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...ciences, like the King’s, and consciences hot- seared, like certain of his People’s: the whole to end in Feasts of Reason and a War of La Vendee! So d... ...the Ministry, and Necker himself whom a brass inscription ‘fastened by the people over his door-lintel’ testifies to be the ‘Ministre adore,’ are dwin... ...est composure; remarking, rather than exclaim- ing, with outspread hands: “People, I die innocent; pray for me.” (See Deux Amis, iv. c. 14, 7; Hist. ... ... as Partridge the Alamanack-maker did,—that had sunk into the deep mind of People’s-friend Marat, an emi- nently practical mind; and had grown there, ... ...putrescent soil, into the most original plan of action ever submitted to a People. Not yet has it grown; but it has germinated, it is growing; rooting... ... that wars and gars. And so the People, as we say, is now called French or Frankish: never- theless, does not the old Gaulish and Gaelic Celthood, wit...

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...ed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed. So a... ...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... .... I saw that they had the advantage of me, and so I concluded to get out of the scrape by walking out of it. They enjoyed my defeat as much as any low... ...nd it with fine reasoning and pretty arguments. Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are ve... ... cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ig...

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...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...bons. This amazing epistle, which is virtually an invitation to the French people to repudiate, as their national ensign, that immortal tricolor, the ... ...rutality of not knowing where. There was only one place in the world where people smile like that,—only one place where the art of salutation has that... ...ns which appear to have been formed hastily, probably at the moment of the Frankish invasion. The authors of these solid defences, though occasionally...

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...lieb’s rafts endlessly stealing on the moonlight through the iron pass she peoples above St. Goar. A wailful host were the wives of his raftsmen widow... ...year, and so makes sure of good annual interest.’ 4 Farina Therefore when people asked Gottlieb how he had risen to such a pinnacle of fortune, the o... ...d say such words!—than—I can’t repeat them!—don’t ask me!—She’s becoming a Frankish girl!’ ‘What ballad’s that?’ said Gottlieb, smiling. ‘The Ballad o... ... the chime, friend.’ 29 George Meredith ‘What interest do you take in the people of this house that you watch over them thus?’ asked Farina. The stra... ... and into the marketplace, oblivious of the postures and reverences of the people, who stopped to stare at him and his gaunt attendant. As they crosse... ...mon with easy raillery. ‘You know your game—I mine! I really want the good people to be happy; dancing, kissing, propagating, what you will. We quite ...

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...xplaining the things to the dolls: “That is a crocodile, Lonicera; it eats people up, and has a little bird to pick its teeth. Look, Clare, 7 Yo n g ... ...ar; mustn’t touch. That’s amber, just like barley sugar, only not so nice; people make necklaces of it. There’s a poor little dead fly inside. Those a... ...ir crests, just like Mamma’s jewels. See the shells; aren’t they beauties? People get pearls out of those great flat ones, and dive all down to the bo... ...er brothers declared these were the stars in the sky, and this was the way people found their road at sea; but if Lucy asked how, they always said she... ...nly went to such islands as the missionaries had been to, and had made the people more gentle and civil.” “T ell me all about it,” said Lucy, followin... ...mother to the Sweet Waters. ‘Amina,’ she said, ‘there is your lord, in the Frankish coat—with the white horse.’” “Have you not talked to him?” asked L...

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...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... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ... Accordingly, Queen Anne’s reign might be said to open upon an irreligious people. The condition of things was further strengthened by the unavoidable... ...ion the most benign; and desolation with a view to permanent security. The Frankish Emperor was thus invited to indulge in this most captivating of lu... ...ter part of Christendom. Far otherwise was the conduct of Charlemagne. The Frankish government, though we are not circumstantially acquainted with its... .... Charlemagne as a conqueror, and by far the greatest illustra- tor of the Frankish name, might easily have conciliated their gratitude and admiration... ... the conspiracy formed against him, upon the provoca- tions offered to the Frankish nobility by his third wife, he showed the same spirit of excessive... ...sufficient evidence—were there no other—that all the vast resources of the Frankish throne, wielded by imbecile minds, were inadequate to maintain tha...

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...s life in banishment, and think of our dear home and 19 Yo n g e our poor people, I am tempted to wonder whether it were indeed a duty, or whether th... ...man, with keen eyes, and a sort of sparkle of manner, and power of setting people at ease, that made her the more charming the older she grew. An expe... ...e corsair, and needed little management. The old Turk seemed to regard the Frankish women like so many basilisks, and avoided turning a glance in thei... ...lysse to his sister. ‘See, what are they doing?’ cried Estelle. ‘There are people— don’t you see, white specks crowding down to the water.’ There was ... ...of Golo, not far from Djigheli, and just beyond the Algerine frontier. The people were Cabeleyzes, a wild race of savage dogs, which means dogs accord... ...e. The Moors, who had swum ashore, had probably told them that she was the Frankish Bey’s daughter; for this, miserable place though it was, appeared ... ...or the daugh- ters of a Hadji was good enough for the unclean child of the Frankish infidels. The hay might perhaps have spared a little stiffness, bu... ...t of her compan- ions, though it would not have been safe to put them into Frankish garments, and none had been brought. Poor Hebert was the very ghos... ...d silence even on the fanatic. He spoke again, making them understand that Frankish vengeance in case of a massacre could reach them even in their mou...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...chitecture, had probably already risen round the growing town, and all the people came flocking in from the country for shelter there; but the Tiber w... ...ried to revenge his own wrongs by whispering incitements to invasion. ‘All people, nations, and languages,’ was the commencement of the decrees of tha... ... alone in a little boat, and guiding it down the stream, landed beyond the Frankish camp, and repairing to the different Gallic cities, she implored t... ...t from among the Gaulish nobles, a much more convenient arrangement to the Frankish kings, who cared for the life of a ‘Roman’ infinitely less than ev... ...odrik to the south, and of Hildebert to the northward, and quartered among Frankish chiefs, with whom at first they had nothing more to endure than th...

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...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ...re met him from the neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of the... ...us iden- tified his cause, and that of the soldiers, with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty; and perhaps with needless rhetoric att... ...out of the products of his last campaign, by way of a present to the Roman people, cost him—for the ground merely on which it stood—nearly eight hundr... ...raised the first ominous prece- dent in favor of those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud of years. Homes had b...

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...ty of the “Nibelungenlied”, the poem was soon forgotten by the mass of the people. With the decay of courtly chivalry and the rise of the prosperous c... ..., the figures of the old legend were not forgotten, but lived on among the people, and were fi- nally embodied in a popular ballad, “Das Lied vom Hurn... ...r resemblance to the German tongue their original identity with the German people. Not only along the banks of the Rhine and the Danube and upon the u... ...ght and sung to the harp in the banqueting halls of kings and nobles, each people and each generation telling it in its own fashion and adding new ele... ...poured into the land in great numbers and practically swept the Burgundian people from the face of the earth. According to the Roman historians, twent... ...unther, and so we read of the fall of the Nibelungs, a name that is wholly Frankish in character. This identification led also to Attila’s being consi... ...ion of the muse of poetry. (3) “Kriemhild” is the Upper German form of the Frankish “Grimhild”. In the MSS., the name generally appears with a further...

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...ipal incident in the story is that from which the title is derived. Of all people who ever lived, the Persians were perhaps most remarkable for their ... ...e condescended to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine—he exacted no gifts from the wretched natives for spari... ...ich were so well cal- culated to charm the minds of a proud and conquering people. They had their tournaments and games of chivalry; they had even the... ...e better for thyself to turn back thy horse’s head towards the camp of thy people, for to travel towards Jerusalem without a passport is but a wilful ... ...ndanger the future security of the good father; for the cruel hand of your people has been red with the blood of the servants of the Lord, and therefo... ...d give large provinces to maintain at his behest a body of well- appointed Frankish lances. In Egypt, in Persia, a hundred such auxiliaries, joined to... ...ce in the blood of Richard, permit the English maid the freedom which your Frankish 171 Sir Walter Scott manners have assigned to women. He will allo...

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...a bet for 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...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...ughed at in the songs for going twice upon his mission. None of the mighty people repented of having the Old Buccaneer—for that night, at all events. ... ...k. The Old Buccaneer seems to have had money too. But you can see what her people had to complain of: his insolent contempt of them was unex- ampled. ... ... from our drama, I cannot tell: I am never affected now as I was then; and people in a low station of life could affect me then, without being flung a... ... and pursued a conversation. He was a stately cava- lier of the Gallicized Frankish outlines, ready, but grave in his bearing, grave in his delivery, ...

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...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 ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...ks twice before damning a man of that quality.” (Dulaure, vii. 261.) These people, of old, surely had virtues, uses; or they could not have been there... ... virtue of perfect readiness to fight duels. Such are the shepherds of the people: and now how fares it with the flock? With the flock, as is inevitab... ... the People, as we say, is now called French or 244 The French Revolution Frankish: nevertheless, does not the old Gaulish and Gaelic Celthood, with ...