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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsyl... ..................................................... 275 Chapter 2.4.V . The New Berline. ................................................................. ...auroux, with her band-boxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has... ...rofessional one of Monseigneur. Elf jokeis, we have seen; but see now real Yorkshire jockeys, and what they ride on, and train: English racers for Fre... ... there was such a melancholy (such a tristesse) about Court, compared with former days, as made it quite dispiriting to look upon. No wonder that the ... ... of reprisal, to interdict the very Tax-gatherer. (Weber, i. 266.) “In all former contests,” as Malesherbes remarks, “it was the Parlement that excite... ...cident. Nor are the authorities idle: though unluckily, all Authori- ties, Municipalities and such like, are in the uncertain transitionary state; get... ...ing chosen by Citizens of a too ‘active’ class, are found to pull one way; Municipalities, Town Magistracies, to pull the other way. In all places too...

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