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... versifies his Epicurism to Memmius, and had the honour to be set forth the second time by Cicero, so great a father of the commonwealth; although h... ...rence and dependence to many other provisos there set down in his fancied republic, which in this world could have no place: and so neither he hims... ...except what they please, it cannot be guessed what is intended by some but a second tyranny over learning: and will soon put it out of controversy, ... ... yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master’s second coming; He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall ... ...ar, preferred the natural wits of Britain before the laboured studies of the French. Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian se...

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...lated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the ... ... the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State ... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac A Second Home by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell Dedication To Mad... ...ense of distinction and decorative fit- ness which mark the work of modern French architects. For above a month Caroline had been at home in this apar... ...mation of dismay— qualified, however, by the spirit which rarely deserts a French- man—at seeing no hackney coach waiting outside the gates, and heari... ... rogues can affect to perfection. And besides, bigots constitute a sort of republic; they all know each other; the servants they recommend and hand on...

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................................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824....................................................

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... FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ...................................................... ...- scripts preserved at Boscombe Manor. The “Relics” consti- tute a salvage second only in value to the “Posthumous Po- ems” of 1824. To the growing ma... ...ed the body of Shelley’s poetry (Mr. Forman’s most notable addition is the second part of “The Daemon of the World”, which he printed privately in 187... ...m youth the victim of the state of feeling inspired by the reaction of the French Revolution; and believing firmly in the justice and excel- lence of ... ...ude”: the difficulty with which a copy can be obtained is the cause of its republication. Many of the Miscellaneous Poems, written on the spur of the ... ...rt, seized upon all classes of men during the excesses consequent upon the French Revolution, is gradually giving place to sanity. It has ceased to be... ...re past. Methinks, those who now live have survived an age of despair. The French Revolution may be considered as one of those manifestations of a gen... ...s at the period when Greece was led captive and Asia made tributary to the Republic, fast verging itself to slavery and ruin, that a multitude of Syri... ...aken it to action perpetually change. If England were di- vided into forty republics, each equal in population and ex- tent to Athens, there is no rea...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ... Descoings; for in the same week (or rather, we should say decade, for the Republic had then been proclaimed) he was imprisoned on a hint from Robespi... ... widow, who, however, was too inconsolable to carry on the business of her second deceased husband, he married the charming girl, with the consent of ... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ...s of the incorruptibility which we attribute to several men who served the Republic. On the opposite wall, over a card-table, flashed a picture of the... ...rships. As for the brilliant Descoings, she occupied an appartement on the second floor similar to that of her niece above her. She had made Madame Br... ... to which we owe Joseph Bridau, one of the greatest painters of the modern French school of art. Philippe, the elder of the two sons, was strikingly l... ...earn his own living. He declared he was quite sufficiently advanced in the second class to get on without rhetoric. Philippe, a captain at nineteen an... ... less in the idea than in the men who conceived it; for T exas is to-day a republic, with a future full of promise. This scheme of Liberalism under th...

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...on- descending grins are cordials. The gentleman’s eyes were followed on a second hurried downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could b... ... withstands them? on his, a troop of mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckl... ...ing youth to plead for it, in the first instance, youth and ignorance; and secondly, and O how deeply truly! Love. Deep true love, proved by years, is... ... ‘I wonder!’ said Mr. Radnor, completely restored, eyeing his half-emptied second glass and his boon-fellow. ‘Low!’ Mr. Fenellan shook his head. ‘Half... ...to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art. Captain Dartrey says, the French excel at it. But it asks for a weapon, which nature has not given: w... ...e had rueful qualms. We’ll try it.’ ‘You should dine with Victor Radnor.’ ‘French cook, of course!’ ‘Cordon bleu.’ 58 One of Our Conquerors ‘I like t... ...Cordon bleu. The miracle is, it ‘s a woman that Victor Radnor has trained: French, but a woman; devoted to him, as all who serve him are. Do I say “bu... ...Quatley Brothers: Sir Abraham: finances or farms one of the South American Republics: we call him, Pride of Port. He consumes it and he presents it.’ ...

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...by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: ?There is Monsieur returning from hunting.? And that was all....

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...composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a fi... ...y the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a s... ...us- tomed gravity, Monsieur turned his eyes, in a certain man- ner, upon the people of his suite, so that all, pages, offic- ers, and equerries, quitt... ...eur’s guards at his heels. CHAPTER 4 Father and Son. RAOUL FOLLOWED the well-known road, so dear to his memory, which led from Blois to the residence ... ...which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet — both dreamers — which the Eng... ...ned in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended ... ...nniversary of the battles of Dunbar and Worcester.” “His son has succeeded him.” “But certain men have a family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of... ... family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of Oliver was too heavy for Richard. Richard was neither a republican nor a royalist; Richard allowed his ... ...or Monk to Lambert, I shall have reconquered my paternal inheritance, without having cost my country a guinea, or my subjects a drop of blood, for the...

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...cially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better part of three months to find him and ... ...ling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals... ...rtain letters to friends in America were misinterpreted by an over-zealous French cen- sor. It only adds to the indignity and irony of the situa- tion... ...gs and intimating that he would speedily be released. ii. A little later a second cable advising that Edward Estlin Cummings had sailed on the Antille... ...oice: “Give this great criminal something to eat in the name of the French Republic!” And for the first time in three months I tasted Food. T-d seated... ...English, as I have said. “What is your name?”—“Edward E. Cummings.” —“Your second name?”—“E-s-t-l-i-n,” I spelled it for him.—“How do you say that?”—I... ...He explained in French to the moustache that my first name was Edouard, my second “A-s-tay-l-ee-n,” and my third “Kay-umm-ee-n-gay-s”—and the moustach... ... (and for all I know may still boast) God Himself knows. At least, in that Republic, amnesty has been proclaimed, or so I hear.—But to return to the S...

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...d and a married man, escaped the great Requisition which swept the bulk of French workmen into the army. The old press- man was the only hand left in ... ... was not even at the beginning. He was bound to print the De- crees of the Republic without mistakes and without delay. In this strait Jerome-Nicolas ... ...ointet Brothers, paper manufacturers, applied to the au- thorities for the second printer’s license in Angouleme. Hith- erto old Sechard had contrived... ... pace?” the parent asked of his astonished son. Old Sechard hurried to the second, and then to the third in order, repeating the manoeuvre with equal ... ...hew- ing the cud of uneasy reflection. Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging i... ...outs, was the son of a surgeon-major who had retired with a wound from the republican army. Nature had meant M. Chardon senior for a chemist; chance o... ...ch no words can describe. When the Restoration defined the position of the French noblesse, holding out hopes to them which could only be realized by ... ...es, as well as in counterpoint. He explained the great masterpieces of the French, German, and Italian literatures, and deciphered with her the music ... ...d a patronizing tone that stirred his gall and confirmed him in his bitter Republicanism, a phase of opinion through which many a would-be patrician p...

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...em. Cover design by Jim Manis: Art: illustration by Gustave Doré (1832 83, French painter & illustrator) Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State Uni... ...halt hear despairing shrieks, and see Spirits of old tormented, who invoke A second death; and those next view, who dwell 5 The Divine Comedy of Dant... ... Dante Hell 14 CANTO V From the first circle I descended thus Down to the second, which, a lesser space Embracing, so much more of grief contains P... ...urn’d: “More than a thousand with me here are laid Within is Frederick, second of that name, And the Lord Cardinal, and of the rest I speak not.”... ... speak of him whose tongue hath been so glib, Forget not: here he wails the Frenchman’s gold. ‘Him of Duera,’ thou canst say, ‘I mark’d, Where the st... ...ered as hell. Hence it is that Dante, who was likewise perfect master of the French, made use of that expression, and I have often been surprised that... ...reat prosperity in the The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 123 annals of the republic; before which time their most valuable coinage was of silver. H... ... ‘Twixt Lerice and Turbia.] At that time the two extremities of the Genoese republic, the former on the east, the latter on the west. A very ingenio...

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...o, the element of love is wanting; the topic is only introduced, as in the Republic, by way of illustration. On other subjects of which they treat in ... ...inion, the nature of the good, the order and relation of the sciences, the Republic is less advanced than the Philebus, which contains, perhaps, more ... ...in thought and dialectical power, the Philebus falls very far short of the Republic in fancy and feeling. The development of the reason undisturbed by... ...ties or elements they respectively fall. These are, first, the infi- nite; secondly, the finite; thirdly, the union of the two; fourthly, the cause of... ...he perfect life. First, we admit the pure pleasures and the pure sciences; secondly, the impure sciences, but not the impure pleasures. We have next t... ...s of both of them in the scale of good. First in the scale is measure; the second place is assigned to symmetry; the third, to reason and wisdom; the ... ...n lent a strange power to evil. And some- times, as at the Reformation, or French Revolution, when the upper classes of a so-called Christian country ...

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... ranslated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS IN THE PHAEDRUS, the Republic, the Philebus, the Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe t... ...y other of Plato’s writings. The city of which there is a pattern in heaven (Republic), is here described as a Paradisia- cal state of human society .... ...istory, and may again exist when the gods resume their care of mankind. In a secondary sense, the true form of government is that which has scientific... ... be united in marriage and supply the deficiencies of one another. As in the Republic, the government of philosophers, the causes of the perversion of... ...should be observed, although this is not the best thing of all, but only the second best. And whoever, having skill, should try to improve them, would... ...are two uses of examples or images—in the first place, they suggest thoughts—secondly, they give them a distinct form. In the infancy of phi- losophy ... ...tory of nations, as at the time of the Crusades or the Ref- ormation, or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peop...

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...ccasion to write to him again, and persisted in making him a preacher, his second letter brought a postscript: “I have no claim to ‘Rev. ’” I knew mos... ...tory which followed the one great structural mistake of the Fathers of the Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of ... ...out me were victims of it. I, too, was an innocent victim of it. The whole Republic was a victim of that fundamental error of importing Africa into Am... ...te of good years (and I among them); but the only books that I have read a second time or ever care again to read in the whole list (most of them by t... ...eer or master was thrashing them. The sorrow in the slave quarter was only second to that in the “big house.” When the two young masters were brought ... ... all around him, and weeds in the yard and garden, engaged in study- ing a French grammar. The students who came first seemed to be fond of memo- rizi... ...king at his pictures, to inquire whether Mr. Tanner was a Negro painter, a French painter, or a German painter. They simply knew 170 UP FROM SLAVERY ... ...e of pleasure and excitement which seems in a large measure to possess the French people impressed it- self upon me. I think they are more noted in th...

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... stopped before the fire, and said, after muttering and looking at it some seconds: “This is my birthday, Pip.” I was going to wish her many happy ret... ...elf or drinking out of the water-bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a ... ...gnized him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs, on the occasion of my second visit to Miss Havisham. I had known him the mo- ment I saw him looki... ...y , who went through – I will not say sustained – the role (if I may use a French expression) of Claudius King of Denmark. That is his employer, gentl... ... what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues. He had nothing else to do, poor fellow, except at ... ...la and I played at cards, as of yore -only we were skilful now, and played French games – and so the evening wore away, and I went to bed. I lay in th...

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... spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, ...

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...oly alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German po lice spies. Where is the party in oppositi... ...on, and sketched the following Mani festo, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages. I. BOURGEOIS AND ... ... self governing association in the mediaeval commune; here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable “third estate” of the m... ...o historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bo... ... hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoi “The Communist Manifesto” 29 sie. A second and more practical, but less systematic, form of this Socialism so...

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...145 Chapter XII Ought Pledges to be Required from Members of Parliament? ...................................................... 148 Chapter XIII Of a Second Chamber....................................................................................................................... 158 Chapter XIV Of the Executive in a Representative Government ..............................

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...ign conquest, be made to endure a monarchy; others are equally averse to a republic. The hindrance often amounts, for the time being, to im practicab... ...t no government can permanently exist which does not fulfill the first and second conditions, and, in some con siderable measure, the third; their do... ...iberal and reforming pope; the age of Frederic the Great, of Catherine the Second, of Joseph the Second, of Peter Leopold, of Benedict XIV ., of Ganga... ...society; much more extensive in a backward than in an advanced state. And, secondly, the character of a government or set of political institutions ca... ...society between the two heads of Order and Progress (in the phraseology of French thinkers); Permanence and Progression, in the words of Coleridge. Th... ... makes them claim to have the control of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesu... ...chical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal mon ... ...nerally succeeded in putting an early stop to their successes. 1 With the French, who are essentially a Southern people, the double education of des ... ...ons to the other offices of administra tion which are not permanent. In a republic, some other arrangement would be necessary; but the nearer it appr...

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...calmly where fools may be eager to rush. As a distinguished and successful French novelist 12 Notes on Life and Letters once observed of fiction, “C’... ...wer of renunciation is obscured by the mass of weak- nesses, vacillations, secondary motives and false steps and compromises which make up the sum of ... ...story is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—on second-hand im- pression. Thus fiction is nearer truth. But let that pass. ... ...force; and he stands excused from the duty of patriotic posturing. He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple... ...s to the future as a good prince should be in his public ac- tion. It is a Republican dignity. And M. Anatole France, with his sceptical insight into ... ... France, with his sceptical insight into an forms of government, is a good Republican. He is indulgent to the weaknesses of the people, and perceives ... ...egins the first tale of M. Anatole France’s latest volume. The bust of the Republic and the image of the Cru- cified Christ appear side by side above ... ...say that during his sojourn in England he had the misfortune to be, as the French say, mal entoure. He was beset by people who understood not the qual... ... food for powder more in accord with the rules of prudence; the joy of the second would be checked before it found issue in weeping by anxious doubts ...

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...t Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second. I learnt no Latin until my eighth year. At that time I had read, un... ...y greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson’s Philip the Second and Third . The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the T... ... ters to Atticus, my father taking the trouble to translate to me from the French the historical explanations in Mingault’s notes. In Greek I read the... ...t dialogues of Plato, in particular the Gorgias, the Protagoras, and the Republic. There is no author to whom my father thought himself more indebte... .... During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaintance with the ordinary French litera ture; I ... ...difference between this manner of existence, and that of a people like the French, whose faults, if equally real, are at all events dif ferent; among... ...eriod of the French Revolution, a fine specimen of the best kind of French Republican, one of those who had never bent 36 Autobiography the knee to B... ...I was myself the most frequent writer of all, having contributed, from the second number to the eighteenth, thirteen articles; reviews of books on his... ...he deemed essentials; he was com paratively indifferent to monarchical or republican forms— far more so than Bentham, to whom a king, in the characte...

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........................................................ 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ...................................................................... ................................................................ 201 BOOK THE SECOND. ...................................................................... ...lmost 15 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 entirely this true second sight. Take, for instance, the “lock” in the famous “Rape!” What fan... ...cisely such a swing. It was fond of a mixture of strong English sense with French graces and charms of manner; and Pope supplied it. It was fond of ke... ... of which, the author has given us under that title, in four epistles. The second was to have consisted of the same number:— 1. Of the extent and limi... ...civil regimen, or the science of politics, in which the several forms of a republic were to have been examined and explained; together with the severa... ...hunders all his own! Stood up to dash each vain pretender’s hope, Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope! If there’s a Briton then, true bred a... ...e laws in execution against a thief or impostor. The same will hold in the republic of letters, if the critics and judges will let every ignorant pret... ...RYDEN is a mere renegado from monarchy, poetry, and good sense 453 —a true republican son of monarchical Church 454 —a republican atheist. 455 Dryden...

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...full history of those deeds. The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical con-... ...rs. Rockwell had several children by her first marriage, and others by her second. By intermarriage, two or three generations later, I am descended fr... ...n, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named ... ...ing Peter, a son by his first marriage. My father, Jesse R. Grant, was the second child—oldest son, by the second marriage. Peter Grant went early to ... ...d brother died before the rebellion began; he was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican. His oldest brother was a Republican and brave soldier during th... ... came, I passed the examination, taking a good standing in that branch. In French, the only other study at that time in the first year’s course, my st... ...nd of my class, in any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in th... ...; the Know-Nothing party had taken its place, but was on the wane; and the Republican party was in a chaotic state and had not yet received a name. It... ...t to Free States. In St. Louis City and County, what afterwards became the Republican party was known as the Free-Soil Democracy , led by the Honorabl...

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...first marriage, the dislocation of the heart’s principles, consequent on a second union, and the unkindness of her southern husband, which had inevita... ...lders of a comely youth uprose the head and branching antlers of a stag; a second, human in all other points, had the grim vis- age of a wolf; a third... ... end which his most secret thought had not yet whispered. * * * On the second Sabbath after Ilbrahim became a member of their family, Pearson and ... ...fair, or pilfered from some receptacle of the cast-off clothes of both the French and British armies. Portions of their attire had probably been worn ... ... than those of brother- hood, as when they fought side by side through the French War. Do not convert the streets of your native town into a camp. Thi... ...s this old grandsire, whose head has whitened beneath the mild sway of the Republic, which still, in his mellower moments, he terms a usurpation. Yet ... ...ince House passed among the guests, bearing huge trays of refreshments and French and Spanish wines. Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe, who refused to wet her ... ...e, the stately and gor- geous prejudices of the tottering Past!” While the Republican Governor spoke, he had continued to support the helpless form of...