsails and jib; brail up the spanker!” The order was executed as promptly as it would have been on board a man-of-war. “Let go —... ...your old friends; and I know one down there Alexandre Dumas 15 behind the Saint Nicolas citadel who will not be sorry to hear it.” “Mercedes?” said t... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ... pilot looked on. “Haul taut.” — They obeyed. “Belay.” This order was also executed; and the vessel passed, as Dantes had predicted, twenty fathoms to... ...count, leaning over a large table, was tracing on a map the route from St. Petersburg to China. The procureur entered with the same grave and measured...

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................................................ 132 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ................................................................. ...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... ...l nigh, out of which a Capet, whipt of the Furies, fired his signal of the Saint Bartholomew! Dark is the way of the Eternal as mirrored in this world... ...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... ...stry, it is that of plots, and backstairs conclaves. Plots which cannot be executed; which are mostly theoretic on their part;—for which nevertheless ... ....VIII. The Return. So then our grand Royalist Plot, of Flight to Metz, has executed itself. Long hovering in the background, as a dread royal ultimatu... ...netting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke has raised his great voice long...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND .................................................. ... II. OL. II. SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FR SECESSION FROM OM OM OM OM THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHUR THE CHURCH OF CH OF CH... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...th, still the ludicrous aspects of the Parliamentary war, and its fighting saints, were too striking to have perished. If not in a narrative form, the... ... the combination of such fabulous beings in the same groups with glorified saints and angels, as there is to the combination, by a painter or a sculpt... ...it which belong to the infirmity of maternal affection. Here are no Palms, executed for no real offence known to the laws of his country, and without ... ...o the higher modes of aris- tocratic life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but that will not ...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...bt, and for other purposes,” approved August 5, 1861, can not be peaceably executed; and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real es- tate under th... ...ral McClellan’s to General Burnside be- ing the same, of course we wish it executed as promptly as possible. A. LINCOLN. 77 The Writings of Abraham L... ...ENERAL CURTIS. W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 12, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, Saint Louis, Missouri: Would the completion of the railroad some distance f... ...r best opinion as to the number of the en- emy now at Richmond and also at Petersburg. A. LINCOLN. TO GOVERNOR SHEPLEY . EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTO... ...AL CURTIS. [Cipher.] W ASHINGTON, November 30, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL CURTIS, Saint Louis, Missouri: Frank Blair wants Manter’s Thirty-second, Curly’s Tw...

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...mely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without a...

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...ntents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES..............................................................................................

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........................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ........................ ...pers MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FR FR FR FR FROM OM OM OM OM THE A THE A THE A THE A THE AUTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, UTHOR, U... ... any, had been already tried for me vicariously amongst the Ameri- cans; a people so nearly repeating our own in style of intel- lect, and in the comp... ...rciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshua, every philosophi... ...ce in the last resort with the spirit of martyrdom on behalf of man’s most saintly in- terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retr... ...terests. In proportion as the instruments for upholding or retrieving such saintly interests should come to be dishon- ored or less honored, would the... ...and for her portrait. There is a tradition that Velasquez, who had in 1623 executed a portrait of Charles I. (then Prince of Wales), was amongst those... ... the presumptions seemed conclusive. But, by that time, X himself had been executed for a robbery; had been manufactured into a skeleton by the famous... ... capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Petersburg, liable to every mode of positive temptation and distraction, wh...

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... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... ...fternoon tramp up the valley, along the grassy bank of a rushing stream of clear water, past farm- houses, water-mills, and no end of wayside crucifix... ... not usually consid- ered to be virtues when they are lodged in kings. She makes him out to be a person with a meek and modest spirit, the heart of a ... ...t accident. The way now led, by a gentle ascent, carpeted with fresh green grass, to the church at Winkelmatten. Without stopping to examine this edif... ...Warsaw, 31; Breslau, 31; Odessa, 32; Munich, 33; Strasburg, 33, Pesth, 35; Cassel, 35; Lisbon, 36; Liverpool, 36; Prague, 37; Madras, 37; Bucharest, 3...

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... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ... AR DE- PARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 10, 1863. GENERAL SCHOFIELD, Saint Louis, Mo.: I see a dispatch here from Saint Louis, which is a littl... ...t election returns are in? And how is it to be at “this place”—and that is Saint Louis? Please inform me. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SCHOFIELD. W... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...w—they were prisoners who later on, the day of their capture, were ordered executed. The black soldiers were tied alive to individual planks—then ma... ...sentenced for any other offence, telegraph what it is and when he is to be executed. Answer at all events. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO OFFICER COMMANDING... ...enandoah, on the Penin- sula, in the operations on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, in the battle of Monocacy, and in the intrenchment...

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... use it more often, it was only indifference and ennui which prevented him from so doing. He therefore allowed Valentine to go into the garden, sent a... ... invalid still retained that vacancy of expression which prevented his son from obtaining any knowledge of the feelings which were passing in his mind... ...t, not to live in this house, for that might not be pleasant for the young people, but that you should 6 The Count of Monte Cristo live with them; so... ...that she will, in all probability, inherit the fortune of M. and Madame de Saint-Meran, her mother’s parents, who both love her tenderly.” “And who ar... ...ount of Monte Cristo “Then,” cried Villefort, “was it you who bought M. de Saint-Meran’s house!” “Did it belong to M. de Saint-Meran?” demanded Monte ... ...he home depart- ment, or of the observatory?” “Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to under- stand things of which I would prefer to... ...ot told; red with fever, while the large drops fell from his brow, the man executed, one after the other, the three signs given by the count, in spite... ...n the taste displayed in furnishing, and in the rapidity with which it was executed. It is told that the Duc d’Antin removed in a single night a whole... ... For example, you see these two fish; one brought fifty leagues beyond St. Petersburg, the other five leagues from Naples. Is it not amusing to see th...

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...st Orleans branch called the Valois. If there are any Valois, they descend from Charles de Valois, Duc d’Angouleme, son of Charles IX. and Marie T ouc... ...ois, Duc d’Angouleme, son of Charles IX. and Marie T ouchet, the male line from whom 4 An Old Maid ended, until proof to the contrary be produced, in... ... contrary be produced, in the per- son of the Abbe de Rothelin. The Valois-Saint-Remy, who descended from Henri II., also came to an end in the fa- mo... ... of English elegance with a personal satisfaction little understood by the people of Alencon. The world owes a great deal to persons who take such pai... ...istened pa- tiently (by the help of the Princess Goritza) to the many dull people who related to him the petty miseries of provincial life,—an egg ill... ...e, a pension of three hundred francs, and sent him, moreover, the cross of Saint-Louis. Never was it known positively by what means the old cheva- lie... ...estroying their infants, like that hand- some Faustine of Argentan who was executed for it three years ago.” “Here, Suzanne,” said du Bousquier, givin... ...nce, and was now returning with a great fortune made at the court of Saint-Petersburg; he was a foreigner; one of those allies so hated by the liberal...

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...refully avoid when mowing— or, if they do happen to cut it down, throw out from among the grass for fear of pricking their hands. Think- ing to pick t... ...ect, it stood twisted to one side, as if a piece of its body had been torn from it, its bowels drawn out, an arm torn off, and one of its eyes plucked... ...live or dead, that Shamil’ s envoys had left only the day before, that the people were afraid to disobey Shamil’ s orders, and that therefore it was n... ...n of the Commander-in-Chief. Vorontsov’ s wife, Marya V asilevna, a famous Petersburg beauty , was with him and they lived in this little Caucasian fo... ...ered by a 17 Tolstoy shaggy young man of gloomy appearance, a graduate of Petersburg University whom Princess V orontsov had lately had sent to the C... ... Poltoratsky went home in an ecstatic condition only to be understood by people like himself who, having grown up and been educated in society , mee... ...th showing and his eyes glittering. “ And does he really consider him a saint?” asked Loris- Melikov. “If he were not a saint the people would n... ...e people would not listen to him,” said Gamzalo rapidly . “Shamil is no saint, but Mansur was!” replied Khan Mahoma. “He was a real saint. When he ... ...i Murad is convinced that Shamil will never forgive him but would have him executed in spite of any promise of forgiveness. The only thing Tarkhanov h...

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...the reflection that an af- fectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not th... ...on her marriage, he had seemed to feel the upward sweep of the empty bough from which the golden fruit had been plucked, and had then and there accept... ...me. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idea... ...fteen, he achieved a momen- tous one. He ascertained that his mother was a saint. She had always been a very distinct presence in his life, but so ine... ...uff in him.” “He ‘s a strange being,” said Cecilia, musingly. “Who are his people? what has been his education?” Rowland asked. “He has had no educati... ...’t make them myself. I have to order them. I order a dozen from you, to be executed at your convenience. To help you, I pay you in advance.” Roderick ... ...I fairly despise my amiabil- ity. It ‘s rather a hard fate, to live like a saint and to pass for a sinner! I should like for six months to lead Mrs. H... ...evel of his subject. It was thoroughly a portrait, and not a vague fantasy executed on a graceful theme, as the busts of pretty women, in modern sculp... ...ftly. “We are going to London. We are going to Vienna. We are going to St. Petersburg.” Prince Casamassima dropped his eyes and fretted the earth with...

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...St. Pe- tersburg and later an appointment at the university. Lived in Rome from 1836 to 1848. Died on 21st February 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, fir... ...Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still more profound are the ... ...ificent opportunity to reveal his genius as a painter of Russian panorama, peopled with characteristic native types commonplace enough but drawn in co... ...s of Merejkovsky—had been made on an earlier occasion by a certain Russian saint, who used almost the same language. “I shall laugh my bitter laugh”* ... ...r I need knowledge of the classes in question, which are the flower of our people. In fact, this very reason—the reason that I do not yet know Russian... ...that he was neither fat nor thin. Also, he wore the riband of the order of Saint Anna about his neck, and was reported to have been rec- ommended also... ...himself, rubbed himself from head to foot with a wet sponge (a performance executed only on Sundays— and the day in question happened to be a Sunday),... ...lov. Again the tutor’s attitude became wholly one of con- centration. “St. Petersburg,” replied Themistocleus. “And what other city?” “Moscow,” respon... ...n sud- denly the dreamer would perceive, to his surprise, that the pen had executed the portrait of a maiden whose picture no artist could adequately ...

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... humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection. On the other hand, you cannot fail to see the power of mer... ...eserved for the edification of posterity. Among other sayings—I am quoting from memory—I remember this solemn admonition: “Let all thy words have the ... ...ly reality in an invented world, among imagi- nary things, happenings, and people. Writing about them, he is only writing about himself. But the discl... ... on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in t... ...in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? “‘It has set at last,’ said Nina to her mother, pointing... ...g early left hosts of friends and a loved memory in the great world of St. Petersburg, some influential personages pro- cured for her this permission—... ...his worship for Napoleon the Great, he loved really, I believe, only three people in the world: his mother—your great-grand- mother, whom you have see... ...he eldest warred against the decay of manners in the village children, and executed frontal attacks upon the village moth- ers for the conquest of cou...

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...ery noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before h... ...bition of this sort, will not be oppressed, I take it, by his own or other people’s hilarity. An episode of humour or kind- ness touches and amuses h... ...n this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such, with their serva... ...Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign. Only when her pupils quitted the establishment, or when t... ...had not yet taken place)—it was Ney’s column breasting the hill of La Haye Sainte, bristling with ten thousand bayonets, and crowned with twenty eagle... ...ere; the country dances, formed by bouncing cockneys and cockneyesses, and executed amidst jumping, thumping and laughter; the signal which announced ... ...-coloured whiskers, and straw-coloured hair. He is the very picture of his sainted mother over the mantelpiece— Griselda of the noble house of Binkie.... ...promised he’d let me have Jibb’s field and the Six-acre Meadow—and much he executed his promises! And it’s to this man’s son—this scoundrel, gambler, ... ...w or by what means she succeeded? It is said that she was once seen at St. Petersburg, but was summarily dismissed from that capital by the police, so...

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...vanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls....

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...per and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on ... ...oaken back of my bed, and the dead fly fell down on my curls. I peeped out from under the coverlet, steadied the still shaking image with my hand, fli... ... pillow, kicked out with all my strength, and strained every nerve to keep from laughing. “How kind he is, and how fond of us!” I thought to my- self,... ...n am I going to be grown up, and to have no more lessons, but sit with the people whom I love instead of with these horrid dialogues in my hand?” Then... ...of my corner and crept to the door to listen. “However much you may do for people, and however fond of them you may be, never expect any gratitude, Ni... ... some people he was said to be the outcast son of rich parents and a pure, saintly soul, while others averred that he was a mere peasant and an idler.... ...er, who was giving a few finishing touches to the head of a turbaned Turk, executed in black pencil. Woloda, with out-stretched neck, was standing beh... ...as. Contrary to my expectation, I found that, after the first two couplets executed in the initial heat of enthusiasm, even my most strenuous efforts ... ...so you write that our affairs render it indispensable for you to visit St. Petersburg. The Lord go with you! Go and return as, soon as possible. Witho...

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...vice of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors withdrew to make room for others. Alyosha stood beside the...

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...ually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began com- ing from the monastery. After the service was over the el... ... inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began com- ing from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss an... ...d Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. “Love God’s people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we... ...hat are outside, but on the 4 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV – Part II contrary, from the very fact of coming here, each of us has confessed to himself that... ... shared his feel- ing, and many of the visitors looked upon him as a great saint and ascetic, although they had no doubt that he was crazy. But it was... ...ascetic, Father Iona, who had lived to be a hundred and five, and of whose saintly doings many curious stories were still extant in the monas- tery an... ...rd not crippled but far too clever. She is a student, dying to get back to Petersburg, to work for the emancipation of the Russian woman on the banks ... ...sixteen roubles she had earned by lessons and saved up, to go back with to Petersburg in Sep- tember, that is now. But we took her money and lived on ... ..., describing how, quite recently, five years ago, a murderer, Richard, was executed—a young man, I believe, of three and twenty, who repented and was ...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ................................................ 266 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ................................................................. ...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... ...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 ... ...s thy day also done? Alas, the Chapel organs may keep going; the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve be let down, and pulled up again,—without effect. In the e... ...kness. The device seems feasible, it is eminently needful: be it once well executed, great deliverance is wrought. Silent, then, and steady; now or 6... ...sign capitu- lation; to engage that the Lettres-de-Cachet shall remain un- executed, and a beloved Parlement stay where it is. Besancon, Dijon, Rouen,... ...netting Europe with intrigues. From Turin to Vienna; to Berlin, and utmost Petersburg in the frozen North! Great Burke has raised his great voice long...

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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 ... ...hentic dramas. As to the first argument, let it be remembered, that if the saints of the chapel are always in the same honor, because there men are si... ...en are simply discharging a duty, which once due will be due for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, an... ...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... ...ranslation from Statius, which is the principal monument of his skill, was executed before he was fourteen. We have taken the trouble to throw a hasty... ... this was un- questionably the greatest literary labor, as to profit, ever executed, not excepting the most lucrative of Sir Walter Scott’s, if due al... ...for showing forbearance towards a fam- ily so nearly allied to that of St. Petersburg. In 1813 the grand duke was found at his post in that great gath...

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...of humanity went on as unceasingly as the flow of time. V arious groups of people formed and dissolved, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdo... ...ed, the coming formation and dissolution of kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spa... ... in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previously. It was seething in its depths. Historic ... ...t was seething in its depths. Historic figures were not borne by the waves from one shore to an- other as before. They now seemed to rotate on one spo... ...ouse in Moscow, or the glory of the Russian arms, or the prosperity of the Petersburg and other universities, or the freedom of Poland or the greatnes... ...he general drunkenness to be expected on the morrow because it was a great saint’s day, he returned to din- ner, and without having time for a private... ... Nicholas could not remember—all this made Pierre in his eyes a hero and a saint. From broken remarks about Natasha and his father, from the emotion w... ...he Terrible end their reigns tranquilly, while Louis XVI and Charles I are executed by their people? To this ques- tion historians reply that Louis XI... ...ost cases produce any effect, that is to say, their commands are often not executed, and sometimes the very opposite of what they order occurs. Withou...

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... some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

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...hant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bach- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the... ...broke out over the faces of the frequenters of the bou- levard, who daily, from their chairs, watch the passers-by, and indulge in the agreeable pasti... ...untenance grotesque and droll, as the faces which the Chinese alone of all people can imag- ine for their quaint curiosities. The broad visage was as ... ...as been called through all ages, try to collect something, no matter what (people have been known to collect placards), so shall you receive the small... ...ough passion, and for both the result was the same—they had not a penny on Saint Sylvester’s day. Perhaps Pons would have given way under his troubles... ...s out of this,’ and he showed me a what-not; a mar- vel! Boucher’s designs executed in marquetry, and with such art!—One could have gone down on one’s... ...itors. “Und yet, dey are hearts of gold,” he concluded. “Dey are my liddle Saint Cecilias, sharming vimmen, Montame de Bordentuere, Montame de Fantene... ...alzac not the marvelous tale were true. For their benefit Mme. de Marville executed the following admirable variations on the theme of son-in-law whic... ...m in epidemics. The bric-a-brac mania had appeared in an acute form in St. Petersburg, and the Russians caused such a rise of prices in the “art line,...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ...as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, ... ... in the coun- try. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle... ...d he stood waiting for an op- portunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. CHAPTER III ANNA PA VLOVNA’S RECEPTION was in ful... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s- day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day , suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pa... ...s toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspir... ...The slur on my name and honor—that’s all apart from myself. “Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishonorable and a criminal,” came into P...

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...versity. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy BOOK NINE: 1812 CHAPTER I FROM THE CLOSE of the year 1811 intensified arming and con- centrating of t... ...s-millions of men, reckoning those transporting and feeding the army-moved from the west eastwards to the Rus- sian frontier, toward which since 1811 ... ...nged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. To us, their descend... ...toric significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more... ...teppes in the midst of which lay the holy city of Moscow (Moscou, la ville sainte), the capital of a realm such as the Scythia into which Alexander th... ... that everyone expected and to prepare for which the Emperor had come from Petersburg. There was no general plan of action. The vacillation between th... ...ated from the man who gave it or from the Emperor and whether it had to be executed or not. But this was only the external condition; the essential si... ...lties the whole fault lay in the fact that his plan had not been precisely executed. He kept laughing sarcastically, he demonstrated, and at last cont... ... Rostovs, came to Moscow to pay her devotions at the shrines of the Moscow saints. She suggested that Natasha should fast and prepare for Holy Com- mu...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...

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...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ed for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old ... ...y and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Old people did not know enough once, perchance, to fetch fresh fuel to keep t... ...that a flood tide, with a westerly wind, and ice in the Neva, would sweep St. Petersburg from the face of the earth. As this business was to be entered... ...elestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cheri... ... a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid... ...ich fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are continually being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we ...

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... FIVE: 1806-07 CHAPTER I AFTER HIS INTERVIEW with his wife Pierre left for Petersburg. At the Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the... ... He had been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleep- le... ...r horses. It was plain that he was lying and only wanted to get more money from the traveler. “Is this good or bad?” Pierre asked himself. “It is good... ...rre, “shot Dolokhov because I considered myself injured, and Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they exec... ...e they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should o... ... the result of your own mental efforts, is the one held by the majority of people, and is the invariable fruit of pride, indolence, and ignorance. For... ...ifying exhortation to them. He imagined to himself vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, imagined oppres- sors whose v... ...In one place the peasants presented him with bread and salt and an icon of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, asking per- mission, as a mark of their gratitu... ... to the church at their own expense in honor of Peter and Paul, his patron saints. In another place the women with infants in arms met him to thank hi...

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...ed by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy ... ...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ...means of some deed of conveyance. He would probably have succeeded, merely from her moral fatigue and desire to get rid of him, and from the contempt ... ...odor Pavlovitch at once began bustling about, making preparations to go to Petersburg, with what object he could not himself have said. He would perha... ... And just at that time his wife’s family received the news of her death in Petersburg. She had died quite suddenly in a garret, according to one story... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ... religious; he had probably never put a penny candle before the image of a saint. Strange impulses of sudden feeling and sudden thought are common in ... ...nguished by anything in particular till then: they had nei- ther relics of saints, nor wonder—working ikons, nor glori- ous traditions, nor historical... ..., describing how, quite recently, five years ago, a murderer, Richard, was executed—a young man, I believe, of three and twenty, who repented and was ...

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...ng to the stimulating influence of a June morn- ing, and could not refrain from bursts of anger in the presence of Kurakin and then of Balashev. Alexa... ...ish for a gallop across a level field; and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal charact... ...t they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of a... ...f Russian towns and the hatred of the foe this aroused among the Rus- sian people. But no one at the time foresaw (what now seems so evident) that thi... ...ending papers to the Emperor, dispatched these Polish adjutants general to Petersburg and plunged into an open struggle with Bennigsen and the T sarev... ..., was alone at Bald Hills and was sitting indoors reading the Lives of the Saints. On hearing that Prince Andrew had come, he went out with his specta... ...uished from village, country, provincial, or even Moscow life—we may allot Petersburg life, and es- pecially the life of its salons. That life of the ... ...all crimi- nals. And so thinks Timokhin and the whole army. They should be executed! Since they are my foes they cannot be my friends, whatever may ha... ...ll this, like the other parts of the disposition, was not and could not be executed. After passing through Borodino the vice-King was driven back to t...

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... a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the na... ...ly by coming to earth, the native earth, was it enabled to soar. Coming up from Little Russia, the Ukraine, with Cossack blood in his veins, Gogol inj... ...of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people. Time and again, in his essays and in his letters to friends, he exp... ...ussia’s past the more fanatically he dreams of Little Russia’s future. St. Petersburg wearies him, Moscow awakens no emotion in him, he yearns for Kie... ....” Russian history gives him no plea- sure, and he separates it definitely from Ukrainian history. He is “ready to cast everything aside rather than r... ...ers and of the addition of fresh taxes on necessaries. He and his Cossacks executed justice, and made it a rule that in three cases it was abso- lutel... ... that all the best there is in the world should bow before her as before a saint. No, you will not die, you shall not die! I swear by my birth and by ... ...rtily, and the horses will soon devour the hay. I don’t know whether their saints will fling them down any- thing from heaven with hayforks; God only ... ...d soldiers are in garrison here, and to-morrow the prisoners are all to be executed.” Taras looked the Jew straight in the face, but no longer with im...

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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... ...of wo to me, should also to thyself be heralded by the pangs of martyrdom? Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech an... ...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... ... beauty of the prisoner. That beauty so childlike, and at the same time so saintly, made, besides, so touching in its pathos by means of the abandonme... ... conveyed into that region of the prison in which sentences like hers were executed, it became hope- less that I could communicate with her again. All... ...and Miscellaneous Papers matter of the credit; but then, in that, she only executed her instructions. Still Mr. Reyes was of opinion that there were t... ...t of detestation; for besides his known dependence upon the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, the direct line of succession had been set aside, and the princ...

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...ore unfortunate sections of the population have been igno- rant, apathetic from excess of toil and weariness, timorous through the imminent danger of ... ... power, and morally unreliable owing to the loss of self-respect resulting from their degradation. T o create among such classes any conscious, delibe... ...lasses, and goes through life believing that he and his friends are kindly people, because they have no wish to injure those toward whom they enter- t... ...a knowledge of his French predecessors.[Chief among these were Fourier and Saint-Simon, who constructed somewhat fantastic Socialis- tic ideal commonw... ...on forehead or back with the letter S; if he runs away thrice, he is to be executed as a felon. The master can sell him, bequeath him, let him out on ... ...e. If the slaves attempt anything against the masters, they are also to be executed. Justices of the peace, on information, are to hunt the rascals do... ...e certain of him. The last part of this statute provides that certain poor people may be employed by a place or by persons, who are willing to give th... ...te in the Gov- ernment of Tver. Bakunin entered the school of artillery in Petersburg at the age of fifteen, and at the age of eighteen was sent as an...

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...na Pavlovna had had a cough for some days. She was, as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only b... ...as she said, suffering from la grippe; grippe being then a new word in St. Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, ... ...es in the country. He is the well-known Prince Bolkonski who had to retire from the army under the late Emperor, and was nicknamed ‘the King of Prussi... ...HAPTER II ANNA PA VLOVNA’S DRAWING ROOM was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people dif- fering widely in age an... ...was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people dif- fering widely in age and character but alike in the social circ... ...and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. 12 War and Peace – Book One CHAPTER III ANNA PA ... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s-day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh,... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day, suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pas... ...s toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspir...

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...at motion; but at the same time, a large propor- tion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of con- tinuous motion into discontinuous eleme... ...tortoise. By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahea... ...eteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. Men leave their customary pursuits, hasten from one side of Europe ... ...evolution”; then they give a detailed biography of Napoleon and of certain people favorable or hostile to him; tell of the influence some of these peo... ...hief of the hospitals asks where the wounded are to go, and a courier from Petersburg brings a letter from 9 Tolstoy the sovereign which does not adm... ... icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to re- move icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and t... ...ourt from Vilna to Pe- tersburg, found herself in a difficult position. In Petersburg she had enjoyed the special protection of a grandee who occupied... ...poleon felt it. “Cette ville asiatique aux innombrables eglises, Moscou la sainte. La voila done enfin, cette fameuse ville! Il etait temps,”* said he... ...e both pale, and the superintendent of police, after reporting that he had executed the instructions he had received, informed the count that an immen...

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...s for vodka—get on!” Rostov shouted, when the sleigh was only three houses from his door. It seemed to him the horses were not moving at all. At last ... ...the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges. He looked up at ... ...bservantly and sympathetically at the father and son. “What have the young people come to nowadays, eh, Feoktist?” said he. “Laughing at us old fellow... ... her completely, they say. Pierre took him up, invited him to his house in Petersburg, and now… she has come here and that daredevil after her!” said ... ...inexperience of the sovereign, who had trusted worthless and insignificant people. But the army, the Russian army, everyone declared, was extraordinar... ...ayonets. V aluev was confidentially telling that Uvarov had been sent from Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. 17 Tols... ...The slur on my name and honor—that’s all apart from myself. “Louis XVI was executed because they said he was dishon- orable and a criminal,” came into... ...e, “and here I’ve brought the prince’s wedding candles to light before his saint, my angel,” she said with a sigh. “Oh, nurse, I’m so glad!” “God is m...

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...ing the Doukhobors, a sect who were persecuted in the Caucasus (especially from 1895 to 1898) for refusing to learn war. About seven thousand three hu... ... the same cause. “Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the mone... ...Prevention is better than cure,” and I would rather help people to abstain from killing and wounding each other than devote the money to patch up thei... ...th evident intent. The face of the woman was of that whiteness peculiar to people who have lived long in confinement, and which puts one in mind of sh... ...overness in his house, and who was now on her way from South Russia to St. Petersburg. She wrote that she would wait for him between five and six p.m.... ...n, a fellow-townsman and companion of the said Smelkoff, returned from St. Petersburg, and hearing the circumstances that accompanied the death of the... ...under- stand, but still thought it better to have pity on him. “We are not saints ourselves,” and he kept to his opinion. The answer to the second que... ...mercy on him who cries to Thee, Saviour Jesu. Born of prayer Jesu, all thy saints, all thy prophets, save and find them worthy of the joys of heaven. ... ...sed, was nothing but the em- blem of that gallows on which Christ had been executed for denouncing just what was going on here. That these priests, wh...

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