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...Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni or Life of Charlemagne (c. 817–830), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life a...

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The coming of the Messiah.

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning t...

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...CONTENTS DEDICATION...1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR.....3 PART II...32 CHAPTER I.....33 CHAPTER II....46 CHAPTER III ....67 CHAPTER IV....85 CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY...113 TO THE READER....129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK ...130 DEDECATION....135 PREFACE.....1...

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...LORY AND MAJESTY BY JUAN JOSAFAT BEN-EZRA, A CONVERTED JEW TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH, WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, BY THE REV. EDWAR... ................................................................1 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE BY THE TRANSLATOR. ................................................ ....................................................................................113 TO THE READER. .................................................... ... sacraments are but naked signs.” 2 Holding with these a position half way between the pious people with whom I am surrounded, and the papal church... ...unded, and the papal church, I had the less disposition to doubt that Ben-Ezra and many pious Catholics, might without peril of salvation though to t... ...church; which is the strange and unnatural use they make of death. When you propose to pious people of this generation of the church, the coming of ... ... or Enoch and Elias by the two witnesses of the eleventh chapter?…the learned ex-Jesuit Louis de Alcazar, who wrote a large commentary upon the Apoc...

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Excerpt: Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Contents THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON....... 4 THE BODY-SNATCHER .............................................. 63 THE STORY OF A LIE.................................................. 81...

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...Tales & Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Tales ... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. T... ...ication Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...famous in English history. The daugh- ter, Maria, was a good girl—dutiful, pious, dull, but so easily startled that to speak to her was quite a perilo... ...very act of opening before each of that little company of youths, and what pious consider- 13 Stevenson ation for the feelings of their families bega...

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...Excerpt: How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now...

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...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson ... ... the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnap... ...n A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...eries Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...creature, and it began to come over me that the brig Covenant (for all her pious name) was little better than a hell upon the seas. “Have you no frien... ...ean, had translated into the Gaelic in his by-time a num- ber of hymns and pious books which Henderland used in his work, and held in great esteem. In...

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Excerpt: Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Excerpt: Some envious being may think on seeing this page illustrated by one of the most illustrious of Sarmatian names, that I am striving, as the goldsmiths do, to enhance a modern work with an ancient jewel,--a fancy of the fashions of the day,-- but you and a few others, dear count, will know that I ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and th...

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...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...“I tell you, Richard, when the treaty was drawn up for restoring this King Louis to his throne, I was ashamed to find myself one of the few crown vass... ...was Foulques le Bon, the contemporary Count of Anjou, who, when derided by Louis IV. for serving in the choir of Tours, wrote the following retort: “T... ...lf; but this our Wil- liam refused, saying it were foul wrong to both King Louis of France, and Kaiser Otho of Germany, to take from them their vassal... ...m they loved for the sake of his conquering grandfather, and his brave and pious father. Few Normans were there whose hearts did not glow at the touch... ...e full of adventures, in which he always proved himself brave, honourable, pious, and forbearing. But for these our readers must search for themselves...

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, ...

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...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for rep...

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Excerpt: The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rs the liberality of devout persons, and legacies, though small ones, from pious peni- tents, filled the shelves of the bookcase, till then half empty... ...ing year the Abbe Chapeloud turned a small room into an oratory, which his pious friends took pleasure in beautifying. Still later, another lady gave ... ... Blottiere, and other devout ladies who were in the habit of receiving the pious and ecclesiastical society of T ours. But alas! the abbe Birotteau hi... ... whist was over, the doors shut, and they were alone with the baron, “this Louis XI. in a cassock—imagine him if you can!—gave a last flourish to the ... ...Villenoix, Pauline Salomon de Bourbonne, De Louis Lambert Madame Firmiani A Seaside T rage...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...estions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the sake of one so pious as yourself; and also because of what a great writer has lately calle... ...eems to have been the ca- price of some enriched bourgeois in the reign of Louis XIV .; the dwelling, perhaps, of a president of the parliament, or th... ...ant. Its noble free-stone blocks, dam- aged by time, have a certain air of Louis-the-Fourteenth gran- deur; the courses of the facade define the store... ...h bears out this conjecture. More- over, the title-deeds of property under Louis XIV . was Petitot, the celebrated painter in miniature, who obtained ... ... life and a tranquil atmosphere, was extremely gentle by na- ture; she was pious in the fullest acceptation of the word; she would willingly have expi... ...y a rector who has since become a bishop. Celeste was all the more readily pious, because her godmother, Madame Thuillier, was a saint, and the child ...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ologist, observing men instead of stones, would find images of the time of Louis XV . in many a village of Provence, of the time of Louis XIV . in the... ..., it would prove that those planks were placed or restored in the reign of Louis XI. The chimney- piece is enormous, of carved stone, and within it ar... ... this room for the last century. It is of carved stone in the style of the Louis XV . period, and is orna- mented with a mirror, let in to the back wi... ...hands. The Church had proved as maternal as the mother. Without being over-pious or ri- diculous, the idolized young lad was a fervent Catholic. For t... ...yet see where that dear great genius may fail. Dear angel, I am like those pious souls who argue with their God, for are not you my Providence? do I n... ...e whose beauty was truly aristocratic, whose mind was keen and delicate, a pious, loving girl, at- tached singly to him, of angelic sweetness, and mad...

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Excerpt: The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...em a slender sum of money they thought themselves rich in possessing a few louis, an actual treasure in those days when assignats were reach- ing thei... ...h and verdant, yet retaining at all points the imprints of fire and sword. Louis XIV . and T urenne have cauterized that beauti- ful land. Here and th... ...clesiastic, but I can find nothing there to solve my doubts. Shall I found pious masses for the repose of the souls of Prosper Magnan, Wahlenfer, and ...

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...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his wor...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ite of the Cinq- Cygnes), and also by the credit he maintained, as long as Louis XVIII. lived, in the counsels of the crown. It was not until after th... ...e. Until 1823 the Comte de Gondreville had possessed sufficient power over Louis XVIII. to prevent this appointment of Michu. It was by the advice of ... ...ned the revolution of July; he explained things impenetrable; he explained Louis-Philippe, Odilon Barrot, Monsieur Thiers, the Eastern Question; he ex... ...u can’t fail therefore to understand each other. Madame Francois Keller is pious; here is a letter introducing you to her from the Marechale de Carigl... ...se would be to fly in the face of every rule of art and expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrath of critics. In presence o... ...our desire I have seen the prefect of police, in order to ascertain if the pious inten- tion of which you wrote me in your letter, dated from Carrara,...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... porters of old chateaus point out to visitors as “the state bedroom where Louis XIII. once slept.” Fine pictures, mostly brown in tone, were framed i... ...is master’s most valued counsel- lor. Beauvouloir was the Coyctier of this Louis XI. Never- theless, and no matter how valuable his knowledge might be... ... less enforced prayer,— a retreat where she had lived beneath the eye of a pious old woman and the protection of her father, the only man she had ever... ...e had brought it forward and seemed to ordain it. But, under, the reign of Louis XIII., to dare to lead a Duc d’Herouville to marry the daughter of a ...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on th...

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...me confidentially about this crisis. Fouche has discovered that the tyrant Louis XVIII. has been advised by traitors in Paris to send a leader to his ... ... day. When T urgot bought up the privi- leges of a company, obtained under Louis XIV., for the ex- clusive right of transporting travellers from one p... ...he cried out, “Murdered basely, in cold blood!” “That was how you murdered Louis XVI., monsieur,” said the marquis. “Monsieur,” replied Gerard, haught... ...he grotesque appearance of this last speaker drew Marche- a-Terre from the pious reflections he had been making on the accomplishment of this miracle ... ...ss you,” said Francine, turning to look at the tower of Saint-Leonard. The pious Breton stopped, clasped her hands, and said an “Ave” to Saint Anne of... ... naive joy wrinkled his cheeks and forehead as he looked at his gun; but a pious conviction cast upon that expression of his joy a tinge of 196 The C...